Gang Rapes and Beatings, Brothels Filled with Teenage Prostitutes — The Depths of American Brutality in Vietnam
A powerful excerpt from Nick Turse’s new book, ‘Kill Anything That Moves’ exposes the horrors committed by the U.S.
Read More →‘Kindergarten terrorist’: 5-year-old girl suspended over bubble-gun ‘threat’
RT A 5-year-old girl was suspended from a Pennsylvania kindergarten after telling another girl that she was going to shoot her. The weapon she was going to use was a pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles. Mount Carmel Area School District officials questioned the student without her parents present, deemed the girl a “terrorist [...]
Read More →Controversial X-Ray Scanners at American Airport to be Replaced
VOA The U.S. Transportation Security Administration says it is removing full-body airport scanners that produced what appear to be naked images of a traveler’s body. The TSA said it will replace the scanners with new scanners that allow greater privacy. The TSA has canceled its contract with Rapiscan, the company that makes the X-ray scanner [...]
Read More →Belgium to build ‘battery island’ to store wind farm energy
RT Belgium plans to build a horseshoe-shaped artificial island off its North Sea coast to store energy generated by its wind farms. The project will also double as attraction for sea birds (and possibly flocks of tourists). The ambitious undertaking was unveiled this week by Belgian North Sea Minister Johan Vande Lanotte, as he reported [...]
Read More →Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to Hagel for Pentagon
With President Barack Obama reportedly primed to nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon early next week, the powerful Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), faces a major dilemma.
Read More →Totally blind mice get sight back with light-sensing cell jabs
PressTV A team of British researchers has reported that injections of light-sensing cells into the eye of totally blind mice can restore their lost vision. The team from the University of Oxford suggested that their research closely resembles the treatments for the patients with degenerative eye disease, though it needs more serious study. The researchers [...]
Read More →Minimum of 40 Children Paralyzed After New Meningitis Vaccine
By Christina England | Vactruth On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, located in northern Chad, Africa. According to the newspaper La Voix, out of five hundred children who received the new meningitis vaccine MenAfriVac, at least 40 of them between the ages of 7 and 18 have become paralyzed. Those [...]
Read More →UK threatens Argentina with military war over disputed islands
PressTV British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that he is ready to fight another war with Argentina, in the face of what he claimed to be renewed Argentinean rhetoric over the Malvinas Islands (Falklands). Speaking on the state-run BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Cameron said Britain has “strong defences” in place on the [...]
Read More →Ecuadorian president warns of possible ‘CIA attack’ before elections
RT Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has said the CIA may try to kill him prior to upcoming elections. Citing reports of a plot to “destabilize the region,” Correa said the threats were “credible,” given the history of US involvement in Latin America. Correa alluded to reports by Chilean journalist Patricio Mery Bell, who allegedly passed [...]
Read More →Germany seeks stronger global military role: Analyst
PressTV Germany is flexing its muscles to play a stronger military role across the world to terminate the “pacifism” it has pursued in the decades following World War II, an analyst says. Nicholas Kulish wrote in a The New York Times article on Saturday that the German government is seeking to increase its military engagement in the [...]
Read More →UK middle-classes face 65% tax rate
PressTV The British government has been warned that cuts to child benefit payments, which will take effect on Monday, will punish more than a million middle-class families with a tax rate of 65 percent. Changes to child benefit payments will lead to “incoherence” in the welfare system and punish more than a million middle-class families, [...]
Read More →It’s Official: Iran’s Presence in the Region a Threat to US, According to Congress and Obama
By Alex Main | Common Dreams While Congress struggled to approve legislation to avert the much-hyped “fiscal cliff”, a bill addressing “Iran’s growing hostile presence and activity in the Western Hemisphere” quietly and smoothly swept through both houses before the end of the legislative session. The bill, which requires the State Department to develop a [...]
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