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Are We The Baddies?
As uncomfortable as it may be to find flaws in your home country, wherever that may be, it's an important part of being an informed citizen. While it's good to call the US out on individual failures, it's becoming increasingly important to help people understand that the US as a whole is the problem. In this episode, we'll take a brief stroll through the bloody history of the US empire and answer that age old question...are we the baddies?
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Holocaust Survivor destroys Israel's façade
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Commission of Inquiry finds that the Israeli occupation is unlawful under international law
There are reasonable grounds to conclude that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is now unlawful under international law due to its permanence and the Israeli Government’s de-facto annexation policies, according to the first report to the General Assembly issued today by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
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‘Finish Them Off’: Aid Workers, Found on Battlefield, Executed by Soldiers
Three employees of Doctors Without Borders set out to rescue the wounded in a war zone in northern Ethiopia. Their fate shows the treacherous path for many aid workers in conflict zones.
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Israel's big lie: This isn't self defense — it's a war crime, aided and abetted by the U.S.
Almost everything said in the U.S. about Israel's assault on the Palestinians is a lie — because we are implicated
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Chomsky: Without US Aid, Israel Wouldn’t Be Killing Palestinians En Masse
We must examine the Israeli government's U.S.-backed policy of using strategies of terror to expand its territory.
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Forty years since first German broadcast of the “Holocaust” series
Earlier this year, German public broadcasters aired the 1978 American TV series “Holocaust” on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its first broadcast in West Germany, in 1979. On that occasion, the series shook West German society, with an estimated 50 percent of the total population watching at least one episode.
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Nazi Collaborator or National Hero? A Test for Lithuania
Jonas Noreika has been honored as a martyr since his execution by the Soviet secret police in 1947. But he now stands accused by his own granddaughter of helping the Nazis kill Jews.
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95-year old former Nazi labour camp guard deported to Germany
Germany on Tuesday took in a 95-year-old former guard at a Nazi labour camp where more than 6,000 people were killed after he was stripped of his US citizenship. The German foreign ministry said it had agreed to accept the former Ukraine national Jakiw Palij after his expulsion from the United States late Monday, citing Berlin's "moral duty" in light of the Nazis' crimes.
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The US considers declaring Russia sponsor of terrorism
The US Senators are preparing to bring together all existing sanctions against Russia, from DASKAA to the Magnitsky Act, as well as to introduce the new sanctions. The law "On the protection of US security from the aggression of the Kremlin" (DASKAA), refers to the need to find assets of Vladimir Putin and recognize Moscow as a "sponsor of terrorism."
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No compensation for Lebensborn children abducted by Nazi SS
Children regarded as "racially pure" and abducted by the SS are not entitled to compensation, a German court has ruled. Up to 200,000 children were kidnapped and forcibly Germanized during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
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ICE Won’t Deport the Last Nazi War Criminal in America
He confessed to being a concentration-camp guard—and was stripped of his citizenship. But the U.S. government still won’t kick him out of the country.
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Polish official: Germany owes Poland $850 billion for WWII
A Polish official said Friday that Germany could owe his country $850 billion (690 billion euros) for the damage it inflicted during World War II. Arkadiusz Mularczyk is leading a team in the parliament that is assessing potential reparations to Poland. Germany killed 6 million Polish citizens and caused great material losses during its nearly six-year occupation of Poland.
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Bosnian 'life and death mistress' jailed
A court in Bosnia has sentenced a woman known as "the mistress of life and death" to 14 years in prison for war crimes committed in the 1990s. Azra Bašić was found guilty of crimes during the Balkan war, including the torture of ethnic-Serb civilians. The judge said Bašić was responsible for "particular cruelty" towards those detained by Bosnian-Croat forces.
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Polish Official Says Putin Responsible for Plane Crash That Killed President
Warsaw, Poland (AP) -- Poland's defense minister said Thursday that a plane crash that killed the nation's president in 2010 in Russia was preceded by two explosions on board, calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to "take responsibility for what happened.
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Saudi-led strikes against children 'war crimes': HRW
A series of Saudi-led coalition air strikes which killed 26 children in Yemen in June amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. "The attacks, which struck four family homes and a grocery, in one case killing 14 members of the same family, caused indiscriminate loss of civilian life in violation of the laws of war. Such attacks carried out deliberately or recklessly are war crimes," the New York-based HRW said.
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Burundi committed crimes against humanity
UN investigators say there is strong evidence that crimes against humanity have been committed in Burundi. Their report details killings, torture and rape, which they say have been committed largely by government forces - but also by opposition groups. Burundi's ambassador to the UN said the report was part of an "international conspiracy" against the country.
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Airstrike on Syrian mosque 'war crime'
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Friday condemned the bombing of a mosque in northern Syria as a “war crime”. An airstrike on a mosque in the village of Al-Jina, located west of Aleppo city towards the border with Idlib province, killed 58 people on Thursday night. “This is a crime against humanity, this is a war crime,” Kurtulmus told reporters in the northwestern province of Canakkale. “Bombing civilians, people in the mosque, and a house of worship is unacceptable.”
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Poland confirms Minnesota man as Nazi commander
Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutor Robert Janicki said evidence gathered over years of investigation into U.S. citizen Michael K. confirmed "100 percent" that he was a commander of a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion.
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After South Africa's Withdrawal, How does the ICC Stay Relevant?
The Rainbow Nation's decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court highlighted its increasingly shaky support from governments across the continent, but their reasons are more complex than headline-grabbing claims the court is racist.
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