| This year's recruitment drive was more excruciating than most because it took place amidst daily reports on President Barack Obama's deliberations as to whether or not to put somewhere between 40,000 and 80,000 more troops on the ground, in the U.S.-Euro war for oil, natural gas, pipeline corridors, and heroin. |
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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)