Blackwater: superbly researched indictment of America's hired killers

This is an usual subject for BoingBoing to feature but I've always thought it needed more examination. "Jeremy Scahill's brave and outraged "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army"...

Your Mission: Avoid Detection by Drones

Now, I'm not really a gamer, but I do enjoy SPLINTER CELL. Stealth, lurking in the shadows, et cetera. So I should be thrilled that I could move to Belgium, Bulgaria, Nederland, or China and turn my trip to the grocery store into an avoid-detection mission, as I would find...

Australian Government rules out troop withdrawal

"By Maria Hawthorne and Peter Veness February 18, 2007 05:09pm Article from: AAP Font size: + - Send this article: Print Email THE Federal Government has ruled out bringing any Australian troops home from Iraq before this year's election. Earlier today newspaper reports...

A Scene from 'S-21'

From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime jailed between 17,000 and 20,000 Cambodians at "S-21," a high school-turned-prison in the country's capitol, Phnom Penh.The prisoners—many of them educated or politically affiliated members of Cambodian society—were deemed enemies...

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media Sources: Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005 Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story” Author: Elliot D....

Fool Us Twice? From Iraq to Iran

"It's déja vu. This time the Bush gang wants war with Iran. Following a carefully orchestrated strategy, they have ratcheted up the "threat" from Iran, designed to mislead us into a new war four years after they misled us into Iraq. Like its insistence that Iraq had WMD, the...

Stop the US war drive against Iran!

"By the Editorial Board 14 February 2007 Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author The World Socialist Web Site condemns the military and political provocations with which the Bush administration is laying the foundations for an attack on Iran. We...

US, Britain and Israel - Harassing Syria and Iran

"By George S. Hishmeh The US, Britain and Israel are on record saying they are not planning any military action against Iran because of its ambitious nuclear programme, which may ultimately yield a nuclear weapon, probably not on the same scale as Israel, Pakistan and...

Survivor Fiji - The Real World Outwit, Outplay, Outlast :: MAXINE

On the eve of the popular reality TV series “Survivor” (which has its premiere tonight on CBS, 8pm et/pt), this latest edition from Fiji may pale in comparison to the real life survivor saga – the coup in...

Iran: The war has already begun

"Iran: The war has already begun By: John Pilger As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the...

Myanmar: US wants puppet regime

"Myanmar's military government has accused the United States of plotting to install a puppet regime in the country. The allegation came after George Bush, the American president, said in his state of the union address on Tuesday that the US "will continue to speak out for...

Chinese Regime Admits To Organ Harvesting From Prisoners

CHINA—In the middle of January, 2007, the BBC Chinese website published an interview regarding organ harvesting in China. For the first time, China's Ministry of Health spokesman Mao Qunan admitted to the practice of organ harvesting from...

Venezuela's Chavez urges Mercosur to turn to the left

"RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Venezuela's leftist firebrand President Hugo Chavez pressed leaders of South America's Mercosur trade bloc to reject neoliberalism and US imperialism as they work to overcome differences on forging a new, integrated economic front. "In this new era,...

Hussein's half-brother, other co-defendant hanged

"Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the chief judge under his Baath Party regime followed him to the gallows early today, hanged for their roles in the killings of 148 men and boys after a 1982 assassination attempt, an Iraqi government spokesman said. Saddam Hussein's...

The Future of Iraq? More of the Same

"Nobody can rule Iraq as a whole country who is pro-American. Any regime that eventually asserts authority over that country, and its going to be by brutal force because the insurgents have been able to create a very serious divide between sunnis and shiites, they are not...
 

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