Ukraine war: Why is the Pentagon actually running out of ammunition? (tags)
The larger problem is financialization. Step by step, this conquered all areas of society. And finally it also reached the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. With financialization came the neoliberal market doctrines of capacity reduction, downsizing, "lean inventories," and cutting costs.
Nonviolent Paper From Leaves, Cow Manure, Straw, Corn Husks, Coconut Shells & Banana Peel (tags)
Destruction of trees has caused massive floods, drought, mudslides, global heating, loss of animal habitat, the smashing of squirrels and flightless birds, etc.
Ukraine Conflict Continues Despite Ceasefire (tags)
Ukraine
Israel Murders Journalists (tags)
Israel
Phosphorus denial outweighed by evidence (tags)
"There are many ways to “light” a battle field. In Gaza, no such area exists anyway. There are just people’s hovels, holes and “homes.” Such as they are after years of blockade and bombardment by Israeli forces. The White phorpous is a terror weapon perfect for driving people away, “never to return.” The Zionist dream is and has always been for many, at least, to remove the native Arab population and posses all of “Greater Israel.” This inhuman weapon nicknamed “Willie Pete.” is perfect for the effort. When it comes into contact with human flesh it moves down toward the bone, tissues evaporate. Victims may survive for some time before vital organs are compromised, effecting death. Parents watch the agony and may be forced to end their children’s wild sufferings by shortening their lives in “other ways.”
Journey to Beit Harun, After the Rain of Death (tags)
This is Islam al-Atamna. A girl of 14. She is sitting in her black mourning clothes. Eight close relatives - including her mother, grandparents, uncles and aunts - were all killed before her eyes, one after the other. They were killed in the street after they awoke at home in horror at the sound of the first shell that exploded and then fled outdoors, where the next shells caught them. About 11 fell on a residential neighborhood, one shell a minute, a rain of death, pursuing them in their flight. Fatherless for some time already, the girl is left alone in the world with her two little sisters and her 3-year-old brother Abdullah, whose legs were severed and who is hospitalized in the Al-Hilal Hospital in Gaza.
Call it What it Is: A Massacre (tags)
THE FIRST revolutionary act is to call things by their true names, Rosa Luxemburg said. So how to call what happened in Beit Hanoun?
Israel Admits it Used Phosphorus (tags)
Israel Admits It Fired Phosphorus Shells in Lebanon The Israeli military has admitted for the first time that it fired phosphorus shells at Hezbollah targets during its month-long attack on Lebanon. The phosphorous shells were used despite widespread calls by human rights groups for a worldwide ban on the munitions because they cause undue suffering through severe burns. During the war there were reports that Lebanese victims had suffered serious burns from phosphorous. One doctor reported seeing three corpses entirely shriveled with black and green skin -- a phenomenon characteristic of phosphorus injuries. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/23/1425222
Why must the Right wing be so brutally stupid? (tags)
Israel uses some of the world's best long-range artillery pieces, and it fills their breeches with deadly depleted-uranium shells which bring the added gift of long-lived vaporized uranium after exploding. It uses American cluster bombs, the horrible things that dismembered or crippled thousands of Iraqi children. And it now appears to be using the white-phosphorus shells or bombs Americans used in Fallujah to burn flesh in much the same way they used napalm in Vietnam.
Israel kills UN observers in Lebanon, bombs Red Cross (tags)
This image was taken from video made by Lebanese Red Cross workers Sunday, July 23, 2006 in Qana, south Lebanon. It shows the roof of a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. The Red Cross said that nine ambulance workers were wounded in the explosion as they tried to ferry injured civilians from a town near Tyre to the hospital ( Full story at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_suffering_1;_ylt=AuiWWmDmt7opeB95hWMvCijlWMcF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA-- )
"Internal" UN report contradicts Israeli version of events of beach shelling (tags)
If no one had been at the beach to capture the explosion's aftermath, the incident might have passed quickly with a few Palestinian condemnations and a brisk Israeli retort.
Political foes unite on depleted uranium munitions (tags)
Talk to any of your acquaintances, right, left, or center, about the DU shells and bombs. Our troops are breathing the DU dust from them right now in Iraq. Then tell them in a quiet steady voice "There is no treatment. This a death sentence for our troops serving our country. This ain't right. Help me change it."2 Sign them up, make a list, send the list to me.
British troops attack hotel where Al Jazeera correspondents are staying (tags)
At least four US shells struck the Sheraton Hotel in Basra where the only checked-in guests are Al-Jazeera's correspondents.
IDF troops fired outlawed tank shells at Palestinian children playing soccer (tags)
"...Flachette shells, which scatter thousands of pieces of metal after being fired and whose use is curtailed under international treaties. The IDF said the shells were fired Friday night.. "
Terrorism, Israeli Style (tags)
What follows are the two leading stories in the August 29, 2002, Israeli Ha’aretz newspaper. This is but another example showing how the racist Sharon government is joining America in the fight on terrorism.
AP piece boo-hooing about costs of GM food recall (tags)
are you shedding a tear for Kraft, Inc.? i'm not.