Posts Tagged ‘ethical oil’
Putin’s Assassination State
All states have their enemies. Just a few days ago, the United States succeeded in taking out Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior recruiter, propagandist and organizer for al-Qaeda, with a drone attack in Yemen. Earlier this year, U.S. forces flew into Pakistan to seek and destroy Osama bin Laden.
And this week, a leaked document shows that Vladimir Putin has been arranging for his own enemies to be assassinated. As Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports:
The Russian secret service authorised the “elimination” of individuals living overseas who were judged to be enemies of the state and ordered the creation of special units to conduct such operations, according to a document passed to The Daily Telegraph.
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Death and diplomacy in Russia
There’s a little diplomatic row happening between Russia and the United States. Odds are very good you haven’t even heard about it. It hasn’t received much coverage. But as quiet and minor as it may be, with each country putting a handful of citizens from the other country on a visa blacklist, it has to do with a much deeper, more troublesome story: the story of human rights abuses and corruption running as rampant as ever in Russia.
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