Recent US-Led Airstrikes Killed At 25 Iraqi Civilians

Saturday’s attacks on the Iraqi city of Mosul reportedly included a strike on those responding to an earlier bombing.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Mideast Iraq

At least a dozen civilians and possibly many more were killed Saturday during a U.S.-led air raid on the Iraqi city of Mosul, according to a monitoring group. Citing local news reports, Airwars, an organization that tracks civilians killed by airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, said perhaps two dozen or more innocent Iraqis died in airstrikes along

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As Government Refuses Medical Treatment For Chelsea Manning

“What the government is basically telling me is ‘you cannot exist,’ that ‘you are wrong,’ and that ‘you do not exist.'”

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
(Photo: torbakhopper/flickr/cc)

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday filed a brief arguing that the government's blockading of Chelsea Manning's gender dysphoria treatment is for her own good—which Manning said was akin to telling her, "You don't exist." Manning, who is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks (USDB) at Ft. Leavenworth,

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US Wants To Increase Global Lethal And Surveillance Drone Flights To 30,000 By 2019

Iintelligence surveillance and collection will be broadened in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, North Africa, and the South China Sea, among other locations.

Claire Bernish
By Claire Bernish

(ANTIMEDIA) Washington, DC — As if in complete defiance of the extensive contention at home and abroad, the Pentagon announced plans this week to dramatically ramp up global drone operations over the next four years. Daily drone flights will increase by 50% during this time, and will include lethal air strikes and surveillance missions to deal

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Guantanamo Lawyers Alarmingly High Cancer Rate Sparks Military Investigation

A Miami Herald investigation found at least nine civilians and military lawyers suffering from lymphoma or brain, appendix or colon cancer, possibly caused by pollutants in their living quarters at the Navy’s controversial detention center in Cuba.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
The entrance to Camp VI detention facility at Guantanamo Bay

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba --- Despite promises to close the detention center during Barack Obama’s presidential run, the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base remains open. And now it appears those detained at the controversial site aren’t the only ones suffering and dying -- their lawyers are also facing grave illness. Carol Rosenberg, a Miami

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VIDEO: US Military Accidentally Ships Live Anthrax Spores To 9 States, South Korea

Last week, a Department of Defense lab mistakenly sent live anthrax samples to labs in 9 US states and one on a US base in South Korea. Consequently, 26 lab workers have begun post-exposure treatment.

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Patriotism At A Price: US Military Paid NFL Teams To ‘Honor’ Soldiers At Games

New York Jets received hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of years to salute ‘hometown heroes’.

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Army service members salute during a ceremony at Giants stadium before the New York Jets game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. (Photo: Marine Corps/Sgt. Randall A. Clinton/public domain)

Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Army service members salute during a ceremony at Giants stadium before the New York Jets game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. (Photo: Marine Corps/Sgt. Randall A. Clinton/public domain)   What better way to advertise military culture—and recruit teenagers—than by staging

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