By Stephen Lendman Even America’s major media can’t duck a crime this grave – attacking and slaughtering up to 20 Gaza Freedom Flotilla activists and injuring dozens more. New York Times writer Isabel Kershner headlined “At Least 10 Killed as Israel Intercepts Aid Flotilla, saying: “The Israeli Navy raided a flotilla carrying thousands of tons …
Daily Archive: May 31, 2010
May 31
Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf of Mexico
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – In what is looming as another public relations predicament for Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted today that it made “a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico” one day before the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water. The new revelations came to light …
May 31
The Last Secret of the Moai
Image Credit Flickr User Individuo The impassive monoliths of Easter Island have for many years flummoxed and baffled archaeologists. The theory had for many years gone that out of all these magnificent moai, those inland had simply been abandoned by the tracks. Image Credit Flickr User Robert Nyman Some suggested they were possibly too heavy …
May 31
Obama administration blocked efforts to stop BP oil drilling before explosion
n 2009, the Obama administration intervened to support the reversal of a court order that would have halted offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has long had close ties to the industry, specifically cited BP’s Deepwater Horizon operation as one that should be allowed to go forward, …
May 31
Death toll from Gaza aid attack hits 20
The death toll from the Israeli navy’s takeover of a Gaza aid convoy has risen to 20 while Israel carefully censors reports on the casualties from the attack. Gaza Freedom Flotilla came under fire early on Monday by Israeli navy forces in international waters more than 150km (90 miles) off the coast of Gaza. The …
May 31
Update: Initial reports – 10-16 people killed, 30-60 injured in Israeli attack on freedom flotilla
Follow #flotilla on twitter for the latest updates. Update (12:45 am 5/31/10): Haaretz is reporting: “At least 10 activists killed as Israel Navy opens fire on Gaza aid flotilla.” Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros just tweeted that Israeli Army Radio is saying “between 10-14 people killed on flotilla.” These reports are all unconfirmed. We have a …
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