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Brian Terry, Jesus Diaz, Dakota Meyer: Justice in 2012?

Brian Terry, Jesus Diaz, Dakota Meyer: Justice in 2012?

In the end, Terry, Diaz and Meyer found themselves on the sharp end of the stick for their efforts: the US Department of Justice, agencies like DHS and the Department of State, and the usual entourage of corporate and political underwriters, including the government of Mexico, all had a hand in creating scenarios designed to transform good guys into villains, narratives that ended in Terry’s death at the hands of a cartel gunman, Diaz’s imprisonment for ‘exercising excessive force’ during the arrest of a suspected drug trafficker, and in Meyer’s case, the loss of a high-paying job with a multinational defense contractor, and blowback that now has this decorated young veteran on the ropes in the court of public opinion. Let me tell you something. The only ‘mental problem’ from which Meyer suffers is a chronic case of integrity, an inability to distort the truth to accommodate political reality.

Consider–if Terry, Diaz and Meyer had ‘occupied Wall Street’ instead of the killing zones along our SW border and in Afghanistan, they might have been poster boys for the March of History, and on top of it all, alive, free, and gainfully employed.

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Climate and Energy in 2010 – Science, Politics, Money and Technology

Climate and Energy in 2010 – Science, Politics, Money and Technology

– Overview – The Met Office in the UK reports that 2010 is on track to be the warmest or second-warmest year in the instrumental record.  Other science, based on massive data, supports that view.  (See graphic above and NOAA’s annual State of the Climate report.)  Meanwhile, the Post-Copenhagen international climate negotiations continued and culminated […]

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Mexico’s Media Plays It Safe

by Cordelia Rizzo It has become very difficult to articulate what is going on in the crime-laden cities of Mexico. President Felipe Calderon makes sure we are constantly aware of the efforts to prevail in the quintessentially unwinnable “war on drugs.” In the meantime, cities have become ghost towns, and society has gone from indignation […]

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Cancun Kick Off

“Fact:  The only sustainable path to growth is a low-carbon path.”  Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico The last newsletter of the year from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has useful information on a number of subjects including adaptation, finance and technology. Here is President Calderón in a clear, succinct message before the […]

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Mexican Journalists a 'Deliberate Target'

In the wake of journalists recently murdered in Mexico, the country’s president, Felipe Calderon met with two international press organizations last week for recommendations on how to stop the violence. The meeting with the Inter-American Press Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reportedly had a positive tone and Calderon promised to do what […]

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Germany and Mexico Lead Climate Conference

Germany and Mexico Lead Climate Conference

The Petersberg Climate Dialogue took place near Bonn this week.  German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mexican President Felipe Calderón brought together environment and climate ministers from 45 countries to “discuss what concrete steps should be taken” prior to the next UNFCCC “Conference of the Parties” (COP) in Cancún in December. Merkel said prior to these […]

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The Human Toll of Mexico’s War on Drugs

By Cordelia Rizzo The recent deaths of two graduate students from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (the “Tec”), caught in a fight between the Mexican armed forces and a drug cartel gang, challenged the traditional view of the human toll of the country’s war against drugs. They showcased a singular feeling […]

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Mexico Too

Yet another major emerging economy is planning to come to the table in Copenhagen ready to contribute.  Mexico aims to bring CO2 cut plan to climate talks reports Reuters.  Adrian Fernandez, the president of the National Ecology Institute, said “If Mexico can bring a plan for cuts through 2020 to the table with a detailed […]

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Thinking Outside the (Ballot) Box

Mexico’s midterm election for its Chamber of Deputies, six governors and mayors and local legislators in 11 states will be held next Sunday July 5. The governing National Action Party (PAN) has  deployed an agressive campaign that attempts to turn the elections  into a referendum on  President  Felipe Calderón’s war against the drug cartels: either […]

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Quick Hitters – Late June ’09 Edition

House Floor Vote – The word from Capitol Hill is that the crucial vote on the Waxman-Markey package of energy and climate change titles is going to happen this week.  The timing as Steny Hoyer indicated previously was to be sometime on either side of the July 4th recess.  The word yesterday was that it […]

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