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UK Backs Plan to Escort Grain Ships Past Russia's Ukraine Blockade

The United Kingdom supports a proposal by Lithuania to recruit an international fleet of naval warships to break the Russian blockade of Ukraine which is preventing the export of huge amounts of grain to the rest of the world. Millions of tons of grain are stuck inside Ukraine and without

Myanmar: Japan-Trained Officer Among Abusive Forces

(Tokyo) – A Myanmar air force lieutenant colonel who received military training in Japan is deployed with forces that have been implicated in serious abuses in Myanmar’s central Magway Region, Human Rights Watch and Justice For Myanmar said today. The Japanese government should immediately halt its training program and investigate

Somalia: US Redeployment Should Stress Civilian Protection

(Nairobi) – The reported United States decision to redeploy several hundred US troops in Somalia, as part of a joint operation with the Somali government and African Union forces, should make civilian protection a priority. Previous US military operations in Somalia resulted in the loss of life and property to Somali

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.

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

‘We the People’ Are the New, Permanent Underclass in America

Audio Version New Feature! “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. After

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;