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The Border’s the New Military Industrial (Govt) Cash Cow

Mary Mata October 19, 2010

A scathing analysis by the Government Accountability Office tracks in detail how the feds granted a multi-billion dollar contract to Department of Defense-darling Boeing to create a super-high-tech virtual border […]

Angle’s Racist Tirades Continue — Thanks to Incredible Funding

Mary Mata

NewsTaco Week in Review: Machos, Telenovelas, Militares y la Política

Mary Mata October 16, 2010

Foundation head calls on Corporate America to quit sponsoring hate speech

Mary Mata

It was popular revulsion that took immigrant-basher and über hypocrite Lou Dobbs off national TV. It is time to do it again. It is time to force corporate America to […]

Inevitable: Chilean Miners Go Telenovela Status!

Mary Mata October 15, 2010

Perhaps you read my earlier post about the temporarily positive coverage of Latinos in the U.S. media as hope and the tenacity of the human spirit were on the tips […]

Rick Sanchez’s Firing Wasn’t Fair

Mary Mata

The Nation had an interesting piece about the Rick Sanchez firing from CNN recently.  Essentially what Leslie Savan says is that there are other factors at play, that Sanchez’s actions […]

‘Hippy’ versus Latina, Body Politics

Mary Mata

A while back, “Sex and the City” star Krisin Davis said that she was considered “hippy” but had found a way to accept her body.  At the time, I laughed […]