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Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide May 12, 2013 "Information Clearing House - The conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide against Mayan villagers in the 1980s has a special meaning for Americans who idolize Ronald Reagan. It means that their hero was an accessory to one of the most grievous crimes that can be committed against humanity.  The courage...

Drone Operator Tells of Killing Civilians, Children « Antiwar.com Blog Print This  |  Share This  |  Comment Here is an NPR segment featuring a former Air Force pilot who operated drones. He describes targeting and killing people he thinks were civilians, or at least not a threat. He describes bombing a man running away, and when the smoke cleared saw the man get his leg blown off and bleed to death. He also describes killing a child in a drone strike.

BBC airs Israeli "Independence Day" propaganda presented as documentary On 17 April, the day after the BBC announced the appointment of the openly pro-Israel former editor of  The Times , James Harding, as the organization’s director of news and current affairs, it screened a program called  Israel: Facing the Future .

Boston and Beyond - In These Times On April 23, Yemeni activist and journalist  Farea Al-Muslimi , who had studied at an American high school, testified before a U.S. Senate committee that right after the marathon bombings, a drone strike in his home village in Yemen killed its target.    The strike terrorized the villagers, turning them into enemies of the United States—something that years of jihadi propaganda had failed to accomplish. His neighbors had admired the U.S., Al-Muslimi told the committee, but “Now, however, when they think of America, they think of the fear they feel at the drones over their heads. What radicals had previously failed to achieve in my village, one drone strike accomplished in an instant.” 

Massively Expensive: Gitmo Costs Nearly $1 Million Per Detainee -- News from Antiwar.com Pentagon estimates put the cost of running Guantanamo Bay  at over $900,000 per detainee , roughly 15 times the cost of keeping a prisoner at a US supermax prison, and roughly 30 times the average federal prison in the US.

US, Israel and Saudi Arabia propping up al-Qaeda in Syria From the beginning, it was clear to geopolitical analysts that the conflict in Syria was not "pro-democracy" protesters rising up, but rather the fruition of a well-documented conspiracy between the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to arm and direct sectarian extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda against the Syrian government.

Kimberly Rivera, Pregnant Mom of Four, Sentenced to Military Prison for Refusing to Serve in Iraq