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Los jueces se muestran escépticos ante las afirmaciones de la CIA sobre el secretismo en torno a los drones.
Cite Administration’s Repeated Confirmation of the Program by Jason Ditz A three-judge panel at the US Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has reacted with skepticism to the CIA’s claims of secrecy in response to ACLU requests for information related to the use of drone strikes worldwide. Judge Merrick Garland in particular seemed baffled…
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El escándalo del Hospital Militar Nacional Dawood en Kabul debería poner fin a la guerra en Afganistán.
by Alex Ellingboe On July 27, the website Buzzfeed.com released graphic photos of the gruesome conditions faced by wounded Afghan soldiers in the U.S. funded Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul. The condition of soldiers at the nation’s premier military hospital was initially revealed by a Wall Street Journal article, published on September 3, 2011.…
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La ACLU demanda a la CIA por la guerra secreta con drones que todo el mundo conoce.
by John Glaser The Obama administration has a good thing going. They get to run a futuristic drone war that operates above the law and allows them to bomb people outside any official theater of conflict, even if they are American citizens with Constitutional rights to due process. When the drone war produces a juicy…
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Damasco amenaza con armar a los kurdos con misiles si Turquía continúa interfiriendo en Siria.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Damascus has warned Ankara to drop support for terrorist groups fighting Bashar al-Assad’s government, threatening that it will arm Turkey’s Kurdish insurgents with missiles if Ankara continues meddling in Syria’s domestic affairs, sources revealed on Saturday. Al Manar news website quoted Syrian Kurdish sources as saying that Damascus has sent a warning signal…
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California aprueba una resolución que define las críticas a Israel como antisemitismo.
By Tom Carter Last month, the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to more aggressively crack down on criticism of the State of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as “anti-Semitism.” The anti-democratic resolution is the latest step in the broader campaign to stifle and suppress dissent on California’s increasingly…
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Disturbios violentos: manifestantes en Atenas lanzan cócteles molotov y la policía dispara gases lacrimógenos.
A rally in the Greek capital turned violent when protesters in Syntagma Square lobbed Molotov cocktails at police, who retaliated by firing tear gas at the demonstrators. Security forces also reportedly used flashbang grenades and pepper spray to push protesters back from the parliament building. According to Greek newspaper Kathimerin, the police had been ordered…
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Se revela el uso en EE. UU. de la droga de la verdad
By Natalie O’Brien New evidence has emerged that all Guantanamo Bay detainees, including David Hicks, were drugged involuntarily with a substance that has a long history as a truth serum. Recently declassified US documents revealing medical procedures have shown that scopolamine was administered to all detainees taken to the Cuban detention centre. The documents, which…
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Clinton ofrece 145 millones de dólares a los rebeldes sirios, que quieren más apoyo.
By Hannah Allam NEW YORK — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday announced $45 million in additional aid for Syrian opposition activists, the latest U.S. push for influence in a civil war that’s raged beyond the international community’s control. Clinton announced the new aid package before meeting with visiting Syrian dissidents on the margins…
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Se desata una epidemia de secuestros en Siria.
By Ruth Sherlock, Beirut An epidemic of kidnappings has broken out in Syria, with rebels funding their military operations with ransoms and common criminals taking the opportunity to make money. In al-Bab, a town on the periphery of Aleppo, abductions have become so frequent that rebels from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are publicising a…
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La Casa Blanca supo desde el primer día que el ataque de Bengasi fue un acto terrorista.
From day one, the Obama administration was aware that the September 11 assault on the US consulate in Benghazi was a pre-planned terrorist attack, despite offering up conflicting explanations in the weeks since. Unnamed officials confirm to Fox News that the White House knew that al-Qaeda-linked terrorists were behind the murder of four Americans in…
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