Chalk another one down to American depravity and sadism … not to mention neoliberal unaccountability. Ugandan guards working for private firms in Iraq have reportedly been beaten and sodomized in ways that one would rather not try to imagine.
Some of the Ugandan recruits at Alasad Airbase, northwest of Iraq, one of the biggest U.S. fortresses, [...]
Continue Reading May 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
John Pilger reports from Venezuela.
Caracas is said to be one of the world’s toughest cities, yet I have known no fear; the poorest have welcomed my colleagues and me with a warmth characteristic of ordinary Venezuelans but also with the unmistakable confidence of a people who know that change is possible and who, in their [...]
Continue Reading May 14th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
About 4,000 protestors including activists, workers and student radicals occupied Chongno Street near the American embassy in central Seoul, holding candles as they chanted songs, shouted slogans and waved banners.
Thousands of riot police, backed by fire trucks with water cannons, stood guard over the protest Saturday fearing a repeat of last week’s fighting in Pyongtaek.
The [...]
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