Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
California Plans to Spray Pesticide Over Urban San Francisco, Marin County and the East Bay
February 16th, 2008“I suppose it’s all just a coincidence that Arnold Schwarzenegger selected a belt buckle to wear—on the cover of a mass circulation news magazine—that features a human skull. Sure, Arnold’s dad was a Nazi and Arnold denies that he admired Hitler and liked to pretend to be an SS officer, despite eyewitness accounts to the […]
Scalia: “Absurd” to Suggest that the U.S. Shouldn’t Torture Alleged Terrorists
February 13th, 2008Via: AP: One of the United States’ top judges said in an interview broadcast in Britain on Tuesday that interrogators can inflict pain to obtain critical information about an imminent terrorist threat. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that aggressive interrogation could be appropriate to learn where a bomb was hidden shortly before it was […]
U.S. Loses Prison Camp Records of Bin Laden’s Driver
February 11th, 2008One for your My-Dog-Ate-It file. Via: Reuters: The U.S. military has lost a year’s worth of records describing the Guantanamo interrogation and confinement of Osama bin Laden’s driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive’s war court hearing on Thursday. Lawyers for the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, asked for the records to support their argument […]
France: Vaccine Companies Face Manslaughter Investigation
February 7th, 2008Via: Reuters: French authorities have opened a formal investigation into two managers from drugs groups GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur over a vaccination campaign in the 1990s, a judicial source said late on Thursday. Judge Marie-Odile Bertella-Geffroy also opened an investigation for manslaughter against Sanofi Pasteur MSD, a joint venture between Sanofi Aventis and Merck, the […]
Secret Camp Inside Guantanamo
February 7th, 2008Via: AP: Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded — a jailhouse so protected that its very location is top secret. Related: Inside […]
More than One Million Iraqis Dead Since 2003 Invasion
February 3rd, 2008Via: AFP: More than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to a study published Wednesday. A fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict, said data compiled by […]
Disgraced and Vilified, Indonesia’s Ex-Dictator Suharto Dies Aged 86
January 28th, 2008I’m surprised Suharto’s likeness hasn’t already been added to Mt. Rushmore. Via: The Canadian Free Press: Former Indonesian president Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday. He was 86. Although he oversaw some of the worst bloodshed of the […]
Red Cross Warns of Gaza Crisis
January 23rd, 2008Via: AP: The international Red Cross issued a dire warning on the state of basic services in Gaza on Tuesday, calling on Israel to lift a blockade it has imposed in response to increased rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. Israel eased the siege for a day on Tueday, allowing in shipments of fuel and medicine. […]
MPAA Rejects Movie Poster Depicting U.S. Soldiers Leading a Hooded Detainee Away
December 19th, 2007The CIA tortures innocent people until they try to kill themselves, but the CIA won’t let them die and uses doctors to keep the victims alive to endure more torture. That’s allowed. But, you know, these movie posters… Via: Variety: The MPAA has rejected the one-sheet for Alex Gibney’s documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side,” […]
Inside the CIA’s Notorious “Black Sites”
December 15th, 2007Via: Salon: Inside the CIA’s notorious “black sites” A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture — the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons. A Salon exclusive. By Mark Benjamin Dec. 15, 2007 | The CIA held Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah in several […]
