Pentagon Appears to Benefit From Human Trafficking – Report

American military bases in the Persian Gulf region use the services of subcontractors who could be classed as victims of human trafficking, the Washington Post reported. Federal law bans paying taxpayer money to contractors that allow such practices.

Foreign workers in Arab nations including Qatar and Kuwait are employed under the controversial “kafala system”, which requires a citizen, usually the employer, to take legal charge of the employee. Critics say the scheme is prone to abuse, making workers unable to leave jobs when they want to.

According to the Washington Post, US military contractors hiring menial and low-skilled staff for the Pentagon’s bases in the Arab world are involved in such abuses. 

It cites the accounts of dozens of workers, reporting that their passports were away to limit their movements or that they paid a hefty entry fee to get a job at a US facility, which could take years to repay.

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Israel Launches Daytime Strikes on Damascus — Syrian Media

 

One soldier was injured following Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, Syrian state media has reported, describing a rare daytime attack after a string of bombings on the capital and other cities in recent weeks.

Syria’s air defenses activated to repel the attack at around 2pm local time on Monday, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), which cited an unnamed military official.

“The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression with rockets from the north of the occupied Palestinian territories, targeting some points in the vicinity of the city of Damascus,” the source said, adding that “a number” of missiles were shot down but that the attack “resulted in the injury of a soldier and some material losses.”

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US Has Supplied Ukraine With Over 1 Million Artillery Rounds

Kiev has reportedly received over 1.9 million artillery rounds from Washington, data released by the Pentagon reveals.

Specifically Ukraine has been shipped 903,000 standard 155mm HE fragmentation howitzer rounds, 3,000 M982 Excalibur guided artillery shells, 7,000 Remote Anti-Armor Mine projectiles, and 180,000 105mm howitzer rounds. 

The ammunition is part of the $18.2 billion military aid package allotted for Ukraine by the Biden admin.

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What will be the consequences of the emergency at the Kakhovskaya HPP?

 

The Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is one of the ten largest hydroelectric power stations in Ukraine. 

It is the sixth stage in the cascade of hydraulic structures on the Dnieper River. 

The area of the reservoir mirror (2,155 km2) is approximately equal to the area of Moscow.  

The total volume is more than 13 billion cubic meters

What will happen if the dam is destroyed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces? 

Wave height can be up to 4.8 meters, spill width - 5 kilometers. 

The water will rush at a speed of about 25 km/h.

The breakthrough wave will reach the Kherson line in 2 hours, the maximum water level (+ 5 meters) - in 14 hours.

If the dam breaks, the water will flood about 6.5 thousand hectares.

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The UN HRC recognized the war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

— one of them occurred in the Kiev region with the participation of the "Right Sector"*, as Readovka wrote

The Commission of the UN Human Rights Council recognized that Ukrainian militants committed at least two war crimes — the first of them in Dmitrovka, Kiev region (https://t.me/readovkanews/39851),  and the second in Malaya Rogan, Kharkov region (https://t.me/readovkanews/29385), where Azov* militants participated in torture and executions. Both cases date back to March of this year.

In particular, the report indicates that the Ukrainian military shot, wounded and tortured captured (https://t.me/readovkanews/30049) Russian soldiers, and this is a war crime — after their surrender, the soldiers received the status of prisoners of war and were protected in accordance with international humanitarian acts.

"The video shows other motionless soldiers of the Russian armed forces nearby, including one with his hands tied behind his back and an obvious wound on his head, which suggests that he was most likely executed,"  - the report says.

Torture and execution of captured (https://t.me/readovkanews/39705) Russian soldiers is nothing new for Ukrainian militants. Readovka has written about more than five such cases (https://t.me/readovkanews/29311), which were documented by the executioners themselves and got into the network. In reality, there are many more atrocities committed by Ukrainian militants and national battalions (https://t.me/readovkanews/30068),  it's just that many of them don't get captured on camera or don't leak into the internet.

Syria a victim of the US’s “rules-based order” - Oil & other resources stolen!

Since early August, there have been at least 10 oil thefts by US troops in Syria. Some 800 tankers were used to transport stolen oil to US bases outside of Syria. In the meantime, Syrian people have had to queue for hours to fill up at the gas station.

By June 2022, US military’s extraction, smuggling and illegal transaction of Syrian oil, gas and mineral resources has brought an estimated $18.2 bln of direct losses on Syria, making Syria’s humanitarian disaster much worse.

Syria is yet another victim of the US’s “rules-based order” just like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Under this order, the rights and lives of the Syrian people are being taken away, instead of being protected.

We urge the US to respect Syria’s sovereignty & territorial integrity, respond to the call of the Syrian people, stop plundering Syria’s national resources at once, and take concrete action to remedy the pain they have inflicted on Syria.

Chinese Foreign Ministry - 21 Sep. 2022                                                  syriana-analysis.com

Main stream Western media will blame Russia.

 Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Blames Russia for 'Mass Grave".

 A Ukrainian neo-Nazi militant shares a disturbing video purportedly showing dead civilians thrown into a mass grave in Ukraine and blames Russian troops for the apparent massacre.

 A Russian human rights council has called for an international probe into the gruesome video.

FM Lavrov: For 8 Years, Kiev Regime Conducted Operation on Peaceful Civilians

Sergey Lavrov responded to critics of Russia's partial mobilisation by explaining that Ukraine has been mobilising for many years.

 Russia's top diplomat added that even women have been forced into the ranks of nationalist battalions.

 Other key points mentioned by Lavrov:
 📍Ukraine has turned into Nazi totalitarian state
 📍Former Ukraine PM called people in Donbass "non-humans" in 2015 - Zelensky recently said they are "sometimes people"
 📍People of Donbass faced financial, transport blockade
 📍Donbass denied basic rights guaranteed by intl pacts
 📍Russia has evidence of Ukrainian criminal activity by its military  

Donetsk civilians killings.

*Warning: the footage is not blurred and shows quite clearly Ukraine's terrorism of Donetsk today, killing at least five in a very central area of the city, where there are no military targets, only Donetsk civilians.  

This comes just 3 days after Ukraine shelled a western district of Donetsk, killing 13 civilians, including 2 children. That scene was horrific, body parts everywhere, bodies torn in half. 

Two days before that, Ukraine shelled the heart of Donetsk, killing four civilians. 

Ukraine is using western weapons in slaughtering the civilians of Donbass.

Warning: the footage is not blurred and shows quite clearly Ukraine's terrorism of Donetsk today.

Pure Ukrainian terrorism.

Courtesy : Eva K Bartlett 

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Libya's Haftar faces fresh US lawsuit for Tripoli drone strike that killed 26

17 September, 2022

The legal proceedings are not the first Haftar has faced in his former country of residence for alleged crimes committed in Libya.

Libya's Khalifa Haftar faces a fresh US lawsuit from the Libyan-American Alliance (LAA), accusing the Gaddafi-era general of deliberately bombing a military college in the capital of Tripoli in January 2020. 

The LAA is representing three families whose sons were killed in a drone strike that took place on January 4th while the young men were studying and training in Tripoli, according to a press conference held on Thursday with the legal team.  

The attack itself left 26 cadets dead and several others wounded.

"On January 4, 2020, a group of around fifty young unarmed cadets were attacked while marching at a military college in Tripoli, the capital of Libya. As the cadets stopped to tum their procession to the left, a missile slammed into the center of the crowd and exploded. Twenty-six of the cadets perished," the lawsuit says. 

"The airstrike that killed them was launched under Haftar's authority."

The legal proceedings are not the first Haftar has faced in his former country of residence for alleged crimes committed in Libya. 

In a previous lawsuit in July, a US judge ordered the military chief to compensate Libyan plaintiffs who allege he ordered the torture and extrajudicial killings of their family members.

The federal judge in the state of Virginia, where Haftar lived before returning to Libya, ruled that he had not cooperated with the court and that by "default" was ordered to pay damages to the families.

Filed in 2019 and 2020, the civil lawsuits argued that Haftar, as head of the eastern-based Libyan National Army, authorized the indiscriminate bombings of civilians during his unsuccessful 2019 campaign to take Tripoli, resulting in the death of the plaintiff's family members.

Haftar was pursued under a 1991 US law, the Torture Victim Protection Act, which allows for civil lawsuits against anyone who, acting in an official capacity for a foreign nation, commits acts of torture and/or extrajudicial killings.

The same law is being used in the new lawsuit, suggesting a precedent has been set for other victims to come forward. 

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UN: Israelis fired shots that killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

 Veteran Al Jazeera journalist was killed on May 11 while covering Israeli army raids in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. A mural of slain of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is on display, in Gaza City.

 Published On 24 Jun 2022 24 Jun 2022 | Updated: 2 hours ago The United Nations has said that information it had gathered showed that the bullets that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 were fired by Israeli forces. “All information we have gathered … is consistent with the finding that the shots that killed Abu Akleh and injured her colleague Ali Sammoudi came from Israeli security forces and not from indiscriminate firing by armed Palestinians,”

UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva on Friday.

The question is - What will UN do about it?

courtesy : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/24/un-israelis-fired-shots-that-killed-journalist-abu-akleh

Zionist Occupation Army replied : https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220624-israel-army-rejects-un-probe-on-al-jazeera-journalist-killing/

Israel War Crimes

Palestinians? whether u're Christians (Shireen) or Muslims (Ghufran), u're at the receiving end of IOF (security forces) guns! Just to give some ideas, many think that it's Jews versus Muslims, especially after "the war against terror",especially after POTUS Bush invented mantra!

Will Syria's war stop?

War crimes in Yemen!

Excerpt from : DN Top U S & World Headlines



Yemen - Mourned children killed by US bomb

UNICEF & the killed kids in Yemen

Kashmir - 101

Novelist Arundhati Roy on Kashmir : Published on 20 Jun 2017 For decades, Kashmir has been one of the most militarized zones in the world. It’s also a territory that, according to acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy, is nearly impossible to capture in nonfiction writing. But Roy has not shied away from writing about Kashmir in her second novel, "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," which has just been published.