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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Ecuador has now made its decision: to grant political asylum to Julian Assange. This comes in the wake of an incident that should dispel remaining…
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By Peter Kornbluh From The Nation (Note: On July 25, WikiLeaks issued a statement announcing that Julian Assange has hired a renowned international human rights jurist, the Spanish…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian The media rewrites history every day, and in so doing it often impedes our understanding of the present. Mexico’s presidential election…
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A La Jornada editorial With an extraordinary session of the Organization of America States (OAS) dedicated to Paraguay as the background, that South American country is the topic of…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian A coup is taking place right now – Friday (June 22) afternoon – in Paraguay. That is how it has been described by a number of neighboring…
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By Juan Forero From The Washington Post LOMA LA LATA, Argentina - In a desertlike stretch of scrub grass and red buttes, oil companies are punching holes in the ground in search of…
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By Noam Chomsky From Nation of Change Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, last month’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of considerable…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian One of the great myths about the Argentine economy that is repeated nearly every day is that the rapid growth of the Argentine economy during the…
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By Carlos Muñiz To my grandmother, Idania Varela SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - As recently as November 2011, we received some documents that give evidence of the people responsible for…
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By Robert Sandels "I watched Obama closely at the famous 'summit gathering.' Fatigue sometimes overcame him, he involuntarily closed his eyes and occasionally slept with his eyes…
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