Colombian state violence and human rights abuses have stoked the protests in which nearly 50 have died By Paul Dobson | Venezuelanalysis | May 10, 2021 Mérida – Venezuelan authorities have dismissed accusations that they are intervening in on-going mass protests in neighboring Colombia. Speaking on Friday from a Miami-based forum on Defense of Democracy […]
RT | May 4, 2021 Two former British Army paratroopers accused of murdering an Official IRA commander have been acquitted, after prosecutors failed to provide further evidence against them and the trial collapsed. Joe McCann, 24, was unarmed when he was shot dead by paratroopers as he tried to evade arrest by a plainclothes police […]
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | April 23, 2021 Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of Cuba, will the U.S. government lift its six-decades-long economic embargo against Cuba? Don’t count it. Squeezing the life out of the Cuban people as a way to get regime change has become such a […]
MEMO | April 21, 2021 Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Aryeh King, yesterday called on Israeli police to execute Palestinian protesters who take to the streets of the holy city at night, Shehab news agency reported. He proposed a change in police policy regarding dealing with protesters and stop using traditional means to disperse them. According to the […]
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute | April 20, 2021 Americans aren’t dying at the hands of police because of racism. For that matter, George Floyd didn’t die because he was black and the cop who killed him is white. Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for […]
By Eva Bartlett | RT | April 16, 2021 Every aspect of their existence on occupied Palestinian land is illegal. Still, the violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against civilians continues, propped up by Israel’s legal system and the world’s blind eyes. Periodically, we will hear in the news something about the illegal colonies (settlements), but […]
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute | April 13, 2021 Rule by brute force. That’s about as good a description as you’ll find for the sorry state of our nation. SWAT teams crashing through doors. Militarized police shooting unarmed citizens. Traffic cops tasering old men and pregnant women for not […]
MEMO | March 26, 2021 The Israeli army detained three prominent Hamas leaders the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that an Israeli soldier detained Hatem Qaffeisha, 58, a top Hamas leader in Hebron and a Palestinian lawmaker. Former Local Governance Minister Isa Al-Jabari, 55, and top Hamas figure Mazen Al-Natsha, 49, were […]
Palestinian detained officials Khaled Abu Arafa (L) and Sheikh Ra’ed Salah Press TV – March 4, 2021 Israel has extended the custody of two current and former Palestinian officials according to the so-called administrative detention rule, a form of imprisonment in which the individual is never tried and can be held indefinitely. An Israeli court […]
MEMO | March 3, 2021 Hamas said yesterday that detention campaigns carried out by Israeli occupation against Islamic Bloc activists aim to affect the results of the Palestinian election. Recently, Israeli occupation forces escalated detention campaigns targeting Hamas leaders, members, and activists in the occupied West Bank. Hamas MP Sheikh Nayef Al-Rajoub said that the … … Continue reading →
