1 week ago Electric shocks, starvation, sick surgical experiments... and brutal castration: Horror stories from bloodied survivors of Putin's savage conveyor belt of torture

Earlier this year, a soldier known only as Vladyslav was taken prisoner along with seven others. Their Russian captors sliced off their genitals, gouged out their eyes and cut off their ears, noses and lips.

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1 week ago Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais

Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?Today I watched those children again, the ones who stood before the cameras at al-Shifa hospital on 7 November 2023. They spoke in English, not their mother tongue, but the language of those who they thought might save them.“We want to live, we want peace, we want to judge the killers of children,” one boy said. “We want medicine, food and education. We want to live as the other children live.”How holy their concern now sounds, rising over a land emptied of the living.As if starving a child pre-disposed to death makes the violence more justified?Ahmad Ibsais is a first generation Palestinian American, law student and poet who writes the newsletter State of Siege Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity | Moira Donegan

In its allegations against the Maryland man, the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itselfIn a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent in a Tennessee jail after his return from a Salvadorian prison camp in June as a kind of protective custody. Ábrego, a Maryland resident who had never been charged with any crime either in the US or in his native El Salvador, became a symbol of the Trump administration’s ambitiously sadistic anti-immigration efforts when he was kidnapped by I agents in March and sent without due process to Cecot, a massive prison in El Salvador from which few detainees are ever released, as a result of what representatives for the Trump immigration authorities called an administrative error. Ábrego became a symbol for the several hundred men who had been deprived of their liberty and deported to the distant foreign prison without due process and in defiance of both American and international law.It was only after e...

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3 w. ago Sick serial paedo to undergo 'surgical castration' after raping seven

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Thomas Allen McCartney, 37, classified a 'Tier Three' offender and considered one of Louisiana's worst child predators, has agreed to undergo surgical castration

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3 w. ago Serial pedophile to be surgically castrated in American first law after raping seven

A Louisiana man has agreed to be castrated as part of a plea deal after he was caught trying to sexually assault a 7-year-old child-- the most recent of many victims.

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4 w. ago Melania Trump makes bombshell $1 billion threat against Hunter Biden after 'inflammatory' Epstein comments

First lady Melania Trump is threatening to sue Hunter Biden for $1 billion over false and defamatory claims that she was introduced to President Donald Trump by serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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