by John Pilger
Source: johnpilger.com
At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive care unit of the European Gaza Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His name was Zein Ad-Din Mohammed Zu’rob, and he was suffering from a lung infection which was treatable.
Denied basic equipment, the doctors in Gaza could do [...]
June 11, 2009
Smile on the face of the tiger…
June 11, 2009
Blackwater operating illegally in Iraq after contract…
The latest in a series of war-crimes lawsuits against Blackwater and its affiliated companies alleges that they continue to operate illegally in Iraq a month after the expiration of their lucrative security contract with the U.S. State Department.
The new lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, says Blackwater is still providing armed protection [...]
June 11, 2009
UK suspends 6 officers after waterboarding reports…
The British police watchdog suspends six London Metropolitan police officers who have been allegedly involved in torturing drug suspects.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it was investigating “the conduct and actions of six police officers during the execution of two drugs warrants at addresses in north London on November 4, 2008.”
The development follows the [...]
June 11, 2009
EU security proposals are ‘dangerously authoritarian’…
Civil liberties groups say the proposals would create an EU ID card register, internet surveillance systems, satellite surveillance, automated exit-entry border systems operated by machines reading biometrics and risk profiling systems.
Europe’s justice ministers will hold talks on the “domestic security policy” and surveillance network proposals, known in Brussels circles as the “Stockholm programme”, on July [...]
June 11, 2009
West blamed as aid agencies threaten to desert Pakistan’s Swat valley…
• Rich nations urged to dig deep to avoid disaster
• Flight of refugees biggest crisis since Rwanda – UN
Cash shortages and bottlenecks in delivering supplies to people uprooted by fighting in Pakistan’s Swat valley have triggered the biggest humanitarian funding crisis in a decade, relief organisations warn today.
A group of nine international aid groups including [...]
June 11, 2009
NATO troop among 57 killed in Afghan insurgency…
KABUL (AFP) – A NATO soldier is among 57 people — most of them militants — killed in new attacks, air strikes and clashes in an intensifying insurgency in Afghanistan, authorities said Wednesday.
Afghan and international security forces, who have stepped up operations ahead of August 20 elections, meanwhile destroyed Taliban heroin labs that bankroll the [...]
June 11, 2009
France to pay nuclear test compensation…
Nearly 40 years after the first of its 210 nuclear tests, France is preparing to compensate people affected by the fallout. The move leaves the UK isolated in its policy of rejecting liability for illnesses suffered by test participants, reports Aidan Lewis…
Early in the morning of 13 February, 1960, several thousand French servicemen gathered in [...]
June 11, 2009
Officials: Clashes in Pakistan tribal area kill 23…
ISLAMABAD – Dozens of militants attacked three army posts in a tribal region that serves as the primary base for Pakistan’s Taliban chief, triggering shootouts that left 20 insurgents and three soldiers dead early Thursday, intelligence officials told The Associated Press.
The clashes in South Waziristan, a rugged, remote region along the Afghan border where al-Qaida [...]
June 11, 2009
Russia says North Korea to launch new ballistic missile…
“We have certain information on the type and characteristics of the rocket. However there is no precise information on the timing of its launch,” said a source in Russia’s General Staff. He added that Russia would monitor the launch.
He did not specify if it would be a long or short-range missile. In the past week, [...]
