5 November 2013 — Mondoweiss
Israeli soldiers hid in an alleyway outside a school and fired stun grenades directly at school children, before grabbing two young boys and marching them towards a nearby police station.
Tag: soldiers
Got His Gun — Lost His Legs, Arms, Penis By David Swanson
27 October 2013 — David Swanson
Ann Jones’ new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars — The Untold Story, is devastating, and almost incomprehensibly so when one considers that virtually all of the death and destruction in U.S. wars is on the other side. Statistically, what happens to U.S. troops is almost nothing. In human terms, it’s overwhelming.
Information Clearing House 24 October 2013: NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders After US Official Handed Over Contacts
24 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Marines ‘Murdered Man Live on Camera’:
By Kim Sengupta
Court martial sees graphic footage of ‘execution’ of injured Taliban fighter.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36640.htm
Victims of Haiti cholera epidemic sue the United Nations By John Marion
24 October 2013 — WSWS
On October 9, a lawsuit was filed against the United Nations in the US federal court for the southern district of New York by lawyers from the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and a Miami law firm. The suit, brought on behalf of the families of five victims of the Haitian cholera epidemic, seeks class action status for all victims of the epidemic, which to date has caused at least 8,300 deaths and left more than 679,000 sick.
Video: Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Glen Ford Pt1
23 October 2013 — The Real News Network
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the North living with his white activist mother, and living in the Deep South with his black deejay father. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
Book Review: The talented and reviled Mr Pepper (Comintern agent) By Dan La Botz
20 October 2013 — New Politics
The great European revolutionary epoch of the post war period from the 1910s through the 1920s provides endless biographical material revealing all that is best and worst in the human material of revolution, the Russians having been the most studied, providing shelves of biographies of Lenin, Bukharin, Stalin and Trotsky. Continue reading
History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro, Sixty Years Later By Maximilian Forte
17 October 2013 — Zero Anthropology
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s famous “History Will Absolve Me” speech, given in his defense during his trial following the unsuccessful guerrilla attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26 of that year.
The complete speech, which was transcribed after the fact entirely from memory, is available here in English and aquí en Castellano, and below I am highlighting certain extracts which I think are still critically relevant today.
Drone Wars: MoD study sets out how to sell wars to the public By Ben Quinn
26 September 2013 — The Guardian
The armed forces should seek to make British involvement in future wars more palatable to the public by reducing the public profile of repatriation ceremonies for casualties, according to a Ministry of Defence unit that formulates strategy.
The Russian position on the chemical attack on East Ghouta affirmed
31 August 2013 — Australians for reconciliation in Syria
Taken from Al-Hadath News and translated from Arabic, 23 August 2013. It confirms what was already apparent from other reports including the Saudi connection.
Syrian Foreign Ministry: Kerry’s presentation is based on old stories published by terrorists
31 August 2013 — SANA
[Well worth reading. WB]
Damascus, (SANA) – An official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that after days of media exaggeration about what the US administration described as decisive evidence, US Secretary of State John Kerry only produced material based on old stories which were published by terrorists over a week ago and are full of fabrication and lies.
Syria asks UN to immediately investigate three new ‘chemical attacks’ by rebels
28 August 2013 — RT
The Syrian government is demanding that the United Nations immediately investigate three alleged chemical attacks carried out by rebel groups on the outskirts of Damascus last week, Syria’s envoy to the UN said.
Video: Syrian army finds chemical agents in rebel tunnels near Damascus
24 August 2013 — RussiaToday
Syrian army soldiers have found chemical agents when they entered rebel tunnels in Damascus suburb of Jobar, Syrian TV reports, adding that some of them started suffocating. The US Navy’s expanding its presence in the Mediterranean with a 4th cruise-missile armed warship. The move’s a response to the escalating conflict in Syria. For more on this RT is joined by Paula Slier.
ICH 11 August 2013
11 August 2013 — Information Clearing House
Burqas and Empire, Again
By Zillah Eisenstein
The lead up to the Afghan war in post-9/11 used the rhetoric of “women’s rights” to mobilise the American public. We were supposed to save their women from the Taliban and their “backward ways”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35814.htm
Obama “Wins” the Korean War. Celebrating the Destructive Nature of US led Wars By Jack A. Smith
29 July 2013 — Global Research
There are times when the Obama Administration’s deep attachment to U.S. militarism and excessive praise of the armed forces causes the White House to seem either out of touch with reality or intentionally dishonest in its praise of America’s past wars.
The Korean Atrocity: Forgotten US War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity By Yves Engler
18 May 2013 — 4th Media
At a Quebec City celebration of the 70th anniversary of World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic last weekend, Minister of Veterans’ Affairs, Steven Blaney, responded to a question about Canadian military sacrifice with the statement: “There would be no ‘Gangnam Style’ if it had not been for the sacrifice of Canadians, and members of the United Nations who fought off Communism.”
Syria: how the violence began, in Daraa By Tim Anderson
13 May 2013 — opednews.com
“The claim that armed opposition to the government has begun only recently is a complete lie. The killings of soldiers, police and civilians, often in the most brutal circumstances, have been going on virtually since the beginning.’ — Professor Jeremy Salt, October 2011 (Ankara)
Syria: Nusra Front claimed responsibility for at least 600 terror acts
11 May 2013 — Press TV
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations says the al-Nusra Front terrorist group has claimed responsibility for carrying out at least 600 acts of terror in the past year.
Iraq: Hawija: War Crimes, Iraqi Resistance and America’s Weapons of Mass Destruction By Dirk Adriaensens
2 May, 2013 — Global Research
The parliamentary investigative committee in the Hawija massacre, that left more than 50 peaceful protesters dead, revealed on Tuesday 30 April that 90% of the victims of the Iraqi SWAT team raid were shot in the head, abdomen and chest. Some protesters were shot while their hands were tied behind their backs. The report affirms that the protest area was free of weapons. This confirms the claim made by the demonstration organizers, who assured the peaceful nature of the protest and vehemently denied possessing weapons or inciting violence.
Invasion of Syria: Obama and U.S. Military Divided over Action? By Shamus Cooke
29 April 2013 — Global Research
Has Syria crossed the “red line” that warrants a U.S. military invasion? Has it not? The political establishment in the United States seems at odds over itself. Obama’s government cannot speak with one voice on the issue, and the U.S. media is likewise spewing from both sides of its mouth in an attempt to reconcile U.S. foreign policy with that most stubborn of annoyances, truth.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 20 April 2013: Senior EU officials: ’Oslo process has nothing more to offer’
20 April 2013 — VTJP
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Israeli forces raid Jenin villages, no arrests
4/20/2013 – JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Saturday morning raided residential communities in the Jenin district. No detentions were recorded, locals said. An Israeli military force raided Beit Qad, Dier Abu Daif, and Jalqamus villages east of Jenin. They also stationed at the western road of Jenin while other Israel patrols stationed at the entrance….
The New Dark Age 