"Being told by officers to kill peaceful and unarmed civilians is the most brutal thing that ever happened to me," said the defected former sniper, a member of the special forces of the army's Division 47, which he said was deployed from Damascus to Izra', 30km north-east of Deraa, on April 25.
Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and overlook the facts.
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.
Barack Obama will mit dem Afghanistan-Abzug das "Jahrzehnt des Krieges" beenden. Wer darüber jubelt, könnte sich bald eines Besseren besinnen.
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This is not to say that supporting forces opposed to Kim Jong Il would be an alternative to diplomacy. Far from it — undermining the regime might be the only realistic prospect for diplomacy to succeed, and may be the alternative that resolves this crisis at the lowest cost in human life.
Im F.A.S.-Interview spricht eine syrische Ärztin über ihren Einsatz im seit Wochen von der Armee belagerten Homs, die Rolle der Frauen bei den Protesten und die wachsenden Spannungen zwischen den Konfessionen: „Der Geruch von Bürgerkrieg liegt in der Luft.“
Myth #1: Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire president, and it was his lack of action that lead to an economic collapse. Davies argues that in fact, Hoover was a very interventionist president, and it was his intervening in the economy that made matters worse.
Myth #2: The New Deal ended the Great Depression. Davies argues that the New Deal actually made matters worse. In other countries, the Great Depression ended much sooner and more quickly than it did in the United States.
Myth #3: World War II ended the Great Depression. Davies explains that military production is not real wealth.; wars destroy wealth, they do not create wealth. In fact, examination of the historical data reveals that the U.S. economy did not really start to recover until after WWII was over.
Tom Coyner, Seoul-based editor of the email service Korea Economic Reader, noted last week the emergence of a “widespread consensus shared by interested parties outside of North Korea: We have moved from a selection of only bad options to a resignation that there are no options to be realistically played.”
So why not just come out and say it?
Not only would perennially hungry North Korea benefit from the removal of the founder’s son and heir Kim Jong Il, the “Dear Leader.” But so would most of, if not all, the other countries with major interests in the region (perhaps even China). One could say the same about Kim Jong Il's own son and heir-designate, Kim Jong Un, who has shown no inclination to jettison the policies he’s likely to inherit.
Why not acknowledge, also, as Washington seems to have done in the case of Osama bin Laden, that there are reasons why removing them dead might be better than removing them alive?
In diesen Tagen feiern wir die tapferen Söhnen unseres Aufrechten Syrischen Bruder-Volkes (ASBV), die von zionistischen Mördern hingeschlachtet wurden, weil sie ihre zutiefst empfundene Sympathie und ehrlich erlebte Solidarität mit dem Großen Palästinensischen Helden-Volk (GPHV) in Gaza und Ramallah annoncierten, indem sie sich als Selbstopfer und wie ein Mann gegen die Mauer, die ein Zaun ist, und ins menschenverachtende Mündungsfeuer des zionistischen Gebildes warfen um die Zärtlichkeit zwischen den Völkern zu heiligen!
"In the end I said: 'I beg you God, don't let them arrest my friends. I don't want them to be electrocuted like me.' In prison there is no female or male. There are only humans and monsters."
Human Rights Watch’s research has established that since March 18, 2011 and to this writing Syrian security forces have committed systematic killings in Daraa governorate. They deliberately targeted protesters, who were in the vast majority of cases unarmed and posed no threat to the forces; rescuers who were trying to take the wounded and the bodies away; medical personnel trying to reach the wounded; and, during the siege, people who dared to go out of their houses or to enter the city with supplies. In some cases, they also shot bystanders, including women and children.
At least 11 mourners have been killed and at least 27 wounded in Homs after security forces opened fire on a massive funeral procession, according to human rights activists.
Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale objects. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O'Connell has blurred that distinction by creating an object that is visible to the unaided eye, but provably in two places at the same time. In this talk he suggests an intriguing way of thinking about the result.
