Articles: Iraq, unions, women.

I found all of these fascinating, if for very different reasons:

Independent: Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control.

“A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November. The terms of the impending deal, details of which [...]

Building a prison-industrial complex from scratch.

Today’s Weekend Edition (NPR) noted how the US is going about reconstructing the Iraqi “criminal justice” system, including complexes where judges can live, trials can be held, and prisoners detained indefinitely – one-stop justice convenience. Halfway through the story, though, and we hear US reconstruction officials noting that the real problem is that there just [...]