A Man-Made Famine Is Looming In South Sudan
For more than 20 years, a bipartisan coalition in Washington and beyond championed rebel forces here. South Sudan is, along with the Central African Republic and Syria, one of just three "L3 emergencies," the world's most severe, large-scale humanitarian crises. The country has also just displaced Somalia—for six years running the archetypal failed state—atop the Fund for Peace's 178-nation list of the world's most fragile nations.
Today, close to 100,000 people are huddled on United Nations military bases around the country, just a fraction of the almost 1.5 million who have been put to flight.
According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), almost one million South Sudanese children under five years of age will require treatment for acute malnutrition in 2014. UNICEF projects that 50,000 of them could die.
Factual divides over whether Iraq had WMD, and whether Saddam was working with Osama, set the stage for today's battles over reality.
There is no debate that the Iraq War was sold to the American public with a collection of claims that ended up being proved false. Iraq was said to have weapons of mass destruction, but this wasn't the case. Advocates for the war insinuated that Saddam Hussein was colluding with Al Qaeda and was somehow involved in the 9/11 attacks. That, too, was false.
Yet many Americans (and some of their leaders) still believe this stuff.
In Iraq, It's Always Been About the Oil
The insurgents are not only in a struggle against what they see as oppression by a largely Shiite government in Baghdad and its security forces, but also over who will control and benefit from what Maliki—speaking for most of his constituents—told theWall Street Journal is Iraq's "national patrimony."
The occupation government was a whirlwind of economic destruction. It quickly began dismantling all government-run (and oil-subsidized) industrial plants, bankrupting the private industries that depended on them. It disrupted or destroyed commercial agriculture, again by discontinuing Saddam-era oil-financed subsidies and by air attacks on insurgents in rural areas. It imposed both austerity measures and a "de-Baathification" program on the country's educational and medical systems.
“So Many People Died”: How Afghanistan and Iraq Echo Vietnam
SWAT Teams Keep Killing Innocent People in Their Homes
85 percent of SWAT operations target private residences
Postcards From American Cities in Decline
Whistle blowing about State Department waste and mismanagement in Iraq ended my 24-year career abroad and, after a two-decade absence, deposited me back in "the homeland." I returned to America to find another sort of regime change underway, the cumulative effects of years of deindustrialization, declining salaries, absent benefits, and weakened unions, along with a rise in meth and alcohol abuse, a broad-based loss of good jobs, and soaring inequality
Why has the United States spent so much money and time so disastrously trying to rebuild occupied nations abroad, while allowing its own infrastructure to crumble untended? Why do we even think of that as "policy"?
Why, in our zeal to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, we never considered spending a fraction as much to rebuild Detroit, New Orleans, or Cleveland.
Failure in the strict sense of the word is not necessarily a problem for Washington. Our purpose is served by the appearance of reconstructing.
1,000 military bases around the world but 66,000 structurally deficient bridges here at home...
New GMO "Sweet Corn" expresses 6 dif. pesticides in the DNA of the plant. Released in Canada with NO safety study! BEWARE!
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The US funds Israel's glittering cities (and brutal occupation) while our own cities rot from decades of neglect.
We were warned , new anti terror bill .
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"Contract negotiations between Teamsters and CP Rail are ongoing. The two sides will resume talks in Calgary this week.
"The earliest that a work stoppage could occur is Feb. 14, according to the union, when a cooling off period expires. After that date, a strike or lockout could be called by the union or the company.
"The union is currently conducting a strike ballot vote. Locomotive engineers, conductors and yard workers are all voting whether or not to authorize the bargaining committee to call a strike . . . The Teamsters union said the railway may be making preparations in case of a work stoppage."
"Contract negotiations between Teamsters and CP Rail are ongoing. The two sides will resume talks in Calgary this week.
"The earliest that a work stoppage could occur is Feb. 14, according to the union, when a cooling off period expires. After that date, a strike or lockout could be called by the union or the company.
"The union is currently conducting a strike ballot vote. Locomotive engineers, conductors and yard workers are all voting whether or not to authorize the bargaining committee to call a strike . . . The Teamsters union said the railway may be making preparations in case of a work stoppage."
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