Author Archives: Diane Warth

Bamiyan Diaries – Day Five By David Smith-Ferri “Is This Normal?” In a small storage shed at the edge of town, we watched as fourteen-year-old Sayed Qarim signed a simple contract agreeing to borrow and repay a no-interest, 25,000 afghani … Continue reading →

James Petras Over the better part of the present decade, Latin American stock markets have boomed. Overseas investors have reaped and repatriated billions in dividends, profits and interest payments. Multi-national corporations have piled into mining, agro-business and related sectors, unimpeded … Continue reading →

Simon Rogers guardian.co.uk Saturday 23 October 2010 The Wikileaks Iraq war logs provide us with a unique picture of every death in Iraq. These are those events mapped using Google Fusion tables. Download the data from the Datablog

21 October 2010