Posts Tagged ‘Terrorism’
Restrepo: A Look at the War in Afghanistan
Ares | By Paul McLeary | 6 July 2010 Update: See a critical review by Nick Turse During the 90 minutes it took for an invited audience to sit though a screening of Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s new documentary about the war in Afghanistan last Monday night, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of six more American [...]
U.S. Racists Call for Torture and Murder of Congressman
Southern Poverty Law Centre | 1 July 2010 Congressman’s Immigration Remarks Prompt Calls for Death, Torture Posters on neo-Nazi forums are publicly calling for the torture and murder of Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif.) over comments he made on June 26 during a Fremont, Calif., town hall meeting. The Youtube video of the event has gone [...]
Iranians Mourn Victims of U.S. State Terrorism
China Daily | 4 July 2010 Iran remembers victims of airliner shot down by US BANDAR ABBAS, Iran – Iranian helicopters scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf waters on Saturday as family members and relatives remembered the 290 passengers killed when a US warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years ago. About 250 relatives of victims [...]
U.S. Adm. Mullen concerned about synergy among terrorist groups
People's Daily | Xinhua | 30 June 2010 Top U.S. military commander shows concern about synergy among terrorist groups Terrorist groups are operating more closely with one another, posing an increasing threat to the global security, top U.S. military commander said in a recent interview. "I'm increasingly concerned about the synergy [...]
Israel fleet raid probe Head threatens to resign
Times of India | APP | 30 June 2010 Head of Israel fleet raid probe threatens to resign: TV report JERUSALEM: The head of an Israeli commission set up to investigate a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla threatened to resign unless the probe is given wider powers, Israeli TV said on Tuesday. Yaakov Tirkel, a retired Supreme [...]
Israel: Rogue Terrrorist State Marching on a Fast Track to Hell
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 29 June 2010 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of United Nations relief operations in Gaza have deplored Israel’s latest attack on a recreational facility for children in Gaza, the second such incident in a month. A group of about 25 armed and masked men attacked and set fire to the facility on [...]
Russians Support Israel on the Gaza Flotilla Massacre
Russia BTH | 23 June 2010 Views from Russia on the Gaza Strip It wasn’t Israel’s attack on the naval convoy destined for the Gaza strip that shocked and surprised Russian pundits, who were mostly sympathetic to Israel in its reaction to not let the flotilla pass at all costs, even to the point of violence. On the contrary, they were [...]
Americans Testing Microwave Weapon to Roast the Taleban
Danger Room | By Noah Schachtman | 19 June 2010 U.S. Testing Pain Ray in Afghanistan (Updated Again) The U.S. mission in Afghanistan centers around swaying locals to its side. And there’s no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes people feel like they’re on fire. OK, OK. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic [...]
Israel: New flotilla will be stopped
People's Daily | 21 June 2010 Israel says any ships headed to the Gaza Strip will be intercepted as part of the blockade on the Mediterranean territory. After Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting, Israel's Science Minister said no vessels will be allowed to reach the shores of the Strip. His comments come after reports that the Lebanese [...]
Israel’s Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination
Ha'aretz | By Henry Siegman | 11 June 2010 If a people who so recently experienced such unspeakable inhumanities cannot understand the injustice and suffering its territorial ambitions are inflicting, what hope is there for the rest of us? Following Israel’s bloody interdiction of the Gaza Flotilla, I called a life-long friend in Israel [...]
