Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
‘Disastrous Mistake’: Iran Acknowledges Shooting Down Ukrainian Airliner
January 12th, 2020Via: Reuters: Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a “disastrous mistake”, saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq. Iran had denied for days after Wednesday’s crash that it had brought down the […]
Surveillance Video from Jeffrey Epstein’s First Apparent Suicide Attempt ‘No Longer Exists’
January 10th, 2020Via: NBC: The surveillance video taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on the day of his first apparent suicide attempt has been permanently deleted, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Epstein, the disgraced financier who was facing federal sex-trafficking charges, was found semiconscious in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, or MCC, in New York […]
Trump Doubles Down on Threat to Attack Iran Cultural Sites
January 5th, 2020Via: AFP: US President Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on a threat to attack Iranian cultural sites despite accusations that any such strike would amount to a war crime. After his top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, had insisted that any military action would conform to international law, Trump said he would regard cultural sites as fair […]
Deteriorating U.S. Atomic Waste Dump in Marshall Islands to be Investigated
December 30th, 2019Via: BBC: The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. Dubbed “the tomb”, it holds tonnes of radioactive debris from dozens of US atomic bomb tests carried out during the Cold War. Congress wants the Department of Energy to […]
Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century
December 17th, 2019Via: Ron Paul: “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages […]
Epstein and Prince Andrew Victim Virginia Giuffre Tweets That She Is Not Suicidal
December 12th, 2019Via: Virginia Giuffre: I am making it publicy known that in no way, shape or form am I sucidal. I have made this known to my therapist and GP- If something happens to me- in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil […]
The Afghanistan Papers
December 11th, 2019Via: Washington Post: A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. Related, 2007: The War in […]
Chinese Scientists Create Monkey-Pig Chimeras
December 7th, 2019Via: New Scientist: Pig-primate chimeras have been born live for the first time but died within a week. The two piglets, created by a team in China, looked normal although a small proportion of their cells were derived from cynomolgus monkeys. “This is the first report of full-term pig-monkey chimeras,” says Tang Hai at the […]
FDA Bowed to Industry for Decades as Alarms Were Sounded Over Talc
December 3rd, 2019Via: Reuters: Over the past 50 years, the FDA has relied upon–and often deferred to–industry even as outside experts and consumers repeatedly raised serious health concerns about talc powders and cosmetics, a Reuters investigation found. Again and again since at least the 1970s, the agency has downplayed the risk of asbestos contamination and declined to […]
Polio Outbreaks in Africa Caused by Mutation of Strain in Vaccine
November 28th, 2019Via: Guardian: New cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine have been reported in four African countries and more children are now being paralysed by vaccine-derived viruses than those infected by viruses in the wild, according to global health numbers. The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners identified nine new cases caused by the […]
