Posted on July 3, 2017 by stephen-lendman
According to AP News, at least 18 secret black site torture prisons operate in Yemen. They’re run by the despotic UAE, along with rogue Yemeni elements trained by the Gulf state. Washington is likely behind what’s going on – US citizens complicit in interrogations. None of this would be happening without US involvement and approval. ...
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Posted on April 26, 2017 by guest-post
(RT) Turkey has failed to recognize the Armenian Genocide, which began in 1915 as World War I raged across Europe, for over a century but now new evidence has come to light which may prove beyond doubt the slaughter took place. Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian at Clark University in Massachusetts claims to have uncovered ...
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Posted on April 1, 2017 by stephen-lendman
Yemen is Obama’s war, now Trump’s, complicit with Saudi terror-bombing, massacring civilians indiscriminately, causing vast destruction, human suffering and starvation. A previous article explained millions of Yemenis face slow, painful deaths from lack of food needed to survive, blockaded coastal areas preventing it from entering the country. Amounts airlifted in are woefully inadequate. Media scoundrels ...
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Posted on March 30, 2017 by stephen-lendman
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described it this way weeks after US-led terror-bombing and Iraqi ground operations began last October – long before the worst horrors ongoing now. US-orchestrated operations are being conducted under “conditions of absolute information blockade,” Zakharova explained. Nothing was done to protect, evacuate or otherwise help civilians. They’ve been on ...
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Posted on March 27, 2017 by guest-post
By: The Voice of Reason | It’s been decried as ‘fake news’ for far too long at the expense of putting our children at risk. Finally, some in the mainstream are catching on to one of the plagues of Washington today – the DC pedophile rings. Media personality Dr. Phil conducted an interview with a ...
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Posted on March 16, 2017 by stephen-lendman
ICRC Middle East director Robert Mardini said patients treated in nearby Irbil show “clinical symptoms consistent with exposure to a blistering chemical agent.” Affected men, women and children suffer from respiratory problems, blisters, coughing, vomiting, along with eye redness and irritation. “The use of chemical weapons is absolutely prohibited under international humanitarian law. We are ...
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Posted on March 16, 2017 by stephen-lendman
Recep Tayyip Erdogan rules with an iron fist, heading a virtual fascist dictatorship. Anyone criticizing or challenging his leadership risks imprisonment, including public figures, journalists, academics, other intellectuals, human rights activists, even young children – on charges ranging from insulting the president to terrorism, espionage or treason. He purged or imprisoned over 100,000 regime critics ...
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Posted on March 14, 2017 by stephen-lendman
Al-Wefaq was Bahrain’s largest political society, its most popular. Last July, it was suspended and dissolved. The National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad) is the country’s leading secular opposition. Last Monday, the ruling al-Khalifa regime began legal proceedings to dissolve it over fabricated claims about “incit(ing) acts of terrorism and promoting violent and forceful overthrow of ...
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Posted on March 13, 2017 by stephen-lendman
US-installed prime minister Haider al-Abadi is at war with his own people, massacring them in the battle for Mosul. Amnesty International called human rights in Iraq “dire.” Civilians are threatened by violence instigated by ISIS and their own government, regime forces killing them indiscriminately – earlier in Anbar province, currently in Mosul for months. Unknown ...
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Posted on March 12, 2017 by stephen-lendman
Media scoundrels ignore US-led terror-bombing, massacring Mosul civilians mercilessly – on the phony pretext of liberating the city from ISIS terrorists America created and supports. The ongoing battle isn’t what it seems. Thousands of ISIS fighters were redeployed from Mosul to Syria last October. A corridor opened by America let them flee. At the time, ...
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Posted on February 18, 2017 by mfreeman
Government torture is a sad but unfortunately very routine, ordinary and normal part of how Government operates, and has operated, for a very long time. Government is a creature of coercion for the most part. It is most fluent in the language of force. It tends to attract sociopaths and psychopaths, who use the office ...
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Posted on February 15, 2017 by guest-post
By: Ramola D, The Everyday Concerned Citizen | (Breaking News Update from Mr. Byer based on court proceedings, 2/13/2017, included at end of article.) Rohinie Bisesar, the striking and talented 41-year-old Canadian woman accused of fatally stabbing a 28-year-old health worker, Rosemary Junor in December of 2015, appeared in a Toronto court on February 8, ...
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Posted on February 6, 2017 by guest-post
By: Uzay Bulut, Gatestoneinstitute.org | Finally, after years of apathy and inaction, Washington is extending a much-needed helping hand to Middle Eastern Christians. U.S. President Donald Trump recently announced that persecuted Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States. Christians and Yazidis are being exposed to ...
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Posted on January 31, 2017 by stephen-lendman
Trump’s Secretary of Defense James (“mad dog”) Mattis said torture doesn’t work. His CIA director Mike Pompeo believes it does. Trump said he’s OK with whatever they want, earlier indicating support for waterboarding (torture by any standard) and much worse – believing torture works despite clear evidence otherwise. It’s used for control and punishment, not ...
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Posted on January 14, 2017 by stephen-lendman
In March 2015, his Likud party won 30 of 120 Knesset seats, over three-fourths of Israelis supporting other parties. With likeminded extremist coalition partners, he remained prime minister after an election he seemed likely to lose. Netanyahu exceeds Sharonian evil, a world class thug, menacing Jews and Arabs alike. A psychological profile of his behavioral ...
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