Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Obama: “We Tortured Some Folks”
August 1st, 2014Via: Time: On Friday, President Barack Obama previewed the upcoming release of a Senate report into the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation after the attacks of September 11, 2001, saying “we tortured some folks.”
Israel Launches Airstrike at Crowded Fruit and Vegetable Market Near Gaza City
July 30th, 2014Via: BBC: At least 17 people have been killed and 160 wounded in an Israeli strike that hit a fruit and vegetable market near Gaza City, Palestinian officials say. Hundreds of people were shopping in the market in Shejaiya, a spokesman for the Gaza health ministry said. The attack came during a four-hour truce called […]
Collective Punishment in Gaza
July 30th, 2014Via: The New Yorker: Three days after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the current war in Gaza, he held a press conference in Tel Aviv during which he said, in Hebrew, according to the Times of Israel, “I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a […]
Only U.S. Votes Against Resolution to Investigate Latest Round of Israeli Atrocities
July 28th, 2014Via: AP: The U.N.’s top human rights official demanded Wednesday that all sides in the two-week war in the Gaza Strip refrain from indiscriminate attacks on civilians, warning that violations may amount to war crimes. The warning by U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay came at a special meeting of the U.N.’s top […]
Michigan Deptment of Agriculture Forces Farmer to Dump 248 Gallons of Organic Milk and Break 1200 Free Range Eggs
July 25th, 2014Via: The Organic Prepper: While Americans in the nearby city of Detroit face life in third world conditions, unable to even afford running water, the state of Michigan decided to direct its resources towards cracking down on a small food co-op in Standish for having the utter audacity to provide milk, butter, cream and eggs […]
European Court Says CIA Ran Secret Jail in a Polish Forest
July 24th, 2014Via: New York Times: The CIA ran a secret jail on Polish soil, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday, piling pressure on Poland, one of Washington’s closest allies, to break its long silence about the global programme for detaining al Qaeda suspects. The court said it had been established that the CIA […]
Israeli Artillery Strike on Gaza Shelter Kills 15
July 24th, 2014Via: BBC: At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza was shelled, the Gaza health ministry says. Hundreds of Palestinians were in the school in Beit Hanoun, fleeing heavy fighting in the area. It is the fourth time that a UN […]
Israel Ready to Widen Gaza Ground Offensive
July 18th, 2014While everyone watches the situation in Ukraine… Via: BBC: Israel is prepared to “significantly widen” its ground offensive against militants in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. He said the military was targeting the Hamas tunnel network, which it could not do “only from the air”. Thousands of troops moved into parts […]
NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
July 18th, 2014Via: First Look: Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset […]
4 Gaza Children Killed By Israeli Shelling
July 17th, 2014WARNING: GRAPHIC Via: Reuters: Four Palestinian children were killed and one was critically wounded on a Gaza beach on Wednesday by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, a Palestinian health official said. Asked about the incident, an Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said he was checking the report. “The kids were playing […]
