Monday, January 13, 2025

Sorry for Killing Your Son, CIA Tells Drone Strike Victim’s Family During Unprecedented Meeting

For years they have refused to release details of the strikes, fighting successive court cases brought by relatives of strike victims and by civil liberties groups.

Syria – a case study in propaganda

The most important thing is that people are gullible and malleable, since that allows us to keep the war going and eventually achieve our goals.

Summer of discontent: Iraq explodes in protest

Few countries have suffered as much in recent years and Iraqis of all faiths and ethnicities deserve not just freedom from the horrific violence that has become far too normal there.

Sanders calls for aid halt as US arms fuel Israel’s blockade

"The U.S. cannot partner with a country that is starving children."

Why the US won’t be able to shirk moral responsibility in leaving Afghanistan

There are significant moral costs at stake in either remaining in or withdrawing from Afghanistan.

US munitions in deadly Gaza strikes: Amnesty International calls for war crimes investigation

Amnesty International's investigation reveals US-made weapons in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, killing civilians and igniting calls for a war crimes probe.

Ukraine in perspective

A historical feast of death and destruction from the Peloponnesian Wars to late tomorrow night.

Starving and bombed children of Yemen seek entrapment in flooded Thai cave

“Am I pleased that the 12 children and their coach in Thailand were rescued? Of course I am. I just wish that an equivalent effort was being made to rescue each of the 50,000 children we will kill today, tomorrow, the next day and the day after that….”

A wide world of war porn

How I accidentally amassed an encyclopedia of atrocities...

Serial killers and dopes

Like lemmings running over the cliff of reason, our fellow American dopes may never learn!