Secret Report Details How Israel Used Armed Drone to Kill Gazan Children
(Re)posted by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-08-13
A secret report by the Israeli military police — obtained by The Intercept's Robert Mackey — reveals that a week into Israel's Operation Protective Edge in 2014, "air force, naval, and intelligence officers" mistook four 10- and 11-year-old boys who were playing on a beach in Gaza for Hamas militants and killed them by firing missiles from an armed drone. | While " hacked Israeli surveillance images provided to The Intercept by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden showed an Israeli drone armed with missiles in 2010," Mackey notes that "the Israeli government maintains an official stance of secrecy around its use of drones to carry out airstrikes" — meaning this report provides perhaps "the most direct evidence to date that Israel has used armed drones to launch attacks in Gaza." | The 2014 attack on the four boys, which…
truthout.org/articles/secret-report-details-how-israel-used-armed-drone-to-kill-gazan-children/
'This state and constitution aren't made for us': RT doco follows African-American activists
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-13
With racial tensions in the USA back in the spotlight over the last few years, a gripping new RT documentary series visits African-American communities and the activists fighting against a history of racial injustice and poverty.
rt.com/usa/435864-black-lives-struggle-rtdoc/
On anniversary of Charlottesville clashes, Trump condemns racism, says he 'fights for' minorities
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-11
The US President has spoken out against racism and violence ahead of a fresh Unite the Right rally on Sunday, and has trumpeted his own achievements that he says have benefitted African-Americans and Hispanics.
rt.com/usa/435736-trump-charlottesville-racism-tweet/
Am I More Nordic Than Members of the Alt Right?
Ishmael Reed | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-10
In order to obtain my genetic history earlier this year, I sent a sample of saliva to a DNA outfit and received the results. I wasn't surprised about my 23% Nigerian ancestry. When I visited Nigeria in 1999, I was told that I had pan-Nigerian facial features. According to the results, I might be pan-African…
counterpunch.org/2018/08/10/am-i-more-nordic-than-members-of-the-alt-right/
In Italy, There are 12,000 American Soldiers and 500,000 African Refugees: Connect the Dots
Aidan O'Brien | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-10
Dublin, Ireland. Why? Because the Italians are unable to do so. Euro-skepticism is thriving in Italy. However NATO-skepticism or US-skepticism is missing. Trump, the individual, might be a concern but the presence of the US military on the Italian peninsula is a sacred cow. The US war machine is expanding in Italy at the same…
counterpunch.org/2018/08/10/in-italy-there-are-12000-american-soldiers-and-500000-african-refugees-connect-the-dots/
Meet Debbie Africa: First MOVE 9 Member to Be Freed in 40 Years & Now Reunited with Her Son, Mike
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-08
Today marks the 40th anniversary of a massive police operation in Philadelphia that culminated in the siege of the headquarters of the black radical group known as MOVE. The group was founded by John Africa, and all its members took the surname Africa. It was August 8, 1978, when police tried to remove members of MOVE from their communal home with water cannons and battering rams, even as some continued to hide in the basement with children. During the siege on MOVE's house, gunfire was exchanged, and a police officer named James Ramp was killed. Two years later, nine MOVE members were convicted of third-degree m…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/8/meet_debbie_africa_first_member_of
Venezuelan Pres. Nicolás Maduro Targeted in 1st Assassination Attempt by Drone Against Head of State
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-06
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro survived an apparent assassination attempt Saturday. Officials say two drones loaded with explosives detonated above Maduro as he gave a nationally televised speech at a military event in Caracas. It was the first known attempted assassination by drone strike against a sitting head of state. We get response from Alejandro Velasco, executive editor for NACLA Report on the Americas; Gabriel Hetland, assistant professor of Latin American studies at SUNY Albany; and Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and president of Just Foreign Policy.
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/6/venezuelan_pres_nicolas_maduro_targeted_in
A Slaughter in Silence: How Trump's "America First" Policy Enabled Ethnic Cleansing in the DRC
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-03
The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world as a wave of extreme violence sweeps the country. Some 2 million Congolese fled their homes last year, nearly 7 million Congolese are now internally displaced, and another 500,000 have fled to other parts of Africa. According to the United Nations, 13 million Congolese are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. The international media has largely ignored what's happening, but this week Vice News published a shocking investigation into a recent case of ethnic cleansing. Hundreds of machete-wielding militiamen swept through ar…
www.democracynow.org/2018/8/3/a_slaughter_in_silence_how_trumps
Ron Dellums (1935-2018): Organizing for Peace Forces Us to Challenge All Forms of Injustice
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-07-31
Ron Dellums, the legendary politician and antiwar activist who fought against U.S. intervention around the globe, apartheid in South Africa and the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 82. During his nearly three decades in Congress, Dellums opposed every major U.S. military intervention except a bill in 1992 to send troops to Somalia. This legacy began when Dellums pushed for the House to conduct a probe into U.S. war crimes committed in Vietnam shortly after taking office in 1970. When this effort failed, Dellums held his own ad hoc war crimes hearings. The celebrated congressmember once said, "I am not going to…
www.democracynow.org/2018/7/31/ron_dellums_1935_2018_organizing_for
Integration Can't Be Rhetoric, Must Be Real: Venezuela's Arreaza in Africa
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-09
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza is visiting several African countries to build South-South relations.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/13923