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“Inconvenient Children” Video Unleashes a Viral Political Storm in Mexico The video is spreading like wildfire. April 15, 2012 |

April 20, 2012
“Inconvenient Children” Video Unleashes a Viral Political Storm in Mexico  The video is spreading like wildfire. April 15, 2012  |

LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email.   “Inconvenient Children” Video Unleashes a Viral Political Storm in Mexico The video is spreading like wildfire. April 15, 2012  | A “mockumentary” produced by a non-partisan organization in Mexico called “Nuestro México del Futuro,” [...]

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Good times down Latin America’s way The outlook for Latin America remains positive in 2012 – despite reduced Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials.

January 7, 2012
Good times down Latin America’s way   The outlook for Latin America remains positive in 2012 – despite reduced Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials.

The health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will remain a key issue in Latin America in 2012 [EPA]   Perhaps it is becoming obvious that survival in what you could call the modern world involves at least a degree of independence from the global greed of the US growth for itself economy. We have witnessed [...]

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The Bank for International Settlements

January 1, 2012
The Bank for International Settlements

                                The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an intergovernmental organization of central banks which “fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks.”[2] It is not accountable to any national government. The BIS carries out its work through subcommittees, the secretariats [...]

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Mexicans Call on Int’l Criminal Court to Investigate Both Mexican State and Drug Gangs

December 7, 2011
Mexicans Call on Int’l Criminal Court to Investigate Both Mexican State and Drug Gangs

Mexicans Call on Int’l Criminal Court to Investigate Both Mexican State and Drug Gangs by PAUL IMISON Mexico City The same week that a coalition of Mexican activists appealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate President Felipe Calderon for war crimes, a leading member of the country’s peace movement was gunned down in [...]

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A John Pilger article:In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting 10 November 2011

November 23, 2011
A John Pilger article:In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting  10 November 2011

In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting 10 November 2011 Alameda Park is Mexico City’s languid space for lovers and open-air ballroom dancers: the gents in two-tone shoes, the ladies in finery and heels. The cobbled paths undulate from the great earthquake of 1985. You imagine the fairground sinking into the cobwebs of [...]

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Lopez Obrador to run for Mexican presidency Former Mexico City mayor, whose narrow defeat in 2006 triggered protests, chosen as leftist candidate for 2012 election.

November 16, 2011
Lopez Obrador to run for Mexican presidency Former Mexico City mayor, whose narrow defeat in 2006 triggered protests, chosen as leftist candidate for 2012 election.

Lopez Obrador disputed the result of 2006 elections, which he lost by less than one percentage point [Reuters] Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist former mayor of Mexico City, will again run for the Mexican presidency in 2012 after his narrow loss in the 2006 election sparked massive protests. The 58-year-old beat the current mayor of the capital in a [...]

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A John Pilger article-In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting 10 November 2011

November 14, 2011
A John Pilger article-In Mexico, a universal struggle against power and forgetting  10 November 2011

        Alameda Park is Mexico City’s languid space for lovers and open-air ballroom dancers: the gents in two-tone shoes, the ladies in finery and heels. The cobbled paths undulate from the great earthquake of 1985. You imagine the fairground sinking into the cobwebs of cracks, its Edwardian organ playing forlornly. Two small [...]

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An email from Chomsky to Leeds University.

June 27, 2011
An email from Chomsky to Leeds University.

  An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the [...]

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Video interview at the RealNews site

May 16, 2011
Video interview at the RealNews site

There is a new video interview with Kevin G. Hall at the RealNews site.  It explores the proposition that the US wanted to keep Russia out of Libyan oil. A fact said to have come from Wikileaks. You can see that at the very least Wikileaks has a very important function in exposing matters that [...]

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Chomsky- a brief matter

May 8, 2011
Chomsky- a brief matter

An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]

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