(ANTIMEDIA) The United States government formally charged whistleblower Edward Snowden in June of 2013 after he leaked information about the NSA’s PRISM Surveillance program, proving American citizens were — and still are — being spied on by their own gov
RT | September 1, 2016 Russian activists have prepared a proposal to launch a major international rights organization that would work in the Eurasian space and would be not as ‘politically-biased’ as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. “We want to create the Eurasian Human Rights Group or EARG with the primary task of constant […]
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(MEE) Human rights group Amnesty International said on Sunday it had “credible evidence” of abuse and torture of people detained in sweeping arrests since Turkey’s July attempted military coup.
Western propaganda against countries targeted for “regime change” can be especially insidious because mainstream journalists abandon skepticism and go with the flow, such as the case of Syrian “torture” photos, writes Rick Sterling. There has been a pattern of sensational but…Read more →
Aggression is arguably the highest form of terrorism as it invariably includes the frightening of the target populations and their leaders as well as killing and destruction on a large scale.. The U.S. invaders of Iraq in 2003 proudly announced a “shock and awe” purpose in their opening assault, clearly designed to instill fear; that is, to terrorize the victim population along with the target security forces. And millions of Iraqis suffered in this massive enterprise.
Saudi troops fire shells towards Yemen near the border in southwestern Saudi Arabia Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images
Long before this recent Syria report, it's been clear that Amnesty's priorities and standards for evidence are biased in favor of the world's most powerful and criminal states.
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Report makes wild allegations of war crimes without substantiating evidence By Alexander Mercouris | Russia Insider | December 24, 2015 Amnesty International has just released a report accusing the Russian authorities of “shamefully concealing” large numbers of civilian deaths caused by Russian air strikes in Syria. The report also says the Russians might be committing […]
