The National Imperative to Imprison Immigrants for Profit
By Tom Barry
There is a codependent relationship between the private prison industry and the federal government’s immigration enforcement apparatus. Immigrant detention jumpstarted the two largest prison companies—Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group—in the prison industry. The Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) contracted CCA in 1983 and GEO (then Wackenhut Services, Inc.) in 1987 to provide [...]
Read more →Drug War Doublespeak
Through late February and early March, a blitzkrieg of declarations from U.S. government and military officials and pundits hit the media, claiming that Mexico was alternately at risk of being a failed state, on the verge of civil war, losing control of its territory, and posing a threat to U.S. national security. In the same [...]
Read more →Indigenous Panamanians Defend Nature Against Speculators’ Violent Onslaughts
By Talli Nauman
For the small Naso indigenous community of Panama, the curtain of 2009 opened on a heart wrenching scene of conflict over the native people’s longtime demand for respect of their territory and natural resources. As they watched heavy machinery demolish their houses and tear up their land, residents of San San Druy in the northern [...]
Read more →Trading our Way Out of the Financial Crisis: The Need for WTO Reform
In the context of the deepening global crisis that is pushing millions more women, children, and men into poverty in developing countries, development should be the centerpiece of reforming the global financial architecture. Pressing to conclude a World Trade Organization (WTO) deal based on the current proposals in Geneva would be counterproductive. This Policy Brief [...]
Read more →Napolitano’s Hard Immigration Line; The Correctional Healthcare System; Ninth World Social Forum; Lessons from the Poor; Financial Crisis Slams Mexico
By CIP Americas
Be a part of the new IRC Americas Program! We need people to help us translate original, thought-provoking analysis of the profound changes taking place throughout the Americas. If you can translate from English/Spanish, English/Portuguese, or Spanish/Portuguese please volunteer for translation. See your name alongside some of the finest analysts in the hemisphere and help [...]
Read more →That Other World
"So where is the Left?" asked José Saramago as the crisis was reaching its peak. Wall Street was becoming socialist and its very foundations were collapsing. The response was muted, representative of a moment of withdrawal and general uncertainty. Belém, Brazil: Site of the ninth World Social Forum.Photo: http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/ It was in this context that, [...]
Read more →Help the Poor or Learn From Them?
By Raúl Zibechi
The ideology that emanates from the international finance organizations maintains that the poor suffer from a "lack" of resources, that poverty is a scourge to be combated, and that the best method of doing so is to "help" the poor. On the other hand, the priests that live among the poor believe that it is [...]
Read more →DONATE
MULTIMEDIA
- Desgraciadamente, nosotros no podemos ayudarte en ...
- hola quisiera que me ayudaran a buscar a mi herman...
- "Extractive" is now a pejorative term used to crit...
- The "blame the teachers for bad education" theme i...
- Paley's article fails to mention that the Mexican ...
- Esta informacion es valiosisima !! todos queremos ...
- Excelente informe Raúl. Qué gran trabajo! Como ciu...