en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1029346 Comments by reabaya http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/05/20/patrick-cockburn-15/#IDComment76395422 Iraq suffers from a 'Congolese-style of corruption'? How snooty! Yearning for the days of the Raj, Cockburn is really describing a pure American-style corruption - completely destructive and grotesque - Pol Pot in cowboy boots...slaughtering or exiling all the educated and competent Iraqis with leadership experience. Look at every occupied colony of the US - Kosovo, Haiti, Nicaragua, Philippines, Afghanistan, as well as Iraq..and admire the most thuggish, ignorant, dysfunctional puppet elites in the world. Mega-unemployment, mega-misery, mega-death squads, mega-corruption... Cockburn whines about Iraqi politicians...'out to feather their own nests...' These are precisely the ones the US chose to put in power - in order the shred Iraqi society. Thu, 20 May 2010 16:49:30 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/05/20/patrick-cockburn-15/#IDComment76395422 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25438.htm#IDComment75427104 THANK YOU FOR THE CORRECTION. Fri, 14 May 2010 15:17:30 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25438.htm#IDComment75427104 http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/05/03/reporters-without-borders-names-press-predators-2/#IDComment72799142 Thanks. Exposing these so-called 'rights groups' is essential to understanding events on a broad scale. 'Reporters Without Borders' should be re-named 'Disinformation Agents without Borders'. They've always been around... Wed, 5 May 2010 16:04:42 +0000 http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/05/03/reporters-without-borders-names-press-predators-2/#IDComment72799142 http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/05/03/reporters-without-borders-names-press-predators-2/#IDComment72393326 Notice how this so-called 'independent' organization mentions only countries which can be portrayed as opposed to US or Israeli policies. Notice how the Philippines, a close US ally, is not mentioned despited the scores of journalists murdered and 'disappeared' there - including 30 media personnel in one infamous massacre this year (the Ampatuan massacre - committed by a warlord militia connected to the government). Notice how the killing of journalists by Israel is never mentioned. Notice how the killing of journalists in Colombia - by the military or mililtary linked death squads - is never mentioned. Or in Mexico - by the drug lords or military-linked death squads... The list can go on and on. Reporters without Borders is a sham outfit - and has nothing to do with 'freedom of expression' or the right of journalists to document and investigate the truth! Tue, 4 May 2010 13:44:44 +0000 http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/05/03/reporters-without-borders-names-press-predators-2/#IDComment72393326