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Amidst violence, Guatemala heads for Sept. elections
July 22, 2011Guatemala is the second most violent country in the Western Hemisphere (after Colombia) and the election campaign is shaping up to be violent also. Iit is not clear to what degree poor and working class Guatemalans,...
Read moreFurious reaction to U.S. gun exporting scheme
July 7, 2011Public opinion on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border is reacting angrily to a program called Operation Fast and Furious, through which the ATF deliberately allowed thousands of automatic weapons to be smuggled into Mexico
Read moreChicago top cop links gun policy to racism
July 6, 2011Chicago's top cop says current gun policies facilitate illegal gun trafficking, and equal "government-sponsored racism."
Read moreIs the “war on drugs” in Mexico leading to a police state?
April 28, 2011The new National Security Law would give the military and state security the right to use force on the simple declaration that they constitute a national security threat.
Read moreChips ahoy: Big pharma to put computers in pills
November 16, 2010According to some recent news stories we all may be swallowing computer chips in the near future.
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