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Information Clearing House Newsletter
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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Civil disaboidence is the only weapon we have left" - Chris Hedges
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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
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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 : 2,621
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 $1,230,425,346,957http://www.costofwar.com/
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US Commando War in 120 Countries:
Uncovering the Military's Secret Operations In the Obama Era
By Nick Turse
American secret commandos are carrying out raids in 70
countries--just today. By the end of the year, the number will probably
be close to 120.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28747.htm === Dancing on the Edge of Oblivion
By Jim Kirwin
Currently our 'troops' and mercenaries are committing mass murder
and proclaiming that to be necessary 'for the defense of the national
security of the United States - which assumes the corollary to be true:
that everyone we kill is an enemy of this nation. That's bullshit, and
everyone with a brain has to know that.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28750.htm === UK's Secret Policy on Torture Revealed
By Ian Cobain
A top-secret document revealing how MI6 and MI5 officers were
allowed to extract information from prisoners being illegally tortured
overseas has been seen by the Guardian.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28745.htm === The Hama Affair How 10,000 Protestors Multiply Overnight to be 500,000
By Pierre Piccinin
This July, I travelled to Syria, with the purpose of finding out for myself the origins of the present political conflict.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28748.htm === Breivik's "2083" : The Mass Murderer's Manifesto
By Israel Shamir
2083 reveals that a new, vicious strain of political virus has
emerged from the genetic engineering labs within the think tanks of the
Neocons.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28751.htm === Barack Obama and the Debt Crisis: A Successful Con Game Explained
By Bruce A. Dixon
The object of the supposed "crisis" was to short circuit public
opinion, - in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social
security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It
worked. We've been conned.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28744.htm === Lieberman Says U.S. Should Cut Social Security To Pay For Fighting 'Islamist Extremists
By Zaid Jilani
"we can't protect these entitlements and also have the national defense...to protect us...with Islamist extremists"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28742.htm === The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression
By John Atcheson
The dirty little secret is that we never had a debt "crisis." We had a jobs crisis.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28749.htm === The Four Great Hypocrisies Keith Olbermann: Special Comment on the debt deal
Video and Transcript
Every dollar cut from the Safety Net is another dollar added to the
citizen's cost for education, for security, for health, for life
itself.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28746.htm === Slouching Toward Guatamala Reflections on the Impossibility of Government
By Fred Reed
You don't need to fool all of the people all of the time. Enough of the people, enough of the time is entirely adequate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28743.htm === Why I Will Be There
By Chris Hedges
"Civil disobedience is the only weapon we have left"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28752.htm === Somalia famine has killed more than 29,000 children under age 5 in last 90 days:
The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, a
statistic that suggests the death toll of small children will rise.
http://www.startribune.com/world/126761188.html === Syria: 109 people have been killed today in Hama:
The bodies that have come to al-Hourani hospital were shot at close range and mostly in the head, Avaaz says.
http://bit.ly/mXNPxd === Syria: Military kills 'seven protesters overnight':
Seven protesters were killed overnight by the Syrian military when
thousands of people demonstrated in a number of cities following the
breaking of the Ramadan fast, Abdul-Karim al-Rihawi, head of the Syrian
League for Human Rights, told the Xinhua news agency.
http://bit.ly/prnkUC === Army lays siege as Assad offers multi-party system:
Mr Assad issued a decree yesterday authorising a multi-party
political system, the official SANA news agency reported. The decree
allows political parties to be established and to function alongside
the Baath Party - in power since 1963 with the constitutional status of
''the leader of state and society''.
http://bit.ly/n7RDdv ===
Moscow warns against interference in Syrian conflict:
"The settlement in this country should be carried out by the
Syrians themselves without outside interference and should be based on
an all-Syria dialogue, which is the only way to resolve the conflict,"
the ministry said in a statement.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110804/165559426.html === 13 "insurgents" killed in Afghanistan:
During the raids, ANP also seized five AK-47 guns, a grenade launcher, a satellite radio and various pieces of ammunition.
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/820933/cs/1/ === 4 NATO occupation force soldiers killed as Afghan violence flares:
A NATO service member was killed in an apparent "rogue" shooting by
a man dressed as an Afghan policeman on Thursday, the coalition said,
at least the fourth to be killed in a bloody 24 hours in one of
Afghanistan's most volatile areas.
http://reut.rs/qmmWzb === Foreign soldiers kill imam:
Another resident, Dilawar Maroofkhel, said the foreign troops had
killed the imam after capturing him. "I saw injuries on his body," he
said, suggesting the victim had been tortured.
http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/08/03/foreign-soldiers-kill-hesarak-imam === Taliban bomb attack kills Afghan spy:
A bomb attack killed an Afghan intelligence agent and wounded three
girls in the country's north on Thursday, a provincial spokesman said,
with the Taliban claiming responsibility.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110804/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestnorth === Roadside bombs kill 9 people in western Iraq:
Two roadside bombs targeting police exploded in the western Iraqi
city of Ramadi on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13, Iraqi
officials said.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/aug/03/roadside-bombs-kill-9-people-in-western-iraq/ === Kadhafi courts Islamists as tribes flex muscles?
Libya's tribal and religious fault lines came to the fore Thursday
as Moamer Kadhafi's regime claimed an alliance with Islamists, and
rebel tribes banded together in a show of political strength.
http://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/37117 === Gaddafi son vows to liberate Libya: Video -
Libyan state television has broadcast a defiant message from
Colonel Gaddafi's son, at a time when the conflict shows signs of
getting mired in stalemate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z5L6QjmOWU === Gaddafi: "Stop the bloodshed" -
Muammar Gaddafi speaks to the people of Tarhouna on July 31, 2011
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627859?rss === Israeli warplanes attack Gaza: : Gaza, August 4,
A couple hours after midnight Gaza was shaken by a huge explosion,
turns out that the Israeli F16s and other warplanes bombed "Badr"
security HQ. that belongs to Hamas which is located in Al Naser
neighborhood in Gaza city, its noteworthy that this time security HQ.
was bombed countless times before.
http://gazatimes.blogspot.com/2011/08/israeli-warplanes-attack-gaza-at-night.html === Israel approves 900 illegal E.Jerusalem "settlement" homes:
Israel's interior ministry has given final approval for the
construction of 900 new homes in the occupied east Jerusalem settlement
neighbourhood of Har Homa, a ministry spokeswoman told AFP on
Thursday.
http://bit.ly/pjWB7X === Palestinians 'moving ahead' with UN bid: Erakat:
Palestinians are determined to go ahead with their UN membership
bid as an Arab League follow-up committee endorsed a final draft of the
request to be presented to the UN General Assembly, a top official
said.
http://yhoo.it/o9t6AA === IRAN AND AL-QA'IDA: CAN THE CHARGES BE SUBSTANTIATED?:
For the most part, major media outlets uncritically transmitted the
Obama Administration's charge, without much manifestation of serious
effort to verify it, find out more about the sourcing upon which it was
based, or place it in any sort of detailed and nuanced historical
context.
http://bit.ly/nimV46 === Russia reaches out to Iran:
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made a point recently in
an interview with the Russian media when he described Iran as the "most
significant neighbor" of Russia, which stands in the way of the
Western strategy to encircle Russia.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/MH04Ag01.html === Robert Fisk: Once untouchable, the old despot and his sons faced the wrath of the nation they had terrorised:
This was a moment when a country proved not only that its revolution was real, but that its victims were real
http://ind.pn/mYHqOd === Agent Orange Relief For Vietnam: Rep. Filner's Bill Offers Hope:
The proposed 'Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act' challenges our
lawmakers and our nation to finally confront and repair the chemically
induced public health and environmental wreckage that remains the most
shameful and unresolved legacy of the U.S. war against Vietnam.
http://bit.ly/pFu01X === Judge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over torture:
A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military
contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in
Iraq.
http://bit.ly/qP762T === Most Muslim Americans See No Justification for Violence:
Muslims Americans more likely than other faith groups to reject attacks on civilians:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148763/Muslim-Americans-No-Justification-Violence.aspx === 'Half of US Muslims face prejudice':
Nearly half of American Muslims say they have experienced racial or
religious discrimination over the past year, a new poll has revealed.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192096.html === Gov. Christie Defends Appointing Muslim Judge:
'This Sharia Law Business Is Crap': The Republican's appointment of
Muslim-American Sohail Mohammed to a state bench this week ruffled
some feathers among some who fear the threat of Sharia Law, but when
asked about those concerns, Gov. Christie made clear he had no patience
for such "ignorance," calling the complaints "crap."
http://bit.ly/pAPeHb === Documents: Feds allegedly allowed Sinaloa cartel to move cocaine into U.S. for information:
U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to
traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for
information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a
U.S. federal court.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_18608410?source=most_viewed === DEA Agents Raid Wrong House -
Drug Enforcement Agency Officers bust into a home in Sterling
Heights, armed with a search warrant. The only problem? The guy they
were looking for doesn't live there. Fox 2 talked to the man who opened
the door, and was stunned by what happened next.
http://bit.ly/nE3wIZ === Italy 'to default' but Spain may 'just' escape:
Debt-laden Italy is likely to default, but Spain might just avoid
it, according to the British think tank, the Centre for Economics and
Business Research.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14396557 === World Debt Guide:
The Economist interactive graphic shows how deeply in hock we all are
http://econ.st/ngv7Dq === U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day:
U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday - the largest one-day
bump in history - as the government flexed the new borrowing room it
earned in this week's debt-limit increase deal.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/3/us-eats-most-debt-limit-one-day/ === Dollar's Reserve Status Is Waning, U.S. Treasury Borrowing Committee Says:
The committee of bond dealers and investors that advises the U.S.
Treasury said the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency
"appears to be slipping" in quarterly feedback presented to the
government.
http://bloom.bg/nCISMy === Visualization Of U.S. $14 Trillion Debt:
Everyone needs to see this.
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Visualization of individual American families increasingly hefty debt load. -
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Breakdown of voting on Debt Ceiling: Here it is...
Now you can see how your favorite (?) House Member voted on raising the debt ceiling.
=== US buys most expensive drones ever:
With $14 trillion in the hole and a slew of wars seemingly no one
wants America to be in, what better way for the United States to spend
their money by putting $23 billion into spy planes? Each of the four
dozen-plus spy crafts comes at a price tag of $218 million apiece - ten
times the price of the largest armed attack drone.
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-drone-hawk-billions/ ===
Microsoft's Use Of Low-Tax Havens Drives Tax Bill To 7 Percent Of Profit: -
If you want to know why tax from surging corporate profits isn't
making much of a dent in the United States' crippling budget deficit, a
glance at Microsoft Corp's recent results provides some clues.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/microsoft-tax-havens-profit-bill_n_911779.html === Unemployment rose in 90 percent of U.S. cities in June:
Unemployment rose in 345 large metro areas during the month, according to the report.
http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2011/08/unemployment-rose-in-nearly-all-us-cities-in-june.html === Layoffs Explode Nearly 60% In July:
A sudden and unexpected burst in private-sector downsizing pushed
the number of announced job cuts to a 16-month high of 66,414 in July,
according the latest report on downsizing activity released Wednesday
by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas,
Inc.
http://www.businessinsider.com/challenger-layoffs-report-for-july-2011-8 === Sharp fall in consumer spending, manufacturing in US:
Economic data released this week provides further evidence that
economic growth in the US has virtually come to a halt. The Commerce
Department reported Tuesday that consumer spending fell by 0.2 percent
in June, the first monthly decline since September of 2009.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/econ-a03.shtml === The Tent City of New Jersey:
Desperate victims of the economic slump forced to live in makeshift homes in forest
http://bit.ly/nUoKgc === Help wanted: Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Social Networkers:
The Pentagon is developing plans to use social networking sites
like Facebook and Twitter as both a resource and a weapon in future
conflicts. Its research and development agency is offering $42 million
in funding to anyone who can help.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/pentagon-seeks-social-networking-experts/?smid=tw-nytimesbits&seid=auto ===
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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