US Expected to Continue Drone Strikes in Pakistan, Despite Criticism

VOAvideo — June 15, 2010 — A recent UN report called on the Obama administration to stop unmanned drone strikes against terrorists along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. The human rights group, Amnesty International, says the United States must clarify rules for using drones and monitor the impact on civilians. Critics say U.S. drone attacks have killed hundreds of civilians over last few years. Despite criticism, analysts say the U.S. is not likely to change its tactics and will continue using drones. VOAs Deborah Block reports. Video Inside ...

Official death toll in Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes reaches 170

Bhopal Disaster Convictions : 'Insulting'

June 10, 2010 — Rights groups representing survivors of the Bhopal disaster expressed outrage at what they called "insulting" sentences given to seven men for their roles in the tragedy.

Keiser Report on Toxic Twins: Oil Spill & Cash Crisis.

RussiaToday — June 01, 2010 — This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert compare the BP offshore toxic oil spill crisis to the toxic derivatives spill polluting global financial system. In the second half of the show, Max interviews Heidi Moore of Slate's TheBigMoney.com about movie futures, financial innovation and financial reform.

BP Decisions Set Stage for Disaster

First before you go on reading:

Memorial for the Oil Rig Victims

MAY 27, 2010

By BEN CASSELMAN And RUSSELL GOLD -

It was a difficult drill from the start.

API Well No. 60-817-44169 threw up many challenges to its principal owner, BP PLC, swallowing expensive drilling fluid and burping out dangerous gas. Those woes put the Gulf of Mexico project over budget and behind schedule by April 20, the day the well erupted, destroying the Deepwater Horizon rig and killing 11 men.

Government investigators have yet to announce conclusions about what went wrong that day. The final step in the causation chain, industry engineers have said in interviews, was most likely the failure of a crucial seal at the top of the well or a cement plug at the bottom.

Anti-Islam Politicians on Rise in Europe.

VOAvideo — June 08, 2010 — Dutch voters go the polls on June 9th to elect a new government. The issue of immigration is playing high in the campaign, with the far-right 'Dutch Freedom Party' expected to finish in the top three. Its leader Geert Wilders has based his campaign on a strong anti-Islam ticket, calling for an end to Muslim immigration and for existing Muslim migrants to be paid to leave. Henry Ridgwell traveled to the Netherlands to find out whether the famously liberal Dutch society is taking a turn to the right. Here's his report from Amsterdam.

israel Admits It Doctored Flotilla Audio Tapes

encryptedreality0 — June 07, 2010 — The IDF admitted today in a press release that it doctored audio footage from its exchanges with the Gaza flotilla in order to paint the flotilla passengers as anti-Semites.

American Democracy & the World's worst oil spill - the reality!

BP and Govt. Prevent Photos of Gulf Oil Spill.

theGlobalReport — June 04, 2010 — As BP made and failed in its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers have complained that their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials—working with BP—who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible.      [video 1]

Capping the 'truth spill'

James Boyce: BP spill reveals urgent necessity to stop digging up poison and burning it for fuel. [video 2]

The unstoppable BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill is killing the earth!

If this engineer is right, this  is truly a scary scenario!  Here's  his story.  "Heard your mention of the  oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most  everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on  how big and bad of a disaster this is. First fact, the original  estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean.  Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons  of crude oil a week! I'm engineer with 25 y ears of experience. I've  worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this  mess is so clear to me.

Greek military spending criticised

AlJazeeraEnglish — May 13, 2010 — Despite a deep deficit crisis, Greece is being encouraged by Paris and Berlin to continue spending billions of dollars on defence.

It spends just over three per cent of it's gross domestic product on military weapons - more than any other nation in the EU - included those involved in international conflicts, such as Britain, France and Germany

Athens' military budget even eclipses Pakistan - a nation at war on several fronts.

Operation Eagle Claw's anniversary .

AlJazeeraEnglish — April 25, 2010 — It has been 30 years since the US undertook Operation Eagle Claw - a failed military mission to rescue 52 diplomats and embassy staff taken hostage in Iran.

About 90 commandoes, eight helicopters and six aircraft landed in the Iranian desert on the first stage of the mission, but an accident resulted in the deaths of eight soldiers and it was called off.

Students plunges to death while fleeing religious officers.

By M. KUMAR   |  staronline -  Saturday April 24, 2010

GOMBAK: In his haste to escape punishment from religious officers, a college student who was alone with his girlfriend plunged to his death from the fifth floor of an apartment.

The 21-year-old student was believed to have panicked when several policemen and officers from the Selangor Religious Department knocked on the door of the rented apartment Saturday morning.

Pencil found in rape victim

Staron line | By RASHITHA A. HAMID - Thursday April 22, 2010

GOMBAK: Doctors examining the 14-year-old orphan who claimed she was raped by a classmate last week were shocked to find that not only was she one-month pregnant but there was also a pencil in her private parts.

Smoking by Qatari diplomat forces down plane by F-16's

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:24:03 | PressTV

US air security authorities have scrambled military jets to force land an airliner after a passenger, a Qatari diplomat, lighted a cigarette in the aircraft's lavatory.

The US Northern Command authorized the escorting of a United Airlines Boeing 757 by two F-16 fighter jets after the pilot of the passenger plane signaled an in-flight incident, US media reported Wednesday.

Afghanistan police - Kandahar's sitting ducks

Ajazeera | March 31, 2010 - Much of the day-to-day security in Kandahar falls on the shoulders of Afghanistan's police force.

The government has just announced that it will send a thousand more officers to help drive out the Taliban from the southern province by August.

As Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, seeks help in tackling the Taliban, it is the police in Afghanistan that are bearing the brunt of the casualties, with an average of six officers getting killed each day.