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US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

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763 points tartoran | 3 comments | 23 Oct 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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kome ◴[23 Oct 25 14:46 UTC] No.45682437[source]▶
The whole WikiLeaks affair about "Collateral Murder" was also about hiding U.S. war crimes. US army goes a long way to hide that stuff...

It was followed by a decade of ridiculous but very effective character assassination of Assange, who is hated based on how dislikable he appears.

I recommend youngsters and "zoomers" read about it, because the recent past is often the most forgotten: https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/

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1. procflora ◴[23 Oct 25 14:57 UTC] No.45682599[source]▶
Indeed, the recent trend of the US government itself posting videos of the drone murders of Venezuelans stands in real stark contrast to how that was handled just 15 years ago.
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2. hulitu ◴[23 Oct 25 15:50 UTC] No.45683276[source]▶
15 years ago it was Al-Qaeda.
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3. threetonesun ◴[23 Oct 25 16:58 UTC] No.45684159[source]▶
For better or worse they at least went out of their way to make a coherent narrative for attacks on Al-Qaeda.