1. Churchill’s Bengali Holocaust
(Newsletter)

...en moving at a turtle speed; tonight Netanyahu had flipped this turtle on its back”. CONTINUE... Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix Investigating Reports By Stephen Lendman    Wednesda...

2. Torture Works. Just Ask U.S. POWs from the Korean War
(Opinions/Politic)

...d Beyond, touchless torture has been a fundamental part of CIA and U.S. military operations for decades. Go back to Operation Phoenix in the Vietnam War. You’ll find it there, big time. Go back to th...

3. Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's 'Rules of Disengagement'
(Opinions/Review)

... the Vietnam My Lai massacre killing around 500 civilians was a mere skirmish compared to death squad campaigns like Operation Phoenix that contributed to an estimated 80,000 deaths from around 1968 -...

4. Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix
(Opinions/Daily)

...ge in command the Pentagon hopes will turn the tide in an increasingly violent eight-year war." Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix On June 15, AP reported that "Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a fou...

5. The Advocate
(Opinions/Features)

...ied and the majority were either tortured to death or . . . thrown out of helicopters." As Nick Schou reports, “Operation Phoenix detainees were tortured with electric shocks applied to their gen...

6. Australia hunts bushfire arsonists
(Archived/News/S+T)

Australian police say they are making progress in their hunt for arsonists thought to be behind some of the deadly bushfires that have swept large areas of the state of Victoria.

7. Australia fire zone a 'crime scene'
(Archived/News/S+T)

Australian police have said they are treating all areas hit by a wave of deadly bushfires as a potential crime scene, as investigators examine a vast blackened wasteland amid allegations that some of