And Ten Steps to Take to Do So by Chalmers Johnson July 30, 2009 However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with [...]

Entrevista a Victoria Aldunate, integrante del colectivo feminista chileno “Memoria Feminista” por Carmen Julia F. Heredia Cavero. 9 de julio, 2009 Victoria Aldunate (1), confiesa que se vino a vivir a nuestro país “por amor”, por otro lado afirma que le interesa y admira el “proceso de cambio boliviano”. Ella es integrante de una colectiva feminista autónoma de [...]

por Dayana Menéndez 22 de junio, 2009 Los conflictos armados ocasionan grandes estragos y secuelas en las sociedades; pues dejan a su paso cuantiosas pérdidas de vidas humanas, la desintegración de comunidades y familias, la propagación de enfermedades, la violencia y el desplazamiento o el éxodo de grandes grupos de personas.

by Wade Goodwyn All Things Considered, June 9, 2009 · Jamie Leigh Jones was a 20-year-old Halliburton employee in 2005 when she was sent to work in Iraq. She’d been there just four days when she joined a small group of Halliburton firefighters outside her barracks at the end of the day. One of them gave [...]

by Scott Horton May 29, 2009 The Pentagon is denying the facts: Photographs of Abu Ghraib torture are even more sexually explicit than first reported, including rape and sodomy, writes The Daily Beast’s Scott Horton, who has obtained specific and detailed corroboration of the photos. The Daily Beast has confirmed that the photographs of abuses at Iraq’s Abu [...]

Was Rape an Enhanced Interrogation Technique? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2009 There are those who argue that U.S. officials who authorized waterboarding and who performed waterboarding should not be held criminally accountable, notwithstanding the fact that the U.S. government prosecuted Japanese military personnel who waterboarded U.S. POWs during World War II. Their reasoning goes as follows: [...]

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