Israel's Latest Ritual Slaughter

Israeli state terror never ends.

Israel's Rogue Killing Machine

Israel's entire history reflects depraved, out-of-control targeted and mass killings. Days of unrelenting bombing, murdering and injuring Gazans shows its contempt for law and human life.

Israeli Buffer Zone State Terror

Israel shoots Gazan civilians on their own land, including children.

Israel Terror Bombs Gaza

Gazan resistance groups launch Grad missiles, home-made rockets, and mortar shells in self-defense. Israel calls them "unprovoked" attacks. Palestinian freedom fighters vow to continue their liberating struggle. Under international law, it's their right, and for them a duty.

Afghans Killed in Rampage by U.S. Soldier

11 March 2012 - Al Jazeera

Sixteen Afghan civilians including three women and nine children have been shot dead in their homes by a rogue US soldier in a pre-dawn rampage..."The soldier went through three separate houses, shooting at people as they slept in their beds. After the soldier shot these people, he turned himself in."

Israel's Ruthless Golani Brigade

The Golani Brigade is a ruthless killing machine. Palestinian journalist Kawther Salam called them "Israel's finest psychopaths," describing a lawless bunch of cutthroats.

U.S. Mining Company Paid Paramilitaries to Kill Trade Unionists: Victims' Lawyer

By Seth Robbins - Monday, 05 March 2012

A former AUC [United Self Defense Forces of Colombia] paramilitary member will testify before a U.S. court that Alabama-based coal giant Drummond Ltd. ordered his group to kill union organizers at its mine in Colombia, the victims' defense said Monday...[Attorney Terry Collingsworth] said he would testify about how Drummond operatives directed the AUC to kill union leaders.

America's Death Squads

By Nicolas J.S. Davies - Z Magazine

Barack Obama has halted the macabre parade of hooded, shackled suspects in orange jumpsuits stumbling off American planes into the tropical sunshine at Guantanamo, but he has not done so by restoring the rule of law. Instead...he has replaced Bush’s policy with a global campaign to simply kill a wide range of people in cold blood...[K]illing suspects instead of capturing them is a convenient way to avoid the embarrassment of sweeping up hundreds of mostly innocent people in an indiscriminate global dragnet and then not knowing what to do with them. The dead tell no tales.

Hillary Clinton and Middle East War Crimes

By Bill Van Auken - 3 March 2012

Why is it that the actions of the Assad regime in Homs are declared to “fit the category” of war crimes, while the far bloodier actions carried out by the US military in Fallujah and countless other atrocities committed under both the Bush and Obama administrations in unprovoked wars against the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan are deemed justifiable measures in a “war on terror,” for which no one has ever been held accountable?

Daily Israeli State Terror

Major media scoundrels suppress reports about daily Israeli state terror. Most Americans, and many others, can't imagine what Palestinians endure.

Brutal Bahraini State Terror

For over a year, Saudi and Al-Khalifa monarchy security forces terrorized nonviolent protesters. Thousands braved tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture and disappearances. Washington is very much involved. Bahrain is the home of America's Fifth Fleet. Millions of dollars in aid is provided.

Police Chief Timoney, Meet Bahraini Mothers

By Medea Benjamin - February 22, 2012

John Timoney is the controversial former Miami police chief well known for orchestrating brutal crackdowns on protests in Miami and Philadelphia...It should be of great concern that the Kingdom of Bahrain has brought Timoney...to “reform” Bahrain’s security forces...Since assuming his new position, Timoney has claimed that Bahrain has been reforming its brutal police tactics...He says that there is less tear gas being used and that while tear gas might be “distasteful,” it’s not really harmful.

U.S. Sends Drones Over Syria as Fighting Spreads

By Alex Lantier - 20 February 2012

US military officials confirmed Saturday that US drones are flying over Syria, as fighting spreads inside the country and US officials discuss military or “humanitarian” intervention to topple Syrian President Bashar al Assad...The drone flights, which flagrantly violate Syrian air space, include a “good number” of both military and US intelligence drones...These officials said the drones’ mission is to obtain “intercepts of Syrian government and military communications in an effort to ‘make the case for a widespread international response.’”

Gazans Recount Terror of Latest Shelling

By Rami Almeghari - Green Left Weekly

Residents of the Gaza City neighborhood al-Tuffah suffered a rude awakening at 2am on February 16 when Israeli warplanes targeted what the army said was a Hamas training site...The shelling left six people injured, including members of two civil defence rescue teams. Civil defence said a firetruck and an ambulance were hit by Israeli missiles as the crew responded to earlier strikes.

U.S. Secret Armies Gear Up for Global War

By Bill Van Auken - WSWS

...US militarism has escalated dramatically under [Obama] and its tide threatens to engulf the entire planet...Among the latest indications is a behind-the-scenes campaign by the chief of the US military's Special Operations Command (SOCOM) for greater autonomy in dispatching elite killer squads to every corner of the globe...Adm. William McRaven, who heads SOCOM, is...seeking “more autonomy to position his forces and their war-fighting equipment where intelligence and global events indicate they are most needed.”