Saturday, March 7, 2026

Punishment for human rights abusers is irrevocable achievement for Argentine society

“Those who signed that decision did not realize that the trial and punishment of those responsible for human rights abuses during the last dictatorship now form part of the heritage of the Argentine people”

An open letter to the Washington Office on Latin America about its stance on...

"We write out of concern for the direction that WOLA has taken with regard to a matter of life and death, and possibly war and peace, in Latin America."

American troops as migrants

What the MAGA crowd don’t recognize: the troops they plan to rely on to carry out the deportations of potentially millions of people are, in their own way, also migrants.
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Why your Chipotle burrito costs more

Instead of complaining about a so-called “labor shortage,” Republicans ought to be complaining about the shortage of jobs paying a living wage.

Terrorizing the vulnerable

“We only want to live in peace, work, have a home, be a family.”

From the UK, a new reminder why inequality must go

The UK’s Equality Trust has plenty of ideas for fostering a more equal and environmentally secure world. And building that world has become more fundamentally essential today than ever before.

GOP’s twisted priorities: Israel aid bill paves the way for wealthy tax cheats

Does the latest move from the GOP fits neatly into a broader pattern of policy decisions that prioritize military spending and the interests of the affluent over social welfare and justice?

France to ban sale of cars powered by gasoline and diesel

France intends to end oil and gas exploration in French territory, eliminate coal-fired power plants by 2022 and encourage homeowners to produce their own energy.

Spring stirrings and misgivings

Of autocrats and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa

The Empire’s Final Frontier: Re-Colonize the Homeland

America, after a 225-year experiment with relative freedom, is morphing back into a grim colony. "The empire" has no king, no permanent kingpin, nor evinces widespread controls over all sorts of majority behavior.