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From left, Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Britain's Foreign Minister Philip Hammond carry wreath to offer at the cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Monday, April 11, 2016. (Kyodo News via AP)

Kerry’s Hiroshima Wreath-Laying Decried As ‘Nuclear Hypocrisy’

Archives for أبريل 2016

Navy Spy Case Puts Assault On Constitutional Safeguards On Full Display

Everything done in absolute secrecy. Has the U.S. now adopted Israeli standards of opacity and unaccountability in such cases?

Richard Silverstein
بواسطة Richard Silverstein
In this Dec. 3, 2008 photo released by the U.S. Navy, Lt. Edward Lin, a native of Taiwan speaks. The U.S. military has charged Lin with espionage for allegedly passing military secrets to China or Taiwan, U.S. defense officials said Monday, April 11, 2016. (U.S. Navy/MC1 Sarah Murphy via AP)

Over the weekend, a major story broke about a U.S. Navy senior officer accused of spying for China. It was first reported by a U.S. Naval Institute’s website. He is Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, who served in the Patrol and Reconnaissance Group, which employs aircraft using highly sensitive technology to track and detect enemy submarines. Presumably,

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UN Human Rights Council Condemns Israel’s Illegal Settlements, Occupation Of Golan Heights

One resolution adopted by the council reaffirmed “the inalienable, permanent and unqualified right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.”

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
A worker stands by construction materials to unload at a Israeli Settlment unit in an east Jerusalem neighborhood. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

GENEVA --- The U.N. Human Rights Council has adopted four resolutions which affirm the rights of the Palestinian people and condemn Israel’s illegal occupation of their land. The resolutions, passed on March 24 at the HRC’s 31st meeting, represent the latest attempt by the council to reign in Israel’s continued expansion of illegal

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At UN Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia Supports Right To Torture & Execute LGBT People

The Gulf kingdom, where homosexuality is punishable by beheading, objected to a report by the special rapporteur on torture because extending human rights protections to LGBT people “lacked any ground in international law.”

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
The 'crucifixion' of 5 beheaded bodies in Saudi Arabia.

GENEVA --- At the most recent session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia objected to a resolution that condemns the use of torture by law enforcement and reaffirms the human rights of LGBT people. The resolution, passed during the council’s 31st session, which closed on March 24, condemns the use of torture “and other cruel, inhuman

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‘Deplorable’: Refugees Face Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets At Greece-Macedonia Border

‘A pregnant woman came into the clinic with her two children; she was close to the border when tear gas was used, people started to run, she fell down.’

Deirdre Fulton
بواسطة Deirdre Fulton
A migrant man throws a can of the tear gas back toward Macedonian police during a protest at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Sunday, April 10, 2016. Thousands of migrants protested at the border and clashed with Macedonian police. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Following reports that hundreds of refugees and migrants—including women and children—were wounded on Sunday when Macedonian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds on the Greek side of the border, protesters marched in the small village of Idomeni on Monday, highlighting what one human rights expert described as an "absurd humanitarian

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Florida Governor Uses Office To Bully Constituent For Calling Him A**hole

Politicians being assholes is nothing new. In fact, at this point we’ve pretty much come to expect it. ‘Asshole’ is almost a term of endearment. If our politicians are just assholes and not also war criminals and corrupt corporatists, it’s actually a rare surprise.

Jake Anderson
بواسطة Jake Anderson
Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks with reporters of the Associated Press in Miami, Fla. Friday Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXYzgTLoQjY In America, there seems to be a kind of paralysis when it comes to publicly heckling and lambasting elected officials. When the population of Iceland learned from the Panama Papers that its Prime Minister was involved in shady bank dealings, they feverishly protested in massive numbers until he

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Gunman In Texas Air Force Base Shooting Identified As Former FBI Agent

FBI officials walk behind an military vehicle near the scene of a shooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Friday, April 8, 2016, in San Antonio. (John Davenport/The San Antonio Express-News via AP) The man responsible for the deadly shooting at Lackland Air Force Base last week has been identified as Steven D. Bellino. A statement […]

Matt Agorist
بواسطة Matt Agorist
FBI officials walk behind an military vehicle near the scene of a shooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Friday, April 8, 2016, in San Antonio. (John Davenport/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

The man responsible for the deadly shooting at Lackland Air Force Base last week has been identified as Steven D. Bellino. A statement from the Air Force identified the deceased as Tech. Sgt. Steven D. Bellino and Lt. Col. William A. Schroeder. They did not name Bellino as the shooter. However, a federal official close to the investigation,

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