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Making a Killing: The Military-Industrial Complex and Impacts on the Third World

Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:32 Aziz Choudry
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Photo from 917pressIn the late 1990s, well before Bush's 'war on terror', New Zealand TV screened a particularly awful US action drama called 'Soldier of Fortune Inc.', about an elite team (composed of former US Marines, Delta Force, CIA, British SAS personnel) who performed 'unofficial' covert missions for the US Government. They would get a briefcase full of money from a shadowy military liaison and head to the Middle East, Latin America, Haiti, or the Balkans, or smoke out foreign agents and assorted enemies within the USA, missions for which Washington could claim plausible deniability because none were active duty soldiers. It was a dirty job, but someone had to do it to keep 'US democracy' safe, for a price. Sounds familiar?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:56
 

As the Banks Crumble: A Look at the Left in Switzerland

Wednesday, 26 November 2008 14:10 Sammy Loren
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If the left draws the majority of its support from those at the lower rungs of the economic pecking pole - organized labor, civil servants, and the working poor - how then in Switzerland, one of the wealthiest countries, with some of the lowest poverty and unemployment rates in the post-industrialized world, does the left ever make it to public office? How on the turf of banking goliaths Credit Suisse and United Bank of Switzerland does the left not get laughed out of town?
Last Updated on Thursday, 27 November 2008 13:40
 

Assessing the Legacy of Norman Borlaug: Did the Green Revolution Prevent Famines?

Thursday, 08 October 2009 00:00 Alexis Lathem
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Norman Borlaug
In the last month, following the announcement of the death of Norman Borlaug, we have been reminded of the sweeping claims that have been made about the successes of the green revolution. Borlaug was an agricultural scientist who, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, developed dwarf varieties of wheat and rice that are widely reported to have produced miraculous yields, and which "saved the lives of millions of people" in the developing world who would otherwise have starved.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 October 2009 00:16
 

A Thousand Little Gitmos: Will Obama Keep Secret Courts?

Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:00 Petra Bartosiewicz
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The last person to see Syed Mehmood Hashmi as a free man was his friend Mohammed Haroon Saleem, who on June 6, 2006, drove Hashmi to London's Heathrow Airport, walked him to the security checkpoint, and watched him hoist his bag and head for the gate. But Hashmi never made his flight. At passport control, constables pulled him from the line and told him they had an extradition warrant on behalf of the US government. He was to be charged with aiding Al Qaeda.
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 August 2009 21:11
 

Guinea: A Wave of Horror But No UN Action

Wednesday, 14 October 2009 00:00 Rene Wadlow
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Captain Moussa Dadis Camara
A wave of horror spread among the assembled delegates at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva as news of the September 28 shootings of unarmed participants in a political meeting in Conakry was known.  It was the last days of the Council session which was then in its final stage of negotiating and voting resolutions.  Was there anything that the UN human rights body could do? 
Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:04
 
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