War

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War was said by some to be his greatest, self-imposed, defeat. With the passage of time — and so many more wars — history may tell a very different story. What was the impact of Ali’s stance on the war?

The U.N. has made a humiliating, disgraceful reversal in its reporting on the Saudi-led coalition’s crimes in Yemen:

The United Nations said on Monday it had removed the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen from a child rights blacklist pending a joint review by the world body and the coalition of the cases of child deaths and injuries.

Several weeks ago, when we showed dramatic scenes from a Venezuela looting in which countless people were wounded after 5,000 looters stormed a supermarket, looking for food...

¡VENEZUELA TIENE HAMBRE! #Video Saquean Mercado Mayorista Maracay #11May pic.twitter.com/DGRZ1bgkgI vía @venezolanodecen #CNERevocatorioYA

— El llanero (@llaneroVen) May 11, 2016

At the same time that Obama made history on May 27, when he became the first standing US president to visit Hiroshima, protests were taking place in Japan after a former marine working at a US military base in Okinawa was arrested by the Japanese police for allegedly killing a Japanese girl in April. Then overnight, an American sailor was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and causing a crash on the Japanese island of Okinawa, in the midst of a month-long curfew placed on U.S. service members after the arrest of an American contractor on murder-related charges.