West-Bank: Palestinian Mosque Torched By Settlers
A West-Bank mosque was set on fire and vandalized with graffiti in Hebrew late Sunday night in what police suspects to be an attack by Israeli settlers in protest of any extension of the settlement freeze. Residents of the village Bayt Fajar, near the city of Bethlehem, said that a group of settlers coming from […]
Guatemala: US Infected Hundreds With Syphilis In The Late 40’s
Most of us remember the so called “medical” tests conducted by the Nazis “doctors” in the concentration camps. Needless to say, the experiments in question were the worst kind of torture imaginable, and treated human beings like lab rats. However, during the late 1940’s the self described “benevolent” super-power was conducting similar inhuman experiments than […]
Surviving Is Your Personal Responsibility
By Brian Brawdy In his new book Obama’s Wars, Washington Post Columnist and perennial White House fly on the wall Bob Woodard writes that President Obama believes “We can absorb a terrorist attack.” As many in the media line up to slam him for his comments, there are now reports on the wire of a […]
Spying on Its Citizens: As American as Apple Pie
During the Bush-era, in the sweeping intrusive context of the “Patriot Act”, US citizens found out that their international communications were spied on with the generous complicity of their “trusted” telephone companies such as AT & T and Verizon. These actions were, until 2008, clearly outside the norms of the defined wiretap authorizations given by […]
Obama: Human Rights In The AM, State Secrets & FBI Raids In The PM
During the Vietnam war, the saying which illustrated the best the schizophrenic aspect of the US involvement there was “Candy in the morning, napalm in the afternoon”. Decades later, the US administration is still displaying the very same sign of this disturbing behavior where one hand takes away what the other hand has given. The […]
