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U.S. official says government wasted $6-8 billion in Iraq reconstruction The special inspector general for Iraq tallies the loss of U.S. taxpayer funds at more than 11 percent of the billions spent by Zach Toombs for iWatch News [...]
Obama Administration’s Drone Death Figures Don’t Add Up by Justin Elliott for ProPublica Last month, a “senior administration official” said the number of civilians killed in drone strikes in Pakistan under President Obama is in the “single digits.” But last [...]
by Yuri Kozyrev for NOOR Updated version with work from Libya added at the end. Call it the Jasmine Revolution, the Arab Spring or the Facebook Revolution, there’s a powerful Sirocco blowing across North Africa and the Middle [...]
Destino Final by Giancarlo Ceraudo from NOOR on Vimeo. “Destino Final” is a photographic and investigative journalistic that uncovers the crimes committed by the armed forces during the Argentinean dictatorship. Through painstaking research and human rights investigation “Destino [...]
by Andrew Becker for the Center for Investigative Reporting & G.W. Schulz Congress has called for further investigation of the Homeland Security Department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis following a Center for Investigative Reporting examination that found the [...]
Sending troops home could pave way for more non-competitive defense contracting By R. Jeffrey Smith for iwatch news Out go all the U.S. troops by year’s end, President Obama said Friday about Iraq. And in go the contractors, along with [...]
Mall of America visitors unknowingly end up in counterterrorism reports by G.W. Schulz, Center for Investigative Reporting | Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting | Daniel Zwerdling, NPR Audio: Part one of this story on NPR’s All Things [...]
War and Sacrifice in the Post-9/11 Era The Military-Civilian Gap by PEW Research Center As the United States marks the 10th anniversary of the longest period of sustained warfare in its history, the overwhelming majority of veterans of [...]
Catie Hunter is only 11 years old. Her father, an Army platoon sergeant, has spent five of those years away from her, serving his country in Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. At her elementary school on an Oklahoma military post, ceiling tiles are removed so that when a Great Plains storm rumbles in, rain can cascade from the rotting roof into large trash cans underneath. To get to class, Catie must dodge what she calls “Niagara Falls.”
This agreement is between the ICMP, the Ministry of Human Rights, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs and the Martyrs Foundation and relates to a specific three-year project that will investigate specific mass graves and surviving populations that can likely be linked to those graves.