Una denuncia del diario La Tribuna Hispana asegura que el fundador de la empresa de seguridad Blackwater, Erick Prince, ha financiado grupos religiosos radicales antiinmigrantes y que su compañía, involucrada en la matanza de civiles en Irak, adiestra al personal de agencias policíacas estadounidenses fronterizas. La compañía de seguridad estadounidense Blackwater, involucrada en el escándalo [...]
James Lee is a former Marine from California who served two tours of duty in Iraq in 2001 to 2004. He’s been back in Iraq more recently, this time as an embedded photographer. Lee is now a journalism student at San Francisco State University and filed reports from Iraq for the college newspaper, the Golden [...]
Last summer, I wrote (in Swedish) about how the US is in grave danger of becoming the Fourth Reich. I also said that such a state would not last for more than 15 years, because of a number of factors I would elaborate on later.
I was right about the sequence of events, but horribly off [...]
We just passed the grim milestone of 4,000 U.S. military members killed in Iraq since the invasion five years ago. Still, the death toll climbs.
Typically unmentioned alongside the count of U.S. war dead are the tens of thousands of wounded (not to mention the Iraqi dead). The Pentagon doesn’t tout the number of U.S. injured, [...]
La Jornada publicó recientemente un extenso artículo del periodista británico Robert Fisk con motivo del quinto aniversario de la invasión a Irak. El eje de su reflexión es la amnesia histórica de los ingleses en la ocupación de territorios musulmanes y citó a ese propósito una arenga que Pat Buchanan escribió cinco meses antes de [...]
Marcos es mi mejor amigo. Crecimos juntos, aprendimos a amarnos con la inocencia infantil con la que jugábamos corretizas y discutíamos como si de ahí fueran a salir las respuestas al problema fundamental de la existencia. Aprendimos, forzados por la distancia a extrañarnos, a comprendernos, a sabernos lejos y compartir con palabras lo que el [...]
La semana pasada se cumplieron cinco años de la invasión y ocupación de Irak por Estados Unidos. Washington improvisó una coalición de una veintena de países, cuya participación, con excepción del Reino Unido, ha sido discreta, por no decir simbólica.
La fase inicial del intenso ataque militar duró poco menos de ocho semanas. Con la toma [...]
In figures
$16bn
The amount the US spends on the monthly running costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - on top of regular defence spending
$138
The amount paid by every US household every month towards the current operating costs of the war
$19.3bn
The amount Halliburton has received in single-source contracts for work in Iraq
$25bn
The annual cost to [...]
Shut them up. Accuse them. Imprison them. Stop them talking. Why is it that this seems to have become a symbol of the Arab – or Muslim – world? Yes I know about our Western reputation for free speech; from the Roman Empire to the Spanish inquisition, from Henry VIII to Robespierre, from Mussolini and [...]
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Friends,
It would have to happen on Easter Sunday, wouldn’t it, that the 4,000th American soldier would die in Iraq. Play me that crazy preacher again, will you, about how maybe God, in all his infinite wisdom, may not exactly be blessing America these days. Is anyone surprised?
4,000 dead. Unofficial estimates are that [...]
