By Stephen Lendman A personal note. Writing about America’s political prisoners is essential to defend freedom, justice, and other democratic values, especially wrongfully persecuted Muslims for political advantage. I communicate directly with five notable victims, all of whom I greatly respect, including: – attorneys Lynne Stewart and Paul Bergrin; – Yassin Aref; – Dr. Rafil [...]
By Rady Ananda. Republished from the Center for Globalization Research. US stores spent nuclear fuel rods at 4 times pool capacity In a recent interview with The Real News Network, Robert Alvarez, a nuclear policy specialist since 1975, reports that spent nuclear fuel in the United States comprises the largest concentration of radioactivity on the planet: [...]
By Stephen Lendman Japan’s March 11 earthquake/tsunami-caused nuclear disaster affects millions of people regionally and throughout the Northern Hemisphere. But you’d never know it from most major media reports, downplaying an unfolding catastrophe. Share on Facebook
By Gareth Porter & Shah Noori. Republished from IntelDaily. The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids last year was probably several times higher than the figure of 80 people cited in the U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan published last week, an IPS investigation has revealed. Share on Facebook
By Phil Rockstroh Dedicated to my brave friend and gifted colleague, Joe Bageant, 1946-2011 In Berlin, Germany, in early 1939, at Friedrichstrasse railway station, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, my grandmother placed my mother and her older sister, with a few family valuables sown into their clothing, on a Kindertransport bound [...]
By Stephen Lendman In his weekly March 26 address, Obama said: “As I pledged at the outset, the role of American forces has been limited. We are not putting any ground forces into Libya….And as agreed this week, responsibility for this operation is being transferred from the United States to our NATO allies and partners.” [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… Not since AT&T whistleblower Marc Klein’s 2006 revelations that U.S. telecommunications giants were secretly collaborating with the government to spy on Americans, has a story driven home the point that we are confronted by a daunting set of invisible enemies: the security and intelligence firms constellating the dark skies [...]
By Stephen Lendman A new Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-I) report discusses atrocities committed against sub-Saharan Africans seeking refugee status in Israel. Titled “Hostages, Torture, and Rape,” it explains the ordeal experienced by 284 victims Share on Facebook
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