One World Under Allah

An interview with al Qaeda expert and former director of research at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, Jarret Brachman, author of Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice (Routledge).

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Damage Plan

Iraqi leukemia victim Ali Hamed, 10, at home in Basra on May 25, 2001. Ali received treatment at the Basra Educational Hospital where Iraqi doctors reported a sharp rise in cancer cases. Saddam Hussein’s regime maintained that depleted uranium munitions used by US-led allied forces and 11 years of UN sanctions were behind the spike. During the same time period, the regime carried out a campaign to annihilate the Shiite population in the region.

An interview with Jurgen Brauer author of War and Nature: The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World (AltaMira Press).

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Fishermen & the Failed State

Fishing boats float on a harbor in front of Mogadishu’s Hamarweyne district, July 28, 2007.

An interview with David Shinn, former US Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso and adjunct professor of International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs.

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A Call To Arms

AIG CEO Edward Liddy interacts with protestors from the group “Code Pink” as he arrives to testify before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises on Capitol Hill in Washington, dc, on March 18, 2009.

An interview with Robert Weissman, lead author of Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America, a report issued by the Institute for Public Accuracy.

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The Next Warrior

Two US Army soldiers prepare to launch a Raven drone. According to one report, one of the unexpected results of the new technologies is a “military culture clash between teenaged video gamers and veteran flight jocks for control of the drones”; from P. W. Singer’s book Wired for War.

An Interview with PW Singer, author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century.

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The Ground is Moving Beneath Us: Q&A

An interview with economist, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, president of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and executive vice president and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College

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Restoring the Garden of Eden

Harvested, cut, ad cured to exact lengths, reeds are taken to market in Chibaish, where they will be broken intro strips and sold.

Creating Iraq’s First National Park

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Treating the Tortured

Caring for Iraq’s Victims of Torture

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Deadly Harvest

MAG team members line the demolition pit with the unexploded ordnance removed from the Samsawa Village construction site in Kurdistan, northern Iraq.

Clearing Iraq’s Killing Fields.

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Talking Turkey

In the turkish border town of Nusaybin policemen stand opposite Kurds protesting the possible turkish invasion of northern iraq on November 11, 2007.

An interview with former CIA agent, Robert Baer, about Turkey’s latest incursion into Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.

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