The most democratic country in the world, the USA, violates human rights. All foreigners leaving the United States will have to undergo the humiliating process of biometric data collection from May 28.
All the people leaving the territory of the United States of America will have their fingerprints and pictures taken. Robert Mocny, director of the [...]
May 28, 2009
USA violates human rights humiliating air passengers…
May 28, 2009
Abu Ghraib abuse photos ’show rape’…
Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged…
At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.
Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults [...]
May 28, 2009
Israel threatening Iran with ‘nukes’…
As Israel remains adamant on blemishing the prospects of Iran-US dialogue and coaxing the White House into a war, Israel’s military Chief of Staff says the regime is ready to use all options against Iran.
Israel, the possessor of the sole nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, has long strived to portray Iran as a regime [...]
May 28, 2009
Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population, Report Says…
Last week’s meeting of the Great and the Good (or the Richest and Richer) was bound to draw criticism.
The New York meeting of billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, Eli Broad, George Soros, Ted Turner, Oprah, Michael Bloomberg and others was described by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as an informal gathering aimed at encouraging [...]
May 28, 2009
Pakistan: Suicide attack, market blasts hit Peshawar…
Attackers hit a busy market and a police checkpoint in northern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, critically wounding scores of others and triggering a gunbattle between security forces and suspected militants.
The latest violence in Peshawar, the largest city near the lawless tribal region near the Afghan border, will further test the central [...]
May 28, 2009
Israel rejects US call over settlement work…
Israel will continue to allow some construction in West Bank settlements despite US calls for a freeze on its work, a government spokesman says.
Mark Regev said the fate of the settlements should be decided in peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
His remarks appear to be a rebuff to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said [...]
May 28, 2009
Israelis get four-fifths of scarce West Bank water, says World Bank…
A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over water resources after the World Bank found that Israel is taking four times as much water as the Palestinians from a vital shared aquifer.
The region faces a fifth consecutive year of drought this summer, but the World Bank report found huge disparities in [...]
May 28, 2009
New York “terror” arrests: another government-orchestrated plot…
by Tom Eley
Source: wsws.org
In a high-publicity “terror” arrest, authorities seized four men in New York City May 20, alleging they intended to blow up synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down jets near the US Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York. The evidence against the men was marshaled by a paid government informant, [...]
May 28, 2009
Deaths linked to swine flu hit 108 worldwide…
A fourth person in Arizona and six more in Mexico have died from complications of swine flu — pushing the world’s death toll to 108.
Arizona Department of Health Services spokeswoman Laura Oxley confirmed on Wednesday the death of a girl from Pima County. The county did not give her age but said the child was [...]
May 28, 2009
Attacks, strikes kill 34 in Afghanistan…
KABUL (AFP) – Air strikes, gun battles and attacks killed 34 people across Afghanistan on Wednesday, including a government official shot dead with three of his sons near the Pakistani border, officials said.
In the latest bloodshed blamed on Taliban rebels who recently vowed to step up attacks against the Western-backed government, a district governor and [...]
May 28, 2009
US killed 97 Afghan civilians in two days: Probe…
A human rights group has confirmed that the United States used disproportionate force in its recent raids in Afghanistan and killed 97 civilians to get at two Taliban militants.
Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), which launched a probe into early May US-led air strikes in the country, announced Tuesday that 21 of the fatalities of [...]
May 28, 2009
8 nations carried out 2,054 nuclear explosions from 1945 to 2009…
Numbers of nuclear explosions carried out by individual nations:
UNITED STATES – 1,032
RUSSIA (SOVIET UNION) – 715
FRANCE – 210
CHINA – 45
BRITAIN – 45
INDIA – 3
PAKISTAN – 2
NORTH KOREA – 2
(The U.S. number includes the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.)
Source: AP News
