See the speach by Stephen Cohen

Many westerners probably think about Thailand as a tourist paradise, but the human rights situation there is far from paradisal. Last year, Thailand’s military junta was reported to have blocked access to a human rights report. Now we read new allegations of torture in military custody. Amnesty International has voiced concerns for Thailand and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Read in The Guardian about Méxicoleaks or visit the Méxicoleaks web site (in Spanish).

We also congratulate Paul Craig Roberts for the International Award For Excellence In Journalism by the Press Club Of Mexico. Read his speach Truth Is Our Country.

Read on The Intercept how the FBI abused a young mentally ill man

With the USA apparently in control of much of Europe, their far-reaching surveillance of the population whose minds are influenced by an effective propaganda apparatus, the wars of aggression, western troops deployed on the eastern front in Ukraine and the concentration-camp-like Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, comparisons are made between the USA and Nazi Germany. Read what John Pilger writes about the rise of fascism.

Watch the video “suspected CIA agent recruited in Sweden, killed by al-Qaida” in Swedish on Aftonbladet’s website

The pleas by Amnesty International and many others were in vain. Saman Naseem was executed last month. According to Amnesty, he was earlier tortured to confess.

Read the news on Kaspersky’s web site and the comments by Wired and The Economist.

Military and civilian authorities are too often responsible for putting our environment at risk, not just by failing to protect the environment in general terms. Sometimes they are even directly responsible for pollution. One example is the German submarine U-864, which transported mercury when she was sunk during World War II. After 70 years, this is a lasting threat to the North Sea. Other examples are dumped nuclear reactors and lost nuclear weapons, such as on Greenland.

In Sweden, a case hase recently been revealed where tons of poison, including DDT, was deliberately dumped by authorities. Read the testimony by one of the drivers (in Swedish). Also the Swedish military is critisized for other cases, where decontamination has not been done. Not surprisingly, they have their own supervisory authority, which seems to let them get away with it (subscribers of Dagens Industri can read the article in Swedish).

Read in The Guardian and The Intercept about the drone strike on 13-year-old Mohammed Toiman al-Jahmi in Yemen. He is one of the hundreds of children, which have been murdered by the US government.

It is obvious that the murderers need to be held accountable, for these atrocities to end.