TORTURE
It's been 30 years since Colombian soldiers kidnapped, beat, tortured, starved and electro-shocked Hector Aristizabal — but it's a memory he lives with everyday. Aristizabal said the Colombian military held and tortured him for ten days, all for having a "subversive book." "Few people have survived torture in Colombia, so I am very lucky to tell this story. Most people get tortured for ten days, that's the standard, and then they get shot and killed," said Aristizabal. "Many have been disappeared — more than 80,000."
Submitted by Sullivan on Sun, 2011-07-17 22:04
Sleep-deprived and suffering from a broken leg, 16-year-old Muhammad Halabiyeh endured days of torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers and police officers, who punched him repeatedly in the face and abdomen, shoved needles into his hand and leg and threatened the Palestinian teenager with sexual abuse.
Submitted by Sullivan on Sat, 2011-07-09 17:57
Whenever I've complained about my country's torturings, renderings, detentions, etc., there's always been some smug bastard ready to respond that these measures are what guarantee smart-alecky writers like myself our freedom of speech. Well, we had a government so vicious and impenetrably stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.
Submitted by andie531 on Wed, 2011-06-22 19:51
In March 2003, Dr. Aafia and her three children, Ahmad (boy), six years old and an American citizen, Maryum (girl), four years old and also an American citizen, and Suleman (boy), six months old, kidnapped by unknown authorities in Karachi, Pakistan. On March 31, 2003 it was reported by the Pakistani media that Dr. Aafia had been arrested and turned over to representatives of the United States. In early April, this was confirmed on NBC Nightly News, among other media outlets. There was communication to the mother of Dr. Aafia from purported “agencies” that the family members should be quiet if they want to see Aafia returned alive. By the year 2008, many believed that after five years of being disappeared Dr. Aafia and her three children were most likely dead.
Submitted by joeblow on Sun, 2011-06-05 22:51
Some 30,000 Turks staged a protest against Israel on Istanbul's main street Monday night on the anniversary of the Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Submitted by Ognir on Tue, 2011-05-31 06:44
An outstanding presentation of historical fact and discussion of principles of free speech. One to wake the masses from their slumber. Very important.
Submitted by Fester on Wed, 2011-03-23 15:30
George W. Bush was forced to cancel a trip to Switzerland this week over concerns of protests linked to the Bush adminstration's treatment of detainees. Bush was to address a Jewish charity in Switzerland.
Bush spokesman David Sherzer said the former president was informed Friday by the United Israel Appeal that his Feb. 12 dinner speech in Geneva had been called off. Saturday's edition of the Tribune de Geneve quoted the Jewish charity's lawyer, Robert Equey, as saying the visit was canceled because of the risk that protests by left-wing groups could result in violence.
Submitted by andie531 on Tue, 2011-02-15 03:38
Walid Muhammad Hajj: The psychologist would come and say: "You want to kill yourself." I never said that I wanted to kill myself. The psychologist would say: "You want to kill yourself, so you must undergo psychiatric treatment." I didn't do anything. I don't want to kill myself. He'd say: "You want to kill yourself, and that's why we have taken your clothes, and we will give you pills."
Submitted by andie531 on Tue, 2010-12-21 03:26
Lets get the facts straight first.
Before the video started the boy went through a metal detector and DID NOT SET IT OFF, but was selected for a pat down.
The boy was shy so the TSA couldn't complete the full pat on the young boy. The father tried several times to just hold the boys arms out for the TSA agent but I guess it didn't end up being enough for the guy.
I was about 30 ft away so I couldn't hear their conversation if there was any.
The enraged father pulled his son shirt off and gave it to the TSA agent to search. That's when this video begins.
Submitted by pandora on Sat, 2010-11-20 23:56
The road to World Government over the last one hundred and fifty years has been a bloody one, peppered with assassinations. To name a few: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander II, the Hapsburg Emperor, the Romanov family, President Kennedy, and not counting the anonymous millions who have died in wars and revolutions.
Lulled by the illusion of Equality, Democracy and Freedom, the rest of humanity is being herded into a bondage more dangerous than any that existed before.
Does anyone really believe that men of the calibre of Bush and Blair wield the real power?
The perpetrators of this plot (call it plot, conspiracy or what you will) lurk in the background, their strength, a fixation of purpose, not of ten years, or fifty, but of generations of intent, with money its driving power.
Submitted by Fester on Sun, 2010-11-07 06:14
Unfortunately, this is a must see documentary.
Submitted by Crimes of Zion on Thu, 2010-09-16 13:14
A media report says that an Afghan soldier killed two US-led soldiers in a shoot-out when they tried to remove an Afghan woman's veil by force.
Informed sources told the Pashtun language Benava website on Thursday that the deadly incident took place after soldiers were disrespectful to the women and insulted Afghans' cultural and Islamic values.
US-led troops reportedly opened fire at demonstrators, killing dozens of people and wounding more than 20 other civilians.
Submitted by joeblow on Thu, 2010-08-26 19:08
More humiliating photographs, taken by Israeli troopers and border guards, hit the internet, some featuring the servicemen posing next to dead Palestinians.
The pictures, published by the Israeli human rights group, Breaking the Silence, on the internet social hub of Facebook on Tuesday also showed the Israeli soldiers wearing smiles in cases, while striking a figure beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, some of them dead, Israeli website Ynetnews reported.
Submitted by Crimes of Zion on Thu, 2010-08-19 04:28
A demonstration was held outside the US Embassy in London on Sunday to call for the repatriation of Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
The demonstrators say Dr. Siddiqui was unjustly convicted of attempted murder at her trial in New York.
The sentencing of Siddiqui, who was accused and found guilty of attempted murder of US agents in Afghanistan in a controversial trial, has been postponed to next month.
Saddiqui's two youngest children, who were three months old and four years old when captured and taken into detention, are still missing.
Submitted by joeblow on Wed, 2010-08-18 20:32
A US writer and radio host says that the country's killing of civilians in Afghanistan serves the purpose of public intimidation.
"Things go back, I believe, to World War II, to intimidate the opposition. We did it ruthlessly in Vietnam, and the most well-known Operation Phoenix, with the estimated number of civilians that we killed, numbered maybe 80,000. The number could have been doubled," he added.
He said the United States military presences in Iraq and Afghanistan is tantamount to war crime.
Submitted by joeblow on Thu, 2010-08-12 18:45
Confessions made by Omar Khadr, who was captured by US troops when 15, can be used as evidence in trial despite claims they were obtained through torture.
Submitted by Sullivan on Tue, 2010-08-10 07:22
There are ominous parallels between crimes the Jews accused the Nazis of perpetrating on them in World War II with what the world now accuses the Jewish state of Israel of doing to the Christian and Muslim Palestinians, who are caged like animals in the concentration camp known as Gaza.
Submitted by pandora on Sat, 2010-06-19 19:54
Kawther Salam - Truth About Israeli Massacre
Submitted by joeblow on Wed, 2010-06-09 19:01
No wonder BP is trying to keep journalists away from the region.
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Submitted by pandora on Wed, 2010-06-09 11:56
Nine Martyrs Dead, Many Hostages Still Held - Second Attack in a Week - International Outcry!
For the second time this week, heavily armed pirates from Israel have captured a legally registered humanitarian aid ship
Submitted by pandora on Sat, 2010-06-05 16:37
69 minors complained of being beaten, four minors reported being sexually assaulted, and 12 said they were threatened with sexual assault.
Submitted by Sullivan on Sat, 2010-05-29 10:09
NAZARETH, ISRAEL - A leading human rights activist from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority was charged yesterday with the most serious security offences on Israel’s statute book, including espionage.
Submitted by Sullivan on Sat, 2010-05-29 10:02
IMPORTANT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DROWN - Only one UK newspaper has mentioned the humanitarian Gaza aid mission.
The flotilla of ships full of medical aids, building materials, water purification, paper and toys has been donated by people all around the world. The crew even includes MP's, BUT only The Guardian Newspaper has reported this mission.
Submitted by pandora on Thu, 2010-05-27 01:50
As the gooey mess washes up on beaches, the promised BP clean up crews are nowhere in sight.
Submitted by pandora on Sun, 2010-05-23 03:25
These people are totally insane.
FACING A CROWD: A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argued with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day in the mainly Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Wednesday. (Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Submitted by joeblow on Sat, 2010-05-22 17:58
Each bag of cement you buy will help rebuild a home for a victim of Israel's Illegal Urban Renewal Program.
Bring a paper bag lunch to work tomorrow. Donate your lunch money (5 Euros or a little over $7US or CAN).
Submitted by pandora on Tue, 2010-05-11 01:45
‘We could do basically anything to scare the prisoners,' retired soldier testifies
Submitted by Sullivan on Sat, 2010-05-08 08:05
"There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults."
Submitted by Crimes of Zion on Sun, 2010-04-11 06:14
BRUSSELS – Equipment designed for torturing prisoners is still being exported from European Union (EU) countries despite a four-year-old ban on such trade, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
Submitted by Sullivan on Thu, 2010-03-18 20:44
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Dubai's police chief said Sunday the secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit Mossad "needs to be ashamed" after the January killing of a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel.
"I am now 100 percent sure that the Mossad is behind the assassination" of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, said Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim. "I used to say 99 percent but now I can say 100 percent."
Submitted by joeblow on Sun, 2010-02-28 14:44
