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"Every single member of my
family on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising. And it is precisely and exactly because of the
lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians." - Norman Finkelstein - http://bit.ly/IQb7AE
"There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man." - Alan Paton |
| May 01, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
Brewing a Conflict with China
By Paul Craig Roberts
Washington
has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into
conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31220.htm
Empire of Capital
Colonialism never ended, it continues by different means.
By George Monbiot
The
conviction of Charles Taylor, - sent two messages: if you run a small,
weak nation, you may be subject to the full force of international
law. If you run a powerful nation, you have nothing to fear. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31216.htm
Iraq's "Grim Reaper"
Madeleine Albright Gets Humanitarian Award
By Felicity Arbuthnot
On
26th April, announcing the thirteen recipients of the 2012
Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, President Obama commended Madeleine
Albright for her efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31210.htm
David Horowitz and the Art of Slander
By Lawrence Davidson
David Horowitz probably wrote this propaganda piece not only to shift blame, but also to scare people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31221.htm
Norman Finkelstein: American Radical
Must Watch Video
American Radical is the probing, definitive documentary about Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31211.htm
Attack of the Drones
The threat these drones pose to privacy is unprecedented
John W. Whitehead
By
2020, just eight short years from now, it is estimated that at least
30,000 of these drones will be crisscrossing the nation's skies. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31214.htm
We Japanese Americans Must Not Forget Our Wartime Internment
By George Takei
Seventy
years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to
the front door of our family's home in Los Angeles, ordering us out.
Our crime was looking like the people who had bombed Pearl Harbor a few
months before. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31213.htm
So Long, US Dollar
The Media Won't Touch This Story About The End Of The US Dollar
By Marin Katusa
The
world doesn't need to revolve around US dollars anymore and the longer
the US tries to pretend that the dollar is still and will remain
dominant, the more often its international actions will backfire. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31219.htm
Britain 'Does' Austerity So The US Doesn't Have To
By Dean Baker
The country's experiment in austerity has provided the US with valuable information: it doesn't work.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31212.htm
Why Are We Striking? Or to Put it Another Way
What's Wrong with the World?
By Mike David
The
fact that most of us are too busy being exploited to realize we're
being exploited - too busy greasing the cogs of our economic system to
notice how the fruits of our labor never fail to float up and out of
our reach. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31215.htm
May Day - Mayday
By Joseph M. Cachia
After
years of devastation in the clutches of the capitalist governance,
masses of people are discovering their own power to change the world. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31217.htm
Urban Revolution Is Coming
By Max Rivlin-Nadler
If
Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the
union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action
possible. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31222.htm
Tax Me, for F@%&'s Sake!
By Stephen King
Here's
another crock of fresh bull*hit delivered by the right wing of the
Republican Party (which has become, so far as I can see, the only wing
of the Republican Party): the richer rich people get, the more jobs they
create. Really? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31218.htm
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19 "Taliban militants" killed in Afghanistan over 24 hours: Afghan
police, backed by army and NATO- led coalition forces, have killed 19
Taliban militants during "cleanup operations" across the country within
the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Tuesday
morning. http://bit.ly/IGer0v
Afghan protesters accuse NATO occupation forces of killing 4 children: The
protesters, who were carrying the bodies of four children aged eight
to 12, blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway and chanted anti-US slogans,
they said. http://bit.ly/Is9TAS
US confirms occupation force soldier killed in east Afghanistann: The US Department of Defense Monday said sailor from western New York has been killed in combat in Afghanistan. http://bit.ly/JHxgD2
U.S. not reporting all Afghan attacks on American and other foreign troops : The
Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in
which the Afghan wounds - or misses - his U.S. or allied target. It
also doesn't report the wounding of troops who were attacked alongside
those who were killed. http://nydn.us/Jx6opc
U.S. Blames Pakistan:
Pakistan is supporting insurgents, terrorists in Afghanistan: Pentagon: Wary of Indian influence in Afghanistan, Pakistan continues to support insurgent groups and provide terrorist safe havens so as to have its influence inside the war-torn country, the Pentagon told the Congress on Tuesday. http://bit.ly/K0s8uV
Pakistan wants $1000 per truck for transporting NATO supplies to Afghanistan:
Pakistani authorities have proposed the imposition of a levy of $1,000 on each truck and container transporting supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan through the country's territory, a senior official has said. http://bit.ly/IErYuD
Pakistan summons US diplomat over drone strike: "The
government of Pakistan strongly condemns the US drone attack that
occurred in North Waziristan," a Foreign Ministry statement said. "Such
attacks are in total contravention of international law and established
norms of interstate relations." http://bit.ly/Jnv68w
The Rationalization Of A Morally Bankrupt Empire: Obama
aide: Drone strikes are legal, ethical: Brennan said the strikes had
been certified as complying with US law by US Attorney General Eric
Holder, among other top officials. http://bit.ly/IrL9XG
Drone victims' defender speaks: If
you want to see how President Obama's drone war efficiently turns
America's friends into adversaries, meet Pakistani attorney Shahzad
Akbar http://bit.ly/IoIC0i
Five killed in blast in Pakistan: The
blast targeted a convoy of the paramilitary Frontier Corps that was on
a routine patrol at Saryab Road, police officials said. http://bit.ly/IrLh9y
Car bomb kills 17 Iraqis in Mosul: At least 17 Iraqis were injured, late Monday, in a car bomb in northern Mosul, an Iraqi security source said on Tuesday. http://bit.ly/JLSWx2
Iraq fugitive VP charged with murdering six judges: Iraq's
fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and some of his bodyguards
have been charged with murdering six judges and a series of other
killings, a judiciary spokesman said on Monday. http://bit.ly/JA5tpA
Spoils of war:
Iraq April oil exports highest since 1989: Iraq's crude exports in April were the highest monthly figure in more than 20 years, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Tuesday. http://yhoo.it/KsmH5q
19 killed as militants battle Yemen troops: Yemen
said it killed 12 militants linked to Al-Qaeda in the country's
restive south yesterday, while insurgents reported killing seven
soldiers in the same battle. http://bit.ly/JQze77
Syria: "Rebels" kill 12 troops as Nine from one family among 10 killed in Syrian shelling: Activists:
Syrian rebels killed at least 12 soldiers in fierce fighting outside a military base in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, the Observatory said. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/01/211368.html
Syrian government denounces UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon as 'biased': Deputy
foreign minister, Mr Mukdad claimed the United States and France were
openly trying to ensure the peace plan's failure, with the French
foreign minister Alain Juppe, in particular, "calling for war". http://tgr.ph/IjqCSv
Former Israeli PM calls for U.S. to lead any Iran strike: If
international efforts to halt Iran's nuclear program fail, any
military action against Tehran should be led not by Israel, but by the
United States, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said this
week. http://bit.ly/K0sth0
Iran, Spain sign oil contract worth €1.6 bln: The contract comes at a time when Iran is being punished by tough international sanction against its oil industry http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2020879.html
Iran, Venezuela Strike 130 Million Oil Deal: Iran
and Venezuela have signed a deal, worth $130 million, based on which
Iran will construct an offshore platform yard in Venezuela http://bit.ly/ITylrr
Two Somali MPs, four others killed in Dhusamareb bomb attack: Six
people, including two Somali parliament members, have been killed in a
bomb explosion in Dhusamareb, the capital of the country's central
Galguduud region. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/239057.html
Six killed in central Nigeria village attacks: Muslim
herdsmen razed Christian villages early Tuesday along a central
Nigerian plain where ethnic and religious violence remains rampant,
killing at least six people and leaving others homeless, authorities
said. http://fxn.ws/JzFej9
Troops battle for control of Mali's capital: Current military leaders say they retain hold of key locations in Bamako after attempted counter-coup claimed 14 lives. http://aje.me/K4811M
Leading candidate in Egypt presidential race calls Israel peace accord 'dead and buried':
Amr Moussa tells a mass rally in south Egypt that the Camp David Accords with Israel should be 'consigned to the shelves of history.' http://bit.ly/Iisefb
Whitewashing Israeli Crimes:
IDF closes probe into Israeli air strike that killed 21 members of Gaza family: Military prosecution says will take no legal steps against those responsible for deaths of Samouni family, killed in their home during Operation Cast Lead. http://bit.ly/K46it8
Abbas says he'll raise prisoners issue in UN: Speaking
during a visit to Tunisia, Abbas accused Israel of being in violation
of agreements to free Palestinian prisoners and that authorities are
not meeting the demands of thousands of hunger-strikers, official
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. http://bit.ly/IQ4Acn
Palestinian president cancels trip to Libya: The
Palestinian president called off a planned trip to Libya Tuesday after
a militia group surrounded the headquarters of the caretaker Libyan
government, an official said. http://apne.ws/IliRLG
Libya asks war crimes court to drop Kadhafi son's case: Libya
fired the latest salvo Tuesday in a legal battle over the trial of
Moamer Kadhafi's son, officially asking world war crimes court judges
to quash a surrender request and throw out the case. http://yhoo.it/JLp3wS
Death of former Libyan oil minister in Vienna 'could be murder': The
former Gaddafi confidant was privy to potentially damaging
information, including on oil deals with Western governments. Mr
Ghanem, 69, had been chairman of Libya's state-owned National Oil
Corporation before defecting last year during the uprising against
Gaddafi. http://bit.ly/IpdgoT
Bin Laden's Death Has Had Zero Impact on America's Security:
The man who entered the White House with the message of "hope" and "change" wants to hold on to it with a record of "shoot to kill". http://bit.ly/KDm8Kq
Bolivia's president announces nationalization of country's electrical grid: Bolivia
is seizing the local assets of Spain's Red Electrica Corp. (REE) to
give the government control of the Andean nation's electricity grid. http://buswk.co/JFoXHL
Rupert Murdoch 'not fit' to run media empire: UK parliamentary report says head of News Corp showed "willful blindness" over phone hacking at the News of the World. http://aje.me/Ko0Uv0
Drones invade campus: Universities are buying drones faster than police departments -- and the military is helping foot the bill http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/drones_on_campus/singleton//
Report criticizes Oakland police handling of Occupy protests: Oakland
police used "an overwhelming military-type response" to disperse
Occupy Oakland demonstrators and fired at a former Marine and Iraq war
veteran who was critically injured in the clashes in October, according
to a report issued on Monday. http://yhoo.it/IU1ggs
In case you missed it:
Occupy Oakland video: Riot police fire tear gas, flashbang grenades: Police have clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in the U.S. city of Oakland. It happened when hundreds marched to show their anger at police clearing an "Occupy Wall Street" camp. http://bit.ly/s1GeN4
"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 : 2,985
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
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