By LUCAS KOERNER | Venezuelanalysis | April 22, 2016 Last week, the Venezuelan Supreme Court blocked the extremely controversial Amnesty Law passed by the country’s opposition-controlled legislature, which would have pardoned scores of right-wing leaders convicted of violent political crimes. The bill is applicable to all manner of felonies and misdemeanors committed since January 1, 1999, including “damage to […]
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 →
The ‘Human Rights Watch Film Festival’ is renowned for producing high-quality and often moving documentary films from all over the world. Its annual selection of films explores human rights violations and personal stories in different parts of the globe, providing a forum for both talented filmmakers and for afflicted or oppressed individuals, often giving a […]
Rick Sterling
21st Century Wire
A 30 page investigative report on the “Caesar Torture Photos” has been released and is available online here. The following is a condensed version of the report.
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.
A comparison of the just-published Human Rights Watch Report on the cache of “Caesar” photos with the report prepared in January 2014 on behalf of Carter-Ruck indicates some remarkable discrepancies and raise some serious questions about the whole process of analysis of this cache of photographs. HRW claim to have received the cache of “Caesar’s” […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | December 16, 2015 Theoretically, it would be a great story for the American press: an autocrat so obsessed with overthrowing the leader of a neighboring country that he authorizes his intelligence services to collaborate with terrorists in staging a lethal sarin attack to be blamed on his enemy […]
By Roger Annis – New Cold War – December 2, 2015 Western media has published yet another doom and gloom article on Crimea, repeating a worn theme that surely, by now, the people of Crimea must be reconsidering their vote 21 months ago to secede from Ukraine and rejoin the Russian Federation. The article was […]
Ashraf Fayadh, 35, was sentenced to death on 17 November. (Instagram)
