It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the most corrupt regimes on earth. by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies | Common Dreams
This season could be called the Autumn of Discontent, as people from the Middle East to Latin America and the Caribbean have been rising up against corrupt neoliberal governments. Two of the countries in crisis, Haiti and Iraq, are on opposite ends of the earth but have something important in common. Not only are they reeling from protests against government corruption and austerity programs, like Ecuador and Algeria, but in both Haiti and Iraq, their corrupt neoliberal governments were imposed on them by the use of U.S. military force. READ MORE