By Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed police state terror in Bahrain, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/04/police-state-terror-in-bahrain.html Saying sporadic protests began last summer, major ones began for regime change on February 14, the tenth anniversary of the public referendum on the Bahrain National Action Charter – a monarchy reform initiative to end years of [...]
By John Chuckman French air force planes struck the first blows: using “intelligent” munitions, the planes struck tanks and artillery which threatened the people of Benghazi. Now, who wouldn’t be heartened to learn that mechanized forces being used against civilians, civilians whose only demand was freedom from tyranny, were destroyed?
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling. As mass revolt spreads across Egypt and the Middle East and citizens there demand jobs, civil liberties and an end to police state abuses from repressive, U.S.-backed torture regimes, the Obama administration and their congressional allies aim to expand one right here at home.
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON PRISONERS WERE ONE OF THE MOST BARBARIC UPSHOTS OF THE NAZI REGIME. SUCH PRACTICES UNDERSCORED THE APPALLING DEGREE OF DEHUMANIZATION ATTAINED BY THE HITLERITE REGIME VIA CONSTANT PROPAGANDA BASED ON OUTRAGEOUS LIES. NO ONE PUT SUCH BELIEFS IN ACTION MORE ZEALOUSLY THAN THE MURDEROUS SS. At a moment when the US itself [...]
CIA torture exemption ‘illegal’ A REPORT BY BBC NEWS US President Barack Obama’s decision not to prosecute CIA agents who used torture tactics is a violation of international law, a UN expert says. The UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, says the US is bound under the UN Convention against Torture to prosecute those [...]