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"When
a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is
redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public
conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become
an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation
finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility." - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"All that is left of America is banality and self-delusion." - Noam Chomsky
"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers." - Charles Péguy
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There Will be Hell to Pay for NATO's Holy War
By Pepe Escobar
Washington, London and Paris have
tried - twice - to twist the UN Security Council into yet another war.
They were blocked by Russia and China. So plan B was to bypass the UN
and launch a NATO war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31805.htm
Gaming An Iran War
How Washington Plans For Aggression as Part of a Reelection Campaign
By Danny Schechter
Sometimes strategists seek to provoke the very responses they decry. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31808.htm
The Libyan Election Farce
By Tony Cartalucci
All candidates are neo-imperial candidates - Wall Street proxy Jibril of "National Forces Alliance" presumed winner. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31801.htm
Yasser Arafat: Murder Most Foul
By Eric Margolis
The ghost of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is rising from his grave to haunt Israel and the Americans. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31804.htm
The Collapsing US Economy and the End of the World
By Paul Craig Roberts
Is this Washington's program
revealed by the neoconservative warmonger, Bill Kristol, who had no
shame to ask publicly: "What's the good of nuclear weapons if you can't
use them?" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31798.htm
How to Think
By Chris Hedges
Here is the dilemma we face as a
civilization. We march collectively toward self-annihilation. Corporate
capitalism, if left unchecked, will kill us. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31799.htm
US May Execute Assange if it Gets Him - former NSA official
US, security has become a state religion
Video and Transcript
"Speaking truth to power is very
dangerous in todays world. The power elites, those in charge, they
don't like dirty linnen aired." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31807.htm
How America's Surveillance State Breeds Conformity and Fear
By Glenn Greenwald
Understanding the Surveillance
State, how it operates, figuring out how to challenge it, undermine it,
and subvert it -- really is, I think, an absolute prerequisite to any
sort of meaningful activism, to developing strategies and tactics for
how to challenge state and corporate power. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31797.htm
The Press Needs To Expose The Siege Of Democracy, Not Abet It
By John Hanrahan
We as a nation are less free than we were 11 years ago. And the mainstream press needs to say so. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31796.htm
The Most Honest Three and a Half Minutes of Television. Ever......?
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LIBOR Scandal Latest Sign of Financial System's Rotten Core
By Aaron Task
Imagine finding out the Dow is
rigged or the S&P 500 doesn't really measure the stocks of the 500
largest U.S. firms and you have a hint at how big a deal this really
is. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31806.htm
Mainstream Economist: We Might Need to Hang Some Bankers to Stop Criminal Looting
By WashingtonsBlog
Roubini told Bloomberg that nothing
has changed since the start of the financial crisis, and we might need
to throw bankers in jail - or hang them in the streets - before they'll
change. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31809.htm
After The Fireworks Have Faded
Intimations of bosons among a cacophony of bozos
By Phil Rockstroh
The people of the U.S. need
independence from the demonstrably false notion, held by so many that
within their debt-enslaved, corporate interest-beholden lives, they
possess any degree of meaningful independence. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31800.htm
Three Ways the Rich and Powerful Have Cheated Young Americans
By Paul Buchheit
Young people are being drafted into
an economic war that they don't understand. It's a slowly waged,
diabolical war that substitutes debt and underemployment for missing
limbs and psychological disorders. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31802.htm
The Party of Great Moral Frauds
By Thomas J. DiLorenzo
The Republican Party has always been
about disguising a lust for economic plunder with phony ideas about
"freedom," "Christianity," "equality," "civilization,"and other
nice-sounding words. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31803.htm
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More than 100 dead in Nigeria violence: Weekend
raids by gunmen in a central Nigerian state left more than 100 dead,
an official said Monday, as the governor widened a curfew to restore
calm in the flashpoint area. http://is.gd/LKtjos
24 killed in separate Afghan bombing, shooting attacks: At
least 24 people were killed and 39 others wounded in four bombing and
shooting attacks in southern Afghanistan, dpa reported quoting
officials as said Monday. http://en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/2045217.html
Murder by any other name:
US kills at least 21 people in Pakistan: The initial strike on a house killed nine. Then three others were killed in a second attack when they drove to the site to recover dead bodies. And a third drone killed another three five minutes later, a senior security official in Peshawar told the AFP news agency. http://is.gd/gMooqF
Seven killed in attack on army camp: Six
soldiers and a policeman were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked
an army camp early Monday near the town of Gujrat, around 150km
southeast of the Pakistani capital, the military said. http://is.gd/2lFruJ
Report: US staged drone strike in Philippines: The
US military conducted a drone strike in the Philippines in an attempt
to kill Indonesian terrorist Umar Patek in 2006, according to an article
yesterday in the Sunday magazine of The New York Times. - The strike
failed to kill Patek but killed others in the area. http://is.gd/JjhphO
Drone strikes slammed: UN: The
practice of drone attacks has become a vaguely defined and
unaccountable "licence to kill", according to a 2010 report of a UN
human rights special rapporteur. http://is.gd/0zAplx
Taliban claim Afghan blast that killed 6 US occupation force troops: German
Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said
the six Americans were killed on Sunday when their armored vehicle
struck a bomb planted in eastern Afghanistan. He said a seventh
American soldier was killed in a separate insurgent attack in the
south. http://is.gd/riGset
Annan hails 'constructive' talks with Assad: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and envoy Kofi Annan said to agree on peace "approach" to be put to armed opposition. http://is.gd/AQm3g1
Putin says Syrians should be "forced" to start dialogue: Putin
said that the utmost efforts must be exerted to force all sides of the
Syrian crisis to implement political solutions and to help launch
comprehensive national dialogue, Syria`s state news agency SANA said
Monday. http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=125768
Syria: A revolution divided:
Syria's revolutionaries are getting worried that the Free Syrian Army is increasingly controlled by sectarian and religious radicals. http://is.gd/waKToc
Syrian opposition & Co - Freedom fighters or unrestrained criminals?: What will become of Syria if the armed rebels take control of the country? http://is.gd/XMO5tQ
'Bloody bandits and Western lies: What's really going on in Syria': Everything
you've heard about Syria is a lie says Ankhar Kochneva, a Russian
journalist who has seen first hand the realities of the Syrian civil
war. Kochneva told RT she has proof a Western invasion of Syria will be
launched by summer's end. http://www.rt.com/news/syria-lies-invasion-reality-interview-671/
Iraq gun and bomb attacks kill three: Gun
and bomb attacks north of Baghdad on Monday killed three people
including two anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen, security and medical officials
said. http://is.gd/75iYdE
Saudi protest crackdown leaves two dead: Police in Qatif use live bullets to disperse protesters after arrest and shooting of prominent Shia cleric and activist. http://is.gd/OZ4Acu
Iran will 'block' Strait of Hormuz if pressed: "We do have a plan to close the Strait of Hormuz," state media quoted General Hasan Firouzabadi as saying on Saturday. "But Iran, acting rationally, will not close the corridor through which 40 per cent of the world's energy passes, unless its interests are in serious trouble," he said, http://is.gd/9xHJGC
Iran's central bank circumvents embargo:
A private consortium is Iran's answer to finding a way round the oil embargo imposed against it by the European Union (EU) at the beginning of this month. According to an Iranian official quoted by Reuters, Iran will sell its crude oil to European refineries through a private consortium. http://is.gd/l9kmA7
China Shuns US And Invests Direct In Iran Oil-Fields: Between
Clinton's 'prices to be paid' and Obama's new trade-war, is it any
wonder the Chinese have decided to escalate their 'more-than-rhetoric'
from bartering away from the USD. http://is.gd/w18Pr2
Egypt's top court rebukes president's decree: Judges tell President Morsi he cannot reconvene parliament after they ordered it dissolved last month. http://is.gd/WY9r9O
VIDEO: Bahrain Rights Activist Imprisoned For Tweet : Bahraini
authorities arrested human rights activist Nabeel Rajab today,
imprisoning him for 3 months on charges of insulting the monarchy in a
tweet. http://is.gd/L7gt9F
Israel vows to defend gas after Turkey threatens to boost navy patrols in Mediterranean: Energy
Minister Uzi Landau says Israel will secure its rigs after Erdogan
says Turkey will make its presence felt in the eastern Mediterranean. http://is.gd/BcPoNx
President approves Arafat autopsy:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has given his permission to exhume the remains of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, a top aide said on Monday, days after a Swiss institute reported finding elevated traces of a radioactive substance on the late leader's belongings http://is.gd/9akYBk
McCain: 'Important that Romney go to Israel': Sen.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) thinks GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney made
the right call by planning a trip to Israel later this summer. http://is.gd/kyC5X3
American citizens are detained in Hebron for wearing hijab on a 'Jewish street':" Three
young women, ages 22, 21, and 20, were detained on Tuesday, July 3 for
walking on Shuhada Street. Their crime was looking Arab, wearing the
hijab, and having been born Palestinian. http://is.gd/8gj2CY
Demonizing Russia:
International group urges sanctions on Russians: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), representing the United States at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe, which was convened in Monaco, spoke urgently in favor of the resolution approved Sunday http://is.gd/PIPooX
Drug giant probed for not disclosing 15,000 patient death reports: : One
of the world's biggest drug companies is at the centre of an urgent
investigation after failing to disclose reports that 15,000 people died
while taking its medicines. http://is.gd/1cB9mH
US agents shot dead pilot in Honduras: The
pilot of a suspected drug flight - was shot dead by two US Drug
Enforcement Administration agents after he "refused to surrender", an
agency spokeswoman said on Sunday. http://is.gd/0b7hUi
UK: Police may be arresting marginal terror suspects to clear decks for Olympics says watchdog: David
Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terror legislation, said this
summer's Games are a "major target" and police may be intervening in
cases earlier than they would normally. http://is.gd/6wuJwV
Assange asylum 'may harm Ecuador': Ecuador's
ambassador to Washington has expressed concerns that granting
political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be used to
discredit Quito in the US. http://is.gd/rce5jT
Mexico condemns fatal shooting over border by U.S. agent: According to media in Brownsville, an agent reported that he had fired in response to rocks being thrown over the border. http://is.gd/UvdNTv
Mexican" leftist" rejects election results:
Presidential candidate Lopez Obrador says he has evidence that about 5 million votes were bought by opponents. http://is.gd/OdlXst
Mexican Drug Cartel Laundered Money Through BofA, FBI Alleges:
A federal probe into Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel, claims that the group has been laundering money through accounts at BofA, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal. http://is.gd/B2pPlh
U.S. Senate panel plans HSBC money laundering hearing: A
U.S. Senate panel investigating breakdowns in money laundering
prevention at British bank HSBC Holdings Plc will detail the findings of
its inquiry at a hearing on July 17. http://is.gd/F17uOJ
Ned Naylor-Leyland on CNBC: "Gold May Have Been Manipulated Like Libor" - Video - http://is.gd/GMJwbp
Oakland City Council Seeks to Cut Goldman Sachs Ties After Bank Profits from Lowered Interest Rates: The
Oakland City Council has voted unanimously to end a contract with
Goldman Sachs that locked it into a financial deal called an high
interest rate swap. http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/9/oakland_city_council_seeks_to_cut
LePage calls IRS the 'new Gestapo': Gov.
Paul LePage used his weekly radio address to blast President Obama's
health care law and described the Internal Revenue Service as the "new
Gestapo." http://is.gd/eczVkn
Texas Won't Implement The Affordable Care Act, Leaving Millions of Texans Uninsured: Gov.
Rick Perry (R) announced that Texas won't create a state insurance
exchange nor accept expanded Medicaid funds outlined in the Affordable
Care Act. http://is.gd/r5mVgp
"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: 4,883
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,075
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,350,727,189,936
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