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"I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass." - George W. Bush, September 11, 2001, quoted in Clarke, Against All Enemies (2004), p. 24
"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit." - Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World "Only the winners decide what were war crimes." - Gary Wills |
| June 04 / 05, 2012 |
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Op-Ed Articles
Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines
By Spiegel
Germany is helping Israel to develop its military nuclear capabilities, SPIEGEL has learned. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31493.htm
The Houla Hoaxsters
By Justin Raimondo
It
was supposed to be another "Benghazi moment" - an incident so horrific
that it would spark Western military intervention in Syria's
increasingly violent civil war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31502.htm
U.S. Again Bombs Mourners
By Glenn Greenwald
The Obama policy of attacking rescuers and grieving rituals continues this weekend in Pakistan. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31496.htm
Jeremy Scahill Calls President Obama A Murderer
Video
Weighing in on President Obama's targeted drone strikes in the Middle East, journalist Jeremy Scahill did not mince words. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31497.htm
A Killer In the White House
By John Grant
President
Obama is playing the Precision Myth for all it's worth. As an
important adjunct to the Myth of American Exceptionalism, it allows
Americans to feel good about themselves as they get away with murder. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31503.htm
John Pilger: War, Truth & the Media
Video
"I
don't think there is a war on terror, I think that's a propaganda
notion. The attacks of September 11th were appropriated by a clique of
the U.S. establishment, in order to further its aims around the world."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31504.htm
'Napalm Girl' Photo From Vietnam War Turns 40
By MARGIE MASON
In
the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot!
Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese
village. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31500.htm
Somebody Else's Atrocities
By Noam Chomsky
"In the history of human rights, the worst atrocities are always committed by somebody else, never us" - whoever "us" is. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31494.htm
Police State USA
The Paranoid Style of American Governance
By Prof. James F. Tracy
The
following pieces of legislation, programs, and actions-- illustrate
the unfortunate yet steady advance in the paranoid style of American
governance that especially since 2001 has placed both the subject and
all who come in to contact with it at risk of serious injury or death. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31499.htm
A Synchronized Global Slowdown
By Mike Whitney
Growing
troubles in the eurozone, a slowdown in China and a jobs report that
was weaker than the most-pessimistic forecast, sent stocks plunging on
Friday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31495.htm
Northern Light:
Why Canada's 'Casserole' Movement is All of Ours
By Chris Hedges
The
streets of Montreal are clogged nightly with as many as 100,000
protesters banging pots and pans and demanding that the old systems of
power be replaced. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31501.htm
The Planet Wreckers
By Bill McKibben
Climate-Change Deniers Are On the Ropes -- But So Is the Planet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31498.htm
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Syrian "Rebels" Kill at Least 80 Assad Troops: Free
Syrian Army fighters said they had killed "more than 100 soldiers" and
"destroyed some tanks" in clashes across Syria, including Damascus and
Idlib province in the northwest. Syria's state news agency reported the
burial on Monday of 30 members of the security forces killed by
rebels. http://is.gd/IFsUx0
"Syria opposition" says no longer committed to Annan plan: "We
have decided to end our commitment to this (plan) and starting from
that date (Friday) we began defending our people," Major Sami al-Kurdi,
a spokesman for the rebel military council, told Reuters http://is.gd/CRbO0g
UK to set up camps inside Syria to help rebels: SAS troops and MI6 agents are in the country ready to help rebels if civil war breaks out as expected this weekend. http://is.gd/9RnErf
China's top paper warns against armed intervention in Syria: China's
top state newspaper warned on Monday that any Western-backed military
intervention in Syria would unleash even bloodier chaos, and said
abandoning envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan could push Syria into the
"abyss" of full-scale war. http://is.gd/MLWRu2
Assad: Houla killings monstrous: Syrian
President Bashar Assad condemned Sunday the "abominable" massacre of
over 100 people in Houla, saying even monsters could not carry out such
acts, and promised that the 15-month-old crisis in the country would
end soon if Syrians pulled together. http://is.gd/bazmUB
Army deploys in Tripoli after 15 killed: - Lebanese
troops deployed in the city of Tripoli on Sunday after 15 people were
killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad, local medics said, the deadliest fighting in Lebanon
since Syria's uprising began. http://is.gd/dUUVIM
Sudan army says 45 rebels killed in Darfur: Sudan's
army said it killed 45 rebels who were looting in eastern Darfur on
Saturday but the insurgents told a different story, saying they had
seized an army compound. http://is.gd/ohAZSE
Car bombing at north Nigeria church kills 15: A
suicide car bomber drove into a church compound in northern Nigeria
Sunday and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning
service, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more,
officials and witnesses said. http://is.gd/REfy34
Bomb attack in Baghdad kills 22: A
suicide attacker blew up a bomb-packed car at a Shiite religious
foundation's headquarters in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 22
people in the capital's deadliest blast in more than four month http://is.gd/QQdakG
PKK claims killing five soldiers: - Five
Turkish soldiers were killed Sunday in clashes with Kurdish rebels
southeastern Turkey, according to Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/3/310437/
Afghan forces kill 8 Taliban fighters: Afghan
security forces raided a Taliban hideout in Badakhshan province 315 km
northeast of capital Kabul killing eight militants including their
commander on Sunday, spokesman for provincial administration Abdul
Marouf Rasikh said. http://is.gd/nIxITj
British soldier killed on Afghanistan patrol: A
British soldier has been killed by small arms fire while on a patrol
to disrupt insurgent activity in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence
has announced. http://is.gd/jiUEKp
US. Kills 15 people in Pakistan: US
drones targeted "Taliban militants" gathered in a house in the South
Waziristan tribal region Sunday, killing at least 10 of them in the
latest in a series of attacks carried out by CIA-operated spy planes
despite protests from Pakistan government. http://is.gd/DB45cY
Pakistan condemns U.S. drone strikes: Three
drone strikes in as many days on suspected militants have killed 27
people, Pakistani intelligence officials say. The foreign ministry
called the attacks "illegal" and said they violated the South Asian
country's sovereignty. http://is.gd/zkwsAl
US agrees to pay Pakistan $1.18b of Coalition Support Fund arrears: - The
United States has agreed to reimburse US$1.18 billion or almost 75 per
cent of the claims Pakistan has submitted for the expenses incurred in
the fight against militants along the Afghan border, diplomatic
sources told Dawn. http://is.gd/GzvyNw
Pakistani police question U.S. diplomats on weapons: Pakistani
authorities briefly questioned three American diplomats on Monday in
the city of Peshawar after weapons were found in their vehicles, police
said. http://is.gd/GZnj1h
We are sleepwalking into the Drone Age, unaware of the consequences:
Obama's policy of killing 'militants' in Pakistan may go down well in the US, but it is provoking an extremist backlash abroad http://is.gd/JvYINk
Obama Was 'Obsessed' With Killing The American Al-Awlaki: This
certainly doesn't fit into the popular conservative image of a
president that is diffident when it comes to the war on terror http://is.gd/1TwbEy
S. Yemen suicide car bomb kills four: A
suicide bomber blew up an explosives-laden car at a checkpoint in
Yemen's restive southern province of Abyan on Monday, killing four
pro-army gunmen, a military source said. http://is.gd/uKLdcW
Houthis take control of three positions in north Yemen, claim confiscating Saudi weapons:
The Houthi rebels of the Shiite group said they took over Saudi weapons in renewed battles with armed Salafis in the area of Kittaf area in the province of Sa'ada. http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10022087.html
Israel reneges : Palestinian threat to relaunch prisoner hunger strike: Palestinian
prisoners in Israel are threatening to relaunch a hunger strike, a
Palestinian official said on Sunday, blaming Israel for reneging on a
deal that ended a recent one. http://is.gd/iqzBEQ
Advanced Homeland Security Training in Israel by Security Solutions International (SSI): This
new program is designed for seasoned Homeland Security professionals
interested in advanced topics in Homeland Security while at the same
time having the opportunity to visit Haifa, the Northern Border, Tel
Aviv, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Dead Sea. http://uspolitics.einnews.com/247pr/283975
Ex-Blackwater executives finger CIA in weapons trial: Five
ex-Blackwater executives, facing federal firearms charges in
connection with a gift of weaponry to a Middle Eastern monarch, have
come up with a new explanation for how it occurred: http://is.gd/ElwDjM
Expert Issues a Cyberwar Warning: "Cyberweapons are the most dangerous innovation of this century," http://is.gd/Ha7KwT
Egyptians threaten more protests after Mubarak verdict: They
saw the sentence and the acquittal of senior police officers as proof
that the old regime still wields influence and feared Mubarak could now
be acquitted on appeal. http://is.gd/Y5oTgW
Egyptian Candidate Attacks Islamist Rival: Presidential
candidate Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under ex-President
Hosni Mubarak, has attacked his Islamist rival by saying he would lead
Egypt to "the dark ages." http://is.gd/pZXYQd
New book confirms US-Australia plans for war on China: A
newly published book by journalist David Uren has revealed that the
Australian government's 2009 Defence White Paper contained a "secret
chapter" that assessed "Australia's ability to fight an air-sea battle
alongside the United States against China." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/uren-j04.shtml
Japan's Nuclear Industry: The CIA Link: Tetsuo
Arima, a researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo, told JRT he
discovered in the U.S. National Archives a trove of declassified CIA
files that showed how one man, Matsutaro Shoriki, was instrumental in
jumpstarting Japan's nascent nuclear industry. http://is.gd/9XJ09S
Food Shortage in Greek Prisons Due to State Budget Cuts: The
state budget for many prisons has decreased to a minimum for some
months now resulting in hundreds of detainees being malnourished and
literally surviving on the charity of local communities, a Proto Thema
article reveals. http://is.gd/CpAy4t
Britain could face £4.8bn bailout bill if Greece leaves euro: Thinktank says UK might also face calls for referendum on EU membership if a Greek exit were to prompt full treaty change http://is.gd/BvW9Y4
Is the UK About to Engage in a Stealth Default?: If
there was ever an article that should spark every British citizen to
immediately shift their savings into physical gold this is it http://is.gd/meFRXu
U.S. Factory Orders Decline : Demand
for U.S. factory goods fell again April to the lowest level in half a
year, a worrying sign for a sector that has been a steady source of job
creation during the economic recovery. http://is.gd/R7ApQ6
Supreme Court Finds Dick Cheney's Secret Service Agents Immune From Free Speech Lawsuit:
Secret Service agents who arrested a man after he disparaged and then touched Dick Cheney cannot be sued for violating the man's free speech rights, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday morning. http://is.gd/q2oD4q
Romney-Paul ticket a reality?: One
is the presumptive Republican Party nominee for president and the
other is the offspring of the likely candidate's only GOP challenger.
And, for now, that's all that's known about a recent closed-door
meeting between Mitt Romney and Rand Paul. http://rt.com/usa/news/paul-party-romney-rand-521/
"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: 4,807
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,030
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 |
