Tag Archives: war crimes
Israeli Forces Execute Palestinian Civilian at Point-Blank Range in al-Far’ah Refugee Camp | Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Israeli Forces Execute Palestinian Civilian at Point-Blank Range in al-Far’ah Refugee Camp | Palestinian Center for Human Rights – According to PCHR’s investigations and the mother’s testimony, Fawziyah Mahmoud Khamis Salhi (67) said to PCHR’s fieldworker that at approximately 02:00 on the abovementioned day, Israeli forces moved into al-Far’ah refugee camp, south of Tubas. They […]
U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show – Washington Post
The U.S. money for Syrian opposition figures began flowing under President George W. Bush after he effectively froze political ties with Damascus in 2005. The financial backing has continued under President Obama, even as his administration sought to rebuild relations with Assad. In January, the White House posted an ambassador to Damascus for the first […]
4th World Radyo: European Atheism and Latent Intellectual Imperialism 09.04.2013 | APNS Public Radyo
Summary : TheAngryindian takes a Five-Percent look at the public discourse surrounding accusations of Islamophobia, xenophobia and white privilege against UK atheism activists Prof. Richard Dawkins and freethinker/social gadfly Stephen Fry and whether or not such charges actually make any sense. Religion, spirituality and its sociopolitical dynamics are discussed including a talk by Uhuru Movement […]
WikiLeaks Criminal Complaint Claims U.S. Seized Leaked Garani Bombing Video – Forbes
“I am informed by my legal advisors that this formal document may trigger an investigation and that independent judicial bodies may seek explanations of the responsible authorities as a result,” writes Assange in his statement to the Swedish government. “I request that Swedish judicial authorities act swiftly to question and arrest if necessary those who […]
Capitalism will never refuse a profit from misery…
Cluster bombs are banned by 83 nations. The world recoiled in horror when it learned that Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad‘s forces have killed children with such weapons. But that isn’t stopping the U.S. military from selling $640 million worth of American-made cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, despite the near-universal revulsion at such weapons, and […]
Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran – By Shane Harris and Matthew M. Aid | Foreign Policy
In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq’s war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein‘s military would attack with […]
[huffingtonpost.com] Eric Harroun, Former American Soldier, Conspired With Terrorist Group In Syria, U.S. Charges
[huffingtonpost.com] WASHINGTON — Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old former U.S. soldier, has been charged by federal authorities in Virginia with conspiring to use a rocket propelled grenade while fighting with the al-Nusrah Front in Syria. Harroun has posted YouTube videos and Facebook posts that showed him working alongside the group, which is commonly referred to as […]
U.S. House urges adding Haqqani group to terrorist list – AlertNet
U.S. officials have accused the Haqqanis of high-profile strikes including an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in September and an earlier truck bombing that wounded dozens of U.S. troops. Despite those accusations, the militant group is not on the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations list. Inclusion in the list would bring sanctions such […]
Afghanistan’s My Lai
[wsws.org] The action of the unidentified US staff sergeant in Panjwai district in Kandahar province, slaughtering at least 18 innocent civilians, including nine children, is a demonstration of both the brutality and the deepening crisis of American imperialism’s war of aggression in Afghanistan and Pakistan.The atrocity recalls, in both its horror and its potential political impact, […]
Leaked Stratfor Email Suggests Secret U.S. Indictment of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has published an internal email from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that suggests the U.S. Justice Department has obtained a sealed indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The email is one of around five million obtained from Stratfor’s servers by the hacker group, Anonymous. “Somehow you have a private intelligence company, […]
War and neglect leaves 500,000 Afghans homeless: Amnesty | The Raw Story
Half a million Afghans displaced by war have been left homeless and struggling to survive because of government and international neglect, Amnesty International said Thursday.Around 400 people join makeshift shelters around the country every day, Amnesty said in a report entitled “Fleeing war, finding misery”, based on three years of research.The Afghan government estimates that […]
Taliban reportedly behead four men as suspected spies – latimes.com
REPORTING FROM KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The bodies were discovered on Sunday evening. It is not unusual for it to take several days for provincial authorities to learn of killings that have taken place in remote areas. Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Helmand governor, denounced the beheadings, saying the men had no connection to the government. “They […]
Child Slave Labour in NATO’s Afghanistan – English pravda.ru
And to cap it all, we now have UN reports of slave labour. And child labour. Well actually forced child labour…or to be more exact, child slave labour. In Afghanistan, under NATO’s nose.The latest report “Buried in Bricks: Rapid Assessment of Bonded Labour in Afghan Brick Kilns” reveals that most workers in the brick kilns […]
2012 Gerald and Maas Suppressed News
2012 Gerald and Maas Suppressed News. Canada: a Lawyers Against the War press release notes enough evidence submitted to the International Criminal Court to require investigation of Canada’s rendering Afghan prisoners to torture. Canadian Vietnam veteran John McNamer has supplied the ICC with more than 120 files affecting the Harper government’s complicity in torture. McNamer’s “Letter of February 14th to Canadian officials” summarizes […]
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