Western Charity: The Selling, Trading and Weaponization of Syria’s Children
By Diane Mantzaris More needs to be written about all the US/allied backed al Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS) groups on Facebook posing as refugee humanitarian…
Human Rights
US to Keep Bombing Syria Despite Civilian Deaths and Humanitarian Pleas
By Nadia Prupis The U.S. says airstrikes on Syria will continue, despite reports of dozens of civilian deaths and the pleas of opposition activists and…
U.S. “Vetted” And Armed Syria Terrorist Group That Beheaded Boy, Gave Them TOW Missiles
By Brandon Turbeville While the United States attempts to back away from its association with terrorist group Nour al-Din al-Zinki, the “moderate” terrorist organization whose…
John Kerry Spills The Beans: Moderate Rebels Not So Moderate
By Brandon Turbeville If anyone was wondering just what caused such an abysmal set of public relations performances by State Department spokesman Mark Toner over…
U.S. Endorses Expansion of Military Force Used By U.N. Peacekeepers in Combat Zones
By Brandon Turbeville In yet another step towards the establishment of a world military force that seeks peace through the absence of dissent, the United…
Gene Editing: The Dual-use Conundrum
By Janet Phelan Dual-use may be best understood by considering the functions of a knife. Used against an enemy, a knife can be deadly. In…
America’s “Human Rights” Racket in Action
By Tony Cartalucci Southeast Asia’s Thailand has been racked by political conflict for now over a decade. During the rise and fall of US-backed political…
How Turkey’s Reconciliation Deal with Israel Harms the Palestinians
By Jeremy R. Hammond With Israel and Turkey having announced a reconciliation agreement this week, Turkey is portraying itself as a protector of the oppressed…
Bikini Islanders Still Deal with Fallout of US Nuclear Tests, 70 Years Later
By Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University In 1946, French fashion designer Jacques Heim released a woman’s swimsuit he called the “Atome” (French for “atom”) –…
U.N. Bows To Saudi Financial Threats, Removes KSA From Child Killers List
By Brandon Turbeville Despite the crowing of Western nations like the United States, Britain, France and other NATO countries, as well as the United Nations,…
US Political Prisoner Update
By Janet Phelan In a recent US government human rights report, the US voiced sharp criticism of China’s treatment of human rights lawyers and dissidents….
Orlando: Deeper Than Terrorism
By Devon Douglas-Bowers The recent shootings in Orlando are, without a doubt, a terrorist attack. However, it is not the terrorism that so much of…
Newly Released Torture Documents Reveal Further Depravity
By Derrick Broze The CIA has released 50 new documents relating to post-9/11 torture and rendition practices. On Tuesday the Central Intelligence Agency released 50…
New CIA Documents Reveal More Horrors of President Bush’s Torture Program
By Nadia Prupis The CIA on Tuesday released dozens of documents detailing its torture and rendition program under the Bush administration, from the horrific treatment…