Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Depleted Uranium: Kids of ‘The Iraqi Hiroshima’
May 31st, 2012Update: Pentagon Shills Don’t Want You To See This Post Thanks for letting me know that this hits a nerve. I’ll make sure that everyone sees it. Again. —End Update— Via: Vice: I had been to Fallujah before, but I didn’t have any access to the hospital then. The last time I went, I did. […]
Military to Avoid Embarrassing Pictures by Banning Photography
May 30th, 2012Via: Anti War: It sounds like the punchline of a bad joke, but after years of dealing with photographs of troops torturing prisoners, desecrating corpses and generally behaving badly, commanders in southwestern Afghanistan have announced that they are going to solve the problem by banning photography. The command, which covers some 36,000 troops including 15,800 […]
To Avoid Counting Civilian Deaths, Obama Re-Defined “Militant” to Mean “All Military-Age Males in a Strike Zone”
May 30th, 2012Via: Salon: Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were ”militants” – even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed. They simply cite always-unnamed “officials” claiming […]
Western Nations Expel Syrian Diplomats
May 29th, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal: Syria’s international isolation deepened Tuesday as several Western countries said they were expelling Syrian diplomats, in a coordinated response to the killing of 108 civilians last week in a single attack. The U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, France, Germany and some other European countries announced Tuesday they were kicking out senior Syrian […]
Tepco Admits Fukushima Disaster Released 2.5 Times More Radiation Than Indicated by Initial Government Lies
May 29th, 2012Imagine my shock. But if they’re admitting this, what is the real number? Via: Reuters: The radiation released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost 2-1/2 times the amount first estimated by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the crippled plant said in a report released on Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power […]
BBC News Uses Photo from Iraq to Illustrate Syrian Massacre
May 29th, 2012Via: Telegraph: The BBC is facing criticism after it accidentally used a picture taken in Iraq in 2003 to illustrate the senseless massacre of children in Syria. Photographer Marco di Lauro said he nearly “fell off his chair” when he saw the image being used, and said he was “astonished” at the failure of the […]
Defrocked Priest Now TSA Supervisor at Philadelphia International Airport
May 25th, 2012Via: CBS: The CBS 3 I-Team has learned that a Catholic priest who was removed from the ministry over sex abuse allegations now holds a sensitive security post at Philadelphia International Airport. The security checkpoint between Terminals D and E is a busy place where thousands of people – including lots of kids – pass […]
Priest Claims Missing Teenage Girl Had Been Kidnapped ‘For Sex Parties by a Gang Involving Vatican Police and Foreign Diplomats’
May 22nd, 2012Via: Telegraph: A teenage girl whose disappearance in Rome has remained a mystery for 30 years was kidnapped for sex parties by a gang involving Vatican police and foreign diplomats, the Roman Catholic Church’s leading exorcist has claimed. Father Gabriele Amorth, who was appointed by the late John Paul II as the Vatican’s chief exorcist […]
DEA Rampage in Honduras Leaves Civilians Dead
May 17th, 2012The death toll is listed as four; two men and two pregnant women. I guess the AP leaves it up to the reader to decide if the babies that the murdered women were carrying should be counted. Via: AP: People in Honduras’ predominantly Indian Mosquito coast region burned down government offices and demanded that U.S. […]
Italian Court Rules MMR Vaccine Did Trigger Autism
May 17th, 2012Via: NYR Natural News: An Italian court has ruled there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. In what may be a ground-breaking decision, the Italian Court of Rimini has ruled that causation between an MMR vaccine and the resulting autism in a young child “has been established.” The unnamed child received the […]
