As Sri Lanka’s Tamils Remember War Dead, Justice Remains Elusive
Every year on May 18, Sri Lankan Tamils mark Mullaivaikkal Memorial Day commemorating those who died in the civil war that ended in 2009.
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The Subtleties of Anti-Russia Leftist Rhetoric
While the so-called liberal and conservative corporate mainstream media – all stenographers for the intelligence agencies – pour forth the most blatant propaganda about Russia and Ukraine that is so conspicuous that it is comedic if it weren’t so dangerous, the self-depicted cognoscenti also ingest subtler messages, often from the alternative
The Rise of the New Normal Reich
I told you this part wasn’t going to be pretty.
Kickbacks, Corruption & Scandal: The History of the CDC
Can the CDC be trusted? To ask the question is to answer it and the answer is not pretty.
Algeria Threatens to Suspend Gas Exports to Spain Over Diplomatic Spat
MADRID (AP) – Algeria has threatened to suspend its gas exports to Spain, the latest twist in a complex triangle of diplomatic tensions between the gas supplier, the gas importer and their shared neighbor Morocco – all against the background of skyrocketing prices driven by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Spain has
Russia: Respect the Rights of Prisoners of War
(Berlin) – Russian authorities should stop broadcasting programs featuring images of and interviews with captured Ukrainian soldiers that expose them to public curiosity, Human Rights Watch said today. Such treatment of prisoners of war, or POWs, violates protections under the Geneva Conventions intended to ensure dignified treatment of captured combatants on
Building a War-Crimes Case Against Vladimir Putin
Two years ago, Human Rights Watch analyzed who bears command responsibility for war crimes in Syria’s Idlib province, the one part of the country still controlled by the armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
There, we documented 46 cases in which the Russian-Syrian military alliance hit hospitals,
‘We the People’ Are the New, Permanent Underclass in America
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“We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.”
Herbert Hoover
This is financial tyranny.
The U.S. government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have
Ukraine: A new battle in the old war of the “New Normal”
In one sense, I don’t have much to say about the newest chapter in the eight-year-old American war against the people of Ukraine – nothing that you can’t learn from an array of sources as politically diverse as George Galloway and Peter Hitchens, Tariq Ali and John Mearsheimer.
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Racing to Document War Crimes in Ukraine
Seven Ukrainian civilians executed by Russian soldiers in two separate incidents.A case of repeated rape.
Mali: Massacre by Army, Foreign Soldiers
(Nairobi) – Malian armed forces and associated foreign soldiers allegedly summarily executed an estimated 300 civilian men, some of them suspected Islamist fighters, in the central Malian town of Moura in late March 2022, Human Rights Watch said today.
The men were among those detained during a military operation that began
Ukraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas
(Warsaw) – Human Rights Watch has documented several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations against civilians in occupied areas of the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions of Ukraine.
These include a case of repeated rape; two cases of summary execution, one of six men, the other of one man;
Ukraine vs Yemen – A contrast in media coverage
In the now month-long mainstream media coverage of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, much attention has been paid to the actions of the ‘Ukrainian Resistance’.
In a manner not dissimilar to its coverage of the ‘Syrian rebels’ a decade ago, a romanticised image of ‘Ukrainian freedom fighters’ fighting bravely
Springtime for GloboCap
Warm up the Wagnerian orchestra and call in the goose-stepping chorus girls, because … yes, that’s right, it’s Springtime for GloboCap! “The Winter of Severe Illness and Death” is over! The big Black Sun is shining again! God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world!
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Ukraine War! What Is It Good For? The Nazi Agenda
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is technically illegal under international law.