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 Editorials
Across US, Rising Doubts
 Peter Grier
Three years on, the American public is surprised and dismayed about the length of the war in Iraq, and increasingly uncertain about its outcome. That doesn't mean that a large majority want US troops to come home now, polls say. The public remains split as to whether the US-led invasion was the right thing to do.more »»»
The Second Campaign of Vicente Fox
 Mario Canseco
As he enters his sixth and final year as Mexico’s head of state, Vicente Fox has campaigned hard in an attempt to solidify his legacy. It is no secret that his messages work better on television, but the guidelines established by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) have changed the way sitting presidents behave.more »»»
An Immigration Breakthrough
 NYTimes
The clock was running out on the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, and with it the chances for a meaningful overhaul of the nation's immigration laws. It was increasingly likely that Congress's message to 12 million illegal immigrants would end up being this:
Thanks for the help — now get out.more »»»
War-Loving Pundits
 Norman Solomon
The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion is bound to attract a lot of media coverage, but scant recognition will go to the pundits who helped to make it all possible.more »»»
Mexican President: The Fox in Winter
 Geri Smith
Vicente Fox won the Mexican presidency in 2000 by using his charisma and marketing savvy to sell himself as an agent of change and the country's best hope of booting the corrupt Institutional Revolutionary Party [PRI] - in power for seven decades - from office.more »»»
Is This War Worth the Price?
 Sally Kalson
Pittsburghers were captivated this week by the 7-year-old Iraqi boy who arrived here for reconstructive facial surgery at Children's Hospital, having been badly disfigured in an American bombing raid.more »»»
A Warning From South Dakota
 NYTimes
When President Bush's Supreme Court nominees were asked about abortion and Roe v. Wade, their answers ranged from vague to opaque. But the state legislature in South Dakota felt it heard the underlying message loud and clear. Now, they have thrown down the gauntlet.more »»»
About That Rebellion ...
 NYTimes
We keep hearing that the Republicans in Congress are in revolt against the president. Some rebellion. Yes, the Republicans defied President Bush on the United Arab Emirates ports deal. But it wasn't over a major principle, the Republicans dumped the ports deal into the harbor because of xenophobia and electoral tactics.more »»»
Bush: A Deaf Man Spouting
 Sidney Blumenthal
On the eve of George Bush's presidential campaign in 2000, the neoconservative Kenneth Adelman cast him as Prince Hal, who "puts the indiscretions of his youth behind him" and "redeems his father's reign."more »»»
Bush, Lies, and Videotape
 James Carroll
If George W. Bush were a character in a novel or a play, last week might have been the turning point in the narrative. He was shown on film being explicitly warned, just hours before Hurricane Katrina hit, that the levees in New Orleans were vulnerable.more »»»
'No One Could Have Anticipated ...'
 William Rivers Pitt
The video is gut-wrenching. There they sit, a whole room full of hurricane experts and disaster managers, shouting down a telephone line at George W. Bush, warning him a full day ahead of time that Hurricane Katrina is a catastrophe waiting to happen.more »»»
The Most Dangerous Days
 William Rivers Pitt
Where will we as a nation be nine months from now? It seems almost completely certain that we will still be engaged in Iraq. The last nine months saw 631 American soldiers die, so we will likely be staring at nearly 3,000 dead by the time November rolls around.more »»»
Anti-Immigrant Bias Stretches Back Many Years
 David Dorado Romo
I was born in California to Mexican immigrants but have lived most of my life in El Paso, Texas, where the anti-immigrant fervor that’s sweeping the U.S. today is nothing new. In fact, the first public calls for a fence along the Rio Grande to keep out unwanted foreigners were heard in El Paso a century ago, in 1904.more »»»
Mahatma Bush
 Norman Solomon
Evidently the president's trip to India created an option too perfect to pass up: The man who has led the world in violence during the first years of the 21st century could pay homage to the world's leading practitioner of nonviolence during the first half of the 20th century.more »»»
Border Security or Boondoggle?
 Tyche Hendricks
A proposal to build a double set of steel walls with floodlights, surveillance cameras and motion detectors along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border heads to the Senate next month after winning overwhelming support in the House.more »»»
Justice, Finally!
 dailynews.com
For the past four years, as U.S. and Mexican officials have wrangled over immigration policy, there has been a huge, nagging obstacle: Armando Garcia.more »»»
Why Should Anyone Worry about Whose Communications Bush and Cheney Are Intercepting, If It Helps to Find Terrorists?
 John W. Dean
Although the Bush Administration does not encourage public debate over decisions it has made regarding how to govern, more and more people are asking questions about the ways and means employed during this presidency.more »»»
What Happened to "Los Dos Amigos"?
 Geri Smith
Five years ago this month, President George W. Bush paid a neighborly visit to the family ranch of Mexican President Vicente Fox. The newly inaugurated leaders, dubbed "Los Dos Amigos," gave each other custom-made cowboy boots and celebrated the beginning of what they pledged would be an unprecedented, close collaboration after nearly two centuries of mutual distrust.more »»»
Mexico's Burden
 Sergio Muñoz
As a Mexican, I'm outraged that politicians in Washington believe it is necessary to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to keep my compatriots from coming here to work. But I'm also ashamed that Mexico is, in many ways, to blame for making the border fence possible.more »»»
Otro Mundo Es Posible
 Michael Avery
Participants at the World Social Forum stream into the Polihedro Stadium in Caracas. As the crowd waits for Hugo Chavez's speech to begin, thousands of voices chant, "Ooh, ahh, Chavez no se vas." Chavez is not going away. Row after row of flags from across Latin America wave in support of the Venezuelan President.more »»»
The Human Cost of War
 Cindy Sheehan & Sam Bostaph
The whole world is watching a human drama that is both tragedy and travesty. As if the lessons of Vietnam had been presented to dull students and needed repeating, Americans and peoples of all nations watch as Bush's pre-emptive and unconstitutional war in Iraq continues.more »»»
Get Off the Grandstand
 Guillermo I. Martínez
A nation's foreign policy should be based on solid principles that do not ignore geopolitical reality and do not forget domestic politics. This is at the heart of the problems the United States now has in its relationship with Mexico.more »»»
From Mexico to Middle East, it All Goes Back to Immigration
 Georgie Anne Geyer
The papers indicate an extraordinary recent increase in the violence along our border with Mexico, with more and more Mexicans taking the position that they have the right to come here.more »»»
Mexico: Stop Helms-Burton
 Prensa Latina
Hundreds of Mexican academics and social leaders demand from the government to exact the US to stop implementing its anti-Cuban laws, in a letter they have submited to the Foreign Ministry.more »»»
The Gitmo Disgrace
 LATimes
It is time to close the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. The detainees there, numbering about 500, should be tried in court or released. It is inhumane to hold them indefinitely in a place where torture is not uncommon and due process is absent.more »»»
Outgoing Leader Stays on the Road
 Adam Thomson
Something seems to be bothering Vicente Fox. His large tanned hands are clasped tight as he sits in a small office of his presidential aircraft and responds to questions with long answers that give the impression of a man struggling to leave no issue untouched.more »»»
Mean Spiritedness, Hatred and Scorn Inundate the Sheraton
 Granma International
The tentacles of the blockade and the criminal United States economic war on Cuba are ready to extend further into any confine of the planet, even to the detriment of the sovereignty and legislatures of other countries.more »»»
The Border Is a Common Ground between Us
 David Bacon
People in Mexico and the US need the same things. Secure jobs at a living wage. Rights in our workplaces and communities. The freedom to travel and seek a future for our families. The border should be a common ground between us, not a line to divide us.more »»»
NSA Spying Myths
 David Cole
Nixon learned the hard way that Presidents are not above the law. George W. Bush appears not to have learned the lesson. His defense of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of Americans resurrects the Nixon doctrine, with one modification. For Bush, "when the Commander in Chief does it, it is not illegal."more »»»
Mexico: The Honeymoon is Over!
 Doug Bower
My honeymoon has finally ended with Mexico. Now, do not get me wrong. I do not dislike living in Mexico. My wife and I are convinced that leaving America and moving here was the right decision for us. It is just that my infatuation with Mexico has come to an end.more »»»
Same Old Song
 Michael Scherer
In his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush delivered a bold statement to the nation: He had nothing new left to say. The hour-long speech he delivered was cut almost entirely from his past congressional and policy addresses.more »»»
A Night of Fear Mongering, Big Time
 Jason Leopold
Get ready for three more years of bloody hell. That's the message President Bush seems to have sent Congress and the rest of the world in his State of the Union address Tuesday night.more »»»
A New World Is Possible
 Cindy Sheehan
And necessary! This is the theme for the World Social Forum that I (along with tens of thousands of people from all over the world) am attending in Caracas this week. I know the idea of a world where everyone lives in peace and with justice is very "subversive," but the theme is very close to my heart and soul.more »»»
The State of the Union - FUBAR
 Erich Haubrich
In the worst year of his presidency thus far we have seen a lot of the true nature of the Bush administration. Battles over the battles in the Middle East, indictments and pending indictments on close personal associates, contributors and staff members, a total failure to manage the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and many other failures both in the public eye and behind the scenes.more »»»
Is America Actually in a State of War?
 James Carroll
State of the Union, state of war: They have a nice ring. When George W. Bush goes before the Congress and the nation tonight, he will present himself (again) as a war president. Personally and politically, the identity defines himmore »»»
US: State of the Union in Havoc
 Prensa Latina
On the eve of the President´s State of the Union address, the United States suffers from huge budget and trade deficits, a nonexistent energy strategy, spiralling federal spending and the greatest income inequality in half a century.more »»»
Why Mexico Helps US Fight Terror
 Faye Bowers
A top priority of the United States government is to prevent a determined terrorist from crossing the US- Mexico border. It is also becoming a primary mission for Mexico - and the first place it's focusing on is the 375-mile, desolate stretch of land that abuts Arizona.more »»»
Bush on Trial for Crimes Against Humanity
 Marjorie Cohn
The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration convened last weekend in New York City's Riverside Church, where Martin Luther King Jr.'s portrait hangs in the foyer.more »»»
Will Marcos Cost Mexico’s Left the Presidency
 Thomas Muirhead
The Zapatista rebel Subcomandante Marcos has shed his violent past and made a move towards formal political influence. His campaign to gather supporters to a far-left agenda could, however, split the country’s left-leaning voters and hand the presidential election to the right.more »»»
An American Wall of Shame
 Ronald Sanders
The Mexican President, Vincente Fox, has described it as a "wall of shame." Foreign Ministers of ten South and Central American countries, including Belize, denounced it on January 9. US businessmen have criticised it. Yet, the majority in the US House of Representatives is determined to build a wall to separate Mexico from the US.more »»»
Fishing in Cyberspace
 The New York Times
Enough is never enough, not when the government believes that it can invade your privacy without repercussions. The Justice Department wants a federal judge to force Google to turn over millions of private Internet searches.more »»»
Breaking a Bad Law Over Cuba
 Circles Robinson
When the retired US couple Fred and Kathy Harper* left for Cuba on a two-week cycling tour they knew they were breaking a law increasingly enforced by the Bush administration, but they still thought they were doing the right thing.more »»»
Break in Chile
 Serge Truffaut
The first woman elected president of Chile, a country reputed to be the most macho on the continent, Michelle Bachelet will be able to conduct intended reforms with more latitude than her predecessors.more »»»
The New Fascism
 William Rivers Pitt
Say "fascism" to anyone you meet, and you will be greeted with the boilerplate response of the blithely overconfident: such a thing cannot happen here. This is the United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave. Our laws and traditions stand as a bulwark against the rise of totalitarian madness. It cannot happen here.more »»»
The Plight of the Peso: Tales of a Mexican Holiday
 Shannon Binder Bray
Refreshment and rejuvenation; that's what I consider to be the ultimate payoff for a great holiday. And upon my recent return from a week in Puerto Vallarta, that's what I got; but at what cost?more »»»
Shots Across the Border
 The Economist
Countries that claim to be the best of friends do not normally shoot across their mutual frontier. But on December 30th, an agent of the United States Border Patrol shot dead an 18-year-old Mexican as he tried to cross the border near San Diego.more »»»
Impeachment Calls Grow Louder
 Matthew Rothschild
In Madison, about 350 people crammed into the Labor Temple to show their enthusiastic support for bringing the troops home. But what really got the crowd going was the drive for impeachment.more »»»
Accredited Universities Step to a Better Mexico
 San Antonio Express-News
For a state or nation to prosper, a well-educated work force is essential. That is especially true in Mexico, where lack of education has created a labor force that works hard for pitiful wages.more »»»
Alito Sounds Death Knell for Individual Rights
 Marjorie Cohn
Alito is no John Roberts. Whereas Roberts replaced Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who had a similar judicial philosophy, Alito would take the place of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who provided the swing vote 77 percent of the time.more »»»
The Ugly Americanos
 Ruben Navarrette
Now that Mexico has hired an American PR firm to improve its image north of the border, the Bush administration should borrow that playbook and hire a Mexican firm to improve its image in Mexico - and, for that matter, the rest of Latin America.more »»»
Bordering on Failure: US-Mexico Border Policy
 Eneas A. Biglione
Squandering billions of dollars for the construction of a wall or the mobilization of soldiers to stop Mexicans who are simply trying to find a job that will allow them to feed their families, is so burdensome, extreme and inhumane that it is a non-issue.more »»»
On the Subject of Leaks
 New York Times
A democratic society cannot long survive if whistle-blowers are criminally punished for revealing what those in power don't want the public to know - especially if it's unethical, illegal or unconstitutional behavior by top officials.more »»»
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