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The Buried Maidan Massacre and Its Misrepresentation by the West
The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Ivan Katchanovski investigates.
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A KFC in Ukraine's revolutionary ground zero stirs protests
The opening of a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Kiev, in a landmark building that played a central role in Ukraine's fateful 2013-14 revolution, sparked public anger and protests that forced it Thursday to temporarily shut its doors.
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Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty
A Half Century Later, Still No Justice. By Jeffrey St. Clair.
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When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It
Every year on the third day of July, a dozen Iranian children on board a ship throw gladiolas into the sea to commemorate the memory of innocent men, women, and children whose bodies were afloat, like the flowers, on the waters of the Persian Gulf. By Hossein Nazari.
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Drumpf’s Complicity In Israel’s Brutal Attacks On Palestinians Is Yet Another Example Of The GOP Taking Credit For Obama’s Hard Work
Since day one of his orange presidency, Drumpf has wasted no time putting his name on the hard-earned achievements of those before him and chalking those accomplishments up as his own personal successes. By Karl Meyer.
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Propaganda 101: How To Defend A Massacre
An introductory course in massaging your crimes and dehumanizing your enemies… By Nathan J. Robinson.
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Supreme court rejects appeal from Blackwater guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians
The four men, who were employed as security guards for a private US contractor, were convicted in 2014 of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007. By Joanna Walters and agencies.
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The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
On March 17th, 1968, The New York Times ran a brief front page lede headed, “G.I.s’ in Pincer Movement Kill 128 in Daylong Battle...” By Michael Uhl.
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Wrath of the Centurions
Max Hastings reviews "My Lai: Vietnam, 1968 and the Descent into Darkness" by Howard Jones.
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There’s no such thing as precise air strikes in modern warfare
In one sample of a residential area called Qaiyara, near Mosul city, in about a third of fatal strikes Isis had been in close proximity to the civilians, but in half of the cases there had been no discernible Isis presence. By Patrick Cockburn.
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Gen. Ratko Mladic Was Convicted of Siege Warfare in Bosnia. Will the U.S.-Backed Siege in Yemen Face Justice?
A guilty verdict against Ratko Mladic, who presided over siege warfare in Bosnia during the 1990s, carries a message on the crimes in Yemen today. By Peter Maass.
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A Secretive Billionaire’s Dreams of Creating America’s Foremost Guns Empire
There had been Big Pharma, and Big Oil, but never Big Gun. Stephen Feinberg’s Cerberus Capital set out to create it. By Stephen Witt.
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India’s crackdown in Kashmir: is this the world’s first mass blinding?
A bloody summer of protest in Kashmir has been met with a ruthless response from Indian security forces, who fired hundreds of thousands of metal pellets into crowds of civilians, leaving hundreds blinded. By Mirza Waheed.
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The Ghost of King Leopold II Still Haunts Us
Belgium Colonization and the Ignition of the HIV Global Pandemic. “HIV-1 was ignited in Leopoldville, but the resulting HIV global pandemic is also the apparition of a grotesque and horrific legacy—the European infection of mass historical trauma and the devastation of Congolese health wrought by King Leopold II, the Force Publique, and Belgian colonization.” By Dr. Lawrence Brown. (Apr. 20, 2015)
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US air strike in Syria kills nearly 60 civilians ‘mistaken for Isil fighters’
A US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria on Tuesday after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State (Isil) fighters. By Josie Ensor.
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