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August 17, 2011

First Great American Coup:JFK Assassination The power in the US was passed from the choice of the people to a tin pot dictator from Texas who gave the Pentagon, the CIA, the oil industry, and the banks everything they wanted. Read More »»

Veterans Today Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today's News - August 17, 2011 Stephen Lendman Economic End Times Eileen Fleming The Y-12 Thirteen and MADE in USA WMD Mike Harris Policy Failure Mexico - Illegal immigration and the Failed War on Drugs Ed Mattson Common Sense Solutions to Budget Cut and Deficit Problem

Veterans Today Hotel Boycott of Israel Demanded: Veterans Demand Redress and Apology from Delegation Debbie Menon Ron Paul Deserves More Respect Trowbridge Ford JFK Assassination: The Quintessential 'False Flag' Operation Jim W. Dean Will Israelis Take US Congressmen Hostage for a Pollard Exchange? Gilad Atzmon An Interesting Exchange With A Jewish Anti Zionist

Veterans News Now : Taliban, criminals get $360 million from US taxes Veterans News Now : Ohio Statehouse considers bar Veterans News Now : Top 10 News For Veterans-August 17,2011 Tom Dillman : Upcoming Chinese Carrier! Wow! Veterans News Now : Explosive Truth Behind Fukushima's Meltdown Veterans News Now : We will lose in Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans News Now : Top 10 News For Veterans-August 16,2011

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Veterans Today Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors? During three weeks of recess, 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats will enjoy "educational" trips funded by the American Israel Education Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit located in the same Washington, D.C., building as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). »» Veterans Today Rural Telehealth VA Black Hills Health Care System consists of two medical centers located at Fort Meade and Hot Springs and nine CBOCs. »» David Swanson Virginia Militarized The U.S. military is a permanent and pervasive presence in Virginia. Were the state of Virginia to ban participation in wars of aggression, weapons sales to brutal dictatorships, and the manufacture of aggressive and illegal weapons. »» Veterans Today Women Veterans' Health Research: A New Frontier "Women are the fastest growing segment of the Veteran population." You may have heard or seen this statistic many times, but it's a powerful one. »» Veterans Today UK riots and the Criminality of Jack Straw Jack Straw, former foreign secretary in Tony Blair's government, was quick to his feet, following David Cameron's speech on the UK riots in Parliament on 11 August. »» Veterans Today Sharing Intelligence Helps Contractors Strengthen Cyber Defenses A new pilot program in which the Defense Department shares classified threat intelligence with defense contractors or their commercial Internet service providers is showing promise in increasing their cyber defenses and preventing enemy intrusions into sensitive government networks, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said today. »» John Vogel Johnston Companies Invites Veterans To Join Workforce Johnston Companies of Missouri has joined forces with Hire Veterans in order to offer employment to our talented US Veterans. Johnston Companies has been working for months with Hire Veterans offering rewarding careers to US Veterans and proving day after day their full commitment in offering employment to our nation's finest. »» Veterans Today Providing Education Benefits to NCOA Members Membership in the Non-Commissioned Officers Association now comes with a unique new benefit: accredited, nonprofit higher education at a reduced tuition rate. »» Veterans Today U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Aug 16, 2011 Forward Dedicated Logistics Solutions, L.L.C., Wilmington, Del. (W91B4N-11-D-7000); Jorge Scientific Corp., Arlington, Va. (W91B4N-11-D-7008); and Vanquish Worldwide, L.L.C., Friendsville, Tenn. (W91B4N-11-D-7018), were awarded a $983,500,000 firm-fixed-price contract between 20 contractors. »» Veterans Today VA Publishes Social Media Policy The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today the release of a policy directive regarding the secure use of Web-based collaboration and social media tools. »»

RFE/RL Afghanistan Report 8/17/2011 8:36:40 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Afghanistan. For more stories on Afghanistan, please visit and bookmark our Afghanistan page .

Building A New Generation Of Central Asians To Remedy Regional Ills Many of the problems that plague Central Asia are a result of neighbors who see each other more as rivals than allies. But institutions like the OSCE Academy in Bishkek are trying to reverse that trend by providing rigorous educations for future politicians, entrepreneurs, and civil-society workers, while also encouraging them to think beyond their national borders to the Eurasian region overall. More Podcast: The Significance Of -- And Secrets To Surviving -- The Islamic Holy Month Of Ramadan In Episode 31 of The Blender, we celebrate the Islamic holiday of Ramadan with a very special Afghan dinner to break the daylong fast observed by Muslims throughout the holy month. Join us for a sumptuous meal of mung-bean soup, meat dumplings, and Afghan pilaf, as we discuss the significance of Ramadan and secrets to surviving -- and even enjoying -- daylight hours with no food or water. More On Turban Bombs And Female Bombers The twin blasts in Pakistan's northern city of Peshawar on August 11 once again pointed to the precarious security situation in this border town, despite numerous claims of foolproof security arrangements from law enforcement and government officials. More Karzai Election Decree Complicates Afghan Political Crisis Afghan President Hamid Karzai's decree ordering electoral authorities to resolve a lingering dispute over last year's parliamentary election results threatens to further divide parliament, rather than bring it together. More Preparing A New Generation For The Ramadan Fast As Muslims across the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, many parents take care to teach their children lasting lessons of self-discipline, charity, and understanding. More

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN August 17, 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You Are Not Alone  Each One Teach One   "We need to take our country back from the avaricious corporatocracy that feeds on the War Economy. The War Machine has our leadership , our Media and our very lives in its pocket. Everywhere health care, education, and fundamental human rights have suffered . We , as Americans and as members of the human race , must place Peace as our primary raison d'etre and begin the movement into an Age where violence is no more." -  Barton Boyce Awareness, consciousness and unity are the only weapons we have to spread the cause and bring people to the streets. Information Clearing House is one of the webs only truly independent sources of news and opinion.   Without YOUR help it can not continue to exist. We depend on YOU our readers to fund this website and newsletter. Please help - Act now! Click the link below Please provide whatever you can- $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100- To Use your debit/credit card or check click here:  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm   or if you prefer to send a check or money order, Information Clearing House, PO Box 365 Imperial Beach, CA 91933. USA. Low income readers: DON'T send money, just encourage others to subscribe.  http://informationclearinghouse.info/subscribe.htm To all who have assisted in the past. Thank you. Your help is greatly appreciated. Peace and Joy. Tom Feeley ==== "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe = "We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth." -Sydney Schanberg = Take The Pledge "I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning." http://october2011.org/welcome === Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590" Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,792  www.icasualties.org/oif/ Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,681 =   Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 $1,236,440,554,600 http://www.costofwar.com/ =   = Donors Help Keep Palestinians In Cages By Charlotte Silver "Israel besieges us, puts us in cantons - in cages - and the international community is feeding us in these cages. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28858.htm === Neither Ink Nor Air Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info? By Ray McGovern Lying by senior officials is bad enough, and there is now plenty of evidence that former CIA Director George Tenet and his closest agency associates are serial offenders. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28866.htm === How The War is Spun Mass Killings Mean 'Progress,' Military Says By Kevin Baron Pentagon officials often spin mass casualty terrorist bombing attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan into signs of progress. After multiple bombings killed more than 80 people across the warzones Sunday and Monday, here's an example of how the war is spun. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28864.htm === Lessons Of Two Wars We Will Lose in Iraq and Afghanistan By Stephen M. Walt One of the things that gets in the way of conducting good national security policy is a reluctance to call things by their right names and state plainly what is really happening. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28862.htm === Manufacturing Opposition How America Supports Our So-called Enemies By Madison Ruppert To some people, the concept of "full spectrum dominance" is completely foreign. To the upper echelons of the government of the United States, it is a tactic utilized on a regular basis. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28861.htm === Gadhafi Support Soars Amid NATO Bombing By SCOTT TAYLOR On a fact-finding trip into Tripoli last week, I saw first-hand that Gadhafi has solidified his control over the capital and most of western Libya. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28867.htm === Obama Looking Like Mussolini By Sherwood Ross Obama's plan is not a peace plan. It is a war plan. Ditto for his attacks on Libya, Pakistan and Yemen. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28859.htm === Is The SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? By Matt Taibbi A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28869.htm === Looting With The Lights On By Naomi Klein We keep hearing England's riots weren't political - but looters know that their elites have been committing daylight robbery. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28868.htm === Police State USA Police Chief Confirms Detaining Photographers By Greggory Moore Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures "with no apparent esthetic value" is within Long Beach Police Department  policy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28863.htm === Welcome To The USA Kid Dressed as Spiderman Gets Patted Down by TSA Video Molestation by TSA at the Austin Airport http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28860.htm === Pretending Ron Paul Doesen't Exist By Jon Stewart - Outstanding video clip that tells the truth about Paul's massive success in Iowa and beyond, and skewers the corporate media for ignoring the truth. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28857.htm === The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas By Robert Scheer It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28865.htm === What America Needs Most Rick Perry Promises Universal Hair Care By Andy Borowitz Would Establish Cabinet-level 'Hair Club for America' http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28856.htm === UK: 400k Somali children to die without more aid: - A British government minister says up to 400,000 Somali children could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken. http://apne.ws/q8Sk4M === Eight Turkish troops killed in Kurdish ambush: minister: Kurdish rebels killed eight Turkish soldiers on Wednesday in an ambush in the southeast of the country, Turkey's defence minister said. http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/17/eight-turkish-troops-killed-in-kurdish-ambush-minister.html === Iran says killed dozens in push on Kurdish rebels: -  Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they had killed dozens of Kurdish rebels in a military campaign that critics say has endangered civilians across the border in Iraq. http://reut.rs/pPim0q === Syrian troops 'withdraw' from key cities: Convoys of army vehicles were seen leaving Deir ez-Zor after the military cleared the area of "armed terrorist gangs," SANA, the state-run news agency, reported. Footage showed pictures of crowds chanting and cheering as the soldiers left. But on Wednesday, Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister said Syrian troops were still in the city. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/20118175632478698.html === US calls on Turkey to press Bashar al-Assad to step down: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Turkey and Saudi Arabia to press Bashar al-Assad to step down. Attending the event together with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Hillary Clinton called US' policy toward Libya and Syria "smart power". http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=153424 === Foreign players mustn't interfere in dialog in Middle East, North Africa - : Salehi agreed with Lavrov. "We reject all attempts of non-regional interference and we condemn all instances of interference in the affairs of those countries," he said. http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=266628 === Russia maintains arms supplies to Syria: weapons chief: Russia is continuing to supply weapons to Syria despite international pressure to cease trading, the head of the arms export agency told journalists on Wednesday. http://bit.ly/ri0Y6a === Pepe Escobar : Blood on the Iraqi-Syrian tracks: What's next? Turkey invades Syria with help from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH17Ak01.html === NATO pledges 5000 troops to Afghanistan: President Barack Obama won a pledge from NATO allies Saturday to send 5,000 more troops to help in Afghanistan, calling it a "strong down payment" to securing coming national elections and the entire country. http://arbiteronline.com/2011/08/17/nato-pledges-5000-troops-to-afghanistan/ === $360M lost to insurgents, criminals in Afghanistan: After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both. http://bit.ly/nlvJLa === US firm slammed over Afghan police training: Audit finds contractor DynCorps failed to provide nearly 60 per cent of the instructors needed to train Afghan police. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/08/20118168280220816.html === Afghanistan: The Worst Place to be a Mother: After 10 years of occupation by the United States, Afghanistan's maternal mortality and female life expectancy indicators are the worst in the world. http://www.alternet.org/world/152018/afghanistan:_the_worst_place_to_be_a_mother_ === US to lose its base in Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan is not going to prolong its agreement with Washington, which entitles the US to use Manas Transit Center to supply its forces in Afghanistan, after it expires in 2014, the republic's Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev has said. http://rt.com/politics/manas-kyrgyzstan-american-base/ === Why Pakistani Military Demands a Veto on Drone Strikes: Such veto power over the conduct of the drone war is a central element in a new Pakistani demand for a formal government-to-government agreement on the terms under which the United States and Pakistan will cooperate against insurgents in Pakistan. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56873 === Suspension of military aid to Pak to continue: US: US had put on hold military aid to Pakistan worth USD 800 million following Islamabad's request for a "significant cutback" of American military trainers on its soil. http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/suspension-of-military-aid-to-pak-to-continue-us-126810 === Rebels battle Libyan forces for Zawiya refinery: Rebels battled Moammar Gadhafi loyalists for control over Libya's only functioning oil refinery in the western city of Zawiya on Wednesday, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-08-17-libya-refinery-battle_n.htm === Libyan Forces Liberates Key Towns: Is Gadhaffi losing? Au contraire. In total contradiction to the propaganda push on CNN, sources inside Libya say Gadhaffi soldiers have retaken a number of key towns. http://bit.ly/qYD6u1 === Gadaffi supporters 'retake Misrata': Mr Ibrahim claimed on Monday night that soldiers had fought their way into the centre of the town, which is the third largest in Libya after Tripoli and Benghazi, and were mopping up isolated pockets of insurgents. http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/108347 === Libya: Tripoli celebrates the liberation of Misratah: Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTAUV7m5S2k&feature=player_embedded === Venezuela Makes A Huge Transfer Of Gold From Switzerland To Banks In China, Russia, And Brazil: Documents released by Venezuala's foreign minister also mention "the powers of the North" have "pillaged" Libya's European held reserves and notes a plan should be made to avoid a similar fate. http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuala-gold-china-russia-england-banks-2011-8 === Israel kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza: The Israeli military killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, one in an airstrike and another as he approached the Gaza "border", Israeli and Palestinian officials said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44165385/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/#.TkwHpFuafzw === UN condemns Israel's housing plans in occupied Palestinian territory: Voicing great concern at Israel's recent announcements to advance planning for new housing in Ariel and East Jerusalem in occupied Palestinian territory, the United Nations and its partners in the search for Middle East peace today called the action contrary to international law. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39310&Cr=Israel&Cr1= === Quartet alarmed by Israel's settlement plans: Israel approved on Monday the building of almost 300 new homes in Ariel, a settlement inside the occupied West Bank, taking the total to more than 2,700 new settler homes approved in the past two weeks. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/201181619744116760.html === Sleiman tells Abbas Lebanon will back Palestinian statehood: "Lebanon is committed to the issue of recognizing the state of Palestine at the United Nations and is ready to deploy its potentials to serve it," President Sleiman said http://bit.ly/oIEQYr === Hezbollah suspects to be tried over Rafik Hariri: A UN-backed tribunal has published charges against four suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and says it has enough evidence to try them. The four, all connected to Hezbollah, were linked to the killing by circumstantial evidence from phone records, an indictment says. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14557594 === Israel tells US it won't apologize to Turkey over Mavi Marmara raid: "We're firm on not apologizing," an Israeli official was separately quoted as saying by Reuters. http://bit.ly/rbfzzp === Second Tibetan Monk Burns Himself to Death in Protest: A Tibetan Buddhist monk protesting Chinese policies immolated himself publicly in a Tibetan area of Sichuan Province in southwest China on Monday http://nyti.ms/nlEp1O === Youths attack police in Sweden overnight: Swedish police say unrest erupted overnight in Goteborg, the country's second largest city, as several officers were attacked by youths hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails. http://apne.ws/nIEOZY === Murdoch: Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up: Disgraced royal correspondent Clive Goodman's letter says phone hacking was 'widely discussed' at NoW meetings http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/16/phone-hacking-now-reporter-letter === Computer Hacking May Be News Corp.'s 'Next Scandal,' U.K. Lawmaker Says: Revelations that U.K. tabloid journalists may have graduated to hacking computers in addition to mobile phones may form the next scandal facing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., a U.K. lawmaker investigating privacy violations by the now-defunct News of the World said. http://bloom.bg/oOJEEH === The stench of a police state: The events of the last 12 days are a warning to the working class in Britain and internationally. The state repression and right-wing hysteria unleashed in response to youth rioting in London and other cities reveal the preparations of the ruling class for police-state forms of rule. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/pers-a17.shtml === US moral authority undercut by war on terror: With indefinite detentions, military trials and targeted killings of terror suspects, the Obama team has "actually entrenched the global war framework," Shamsi said. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/17/us-moral-authority-undercut-by-war-on-terror/ === Privacy issues hover over police drone use: The drone technology that has revolutionized warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is entering the national airspace: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012204026.html === White House: Need to monitor online 'extremism': A White House terrorism strategy released today says Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks aid in "advancing violent extremist narratives" and should be monitored by the government. http://cnet.co/oFAm3o === Use of surveillance cameras on the rise: At City Hall in Daytona Beach last month, Police Chief Mike Chitwood showed off the new "state-of-the art" video surveillance system. http://bit.ly/oO1CHs === OUTRAGE OF THE DAY: Do You Realize That The Government Is Still Paying Banks Not To Lend...?: And it's doing that while screwing average Americans who have been responsible and lived within their means. Huh? http://www.businessinsider.com/government-paying-banks-not-to-lend-2011-8 === Land of the Free, Home of the Poor: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the "tippy-top" of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth, as Paul Solman found out as part of a Making Sen$e series on economic inequality. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/makingsense_08-16.html === 92% of Foreclosures in New York Lack Proper Documents -- Banks Booting People Without Proof? http://bit.ly/n1bace === A watershed moment for Obama on climate change: More than a thousand people have signed up to be arrested over two weeks beginning Aug. 20 - the biggest display of civil disobedience in the environmental movement in decades and one of the largest nonviolent direct actions since the World Trade Organization demonstrations in Seattle http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-watershed-moment-for-obama-on-climate-change/2011/08/16/gIQAGX3zJJ_story.html === "Let us be peace and joy" Tom Feeley