Compare and contrast US diplomacy on people protesting in the streets in the face of violent assaults by the authorities. Democracy Now! reports on 15th August 2013 after at least 525 people were killed and more than 3,500 people wounded in government raids on protest encampments filled with supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi […]
The Price of Sex
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGPEclrEEM&w=560&h=315] I’m set to interview Mimi Chakarova today, the maker of this film about the sex trafficking of East European women. It’s a tough tale about how poverty makes young women in former Soviet bloc countries vulnerable to the promises of well-paid work as waitresses abroad, only for them to be trapped into prostitution. […]
