Corporate Indictments: Crimes & Excesses
In a heroic attempt to right an administrative wrong, two Navy veterans' organizations are suing the Department of Veterans Affairs and Secretary Eric Shinseki over the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
Photo: Physicians for Human Rights sent forensic experts to conduct a preliminary forensic assessment of various mass graves in northern Afghanistan, including the one at Dasht-e-Leili.
6-02-05 According to US government documents, Cuban exile and known terrorist Luis Posada Carriles participated in the Iran-Contra scandal, a program carried out illegally by the Reagan administration whereby arms were sold secretly to Iran and the proceeds from the sales were funneled illegally to the rebel group known as the “Contras” in Nicaragua.
" ... [Ira] Glass and his producers edited out essential lines of inquiry and concealed a key aspect of the bl.
Joshua Oppenheimer, director of a groundbreaking new documentary called The Act of Killing, screening in the New Zealand International Film Festival tomorrow, has spoken out about the Indonesian state murder cult of the 1960s.
Will We Ever Know the Truth? Stability, continuity, orderly transfer of power -- these are what civics teachers and poli-sci profs cite as the virtues of American politics, a curious two-party affair nearly devoid of ideology and dominated by business interests.
Death of a Whistleblower Steven Carr joined the Reagan administration’s “secret” war against Nicaragua because he “wanted to fight the Sandinistas.
Photo: A New York City police officer near the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, July 11, 2012, in New York.
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A new lawsuit brought by a current CIA officer hints at the existence of a secret overseas paramilitary operation that triggered war crimes allegations, The Cable has learned.