Book of the dayPolitics booksReviewOur economic system now depends upon transforming emergency relief, incarceration and the processing of asylum seekers into profitsAt one telling moment in this unnerving and convincing book, Antony Loewenstein quotes the managing director of one of the many private military companies (“PMCs”) working in Afghanistan. The United States, says “Jack”, “is not capable of running empires”. Instead, western governments outsource imperialism to people like him in a variety of organisations – Halliburton, G4S, Serco and Capita are the best known of a long list – which make their money from incarceration, the “processing” of asylum seekers or the provision of private “security” in conflict zones. Read More...
MLSHerculez Gomez hijacks MLS commissioner's Twitter Q&AUS international's Herculez Gomez warms up for Santos Laguna's Concacaf Champions League final appearance with embarrassing social media encounter with MLS Commissioner Don GarberMLS Commissioner Don Garber took to Twitter yesterday to answer questions from fans around the league — only to find US international Herculez Gomez had a pointed question of his own.
Gomez, who is also the sole remaining US player in the Concacaf Champions League (his side Santos Laguna play the first leg of their second successive final with Monterrey tonight) pitched in to the conversation to ask why his playing rights are still held by the former Kansas City Wizards — the team he left before the 2010 season, under a cloud of injury and broken communication with the coach Peter Vermes. Read More...
Private livesLife and styleI can't stop thinking about my wife's affairI was devastated when I discovered my wife had been seeing an old boyfriend and had sex with him. Now, though I believe our relationship has been repaired, I am still haunted by the thought of them togetherI have been married for 15 years and we have three children. I always considered our marriage to be rock solid, but last year I found some intimate texts and emails between my wife and an old boyfriend of hers, and she eventually admitted that she had seen him several times. Read More...