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"So long as the deceit ran along
quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it
unawares or maybe through cowardice..." - William Faulkner
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| March 27, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up
By James Petras
The
ever-complicit Obama regime constructed an elaborate cover-up,
exposing the Administration up to charges of conspiracy to suppress the
essential facts, falsify data and obstruct justice: All are grounds for
criminal prosecution and impeachment.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30922.htm
Obama Takes Bush's Secrecy Games One Step Further
By Glenn Greenwald
The
Obama presidency is cementing the worst abuses of the Bush presidency:
the very same ones he so inspirationally vowed to reverse. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30921.htm
What Ever Happened to "Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice"?
By A. Barton Hinkle
It's
more than a little ironic that conservatives think the first order of
business when fighting terror is to sacrifice freedom. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30920.htm
Empires Then and Now
By Paul Craig Roberts
Bush
and Obama have doubled the national debt, and the American people have
no benefits from it. No riches, no bread and circuses flow to
Americans from Washington's wars. So what is it all about? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30923.htm
U.S. Leaders Had Better Heed Israel's Warnings on Iran
By Ari Shavit
On
the one hand, we cannot exclude the possibility that the senior
Israeli officials briefing us are bluffing. On the other hand, what we
journalists hear in closed rooms is staggering.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30916.htm
Who Is Normal?
By Lawrence Davidson
Maybe
it is a variant on "the battered child syndrome" that has led the
Israelis to batter the Palestinians and then, when they resist, call
them anti-Semites. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30915.htm
Imperial Ignorance
By Aijaz Zaka Syed
So
this is how the cookie crumbles. From burning books to butchering
babies, it seems everything is fair game as the victors near their
tether. Four years after Barack Hussein Obama offered a "new way
forward"; the gulf between America and the world's Muslims is at its
widest. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30917.htm
"I Am No Longer the Monster I Once Was"
Video
"The
reason I am doing this," said former Marine Jon Turner, Until people
hear what is going on with this war, it will continue to happen, and
people will continue to die.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30913.htm
On the Death of Shaima Alawadi
Murdered by a Decade of Militarist Demagoguery
By Justin Raimondo
It
sickens me to write this, to report on the latest manifestation of the
hate that has enveloped my country and spread out across the world
like a giant oil spill.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30914.htm
The Receding Tide
Becoming Uzbekistan
By Fred Reed
Several
things characterize countries of the Third Word, whatever precisely
"Third World" means. The first is corruption. America is rotten with
it, but American corruption is distinct from corruption in, say,
Guatemala or Thailand, being less visible and better organized. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30918.htm
Humor Quantitative Easing Explained
2 Minute Video
"Avery Largenumber, Economist" Originally aired on ABC TV http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30919.htm
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| Hard News
Doctor says 20 people killed in Libyan power struggle:
The deadly clash underlined the fragile nature of Libya after the fall of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. The central government has failed to impose its authority, and Libya is ruled instead by squabbling tribes and militias. http://wapo.st/H62wMh
NATO's Secrecy : How many civilians did NATO slaughter in Libya? : The
results, by the available evidence, were a horror. By the time NATO's
planes departed, at least 34 people had been killed, many of them women
and small children, according to investigations by journalists,
human-rights organizations and the United Nations. http://nyti.ms/GQz0vt
Ten killed in Afghan bombing: Official : Eight
Afghan security personnel and a foreign soldier were among 10 people
killed in a Taliban-style roadside bombing in the southern province of
Kandahar, officials said yesterday. http://bit.ly/GXZut2
Former Afghan MP among 4 killed in roadside bomb : A
former Afghan member of parliament was among four people who were
killed Saturday in a roadside bomb attack in the country's central
region, local media reported on Sunday. http://bit.ly/H39MEw
Two British occupation force soldiers killed by Afghan army soldier: Two
British soldiers have been killed by a member of the Afghan national
army inside a Nato base in southern Afghanistan, the UK defence
secretary has confirmed. http://bit.ly/GV6zKo
How much more blood on David Cameron's hands in Afghanistan?: The
news that two soldiers have been killed at the hands of an Afghan
soldier only underlines the desperate failure of the war and the
senseless loss of life. http://bit.ly/HaeyAa
Four killed in northern Iraq amid summit preparations: Four
people were killed Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul when a
roadside bomb went off and gunmen opened fire on a police patrol, local
security chief Mohamed al-Jabouri said, dpa reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/met/iraq/2006907.html
Heavy shelling on Homs, as Syrian rebels intensify attacks: Ten
people and three army soldiers were killed Monday when Syrian forces
shelled the province of Homs and opposition rebels intensified their
hit-and-run attacks against troops in restive provinces across Syria,
activists said. http://bit.ly/HcY4tY
Homs shelling kills five: Troops
shelled Khaldiyeh district in the flashpoint city of Homs on Monday,
with at least five people dying in the onslaught and two more killed
elsewhere in Syria, activists and monitors said http://bit.ly/HbBGU0
U.N. gets reports of child soldiers with Syria rebels: Syrian
rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad have been accused of
using children as fighters in violation of international conventions
banning the recruitment of child soldiers, a senior U.N. official said
on Monday. http://reut.rs/H5XFuC
Annan studies Syria response: Rebel neighbourhood in homs shelled for seventh day as Russia warns of civil war http://bit.ly/H6Nd6T
Turkey Closes Embassy In Syria As Border Clashes Escalate: Turkey
closed its embassy in Damascus on Monday, citing the deteriorating
security situation, as the once close ally moved closer to suspending
diplomatic ties with Syria, according to various news reports. http://bit.ly/GSN3fN
BRICS warns US against action on Iran: While
the central banks of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are
set to sign agreements for promoting trade amongst the five nations in
local currencies, the BRICS leaders may this week also close ranks to
warn US and Israel against any military action on Iran and try to iron
out differences within the five-nation bloc on international response
to the crisis in Syria. http://bit.ly/GVz7EQ
Palestinian prisoners fight Israeli atrocities with 'empty stomachs':
OCCUPIED RAMALLAH Inspired by Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who pressured Israel with a 66-day hunger strike, a growing number of his fellow detainees are launching similar protests. http://bit.ly/GT1Fip
Questions emerge over police handling of Toulouse, France killings: Details
emerging about Mohamed Merah, the alleged gunman in a series of
murders in the Toulouse area from March 11 to March 19, raise serious
questions about the conduct of French intelligence and police
agencies. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/toul-m24.shtml
Merah may not have been attached to 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://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=204346590
British PM sold seats at family dinner table to wealthy donors: Britain's
prime minister, facing new questions about party fundraising,
disclosed Monday the names of major donors to his Conservative Party
invited to intimate meals at his family's Downing Street apartment and
his official countryside mansion. http://bit.ly/GV9aUs
David Cameron publishes details of donor dinners in cash-for-access row: Hours
after the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, said details would
not be released, Downing Street published a list of dinners in Downing
Street attended by 11 donors and their spouses. http://bit.ly/H5A5g5
Calls for probe into possible wrongful conviction of Lockerbie bomber:
The report, which has remained secret for five years, alleges the Crown Office withheld evidence from the defence. It also says there were six grounds on which it believes a miscarriage of justice may have occurred http://bit.ly/GOOBwr
Read the report that could have cleared Megrahi of Lockerbie-bombing: pdf format - File make take a moment to download. http://bit.ly/GRN5s4
'The Pope will visit Cuba - so what?' : The
dance between the pope and the Cuban authorities is distressing,
especially if one keeps in mind that this is a religious leader with a
dreadful record when it comes to dealing with the Latin American left http://aje.me/GRnZbm
Lavish spending of America's first family of televangelism revealed in bitter legal feud: America's
"first family" of televangelism is being torn apart in a bitter legal
feud which includes allegations of lavish spending on private jets,
mansions and a $100,000 motor home for their pet dogs. http://tgr.ph/GLmige
Only 10 percent of countries, 20 out of 198, carried out executions last year: The
United States was again the only country in the Americas and the only
member of the G8 group of leading economies to execute prisoners - 43
in 2011. Europe and former Soviet Union countries were capital
punishment-free, apart from Belarus where two people were executed. http://bit.ly/H8khrH
The killing of Trayvon Martin: The
killing of Trayvon Martin is a consequence of the dominance of
political reaction in the United States for more than 30 years http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/pers-m26.shtml
Raw Video: Okla. Police Drag Man Face Down: The
arrest of a man at an Oklahoma Airport is under investigation.
Officials released surveillance video of officers dragging the man face
down across the floor. http://bit.ly/GWRg0l
New surveillance system can compare your face against 36 million others in a single second: The
system processes footage from both still images and live footage,
recognizing faces in real-time. Recognized faces are displayed as
thumbnails and grouped with matching footage, allowing the operator to
look at all of the actions of a given person immediately. http://vrge.co/GKA59i
Subliminal Santorum Ad Flashes Obama's Face When Talking About 'Sworn American Enemy': A
paranoid Rick Santorum campaign ad, "Obamaville," briefly replaces a
picture of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad with President Barack
Obama's face, as the narrator talks about a "sworn American enemy": http://bit.ly/GTLCMZ
Brics' move to unseat US dollar as trade currency: South
Africa will this week take some initial steps to unseat the US dollar
as the preferred worldwide currency for trade and investment in
emerging economies. Thus, the nation is expected to become party to
endorsing the Chinese currency, the renminbi, as the currency of trade
in emerging markets. http://bit.ly/GOh93Y
EU Gas Now Over $10: Charting The Global Gas Pump Price Shock: For
the first time since June 2011, the average price for Gas across the
27 European nations just broke above USD10/gallon. With the US on
average above USD4/gallon http://bit.ly/GRvsGP
"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 : 2,939
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 |
