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.
Heather Gehlert, AlterNet. May 3, 2007. A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them.
David Phinney, CorpWatch. October 26, 2006. The State Department quietly awarded a corrupt Kuwaiti company a $592-million contract to build the embassy in Iraq.