North America

Why I'm breaking the law for health care

We're standing up to insurance companies and demanding the reform our country so desperately needs.

Nelson Valdes

Instead of Pentagon fighting healtcare for the lion's share of US budget, introducing a National Defense Medicare bill, lodged inside the Pentagon budget, would assume health care as just one more task in the unending challenge of defending our besieged nation.

The Pentagon: Gargantua’s mouth

Saul Landau

Nelson P. Valdés

With no real military dangers threathening the US, the Pentagon has to invent them to justify its multi-billion dollar budget. And the bill is presented to the taxpayers.

Latin America: C-

Manuel Perez Rocha

The Obama administration has made a few steps in the right direction. But U.S.-Latin American relations are far from mended, and skepticism is growing.

Decline of decency

Saul Landau

Instead of discussing the ethical dimension of the US foreign policy, the national debate in the US still rages around how many more crimes the government should commit to ensure “security.”

Change can be tougher than hope

John Cavanagh

The Obama administration can learn from its first year's setbacks to guide the country in the right direction in 2010.

Naked empire

Saul Landau

In November 2008, Americans, recoiling from the Bush nightmare, voted for “hope” and “change”, but Obama turned out not to be exactly what they voted for.

Almost one year: Assessment

Saul Landau

We have made the transition from a President who both horrified and amused us to one who simply disappoints.

Obama, an “F” in political theory

Atilio Boron

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech was not much different from the ideological tone set by Bush Jr. and his cronies.

Our jobs crisis needs drastic action

John Cavanagh

Sarita Gupta

Obama's recovery plan has helped to slow the job loss, but we need a full-scale emergency relief plan that goes much further.