 |
|
Not For Profit - For Social Justice
100% Non Commercial, Fearless, Forthright & Independent
|
|
"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
|
| April 01, 2012 |
| Click Here For Op-Ed Articles |
| Click Here For Hard News Items |
| Click Here For Cost Of War |
   |
Op-Ed Articles
Man Whose WMD Lies Led to Iraq War Confesses All
By Jonathan Owen
Defector tells how US officials 'sexed up' his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30953.htm Thomas Friedman's "Festival of Lies"
By Lawrence Davidson
There
are lies aplenty when it comes to U.S. actions in the Middle East.
However, they are not lies we tell to others but rather to ourselves.
And from that, nothing good can come. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30956.htm
Obama Plans Regime Change in Syria
By Stephen Lendman
Insurgents
intend to keep fighting. Assad's obligated to confront them. Failure
is dereliction of duty. No responsible leader would refuse.
Nonetheless, he's condemned for doing his job.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30957.htm
War Porn: The New Safe Sex
By Pepe Escobar
Iran
is the new Iraq; and whatever the highway, to evoke the neo-con motto,
real men go to Tehran via Damascus, or real men go to Tehran non-stop.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30954.htm
Mexican Drug War Reality TV
By Jorge Gato
The
global drug trade is a key underlying factor in understanding world
events. It has become the blood vessel of the global economy without
which the system would collapse.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30958.htm
The Decline of the U.S. Dollar
By: Julian DW Phillips
The question that the BRIC nations are now asking is, "Must we be subject to the financial will of the U.S.?"
|
| Hard News
At least 147 killed in 6 days of clashes in southern Libya: The
clashes in the oasis region some 400 miles (650 kilometers) south of
Tripoli show the fragile authority of the Libyan government,
particularly in the isolated settlements that dot the southern desert. http://bit.ly/H6ZN1Z
16 dead in tribal clashes in Libya's Sabha:
At least 16 people were killed yesterday in new clashes between the Toubou people and Arab tribesmen in the southern Libyan desert oasis of Sabha, local and medical sources told AFP. http://bit.ly/Hzqj52
Mali rebels raise their flag in Timbuktu: lawmaker: Malian
rebels have planted their flag in the northern town of Timbuktu after
government forces fled the ancient trading post, a local lawmaker and a
resident told Reuters. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/01/204615.html
More questions than answers in Mali: Sanogo
has conceded to the demands of ECOWAS. But no one is certain who will
stand in the elections, let alone who will win. And the other major
question is what can the army do about the advances of the Tuareg rebels
in the north? http://bit.ly/H6IK3L
Uganda Oil: US Africa Command, a tool to Recolonize the African Continent: The
United States of America has no right to prescribe Africom on Africa
even at the expense of dividing Africa and weakening the African Union.
America wants its own interests to prevail over those of Africa. http://bit.ly/HHqLxc
41 killed in battle between army and militants in Yemen: More
than 40 people were killed yesterday after militants suspected of
links to Al Qaeda staged a surprise attack on a Yemeni army camp. http://bit.ly/H6iIA7
7 Yemeni police killed in "Al-Qaeda" attack:" "Al-Qaeda"
militants killed seven policemen Sunday, April 1 in an attack on a
checkpoint in Yemen's southeast, a security official said, a day after
clashes between the army and militants left 40 dead, AFP reported. http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/101240/
11 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan: At
least 11 Taliban militants were killed, 13 were arrested and 35
surrendered in a countrywide operation in Afghanistan, the interior
ministry said on Sunday. http://bit.ly/HEzc15
Police: Roadside bombs kill 5 in Afghanistan: A
remote-controlled bomb in southern Afghanistan killed a police
official Sunday who had survived multiple previous attempts on his life,
police said. http://bit.ly/HBs3Mr
Assad's forces capture Free Syrian Army commander in Damascus area: Colonel
al-Moatasim Billah Abu al-Walid is the deputy of Colonel General
Khaled Habous who heads the FSA's operations in the capital and the
surrounding area. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/31/204449.html
Syria rebels: We'll cease fire if tanks, big guns go: Syrian
rebels are ready to stop fighting the moment the army withdraws its
tanks, artillery and heavy weapons from opposition areas, a spokesman
for Free Syrian Army commanders inside Syria said on Saturday. http://reut.rs/HtU3DH
Gulf nations agree to bankroll Syrian rebels: Saudi
Arabia and other US-backed Gulf monarchies agreed at an Istanbul
summit on Sunday to create a multimillion-dollar fund to bankroll the
waning Syrian insurgency. The fund will be used to pay salaries of the
rebel Free Syrian Army and soldiers who defect, according to
participants in the Friends of the Syrian People conference. http://bit.ly/Hzc52x
Syria rebels 'have a right to weapons from abroad':
Rebels fighting the forces of Bashar Al Assad have the right to weapons supplies from other countries if the world fails to stop the bloodshed, Turkey's foreign minister told The National on the eve of a second international conference on Syria. http://bit.ly/HrLdHR
Iraq warns against arming Syrian opposition: raq
on Sunday warned Arab countries against supplying weapons and
financial support to opposition fighters fighting to oust Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, saying such moves risked escalating the
conflict. http://bit.ly/H8SbC5
Israels Useful Idiot:
John Bolton accuses administration of leaking story on Israeli planning along Iran border: Former U.S. diplomat John Bolton alleged Thursday that the Obama administration leaked a story about covert Israeli activity in order to foil potential plans by the country to attack Iran's nuclear program. http://fxn.ws/H1ovFY
Did the US just break the secret Israeli-Azerbaijani alliance against Iran?: The
intention of the Obama administration was to make the plans public to
disrupt any secret agreements between the two governments that would
leave the US in the dark. These plans would also grant Israel much
needed airfields for a strike on Iran http://rt.com/usa/news/israel-azerbaijan-iran-obama-897/
Israel not given airbase access for Iran strike: Azerbaijan: "We
have stated on numerous occasions and we reiterate that there will be
no actions against Iran... from the territory of Azerbaijan,"
Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov told journalists in
Baku. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/234095.html
China rejects US sanctions on Iran oil: China
rejected President Barack Obama's decision to move forward with plans
for sanctions on countries buying oil from Iran, saying on Saturday
that Washington had no right to unilaterally punish other nations. http://bit.ly/H6JciC
Fugitive Iraqi VP Tariq al-Hashemi leaves for Qatar: Report: Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has traveled to Qatar, despite an arrest warrant issued for him by Baghdad. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/234087.html
Kurdish oil exports stopped in payment dispute with Baghdad: The
regional government in Iraqi Kurdistan has ordered oil producers in
the region, including Norway's DNO, to halt exports in a payment
conflict with the central government in Baghdad, the regional oil
ministry and DNO said on Sunday. http://reut.rs/Hd29uX
I wonder why?
3 CentAm leaders reject legalization of drugs: Mauricio Funes of El Salvador, Porfirio Lobo of Honduras and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua issued a joint statement after meeting Friday saying they don't support Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina's proposal to legalize drugs. http://bit.ly/HzySgf
UK plans new snooping laws:
Britain is set to announce a new sweeping legislation that will allow real-time monitoring of all calls, e-mails, texts and Web site visits to tackle crime and terrorism, a move critics say likened the country to China and Iran. http://bit.ly/H7rQn8
Florida protesters demand arrest in black teen's murder: Thousands
of protesters marched on Saturday in the Florida city where unarmed
black teen Trayvon Martin was shot dead a month ago to demand that
police arrest the neighborhood watch volunteer who says he was acting in
self-defense when he pulled the trigger. http://reut.rs/H6V5U6
Ireland Faces Popular Revolt Over New Property Tax: The
government said less than half of the country's 1.6 million households
paid the charge by Saturday's deadline to avoid penalties. And about
5,000 marched in protest against the annual conference of Prime Minister
Enda Kenny's Fine Gael party. http://abcn.ws/Hymh0g
Connect Ireland - A unique new initiative to create jobs in Ireland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzNBvmSQZM0
"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
|
| 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 : 2,943
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 |
