Accountability

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls

August 26, 2025 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Educate! Accountability, Audit, Finance and the Economy, Pentagon, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion annually, second only to Social Security in the federal budget. The military outlay is also close to $1 trillion, consuming nearly half of the discretionary budget. As a sovereign nation, the United States could avoid debt altogether by simply paying for the budget deficit with Treasury-issued “Greenbacks,” as Abraham Lincoln’s government did. But I have written on that before (see here and here), so this article will focus on that other elephant in the room, the Department of Defense. Under the Constitution, the military budget should not be paid at all, because the Pentagon has never passed an audit.

Microsoft Launches Formal Review Into Gaza Surveillance Claims

August 20, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Strategize! Accountability, Israel, Microsoft, No Tech for Apartheid, Palestine, Surveillance

Microsoft announced on 15 August that it has opened an independent review into the reported use of its Azure cloud technology by the Israeli military's Unit 8200, following detailed investigations published by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call. The company updated a blog post originally published in May, saying it does not always have visibility into how clients deploy its software once installed on private servers and devices. “Microsoft appreciates that The Guardian’s recent report raises additional and precise allegations that merit a full and urgent review,” the company said. It pledged to release its findings once the review, led by Covington & Burling LLP, is complete.

Government Officials Who Push Button Of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should

August 9, 2025 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Accountability, Hiroshima, Japan, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, War crimes

For the past five days I have been in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We have now travelled to Nagasaki to participate in an international conference there and the commemoration of the August 9 atomic bombing of that city. Archived documents reveal that the Japanese government was going to surrender. The decision of the Truman administration to go ahead and incinerate with atomic bombs 210,000 citizens of two Japanese cities as a warning to the Soviet Union was a war crime of the highest degree.

Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution In 1974

August 7, 2025 Rebecca John, DeSmog. Educate! Accountability, Plastics, pollution, Recycling

With international treaty negotiations aimed at addressing the plastic pollution crisis resuming in Switzerland this week, a new document reveals that one of the world’s largest plastic producers, DuPont, acknowledged as early as 1974 that recycling its plastic products was not possible. This new discovery also comes against the backdrop of two pending lawsuits alleging that U.S. plastic producers have deceived the public about the feasibility of recycling since the 1980s. For decades, the plastics industry has publicly advocated recycling as a strategy for managing plastic waste. But the document, a letter written in May 1974 by Charles Brelsford McCoy, a president and board chairman of DuPont, represents the earliest evidence to date of a top-level industry insider admitting that many commonly used plastic products cannot be recycled due to their complex chemical structures.

Report Reveals Israel’s Intimidation Campaign Against ICC Chief

August 3, 2025 Press TV, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Accountability, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Law, Intimidation, Israel, Karim Khan

An investigative report has uncovered an intensifying intimidation campaign targeting British ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, revealing extraordinary details of threats and warnings aimed at forcing him to drop the probe into Israeli war crimes in Gaza. The report published by the Middle East Eye (MEE) on Friday revealed that Khan has been warned to withdraw arrest warrants for the Israeli regime’s leadership over the occupying entity’s genocidal war crimes in Gaza, or he and the top tribunal would be “destroyed.” According to the report, the warning was delivered in May to Khan by Nicholas Kaufman, a British-Israeli defense lawyer linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s adviser, during a meeting with Khan and his wife, Shyamala Alagendra, at a hotel in The Hague.

World Court Says Polluter States Must Compensate Victims For Harms

July 30, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Accountability, Environment, Polluters, United Nations, World Court

A new ruling from the World Court provides climate activists new tools for demanding accountability. On July 23, in a stunning 140 page advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) held for the first time that there is a human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, and countries have a legal obligation to protect the climate from greenhouse gas emissions. The ICJ found that climate change poses “an existential problem of planetary proportions that imperils all forms of life and the very health of our planet.”

Colombia’s Courts Finds Álvaro Uribe Guilty After 13-Year Judicial Process

July 29, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Accountability, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombia, Corruption, Justice, Legal System, Paramilitary groups, Violence

On Monday, Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia, 44th judge of the Bogotá criminal court, found former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez guilty of witness bribery and procedural fraud. The verdict concludes a 13-year judicial process fraught with political tensions, complex evidence, and heated debate over the independence of Colombia’s judiciary. At the hearing’s start, Heredia sent a forceful message to the country: “The wait is over. We want to tell Colombia that justice has arrived.” The judge called this one of the most significant moments in recent judicial history.

Anti-Genocide Protesters Block Israeli Tourists From Disembarking In Greece

July 23, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Accountability, Genocide, Greece, Settlers

Israeli passengers on a cruise ship arriving in Greece on 22 July were unable to disembark the vessel due to a large crowd of pro-Palestine protesters demonstrating against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The MS Crown Iris, owned by Israeli cruise line Mano Maritime, arrived on Tuesday at the Greek island of Syros in the Aegean Sea. The passengers were supposed to disembark for six hours. However, they were forced to remain on board due to the protests in support of Palestine.

Venezuela Opens Investigation Into Nayib Bukele Over Torture At CECOT

July 22, 2025 Telesur, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Accountability, CECOT, El Salvador, Human Rights, Nayib Bukele, Sexual Abuse, Torture, Venezuela

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab reported that the 252 Venezuelans previously held at the CECOT in El Salvador were systematically subjected to cruel human rights violations, including unlawful deprivation of liberty, daily torture, prolonged isolation without sunlight or ventilation, being shot with pellets, receiving rotten food and unsafe water, being denied medical care, and numerous due process violations. During a media appearance on Monday, July 21, the head of the Public Ministry announced the opening of a formal investigation, through three designated prosecutors, into Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Public Security Héctor Gustavo Villatoro, and Director General of Penitentiary Centers and Deputy Minister of Justice and Public Security Osiris Luna Mesa.

Family Of Palestinian-American Man Killed By Settlers Demands US Action

July 21, 2025 Aseel Saleh, People's Dispatch. Resist! Accountability, Israel, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), Israeli Settlers, Murder, Occupied West Bank, Palestine, Settler Violence, US State Department

Friday, July 11, marked a profound bereavement for the residents of Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiyah village northeast of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, after a group of illegal Israeli settlers treacherously murdered two young men of the village. Mohammad Shalabi (23), and Sayfollah Musallet (20) were in Mount Al-Baten, located between Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiyah and a nearby village called Sinjil, when they were attacked by settlers and killed. A resident of Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiyah told Peoples Dispatch that illegal Israeli settlers began to vandalize farms belonging to families of the village in Mount Al-Baten over a month ago.

Court Ruling Raises Serious Questions Over Government Accountability

June 30, 2025 Al-Haq. Resist! Accountability, F-35 Jets, Genocide, Legal System, Palestine, United Kingdom (UK)

Judgment in Al-Haq’s historic long-running claim against the U.K. government for its continued licensing of F-35 parts into the global supply reaching Israel. The Court has not upheld Al-Haq’s claim. Today, the UK High Court delivered judgment in Al-Haq’s claim against the U.K. government for its continued licensing of F-35 parts into the global supply chain. The court stated that it could not find any legal flaws in the government’s decision-making and that certain parts of the challenge were non-justiciable, meaning that they are not matters for the Courts. Leaving the question, who is the UK government accountable to in matters of international law?

The United States Must Force Israel To End Its War On Iran

June 18, 2025 Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith, In These Times Strategize! Accountability, Iran, Israel, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, West Asia

Israel’s attack on Iran last week has opened a stark danger — a predictable pattern of escalation ushering in a new phase of the long-standing crises roiling the Middle East region. Certainly Israel has a long history of attacking Iran — including bombing raids; assassinations of political and military leaders as well as nuclear scientists; cyberattacks; assaults on Iranian allies in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and beyond — and Iran has on occasion struck back. But while it is too soon to know exactly how this latest assault will fully play out, it now holds the prospect of full-scale war between the two strongest military forces in the region, one of them backed by the strongest military power in the world.

Family Sues Fossil Fuel Giants For Wrongful Death

June 1, 2025 Ruth Milka, NationofChange. Resist! Accountability, Big Oil, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Lawsuits, Preventative Deaths, Washington

In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, seeking to hold them accountable for the death of her mother during an unprecedented heatwave that scientists say would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change. Misti Leon filed the lawsuit in King County Superior Court against ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, and BP subsidiary Olympic Pipeline Company. She alleges the companies are liable for the death of her mother, Juliana Leon, who died of hyperthermia after being exposed to extreme heat in June 2021.

Forensic Failures: 36 Police-Custody Deaths Should Have Been Ruled Homicide

May 29, 2025 Justin Fenton, Ben Conarck and Pamela Wood, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Accountability, Baltimore, Homicides, Medical Examiner, Police abuse

An unprecedented independent audit found that 36 deaths in police custody over a two-decade span in Maryland should have been ruled homicides by the state’s top medical examiner, a stinging rebuke of Maryland‘s past efforts to investigate the deaths of those once held by law enforcement. The yearslong audit, shared exclusively with The Baltimore Banner ahead of Thursday’s release, cited a likely reason behind the massive failure: racial and pro-police bias in the work of the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which had been led for nearly 20 years by Dr. David Fowler. Before the audit, the deaths had been classified as accidents, natural causes or simply undetermined.

Airstrike On ‘Conscience’ Confirmed; Crew Evacuated

May 25, 2025 Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Resist! Accountability, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Violence

Malta – The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) announces two significant developments in the aftermath of the May 2 Israeli drone attack on the Conscience in international waters. Firstly, we are relieved to confirm that the remaining 12 crew members who remained stranded at sea have now safely returned to their home countries. After over two weeks of unjustifiable delay and denial of safe harbor, Maltese authorities finally permitted them to disembark and depart. These volunteers faced not only the trauma of unprovoked Israeli military strikes, but also the risk of further attacks while stranded. Their safe return is a testament to their courage, perseverance and steadfast commitment to challenging Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza.

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