Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Obama Declares Emergency in Michigan Over Lead-Contaminated Water
January 17th, 2016Via: CBC: U.S. President Barack Obama signed an emergency declaration Saturday that clears the way for federal aid for Flint, Michigan, which is undergoing a drinking water crisis due to lead-contaminated water. … The tap water in Flint, population 99,000, became contaminated after the city switched from the Detroit water system to the Flint River […]
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery
January 11th, 2016Building a refinery for Hitler? *pfft* How Bush’s Grandfather Helped Hitler’s Rise to Power Also see: Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Via: New York Times: The father of the billionaires Charles […]
Christmas 2015—Why There Is No Peace On Earth
December 29th, 2015Via: David Stockman’s Contra Corner: In fact, the War Party entrenched in the nation’s capital is dedicated to economic interests and ideological perversions that guarantee perpetual war; they ensure endless waste on armaments and the inestimable death and human suffering that stems from 21st century high tech warfare and the terrorist blowback it inherently generates […]
Amnesty: Russian Attacks on Civilians in Syria, “May Amount to War Crimes”
December 23rd, 2015In other news, US-Backed Kurdish Forces Committing War Crimes Against Syrian Civilians. Via: Amnesty International: Russian air strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians and caused massive destruction in residential areas, striking homes, a mosque and a busy market, as well as medical facilities, in a pattern of attacks that show evidence of violations […]
Flint, Michigan: State of Emergency Declared Over High Levels of Lead in Children’s Blood
December 15th, 2015Via: Washington Post: For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their children being poisoned? … The Hurley Medical Center, in Flint, released a study in September that confirmed what […]
Air Force proposes $3-Billion Plan to Vastly Expand Its Drone Program
December 14th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: The Air Force wants to vastly expand its drone program over the next five years by doubling the number of pilots and deploying them to bases in California and elsewhere to give commanders better intelligence and more firepower.
ISIS Armed with U.S. Weapons
December 9th, 2015Via: CNN: A new report from a prominent human rights group has found that ISIS has built a substantial arsenal, including U.S.-made weapons obtained from the Iraqi army and Syrian opposition groups. Amnesty International’s 44-page report, released late Monday, found that much of ISIS’ equipment and munitions comes from stockpiles captured from the U.S.-allied Iraqi […]
U.S. Drone Whistleblowers Have Their Bank Accounts Frozen
December 7th, 2015Via: Hang the Bankers: The U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families. Now four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers have had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen, according to human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack. “My drone operators went public this week and now […]
Russia Says It Has Proof Turkey Involved in Islamic State Oil Trade
December 2nd, 2015Via: Reuters: Russia’s defense ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a war of words since last week when a Turkish air force jet […]
Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots for Combat Patrols
November 27th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: The Air Force has hired civilian defense contractors to fly MQ-9 Reaper drones to help track suspected militants and other targets in global hot spots, a previously undisclosed expansion in the privatization of once-exclusively military functions. For the first time, civilian pilots and crews now operate what the Air Force calls […]
