Press TV- A Bahraini human rights organization says 18 people were arrested arbitrarily in the kingdom in the last week of July as Manama presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said on Wednesday that it had also documented 36 peaceful protests across the Persian Gulf country […]
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Yemen: UK Parliamentary Committee Calls for Halt to Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, Moots International Inquiry into Alleged International Law Abuses
February 6th, 2016 Awake Goy
Mercurial: “Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.” In a woefully belated but welcome initiative the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee, the influential cross party oversight body which scrutinizes the Department for International Development, has called for a suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. In context, the reason for the Committee’s […]
NZ minister gets dildo in face after TPP signing (VIDEO)
February 5th, 2016 Awake Goy
Joyce was an easy target, giving an interview to the press, following the February 4 signing of the TPP agreement, hailed as “the biggest trade deal in a generation.” But thousands of protesters had gathered earlier to march against the agreement. Shouting the words “that’s for raping our country,” the woman threw a huge pink […]