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"Our government has kept us in a
perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of
patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always
there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign
power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind
it by furnishing the exorbitant fundsdemanded. Yet, in retrospect,
these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been
quite real." - General Douglas MacArthur
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| February 01, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
Day of Mass Action to Stop War on Iran
February 4, 2012
NO war - NO sanctions - NO intervention - NO assassinations. http://bit.ly/zd95Tq
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An Alternative View
What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update
By Boris DOLGOV
The
armed opposition which conducted terrorist attacks in Syria is
represented by a number of groups from a military wing of the Muslim
Brotherhood to the Libyan radical Islamists and Al Qaeda. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30412.htm
Petrodollar Pumping US Policy on Iran, Backfire Looms
By Michael T. Winter
Any
rhetoric regarding Iran's nuclear program and the insistence on
crippling it is nothing more than a US attempt to force regime change
for one more receptive to maintaining the hegemony of the petrodollar. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30409.htm
Israel's War on Democracy
By Conn Hallinan
While that equality never fully applied to the country's Arab citizens, Israel was, for the most part an open society. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30408.htm
We Are All Suspects Now
By John Pilger
Washington's enemy is not "terrorism" but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30410.htm
A Journey To The End Of Empire:
It Is Always Darkest Right Before It Goes Completely Black
By Phil Rockstroh
Atrocious
acts can be committed by the state, with increasing frequency,
because, over the passage of time, such outrages will have been allowed
to pass into the realm of the mundane, and are thus bestowed with a
patina of acceptability. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30414.htm
Hatuey's Rebellion
The First American Freedom Fighter
By William Loren Katz
This
February 2nd stands as the 500th anniversary of the death of Hatuey,
an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not
mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and
Thomas Jefferson. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30416.htm
Whitewashing Black History Month
By Gary Younge
Arizona's
suppression of Mexican American studies fits a pattern of making
history serve an exclusionary nationalist mythology. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30411.htm
What Real Journalism Looks Like
Vincent Browne v The European Central Bank
Video
Vincent Browne takes on Klaus Masuch over the issue of the Irish people having to foot the bill for unguaranteed bondholders. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30415.htm
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Syria troops move on new rebel areas near capital: Syrian
troops battled army defectors in a string of towns in the mountains
overlooking Damascus on Wednesday in a new assault to crush rebellious
areas around the capital, activists said. http://apne.ws/e0ToK2
Syrian rebels upbeat despite government advances: Amateur video shows the Free Syrian Army exchanging gunfire with government forces as they take cover behind a rebel tank. http://tgr.ph/Ai63H0
Canada pulls most diplomats from Syria: -
Canada has evacuated all but a few of its embassy staff from Syria as that country teeters on civil war, the foreign minister said in Ottawa. http://bit.ly/y0iVCG
Pakistan Taliban leader, 20 others killed: - Security
forces conducting an operation in Pakistan's tribal region killed a
Taliban commander and 20 other suspected militants, officials said
Wednesday. http://bit.ly/wymyzZ
Militants kill 14 paramilitary troopers in southwest Pakistan: At
least 14 paramilitary troopers were killed in a militant attack on a
security post in the restive Balochistan province of southwest
Pakistan, official sources said on Wednesday. http://bit.ly/zrKe63
Parcel with Anthrax sent to Pakistani premier's house: Pakistani
police said Wednesday they were investigating how and why a parcel
containing anthrax was sent to the prime minister's official residence
in the capital Islamabad last month. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/01/191907.html
Pakistan dismisses Nato report on Afghan Taliban links: Pakistan's
foreign minister says her country has no hidden agenda in Afghanistan,
in response to a leaked secret Nato report on Islamabad's links to the
Afghan Taliban. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16832359
Man in Afghan army uniform kills NATO soldier: "An
individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon
against an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member
in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing one service member," the
NATO-led ISAF said in a press release, Xinhua reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1986613.html
Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO: The
U.S. military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by
Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces
withdraw, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western policy
after a costly war. http://reut.rs/xPnxxB
Afghan Taliban deny they're ready to talk peace: Taliban
spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid rejected those reports as "baseless,"
saying in a statement that exploratory talks between the insurgency and
the U.S. and its allies have not yet reached the stage for
negotiations. http://bit.ly/AxIgne
Hundreds of slaughtered civilians isn't a 'huge number' for Obama: Those
drone attacks, carried out by unmanned aircraft controlled thousands
of miles away, don't do a lot of harm, said the president. http://rt.com/usa/news/drones-civilian-death-obama-187/
Islamist sect kills 5 people in northeast Nigeria: The
Borno state police spokesman said Tuesday that Boko Haram gunmen
attacked an air force barracks, a police station and an army checkpoint
Monday, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of the sect's stronghold
in the city of Maiduguri. http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120131/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_violence
Rival Libyan militias battle in Tripoli: Exchanges
of fire were heard and plumes of smoke seen coming from the el-Saadi
district in central Tripoli, eyewitnesses reported. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16841848
Seventeen Executions In One Day In Iraq: All
seventeen executions took place yesterday, bringing the total number
so far this year to 51. 68 people were executed in 2011. http://bit.ly/wdSBpH
UN nuclear inspectors upbeat on Iran visit, but say further talks needed: Both
sides describe the three days of talks as 'good'; Iran says it was
ready to show IAEA delegates its nuclear facilities, but 'they didn't
ask for it'. http://bit.ly/zvKnqq
Destination Persian Gulf? US nuclear sub and destroyer enter Red Sea: Two
ships of the US Navy, the nuclear submarine USS Annapolis and the
destroyer USS Momsen have passed through the Suez Canal into the Red
Sea. Although their destination is confidential, they are now getting
dangerously close to the Persian Gulf. http://rt.com/news/us-submarine-passes-suez-115/
US Keeps Up Sabre-rattling Show For Iran: News from Washington proves that the US is serious about its plan to carry out a military operation against Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30413.htm
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Iranian (retaliatory) attack on America and allies increasingly likely - intelligence chief: Western officials say that in the past year there has been a notable increase in activity around the world by suspected members of Iran's Quds force, which they say could reflect positioning of units capable of carrying out reprisal attacks against western and Israeli targets if Iran was itself attacked. http://bit.ly/zTa6D7
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Iran said greater threat, while al-Qaida declines: Top U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday asserted that Iran has the means to build a nuclear weapon but has not yet decided to follow through, in contrast to Israel's insistence that time is running out to stop Iran from developing such a weapon.. . http://sg.news.yahoo.com/al-qaida-decline-threats-us-multiply-153319818.html
Mossad chief holds secret U.S. meetings on Iran nuclear "threat", Senate panel reveals: During
a broadcasted meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
CIA Director, panel Chairperson indicate they met Tamir Pardo in
Washington this week; U.S. official: Iran willing to attack U.S.
targets if threatened. http://bit.ly/yejRTV
'It May Be Too Late to Attack Iran after the Summer': Constant
chatter about an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear site may end by
summer. After that, the military option may fall off the table. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/152281#.TymU1FvyQ2x
Israel sets up elite command unit to strike behind 'enemy' lines: The
"Depth Corps" has been organised with the aim of co-ordinating deep
penetration operations in other countries at a time when the defence
ministry acknowledges that the number of covert Israeli operations
abroad has increased significantly in the last year. http://ind.pn/x8d13h
Ban Ki-Moon, U.N. Secretary General, Urges Israel To Halt illegal West Bank Settlements Construction: U.N.
chief Ban Ki-moon has harshly criticized Israel's continued settlement
construction and urged it to submit detailed proposals in low-level
border talks with the Palestinians. http://huff.to/z5EuGT
U.S. criticizes Israel plan to subsidize illegal West Bank settlement construction: Comments
by top State Department official come after Netanyahu cabinet
announces plan to encourage immigration into 557 illegal 'national
priority' settlements, which reportedly include 70 in the West Bank. http://bit.ly/wRTkvw
UN chief calls on Israel to make 'goodwill' gestures toward Palestinians: Ban
told Peres that Israel must make some confidence-building gestures
toward the Palestinians, in order to carry on with the direct talks
between the sides in Jordan. http://bit.ly/xA0TH8
Ethiopian Christians to be deported from Saudi Arabia: Police arrested the group - including 29 women - after raiding a prayer meeting in the second city of Jeddah. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16808429
4 punished for blowing whistle on Dover AFB body handling: Four
civilian employees at the Port Mortuary at Delaware's Dover Air Force
Base were illegally punished after blowing the whistle on the
mortuary's mishandling of dead troops' remains. Between 2004 and 2006,
Dover Air Force Base workers dumped the remains of 274 troops in a
Virginia landfill without notifying the soldiers' families. http://bit.ly/zbK9xS
Assange appeals 'invalid' warrant: WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange has asked the Supreme Court to block his
extradition to Sweden on the grounds that the European arrest warrant
issued against him is "invalid and unenforceable". http://bit.ly/wdY3GO
Group Says FBI Snoops on Wikileaks Supporters: A
nonprofit government watchdog claims the FBI refuses to release
information on "the government's identification and surveillance of
individuals who have demonstrated support for or interest in
WikiLeaks." http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/31/43485.htm
Romney: 'I'm not concerned about the very poor': Republican
presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he's "not
concerned about the very poor" because they have an "ample safety net"
and he's focused instead on relieving the suffering of middle-class
people hit hard by the bad economy http://bit.ly/wUJJ2f
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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