DR Congo: Atrocities by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed summary executions and forced recruitment of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today.
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The World is Far More Corrupt than You Feared
The BBC doesn’t really do ‘news’ any more.
The invasion of Ukraine has prompted militaries to update their arsenals – and Silicon Valley stands to capitalise
Silicon Valley is closer to the world’s militaries than ever.
The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
“Ingsoc.
Canada Sanctions Two Sri Lankan Ex-Presidents for Rights Violations
The Canadian government has taken a major step by imposing sanctions against two former Sri Lankan presidents, the brothers Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and two former soldiers.
Ukraine: Russian Invasion Causing Widespread Suffering for Civilians
(Kyiv, January 12, 2023) – Russia’s war in Ukraine has wrought a devastating toll on civilians and shattered civilian life in much of the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. Russian forces have committed apparent war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture, summary executions,
Israel, our duty our dilemma
Transcription of this interesting video about Israel history by Ted Pike.
What good are psychedelic humanities?
The revival of psychedelic research has been dominated by the biomedical sciences.Yet it raises questions that cannot be answered by laboratory experiments and clinical trials alone.
Tenney: Omnibus Throws away Leverage to Fix Energy Policy and Give Us Leverage in War in Europe
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep.
Has South Sudan’s Conflict Really Ended?
December 15 marks the anniversary of South Sudan’s descent into a brutal civil war, a conflict in which all parties have committed abuses amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Briefing Note on the Call for a War Crimes Court for Liberia
Widespread and systematic violations of international human rights and humanitarian law characterized Liberia’s two brutal armed conflicts, which took place between 1989 and 2003.
The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State
With the lifting of the thousands of regulations by which our lives were ruled for two long years there has been an understandable desire to believe that the coronavirus ‘crisis’ is over and we will return to something like an albeit new normal.
But as new crises have sprung up
Syria: Cluster Munitions Used in November 6 Attacks
(Beirut) – Attacks by the Syrian-Russian military alliance on November 6, 2022, used banned cluster munitions on four camps for internally displaced people, Human Rights Watch said today.
Afghan Child Custody Case Exposes US Wartime Abuses
On September 5, 2019, US armed forces and Afghan allies carried out a night raid on a rural hamlet in southern Afghanistan.
The Day of the Skripal
Editorial note: It should be self-evident in the below piece that neither the author, Tim Norman, nor UK Column is assessing the sources quoted as trustworthy.
