Tag Archive | Iraq
Internet Censorship: Wikileaks Suspends Publishing to Fight Financial Blockade
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has announced the organization is suspending the publishing of secret documents in order to concentrate on fundraising to ensure its future survival. At a news conference in London, Assange said a financial blockade by American companies such as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal means WikiLeaks will have to aggressively focus on raising [...]
Top 25 Censored News 2011: #1 More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat
For the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat (462). “If you… know the one thing that causes people to commit suicide, please let us know,” General Peter Chiarelli told the Army Times, “because we don’t know.” Suicide is a tragic but predictable human reaction to [...]
Top 25 Censored News 2011: #2 US Military Manipulates the Social Media
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with US Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop an “online [...]
Top 25 Censored News 2011: #11 Trafficking of Iraqi Women Rampant
Human trafficking occurs throughout the world, yet has become increaingly more prevalent among the country of Iraq due to the instability produced by the Iraq War. Many Iraqi women and girls are widowed or orphaned by wartime casualties. Currently, more than 50,000 Iraqi women have fled to Jordan and Syria and are trapped in sexual [...]
Top 25 Censored News 2011: #19 Oxfam Exposes How Aid Is Used for Political Purposes
In a new report, Oxfam has found that billions of dollars in international aid which could have transformed the lives of many people in some of the poorest countries in the world, was spent on unsustainable, expensive and dangerous aid projects which international donor governments used to support their own short-term foreign policy and security [...]
Censorship of War Casualties in the US
US mainstream media and the public’s willful ignorance is to blame for lack of knowledge about true cost of wars. Written by Ted Rall Why is it so easy for political leaders in the US to convince ordinary citizens to support war? How is it that, after that initial enthusiasm has given away to fatigue [...]
Kuwait: Bloggers Fight Internet Censorship and ISPs
In the past two months, Kuwaiti bloggers have campaigned against the policy of Internet companies in Kuwait which is enforcing a policy of limited bandwidth, highly raising prices in the past year by agreeing between each other on the same list of prices, and killing the competition in the internet market. Blogger Hornetwrote a statement [...]
Syrian Troops Mass Near Border Town as Tensions Mount
Syrian forces have surrounded a town on the Iraqi border as the country’s opposition took a step closer to forming an alternative government that would challenge President Bashar al-Assad‘s grip on power. About 1,000 troops flown in by helicopter and backed by tanks and armored vehicles massed Sunday around the troubled eastern town of al-Boukamal [...]
U.S. Military Charges WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning with ‘Aiding the Enemy’
Source: AlterNet The US military on Wednesday unveiled new charges against the soldier suspected of passing a trove of secret government documents to WikiLeaks, accusing him of “aiding the enemy.” US Army authorities announced 22 additional charges against Private Bradley Manning, including the serious offense of “aiding the enemy,” which carries a potential death sentence. [...]
Popular Protests Continue Against Many Arab Governments
Source: VOA Popular protests engulfed large swathes of the Arab world after Friday prayers, as anti-government movements appear to gain momentum. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators turned out across the Arab world after Friday prayers to express anger at their leaders. Libya In Benghazi, Libya, the center of an insurgent movement against veteran leader Moammar [...]
Feb 24, 1991: Gulf War Ground Offensive Begins
After six weeks of intensive bombing against Iraq and its armed forces, U.S.-led coalition forces launch a ground invasion of Kuwait and Iraq. On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, its tiny oil-rich neighbor, and within hours had occupied most strategic positions in the country. One week later, Operation Shield, the American defense of Saudi [...]
Frady’s Censorship Resembles Soviets
Facebook Source: The Citizen – By Virginia Allen Thursday night’s display at the Fayette County Commission Meeting was the most flagrant case of censorship that I have personally ever witnessed. The First Amendment to The Constitution Of The United States of America reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting [...]
