Bolivia’s Military and Police Protests: The “Children of Evo” Speak Out
Teaser (Summary): In recent months, Bolivia has witnessed dramatic rebellions by rank-and-file military and police officers. Are these mobilizations a threat to the goverment of President Evo Morales,...
View ArticleHow We Scapegoat Children From Gaza to the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Teaser (Summary): Billions of dollars go from U.S. taxpayers to the U.S. border immigration enforcement regime and Israeli Defense Forces, while children are dehumanized with the same cold efficiency...
View ArticleThe Real Story Behind the “Invasion” of the Children
Teaser (Summary): The present "crisis" stems from the way our economy depends on separating parents from their children in order to exploit their cheap labor—and then our horror or dismay when they...
View ArticleElections Revive Bolivia’s Controversial TIPNIS Highway Plan
Teaser (Summary): As Bolivia’s election campaign moves into full swing ahead of the scheduled October 12 vote, President Evo Morales’s controversial plan to build a highway through the TIPNIS...
View ArticleExpanding Insecurity
Teaser (Summary): As immigration enforcement and local police continue to merge, bureaucracy has become a crutch on which the U.S. immigration policing apparatus leans.Border WarsICE arrests in...
View ArticleHow Deportation Created A New Class Of Disposable Soldiers
TweetAt the San Ysidro-Tijuana Border Port of Entry, San Diego (April Arreola / Creative Commons)The ongoing attack on Bowe Bergdahl, the captive U.S. Army sergeant exchanged on May 31 for five Afghan...
View ArticleThe Fifth Anniversary of the Bagua Massacre in Alternative Media and Art
Tweet June 5 marked five years since the bloodshed in Bagua, in the Amazon of Peru. Five years ago, indigenous groups such as the Awajun and Wampis staged numerous protests after the Peruvian...
View ArticleThe U.S. Roots of the Central American Immigrant Influx
Tweet Diego Rivera's mockingly titled "Glorious Victory" depicts the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala (elycefeliz / Creative Commons)Before dying of pneumonia at a Guatemala hospital in late May, the...
View ArticleCarlos Slim’s Empire Broken Up But Oligarchs Still Control Mexico
TweetThis article was originally published in The Conversation.Carlos Slim can simply expand his reach into other media assets (EPA)Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, the world’s second richest man,...
View ArticleBolivia: Elections in the Time of Evo
Tweet More than 6 million voters are expected to participate in Bolivia’s national elections on October 12, a day also celebrated—not coincidentally—as Bolivia’s national “Day of Decolonization.”...
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