Subjugation - Torture

Ottawa police promise “unprecedented” response to Canada Day demonstrations

By Keean Bexte | The Counter Signal | June 17, 2022 With several freedom demonstrations planned for this year’s Canada Day in Ottawa, Ottawa police are gearing up and say they will have an “unprecedented” response. According to the Canadian Press, “An Ottawa police officer says this Canada Day will be “unprecedented and unique” with a […]

Israel Extends Detention of World Vision Gaza Director

Mohammed Al-Halabi, World Vision’s Operations Manager in the Gaza Strip. (Photo: File) Palestine Chronicle | May 3, 2022 Israel’s prosecution requested to extend the detention of Palestinian aid worker Mohammed al-Halabi nearly six years after Israel accused him of diverting tens of millions of dollars from an international charity to Hamas, The New Arab reported. […]

Israeli forces shoot, kill 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Jenin

Sanad Mohammad Khalil Abu Atiya (Photo courtesy of the Abu Atiya family) Defense for Children Palestine | March 31, 2022 Ramallah – Israeli forces shot and killed a 16-year-old boy with live ammunition in the northern occupied West Bank this morning. Sanad Mohammad Khalil Abu Atiya, 16, was shot and killed with live ammunition by […]

Lebanon: ‘shocking’ details of torture in Israeli-run prison

MEMO | March 24, 2022 The details of torture in an Israeli-run prison in Lebanon, including the electrocution of a female detainee and denial of medical care, have been uncovered in newly declassified Israeli documents. Arab prisoners were subjected to inhumane treatment at the Khiam Prison run by Israel in Southern Lebanon, which operated for […]

11,000 Americans call for boycott of General Mills over its East Jerusalem factory

MEMO | March 21, 2022 Over 11,000 Americans signed a petition demanding General Mills shut down its Pillsbury factory in the illegal Atarot settlement, which is built on occupied Palestinian land. The petition said, “The U.N. has named General Mills as one of the 112 businesses violating international humanitarian and human rights law by operating […]

CIA prisoner was used as torture prop to teach recruits – declassified documents

The US flag at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on August 7, 2013 © AFP / Chantal Valery Samizdat | March 15, 2022 The US Central Intelligence Agency used a detainee in Afghanistan as a ‘prop’ to teach interrogators how to torture prisoners, leaving the man with brain damage, newly declassified documents have revealed. According […]

Majority Supremes Uphold Wrongful Conviction and Capital Punishment

By Stephen Lendman | March 6, 2022 In April 2013, Dzhokkar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were framed as patsies for what was called the Boston Marathon bombing. Local police lethally shot brother Tamerlan near Watertown, MA. Dzhokhar was arrested, falsely charged, convicted and sentenced to death. Neither brother was involved with the incident, a state-sponsored false […]