In an absolutely vile miscarriage of justice, Frank Wuterich, the Marine sergeant who instructed his soldiers to massacre civilian Iraqis, could receive the maximum sentence of three months of “confinement” for the 24 he and henchmen slaughtered.

Is this really how this country treats war crimes? But then again, look at how the Obama administration failed to prosecute members of the Bush administration for their war crimes…

More on this war criminal here.

Corruption and a cover up that keeps Arizona up there in the race to top dishonor of the most Fucked Up State in the Union. Demand justice for Jose Guerena!

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Reuters reports on the slaughter and rape of hundreds of Tanzania’s albinos who are believed to be able to cure AIDS.

Albino hunters kill their victims and harvest their blood, hair, genitals and other body parts for potions that witchdoctors say bring luck in love, life and business.

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An unbelievable story of vicious rage, Philadelphia teenager Kendall Anderson bludgeoned his mother Rashida Anderson to death with a hammer 20 times while she slept because she grounded him from his PlayStation 3.

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Matthew Galluzzo, the lawyer of David Epstein, the Columbia professor who had allegedly had a three-year sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter, said to ABCNews.com:

Academically, we are obviously all morally opposed to incest and rightfully so. At the same time, there is an argument to be made in the Swiss case to let go what goes on privately in bedrooms.

It’s OK for homosexuals to do whatever they want in their own home. How is this so different? We have to figure out why some behavior is tolerated and some is not.

It’s easy to be appalled by Galluzzo’s remarks, especially if one is gay, but he is honing in on is the idea of cultural prohibitions and its uneven application in law. Like homosexuality, the incest taboo is cultural, not biological. There are still cultures where incest is sanctioned and thus not illegal. This doesn’t necessarily mean I advocate the decriminalization of incest, but how do we uphold an intellectually inconsistent application of the “right to privacy” of two consenting adults?

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(Above, Columbia professor David Epstein)

Rio’s Drug War

People react after shooting set a house on fire during a conjoined operation at the Complexo do Alemão slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Soldiers and police crouching behind armored vehicles trained their rifles on dozens of entrances to a sprawling slum Saturday, preparing to invade and try to push drug gangs out an area long considered the most dangerous in Rio de Janeiro. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

More pics of the police crackdown in Rio’s favelas here

The Saudi prince on trial in London for beating his servant to death could face the death penalty in his homeland over allegations that he’s gay, the court heard Friday.

Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, 34, who is a grandson of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, has admitted to beating Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz to death in Febuary in a London hotel. He also admitted to having abused him for weeks.

But he has pleaded not guilty to murder, and he claims allegations that the two were lovers are false.

According to AFP, prosecutor Bobbie Cheema told England’s Old Bailey central criminal court Thursday that “homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia and carries the death penalty, which is still applied in some cases.

“The country in which any alleged acts took place would have little bearing on the likelihood of prosecution as the Saudi legal system is based on the sharia law, which is considered to be universal.”

Cheema said prosecution would be a matter for the Saudi authorities and that family members can sometimes play a role in determining what punishment is carried out. Gay Saudis have previously been granted asylum in Britain.

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(Source: metroweekly.com, via mrpinky)

A Rutgers University freshman is believed to have taken his own life last week shortly after he was broadcast engaging in sexual activity with another man.

According to WPIX, officials believe the student, who the New York Daily News has identified as 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, jumped from the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 23. His car was found nearby with his computer and cellphone inside.

WPIX reports that the Clementi’s alleged roommate, Dharun Ravi, and another first-year student, Molly Wei, were charged with invasion of privacy for secretly leaving a camera in the his bedroom on Sept. 19 and posting footage of an ensuing sexual encounter on the internet.

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Jordanian reporter Lima Nabil told The Independent’s foreign correspondent Robert Fisk that “In Abu Ghraib, women were tortured by the Americans much more than the men. One woman said she witnessed five girls being raped. Most of the women in the prison were raped – some of them left prison pregnant. Families killed some of these women – because of the shame.”

Supporting Nabil is a “‘very accurate source in Washington’ in close contact with military personnel has confirmed ‘terrible stories of gang rape’ by US forces at the now-notorious prison. The unnamed source told Fisk that images of women being raped were behind the Obama administration’s decision not to release any more pictures of abuses at Abu Ghraib,” writes Daniel Tencer at The Raw Story.

+ on US government abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib here