Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
FEMA Trailer Manufacturers Knew About Formaldehyde, Findings Went Undisclosed
July 11th, 2008It’s not a conspiracy: “The problem was and remains confusion among federal agencies, not some conspiracy among trailermakers,” said ranking committee Republican Rep. Tom Davis (Va.). It’s just a Coincidence that thousands of children from low income families will be dead from cancer before they have a chance to have children of their own. Via: […]
U.S. Cluster Bomb Related Atrocities to Continue
July 10th, 2008Via: Reuters: The United States is taking steps to reduce the danger of unexploded U.S. cluster bombs while continuing to resist international pressure for an all-out ban on the weapons, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. Cluster bombs spread tiny bomblets across large areas when dropped from planes or fired from artillery. But they sometimes do […]
U.S. Colonel Sanctioned Mass Killing During Korean War
July 7th, 2008Via: Newsweek: The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it “would be permitted” to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces. In the early days of the Korean War, other American […]
Homeless People Die After Bird Flu Vaccine Trial in Poland
July 4th, 2008Via: Telegraph: Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus. The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last […]
Want to Know If Waterboarding Is Torture? Ask Christopher Hitchens
July 2nd, 2008Via: Guardian: Late last year, the writer, polemicist and fierce proponent of the US-led invasion of Iraq Christopher Hitchens attempted, in a piece for the online magazine Slate, to draw a distinction between what he called techniques of “extreme interrogation” and “outright torture”. From this, his foes inferred that since it was Hitchens’ belief that […]
China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo
July 2nd, 2008Via: IHT: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.” What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart […]
State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq
July 1st, 2008This is an excellent review of P2OG over the years. Many of the story references will be familiar to Cryptogon readers. Via: Global Research: In 2002, the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board (DSB) conducted a “Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism,” portions of which were leaked to the Federation […]
UK: Gardens Ruined by Toxic Fertiliser
June 30th, 2008Via: Guardian: Gardeners have been warned not to eat home-grown vegetables contaminated by a powerful new herbicide that is destroying gardens and allotments across the UK. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has been inundated with calls from concerned gardeners who have seen potatoes, beans, peas, carrots and salad vegetables wither or become grossly deformed. The […]
Supreme Court Cuts Exxon Punitive Damages for Valdez Oil Spill by 80%
June 26th, 2008Via: San Francisco Chronicle: The Supreme Court, winding up a term of victories for businesses, cut punitive damages for Alaskans harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill by 80 percent today in a ruling that may signal new limits on damage awards for victims of corporate wrongdoing. In a 5-3 decision, the justices reduced punitive […]
Socialists Made Eugenics Fashionable
June 21st, 2008If you have ever wondered why the crackpot left seems as terrifying as the crackpot right, it’s because they’re both products of the same nuthouse—run by the wealthiest people [sic] on this planet. Via: National Press: An exhibition of the history of those scientific ideas that gave a grimy intellectual veneer to the Nazi genocide […]
