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EUA: assim funciona o sistema de assassinatos. Gif produzido a partir de instalação feita, em aldeia paquistanesa, pelo coletivo de artistas JR (www.jr-art.net).

EUA: assim funciona o sistema de assassinatos

Para conhecer o projeto: Quase dez mil “inimigos” de Washington já foram mortos por meio de drones. Como são escolhidos os alvos. Qual o papel de Obama. Por que tantos civis são liquidados “por engano” Exportação de armas dos EUA para Iraque cresceu 83% desde 2006, porém EI intercepta maior parte, diz relatório. Dados do SIPRI revelam que o volume de armas enviadas pelos EUA para áreas em conflito aumentou 27% em comparação aos anos 2006 e 2010; já o total no comércio de armas cresceu 14% por todo o mundo Os Estados Unidos seguem na liderança do comércio de armas e munições no mundo.

Exportação de armas dos EUA para Iraque cresceu 83% desde 2006, porém EI intercepta maior parte, diz relatório

Levantamento do Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Instituto Internacional de Estudos sobre a Paz Estocolmo, ou SIPRI, na sigla em inglês) revela que boa parte dos armamentos é enviada para países em conflito, contribuindo para alimentar a violência e desordem global. 9/11 and the Imperial Mentality. We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world.

9/11 and the Imperial Mentality

On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a team of elite US commandos, Navy SEALs, after he was captured, unarmed and undefended, in Operation Geronimo. A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. "He repeatedly asserted that the only way to drive the U.S. from the Muslim world and defeat its satraps was by drawing Americans into a series of small but expensive wars that would ultimately bankrupt them," Eric Margolis writes. "'Bleeding the U.S.,' in his words. " The United States, first under George W.

It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did. A St.

It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did

Louis County grand jury on Monday decided not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in the August killing of teenager Michael Brown. The decision wasn’t a surprise — leaks from the grand jury had led most observers to conclude an indictment was unlikely — but it was unusual. Grand juries nearly always decide to indict. Or at least, they nearly always do so in cases that don’t involve police officers. Former New York state Chief Judge Sol Wachtler famously remarked that a prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.” Eleições EUA 2014: Novo Sul altera a aritmética política nos Estados Unidos. Desean Ceasar, um afroamericano de 31 anos, é um exemplo do chamado Novo Sul dos Estados Unidos: mais negro e latino, com mais jovens brancos muito qualificados e mais urbano.

Eleições EUA 2014: Novo Sul altera a aritmética política nos Estados Unidos

Nascido em Los Angeles, mudou-se há oito anos para Atlanta, onde tem familiares. Hate Map. The Geography of Hate is part of a larger project by Dr.

Hate Map

Monica Stephens of Humboldt State University (HSU) identifying the geographic origins of online hate speech. Undergraduate students Amelia Egle, Matthew Eiben and Miles Ross, worked to produce the data and this map as part of Dr. Stephens' Advanced Cartography course at Humboldt State University. The data behind this map is based on every geocoded tweet in the United States from June 2012 - April 2013 containing one of the 'hate words'.

This equated to over 150,000 tweets and was drawn from the DOLLY project based at the University of Kentucky. To produce the map all tweets containing each 'hate word' were aggregated to the county level and normalized by the total twitter traffic in each county. Media_consolidation.jpg 935×700 pixels. Nadhmi Auchi. From WikiLeaks Nadhmi Auchi (Arabic: نظمي أوجي‎) is a British resident Iraqi billionaire and former Ba'ath party member who left Iraq in the early 1980s.

Nadhmi Auchi

He is the founder and chairman of the Luxembourg registered General Mediterranean Holding (GMH SA), a conglomerate of 120 companies worldwide. Nadhmi Auchi, seen here with the Governor of Illinois, Rob Blagojevich (right) in 2004 at, according to Auchi's website GMHSA.com, a Chicago dinner in Auchi's honor Rob Blagojevich (middle) applauding Nadhmi Auchi on a party arranged by Tony Rezko (potentially in the right) Preserved articles and related leaks on Wikileaks Legal aspects Related analysis. Blackwater's Black Ops. Internal documents reveal the firm's clandestine work for multinationals and governments.

Blackwater's Black Ops

Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The Nation . Blackwater's work for corporations and government agencies was contracted using two companies owned by Blackwater's owner and founder, Erik Prince: Total Intelligence Solutions and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC).

Prince is listed as the chairman of both companies in internal company documents, which show how the web of companies functions as a highly coordinated operation. The Federalist - Contents. About.com: government 101.

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