Tag: civilian casualties

Report: Cluster bomb deaths in Ukraine pass Syria casualties

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

For the first time in a decade, Ukraine has surpassed Syria as the country with the highest number of casualties from cluster bombs. That’s according to a report from the Cluster Munition Coalition weapons watchdog. Nathan Southern from the University of St. Andrews has more on this report.

Report: Cluster bomb deaths in Ukraine pass Syria casualties

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Ukraine surpasses Syria for highest casualties from cluster munitions

Cluster munitions killed at least 37 Yemenis in August: Watchdog

Timeline: Use of controversial cluster bombs in past conflicts

Al Jazeera falsely claims that Russia used cluster munitions in Crimea! Nowhere, in the linked report, does HRW mention Crimea!

Ex-Italian PM claims 1980 passenger jet crash was failed attempt by France to kill Libyan president

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

More than 40 years after the mysterious shooting down of an Italian plane that carried 81 passengers, former two-time premier Giuliano Amato claims France was behind it

Ex-Italian PM claims 1980 passenger jet crash was failed attempt by France to kill Libyan president

H/T: Emil Cosman

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Italy’s Darkest Night — Part 3 of 3

U.S. Allowing Weapons Customers to Commit Crimes Against Humanity on the Saudi‐Yemen Border

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

President Joe Biden wants to sign a security agreement with Saudi Arabia despite its history of human rights abuses and, in recent actions, its reported shooting and killing of Ethiopian migrants.

U.S. Allowing Weapons Customers to Commit Crimes Against Humanity on the Saudi‐Yemen Border

Previously:

US Knew Saudis Were Slaughtering African Migrants at Border But Kept Quiet

Biden Isn’t Fooled by Netanyahu. So Why Meet Him? + Biden should rethink the Saudi Arabia-Israel normalization deal

How Hunter Biden’s Interests ‘Overlapped’ With Banned Ukrainian Oligarch + More

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

[2021] How Hunter Biden’s Interests ‘Overlapped’ With Banned Ukrainian Oligarch (archived)

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[2022] How One Ukrainian Billionaire Funded Hunter Biden, President Volodymyr Zelensky, And The Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion (archived)

A 2012 study of Burisma Holdings done in Ukraine by the AntiCorruption Action Centre (ANTAC), an investigative nonprofit co-funded by American billionaire George Soros and the U.S. State Department, found that the true owner of Burisma Holdings was none other than Ukrainian billionaire-oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky.

US Embassy pressed Ukraine to drop probe of George Soros group during 2016 election

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A ‘Terrorist Onslaught’? This Is Why Netanyahu, Gallant Blame Iran for West Bank Violence

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Despite their complicated and often uneasy relationship, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant agree on one thing: Iran is behind Israel’s security problem.

A ‘Terrorist Onslaught’? This Is Why Netanyahu, Gallant Blame Iran for West Bank Violence

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Netanyahu Reverses Firing of Israeli Defense Minister

Russia repels Ukraine drone attack on Moscow as missiles hit gathering of drone makers in Ukrainian city

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
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Russian authorities have reported repelling Ukrainian drone attacks targeting Moscow and another city as Kiev declares a Russian missile strike targeting the venue of Ukrainian drone manufacturers in a northern city.

Russia repels Ukraine drone attack on Moscow as missiles hit gathering of drone makers in Ukrainian city

H/T: RUSSIAN ATTACK IN CHERNIGOV: Russia attacks the drama theater in Chernigov, Ukraine | Liu Sivaya

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Russia hit Chernihiv during drone manufacturers and aerial reconnaissance gathering

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Needless, Said World War II’s Top US Military Leaders

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
“Three-year old Shinichi Tetsutani, burned as he was riding this tricycle when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima, died a painful death that night (Hiroki Kobayashi/National Geographic)”

The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of American history — that those twin acts of mass civilian slaughter were necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender, and spare a half-million US soldiers who’d have otherwise died in a military conquest of the empire’s home islands.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Needless, Said World War II’s Top US Military Leaders