unspeakablehorrorDec 5

【Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal】


https://theintercept.com/2025/12/04/boat-strike-survivors-video/

Sarah Harrison, who previously advised Pentagon policymakers on issues related to human rights and the law of war, cautioned against undue focus on the double-tap strike. “I can understand why the public and lawmakers are shocked by the second strike on Sept 2. The imagery of humans clinging to wreckage, likely severely injured, and then subsequently executed, is no doubt jarring. But we have to keep emphasizing to those who are conducting the strikes within DoD that there is no war, thus no law of war to protect them,” said Harrison, a former associate general counsel at the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel, International Affairs. “All of the strikes, not just the Sept 2 incident, are extrajudicial killings of people alleged to have committed crimes. Americans should have been and should continue to be alarmed by that.”The Pentagon continues to argue it is at war with undisclosed drug cartels and gangs. “I can tell you that every single person who we have hit thus far who is in a drug boat carrying narcotics to the United States is a narcoterrorist. Our intelligence has confirmed that, and we stand by it,” Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said Tuesday.“There is no such thing as a narco-terrorist,” Himes said on Thursday. “Apparently, we have enough evidence to kill these people, but we don’t have enough evidence to try them in a court of law. People ought to sort of let that sink in and think about the implications of that.”

Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal

“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”

The Intercept
MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 May 20, 2025

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/15/trump-ice-immigrants-deport-prisons-cecot-libya/

#TheIntercept 🚨 🚨 #ALERT 🚨 🚨

Trump is Building a Global Gulag for #Immigrants Captured by #ICE

The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including #Libya, #Kosovo, #Rwanda and #Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.

#NickTurse , #JonahValdez 15 May 2025

#FascistUSA #StopAbductionsAndRemovals #AbolishICE #DueProcess #TheConstitution #InternationalLaw #USLaw #law

Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE

The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.

The Intercept
Show threadstefania mauriziApr 2, 2025

232 #journos were killed in #Gaza from Oct. 7, 2023 to March 26, 2025.
According to #RSF, at least 35 (out of these 232 journalists killed) were directly targeted by Israel because of their work
I strongly recommend #NickTurse #CostsOfWarProject's report:

https://t.co/l8v6nEuCnO

kriykatOct 16, 2024
Chris Hedges: Extermination Works. At First.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/15/chris-hedges-extermination-works-at-first/
In the long term, this indiscriminate violence waged by Netanyahu and those driving Middle East policy in the White House creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism. By Chris Hedges Scheerpost Extermination…
#Politics #Afghanistan #BidenAdministration #Books #Commentary #Indonesia #Iran #Iraq #Israel #Lebanon #Libya #Palestine #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Vietnam #WarCrimes #AlJazeera #AmosHochstein #AyatollahAliHosseiniKhamenei #BrettMcgurk #C.i.a. #ChalmersJohnson #ChrisHedges #DenisHalliday #EthnicCleansing #FadiAlWahidi #HumanitarianAid #IsraeliFinanceMinisterBezalelSmotrich #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #JakeSullivan #JoshuaOppenheimer #NickTurse #PalestinianGenocide #PancasilaYouth #SiegeOfGaza #U.s.SecretaryOfStateAntonyBlinken #Zionism
Chris Hedges: Extermination Works. At First.

In the long term, this indiscriminate violence waged by Netanyahu and those driving Middle East policy in the White House creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism. By Chris Hedges Scheerpost Extermination works. At first. This is th

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Children of GazaOct 7, 2024

#gaza #genocide #palestine #children #schools #destruction #israel #crimes #article #nickturse

@palestine

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/06/israel-bombing-schools-children-gaza-education/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=theintercept

Israel’s Bloody Record of Bombing Schools in Gaza

Israel has bombed nearly 85 percent of Gaza’s schools in the past year, killing hundreds of children and displaced Palestinians.

The Intercept
bs2Apr 27, 2022
> They’ve had no choice, however, but to watch by video as whole families died from the Hellfire missiles and other munitions they released and, often enough, they evidently find themselves devastated by the experience.. “A fighter jet might see a target for 20 minutes. We had to watch a target for days, weeks.. We watched his whole life unfold.. Then you watch the death. You see the remorse and the burial.. there is no reset button.”
https://tomdispatch.com/the-civilian-deaths-you-havent-heard-about/
#DroneWars #TomDispatch #NickTurse
The Civilian Deaths You Haven't Heard About

Madogaz Musa Abdullah still remembers the phone call. But what came next was a blur. He drove for hours, deep into the Libyan desert, speeding toward the border with Algeria. His mind buckled, his thoughts

TomDispatch.com
bs2Mar 6, 2022
@Aether @clacke @strypey @cirnog @deprecated_ii @skylar
This thread reminds me of headlines I've seen on the #TomDispatch site. Now I have three tabs open to #NickTurse articles from 2012, 214 and 2015, gonna try to read them in order but I'll past the middle link: the intro mentions 'curious pro-#Russian protestors in eastern #Ukraine who tried to liberate an opera house in the city of Kharkiv, mistaking it for city hall'
https://tomdispatch.com/nick-turse-africom-becomes-a-war-fighting-combatant-command/
#MikeDavis on #BlackHawkDown comes to mind?
AFRICOM Goes to War on the Sly

What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things -- especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.  For years,

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