The USA Murders Sixty Children, Nobody Cares26 Aug 2008There is convincing evidence that 60 children and 30 adults were killed in a US air strike in western Afghanistan last Friday, the United Nations says. The US originally said its planes had killed 30 militants in the attack in the province of Herat. “Investigations by Unama found convincing evidence, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses, and [...]
Russia vs. America – Some Facts You May Have Missed26 Aug 2008President Dmitry Medvedev has declared that Russia formally recognises the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Mr Medvedev told the BBC Russia had tried to preserve Georgian unity for 17 years, but that the situation had changed after this month’s violence. He said Moscow now felt obliged to recognise South Ossetia and [...]
Repeat After Me, China Bad, USA Good24 Aug 2008Binyam Mohammed A British woman held in China for three days without charge after a Free Tibet demonstration is to be released and deported, Downing Street has said. Mandy McKeown, 41, from Bristol, had been expected to be detained for 10 days following the protest in Beijing. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised her case when he met [...]
US State Terrorism Kills 70 Afghan Civilians23 Aug 2008Afghanistan’s president has criticised US forces for “unilateral operations” in the west which, the government says, killed at least 70 civilians. Tribal elders said a bomb had been dropped on a large group of mourners at a wake in Herat on Friday. The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission said initial findings were that 78 civilians had been [...]
MPs Play Dumb Over Torture27 Jul 2008MPs and peers have said they may have been misled over UK troops' use of banned interrogation methods in Iraq. Not all troops had known "conditioning" techniques such as hooding and sleep deprivation were banned, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said. The committee had received assurances by a minister and a senior military officer that they [...]
British MPs: USA Lying About Torture19 Jul 2008The British government should not rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, a report by MPs says. The foreign affairs select committee said the UK and US differ on their definitions of what constitutes torture and it urged the UK to check US claims. (Source: BBC News) Hmmm… this new report by the Foreign Affairs [...]
Update – US Murdered 47 Civilians13 Jul 2008A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says. (Source: BBC News) This is an update to this post. NOTE: Still no mention of this on the TV or other mainstream mass-media. Now, if it had been Iran or North Korea or [...]
Murdoch Moves Against Iran7 Jul 2008Darth Murdoch… or is it William Randolph Hearst? I’ve just read this on Keyvan’s blog: Media Lens have received legal threats from the Times newspaper concerning their latest media alert, Selling The Fireball: Bush and Iran. Due to these threats they’ve had to amend their alert to remove responses from Times journalist Bronwen Maddox. To read the [...]
The Dead That Don?t Count6 Jul 2008At least 20 people have been killed in a missile strike by coalition forces in Afghan’s eastern Nangarhar province. Local people say that the group was a wedding party and that most of the dead were women and children. Meanwhile Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into a missile attack by US helicopters on Friday [...]
The USA Tortured Innocents Says US Major General18 Jun 2008Medical examinations of former terror suspects held by US troops showed proof of physical and psychological torture, a US-based human rights group said. The Physicians for Human Rights group cited beatings, sexual abuse, electric shock, isolation and forced nakedness. (Source: BBC News) And from Boing Boing: Physicians for Human Rights who examined 11 former detainees from Abu Ghraib prison [...]
Police Riot At Peace Demo17 Jun 2008The ban on the demonstration down Whitehall to protest the visit of war criminal George Bush was enforced with violence by the Metropolitan police. Two protestors were hospitalised by baton weilding police. Stop the War Coalition have organised over 20 national protests all of which have been peaceful. We have written a letter of protest [...]
Bush Not Welcome Here Demo15 Jun 2008Click the pic for the gallery! Today, (well, yesterday now) I went on the Bush Not Welcome Here demo. This was a protest against the war criminal George Bush coming to Britain and being treated like royalty instead of being thrown in jail. We were meant to march to Downing Street but this basic right of [...]
Australian Forces Leave Iraq2 Jun 2008Australia, one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, has ended its combat operations there. Australian troops are due to begin returning home in a few days in line with a promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who swept to power in November. He said the previous government had [...]
New Labour MPs Back Police State1 Jun 2008Ministers are winning over Labour rebels on the controversial terror detention vote, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said. The Labour peer, who was attorney general when Tony Blair made a failed bid to increase the detention limit to 90 days, said: “There can be no mistake that extending the period suspects can be held without charge [...]
US Kills Iraqi Civilians In Air Strike2 Apr 2008An air strike in the southern Iraqi city of Basra has destroyed a house and killed at least one occupant. The US military said a militant died, but would not confirm reports from Iraqi sources that up to six civilians may also have been killed. (Source: BBC News) Another house full of innocent civilians murdered by the US [...]
Are Buddhists ?Insurgents? Too?22 Mar 2008American forces in Afghanistan say more than a dozen insurgents have been killed in a joint US-Afghan operation in the southern province of Uruzgan. The forces say they were returning fire after coming under ambush. (Source: BBC News) Let’s change this around: Replace “US” with “China” Replace “insurgents” with “Buddhist monks” There… now will it get similar TV coverage? Endless hand-wringing [...]
World Against War Demo15 Mar 2008Click the pic for a gallery of shots I took yesterday! Wow. What an amazing demo. I’m guessing that I marched alongside 40 – 50,000 other people yesterday, maybe more. The police say 10,000 so, if you go by their usual lying rate, 50k sounds about right. This was part of the World Against War international [...]
World Against War12 Mar 2008On his recent trip to the Middle East, George Bush said: “Iraq is now a different place. Levels of violence are significantly reduced. Hope is returning to Baghdad.” Try telling that to residents of the southern outskirts of Baghdad, whose homes were flattened on January 10, when US bombers unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives in the [...]
Who?s Doing The Killing In Iraq?12 Mar 2008An Iraq war veteran, due to fight in Afghanistan, has been fined for shouting racist abuse. Thomas McFarlane, 20, from Grangemouth, boasted that he was “going to kill Pakis” just weeks before his next tour of duty. (Source: BBC News) Fine, upstanding soliders like this charmer. And they wonder why people don’t respect people in British uniforms any [...]
Psychologist Refuses To Participate In US Torture5 Mar 2008After two years of working to reform the position of the American Psychological Association, which supports psychologist participation in the interrogations of detainees at Guantanamo, CIA “black site” prisons, and elsewhere, I realized that I had been pursuing a utopian objective. On January 27th, I penned my resignation to APA. The rationale for my choice [...]
US Kills Yet More Civilians5 Mar 2008The US military in Iraq says American and Iraqi forces killed nine suspected al-Qaeda fighters in a raid near Talafar in Ninewa province last Sunday. In another operation, US soldiers shot and killed a man who was said to have drawn a pistol and then tried to detonate an explosives vest. (Source: BBC News) Let’s decode this US [...]
UK : We Aided US Kidnap Flights21 Feb 2008David Miliband has admitted two US “extraordinary rendition” flights landed on UK territory in 2002. He said he was “very sorry” to have to say that previous denials made in “good faith” were now having to be corrected. BBC world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds said the revelations were “a serious embarrassment for the British government”. Former Foreign Secretary [...]
This Is How I Feel About My Government18 Feb 2008Members of the White Rose, Munich 1942. From left: Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst. Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A different country, a different time, the same evil: It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government. Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of [...]
Secret Document Released: No ?45 Minutes?18 Feb 2008David Miliband, protector of war criminals Foreign Secretary David Miliband has published an early draft of the UK’s infamous dossier on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The document, by Foreign Office press chief John Williams, was an unpublished draft of the September 2002 dossier. The Foreign Office lost its appeal against a ruling the document be published [...]
NZ Cluster Bomb Summit18 Feb 2008More than 120 countries are meeting in New Zealand to discuss an agreement limiting the use of cluster bombs. The talks – launched last year – aim to smooth progress towards the signing of a global treaty later this year. But some major producers and buyers of cluster bombs – including the US, Israel, Russia and [...]
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