Articles by Thomas Gaist
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Tenfold Increase in Cholera Cases in Yemen since April
Thomas Gaist | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017 – The war waged against Yemen by the Saudi monarchy, launched in March 2015 and supported extensively by the United States government, has produced a social catastrophe that easily ranks among the worst war crimes in history. The virtually complete destruction of Yemen’s social infrastructure, through deliberate and relentless bombing, has fueled an explosion of hunger and disease that continues to intensify with each passing day.
→ read full articleFamine Threatens Millions in the Horn of Africa as Washington Prepares Expanded War in Somalia
Thomas Gaist |WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – Even as starvation and malnutrition threaten more than 10 million lives in the Horn of Africa countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, the United States and its allies are preparing a massive expansion of military operations throughout the region.
→ read full articleAmerican Warplanes Slaughter Civilians in Northern Syria
Thomas Gaist | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Airstrikes by American warplanes, ordered by US Central Command (CENTCOM), killed dozens of civilians around the Syrian village of al-Tukhar on Monday [18 Jul]. An estimated 85 civilians, including at least 11 children, were killed in the strikes, with unknown numbers buried beneath the rubble.
→ read full articleFBI Claims Successful Hack of Apple iPhone Security Systems
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
30 Mar 2016 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Monday [28 Mar] that it successfully hacked security features embedded in the iPhone’s iOS 9 operating system, and will therefore end its legal case against the tech giant Apple. In a short court filing, the FBI informed the court that it “no longer requires the assistance of Apple, Inc” in its efforts to compromise the phone’s data protection mechanisms.
→ read full articleYemen: Five Medical Staff Dead in Third Bombing of Doctors Without Borders Facilities
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
MSF officials remained uncertain whether the explosion was caused by an airstrike or by a missile fired from ground forces. The identity of the attackers also remains contested, with reports from the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency asserting that the attack was launched by the Saudi coalition forces and US media reports maintaining that the origins of the strike are still not known.
→ read full articlePentagon Announces Worldwide Expansion of US Military Bases
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015 – The US Defense Department is preparing to expand its global network of military bases by establishing a new “string” of bases in countries stretching from Africa to East Asia, unnamed Pentagon officials told the New York Times Wednesday [9 Dec].
→ read full articleThai Military Sends Boat Carrying Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees “Out to Sea”
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
16 May 2015 – An aging fishing boat packed with hundreds of refugees, mostly ethnic Rohingya fleeing poverty and violent persecution in Myanmar (Burma), is drifting further out to sea on Friday [15 May 2015], after the government in Thailand prevented them from reaching land.
→ read full articleUS-NATO War Games Prepare Massive Military Escalation in West Africa
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
U.S. and NATO forces launched massive war games Monday [16 Feb 2015] in West Africa. The exercises, known as Operation Flintlock 2015, are to serve as the spearhead for a comprehensive military escalation by the US and European powers and their client regimes throughout the resource-rich Lake Chad Basin.
→ read full articleUS AFRICOM Commander Calls for “Huge” Military Campaign in West Africa
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
2 Feb2015 – US Africa Command’s head General David Rodriguez called for a large-scale US-led “counterinsurgency” campaign against groups in West Africa last week.
→ read full articleUN Report Condemns US Government’s “International Criminal Program of Torture”
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The report, prepared by the “Advocates for US Torture Prosecutions” and The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, states unequivocally that entire sections of the state apparatus are responsible for “breathtaking” crimes against international law.
→ read full articleUS Military’s ‘Defense Clandestine Service’ to Deploy Hundreds of International Spies
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
The recently formed Defense Clandestine Service, the elite in-house spying operation of the US Department of Defense, is training a large force of new CIA-trained intelligence agents. Overseen by an agency widely understood to be targeting the Chinese military, it represents another stride in the direction of world war.
→ read full articleToxic Fallout from US War Produces Record Child Birth Defect Rates in Iraq
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
A report presented at the University of Michigan last Wednesday [8 Oct 2014], showed that rates of cancer, child cancer and birth defects have reached historically unprecedented levels in Fallujah and other Iraqi cities since the 2003 US invasion.
→ read full articleUS Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by New York Times Reporter James Risen
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The US Supreme Court on Monday [2 Jun 2014] decided not to intervene in the case of James Risen, an author and reporter who is facing imprisonment for refusing to reveal the identity of one of his sources. He wrote a piece for the New York Times about the NSA’s compiling facial images of hundreds of millions of people in the US and around the world [published on TMS Spotlight today].
→ read full articleUS Appeals Court Strikes Down “Net Neutrality” Rules
Thomas Gaist, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 Tuesday [14 Jan 2014] that the Federal Communications Commission’s 2010 Open Internet regulations were based on a wrong legal argument and are void. The ruling represents a significant blow against “net neutrality.”
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