Por María Julia Mayoral* La Habana (PL).- La ONU asegura que en el mundo hay unos 150 millones de “niños de la calle”, viviendo en la mendicidad, víctimas muchas veces de la droga y la prostitución: un mal conocido y en ascenso. Ninguna región del orbe está exenta del drama diario de los menores abandonados a su [...]

By ADAM B. ELLICK Published: June 13, 2009 KABUL, Afghanistan — In unusually firm remarks, the chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said there was an “urgent need to review” the Special Operations forces here.

Por Mouin Rabbani 9 de junio, 2009 Un vistazo a los últimos turbulentos 20 años que han caracterizado el camino a la paz —culminado con el reciente ataque contra Gaza— permite vislumbrar algunas vías potenciales para el fin de la ocupación.

Half of the personnel the US has working on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are private contractors. A new report reveals how much of a rip-off this system has been to US taxpayers.

By Agencies June 9, 2009 An explosion near a US military convoy in northeastern Afghanistan has killed one child and wounded at least 49 other civilians, police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast on Tuesday in Asadabad, the provinical capital of Kunar province, but several witnesses said a US soldier had thrown a grenade [...]

The Iraqi authorities are holding five American contractors on suspicion of “murder,” but the US is spinning a different story. This could be a major test for Obama on contractor accountability. By Jeremy Scahill June 9, 2009 Over the past few days, there has been quite a buzz on listserves frequented by private security contractors and industry representatives [...]

by Dahr Jamail May 27, 2009 Transgress The geo-strategic expansion of the American empire is an accepted fact of contemporary history. I have been writing in these columns about the impact of the US occupation on the people of Iraq in the wake of the “hard” colonization via F-16s, tanks, 2,000-pound bombs, white phosphorous and cluster bombs. Here I [...]

Or How to Stay Out of Sight While Profiting From the War in Iraq By Pratap Chatterjee 31 de mayo, 2009 The Houstonian Hotel is an elegant, secluded resort set on an 18-acre wooded oasis in the heart of downtown Houston. Two weeks ago, David Lesar, CEO of the once notorious energy services corporation Halliburton, spoke to some [...]

“Torturing Democracy” relies on the documentary record to connect the dots in an investigation of harsh interrogations of prisoners in U.S. custody – and points straight to the top. Timely and powerful, at its heart the film is about the rule of law – and how the government pushed it aside despite the fierce resistance [...]

The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire By ARNO J. MAYER June 4, 2009 Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behavior. Israeli [...]