“Free Syrian” female fedaheyin: who knows the truth about such images anymore in an age of professional fabrications?
The tempo of events in Syria has accelerated in recent weeks. The government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war provocations and peace offers from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies. Continue reading »
Efrain Rios Montt Sent to Jail
by John Grant
I saw the masked men
throwing truth into a well.
When I began to weep for it
I found it everywhere.
- Claudia Lars (El Salvador)
Those of us who have struggled for peace and justice over the past decades don’t have much to celebrate these days. But the news from Guatemala that a female judge — Yasmin Barrios — was able to successfully manage a trial in that benighted nation and convict former President Efrain Rios Montt of genocide is something to rejoice about. It suggests it’s no longer business as usual in Latin America — especially vis-à-vis the United States. Continue reading »
By Barry Grey, wsws.org
In a brazen and illegal attack on press freedom, the Obama Justice Department secretly subpoenaed the telephone records of Associated Press editors and journalists and tracked ingoing and outgoing calls on at least 20 telephone lines, including the national headquarters of the press agency and its news bureaus in New York, Hartford and Washington DC. Among the lines tracked was the telephone used by AP reporters working out of the House of Representatives press gallery in the Capitol. Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Holder trying to explain the unexplainable. Even the Associated Press is now vulnerable. What protection does an average citizen have?
A previous article discussed institutionalized spying on Americans. Anyone can be monitored for any reason or none at all. Manufactured national security threats, silencing dissent, targeting whistleblowers, and challenging press freedom subvert constitutional rights. Doing so is worse than ever now. Obama bears full responsibility. He governs by diktat authority. He’s waging war on humanity. He’s spurning fundamental rights. He’s targeting press freedom. Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Obama and the UK’s Cameron: Bosom buddies in war planning. They embody an age of blatant, repugnant hypocrisy. Where is the Nuremberg tribunal now that we need it?
Previous articles discussed Washington-supported death squads in Syria. It’s common practice in all US direct and proxy wars. Massacres and unspeakable atrocities are committed. Women are raped. Civilians are treated like combatants. Official coverup and denial follow. Vietnam’s Operation Phoenix became a prototype for today’s wars. Terrorizing people into submission is official US policy. Continue reading »
Another CIA Debacle
by MELVIN A. GOODMAN
Imperial operative Hillary Clinton under fire: The Benghazi scandal is a joke, petty intramural vendettas between war criminals. Those are the simple, impolite facts.
When congressional Republicans complete manipulating the Benghazi tragedy, it will be time for the virtually silent Senate intelligence committee to take up three major issues that have been largely ignored. The committee must investigate the fact that the U.S. presence in Benghazi was an intelligence platform and only nominally a consulate; the politicization by the White House and State Department of CIA analysis of the events in Benghazi; and the Obama administration’s politicization of the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which has virtually destroyed the office and deprived congressional intelligence committees of their most important oversight tool. Continue reading »