Sputnik – 01.08.2015 WASHINGTON — The US armed forces are using a growing number of mercenaries or contractors to operate lethal drone attacks as regular troops are increasingly unwilling to do so, experts told Sputnik. “‘Private contractors’, mercenaries, have been involved in US drone surveillance and attack for some time, certainly with the CIA, and […]
Reprieve | July 28, 2015 The Home Office is refusing to reveal the true extent of secret funding to Pakistan which risks implicating the UK in a wave of executions currently underway. Human rights organization Reprieve has brought proceedings before the Information Rights Tribunal (IRT) challenging ministers’ refusal to reveal whether Government guidelines were followed […]
RT | July 23, 2015 Fresh controversy has emerged about RAF airmen embedded in an American drone unit, which is known to be carrying out airstrikes in Syria after the charity Reprieve gained access to a joint US-UK memo. Responding to Reprieve’s request in November, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said there were “currently” no […]
Lately I find that my frustration with the level of idiocy on the part of this planet I call home is so great that writing has become nearly impossible. A recent article by Andrew Vltchek titled “In the USA-I Cannot Write” gave me comfort. I’m not alone. Here in the belly of the beast, among the zombie-fascist, gun-totin’, flag-wavin’ hordes of fellow Americans I spend my days in fearless loathing. Fearless because after living for two-thirds of a century I have little to fear other than a long painful death, being shot full of lead, or a terminal case of disgust.
The jet stream pattern over Europe on July 1, 2015 (click to enlarge; source).by Gaius PubliusThis seems to have been a week of partial news. There's Greek news, but not much of it until the weekend.
By Sherwood Ross | Aletho News | June 20, 2015 President Obama was, of course, right to denounce the massacre in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and to call for an end to such violence. But this begs the question of whether he will stop his own illegal drone strikes in the […]
Or should that be the language of ‘assumed’ power? The United Kingdom has been swamped by examples of sneering, belittling statements issuing from the Westminster bubble over the last few months, many of the insults being directed at Scotland during the Independence Referendum and the General Election, making the Scots justifiably angry and an increasing number of the English equally embarrassed. That these comments came from all the main parties was an illustration of how low our political system has sunk.
By Sherwood Ross | Aletho News | May 30, 2015 Today, May 30, 2015, is the 584th anniversary of the day on which Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by the British forces occupying France. The “Maid of Orleans” had the ill luck to be captured while she was rallying her countrymen to […]
