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(13.06.2013) Jeden Monat sterben momentan laut UN in dem Konflikt zwischen 5.000 und 6.000 Menschen – eine dramatische Steigerung im Vergleich zu durchschnittlich 1.000 Toten pro Monat noch im Sommer 2011. Der Krieg hält nun seit mehr als zwei Jahren an.

(08.09.2011) Barakat said he‘ll only have a complete count in several weeks, but that he expects the final figure for dead and wounded to be higher than his current estimates. Libya has a population of just over 6 million.

The Nation’s interactive database of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is an attempt to compile as complete a list as possible of all known civilian deaths that have occurred in the country as a result of war-related actions by the United States, its allies and Afghan government forces, from the invasion in October of 2001 through the end of 2012.

Der Einmarsch in den Irak, so Jamail, “ist ein Verbrechen gegen den Frieden nach den Nürnberger Prinzipien.” Und das macht ihn und alle zukünftigen Kriege zu einem Verbrechen gegen unsere eigenen und gegen die lebenswichtigen Interessen des Planeten.

Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday.

Estimates of the number of casualties vary, with some suggesting as many as 3.8 million violent war deaths.

There has never been a peace treaty, so the Korean War has technically never ended. (..)

U.S. Troops Statistics
Source: Dept. of Defense
U.S. Deaths:
Hostile: 33,739
Non-Hostile: 2,835
Total In-Theatre: 36,574
U.S. Wounded in Action – 103,284

Other Casualties by Country (killed and missing)
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
South Korea – (217,000 military, 1,000,000 civilian)
North Korea – (406,000 military, 600,000 civilian)
China – (600,000 military)

Anderson Cooper 360 | Added on December 9, 2013
The sister of detained American Kenneth Bae talks about her family‘s efforts to free him North Korea.

Looking at the television and newspaper reports, I‘ve seen a lotof speculation about why I was detained. I‘ve given considerable thought to this and have come to the conclusionthat I just didn‘t understand that, for the North Korean regime, the Korean War isn‘t over and that even innocent remarksabout the war can cause big problems if you are a foreigner. I‘m a Korean War veteran and I‘m proud of my military service, when I helped train Korean partisans.

The North Koreans still harbor resentment about those partisans from the Mt Kuwol area and what other anti-Communist guerrillas did in North Korea before and during the war.

(09.12.2013) „I innocently asked my North Korean guides whether some of those who fought in the war in the Mount Kuwol area might still be alive, and expressed an interest in possibly meeting them if they were. The North Koreans seem to have misinterpreted my curiosity as something more sinister,“ he wrote.

„It is now clear to me the North Koreans still feel much more anger about the war than I realized. With the benefit of hindsight, I should have been more sensitive to that.“

„Ich weiß, dass die Fähigkeit, um die Tyrannei in Amerika komplett zu machen, da ist, und wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass diese Behörde [die National Security Agency] und alle Behörden, die diese Technologie besitzen, im Rahmen des Gesetzes und unter Aufsicht operieren, so dass wir nie über diesen Abgrund hinaus gehen. Das ist der Abgrund, von dem aus es keine Rückkehr gibt.”

– Senator Frank Church (1975)

Ich möchte vier große und schlecht verstandene Ereignisse besprechen – das John-F.- Kennedy-Attentat, Watergate, Iran-Contra und 9/11. Ich werde diese Tiefenereignisse als Teil eines tieferen politischen Prozesses analysieren, der sie verbindet; ein Prozess, der dazu beigetragen hat, repressive Macht in Amerika auf Kosten der Demokratie aufzubauen.

B‘Tselem video shows Yitzhar settlers hurling stones at Palestinian home, school in Nablus-adjacent village. Footage shows IDF soldiers present, not intervening

More than 10,000 African migrants demonstrated outside Israel‘s parliament on Wednesday, extending protests into a fourth consecutive day in a quest for recognition as refugees and freedom to work legally without fear of incarceration.

As John Kerry‘s Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative moves into a decisive stage, two Jerusalem truths are becoming crystal clear. First, either the two-state solution will also take place within Jerusalem, or there will be no two-state solution at all. Second, any attempt to reach a permanent status agreement regarding Jerusalem that ignores the already existing, deeply rooted urban realities of this bi-national and divided city is doomed to failure.

Knesset bars access to delegation representing thousands of Eritrean and Somali ‚infiltrators‘ on fourth day of action

In Der Spiegel‘s recent revelations about the far-reaching nature of the NSA‘s spykit, it mentions several US companies, Samsung from South Korea, and one from China — Huawei. Like the others, Huawei denied any knowledge of the modifications to its products that Der Spiegel claims are used by the NSA to break into systems. This isn‘t the first time that the finger has been pointed at Huawei. Some years back, Huawei was accused of facilitating spying for the Chinese government, but after an 18-month investigation, no evidence was found of this. That fact allowed John Suffolk, Global Head of Cyber Security for Huawei and the former UK Government CIO, to enjoy the irony of Snowden‘s leaks about backdoors in US products:

In other words, „my bill is for people who already support these programs.“ Exactly the opposite of what her marketing and public statements about the bill have been. Oops.

• Decision on surveillance expected before state of the union
• Congressional leaders to join as president mulls NSA review

Thousands of African migrants gather in Central Israel for a third consecutive day to protest Israeli government policy of round up and detention. There are sixty thousand migrants in Israel and protestors say they persist in their public appeal until detentions stop and they gain social status. Stephanie Freid reports