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Emily Achtenberg
Rebel Currents
September 3, 2015
The government’s recent attack on four research NGOs highlights the need for continuing debate around Bolivia’s extractivist development model.
August 27, 2015
Outsourcing immigration enforcement to Mexico allows the Obama administration to ignore continued child migration and avoid providing asylum to Central American youth.
August 20, 2015
Teachers fight on virtually alone: a militant minority whose interests seem selfish to some and whose tactics seem violent to others. Yet a great many teachers feel they fight not only for themselves, but for their union, their communities, and for Mexican democracy.
August 18, 2015
Puerto Rico’s debt crisis will likely lead to the privatization of public enterprises including the electrical power authority and the water agency. The proposed solution reflects the application of neoliberal policies as if they were magic recipes for resolving a most complex situation.
August 13, 2015
In addition to reducing violence, the renewed ceasefire between FARC and the Colombian government will likely diminish environmental destruction.
August 7, 2015
In Oaxaca, indigenous peoples interrupt the land enclosures of renewable resources.
July 28, 2015
A century after the U.S. military invasion of Haiti in 1915, a U.N. "stabilization mission" continues to compromise the nation's political and economic sovereignty.
Steve Johnston
Border Wars
July 26, 2015
Defendant Steve Johnston's moving court testimony details the immigration policy's disastrous human toll.
July 24, 2015
Replicating Plan Colombia's failed approach, a Washington aid program for Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador combines neoliberal economic reforms with military aid.