Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Former CIA Officer Charged with Leaking Classified Information
January 24th, 2012Via: Chicago Tribune: A former CIA officer is facing decades in prison after being charged Monday with disclosing classified information to journalists, the latest in an unprecedented Obama administration crackdown against national security leaks. John Kiriakou, who made news in 2007 when he became one of the first CIA operatives to speak publicly about water […]
The Age of Transitions
January 23rd, 2012Via: The Age of Transitions:
Iraq Becoming ‘Police State’, Says Rights Group
January 23rd, 2012Meet the new boss… Via: AFP: Iraq is falling back into authoritarianism and headed towards becoming a police state, despite US claims that it has helped establish democracy in the country, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. The criticism from the New York-based HRW, which the government quickly disputed, comes less than a year after […]
The Roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s Civil War
January 22nd, 2012Via: Salon: A significant portion of the seed money that created Mitt Romney’s private equity firm, Bain Capital, was provided by wealthy oligarchs from El Salvador, including members of a family with a relative who allegedly financed rightist groups that used death squads during the country’s bloody civil war in the 1980s Bain, the source […]
Former Liberian Dictator Charles Taylor Worked for CIA
January 22nd, 2012Via: Boston Herald: When Charles G. Taylor tied bed sheets together to escape from a second-floor window at the Plymouth House of Correction on Sept. 15, 1985, he was more than a fugitive trying to avoid extradition. He was a sought-after source for American intelligence. After a quarter-century of silence, the US government has confirmed […]
Federal Prosecutor to Take 5th Amendment in Fast and Furious Probe
January 20th, 2012Via: Politico: A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before a House committee next week looking into the Justice Department’s handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, the prosecutor’s attorney told Congress in a letter on Thursday. On Wednesday, House Government Reform and Oversight Committee […]
AMA Recommends Compulsory Participation in Vaccine Trials
January 18th, 2012You’ll love this one. Via: American Medical Association: In recent decades there has been a distressing decline in the numbers of healthy volunteers who participate in clinical trials, a decline that has the potential to become a key rate-limiting factor in vaccine development. … If progression of promising vaccines from the lab to the clinic […]
It’s a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World
January 17th, 2012Via: Independent: It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters. The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 […]
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
January 16th, 2012Update: Apple’s Chinese iPhone Plants Employ Forced Interns, Claim Campaigners Via: Guardian: Apple’s factories in China are employing tens of thousands of students, some of them on forced internships, according to campaigners lobbying for better labour conditions at Foxconn plants, which assemble iPhones. Some students could be as young as 16. The Foxconn chairman, Terry […]
German Priest Admits 280 Counts of Sexual Abuse, Thought He Was Doing No Harm
January 14th, 2012Via: BBC: A German Catholic priest has admitted 280 counts of sexual abuse involving three boys in the past decade, saying he did not think he was doing harm. Named only as Andreas L, the priest told a court in Braunschweig that he had first abused the nine-year-old son of a widowed woman parishioner. After […]
