Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Royal Dutch Shell in Court to Answer for Atrocities in Nigeria
May 29th, 2009Via: Scotsman: FOURTEEN years after Nigerian campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by Nigeria’s former military regime, the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell will appear before a court in New York to answer charges of crimes against humanity in connection with his death. The trial, scheduled to begin next week, will examine allegations that Shell sought […]
CIA Briefers Regularly Mislead Hill Intelligence Panels, Ex-Spy Charges
May 27th, 2009This has only been standard operating procedure for about the last 62 years. Via: Congressional Quarterly Politics: A former deep-cover CIA operative says the spy agency’s congressional briefers routinely shade the truth or hide facts altogether from congressional overseers. “They mumble, they dissemble, and there’s a lot of ‘on the one hand . . .’” […]
Uncle Sam’s Human Lab Rats
May 23rd, 2009Via: Mother Jones: They say government scientists messed with their minds. Now, veterans of secret psychedelic tests want answers. Their stories are a staple of conspiracy culture: broken men, suffering hallucinations and near-total amnesia, who say they are victims of secret government mind-control experiments. Think Liev Schreiber in The Manchurian Candidate or Mel Gibson in […]
Commission Report Documents Atrocities Committed by the Catholic Church in Ireland; Excludes Names of Perpetrators
May 21st, 2009Chapter 7 Record of Abuse (Male Witnesses) is ghastly stuff. It reads like accounts of Satanic ritual abuse and what went on inside Abu Ghraib. Via: AP: After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools for Ireland’s castaway children. The […]
Onward, Christian Soldiers!
May 18th, 2009GQ has published alleged cover pages from briefing documents that Rumsfeld produced for Bush.
IRF: An Extrajudicial Terror Squad
May 17th, 2009Via: Alternet: When Deghayes finally arrived at Guantánamo in September 2002, he found himself the target of the feared IRF teams. “The IRF team sprayed Mr. Deghayes with mace; they threw him in the air and let him fall on his face … ” according to the Spanish investigation. Deghayes says he also endured a […]
Detainee Who Gave False Iraq Data Dies In Prison in Libya
May 15th, 2009Via: Washington Post: A former CIA high-value detainee, who provided bogus information that was cited by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war, has died in a Libyan prison, an apparent suicide, according to a Libyan newspaper. A researcher for Human Rights Watch, who met Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi at the Abu Salim […]
Obama Opposes Detainee Abuse Photo Release
May 14th, 2009Via: Reuters: In a reversal, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he would fight the release of dozens of photographs showing the abuse of terrorism suspects, over concern the images could ignite a backlash against U.S. troops. The decision was a blow to some liberals in Obama’s Democratic Party who see the photos as part […]
Shelling Kills Dozens at Sri Lankan Hospital
May 12th, 2009Via: Guardian: At least 47 people were killed today and more than 50 injured when a shell struck a makeshift hospital treating casualties of the fighting in north-eastern Sri Lanka. A doctor working in the hospital said the shell appeared to have been fired from government positions. The UN described the attack as a war […]
CIA Open Source Center Translation of Secret Israeli Ministry of Defense Database Shows the Full Extent of Illegal Israeli Settlements in Gaza and the West Bank
May 9th, 2009Via: Wikileaks: In late January, WikiLeaks released a 186 page secret Israeli Ministry of Defense database, which showed the full extent of illegal Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. A version of the document had first been obtained by the well regarded Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The leak made headlines, but its global political […]
