Category: Politics & Human Rights
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Veterans exposed in Cold War bioweapons testing still awaiting answers
Common Dreams — A ‘Perfectly Legal’ Lynching in Georgia?
COVID-19 conspiracy theorists spreading online misinformation, despite crackdown
Ethics In Tech — Surveillance in, and after, the time of coronavirus
Ethics In Tech — Pentagon AI ‘ethics principles’ met with skepticism
Why Susan Sarandon is endorsing Berniecrat Shahid Buttar for Congress
UN publishes list of companies profiting from Israel’s illegal settlements in Palestine
The beasts and the bombing: Reflecting on Dresden, February 1945
Former Air Force drone operator speaks out against US atrocities
Common Dreams — Bernie Sanders: 10 years fighting Citizens United
Common Dreams — Ukraine airliner tragedy evokes memories of US Iran Air shootdown, Cubana 455
Antiwar.com — Report: US drone strike kills Afghan civilians, Taliban commander
Common Dreams — Blood on whose hands?
Common Dreams — ICC holds hearing on Afghanistan war crimes, including US torture
Counterpunch — 30 years ago an American nun was kidnapped and tortured in Guatemala. She’s still waiting for justice
Common Dreams — For 9th straight year, US grants waivers to countries violating anti-child soldier law
Antiwar.com — Somali villagers say US drone strike kills civilians gathering frankincense
Mondoweiss — Duke students protest speech by Tzipi Livni, former Israeli foreign minister accused of war crimes
Counterpunch — ‘No friend but the mountains’: A history of US betrayal of the Kurds
Ethics In Tech — Microsoft betrays its AI principles by investing in Israeli facial recognition company
Common Dreams — Mainstream media suddenly care about Syrian civilian casualties
Ethics In Tech — Interview with US Rep. Jerry McNerney
Common Dreams — Rights groups urge Senate to reject nomination of torture advocate to top human rights post
Ex-Blackwater Guard Nicholas Slatten Sentenced to Life for Nisour Square Massacre
Five men sentenced to life for Operation Condor killings trained at School of the Americas
A brief history of US concentration camps
Common Dreams — The exceptionally American historical amnesia behind Pompeo’s claim of “40 years of unprovoked Iranian aggression”
Common Dreams — Duncan Hunter admits his Marine unit ‘killed probably hundreds of civilians’ in Iraq
Antiwar.com — UN: Afghanistan air strikes kill 14 civilians
Rideshare drivers and supporters demand better wages and working conditions at Uber SF headquarters
Antiwar.com — US corporate media are all-in on Venezuela regime change
Common Dreams — Jimmy Carter: US is ‘most warlike nation in history’
On US cable news coverage of the Notre Dame fire
Shahid Buttar launches 2020 congressional campaign to unseat Pelosi
Antiwar.com — Killing for credibility: A look back at the 1999 NATO air war on Serbia
Common Dreams — Diego Garcia: UN court calls on Britain to ‘decolonize’ Chagos Islands
Common Dreams — IHCHR: 11,800 civilians killed in US-led air strikes in Syria, Iraq
Rep. Ilhan Omar grills Trump Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams over US support for genocide
Antiwar.com — Why must Ilhan Omar apologize for telling the truth?
Counterpunch — Elliott Abrams: A Human Rights Horror Show in Three Acts
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