With President Obama pushing a huge troop escalation in Afghanistan, history may well repeat itself with a vengeance. Full Article at Huffington Post

¡Ay caramba! Lou Dobbs caving to NAFTA? The Minuteman Project says they'll "watch him for several months before drawing a conclusion," probably through a rifle scope. But if Dobbs is serious, the anti-immigrant crowd will soon need a new spokesnut. Full Article at Village Voice

Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic... Full Article at Mother Jones

Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic... Full Article at Huffington Post

I have been a political analyst and writer in Mexico for the past two decades. I'm also a mother faced with the challenge of raising children there. Full Article at Counterpunch

The political and economic reforms in Mexico in the 1990s were exemplary. Full Article at Foreign Policy | Passport