Reactionary Watch
Nazi propaganda to be banned in Russia
Russian senators are drafting a bill on prohibiting the glorification of Nazi crimes and the usage of any Nazi or similar symbols and gestures in the country. Violation of the law will be punishable by a fine from 300,000 rubles… Read More ›
N. Dakota pushes abortion ban: ‘Life begins at conception’
North Dakota legislatures have passed toughest anti-abortion resolution, asking the public to decide whether the state constitution should define life as beginning at conception. If approved, state-wide abortions will be outlawed. The resolution was passed on Friday and will appear… Read More ›
Second NYPD officer testifies on stop-and-frisk quotas, racial targeting
Following a leaked recording seeming to prove the existence of an NYPD arrest quota system, a second police officer has come forward to explain to a federal judge why he decided to record his superiors as they directed him to… Read More ›
Yale will train US Special Forces in interrogation techniques using immigrants as guinea pigs
Yale University is planning to train US Special Forces to detect lies by practicing on immigrants. The program strives to provide soldiers with such interview tactics by practicing on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with”. Starting as early as April,… Read More ›
Leaked trial evidence suggests NYPD set arrest quotas
Arrest and summons quotas for New York police were outlawed in 2010, and although solid evidence of such requirements has been difficult to come by, an audio recording obtained by a New York magazine indicates that the practice continues today…. Read More ›
Dirty Wars: Pope Francis’ Ties to Argentina’s Right-wing Junta
Democracy Now! reports this morning: While praised for his work with the poor, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — now Pope Francis — has long been dogged by accusations of his role during Argentina’s military dictatorship. We speak to Horacio Verbitsky,… Read More ›
Fascism Comes to Queens
Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party that has tormented Greece and terrorized immigrants, has now brought its fascist message of anti-democratic intimidation to New York City. On March 2, New York supporters of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) had planned… Read More ›
Israel’s Peres urges Arab intervention in Syria
By Martine Pauwels (AFP) STRASBOURG, France — Israel’s Shimon Peres called Tuesday for Arab intervention “to stop the massacre” in Syria as he delivered the first speech by an Israeli head of state to the European Parliament in almost three… Read More ›
‘If you were a man, we’d kill you’: Captive journalist tells RT how she escaped Syrian rebels
‘I couldn’t bear it any longer’, recalls Anhar Kochneva. The Ukrainian journalist who escaped Syrian rebels five months after she was kidnapped told RT about what she had to go through while in captivity and how she managed to run… Read More ›
Libyan Women Face Islamist Rise Since Gaddafi Fall
By MAGGIE MICHAEL On her way back from her job as a lecturer at a university near Tripoli, Libyan poet Aicha Almagrabi was stopped by a group of bearded militiamen. They kicked her car, beat up her driver and threatened… Read More ›
IDF teargas int’l journalists covering peaceful protest in West Bank, incl RT crew
Several international journalists, including an RT cameraman, have suffered from teargas as IDF have launched teargas bombs at the media crews outside Ofer Prison, West Bank. In recent weeks protests outside the facility have left scores of injured. The RT… Read More ›
Arkansas adopts most restrictive abortion law in US
Women looking to procure an abortion in the state of Arkansas will no longer be able to do so after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The state has passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US, prompting opponents to threaten… Read More ›
‘Anti-Semitic’ Romanian author nominated for Nobel Prize
Writers’ association in Moldova reportedly nominates Paul Goma – who is accused of ‘denying the Holocaust, falsifying historical facts’ – for Nobel Prize in Literature. A writers’ association in Moldova has reportedly nominated Paul Goma, a Romanian author accused of… Read More ›
Syrian Rebels Angry Over US Aid: ‘Only Thing We Want Is Weapons’
Non-Lethal Aid Doesn’t Conquer Countries, Gen. Idris Insists by Jason Ditz General Salim Idris, the Chief of Staff of the Syrian rebels’ Supreme Military Council, reacted with anger toward the US announcement of additional aid for his forces, insisting that the promise… Read More ›
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