“It is suddenly de rigueur for US officials to say, "Saddam Hussein gassed his own people." They are evidently referring to the Iraqi military’s use of chemical weapons in the Iraqi Kurdistan town of Halabja in March 1988 during the Iran-Iraq War, and then in the area controlled by the Teheran-backed Kurdish insurgents after the [...]
“So frustrated are many South Africans with global trade’s failures to improve their living conditions that there are not one, but two alternative conferences in Johannesburg this week. The Global People’s Forum is a gathering of trade unions, relief agencies and anti-globalization activists being held at a soccer stadium in Soweto, the all-black township that [...]
“The U.N. has only 4,200 personnel in Congo, Africa’s third largest country, and member states have failed to provide another 1,500 requested by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. By contrast, the U.N. deployed 17,500 peacekeepers to end civil war in tiny Sierra Leone.” (washingtonpost.com)