The U.S. Role in Haiti’s Food Riots By BILL QUIGLEY April 21, 2008 30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened? Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt,…
Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand By DAVID BARSTOW April 20, 2008 Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Bill O’Reilly that the United States was “not on a good glide path right now” in Iraq, the repercussions were…
AP photographer freed by US military after 2 years Apr 16, 11:39 AM (ET) By ROBERT H. REID Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All right reserved. © 2008 IAC Search & Media. All rights reserved. BAGHDAD (AP) – The U.S. military released Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein on Wednesday after holding him for more than two…
width=”163″ height=”136″ align=”right”Torture and Democracy, Part II: Scholar Darius Rejali Details the History and Scope of Modern Torture April 15, 2008 The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. As the ACLU calls on Congress…
