July 03, 2008 The Mercury News [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Trade deals' effect on U.S. immigration a problem for McCain -- This week John McCain is visiting Mexico and Colombia to burnish his foreign policy credentials by meeting with top Bush administration allies, Presidents Álvaro Uribe of Colombia and Felipe Calderón of Mexico.
July 03, 2008 Pastors for Peace [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	Homeland Security Agents Seize 32 Computers Bound for Cuba at Texas-Mexico Border -- Federal agents seized 32 computers from Pastors for Peace as they attempted to cross the Pharr International Bridge early this morning at the US-Mexico border.
July 01, 2008 The Washington Post [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts -- A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.
June 28, 2008 Mother Jones [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	MoJo Convo: Iran Panic? Talk About It With the Experts -- MoJo writer Laura Rozen asked an Israeli intel correspondent, an Iranian American activist, an arms expert, a former peace negotiator, and an anti-war intellectual: How likely is a scenario in which the US or Israel strikes Iran before Bush leaves office? (Or is the Left falling for the hawks' propaganda?)
June 27, 2008 New York Times [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects -- Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
June 27, 2008 Florida Times-Union [Reality Tours > Reality Tours in the News]
	CITY SOJOURN: Power of public art on display in these 2 different cities -- Lameda works for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights organization that tries to give U.S. citizens a view of people in various countries beyond the veil of politics and sensationalism. He was walking me and my fellow travelers through scenes of a sprawling mural of Venezuela's history.
June 21, 2008 Detroit Free Press [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Expansion approved for Marathon refinery, but concerns expressed -- Michigan's only gasoline refinery, Marathon Oil in southwest Detroit, received final permission Friday to begin a $1.9-billion expansion of its plant.
June 20, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle [War, Peace & Democracy > Freedom from Oil]
	Richmond Ruling Reversed for Chevron -- Richmond's planning commissioners on Thursday reversed a decision to limit the kind of crude oil that Chevron can process at its refinery in the city.
June 20, 2008 Associated Press [Regions > Brazil]
	Brazil creates new Indian Reservation -- President of Brazil decrees a new Indian reservation in the heart of the Amazon rain forest's logging frontier
June 19, 2008 Salon.com [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	McCain on Iran: Bush all over again -- In the race for the White House, John McCain has trumpeted Iran as a paramount threat to the United States (and its close ally Israel), and has asserted that Iran will be the No. 1 foreign policy problem facing the next administration. McCain uses Iran as a prime example of what he depicts as his opponent Barack Obama's naive and guileless approach to U.S. foreign policy. Just like the president he hopes to succeed, McCain has sought to deploy Iran as a political weapon of mass destruction.
June 18, 2008 Dollars & Sense Magazine [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	From NAFTA to the SPP -- While left activists and researchers in Canada and Mexico have been spreading the word about the SPP for several years, so far in the United States the SPP, which was officially launched in March 2005, has mainly caught the attention of the right wing, which sees it as a stealth plan to impose a European Union-style government on the continent.
June 18, 2008 Associated Press [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Mexico freezes prices on 150 food products -- Mexican leader has blamed high food costs on rising global energy prices, soaring food demand in China and India and the use of corn for ethanol production.
June 18, 2008 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Guatemala]
	U.S. Has Central America’s Northern Triangle in Its Sights -- Drug trafficking, migration, high crime rates and even a supposed Iranian presence was the cocktail of concerns raised by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on his recent tour of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
June 18, 2008 Associated Press [Regions > Americas > Argentina]
	Argentine leader demands end to farmers' strike -- BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - President Cristina Fernandez told thousands of supporters Wednesday that a three-month strike against grain export-tax hikes was undemocratic and demanded that farmers lift road blockades that have caused food shortages across Argentina.
June 17, 2008 Reuters [Regions > Americas > Cuba]
	Congress panel votes to loosen Cuba travel rules -- People living in the United States could travel to Cuba more often and visit a broader list of family members under legislation approved by a congressional panel on Tuesday.
June 12, 2008 The Huffington Post [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iraq]
	John McCain Dismisses the War's Collateral Damage -- Sen. John McCain was asked in an interview yesterday when U.S. forces should begin withdrawing from Iraq. "That's not too important," McCain responded dismissively. "What's important is the casualties in Iraq," he continued, referring to the more than 4,000 American troops killed since the invasion.
June 12, 2008 BBC News [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Afghanistan]
	Major Guantanamo setback for Bush -- In a major legal setback for the Bush administration, the court overturned by five to four a ruling upholding a 2006 law which removed such rights.
June 11, 2008 Electronic Intifada [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Lebanon]
	Karim Makdisi discusses the Doha Agreement and Lebanon's economic crisis -- In May of this year, tension between the US-backed March 14 governing coalition and the Hizballah-led March 8 opposition culminated in armed clashes in Beirut and elsewhere around Lebanon. Soon after, the feuding sides were invited to Doha, Qatar where a deal was struck that began the process of forming a new government and selecting a new president for the country.
June 11, 2008 Americas Policy Program [Regions > Brazil]
	When More Is Less: The Limited Impact of Foreign Investment in the Americas -- A comprehensive review of the impact of foreign investment liberalization in Latin America shows that, with some exceptions, foreign investment has fallen far short of stimulating broad-based economic growth and environmental protection in the region, according to a report by the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas.
June 11, 2008 Americas Policy Program [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	When More Is Less: The Limited Impact of Foreign Investment in the Americas -- A comprehensive review of the impact of foreign investment liberalization in Latin America shows that, with some exceptions, foreign investment has fallen far short of stimulating broad-based economic growth and environmental protection in the region, according to a report by the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas. The report recommends that national and regional policies aimed at improving national firms' capabilities should be implemented and that "policy space" for such policies should be accommodated in bilateral, regional, and global trade and investment treaties.
June 10, 2008 The Guardian [The Global Economy > Fair Trade > Chocolate]
	Small Is Bountiful -- Peasant farmers offer the best chance of feeding the world. So why do we treat them with such contempt?
June 08, 2008 Express Milwaukee [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	“All You Have To Do Is Go There” -- Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., is considered to be one of the leading experts on the Venezuelan economy and the reforms of President Hugo Chavez.
June 04, 2008 CommonDreams.org [The Latest News > In the News]
	War Resisters May Yet Find Sanctuary in Canada -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be set on embracing George Bush and his occupation of Iraq, but on Tuesday, June 3, the Canadian members of Parliament extended their embrace to the war resisters.
June 04, 2008 The New York Times [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	Rice Calls Dialogue With Iran Pointless -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice escalated the Bush administration’s anti-Iran rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing its government of pursuing nuclear weapons and calling any dialogue with its leaders pointless until they suspend the country’s enrichment of uranium.
June 03, 2008 Foreign Policy in Focus [The Latest News]
	Destroying African Agriculture -- While the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more primordial problem has been the conversion of economies that are largely food-self-sufficient into chronic food importers.
June 03, 2008 Associated Press [Regions > Brazil]
	Brazil seeks sanctions against US -- Brazil will seek sanctions against the U.S. after winning a World Trade Organization ruling on cotton subsidies.
June 03, 2008 Associated Press [Regions > Brazil]
	Brazil cracks down on Amazon cattle -- Rio de Janeiro,Brazil - Destruction of the Amazon seems to be on the upswing, and Brazil's Environment Minister has wasted no time in aiming at a villain: Cattle.
June 01, 2008 Foreign Policy [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	Mismarriage of Convenience -- Although Iran and Israel will not be signing any mutual defense pacts anytime soon, the two countries aren’t destined to be implacable foes. If anything, Israel could be a prime beneficiary of a rapprochement between Washington and Tehran.
May 30, 2008 The Huffington Post [Regions > Middle East & Central Asia > Iran]
	Mr. Kinzer Goes to Washington, Seeking Real Diplomacy with Iran -- No-one outside of Iran, and few inside Iran, can state with certainty what the long-term intentions are of the Iranian leadership are with respect to the development of nuclear weapons. The question is inherently speculative, and it's no accident that those who seek confrontation want to centralize attention on an allegation that can't be proved or disproved.
May 29, 2008 In These Times [Regions > Americas > Mexico > Dispatches From Mexico]
	Mexico’s Ghost Towns -- Cerrito del Agua, population 3,000, has no paved roads -- either leading to it or within it. No restaurants, no movie theaters, no shopping malls.