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Jeremy Scahill speaks about America’s global assassination program and Left silence
One of America’s finest journalists:
2SER radio interview on Haiti and disaster capitalism
I was recently interviewed on Sydney’s 2SER radio program, The Third Degree: Haiti was hit with a devastating earthquake in January 2010, and reconstruction efforts have been painstakingly slow – hampered by other storms such as hurricane Isaac in August, and the recent hurricane Sandy, resulting in much loss of life and pushing the already…
How Obama loves funding autocratic states to benefit corporations and Washington
Nick Turse in TomDispatch: The Pentagon awarded $667.2 million in contracts in 2012, and more than $1 billion during Barack Obama’s first term in office for construction projects in largely autocratic Middle Eastern nations, according to figures provided to TomDispatch by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District (USACE-MED).…
Sri Lanka remains a damaged nation and the UN is part of the problem
What happened in 2009 was nothing short of killing on a mass scale. The BBC has received a leaked document that offers damning evidence: The United Nations failed in its mandate to protect civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, a leaked draft of a highly critical internal UN report says.…
“Secularism is certainly eroding traditional power”
Rupert Murdoch is an old white man who likes old white men on Fox News. Host Bill O’Reilly said on US election night that the “white establishment is now the minority“. Now he’s just talking about the far-left taking over America. Or something. Enjoy:
Haiti struggles but embraces first ever fashion week
Hard to know what to think about this. Having recently spent time in Haiti, the country is struggling under countless problems but is it important that it can project a different image than one of desperation?
