Investigative Reporting Details Massacres, Reign of Terror by US-Backed Death Squads in Afghanistan We Are Change » Feed / John Titor An extraordinary investigation by Australian journalist Andrew Quilty published Friday by The Intercept reveals U.S.-backed Afghan government paramilitary death squads have been waging a campaign of terror targeting civilians—including children—in Wardak province as part […]
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Investigative Reporting Details Massacres, Reign of Terror by US-Backed Death Squads in Afghanistan
Amnesty hails ‘breakthrough’ as UN presses Iran on 1988 massacres of dissidents
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Amnesty International on Tuesday hailed as a long-awaited breakthrough a letter sent by UN experts to the Iranian government pressing for accountability over the notorious 1988 prison massacres of dissidents and warning the killings may constitute crimes against humanity. Rights groups including Amnesty have long campaigned for justice over what they describe […]
France promotes rifles used in Gaza massacres
David Cronin Rights and Accountability 31 May 2018 Israel Weapon Industries has supplied guns used to kill unarmed demonstrators in Gaza. (Via Facebook) The maker of rifles used during Israel’s recent massacres in Gaza will soon exhibit its products at an arms fair sponsored by the French government. Amnesty International’s investigations have identified the Tavor […]
As Israel Massacres at Least 55 People, US Celebrates New Embassy in Jerusalem
By Andrea Germanos (CD) — Human rights advocates are shattering the characterization of the U.S. embassy’s opening in Jerusalem on Monday as something to celebrate—a portrayal put forth by President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Senate’s top Democrat, among others—and are instead decrying the move as one that violates international law, further legitimizes the occupation, […]
Yemen – Massacres and Assassinations Trigger a New Phase of War
In mid April some 20+ of Sudanese soldiers were killed in an ambush in northern Yemen. Sudan, which sent up to 10,000 soldiers to Yemen in hope of Saudi money, is reconsidering its engagement. The Gulf states had promised investments in Sudan and the lifting of U.S. sanction in exchange for sending cannon fodder. Neither happened. The war […]
South Carolina contender for Congress condemns Israel’s massacres
Michael F. Brown Rights and Accountability 13 April 2018 Mal Hyman is more outspoken against Israel’s crimes than most Democratic politicians. (via Facebook) Mal Hyman, a supporter of Palestinian rights, is again running for US Congress in the conservative state of South Carolina. Tom Rice, a Republican, defeated Hyman, a professor at Coker College, in […]
US Blocks UN Investigation Into Gaza Massacres
The US has rejected calls by 14 other countries to independently investigate the Gaza violence where dozens of Palestinian protesters have been killed by Israeli forces. They were the only United Nations Security Council member to block calls for an inquiry. RT reports:For the second week in a row, the US has vetoed a UN […]
A brief, unhappy history of Israeli massacres
It would be nice to think that, as an Israeli officer once put it, “This time we went too far” — that the killings of 17 unarmed protesters in Gaza by Israeli riflers across a security fence on Friday would cause the world to sanction Israel for its conduct. But if you look over Israel’s […]
United States: The Political Economy of Massacres
Every year over 30,000 Americans are killed by gunfire. Every month, in public schoolyards, dance clubs, concert venues, work places and public gatherings, innocent people are slaughtered by assassins wielding legally purchased high powered semi-automatic weapons. The National Rifle Association (NRA), a 3 million-member organization, supports and sponsors free and easy access to military-level weaponry. […]
Thousands in northern Syria protested against Turkey’s massacres of Kurds in Aleppo
nsnbc : Thousands of people in northern Syria took to the streets of Afrin on Wednesday to protest against the massacres against Kurds committed […]
Beyond Extreme Energy Too Extreme? Not At All
Print Friendly Above Beyond Extreme Energy protests at FERC Chairman Norman Bey’s home in Washington, DCm, by Jimmy Betts. Questioning Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Air Policy Director N. Jonathan Peress in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing last Tuesday, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming had a few choice words about Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE). What did the senator find […]
Security Firm Operates in Israel and Lebanon Simultaneously
Local Editor G4S is a multinational security firm that operates in the Zionist entity guarding the Israeli jails and in Lebanon by providing protection services to governmental and financial institutions. In Tel Aviv lies the central branch of the firm where all the data collected from the other branches, including the one located in Beirut, […]
A Simple Question for Foreigners
Every single non-indigenous person should be asked this simple question by representatives of the people of each host country: What tangible things have you done to contribute towards your host country’s traditional culture, or the natural, or the local environment of your host country? There can be no grey areas on this one. It cannot […]
Selected Articles: Central Banks, Neocons, NATO, Leading World to Disaster
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‘Perplexed’ Over Israel’s Double Standards in the West Bank? You Don’t Say, Mr. Ambassador
United States Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv January 18,2016. Credit: Chen Galili The U.S. ambassador to Israel has made a historical, if not archaeological, discovery this week. Maybe his country could also do something about it. Double standards? The law […]
Surreal: The West mourns death of Al Qaeda collaborator in Damascus airstrike
Jaysh al-Islam is a stalwart ally of US State Department-listed terrorist organization al-Nusra, though one would never suspect as much reading weepy Western eulogies over the terrorist organization leader’s death. The commander of terrorist organization and Al Qaeda affiliate Jaysh al-Islam (the Army of Islam), “Sheikh” Zahran Alloush, was killed in a Syrian airstrike […]
Reclaiming Human Freedom – You’re Not an Automaton After All!
27th October 2015 By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World One of the main themes of modern intellectual approaches has been to take away autonomy and freedom from human beings. From sociology to philosophy, from psychology to neuroscience, a common theme has been to try to show that our ‘free will’ is […]
US Plans Up to $1 Billion Hike in Military Aid to ’Israel’
Local Editor As part of US continuous support to the Zionist entity, “Israeli” and American teams are putting together a plan to increase annual US military aid to “Israel” by as much as $1 billion, on top of the current $3.1 billion, a source close to the military aid process said Wednesday. According to “Israeli” […]