By Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service http://dahrjamailiraq.com Killings, crime, lack of medical care, collapse of education, the list goes on. But with the occupation by U.S.-led forces now into a fifth year, and a supposedly democratic government in place, no one knows who to hold accountable for all that is going wrong. It is the…
BuzzFlash Corruption within the Department of Interior may have allowed oil companies to improperly save billions at the expense of the taxpayers. The Department’s Inspector General has already made at least two criminal referals to the FBI and the Justice Department, and Congressional Democrats have launched several investigations and introduced new legislation to fix the…
By Sam Enriquez, The Los Angeles Times Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the U.S. government, a move that underlines how the country’s conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with United States on law enforcement. The expansion comes as President Felipe Calderon is pushing to amend…
counterpunch Democratic Disconnect A Widening Chasm on Impeachment By DAVE LINDORFF The divide between Democratic leaders contemplating their re-election prospects in 2008 and rank-and-file Democrats is becoming a chasm–one so wide that Congressional Democrats may soon find it hard to straddle it. The issue is impeachment. […] The chasm is clearly widening between the leadership…
