July 02, 2009 OpEd News [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Hondurans Call Out for Help from the International Community -- Our emergency international delegation to Honduras, organized from the United States by CODEPINK, Global Exchange and Non-Violence International, began its fact-finding mission in the wake of the June 28 coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya.
June 12, 2009 The Huffington Post [Regions > Americas > Peru]
	Indigenous Protest and State Violence in the Peruvian Amazon: How the Media Misrepresents -- Before dawn on Friday, June 5, an estimated 650 Peruvian National Police and Special Forces officers attacked several thousand Awajun and Wambis indigenous people at their roadside blockade on the Fernando Belaunde Terry highway. The media's misrepresentation of the violence has only lent a hand to the Peruvian government's attempt to paint the peaceful, dialogue-seeking indigenous groups as violent terrorists.
June 03, 2009 The Electronic Intifada [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Palestine]
	Obama should visit Gaza -- On June 4th, President Barack Obama will give a major policy talk at Cairo University intending to start mending the rift between the United States and the Arab world. Medea Benjamin insists that President Obama visit the Gaza Strip to see the destruction caused by Israel's recent attacks and will also do wonders to repairs our relations with the Arab world that were so tattered during the Bush years.
June 03, 2009 The Associated Press [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	OAS Votes to Readmit Cuba After 47 Years -- The Organization of American States voted by acclamation on Wednesday to revoke the 1962 measure suspending communist Cuba, overturning a landmark of the Cold War in the hemisphere.
May 26, 2009 opednews [The Global Economy > Rights-based Organizing]
	1886 - When The American Experiment Died -- "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in “Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad,” that corporations were human entities, and as such, enjoyed all the Constitutional privileges afforded to U.S. citizens..... When lifeless corporations were given personhood, those Americans whose lives were lost to advance the cause of freedom, meant nothing.... When Congress passes tort reform laws corporations, and their stockholders, will be completely unaccountable for their actions."
May 06, 2009 CommonDreams.org [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Palestine]
	Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late? -- What made my heart ache was the hatred I felt from the AIPAC staff who tore up the banner and slammed their hands across my mouth as I tried to yell out: "What about Gaza? What about the children?"
April 08, 2009 CNN [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	It's time to talk to Cuba! -- For the first time in nearly 50 years, relations between the two nations (Cuba and the US), which have a history steeped in tension, have seemed to ease a bit.
April 06, 2009 Global Exchange [The Latest News > Publications]
	Is Afghanistan Obama’s Vietnam War? -- In the first months of his presidency, Barack Obama has moved toward fulfilling his campaign pledge of withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq. Barack Obama is fulfilling his other campaign pledge to escalate the U.S. role in Afghanistan. He is pursuing a dangerous and futile mission whose costs will dim the bright potential of his presidency without producing genuine long-term benefits.
April 06, 2009 Electronic Intifada [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Palestine]
	Creative resistance in fair trade conference -- Regardless of how debilitating and damaging the occupation is, [Palestinians] continue to live as best they can and to find creative ways in which to resist occupation while improving their common situation under the unjust circumstances in which they find themselves.
April 03, 2009 Truthout [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Beyond Elections in the Americas: An Interview With Michael Fox -- Michael Fox on the new documentary film, "Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas," co-produced by Michael Fox and Silvia Leindecker. Fox talks about how the film was created, what its aims were and what the film's impact has been among viewers in the US.
April 01, 2009 Los Angeles Times [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	Ban on travel to Cuba may be lifted -- A bipartisan group of senators says Congress is ready to pass legislation to allow all Americans to visit Cuba. Supporters say the move would create thousands of jobs.
March 31, 2009 Mexican Labor News and Analysis [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	MEXICO: A State of Exception? Or a State in Disintegration? -- The Mexican state appears to be changing, leading a number of Mexican intellectuals to speculate on the nature of these developments. This is not simply a question of Mexico becoming a "failed state," about which there has been much speculation, but rather an attempt to theorize the evolution of the Mexican state at this moment.
March 30, 2009 The New York Times [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	In Drug War, Mexico Fights Cartel and Itself -- REYNOSA, Mexico — An army convoy on the hunt for traffickers rolled out of its base recently in this border town under the control of the Gulf Cartel — and an ominous voice crackled over a two-way radio frequency to announce just that. The voice, belonging to a cartel spy, then broadcast the soldiers’ route through the city, turn by turn, using the same military language as the soldiers.
March 30, 2009 The Washington Post [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	Momentum Grows for Relaxing Cuba Policy -- Roughly a year after Fidel Castro stepped aside and handed much of the responsibility for leading Cuba to his brother Raúl, there is new momentum in Washington for eliminating the ban on most U.S. travel to the island nation and for reexamining the severe limitations on U.S.-Cuban economic exchanges.
March 29, 2009 New York Times [The Latest News]
	Rising Powers Challenge U.S. on Role in I.M.F. -- Barely six months ago, the International Monetary Fund emerged from years of declining relevance, hurriedly cobbling together emergency loans for countries from Iceland to Pakistan, as the first wave of the financial crisis hit.
March 27, 2009 CNN American Morning [The Latest News > In the News]
	Author: U.S. security no match for Mexican drug cartels -- Video - Watch Gibler give his views on U.S. security efforts http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/27/gibler.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
March 27, 2009 CNN American Morning [Regions > Americas > Mexico > Dispatches From Mexico]
	Author: U.S. security no match for Mexican drug cartels -- Video - Watch Gibler give his views on U.S. security efforts http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/27/gibler.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
March 25, 2009 The Guardian [The Latest News]
	The G20 should end rich-country rule -- Last on the agenda is aid for the poorest countries who pay the biggest price in human terms for a disaster caused mainly by the richest people in the richest countries.
March 25, 2009 Democracy Now! [Regions > Americas > Mexico > Dispatches From Mexico]
	Obama Sending More Federal Agents, Money to Mexico Border for Drug War -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today, a day after the Obama administration announced it would send more money, technology and manpower to secure the United States-Mexico border and bolster the Mexican government’s anti-narcotics operation. We go to the US-Mexico border to speak with independent journalist John Gibler.
March 24, 2009 The New York Times [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Nafta’s Promise, Unfulfilled -- MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s former president, Carlos Salinas, used to promise that free trade and foreign investment would jump-start this country’s development, empowering a richer and more prosperous Mexico “to export goods, not people.”
March 23, 2009 The Cincinnati Beacon [The Latest News]
	World Water Week: Cincinnati Planning a Step Towards Privatizing Our Water? -- This is World Water Week, a global grassroots movement to discuss the availability of clean water across the planet. So what better time to discuss policies locally that will affect our region’s access to clean water?
March 22, 2009 Miami Herald [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	Federal ruling offers new hope for Cuba-trip travel agents -- A state law approved last year aimed at increasing regulation over travel agencies selling trips to Cuba was dealt another blow by the Justice Department.
March 21, 2009 Miami Herald/Reuters [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	U.S. rice growers see Obama loosening Cuba embargo -- U.S. rice growers expect President Barack Obama to further ease Washington's trade sanctions against Cuba this year and say this could lift U.S. rice sales to the island to at least 200,000 tonnes annually.
March 20, 2009 United Nations Association [The Latest News]
	El Salvador Elections 2009: Democracy In Action -- Despite enormous obstacles and intimidation, the people of El Salvador came in droves to elect their next president, Mauricio Funes.
March 19, 2009 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	Cuba neighbours to restore ties -- Both El Salvador and Costa Rica have said they will re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba.
March 18, 2009 Huffington Post [The Latest News > In the News]
	The Iraqi Shoe-Thrower Should be Pardoned -- On March 12, just one week before the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq, Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi was sentenced to three years in prison for throwing his shoe at George W. Bush. CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin talked about the incident with Hero Anwar Brzw, a Kurdish Iraqi woman who is getting her master's degree in conflict transformation at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University.
March 16, 2009 Democracy Now! [The Latest News > In the News]
	On Trip to Gaza, Parents of Slain Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Remember Their Daughter Six Years After Her Death -- AMY GOODMAN: Today marks the sixth anniversary of the killing of the American peace activist Rachel Corrie. She was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in Rafah on March 16, 2003, a few days before the United States attacked Iraq.
March 16, 2009 The Washington Post [The Latest News]
	Leftist Declares Victory In El Salvador Election -- Mauricio Funes, a former TV newsman who was recruited to run for president, declared himself the winner of El Salvador's presidential contest Sunday night, bringing into power a leftist party built by former guerrillas and ending two decades of conservative rule.
March 15, 2009 The Christian Science Monitor [The Latest News]
	El Salvador election: Is this a referendum on Chávez? -- Salvadorans head to the polls today to vote in a historic election that could give the nation its first leftist president, nearly two decades after Marxist guerrillas and a US-funded military put their arms down to end a 12-year civil war.
March 13, 2009 Inter Press Service News Agency [The Latest News]
	U.S.: Obama Administration Insists It's Neutral in Salvador Poll -- In the face of threats by Republican lawmakers here that a victory by the leftist FMLN party in Sunday's presidential elections could harm relations with the United States, the State Department is insisting that Washington is prepared to work with any government that reflects the will of the Salvadoran people.