Human Rights Groups Condemn Israeli Gaza War Crimes
by Stephen Lendman Israel's Operation Protective Edge (OPE) was cold, calculated, premeditated naked aggression against 1.8 million Gazans. Previous articles explained in detail. It had nothing to do with Hamas rockets. Everything to do with preventing… more »
Amnesty International Fronts for Power
by Stephen Lendman It's an imperial tool. It fronts for power, wealth and privilege. It receives generous corporate foundation donations. According to Francis Boyle: "Amnesty International is primarily motivated not by human rights but by publicity.… more »
US and North Korea Have Something in Common: The Highest Incarceration Rates
MARK KARLIN , EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a recent New York Times (NYT) column, Nikolas Kristof used a 12 question test to point out some of the tragic absurdities of posturing by the big powers and claims to moral legitimacy. He entitled it, "Do… more »
Israel Terrorizes 5-Year-Old Palestinian Boy
by Stephen Lendman Societies are perhaps best judged by how they treat prisoners, the elderly, their most disadvantaged and children. Israel fails on all counts. On July 9, perhaps it reached a new low. Seven IDF soldiers and an officer terrorized a… more »
By Any Other Name… Terrorism Sucks!!
Philip A Farruggio Terrorize: To fill with terror… to coerce by intimidation It saddened me to hear of that young eight year old boy killed by the bombs in Boston. The other two people dead by that terror attack only further saddened this writer. Yet,… more »
Anonymous launches cyber attack on Israel; major government websites down
Posted by Michael Collins From Al Akahbar English, Beirut Creative Commons Published Sunday, April 7, 2013 Updated at 2:45pm: Dozens of Israeli websites were hacked in early hours Sunday, including pages of the prime minister's office and the Tel Aviv… more »
Fake Pharaoh's Feet of Clay - Morsy Reign Imperiled
Michael Collins (Washington, DC 11/24) It takes a real pharaoh to build a pyramid, especially one that lasts five thousand years. It took President Mohamed Morsy of Egypt one speech for the Egyptian public to see him for what he aspires to be - a new… more »
Virginia is for Misogynists
By Michael Collins The Virginia legislature is about to enact a law that requires a transvaginal ultrasound procedure for all women who have abortions (except in the case of a medical emergency). Apparently, the legislators are unaware that the law… more »
Tim DeChristopher's Court Speech: 'This Is What Patriotism Looks Like'
Tim DeChristopher, whose act of civil disobedience stopped the illegal auction of oil and gas leases on thousands of acres of public land, was sentenced yesterday to two years in federal prison for fraudulently halting illegal government actions. This… more »
Kevorkian's call to defeat the cacocracy
By Rady Ananda Dr. Jack Kevorkian passed away on June 3, at the age of 83. His “compassionate and common sense approach to ending human suffering is but one facet of his decades-long advocacy of the Ninth Amendment.” So I wrote in 2009 after hearing him… more »
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