(CHICAGO) – What’s ongoing bears disturbing similarities to events preceding NATO’s 1999 Yugoslavia aggression. In the 1990s, NATO lawlessly intervened for the first time outside territories of its member countries. No nation or alliance may attack another except in self-defense. Doing so requires Security Council authorization. Washington considers that notion quaint. Rule of law provisions don’t […]
(CHICAGO) – What’s ongoing bears disturbing similarities to events preceding NATO’s 1999 Yugoslavia aggression. In the 1990s, NATO lawlessly intervened for the first time outside territories of its member countries. No nation or alliance may attack another except in self-defense. Doing so requires Security Council authorization. Washington considers that notion quaint. Rule of law provisions don’t […]
(MintPress) – The recent release of 120 CIA documents by the National Security Archives (NSA) reveals new details about Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaida and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which clearly show that the CIA had been tracking Bin Laden a full year before the devastating terrorist attacks, but the Bush administration suspended funding for […]
(MintPress) – The recent release of 120 CIA documents by the National Security Archives (NSA) reveals new details about Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaida and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which clearly show that the CIA had been tracking Bin Laden a full year before the devastating terrorist attacks, but the Bush administration suspended funding for […]
(MintPress) – Accusations that U.S. drone strikes in the Middle East and Africa are killing innocent civilians were at the forefront of discussions at the United National Human Rights Council meetings, held this week in Geneva, Switzerland. The accusations come in the midst of reports that U.S. assassination strikes in Somalia aimed at al-Shabab, the […]
(MintPress) – Accusations that U.S. drone strikes in the Middle East and Africa are killing innocent civilians were at the forefront of discussions at the United National Human Rights Council meetings, held this week in Geneva, Switzerland. The accusations come in the midst of reports that U.S. assassination strikes in Somalia aimed at al-Shabab, the […]
Revelations that President Barack Obama presides over key aspects of secret kill-list machinery that has sentenced thousands to death by drone have disturbed many. Torture and extraordinary rendition under Bush, it turns out, have been replaced with industrial-scale extrajudicial execution by his successor. Today, CIA and Pentagon armed drones range at will over Pakistan, Yemen […]
Revelations that President Barack Obama presides over key aspects of secret kill-list machinery that has sentenced thousands to death by drone have disturbed many. Torture and extraordinary rendition under Bush, it turns out, have been replaced with industrial-scale extrajudicial execution by his successor. Today, CIA and Pentagon armed drones range at will over Pakistan, Yemen […]
(MintPress) – The seizure of Libya’s international airport by an armed militia group last week, combined with an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, has left many Americans wary of investing in the future of Libya after the removal of former President Muammar Gaddafi last year. As an armed militia temporarily seized control of […]
(MintPress) – The seizure of Libya’s international airport by an armed militia group last week, combined with an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, has left many Americans wary of investing in the future of Libya after the removal of former President Muammar Gaddafi last year. As an armed militia temporarily seized control of […]
As reports of ‘kill lists’ have emerged and murmurs of increasing use of surveillance drones over US soil – not to mention the London Olympics – have grown louder in recent months, drones have leapt onto the news agenda and into public debate. In a special report this week’s New Statesman special looks in detail […]
As reports of ‘kill lists’ have emerged and murmurs of increasing use of surveillance drones over US soil – not to mention the London Olympics – have grown louder in recent months, drones have leapt onto the news agenda and into public debate. In a special report this week’s New Statesman special looks in detail […]
As with the murdering madman Gaddafi, every activist gullible enough, every PR firm Israel controls, every thief in Washington is cashing in. This time, the likes of Barbara Walters, the big PR agencies, the Huffington Post, Vogue Magazine are accepting paid articles glamourizing the Assad family. Who is the new president? He, though son of […]
As with the murdering madman Gaddafi, every activist gullible enough, every PR firm Israel controls, every thief in Washington is cashing in. This time, the likes of Barbara Walters, the big PR agencies, the Huffington Post, Vogue Magazine are accepting paid articles glamourizing the Assad family. Who is the new president? He, though son of […]