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A Disappearing Brazilian Tribe Cries Out

Staff / Truthdig Apr 23, 2012 Terrorized by gunmen, loggers, drug traffickers and encroaching farmers, the 355 surviving members of the Amazonian Awá tribe face extinction if the Brazilian government and the international community fail to protect them from what a Brazilian judge termed "a real genocide." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Deep in the Heart of Texas’ Drug Trade

Staff / Truthdig Jul 24, 2011 Texas Gov. Rick Perry points to his hyper pro-business policies to explain the fact that 37 percent of the nation's new jobs created over the last two years were in his state. New York magazine has another suggestion though: the region's multibillion-dollar drug trade. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

War on Drugs

Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City Jun 13, 2011 Dig deeper

Big Brother 2.0

Staff / Truthdig Mar 13, 2009 A xenophobic Web site funded by a Texas government grant provides 15 live feeds of "high-crime areas" near the fence between U.S. and Mexico, urging people to go on "virtual stakeouts" from their computers and report "suspicious activity" to authorities. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )