Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians. Turse’s central aim in Kill Anything that Moves is to expose the unparalleled obscenity of the Vietnam War: unparalleled both in terms of the devastating scale and variety of harm done and the diabolical levels of premeditation on the part of the… Read More Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgment Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Russia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of human rights has found. The court’s grand chamber unanimously held that… Read More Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR
NB: Here’s a thought for those who put blind trust in electronic ‘intelligence’. There’s no substitute for human wisdom, but ironically that’s in short supply. DS Julia Kollewe First report from Horizon IT hearings lays bare ‘disastrous’ human impact as 10,000 people seek compensation More than 13 people may have killed themselves as a result… Read More Software & Hard consequences: British Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides
Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics… Read More Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
In 2015, a nationwide campaign rounded up hundreds of rights advocates. Since then, suppression has become more systematic and less visible, lawyers say Amy Hawkins in Beijing Adecade on from China’s biggest crackdown on human rights lawyers in modern history, lawyers and activists say that the Chinese Communist party’s control over the legal profession has tightened,… Read More China’s human rights lawyers speak out, 10 years after crackdown
Records reveal: A detailed review and updation of the Bihar state electoral roll was completed by January 2025. The roll was found to be robust. Officials were updating the roll well into June. Suddenly, the Election Commission of India called it faulty and junked it, ordering an unprecedented exercise to verify voters from scratch. Chaos… Read More The Bihar Electoral Roll Investigation
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse… we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril Moustafa Bayoumi Sereen… Read More The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world
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The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you Stuart Heritage The biggest, and possibly only, failure of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is that the circumstances of its broadcast threaten to overshadow its content. A brief recap: this… Read More Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
NB: Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets: Das Kapital, Vol 1. Clearly, mass murder is profitable. All these gangsters need to be held to account. They’re ruling the world, but the rest of us are still alive. DS Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities… Read More From economy of occupation to economy of genocide: UN Report on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (unedited version)
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