Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
U.S. Participated in Slaughter of Dozens of Civilians in Yemen
December 20th, 2009Via: AFP: A local Yemeni official said on Sunday that 49 civilians, among them 23 children and 17 women, were killed in air strikes against Al-Qaeda, which he said were carried out “indiscriminately.” Exiled southern leader Ali Salem al-Baid had accused the Yemeni authorities of killing at least 62 civilians in Thursday’s air strikes Sanaa […]
Army Again Turns to Depleted Uranium for New Weaponry
December 16th, 2009Via: Wired: For decades, Depleted Uranium (DU) has been the material of choice for anti-tank projectiles – despite a series of controversies about its potential health hazards. But for the near future, at least, the American military will keep on using DU. Alternatives based on tungsten haven’t panned out. Now, the U.S. Army is upgrading […]
Poor Children Four Times More Likely to Get Antipsychotics
December 13th, 2009Via: New York Times: New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the […]
Nuclear-Powered Transponder for Cyborg Insect
December 12th, 2009Via: IEEE: This week at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), in Baltimore, Md., Cornell University engineers presented research that shows progress in powering cybernetic organisms with a radioactive fuel source. Electrical engineering associate professor Amit Lal and graduate student Steven Tin presented a prototype microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transmitter—an RF-emitting device powered by a radioactive […]
U.S. Will Settle Native American Suit for $3.4 Billion
December 11th, 2009Via: New York Times: The federal government announced on Tuesday that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue in American Indian trust funds, potentially ending one of the largest and most complicated class-action lawsuits ever brought against the United States. The tentative agreement, reached late Monday, would […]
UN Equipped Congolese Army That Carried Out Atrocities
December 11th, 2009Via: New York Times: United Nations peacekeeping officials were explicitly warned months ago by their legal advisers not to participate in combat operations with the Congolese Army if there were a risk that Congolese soldiers might abuse human rights, internal documents show. But the mission went forward — and the abuses took place as feared. […]
Brazil: Police Killed More Than 11,000 in the Last Six Years
December 10th, 2009Via: AP: Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Few of the officers have been charged in the extrajudicial killings, which are often labeled in police reports as the deaths of […]
Coordinated Bombings in Baghdad Kill at Least 121
December 8th, 2009Via: New York Times: A series of devastating car bombings rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 121 people and wounding hundreds more, according to preliminary accounts by witnesses, the police and hospital officials. Five bombs in all, including at least three suicide attacks, struck near a college, a court complex in western Baghdad, a […]
IRS Sells Native American Tribe’s Land to Settle Tax Debt
December 7th, 2009Via: Oakland Tribune: The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday auctioned off a large swath of land owned by an impoverished Indian tribe to help pay off more than $3 million in back taxes, penalties and interest—a sale the tribe says is illegal under federal laws protecting Indian land. The 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles, […]
Vanity Fair on Blackwater’s Erik Prince
December 3rd, 2009Blackwater is a CIA cutout that got so big that it just happened to become a household name. —Feds Investigating Blackwater USA for Selling Weapons to Iraqi Insurgency We get into the Coincidence? category because the article just happens to be written by a “former” CIA attorney. Via: Vanity Fair: The truth about Prince may […]
