By/Por Gabriela Márquez, Especial para LWR El hackeo de la cuenta de la agencia de noticias Associated Press (AP) en Twitter, que distorsionó los mercados con un tuit falso sobre un atentado a la Casa Blanca, colocó en el banquillo de los acusados a la seguridad de esa popular red social. El mercado de acciones [...]
By/Por Amy Goodman, Special for LWR For the first time in its 120-year history, the Sierra Club engaged in civil disobedience, the day after President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address. The group joined scores of others protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which awaits a permitting decision from the Obama [...]
By/Por Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan John Brennan and John Kiriakou worked together years ago, but their careers have dramatically diverged. Brennan is now on track to head the CIA, while Kiriakou is headed off to prison. Each of their fates is tied to the so-called war on terror, which under President George W. Bush [...]
By/Por Bob Jimenez, Senior Film Reviewer LWR I was only an apprentice radio reporter when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Later, however, as an NBC TV correspondent, based in Atlanta during the 1970’s, I became friends with his father, Daddy King who’d I see at every memorial celebration of Dr. King’s [...]
By/Por Amy Goodman, Special for LWR While the final funerals for the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre have been held, gun violence continues apace, most notably with the Christmas Eve murder of two volunteer firefighters in rural Webster, N.Y., at the hands of an ex-convict who was armed, as was the Newtown shooter [...]
By/Por Bob Jimenez, Senior Film Review LWR This year Latino Weekly Review is beginning a summary of the year’s events. On the other hand it may be the only summary we print if the world ends later this month. So I’ll start with what a lot of people are worried about, some because they think [...]
By/Por Bob Jimenez, Senior Film Reviewer, LWR “Evil has visited our community,” was an apt way for the Governor of Connecticut to describe a visitor whom no one in Newtown ever expected, certainly around Christmas. But that is what the Prince of Darkness likes–reminding us how powerful he is in making a mockery of our [...]
By/Por Amy Goodman, Special for LWR DOHA, Qatar—The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Delegates, press, dignitaries and the legions of low-paid, foreign guest workers here at the opulent Qatar National Convention Center [...]
By/Por Polo Munoz Managing Editor, LWR The new business landscape dictates that all businesses have a social media presence, starting with a great website, but that endeavor can be very complicated. The elements that are conceived can be complex, confusing and extremely expensive. After reviewing most of the different tools needed that a website should [...]
By/Por Michael Ratner, Especial para :LWR Bradley Manning es castigado –y torturado– por un crimen que a final de cuentas consiste en creer que el mayor deber de un estadunidense es para con su pueblo y no para con su gobierno. Cuando comience el consejo de guerra, el 4 de febrero, el soldado Bradley [...]
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