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The Boston Marathon Bombing: A Compendium of Research and Analysis
The following overview of articles addressing the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing aids in developing a broader understanding of how the event transpired and was presented by corporate and alternative news media. The US
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Torture becomes mainstream in US policy
As Rebecca Gordon notes in her new book, Mainstreaming Torture, polls find greater support in the United States for torture now than when Bush was president. And it's not hard to see why
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Washington Is Humanity’s Worst Enemy
How does Washington get away with the claim that the country it rules is a democracy and has freedom? This absurd claim ranks as one of the most unsubstantiated claims in history
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‘Donald Rumsfeld, the aging criminal’
When Donald Rumsfeld used to hold press conferences about the Iraq war, the press corps would giggle at the clever ways in which he refused to actually say anything or answer any questions. In a
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Death Squads Galore: U.S.-Backed Assassinations Wreak Global Havoc
U.S.-funded Kenyan forces are ramping up a campaign of extrajudicial executions. Kenya’s armed forces, bolstered by millions of dollars in U.S. aid and training, are now turning to death squad tactics against civilians who are
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US reportedly starts supplying Syrian rebels with anti-tank weapons
Rebels embattled against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad have reportedly come into possession of high-powered anti-tank weaponry, the likes of which may have been supplied by the United States
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Activist Art Against Drone Killing Redesigns The Landscape in Pakistan
The continuing impact of unmanned drones across the target countries of the U.S. has inspired many short videos that attempt to personalize the death and destruction that has been wrought. One of the most
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BBC ignores Israel’s killing of Palestinian kids
Yousef al-Shawamrah, 14, was shot in the back and hip with live ammunition near his village of Deir al-Asal al-Fawqa, which sits alongside Israel’s separation barrier, on March 19. Shawamrah left home around 6:30 a.m.
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CIA’s lies on Libya: Benghazi protest never happened
A CIA Libya Station Chief has admitted that the government agency has lied about Libya, as the Benghazi protest never took place. Before the Benghazi news buzzed around the world, the station chief for
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Over 1,500 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces since 2000 – PA minister
More than 1,500 Palestinian children have died at the hands of Israeli forces since 2000, the Palestinian Authority's minister of social affairs, Kamal Sharafi, said Saturday, on Palestinian Children's Day
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More Torture Pics: Torture by U.S. continues under Obama administration
We have been hearing all the gush about how the Obama Administration will make a clean break from the illegal practices of the Bush Administration but the Obama DOJ is maintaining the position espoused
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More Evidence U.S. Funds al-Qaeda Terrorists in Syria
Establishment media glosses over hypocrisy of war on terror Earlier this year, the United States and the Gulf monarchies initiated a propaganda effort designed to sanitize the image of the mercenaries fighting to topple the
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CIA Torture and the Threat of Dictatorship
Only one conclusion can be drawn from the report published in the Washington Post Tuesday giving grisly details of CIA torture of prisoners and systematic lying by government officials to cover it up: the
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Obama Orders Up More Money for Nukes, Less to Keep Them in Safe Hands
If the president's greatest fear is a mushroom cloud over Manhattan, why is he slashing nonproliferation? Last week, President Barack Obama claimed to be less worried about security threats from Russia than "the prospect of
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It’s NOT Too Late to Try Bush, Cheney and Obama for War Crimes
Many argue that the statute of limitations on Bush and Cheney’s crimes of lying us into the Iraq war and torture have all run … so it is too late to prosecute them. However, the
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15 years on: Looking back at NATO’s ‘humanitarian’ bombing of Yugoslavia
Exactly 15 years ago, on March 24, NATO began its 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia. The alliance bypassed the UN under a “humanitarian” pretext, launching aggression that claimed hundreds of civilian lives and caused a
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CounterPunch Exclusive Investigation: Did the FBI snuff a Boston Marathon bombing witness?
Ibragim Todashev, 27, a Russian immigrant friend of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed last May 22 in the middle of the night by the FBI at the violent end
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Right Sector leader: Kiev should be ready to sabotage Russian pipelines in Ukraine
The leader of ultranationalist group Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, has threatened to destroy Russian pipelines on Ukrainian territory if a diplomatic solution is not reached with Moscow. In a fiery address loaded warmongering rhetoric, Yarosh
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US caught planning terror attacks in Ukraine
In a series of hacked emails received from “Anonymous Ukraine” it is clear that Pentagon officials working in concert with extremist elements in the Ukraine have carried out and are planning more attacks in
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Government Agency: If 9 Substations Are Destroyed, The Power Grid Could Be Down For 18 Months
truther March 20, 2014 0What would you do if the Internet or the power grid went down for over a year? Our key infrastructure, including the Internet and the power grid, is far more vulnerable than most
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