CNN – by Patrick Oppmann, Ashley Fantz and Alina Machado

Havana (CNN) — Church bells rang out Wednesday afternoon in Havana, marking a major moment in history — Cuba and the United States are renewing diplomatic relations after decades of ice-cold tension.

Word of the massive change was met with passionate opinions and some protests in the United States. And celebrations erupted in the streets of the island after President Raul Castro announced the news in a televised address.   Continue reading “Cuba-U.S. relations change: Bells ring in Havana, anger erupts in Miami”

Investment Watchblog

The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chi?n d?ch Ph?ng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),United States special operations forces, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV),[1] and the Republic of Vietnam‘s (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War.

The Program was designed to identify and “neutralize” (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong).[2][3][4][5] The CIA described it as “a set of programs that sought to attack and destroy the political infrastructure of the Viet Cong”.[6] Continue reading “Operation Phoenix: Between 1965 and 1972, the CIA oversaw a torture program that killed between 26,000 and 41,000 people”

Investment Watchblog

The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (commonly known as the United Nations Convention against Torture) is an international human rights treaty, under the review of the United Nations, that aims to prevent torture and cruel, inhuman degrading treatment or punishment around the world.

The Convention requires states to take effective measures to prevent torture within their borders, and forbids states to transport people to any country where there is reason to believe they will be tortured.   Continue reading “The USA signed and ratified the United Nations Convention against Torture”

UNICEF-tetanus-kenyaHealth Impact News – by Brian Shilhavy

According to LifeSiteNews, a Catholic publication, the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association is charging UNICEF and WHO with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus vaccination program sponsored by the Kenyan government.

The Kenyan government denies there is anything wrong with the vaccine, and says it is perfectly safe.   Continue reading ““Mass sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine”

motherdaughterFilming Cops

PHILADELPHIA — A mother and her daughter have been gunned down in a deadly shooting incident that happened Monday night in Glenolden.

Valerie Morrow, the mother, has been pronounced dead. Her daughter suffered bullet wounds but is now recovering.

The shooter has been identified as Officer Stephen Rozniakowski, according to a report by NBC 10.   Continue reading “Cop Was Not Fired Despite 75 Counts Of Stalking And Harassment — Now He Just Shot A Mother And Her Daughter”

ABC News

A German court says a 93-year-old man charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp will go on trial early next year.

The Lueneburg state court said Tuesday its review of the prosecution’s case against Oskar Groening determined there was enough evidence to proceed with the trial. The starting date has not been announced.

Groening has openly talked in interviews about his time as a guard and says he witnessed atrocities but didn’t commit any crimes himself.   Continue reading “Court OK’s Trial of Auschwitz Guard for Early 2015”

Who's Winning the Battle Over Gun Rights?Infowars – by Kit Daniels

Guns are exploding in popularity.

Despite the millions spent by anti-gun advocates to promote gun control, more and more Americans are now embracing their gun rights.

For one thing, many sheriffs in states that recently passed gun control laws have publicly announced they won’t enforce these unconstitutional laws.   Continue reading “Who’s Winning the Battle Over Gun Rights?”

Whitewashing a murder...Intifada – by JAMAL KANJ

Israel has just committed another high-profile murder in the West Bank killing 55-year-old Ziad Abu Ein, a minister without portfolio in the Palestinian government. According to the BBC, he ‘was among dozens of foreign and Palestinian activists taking part in a protest against land confiscations.’

Abu Ein was in charge of monitoring Israeli activities related to the Annexation Wall and the construction of Jewish-only colonies in the occupied West Bank.   Continue reading “Whitewashing a murder…”

The Zionist Murder of General George S. PattonNoDisInfo

Revelations thanks to one of our posters.

Make no mistake about it regarding the death of General George S. Patton, this was a murder, not an accident. The murderers were vile Zionist Jews, along with collaborators who they placed in power. In doing so they killed the greatest, most moral general of the Western world of all time.   Continue reading “The Zionist Murder of General George S. Patton”

Global Research – by Prof. James Petras

The US Senate Report documenting CIA torture of alleged terrorist suspects raises a number of fundamental questions about the nature and operations of the State, the relationship and the responsibility of the Executive Branch and Congress to the vast secret police networks which span the globe – including the United States.

CIA:  The Politics of a Global Secret Police Force

The Senate Report’s revelations of CIA torture of suspects following the 9/11 bombing is only the tip of the iceberg.  The Report omits the history and wider scope of violent activity in which the CIA has been and continues to be involved.  Continue reading “Imperialism and the Politics of Torture: Towards a Global Secret Police Force”

1-Tantaros21st Century Wire

It’s still astounding what you hear from the mouths of some of the country’s most familiar faces…

FOX News has become almost legendary for its plastic line of female “news” pundits, which includes more than a few debutantes, bad nose jobs and plastic surgery sessions gone wrong. Beyond the looks and the teenaged rhetoric, however, FOX talking heads reveal a deeper, fundamentally flawed world view.    Continue reading “Neocon Media Rant: How ‘Awesome’ is America?”

Middle East Monitor

Hundreds of torture methods used against Palestinian prisoners during interrogations conducted in Israeli prisoners have been observed by human rights organisations and prisoners’ rights associations.

A report by the United Nations lists around 200 methods of torture. The Israeli rights group B’Tselem listed around 105 torture methods. Regardless of the number, all these reports indicate a grave level of violations perpetrated against Palestinians following their arrest.   Continue reading “Torture in Israeli prisons: 200 methods used against Palestinian prisoners”

One of the images that show alleged abuses of prisoners by soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in IraqThe Telegraph – by Raf Sanchez

The US government is fighting to keep secret thousands of photographs showing American troops abusing and sexually humiliating prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan and mocking the corpses of the dead.

The trove of pictures include an image of a female soldier allegedly pretending to sodomise a naked prisoner with a broom and photographs of troops pointing guns at detainees as they lie with hands tied and hoods over their heads.

Continue reading “The next torture report: photographs show US troops abusing and sexually humiliating prisoners”

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The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s extensive use of torture reveals that the agency regularly misled the White House and Congress about the information it had obtained from detainees and used techniques that are far more brutal than it — or former Bush administration officials — had previously acknowledged.

For instance, President George W. Bush insisted that “[t]his government does not torture people” and claimed that the intelligence it produced was instrumental to preventing terrorism on American soil and capturing high-value targets, including Osama bin Laden. But the Committee’s five year investigation — and examination of more than six million CIA documents — reveals all of those assertions to be false.   Continue reading “17 Disgraceful Facts Buried In The Senate’s 600 Page Torture Report”