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"Nothing
is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be
"governed" without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has
yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest German
is ashamed of his government. Who among us has any conception of the
dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day
the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes - First Leaflet - The White Rose Society - Munich, 1942
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776 "The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberative and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." Justice Robert Jackson - Nuremberg address |
| March 25, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
The Dangerous Mess in Syria Grows Murkier
By Eric Margolis
US,
British and some European media keep depicting Syria's civil war as a
simple passion play pitting the evil Asad regime in Damascus against
mostly unarmed democratic protestors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30908.htm
Robert Bales - Lone Nut or Scapegoat?
What are the Americans hiding?
By Justin Raimondo
The
murder of 17 Afghan civilians - most of them children - by staff
sergeant Robert Bales may be far worse than we think at present.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30906.htm
Robots Kill, But the Blood Is on Our Hands
By David Swanson
Torturing
someone to death is not what former CIA General Counsel John Rizzo
calls "clean." Blowing them and anyone near them into little bits is
"clean."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30912.htm
The Two Saddest Words In Any Language Are 'If Only...'
By The White Rose Society
Why
do you not act, why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you
step by step, openly and in secret, of one set of your rights after
another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a
mechanized state system presided over by criminals and fools?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30911.htm
Incarceration Nation
By Fareed Zakaria
"Land of the Free" U.S. Jails More of its Citizens Than Any Other Nation, More Than Stalin.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30910.htm
Are Police Building a Massive DNA Database?
By Scott Lemieux
A new law permits police to get genetic samples from almost anyone convicted of any crime in New York state.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30909.htm
Dick Cheney Gets New Heart
By Bobbot
Dick got a heart transplant. At age 71. Did he shoot the donor himself or did he have someone else do it? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30907.htm |
| Hard News
Pakistan: 16 killed in clashes: Fighting
in Pakistan's northwestern region has left at least four soldiers and a
dozen militants dead, a security official said.
http://bit.ly/GSxiI3
U.S. Plans No Charges Over Deadly Strike in Pakistan: The
United States military has decided that no service members will face
disciplinary charges for their involvement in a NATO airstrike in
November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers
http://nyti.ms/GYuR5P
Opposition to block NATO supplies restoration: Opposition
to block NATO supplies restoration Islamabad-Opposition parties have
vowed that they would block every move towards restoration of NATO
supply. The opposition parties had a meeting at Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman's
residence in Islamabad.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=146654
Blast kills 9 people in Afghanistan: One foreign soldier and Afghan police among nine killed by an improvised explosive device in Kandahar province.
http://aje.me/GOolLV
Three Nato-led Occupation Force Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan: An
Isaf statement said that one of the soldiers died in a bomb blast in
southern Afghanistan, another one in an insurgent attack in the west,
and the third one as a result of a non-battle related injury in the
east.
http://bit.ly/GPgmQ9
Robert Bales Took a One-Hour Killing Break: Officials: U.S.
investigators now believe that Bales walked off his base that night
and killed several people in one of the villages, then went back to the
base. The American officials, who are privy to some details of the
investigation, said they do not know why Bales returned, how long he
stayed or what he did while there.
http://bit.ly/GKk7aF
U.S. paid out $50,000 per death in Afghan massacre:
They were told that the money came from U.S. President Barack Obama, Mr. Lalai said. http://bit.ly/H0tnu4
Turkish forces kill 15 Kurdish women fighters: Female unit of Kurd separatist movement PKK wiped out by Turkish army in Bitlis province, interior ministry says.
http://aje.me/GObLAN
Eight killed in clashes in southern Syria: Five
Syrian army defectors and three government force members have died
during clashes in the southern Syrian province of Daraa, a rights group
said Sunday, dpa reported.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/2006615.html
Obama: Window for diplomatic solution to nuclear Iran is closing: U.S.
President reiterates position on Iran nuclear issue after talks with
Turkish PM Erdogan; remarks come week and a half after Russian daily
reported that United States had asked Russia to deliver ultimatum to
Iran.
http://bit.ly/H06PK0
Peretz: It would be better if US struck Iran: Former
defense minister Amir Peretz said on Saturday that a military strike
against Iranian nuclear facilities would be better if the US carried it
out instead of Israel. "We should prefer an outside actor does it
because Israel doesn't need to be confronted by the whole Muslim world,"
Peretz said.
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=263207
An Attack on Iran Would Be Illegal. What Does the Media Say?: The
United Nations Charter outlaws the 'threat of the use of force', an
act in which much of the media, in its uncritical stance towards
government threats, has made itself complicit.
http://bit.ly/GM2n04
International Association of Democratic Lawyers Opposes Military Force Against Syria and Iran: The
UN Charter commands that all Members settle their international
disputes by peaceful means. Members must refrain from the threat or use
of force against the territorial integrity or political independence
of any state or in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the
United Nations. The Charter does not permit the use of military force
under the pretext of humanitarian intervention.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/42169
Report: Israeli teams monitor Iran's nuclear program on the ground:
he Sunday Times cites western intelligence sources as saying that special IDF forces are searching for 'smoking gun' evidence in Iran, disguised as Iranian military personnel. http://bit.ly/GZ2OXp
'Don't attack Iran!' Anti-war protests hit UK and Israel: UK
activists from the 'Stop the War Coalition' have held a day of action
to speak out against war with Iran. Protesters took to the streets of 15
major British cities. In Israel, hundreds marched in Tel Aviv
protesting the war.
http://www.rt.com/news/iran-uk-war-protest-375/
Palestinian hunger striker 'at risk of death' highlights injustice of administrative detention: The
Israeli authorities should immediately release a Palestinian detainee
or charge her with a recognizable criminal offence and promptly try
her, Amnesty International said amid fears that the woman could die in
detention after 37 days on hunger strike.
http://bit.ly/GQpW5F
French police question Merah alliance with al-Qaeda: Investigators
in France have said a suggestion by gunman Mohamed Merah that he was
linked to al-Qaeda may have been false. They have found no sign that
the gunman was under the umbrella of al-Qaeda or any other militant
terror group.
http://www.atlanticcitynews.net/story/204346590
French gunman's brother under investigation: Prosecutors
allege Abdelkader Merah helped his brother Mohammed carry out killings
in Toulouse and Montauban and was also planning terror attacks
himself.
http://aje.me/H19EFA
US approves 1.3 billion dollars military aid to Egypt: Clinton
waived conditions placed on the 1.3-billion-dollars of aid by Congress
- that had insisted Egypt meet certain democratic reforms before being
granted the funds - saying the move was in the United States' national
interest.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/2006382.html
Leader of Mali military coup trained in U.S.: Capt.
Amadou Haya Sanogo, who led a renegade military faction that on
Thursday deposed Mali's democratically elected president, visited the
United States several times to receive professional military education,
including basic officer training, said Patrick Barnes, a U.S. Africa
Command official based in Washington.
http://wapo.st/GLb7kq
Libyan tribe closes border crossing with Egypt: The
tribesmen seized control of the Libyan side of the Salloum crossing
from the smugglers and former rebels late Friday, he said.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/2006553.html
Militia storms hotel in Libya after guest told to pay overdue bill: Armed
militiamen stormed a Turkish-owned hotel in the Libyan capital
Tripoli, firing shots and detaining its Turkish manager in a dispute
over an unpaid bill, an employee said, highlighting the continuing
volatility in the North African country.
http://yhoo.it/GOMkui
Guatemala's president urges debate on drug legalisation: "We
have seen that the strategy that has been pursued in the fight against
drug trafficking over the last 40 years has failed," he said. "We have
to look for new alternatives. We must end the myths, the taboos, and
tell people you have to discuss it," he added.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17502417
Policy For Sale: Tory sold access to Prime Minister, Sunday Times alleges: Secretly
filmed footage apparently showed the Conservative Party co-treasurer
offering access to the prime minister for a donation of £250,000 a
year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17501618
Graft-tainted former Irish PM quits party: The
tribunal found that Ahern failed to truthfully account for a total of
165,214.25 Irish punts ($262,000) passing through accounts connected
with him.
http://aje.me/GNSnEm
Hate crime? Iraqi woman severely beaten in California: A
woman from Iraq who was found beaten next to a threatening note saying
"go back to your country, you terrorist." has died, and police are
investigating the possibility of a hate crime.
http://wapo.st/H6nH03
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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| Cost Of War
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: 4,801
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,935
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 |
