Petr�leo por alimentos: El final de ocho años de incertidumbre para Gilles Munier


Oil Wars: a Moral Cancer

by WILLIAM MANSON on 04-06-2013

�Roughly� 500,000 children in the early 1990s? �About� a million people killed by the invasion and its aftermath? �A few million� more lives maimed, displaced, wrecked (as much by grief and despair as by physical mutilation)? Such statistics are terribly abstract, obscenely abstract: an adding-machine tabulates an endless list of corpses into an abstract figure to be entered in the chronicle of �collateral damage,� �civilian casualties,��or a �body count.�


�Iraq and the Betrayal of a People � Impunity Forever?�

by Hans Christof von Sponeck on 20-02-2013

Iraq�s recent history includes two far reaching events, on the 2 August 1990 Iraq�s invasion into Kuwait and on 19 March 2003 the US/UK invasion into Iraq. Whether political leaders will draw lessons from these events will be, at best, questionable. Iraqis continue to be wronged. Danger to life and turmoil remain a cruel part of Iraq�s reality in early 2013. The collective suffering of a nation is visibly all pervasive. It can not be hidden.


Iraq is bringing in medical professionals -- nurses, doctors and techs -- from India and elsewhere. At a time of rapid unemployment within Iraq.


UN Calls on US to end Cuba Embargo

by Reuters and Agencies on 14-11-2012

A record 188 countries voted on Tuesday for an annual UN General Assembly resolution condemning the five-decade old US embargo against Cuba. The vote in favor rose from 186 for the 20th anniversary resolution last year.

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