Tag Archives: cold war
UK refuses to pursue radiation assassination case
The UK government has refused a request to hold a public inquiry into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko. Mr Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. Mr Litvinenko, 43, died after he was poisoned while drinking tea with two Russian men, one a former KGB officer, at a London hotel […]
US trained Guatemala for genocide
In 1999, President Bill Clinton went to Guatemala and apologized. Just two weeks earlier, a United Nations truth commission found Guatemalan security forces responsible for more than 90 percent of the human rights violations committed during the country’s long civil war. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/world/americas/trial-on-guatemalan-civil-war-carnage-leaves-out-us-role.html?ref=world Mr. Clinton’s apology was an admission that the Guatemalan military had not acted […]
Dirty Babylon 