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U.S. war veterans flash the peace sign before throwing their medals towards the site of the NATO Summit in Chicago May 20, 2012. Nearly 50 veterans threw service medals into the street near the summit site in protest. Baton-swinging police clashed with anti-war protesters marching on the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday and a lawyers’ group
“This Massacre Has Been Sponsored By…” by Emma Gascó
Fox News Headlines Vs. The Actual News Headlines - II
Fox News cited each of these “actual news headlines” as their “source.”
Fair and balanced. Yup.
Dr. Asha Samad Matias, director of the Women’s Studies Program and Professor of African Studies at City College, speaks at “Stop U.S./NATO War on Libya” event at New York’s Riverside Church, July 30, 2011.
Photo by G. Dunkel
June 13, 2011 (AP) - Libya’s prosecutor says more than 1,100 Libyans have been killed and 4,500 wounded since NATO’s campaign of airstrikes began on March 19.
Mohammed Zikri al-Mahjoubi said Wednesday that he will charge NATO’s chief in a Libyan court with genocide over the air campaign. He outlined 10 charges against Anders Fogh Rasmussen, including killing and wounding civilians, destroying public buildings and attempted murder of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
NATO’s U.N.-sanctioned air campaign was designed to protect civilians as Libyan government forces were poised to overrun rebel strongholds.
NATO maintains the strikes go after only military targets and avoid civilian casualties.
BBC has a dramatic report on the latest Wikileaks cables involving Hilary Clinton, Stephen Harper, and NATO. Northern nations are scrambling to stake claims in fresh batches of unclaimed natural resources such as oil, aluminum, and rubies. The resources are being exposed by melting ice in the Arctic, which is expected to be ice free within a “two years.”
Hilary Clinton (click above for video), pays lip service to climate change then pivots to promote development, mining, and trade in the Arctic.
The cables also show that Canadian Prime Minister Harper siding with Russia to object to a NATO presence in the area. Harper is quoted as saying, that, “some European countries without Arctic territories were trying to use Nato to give them “influence in an area ‘where they don’t belong’”.”
British oil company Cairn Energy are in the vanguard of the Arctic oil rush. The company’s commercial director Simon Thomson told (BBC’s) Newsnight “we’re leading the charge”.
Instead of seeing the melting of the Arctic ice cap as a spur to action on climate change, oil companies like Cairn are rushing in to extract the very fossil fuels that caused the melting in the first place
Source: BBC
Schoolgirls ‘beaten’ in Bahrain raids
In a secretly filmed interview, 16-year-old tells how she was severely beaten amid kingdom’s crackdown on protests.
Secret filming conducted by Al Jazeera has revealed shocking evidence of the brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in the Gulf state of Bahrain.
An undercover investigation conducted by Al Jazeera’s correspondent, Charles Stratford, has unearthed evidence that Bahraini police carried out periodic raids on girls’ schools since the unrest began.
The government of Bahrain deployed security forces onto the streets on March 14 in an attempt to quell more than four weeks of protests…
In an interview “Heba”, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, alleges she, along with three of her school friends, were taken away by the police from their school and subjected to severe beatings while in custody for three consecutive days.
“He hit me on the head, I started bleeding. I fell down, he told them [guards] to keep me in the rest-room,” she said during the secretly filmed interview.
“He [the officer] hit and banged me against the wall to scream. Since we did not cry out or scream, we were beaten more and more, stronger and stronger.
“Beating was severe, but being afraid of what comes next, we were senseless to the pain.”Bahrain’s government has not responded to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.
According to the mainly Shia opposition Al Wefaq party, police have raided up to 15 mainly girls schools, detaining, beating and threatening to rape girls as young as 12.
A Bahrain human rights group says at least 70 teachers have also been detained. Meanwhile the media clampdown continues.When a unaligned-hostile country such as Libya calls for help, NATO and the UN were jumping for joy, all to ready to jump in and proclaim themselves saviours - despite the uprising rumbling on indefinitely even now.
Here, In an “ally” Bahrain, we have people getting massacred and girls as young as 12 and 16 being disgustingly and inexcusably tortured and threatened with rape - funny how NATO and the US, and the wider worlds’ media are almost turning a blind eye.
But it suits western interests to have the current regime in power - after all, they do house the US 5th fleet and boast about their ties with Israel, as wikileaks revealed. They’ve sentenced protesters to death, outright killed dozens - all as our authorities tacitly helped them, sitting quietly as they’ve urged Saudi troops into the region to do their bidding for them - and then use your intelligence networks to silence the evidence on your own servers.
These are just a few examples, but the people, like this innocent young lady, are being tortured and killed, and the west watches on - not wanting an oppressed Shia majority to come to power and align themselves with Iran (even though their interests are not political, merely freedom), not wanting to lose their foothold and military bases in the country, not wanting to lose a strategic Ally - yup, and our governments watch on in malevolent self-interest, with their battleships stationed a few hundred yards away at the docks, as they watch the people being tortured and killed.
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