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POLITICS-US: Business Booms for Contract Interrogators
This summer, dozens of people converged in the high desert town of El Paso, Texas, en route to spending six months in Iraqi prisons.POLITICS-US: Flush From Iraq, Contractors Snap Up Storm Work
The day Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, Robert Boh watched the dramatic pictures of the unfolding disaster on television at his in-laws' house in Jonesboro, Arkansas, where his family had taken shelter.POLITICS: Artificial Intelligence?
Private military contractors like the Virginia-based Anteon, which has grown tenfold in the last decade, are becoming ever more integral to the nation's programmes for intelligence sharing, intelligence training and video game warfare simulators.POLITICS-US: Interrogators for Hire
Just an hour north of the Mexican border, at the base of the cloud-capped Huachuca Mountains, sits a military base with a long history of covert military action.IRAQ: Bechtel Launches Road Show for War Profiteers
Engineers and executives from San-Francisco-based Bechtel, one of the world's largest construction firms, will kick off a road show this week for companies that want to win profitable contracts in the reconstruction of Iraq.ECONOMY-TURKEY: Diesel Smugglers Lose Business as War Looms
Every morning the line of trucks waiting to cross this border post into northern Iraq stretches for several kilometres. Drivers light up cigarettes and impatiently stamp their feet to ward off the winter cold as they wait for the guards to open the gates to the narrow bridge that spans the Tigris river.ECONOMY-MIDEAST: U.S. Companies Profit from War in Northern Iraq
Every day United States Air Force F-15 Strike Eagles and F-16 Fighting Falcons roar aloft over the Kurdish quarter of the city of Adana, about an hour's drive inland from the Mediterranean coast of central Turkey, to patrol the skies over Northern Iraq.CULTURE-TURKEY: Uncertain Spring Dawns for Kurdish Culture
Every night at the Rengin cafe a line of young men and women link hands and sway to the solemn strains of traditional Kurdish music that was completely banned until a couple of years ago.RIGHTS: Russian Indigenous Leaders Tour Pacific Northwest
Anthropologists are still arguing whether the indigenous people of North America evolved on this continent or crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia, but history will record that a small group from Russia crossed the Pacific Ocean in mid-June 2002 to meet tribes here.RIGHTS-AFGHANISTAN: Girls’ Education Struggles to Catch up
When the door opened in the sixth grade classroom at the Fatima Balkhi girls school in a district in northern Afghanistan, it brought the lessons to an immediate halt.ECONOMY-AFGHANISTAN: Rival Factions, Rival Currencies
A crowd of men, fists full of dollars and pockets bulging with local currency, can be spotted at any time of day outside the Kefayat market, near the central mosque in this city in northern Afghanistan.AFGHANISTAN: Finally, Taliban Prisoners Get Some Humanitarian Help
The entrance to the second largest prison for Taliban fighters, on the outskirts of this town two hours west of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, is a 30-foot high metal double door, flanked by several guards with Kalashnikovs patrolling the high wall that encircles it./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ARTS-AFGHANISTAN: Suppressed Art Thrives in Post-Taliban Era
Sitting cross-legged on a small mat in the dusty street outside the Sultan Ghiasudin school, Agha Malang Kohistani, a tall bearded Tajik, tuned his sitar and struck up a song.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN: Oil Giant Accused of Aiding Indonesian Army
Mobil, the U.S. oil multinational, is keeping a low profile as investigators probe allegations that it helped Indonesia's armed forces in massacres near Mobil drilling sites in the province of Aceh, northern Sumatra.RIGHTS-INDONESIA: Oil Giant Accused of Aiding Army Atrocities
Mobil, the U.S. oil multinational, is keeping a low profile as investigators probe allegations that it helped Indonesia's armed forces in massacres near Mobil drilling sites in the province of Aceh, northern Sumatra.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-UNITED STATES: Montana Voters Reject Use of Cyanide In Mining
A decision by voters in the north- western U.S. state of Montana ordering the mining industry to stop using cyanide in its operations has provoked a major legal battle.ENVIRONMENT: Montana Voters Nix Use of Cyanide in Mining //repeat//
A decision by voters in the north- western state of Montana ordering the mining industry to stop using cyanide in its operations has provoked a major legal battle.ENVIRONMENT: Montana Voters Nix Use of Cyanide in Mining
A decision by voters in the north- western state of Montana ordering the mining industry to stop using cyanide in its operations has provoked a major legal battle.RIGHTS: Cold War Warriors Protect Mineral Industries
One morning in June last year, Alan Golacinski and Michael Golovatov joined Mayor John Delaney of Jacksonville, Florida, at the dedication of a new building in the city's international "tradeport".ENVIRONMENT: US Company’s plans in Sri Lanka Raises Questions
The plans of a U.S. company to establish a phosphate mine in Sri Lanka need to be closely examined in the light of similar experiences at a mine in Florida - where thousands of acres of land have been ruined - say local activists and international environmental experts.ENVIRONMENT: US Company’s plans in Sri Lanka Raises Questions
The plans of a U.S. company to establish a phosphate mine in Sri Lanka need to be closely examined in the light of similar experiences at a mine in Florida - where thousands of acres of land have been ruined - say local activists and international environmental experts.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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