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Greek police collude with fascist Golden Dawn group
Greek police are ever-more openly colluding with the fascist Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi). On an almost daily basis, Golden Dawn members and their supporters go on the rampage in the capital Athens and other towns around the country, attacking immigrants and political opponents with impunity. Some of these attacks, often led by some of the…
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NATO ‘will defend’ Turkey against Syria as Ankara moves F-16s to border
NATO has promised to back Ankara in its escalating conflict with Syria, as Turkey adds 25 new F-16 fighter jets to its border protection force. It follows days of retaliation from Turkey after Syrian shells started coming over the border last month. “We have all the necessary plans in place to protect and defend Turkey…
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Greek anti-fascist protesters ‘tortured by police’ after Golden Dawn clash
Fifteen people arrested in Athens says they were subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation by Maria Margaronis Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have said they were tortured in the Attica General Police Directorate (GADA) – the Athens equivalent…
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Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza
Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed at least 12 Palestinians, including a senior militant leader. Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), was targeted because he was planning an attack, the Israelis said. Another militant was killed with him. The Islamic Jihad militant group said 10 members of its military wing,…
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‘No food, no drugs’: Libyan troops siege ex-Gaddafi stronghold
Armed Libyan forces continue to surround the city of Bani Walid, Libya. As tension between government troops and opposition supporters continues to mount, residents have been left without food and other supplies – and are calling on the UN for help. Human rights group Amnesty International has asked authorities to avoid unnecessary force, and to…
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Reconsider Colombus Day 2012
Happy Genocidal Maniac Day! Five hundred and eighteen years ago, today 12 October, a momentous event happened. The supposed “discovery” by one Cristóbal Colón—also known as Christopher Columbus, landed on the Bahamian island of San Salvador and subsequently was labeled the “first” European to take notice of the Americas. Let us consider the supposed discovery.…
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The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture”
Most of us are familiar with this picture. Captured in Times Square on V-J Day, 1945, it has become one of the most iconic photographs of American history, symbolizing the jubilation and exuberance felt throughout the country at the end of World War II. For a long time, the identity of the pair remained a…
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Dozens arrested at Anti-Columbus Day San Francisco protest (PHOTOS)
About 22 protesters were arrested in an “unpermitted” San Francisco march while police officers tried to disperse them for blocking traffic. Demonstrators wore black clothing, masks and threw rocks, paint and flares at police, injuring one officer. The protest started Saturday as anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist march in San Francisco’s financial district that was reportedly part…
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US Authorizes Financial Support For the Free Syrian Army
A US group that supports the Free Syrian Army has received a waiver from the US Treasury Department authorizing it to provide logistical and financial support to the armed Syrian resistance. The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) last week, Brian Sayers, of the Syrian Support Group, told…
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PTSD Counselors Forced to Attend Anti-Union Meetings on Troubled Army Base
By Mike Elk, In These Times In 2010, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes labeled Fort Lewis-McChord, a joint Army and Air Force base in Washington state, “the most troubled base in the military” due to its inability to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or address mental health problems. Fort Lewis-McChord has one of the…
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