“The overseas agency MI6 and the domestic service MI5 were involved in hundreds of torture cases and scores of rendition cases.”
“Politicians should honestly confront the question: what are the reasons that lead millions of people to leave their homes? And fashion equally honest and humane solutions.”
Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/22/end-the-wars-to-halt-the-refugee-crisis/
“Clinton supported a highly questionable election aimed at legitimating the post-coup government. Strong military ties between the U.S. and Honduras persist: several hundred U.S. troops are stationed at Soto Cano Air Base (formerly Palmerola) in the name of fighting the drug war and providing humanitarian aid.”
Read more: https://theconversation.com/how-us-policy-in-honduras-set-the-stage-for-todays-mass-migration-65935
“Political assassinations, murders, and violence continue to escalate as Mexico’s elections approach.”
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/06/28/political-murders-push-120-in-mexican-elections/
“That a nation unable to pacify a single impoverished country like Afghanistan after 17 years of trying should contemplate attempting to control the infinite expanse of outer space will strike any sensible person as madness.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bacevich-space-force-20180621-story.html
“The Taliban’s ‘shadow government’ has existed virtually throughout the US-led occupation. Yet as the war has dragged on, and territory under government control has shrunk, the Taliban has expanded its focus on not just fighting, but governing controlled territory.”
“Rhodes has been described as being so trusted and close to Obama that he was ‘in the room’ for almost every foreign policy decision of significance that Obama made during his eight years in office.”
“In the hands of government surveillance programs and law enforcement agencies, there’s simply no way that face recognition software will be not used to harm citizens.”
“The Pew study indicates that there is a significant cognitive problem among US people in being able to assess facts from opinions.”
“While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/26/why-no-outrage-over-u-s-killing-of-children/