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While the United States is "still in the coup-support game" in Latin America, nowadays the U.S. relies more on the mobilization of so-called "civil society" to destabilize democratically-elected progressive governments and make the country ungovernable. Like before, U.S.-backed military coups take place under the guise of establishing stability. But unlike before, today the military returns to its barracks, leaving a civilian dictatorship in power.

On August 1st Pope Francis reinstated Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, the former Nicaraguan Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations General Assembly, as a practicing priest. Pope John Paul II had suspended Father d'Escoto from his ministry in 1985 for serving in the Revolutionary Sandinista Government of Nicaragua, and as part of his concerted campaign against the influence of Liberation Theology within the Catholic Church.

The Border: Songs and Stories. Freddy Fender - Across the Borderline. Arlo Guthrie and Emmylou Harris - Deportees. Ice El Hielo - La Santa Cecilia. Illegal Immigrants, Dangerous Border — One Story. Deported: Kelly's Story.

How Nina Simone turned the movement into music.

American sports—structured and codified over a century ago as a leisure pastime created by men for male consumption—just got marginally better, and that is cause for celebration.

There is no reason for the Fed should be acting to slow the economy at the slightest hint of more rapid wage growth.

Coprocessors and a neural network supercomputer may follow.