Opit's LinkFest !

Cuba vs. Blockade
United States Embargo against Cuba
Asia : the coming Fury
Export Oriented Industrialization
"As goods pile up in wharves from Bangkok to Shanghai, and workers are laid off in record numbers, people in East Asia are beginning to realize they aren't only living through an economic downturn but living through the end of an era."
Bombing of Iraq - Dec 1998 Operation Desert Fox
ITT Corporation
Iraq Liberation Act
The Bretton Woods System
Nixon Shock - the end of the Bretton Woods system
Davos Debt and Denial
"When prople finally understand the role bankers played in the current crisis, they and their cohorts in government may very well be indicted for their unconscionable plundering at the public trough and, also now for the destruction of the trough when done plundering."
The Christian Right
Kurdistan Islamic Union, a successful model of the Islamic liberals
A modern history of the Kurds
Al Qaeda : The True Story of Radical Islam
( Every word could be Gospel : and the presumption of the title would still set my teeth on edge )
Synchronizing Information : the Importance of New Media in Conflict
The True Believer : My Country Right or Wrong : and it's my job to see you never think it's wrong.
How many have read Gord Dickinson's Childe Cycle sci-fi series depicting different sociological types as models 'produced' by their culture ? Unfinished, unfortunately, but if depiction of different worldviews intrigues you Dorsai is a good place to start. The right-wing religionists are depicted as well and have their own novel.
How cults create an artificial personality in their followers
Cambodian Horrors on Trial : The Killing Fields : The Wait for Justice
Cambodian-Vietnamese War
No 10 rejects new torture cover up claims
Things are falling apart
"Zionism is not, as we have been led to believe, the valid nation aspiration of the Jewish people, but a malignant cult that has defiled the legacy of Judaism and the hallowed names of its martyrs."
Blood pressure drug 'erases bad memories'
TEN PERCENT
Well duh - anti terror measures worldwide have seriously undermined human rights law
We told them so - a policy governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects in Pakistan that led to British citizens and residents being tortured was devised by MI5 lawyers and figures in government according to evidence heard in court
I told you so - the Foreign Office solicited the letter from the US State Department that forced British judges to block the release of CIA files documenting the torture of a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay
Rape by Instrumentality - health professionals are right in the thick of the torture and abuse of prisoners
"The Republicans can impeach Pelosi, Hoyer, Harmon, Nelson, Reid and Rockefeller for aiding and abetting torture and illegal wiretaps. I bet they'd like that." ( Not likely - but fine irony )
Journalist who exposed Monterrico Metals Majaz Mine torture receiving death threats
I'm laughin' just to keep from cryin' - I will implement these proposals with slightly less enthusiasm than the Tories
( Wherefore the differences in the U.S., U.K. or Canada ? I don't see them. )
Shock Doctrine the Movie! - Here are the banks saying "OK We've been making huge profits. Here are several hundred billions of dollars of debts and they're yours."
Bon Voyage Viva Palestina!