Category Archives: Official-Corruption
Body of tortured Afghan unearthed near former US Special Forces base – report — RT News
Afghan officials have reportedly found the footless body of a local man who went missing a half-year ago. The corpse was unearthed near the former A-Team US Special Forces base – where detainees were tortured and killed, locals claim. Authorities alleged that the grisly discovery is directly connected to Zakaria Kandahari, a notorious wartime collaborator […]
Federal Appeals Court: Drug Sentencing Disparity Is Intentional Racial ‘Subjugation’ | ThinkProgress
The old 100-to-1 crack cocaine ratio has led to the mass incarceration of thousands of nonviolent prisoners under a law widely acknowledged as racially discriminatory. There were approximately 30,000 federal prisoners (about 15 percent of all federal prisoners) serving crack cocaine sentences in 2011. Thousands of these prisoners are incarcerated for life or for 20, […]
AFP: Guatemala: la condamnation de l’ex-dictateur Rios Montt pour génocide annulée
Mais, lundi en fin de journée, Martin Guzman, porte-parole de la Cour constitutionnelle, a annoncé que “le jugement (était) annulé” à la suite d’un recours des avocats de M. Rios Montt pour vice de procédure. La décision annule toutes les étapes après l’interruption provisoire du procès le 19 avril pour vice de procédure, ainsi que […]
First Nations prepared to fight Harper government, Enbridge in international court | The Vancouver Observer
“Traditionally, non-indigenous folks would see chiefs standing out in front, but what the people didn’t know was that those chiefs took their directions from the women.” Now, with the Enbridge hearings taking place in BC and Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence entering her third week without food in Ontario, Goodwin said the struggles of First Nations […]
Jorge Videla, Argentina’s Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail · Global Voices
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina’s military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was judged and condemned […]
The Maya Genocide Trial of Rios Montt : The New Yorker
Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez are charged with being the intellectual authors of a savage campaign against the Ixil Maya, a stubbornly independent group of perhaps a hundred thousand Indians who speak their own language and inhabit a lyrically beautiful region of the northern highlands, where the Cuchumatan mountains descend in long green folds toward […]
The Angry Arab News Service — Israel’s dirty hands in…Nigeria
“The Jonathan administration secretly, and in open violation of lawful contracting procedures, has awarded an Israeli firm, Elbit Systems, with headquarters in Haifa, a $40million contract to help it spy on citizens’ computers and Internet communications under the guise of intelligence gathering and national security. Elbit announced the contract award Wednesday in a global press […]
Guantánamo is not an anomaly — prisoners in the US are force-fed every day – Waging Nonviolence
The prisoner has lost half his body weight and four teeth to malnutrition. He and his lawyer have gone to court to stop the force-feedings, but a judge ruled against him in March. If I asked you to guess where Coleman is being held, you’d likely say Guantánamo — “America’s offshore war-on-terror camp” — where […]
CIA ‘Biggest Source of Corruption in Afghanistan’ | Common Dreams
Confirming what many policy experts have known for some time, a New York Times headline in Monday’s print edition describes how the most corrupting influence within the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai is not innate cronyism or tribal favoritism, but rather the suitcases full of US cash delivered to the Presidential Palace over the last […]
Race And America’s Prisons: It’s Complicated : Code Switch : NPR
After our post — the state incarcerates more black men than any other in the country — we started thinking a bit about some other stories and studies we’ve seen recently that deal with race and incarceration. Taken together, they help some to explain who’s ending up behind bars and what happens to them once […]
