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Are you surprised Blackwater opened the door to lucrative government contracts through a no-bid contract? Are you surprised they received immunity from prosecution after killing 17 Iraqi civilians a year ago?
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KBR, one of America’s biggest military contractors is being sued by a Nepali labourer and the families of a dozen other employees who say they were taken against their will to work in Iraq. All but one of the Nepalese workers were subsequently...
Four months before the United States invaded Iraq, the Department of Defense was secretly working with Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton Corp., on a deal that would give the world’s second largest oil services company...
In March or April 2007, three United States Army officers killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head as the men stood handcuffed and blindfolded beside a Baghdad canal
Jazz, Air Canada’s regional carrier, has removed inflatable life vests from its planes to save weight.
Non-governmental relief agencies are now criticizing the US decision to put the Pentagon in a prominent “humanitarian” role in Georgia. They claim the “militarization” of the humanitarian operation puts them, the aid workers, at...
Tensions between Russia and the US has been raising since a while. It seems after their battle of words on Iraq, Iran, the US missile shield, blabla, the two superpowers are now ready to rattle swords and have picked Georgia as their playing ground.
Up to what level are aid workers, now seen as “representatives” of an unpopular foreign policy of one country? And consequently, up to what level are aid workers, now targeted by terrorism and other hostilities as much as the US is?
Pakistan has kept up a fragile balancing act between democracy and despotism, between the US and its Muslim roots, between being the Taliban’s friend or foe.
Al-Hurra, or “The Free One” in Arabic, is what US media call “the centerpiece of a U.S. government campaign to spread democracy in the Middle East”.
$350 million and four years after it began broadcasting, the station is widely...
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