June 27, 2017 Counterpunch Jonathan Cook Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, is probably the most influential journalist of the modern era, with the possible exception of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the pair who … [Read more...] about Hersh’s New Syria Revelations Buried From View
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News and Views from the Global South
Several rights groups responded Friday, calling on Trump to repeal the ban, which applies to migrants from Syria and 5 other countries in Africa and the Middle East. “Trump was using very strong words last night to describe the cruelty and the horrors that children and civilians in general are enduring (in Syria),” Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, co-director of the US Program … [Read more...] about News and Views from the Global South
More than one third of Syria’s Palestinians have been displaced
More than one third of the 500,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria have been displaced by the ongoing conflict, a new report has revealed. The Action Group for Palestinian Refugees in Syria said the refugees were displaced after their camps were either subjected to air raids or caught up in clashes. The semi-annual report said that more than 71,200 Palestinian refugees have … [Read more...] about More than one third of Syria’s Palestinians have been displaced
THE SUFFERING GRASSES, a film on Syria’s troubled revolution
Film Dates1. Hosei University G-Lounge Event "World Refugee Day" Screeninghttp://global.ws.hosei.ac.jp/events/2014/20140606Date: June 16, 2014 / 17:00-19:00Place: Hosei University, Ichigaya Campus, Building 55, G-Lounge 2. Seishin University Sacred Heart Refugee Education Trust (SHRET) Eventhttp://www.u-sacred-heart.ac.jp/topics/index.html#_140618Date: June 18, … [Read more...] about THE SUFFERING GRASSES, a film on Syria’s troubled revolution
Obama borrows a page from Bush, threatens war based on false premises
A roundup of the critiiques being made:Institute for Public Accuracy 1DANIEL ELLSBERGEllsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. He said today: "What's urgently needed right now -- today, Friday, Saturday and Sunday -- is people contacting their Representatives in their home districts and in D.C. demanding, first, that Speaker John Boehner call an emergency session of Congress … [Read more...] about Obama borrows a page from Bush, threatens war based on false premises