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"In
our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that "Western
Civilization" disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and
jackals. That is the only name that can be applied to those who have
gone to fulfill such "humanitarian" tasks in the Congo. A carnivorous
animal that feeds on unarmed peoples. That is what imperialism does to
men." - Che Guevara - December 11, 1964, 19th General Assembly of the United Nations
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Op-Ed Articles
US Iran Policy in 'Lockstep' with Israel?
By Dave Lindorff
The
most appalling thing of all was hearing the US president say on
national TV that he is operating US policy towards Iran in "lockstep"
with the pipsqueak nation of Israel--an apartheid country currently
being run by a bunch of corrupt, neofascist, genocidal war-mongers and
religious fanatics. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30463.htm
Israelis Should be Afraid of Their Leaders, not Iran
By Gideon Levy
Some of the people reading these lines will not live through the winter; some of them may not die a natural death.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30465.htm
Arab League Report Shows that Syria Has Been Mischaracterized
By WashingtonsBlog
While
the Western media act like the Syrian government is wantonly and
indiscriminately killing its own people without provocation, an
independent investigation has found a different reality on the ground. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30462.htm
From Washington this looks like Syria's 'Benghazi moment'
By Robert Fisk
The
West has been so deluged with stories and lectures and think-tank
nonsense about the ghastly Iran and the unfaithful Iraq and the vicious
Syria and the frightened Lebanon that it is almost impossible to snap
off these delusional pictures and realise that Assad is not alone. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30466.htm
How About an International Award for Hypocrisy
By Alan Hart
If
there was such an award, the statements of European and American
leaders in the immediate aftermath of Russia and China's veto of the
Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria suggest two most
obvious nominees for it. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30470.htm
US Says Russia/China UN Veto
"Disgusting", "Shameful", "Deplorable", "a Travesty" . . . Really?"
By Arab Studies Institute
A Quick Listing of The United States' Record of Veto Use at the United Nations (UN): 1972-2011 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30468.htm
Top Official: Drone Critics are Al Qaeda Enablers
By Glenn Greenwald
At
least according to some "senior" Obama official, those who report
critically on the civilian-killing, rescuer-and-funeral-targeting
American drone attacks (i.e., those who "malign these efforts") are
either supporters of or useful idiots for Al Qaeda. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30464.htm
Eraseing History In Afghanistan
By Kevin Sieff
Officials
think they have found a way to teach Afghan history without widening
the fractures between long-quarreling ethnic and political groups:
leave out the past four decades. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30461.htm
Anniversaries From 'Unhistory'
By Noam Chomsky
The events we fail to commemorate say as much about our national narrative as those we acknowledge. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30460.htm
Dark History in Latin America and the Struggle for Justice
By Cyril Mychalejko
Elliott
Abrams, a former high level State Department official during the
1980s, testified last week that the Reagan administration knew that
Argentina's military junta was systematically stealing babies from
murdered and jailed democracy activists and giving them to right-wing
families friendly to the regime. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30471.htm
This is What Imperialism Does to Men
By Che Guevara
"In
our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that "Western
Civilization" disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and
jackals." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30459.htm
The Right's Stupidity Spreads, Enabled by a Too-polite Left
By George Monbiot
Conservativism may be the refuge of the dim. But the room for rightwing ideas is made by those too timid to properly object. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30467.htm
The Economics of Incarceration
By Nile Bowie
For
every 100,000 Americans, 743 citizens sit behind bars. Presently, the
prison population in America consists of more than six million people, a
number exceeding the amount of prisoners held in the gulags of the
former Soviet Union at any point in its history. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30469.htm
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55 killed in northern Yemen violence: -- Dozens
were killed in deadly clashes in northern Yemen as Sunni Muslim
Salafists try to force back advancing Shia militants, witnesses said. http://bit.ly/w740zK
25 killed in Syria civil war: activists: At
least 21 "civilians" and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in
violence across Syria, the majority of them in the flashpoint central
city of Homs, activists said. http://yhoo.it/x0J3fV
Russian FM: Syria's Assad willing to accept expanded Arab League mission: After
talks in Damascus, Sergei Lavrov also says Assad had assured him he
was 'completely committed' to seeking an end to violence by all sides. http://bit.ly/zHuDMB
Gulf countries to expel Syrian ambassadors: The
six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) decided Tuesday to expel
Syrian ambassadors from their countries in protest at the continued
government crackdown on pro-democracy activists, Doha-based broadcaster
Al Jazeera reported. http://bit.ly/zvsXBu
US should mull arming Syrian opposition, says senator: Senior
Republican senator John McCain urged the United States Tuesday to
consider arming the opposition fighting the forces of Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1181573/1/.html
Lebanese security officials seize suspicious cargo from US, Brazil: Lebanon's
security officials say a suspicious cargo containing huge amounts of
US dollars, guns, special passports and credit cards have been seized
upon arrival in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, from the US and Brazil. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/225422.html
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran
US Prof. Tells Newsweek Israel Must Attack Iran - Now: Prof. Ferguson maintains that whether he likes it or not, President Barack Obama will comes to Israel's defense if it attacks Iran in an attempt to slow down its nuclear development, if not destroy its nuclear facilities altogether. http://bit.ly/w6MQIL
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran
Israel and Iran on the Eve of Destruction in a New Six-Day War: There are plenty of arguments against an Israeli attack on Iran. And all of them are bad. http://bit.ly/yBLy84
Israel faces Turkey airfield question on Iran issue: Airfields
located in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria were essential for
Israeli aircraft but that it was unlikely these countries would provide
permission for Tel Aviv to use their airfields. http://bit.ly/xhSqf5
Clinton meets Israeli FM amid Iran crisis: The Israeli foreign minister is also meeting with members of the US Congress during his visit http://bit.ly/yGRxff
Obama Declares "Threat" From Iran a National Emergency: Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f23uQr7TIMo&feature=player_embedded
Iran calls new US sanctions 'psychological war': Iranian
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said "When they impose
sanctions on our central bank even though we have no transactions with
them, it shows ... they think they are able to put pressure on our
people. create concerns and social discontent," he added. http://bit.ly/yYu7AU
Iran defaults on payments to Indian rice traders: Iranian
buyers have defaulted on payments for about 200,000 tonnes of rice
from their top supplier India, exporters and rice millers said on
Tuesday, a sign of the mounting pressure on Tehran from a new wave of
Western sanctions. http://bit.ly/wVH0bp
15 Pakistani militants killed in Upper Orakzai: Pak
Security forces pounded militant hideouts with jet fighters, killing
at least 15 and injuring eight militants in different areas of Upper
Orakzai. http://bit.ly/vZJL7R
Afghan security guard kills 5 colleagues, police: An
Afghan security guard killed three colleagues and two police in
southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the provincial authorities said on
Tuesday http://reut.rs/xdEIYc
67% Favor Ending U.S. Combat Role in Afghanistan by Next Year: A
new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of
Likely U.S. Voters favor ending the U.S. combat military mission in
Afghanistan by the middle of next year. Just 22% are opposed to ending
combat actions by then. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure. http://bit.ly/xcD1pq
Seven killed in Libyan refugee camp: Killings at a Tripoli refugee camp highlight ongoing persecution of black Libyans. http://aje.me/yNcgXT
U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Up to Half: Less
than two months after American troops left, the State Department is
preparing to slash by as much as half the enormous diplomatic presence
it had planned for Iraq, a sharp sign of declining American influence
in the country. http://nyti.ms/ABOfPg
UK: Government 'may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters', scientists fear: Leading
neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about to
sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would
be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical
weapons. http://ind.pn/yLxrji
UK: Germans jailed for possessing documents useful to terrorism.
The documents they were carrying were electronic copies of Inspire magazine, an English publication launched by al-Qaeda in the Arabian http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16910536
2 U.S. Citizens Barred From Returning to US: A
Muslim civil rights group wants the Justice Department to investigate
the tactics of FBI agents in Portland after two Libyan-Americans from
Oregon were barred from returning to the United States. http://abcn.ws/wJz1we
FBI warns of threat from anti-government extremists: - Anti-government
extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to
local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on
Monday. http://bit.ly/ypsWlx
24-hour general strike under way in Greece:
A 24-hour general strike is under way in Greece against the Cabinet's austerity policy. Railway and maritime traffic has come to a halt, and public transport disruptions have been reported. http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/02/07/65492796.html
Old Mortgages Rise from the Dead, Haunt Homeowners: Depositions
from "affidavit slaves" depict a surreal, assembly-line world in which
the banks and their partner firms hired hair stylists, fast-food kids
and Wal-Mart floor workers, paying them $10 an hour, to pose as bank
vice presidents, assistant secretaries and corporate attorneys. http://reut.rs/w7QBAj
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Tom Feeley
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