Khmer Rouge
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Dance on Thatcher’s grave, but remember there has been a coup in Britain By John Pilger
The corruption and inhumanity under Thatcher knew no borders. When she came to power in 1979, Thatcher demanded a total ban on exports of milk to Vietnam. The American invasion had left a third of Vietnamese children malnourished. I witnessed many distressing sights, including infants going blind from a lack of vitamins. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 67 – Being serious about torture. Or not.
On the very day of Obama’s inauguration, the United Nation’s special torture rapporteur invoked the Convention in calling on the United States to pursue former president George W. Bush and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 