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Where Journalists Get Their News
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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
"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about.": - Noam Chomsky "When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." - Dresden James. "When we don't actively protest to prevent war, our inactivity demonstrates that we are pro war" - Tom Feeley |
| January 31, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran?
Iran Willing to Launch US Attack: Official Warns
By Julian Borger
America's
top intelligence official has claimed that Iran's leadership was now
more willing than before to carry out an attack inside the US, and that
intelligence agencies were worried about plots against US and allied
interests around the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30401.htm
Sanctions v. Negotiations on Iran
By Glenn Greenwald
Former
Obama State Department advisor - brilliantly explains in this
six-minute interview, one I urge everyone to listen to, this
anti-negotiating stance has rendered an escalating sanctions regime. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30403.htm
Massive U.S. Military Buildup Reported Around Iran
Up to 100,000 Troops Ready By March
By Mac Slavo
The
Pentagon has been quietly massing troops and armaments on two islands
located just south of the Strait of Hormuz, and within easy striking
distance of Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30398.htm
Informed Westerners and Iranians Know The Way out of Nuclear Impasse
But Obama Admin Won't Take It
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Given
the extent to which Israel, the United States, and America's European
partners are ratcheting up tensions over the nuclear issue, one hopes
that additional talks would help the parties find a peaceful and
productive way forward. But that is unlikely.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30393.htm
One Million Killed
By Danny Lucia
OVER
A million Iraqis are dead from America's war. That sentence is a
cognitive litmus test. Some people's immediate reaction is, "That can't
be right," because the United States couldn't do that. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30399.htm
Drones Over Iraq: When is a Pullout not a Pullout?
By Felicity Arbuthnot
It
seems the world is sold a withdrawal from Iraq which was not quite
what it seemed as presented by the Panetta-Obama-fest in the Baghdad,
Fort Bragg speeches of just six weeks ago.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30402.htm
With its Deadly Drones
The US is Fighting a Coward's War
By George Monbiot
As technology allows machines to make their own decisions, warfare will become bloodier - and less accountable. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30392.htm
Aggression Born of American 'Exceptionalism'
By Hiroaki Sato
I thought American exceptionalism was debunked and dying. I was wrong. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30394.htm
Who is Responsible for War?
By Buffy Sainte Marie
His orders come from far away no more, They come from here and there and you and me. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30397.htm
Economics Lesson 1
By Paul Craig Roberts
The
consequences of a dead economy when the government is wasting
trillions of dollars in wars of naked aggression and in bailouts of
fraudulent financial institutions is a government budget that can only
be financed by printing money. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30397.htm
The Impending Undeclared Default Of 5 Major US Banks
By Jim Sinclair
Jim Sinclair reveals an impending undeclared default of 5 major US banks this week.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30395.htm
Big Brother Internet
By Gerald Celente
Government
control of the flow of information will strike a blow against Internet
anonymity and the free speech it has made possible. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30396.htm
Stranger Than Fiction?
Citizen Training
By Digby
Be advised that walking your dog off leash could get you electrocuted by the authorities. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30400.htm
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Clashes in Northwest Pakistan Kill 50: Officials
said Tuesday's clashes erupted when dozens of militants attacked a
security post in the Kurram tribal region, near the Afghan border. The
military responded by sending in helicopter gunships to the Jogi area
for support. http://bit.ly/y8VQXY
Doctor who led us to bin Laden was CIA agent, says US: Imprisoned Pakistani ran fake health scheme to get DNA evidence that al-Qa'ida leader was in house. http://ind.pn/yxMjOP
U.S. kills 15 "militants" in Yemen:
U.S. drones raided a convoy (allegedly) carrying "prominent leaders" of an al Qaida wing in Yemen on Monday night. The raid was conducted by three U.S. drones in Abyan's eastern town of Lodar, said two provincial security officials on condition of anonymity. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7715627.html
Obama defends drone strikes: President
Obama is defending his use of unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan and
elsewhere, saying they have been used to kill more terrorists than
civilians. http://usat.ly/xcZuD7
Center for Constitutional Rights Condemns Obama for Admitting Yemeni Interim President to the U.S.: Saleh
has overseen countless human rights violations against his own people -
kidnapping, torturing and murdering civilians, including children -
and his security forces, headed by his sons and nephews, continue to
retaliate against the victims' families. http://bit.ly/y3fuLG
15 killed in Syria as UN prepares for a "heated" debate: - Fifteen
people were killed Tuesday as Syrian security forces continued
operations against rebel forces, claiming to have made gains against
the 'outlaws', whilst the United Nations Security Council prepares for a
meeting on Syria. http://bit.ly/zQl9f5
Syrian "opposition" figure says Assad, family 'will be killed like Gaddafi': Syrian
President Bashar al Assad and his family will meet a bloody end like
former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi', as his regime falls from
power, a leading member of the opposition movement has warned. http://bit.ly/xMAph1
Britain urges UN to unite behind new Syria resolution: 'It
is time for all members of the UN Security Council to live up to their
responsibilities instead of shielding those who have blood on their
hands,' said Cameron. http://bit.ly/AmNJXT
Russian FM: Moscow will veto UN resolution on Syria: - Russia
indicated on Tuesday, January 31 it will veto a draft resolution on
Syria that calls on President Bashar Assad to step down and provides
for "further measures" if he refuses. http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/90927/
'Syria on its knees - prelude to NATO invading Iran': "Russia
absolutely must veto any UN resolution that comes at the behest of the
NATO allies - Saudi Arabia and Qatar - in near the future, because it
will just be an excuse for an invasion. And that will lead to a civil
war so bloody, so ferocious, so murderous that it will make what
happened in Libya look like a high school prom by comparison," http://rt.com/news/syria-nato-iran-russia-149/
Exclusive: "Leaked" Syria observers' report details failings of mission: "The
mission...sensed the acute stress, injustice and oppression endured
[by] Syrian citizens," Al-Dabbi wrote. "Yet they are convinced that the
Syrian crisis must be resolved peacefully, in the Arab context, and
not internationalized so that they can live in peace securely, and
achieve the desired reforms and changes." http://bit.ly/yScS4q
Full text : "Leaked" Syria observers' report : pdf format http://bit.ly/wQT7Qj
'Israel sees narrowing window for Iran strike':
The officials said that Israel must act by the summer if it wants to effectively attack Iran's program. http://mnstr.me/wiSpF4
Saudi Arabia says it can cover any oil shortages:
Saudi Arabia could increase oil output by about 2 million bpd "almost immediately" from its current levels just under 10 million bpd. He said the kingdom could add a further 700,000 bpd, with about 90 days to reach full capacity of 12.5 million bpd. http://bit.ly/yL1fZR
CIA chief says appears Saudi oil 'ramping up': Saudi
Arabia's oil production appears to be "ramping up" and can fill some
of the demand shortfalls caused by sanctions on Iranian exports, CIA
Director David Petraeus said on Tuesday. http://bit.ly/xALuKG
US Lawmakers Take Next Step on New Iran Sanctions: The
language could give the United States the legal authority to sanction
foreign companies that buy oil from the National Iranian Oil Company
(NIOC) or have it shipped by the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC),
Dubowitz said in an interview. http://www.cnbc.com/id/46200666
Gold up 10% on Iran rumours:
India, China may pay in bullion for Iran oil; Dollar under attack http://bit.ly/zYfX3e
IAEA wraps up talks in Iran: media: Both
sides "agreed on continuing the talks," the Fars and ISNA news
agencies reported, saying a date had been set but not divulging it. http://n24.cm/AvleCD
Iraq detains 16 vice presidential guards: Iraqi
security forces have detained 16 of Tareq al-Hashemi's bodyguards, the
interior ministry said, in a move the fugitive vice president said
Tuesday was the latest in a string of false accusations. http://yhoo.it/Acyoto
U.S. culpable in African atrocities: The
United States is shamefully implicated in the terror that Charles
Taylor, erstwhile leader of Liberia, inflicted on the people of West
Africa. http://www.progressive.org/african_atrocities.html
Americans take shelter in Cairo embassy: Rare move to offer diplomatic refuge comes after travel ban imposed on US citizens working with NGOs in Egypt. http://aje.me/weeTby
Pressure builds for NYPD chief to resign over anti-Muslim video: Anti-Muslim training video screened to nearly 1,500 police officers http://bit.ly/yCJ85b
The Impending Undeclared Default Of 5 Major US Banks: The
following interview with Ellis Martin covers in detail the impending
undeclared default of 5 major US banks this week by the International
Swaps and Derivatives Association. http://bit.ly/wtoS0c
US Imprisons/Deports Two Brits For Twitter Jokes: Authorities
in America take threats seriously, and when it comes to Hollywood
royalty nearly 50 years past their expiration date, the feds don't kid
around. So when a would-be British tourist joked about digging up the
body of famed Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe, US officials, to say
the least, were not amused. http://rt.com/usa/news/joke-marilyn-bryan-monroe-197/
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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