Global Politics Online / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – A military jury at Guantanamo Bay sentenced a "child soldier" to 40 years in prison – unaware that Omar Khadr’s defence and prosecution lawyers had already agreed on an eight-year sentence and further agreed that the United States would send [...]
U.S. Slides on Corruption Index
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – Iraq and Afghanistan rank near rock-bottom in an index of corruption in 178 countries that found that nearly three- quarters of the countries surveyed showed serious corruption problems. Iraq ranked 175 and Afghanistan 176 in the global index, just above [...]
