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No compensation for Iraqi victims of US torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib prison

The US has failed to provide compensation or other redress to Iraqis who suffered torture and abuse two decades after evidence emerged of American forces mistreating detainees at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons in Iraq, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said earlier this week. “Twenty years on, Iraqis who were …

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Death Camp

Since 2007, when the State of Israel implemented its still-ongoing blockade of Gaza, several different monikers have emerged to describe the conditions for Palestinians living in the territory under the ongoing Israeli siege. Now, after 11 months of the murderous Israeli assault on the people of Gaza, it is necessary …

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Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific—An Introduction

Indo-Pacific is a term with a long history within the imperialist lexicon. It originated in the writings of Karl Haushofer, the leading German geopolitical theorist, in his 1924 Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean and numerous other works.1 Haushofer was a German military attaché in Japan in 1908–1909, and traveled widely …

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