On AlterNet: embassy

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Read It and Weep: The Depressing and Expensive Legacy Of Empire's Hubris In Iraq

Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com. June 7, 2011.

If we were to really leave when we promised to leave, the U.S. might have a passing shot at launching a new narrative in a Middle East already on edge over the Arab Spring.

Evil US Deeds Exposed by WikiLeaks

Bill Quigley, AlterNet. December 19, 2010.

Wikileaks has unveiled many cover-ups of injustices in US relations with Honduras, Spain, Thailand, UK and Yemen.

Michael Moore: Why I Posted Bail for Julian Assange

Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. December 14, 2010.

Yesterday I put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of jail. Here's why.

6 Companies That Haven't Wussed Out of Working with WikiLeaks

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. December 10, 2010.

As more and more companies bend under government pressure, a few are standing up for the site.

Governments Stomp Around Like Maddened, Half-Blind Giants in Doomed Attempt to Suppress WikiLeaks

John Naughton, Comment Is Free. December 6, 2010.

Our rulers have a choice: either they learn to live in a WikiLeakable world; or they shut down the internet. Over to them.

WikiLeaks Will Release "Poison Pill" of Secret Documents If They're Shut Down

David Edwards, Raw Story. December 6, 2010.

WikiLeaks has been under constant cyber attacks since it began releasing the secret US diplomatic cables.

Media Shouldn't Protect Power from Embarrassment: Why WikiLeaks Had to Release the US Embassy Cables

Simon Jenkins, Comment Is Free. November 28, 2010.

It is for governments -- not journalists -- to guard public secrets, and there is no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks' revelations.

Spending $102 Billion a Year on 800 Worldwide Military Bases Is Bankrupting the Country

Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch.com. July 3, 2009.

We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.

Pushing Boulders and Sleeping on Cardboard: A Story of Trafficking in Iraq

David Phinney, AlterNet. June 20, 2007.

When Ramil Autencio arrived in Iraq, he had the promise of a two-year job, making $450 a month to better life for himself and his family in the Philippines. What he got was a wartime nightmare.

Baghdad Embassy Investigated for Labor Trafficking and Abuse

David Phinney, IraqSlogger. June 1, 2007.

New evidence reveals previously unreported instances of appalling living conditions, abuse and coerced labor in the building of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

The Colossus of Baghdad: A Mammoth New American Embassy in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. May 30, 2007.

The U.S. is building an embassy in the heart of Baghdad's embattled Green Zone that will be the largest embassy on the planet -- big enough to embody the Bush administration's vision of an American-reordered Middle East.

Building an Embassy Fit for an Empire

Adil E. Shamoo, The Baltimore Sun. March 22, 2007.

The United States is building a massive embassy complex in the heart of Baghdad that is already becoming a symbol of America's imperial ambitions in the Middle East.