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“Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top. . . . It’s the dirt that does it. . . . . If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it.” This bit of cheery advice was offered by Thomas K. […]
By Patricia Burke Covert Action Magazine: Ban Killer Drones: International Grassroots Movement to Ban Weaponized Drones Launched (Part 1) May 10, 2021, Jack Gilroy, writing for Covert Action Magazine reported, An international grassroots movement to ban weaponized drones and military and police surveillance, entitled Ban Killer Drones, has been launched. Progressive readers will remember the years of struggle that […]
Biden’s Drone Wars, by Brian Terrell Rise Up Times
“When you drop a bomb from a drone… you are going to cause more damage than you are going to cause good,” and “The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that just… fuels the conflict.” General Michael Flynn
Would it surprise you to know that women in Saudi Arabia need a male guardian s permission to get married? Or that if they want to divorce, they have to justify it to a male judge s satisfaction, even though husbands may divorce with neither justification nor judicial decree? Did you know that a Saudi woman s testimony in court is worth only half that of a man’s? A woman s child custody can be revoked if she doesn t dress what is deemed modestly enough to male superiors or if she works full time or remarries.
Many of those practices stem from a particularly strict interpretation of Muslim Sharia law called Wahhabism, according to Human Rights Watch, which says Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to completely observe it. The Saudi government denies those practices are in the law.