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"We Americans
claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to
violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of
projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.
We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic
necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some
industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that
America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she
will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations.
Such is the logic of patriotism." - Emma Goldman.
"Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the
world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our
ancient task of being part of the difficulty." - Hugh Prather
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| April 08/09, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
Putting Syria Into Some Perspective
By William Blum
The
Holy Triumvirate recognizes no higher power and believes, literally,
that they can do whatever they want in the world, to whomever they want,
for as long as they want, and call it whatever they want, like
"humanitarian intervention".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31017.htm
Manipulating Public Perceptions
This Week in History: The Toppling Of Saddam Hussein
By MICHAEL OMER-MAN
The
dramatic scene of knocking down one of hundreds of statues of the
dictator, turned out to be not much more than an opportune media event.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31023.htm
Leaked Video Shows US Contractors Randomly Killing Civilians
Video
Employees
of the US military contracting group Academi (formerly Xe, Blackwater
USA and Blackwater Worldwide) are seen in new leaked video shooting
their machine guns at random while driving through the streets of
Baghdad, crashing into other cars and even running over a pedestrian
without hesitation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31019.htm
Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu Are Old Friends
By MICHAEL BARBARO
The
relationship between Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Romney - nurtured over meals
in Boston, New York and Jerusalem, strengthened by a network of mutual
friends and heightened by their conservative ideologies - has resulted
in an unusually frank exchange of advice and insights on topics like
politics, economics and the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31022.htm
Delusional Milestone
By Lawrence Davidson
Christians
United For Israel (CUFI) announced the "registration of their
millionth member" on 18 March 2012. This organization, founded in 2006,
with the goal of "realizing the political potential of tens of millions
of evangelical Americans who support Israel" can also be said to have
the goal of destroying, in the name of God no less, the legitimate
political aspiration of Palestinian statehood.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31028.htm
American Homicide Abroad
Petition to All Pastors
In
the name of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we ask that you
forthrightly and unequivocally condemn this blowing apart of our
brothers and sisters and their children all around the world just as
King condemned it.
http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.mx/
Dem Candidate Calls Another A 'Whore' For AIPAC During Live Debate
Video
Things
got heated during a Democratic primary debate for the U.S. Senate in
Connecticut on Thursday when one candidate told another that he was
"whore" over his support of a pro-Israel lobbying group.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31018.htm
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Video Documentary
How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14055.htm
"Pour Out Your Wrath!"
By Uri Avnery
The
commandment to commit genocide against the non-Jewish population of
Palestine is taken by many teachers and pupils quite literally.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31016.htm
George Galloway Won For Some Very Good Reasons
By Patrick Cockburn
It
says something about the comatose nature of British politics that an
effective critic of these failed wars like Mr Galloway, who beats an
established party, should be instantly savaged as a self-serving
demagogue.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31025.htm
The Hunger Games as a Metaphor for the Warfare State
By Joel Poindexter
An
impoverished underclass, already forced to pay tribute to the
government, has its youth pressed into violent service by the wealthy
and politically powerful, for the entertainment and enrichment of this
ruling elite.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31020.htm
Guilty Of Telling The Truth
20-Year Veteran to Face Jail Time for Act of Civil Disobedience
2 Minute Video
Bolger,
who is a peace activist and the President of Veterans For Peace,
interrupted a public hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit
Reduction, commonly known as the Super Committee.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31027.htm
To Protect Freedom
US Jurists Must Pardon Terror Suspects Caught By Entrapment
By Joshua Woods and Jim Nolan
Since
9/11, the majority of criminal convictions in high-profile terror
cases in the US relied on sting operations. In many, the FBI crossed the
line into entrapment, luring penniless men and teenagers into
sophisticated plots they never could have dreamed of on their own.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31021.htm U.S. Filmmaker Repeatedly Detained at Border Government targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country
By Glenn Greenwald
With
no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland
Security routinely singles out individuals who are suspected of no
crimes, detains them and questions them at the airport, often for
hours, when they return to the U.S. after an international trip, and
then copies and even seizes their electronic devices.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31026.htm
How the US Uses Sexual Humiliation as a Political Tool to Control the Masses
By Naomi Wolf
History
shows that the use of forced nudity by a state that is descending into
fascism is powerfully effective in controlling and subduing
populations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31024.htm |
| Hard News
38 killed in central Nigeria car bombing: A car
bomb exploded along a busy roadway Sunday morning in a central Nigeria
city, killing at least 38 people in the latest attack on a region beset
by religious, ethnic and political violence, an official said.
http://bit.ly/HUFS8G
Somalia: 10 People Killed in Renewed Fighting in Central Somalia: At
least 10 people were killed in a renewed fighting between Ahlu Sunna
Waljama'a, pro-government fighters and Al Qaeda-affiliated Al shabab
militants in central Somalia, witnesses said Sunday.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201204080238.html
Yemen air force, U.S. drone kill 24 Qaeda suspects: A
tribal chief told AFP a U.S. drone killed eight al-Qaeda suspects when
it fired a missile at their vehicle in the eastern province of Shabwa
on Saturday, a tribal chief told AFP.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/08/206235.html
Main Yemen airport reopens as US praises president: The
airport inYemen's capital reopened Sunday after a one-day shutdown
over threats from loyalists of a sacked general close to former
strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, asWashington praised new President
Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi.
http://bit.ly/IivSsN
Air Force ramps up drone war: New documents reveal plans to more than quadruple Reaper missions by 2016
http://bit.ly/HpW5ms
9 rebels killed, 6 held in eastern Afghanistan: Afghan
National Army (ANA) soldiers, along with coalition forces, killed five
fighters in a shootout in the Manogai district of Kunar province, a
statement from the multinational force said.
http://bit.ly/HrafqU
US, Afghanistan strike deal on night raids: Kabul: Kabul's
foreign ministry invited journalists to a signing ceremony for the
agreement later Sunday, and President Hamid Karzai's spokesman Aimal
Faizi told AFP: "After the signing of this document all night raids
become Afghan-led." "The foreign forces, the US forces, will have a
supporting role in the night raids, for instance intelligence sharing."
http://bit.ly/HV0z4x A dirty deal: Uzbek dictator 'has UK over a barrel': Senior officials admitted yesterday that Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov had the UK "over a barrel", after his country emerged as the favoured route home when British forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan by 2014. http://ind.pn/Ip880N
7 killed, 21 injured in Lebanon-Syria border attack: Shiite
pilgrims from Lebanon going to Iraq were stopped at the Syrian border
for inspection of documents on Saturday, April 7, when unknown
assailant shot at the bus from a grenade launcher.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/102182/
Syria threatens pullout from ceasefire deal unless given 'written guarantees': The
Syrian government may not withdraw its army units from cities on
Tuesday, if it does not receive a written pledge signed by opposition
groups to observe the ceasefire. Free Syrian Army refuses the demand.
http://rt.com/news/syria-ceasefire-withdrawal-threat-529/
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria:
'Military intervention in Syria not completely ruled out': An internationally supported military intervention in Syria could still take place as a last resort for settling the Syrian crisis, given that recent international efforts are unlikely to affect the status quo and the conflict will not end in the near future, political observers have claimed. http://bit.ly/HslpK9 Turkey may take 'steps' after Syria deadline: Turkey's prime minister says the country will wait "patiently" to see if Syria abides by a cease-fire deadline, but may take certain "steps" if the violence does not stop after that. http://bit.ly/IfuJRs
Chavez accuses US of trying to topple Syria leader: Chavez
says he spoke by phone on Friday with his ally Syrian President Bashar
Assad. He says Assad told him that more than 2,000 Syrian soldiers
have been killed along with a larger number of civilians in what the
Venezuelan leader calls a "terrorist plan" to remove Assad from power.
http://arabnews.com/world/article607446.ece
Disaffection, fear growing among Syria's Alawites: In
the Alawite heartlands of Latakia and the mountainous rural
hinterlands surrounding the city, the regime of President Bashar Al
Assad still commands overwhelming support, buttressed by patronage
networks and deeply entrenched fears of sectarian bloodshed.
http://bit.ly/Hqj9AR
Netanyahu: Iran must close Fordow facility, halt 20% enrichment: Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday: "The demands of Iran must
be clear: to take away the enriched material, halt the enrichment and
dismantle the facility in Qom." Netanyahu spoke with visiting Italian
Prime Minister Mario Monti.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4213939,00.html
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran :
U.S. Defines Its Demands for New Round of Talks With Iran: The Obama administration and its European allies plan to open new negotiations with Iran by demanding the immediate closing and ultimate dismantling of a recently completed nuclear facility deep under a mountain, according to American and European diplomats. http://nyti.ms/HnQiAv
Iran rejects West's 'demands' : Iran yesterday
rejected demands the West is reportedly to submit at talks due to take
place in days, saying it will neither close its Fordo nuclear bunker
nor give up higher-level uranium enrichment.
http://bit.ly/Hys19G
Report: U.S. operated inside Iran to collect information on nuclear program: The
CIA has been operating stealth surveillance drones deep inside Iran
for the last three years, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.
http://bit.ly/Hxj8wc
Iran to Connect Caspian Sea to Persian Gulf: Iran
will soon launch a plan to connect the Caspian Sea to the central
regions of the country and the Persian Gulf, Fars News Agency quoted
Energy Minister Majid Namjou as saying.
http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2011824.html
Bombs kill three cops in Iraq province Sunday:
A roadside bomb killed three policemen in Diyala province of central Iraq while a bomb inside a minibus in Baghdad left at least two people dead yesterday, security and medical sources said. http://bit.ly/I5Xn9G Fugitive Saddam deputy urges resistance in video: The most senior member of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's entourage still at large has criticized the present government and urged former Iraqi Baathists to reorganize their resistance to it, according to a video broadcast on Baathist websites. http://bsun.md/Iqs9rh
Exxon Mobil dispute deepens Arab-Kurd split in Iraq: The
dispute's most contested issue is a deal signed last year in which
authorities in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region gave Exxon
Mobil permission to explore six tracts of land. The contract infuriated
leaders in Baghdad, who have never agreed on a means by which the
Kurdish region can develop its resources.
http://wapo.st/HkHoAx
Hamas hangs three Gaza prisoners: Palestinian convicted of collaborating with Israel and two men deemed complicit in murder executed in Gaza City.
http://aje.me/HIt3vc
Israel declares German poet Gunter Grass persona non grata: Israel's
Interior Minister Eli Yishai has declared German Nobel prize-winning
poet Gunter Grass a persona non grata in Israel. Grass, who last week
published a poem claiming that Israel is endangering world peace by
threatening Iran, will be barred from visiting Israel.
http://bit.ly/HxSdR5
"Islamist" fighters execute Tuareg in Mali, witness says: Residents
in Mali attempting to flee the northern city of Gao, occupied for the
past week by rival rebel factions, said they saw Islamist fighters cut
the throat of a gunman, who is assumed to belong to the secular rebel
group.
http://bit.ly/IfvnOO
Mali president formally resigns: mediator: Toure's resignation opens the way for the departure of the junta that ousted him.
http://bit.ly/HySzGZ
Sudan: Southern Kordofan: Unfinished Business :
Al Jazeera's Peter Greste travelled to the isolated Nuba Mountains where he found entire communities hiding in caves from a bombing campaign that Khartoum says is aimed only at putting down an armed insurrection. http://aje.me/HsWvIS
Hundreds rally in Benghazi against Libyan militias: Hundreds
of people, including police and soldiers, protested in Libya's second
biggest city, calling on militias to lay down their weapons as the
government tries to impose its authority on a myriad of armed groups
months after the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi.
http://bit.ly/HkDUNY
Libya to defy UN on handing over Saif Gaddafi, documents reveal: Libya
is obliged under UN rules to hand over Saif - who had been tipped to
succeed Muammar Gaddafi - to the ICC, where he is indicted for crimes
against humanity. However, the Libyan government is determined to hold
its own trial and is expected to move Gaddafi to a specially built
fortress-prison in Tripoli this week.
http://bit.ly/HIMjIQ
Special report: the documents that prove Britain initiated rendition: In
2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were
detained en route to the UK, and rendered to Libya. This is the story
of their imprisonment, and the trail of evidence that reveals the
involvement of the British government
http://bit.ly/Iml9Zq
Courts struggle to decide whether civilians can be court-martialed: Iraqi-born translator Alaa "Alex" Ali never served in the U.S. military, but the Army still tried him and put him in jail.
http://1.usa.gov/IivyZ5
'War on drugs' has failed, say Latin American leaders: Watershed summit will admit that prohibition has failed, and call for more nuanced and liberalised tactics
http://bit.ly/Hnltax
Looking Back on the Limits of Growth : Turner
compared real-world data from 1970 to 2000 with the business-as-usual
scenario. He found the predictions nearly matched the facts. "There is a
very clear warning bell being rung here," he says. "We are not on a
sustainable trajectory."
http://bit.ly/xARau4
China Buys Inroads in the Caribbean, Catching U.S. Notice: China's
economic might has rolled up to America's doorstep in the Caribbean,
with a flurry of loans from state banks, investments by companies and
outright gifts from the government in the form of new stadiums, roads,
official buildings, ports and resorts in a region where the United
States has long been a prime benefactor.
http://nyti.ms/Homrc8
The KaChing! Dynasty: China will soon be home to half the world's billionaires, so can the superrich help the superpower stay in the box seat?
http://aje.me/HfJwxD
Romney: Why It's OK to Stick It to Him for Being a Mormon: Mitt
Romney will be the Republican to face President Obama in the fall.
Tuesday night was the clincher, as the Mormon zealot won in Wisconsin,
Maryland and Washington DC. He may stumble on, but the Catholic zealot
Rick Santorum is finished.
http://bit.ly/Iekdq1
'US has best govt money can buy' : RT's Marina Portnaya talks to socialist equality presidential candidate, Jerry White.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWRcPxd-e8A
Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford: The
patrols are to protect "white citizens in the area who are concerned
for their safety" in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting last
month, says Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement.
http://bit.ly/HjiB34
Black community on edge after 5 shootings in Oklahoma: Tulsa's
African-American community was on edge Saturday after police said one
or more gunmen, in apparently random shootings, had killed three black
men and critically injured two more as they walked down Tulsa streets.
http://on.freep.com/I2Hm4r
10 Unbelievably Sh**ty Things America Does to Homeless People: No population has their human and civil rights so casually and routinely trampled as do homeless Americans.
http://bit.ly/Hla68J
"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 : 2,952
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 |
