Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
U.S. Airstrikes Kill More than 100 Civilians in Afghistan
May 7th, 2009Via: AFP: US-LED air strikes killed more than 100 civilians during operations against insurgents in Afghanistan, a provincial police chief said today, as the US military opened an investigation. “We confirm that in the military operation the other night more than 100 non-combatants have been killed,” Farah province police chief Abdul Ghafar Watandar told AFP, […]
Ashton Lundeby, a Sixteen-Year-Old American, Has Been Disappeared by Homeland Security
May 6th, 2009UPDATE: This Looks Like a More Conventional Federal Case Now Via: Wired: The boy’s mother, Annette Lundeby, has even acknowledged in interviews that her son has been formally charged, has a court-appointed attorney, and has already made appearances in front of a judge. — Long ago, I took a class called Soviet Society and Culture. […]
Tiananmen: The Flame Burns On
May 4th, 2009Via: Guardian: Twenty years ago tanks rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to crush the biggest pro-democracy movement in history. Hundreds were killed, thousands jailed and many fled to escape persecution. Here exiled leaders of the student revolution tell their remarkable stories and reveal how, after being forced to build new lives, they remain haunted by […]
The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations
May 1st, 2009Via: ABC News: According to current and former government officials, the CIA’s secret waterboarding program was designed and assured to be safe by two well-paid psychologists now working out of an unmarked office building in Spokane, Washington. Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, former military officers, together founded Mitchell Jessen and Associates. Both men declined to […]
Dozens of CIA “Ghost Prisoners” Missing
April 27th, 2009Via: IPS: At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organisations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful. The story of these “ghost prisoners” was comprehensively documented last week by Pro Publica, an online investigative journalism group. In September […]
U.S. Army Interpreter Who Witnessed Torture in Iraq Shot Herself with Service Rifle
April 26th, 2009Via: Independent: It is possible that one of the victims of the United States’ torture policy is a young, devout Mormon woman from Arizona called Alyssa Peterson. She was a soldier who not only saw the rough interrogation methods that the US military used on Iraqi prisoners, but was deeply troubled by them. Some weeks […]
Member of UAE Royal Family Tortures Man
April 23rd, 2009The U.S. has very friendly military and economic relations with the United Arab Emirates. WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. WARNING GRAPHIC UAE Torture Tapes Revealed Via: ABC News: A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden […]
Food, Inc: “A Civilized Horror Movie”
April 20th, 2009Via: Variety: With a constituency limited to anyone who eats, “Food, Inc.” is a civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry. Yes, it has a deceptively cheery palette, but helmer Robert Kenner’s doc — which does for the supermarket what “Jaws” did for the beach — marches straight into […]
CIA Torture Exemption ‘Illegal’
April 19th, 2009Via: BBC: US President Barack Obama’s decision not to prosecute CIA agents who used torture tactics is a violation of international law, a UN expert says. The UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, says the US is bound under the UN Convention against Torture to prosecute those who engage in it. Mr Obama released […]
Russia Ends Operations in Chechnya *
April 17th, 2009* It was genocide. I guess the New York Times doesn’t know that word. Via: New York Times: In 2007 Mr. Putin gave Mr. Kadyrov the task of cleaning up after the Russian campaign and ending the insurgency. Mr. Kadyrov moved with speed and brutality, killing rebel leaders while also granting amnesty to separatist fighters […]
