All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most "precise and surgical", is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human...
Facts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-Down
It will likely take some time to determine who downed the Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 298 people onboard. Initial speculation is that someone with a missile battery mistook the plane as a military aircraft, but the...
The Tragedy of Flight MH17: Who Benefits?
Cui bono? Who benefits? Who stood to gain? That is the first question everyone should ask with any potential crime (although of course it's not the only one). Yet, that is the question that is being generally ignored regarding the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight...
Audio “Proof” of Ukrainian Rebel Responsibility for Malaysian Flight Downing is Fake
The New York Times Soft-Pedals Israel’s Slaughter of Children, Shifts Blame to Victims
This was what the original The New York Times report of the Israeli military bombing to death four children while they were playing soccer on an otherwise generally empty beach. They have since made the URL for this article redirect to a different one, that...
Bombing a Prison Camp for Children
Even the shameless Israeli state seems momentarily shamed, as it has announced a five-hour ceasefire in their bombardment of Gaza after having shelled to death four Palestinian children who had been playing soccer on a beach, thereby presumably serving as "human...
Ravaging Gaza: The War Netanyahu Cannot Possibly Win
When the bodies of three Israeli settlers – Aftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 – were found on June 30 near Hebron in the southern West Bank, Israel went into a state of mourning and a wave of sympathy flowed in from around the world. The...
Fixing Legacies by Killing Historians (or the Facts)
New White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was on CNN yesterday defending Obama administration coverups. He was asked about a letter from the Society of Professional Journalists and other organizations which scolded the White House for "politically driven...
Israel’s Bombardment of Gaza: What Is Different This Time?
This originally appeared on Truth-Out.The current Israeli onslaught on Gaza which so far resulted in 120 dead and counting, as Israel is attempting to a final blow to Hamas after many failed attempts, appears to have been planned in advance, regardless of developments...
Ellsberg Billboards Urge Whistleblowing in DC: ‘Tell the Truth with Documents’
From the Institute for Public Accuracy: In an unprecedented push for whistleblowing in the nation’s capital, the new organization ExposeFacts announced today that 13 billboards have gone up near Capitol Hill, the Justice Department, the White House, the Government...


