The Guardian UK:
"Suleimani killing [is] the latest in a long, grim line of US assassination efforts.
There has been no shortage of US attempts to remove foreign adversaries through highly dubious legal or ethical means.
The US government is no stranger to the dark arts of political assassinations. Over the decades it has deployed elaborate techniques against its foes, from dispatching a chemist armed with lethal poison to try to take out Congo’s Patrice Lumumba in the 1960s to planting poison pills (equally unsuccessfully) in the Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s food.
But the killing of Gen Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite military Quds force, was in a class all its own. Its uniqueness lay not so much in its method – what difference does it make to the victim if they are eviscerated by aerial drone like Suleimani, or executed following a CIA-backed coup, as was Iraq’s ruler in 1963, Abdul Karim Kassem? – but in the brazenness of its execution and the apparently total disregard for either legal niceties or human consequences."
-->How is it that a foreign newspaper can tell it like it is, and the NYT can never connect the dots? The empire is a lawless killer and has been that way since WWW II.
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The Guardian UK:
"A top United Nations official has accused the US government of using torture against Chelsea Manning, the former army intelligence analyst currently jailed in the US over her refusal to testify against WikiLeaks.
Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, made the charge in a letter sent in November but only released on Tuesday.
In the missive, Melzer says Manning is being subjected to 'an open-ended, progressively severe measure of coercion fulfilling all the constitutive elements of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.' ”
-->Chelsea Manning tortured because she revealed US war crimes in Iraq. How refreshing to read that, even if it is in a foreign newspaper. Forget the US media when it comes to telling the truth about the US empire.
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Mondoweiss:
"Report: In 2019 Israel arrested over 5,500 Palestinians, including 889 children. ... The Palestinian prisoners’ and human rights institutions, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, indicate that the number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in occupation prisons to the current date is approximately 5000, including 40 women, approximately 200 child detainees and 450 Palestinians held in administrative detention. ...
During 2019, Israeli occupation forces continued to use torture as a tool of revenge and coercion against the prisoners to strip them of their human dignity and, most importantly, coerce them to give confessions during the interrogation period. According to investigation, 95% of detainees are subjected to torture, from the moment of arrest, through interrogation or even after transferring them to detention centers."
-->Want some truth about Israel's apartheid barbarism? Don't read the US mainstream media. Try alternative media like Mondoweiss.
