“The UK paid legal fees for the defense of Pinochet against efforts to extradite him in light of severe human rights abuses, later paying the same barrister again to aid Sweden in its effort to extradite a journalist, Julian Assange, without charge.”
Read more: https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/06/from-pinochet-to-assange-a-tale-of-two-extraditions/
“America is now one of the world’s chief, unrepentant, unapologetic, still-polling-positive-on…torturers. How did we get here?”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/confronting-america-the-torturer/
“The three-year-long, U.S.-supported war on Yemen has already been devastating to Yemen’s 28 million residents. Today, it has entered a new phase—one that is described by the United Nations and U.S. lawmakers as ‘catastrophic.'”
Read more: http://inthesetimes.com/article/21212/Yemen-Port-United-States-Saudi-Arabia-starvation-war-Hudaydah
“These are not actions by rogue agents. They are systematic, and they come straight from the top.”
“The United States is at war in so many places that the majority of citizens would struggle to name half of them.”
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/congress-may-declare-the-forever-war/562175/
“There are now over 10,000 migrant children in government custody in 100 U.S. shelters in 14 states. All 10,000 of these children have been forcibly separated from their parents.”
“Kevin Shipp reveals IN DETAIL how the Shadow Government (CIA) destroys whistleblowers. It includes information never made public, including the personal side of what a true whistleblower must face.”
“The total reflects the emerging scale of a practice that will have lasting impacts on a generation of kids who happened to arrive in the U.S. at this particular moment.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/08/immigration-family-separation-children/
“He survived about 15,000 days of isolation – a form of captivity that the United Nations has denounced as torture and that scientific studies have shown is capable of inflicting severe psychological damage on individuals in less than a week.”
“It is unsettling that so many innocent people are being killed by U.S. forces, especially in wars that are not authorized by Congress and have an increasingly tenuous connection to American security.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/06/the-us-says-it-killed-500-civilians-last