Monday, April 25, 2011

Iraq Media

The Iraqi government of Maliki, backed by the US, is cracking down on press freedom. The article also has links to NSA documents that say that the US attempted to control the media in collaboration with the Maliki governement in the wake of the removal of Saddam, and there's also a link to a recent report on the media in post-Saddam Iraq.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Oil companies Iraq

New memos from before the Iraq War (2002) reveal that British oil companies and the UK government lobbied for a share of Iraq's oil in the wake of the war.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Drug money laundering by US banks

Excellent article telling the story of how a US bank, Wachovia, laundered billions of dollars of drug money from Mexico. There are among other things some good paragraphs at the end on the failure and disinterest to tackle banks' money laundering activities on the part of the regulatory community.

15,000 deaths from nuclear testing

Nuclear testing has led to cancers and deaths, at least 15,000.