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Information Clearing House Newsletter
News You Won't Find On CNNMay 25, 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what
Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda
accomplishments". Michael Parenti
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,455,590"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,770 icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,470
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 $1,199,104,786,830http://www.costofwar.com/
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Dispatch From Tripoli
NATO's Feast of Blood
By Cynthia McKinney
NATO only attacks (as does the US and its allies) the poor and underprivileged of the 3rd world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28182.htm === US Politicians Kowtow to a Foreign Leader The Lobby Takes the Offensive
By Justin Raimondo
We have the Israelis in a complete state of military and economic
dependency - and yet they are calling the tune, and not Washington.
What's up with that?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28180.htm === Protester Who Heckled Netanyahu Beaten, Arrested at hospital
By Eric W. Dolan
The 28-year-old Jewish American woman was allegedly tackled by
members of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) during
Netanyahu's speech to Congress after she yelled, "stop Israeli war
crimes."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28184.htm === AIPAC Denial and Ignorance
Video By Max Blumenthal
Interviews with several AIPAC delegates in the streets outside the
conference reveals widespread ignorance by attendees of the
controversial annual DC meeting.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28185.htm === Does 'merika have a culture?
By Paul Craig Roberts
Independent thought is not a concept with which very many Americans are familiar or comfortable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28178.htm === There's no way out for Greece
By Mike Whitney
If Greece goes under, then it could take Portugal, Ireland and (perhaps) Spain along with it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28179.htm === Global Financial Crisis
Video
Max Keiser interviews Dr, Paul Craig Roberts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28183.htm === US Healthcare: Profits Before Patients
By Rose Aguilar
What is the point of having the world's best medical facilities if citizens don't have the money to access healthcare?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28181.htm === Yemen officials: 38 killed in Sanaa fighting:
Medical officials said 24 tribesmen were killed in the fiercest
fighting on Sanaa's streets in years. Government officials said 14
soldiers were killed and 20 were missing.
http://bit.ly/mNA5VY === Yemen's Shia dilemma:
Shia Muslims say they are facing persecution from the authorities, including raids on homes and torture.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/201152483619116456.html === Powerful Yemeni tribe turns guns against leader Saleh:
Fighters for a powerful Yemeni tribe sealed off key government
buildings -- including headquarters of the ruling party -- as the
revolt against President Ali Abdullah Saleh spilled into the heart of
the capital on Tuesday amid fierce clashes with government forces.
http://bit.ly/jw6cgW === NATO kills 19 people in fresh air strikes on Tripoli late on Tuesday:
Libyan officials said at least 19 people were killed in the six
loud explosions within a duration of 10 minutes, following powerful
strikes 24 hours earlier, including one on Gaddafi's compound. The
state television blamed the attack on "colonialist crusaders".
http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/151494/20110525/gaddafi-tripoli-nato-airstrikes-france.htm === Libya: NATO attack kills 3 people in Tripoli:
At least three people were killed with some 150 others injured in
NATO airstrikes in Tripoli early Tuesday near the area around leader
Moamer Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya residence, local TV reported.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90855/7389303.html === Apache helicopters to be sent into Libya by Britain:
Use of helicopters, which can attack small targets, represents significant escalation of conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/apache-helicopters-libya-britain === Presstitute alert: ... : Libyan combat stymies moves on antiaircraft threat:
The fierce combat in Libya has unleashed a once-hidden arsenal of
portable anti-aircraft missiles that the government fears could easily
be siphoned off to terror groups, giving rise to a potential threat to
commercial aviation that the U.S. is only beginning to confront,
government officials and arms experts said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110515/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_libya_anti_aircraft_missile_threat === Lying About Libya?:
President Barack Obama has gone to war in Libya without requesting a
declaration of war from Congress. But he said he would abide by the
War Powers Resolution. However, his 60 day grace period for bombing
ended on Friday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/lying-about-libya_b_866268.html === Eleven Afghan construction workers killed in bombing:
The blast took place in Panjhwayee district as the construction
crew were on their way to work, said Sher Shah Yousifzai, a senior
police official in the province.
http://bit.ly/jTrfEe === British Occupation Force Soldier Killed In Afghan Bomb Blast:
"The patrol had left their base and was moving to rendezvous with
another patrol when the soldier was fatally struck by an improvised
explosive device.
http://bit.ly/ldAy9Z === Mullah Omar 'disappears' from hideout: Afghan official:
Afghanistan's intelligence services said on Monday that Taliban
leader Mullah Omar had "disappeared from his hideout" in Quetta,
Pakistan, up to five days ago but could not confirm his death.
http://bit.ly/l6YDgF === 10 troops killed as Taliban attack Pakistan base:
Troops recaptured a Pakistani naval air force base yesterday after a 16-hour battle with as few as six Taliban gunmen
http://bit.ly/lCSKVy === Karachi attack a US operation claims ex Pakistan general:
The former head of Pakistan's ISI, Hamid Gul, tells Channel 4 News
that he is "100 per cent sure" a Taliban attack on a major naval air
base in Karachi was an "American operation".
http://www.channel4.com/news/karachi-attack-a-us-operation-claims-ex-pakistan-general === Three Pakistan nuclear sites attacked in last five years, says expert:
It's a subject Americans can't stop discussing and one Pakistan
hates talking about. The Mehran attack has once again focused world
attention on the security of the country's fast-growing nuclear arsenal
http://bit.ly/izssGf ===
Has America miscalculated in Pakistan?:
Washington often acts as if Pakistan were its client state, with no other possible patron but the United States.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/24/pakistan_china_miscalculation === Pakistan returns US helicopter from Osama bin Laden raid:
The delivery of the wreckage meets a key US demand of Pakistan in
the wake the May 2 mission to kill the al-Qaeda leader who was the
mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_pakistan-returns-us-helicopter-from-osama-bin-laden-raid_1547159 === 6 killed, 27 wounded in Iraq's violence:
A total of six people were killed and 27 others wounded in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in central and northern Iraq
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7389630.html === Netanyahu tells Congress no return to 1967 borders: And he further warned:
"Jerusalem must never again be divided. Jerusalem must remain the united capital of Israel."
http://f24.my/mCLiTH === Full Text Of Speech By Netanyahu To A Joint Meeting Of The U.S. Congresshttp://bit.ly/m5QnG2 === Netanyahu Speech to AIPAC Conference 2011: Video and Texthttp://www.jewmd.org/2011/05/pm-netanyahu-addresses-the-aipac-policy-conference-2011/ === Report: Syria death toll 'surpasses 1,000':
Rights groups say they have documented names of civilians allegedly killed by security forces since protests erupted.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/2011524182251952727.html === USA had illegal intelligence in Sweden:
CIA has for a long time done things on its own way without
informing other countries. This behaviour is in their culture. This is a
clear crime against international law and a violation of our
sovereignty, says Ove Bring, professor in international law to SvD.se.
http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=7235 === New York Times reporter James Rise subpoenaed in CIA leak case:
The U.S. Justice Department subpoenaed New York Times reporter
James Risen on Monday to testify at the criminal trial of a former CIA
operative cited in Risen's 2006 book.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/24/new-york-times-reporter-james-rise-subpoenaed-in-cia-leak-case/ === New York City's Topsy-Turvy Terrorism War:
The spectacle of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner
Ray Kelly declaring publicly last week that the FBI was not interested
in pursuing a major terrorism case developed by the NYPD suggests that
the relationship between the two law enforcement agencies has sunk to
an all-time low.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/len-levitt/new-york-citys-terrorism-war_b_862526.html === Report Documents Fake Terror Threats Concocted by FBI and NYPD:
The government's use of paid, untrained informants, concocted plots
and racial profiling of Muslim communities in its frantic effort to
stop so-called homegrown terrorism has raised serious human and civil
rights concerns.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/05/manufactured_threats_of_homegrown_terrorism.html === In pictures: California's Jam-Packed Prisons:
"Ugly beds" stacked in gyms, tiny cages for suicidal prisoners-the
photos that helped convince Supreme Court justices to downsize
California's overcrowded lockups.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/california-prison-overcrowding-photos
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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