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Date: 10 April 2006 |
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Date: 10 April 2006 === RSS FEED www.informationclearinghouse.info/rssfeed.xml News Syndication You can include the headlines from this newsletter on your own website free of charge === Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2352 The War in Iraq Costs === By Charles Sullivan It is up to the people of this country to not only drive out the Bush regime but also the system that made his rise to power possible. If we do the former without also accomplishing the latter, the cancer will return because it is inherent in the system. Nothing meaningful will have been accomplished. The names will change but not the result. We have to go all the way or not at all. === Now Featuring The Halabja Show By Gajendra Singh Of course there are no trials of US leadership and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in spite of illegal invasion of Iraq, proven crimes and violation of almost all international conventions and treaties and even laws at home. === “Director Toshikuni DOI exposes the side of the U.S. war in Iraq that Americans do not see or hear in mainstream media.” Ten days after the siege of Falluja was lifted, Toshikuni Doi, a Japanese independent journalist, went into Falluja. His documentary, investigates the causes of, conditions during, and damages from the siege. Warning === Adam Curtis’ acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. Part III Of IV – There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed American corporations realised that self was not a threat but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell them ways to express that individuality. To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self. Windows media === Preserving its Right to Murder, Exploit, Torture, and Impoverish with Impunity By Jason Miller I suspect many of the ardent supporters of the American Empire truly believe that they are preserving and spreading noble principles like freedom, democracy, equality, and human rights. There is no shortage of propaganda to convince them of this “fact”. === Real Audio A public talk with Robert Fisk Introduced by Noam Chomsky Click here to listen === Three civilians were killed in clashes between Interior Ministry forces and insurgents on the main road of the former rebel stronghold of Falluja west of Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said === According to military officials, the incident occurred while the soldiers were conducting a foot patrol in the northern Iraq city. === The men were described as “German agents” and will be killed if people are not released from the “occupation prisons”. === Kurdish and Sunni figures accuse him of failing to stop the wave of sectarian violence that has left hundreds dead since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra in February. === Why has he joined the ranks of those calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Jaafari === The US still mistakes national resistance for terrorism === Despite a long-standing commitment to disarm and disband sectarian militias, the Iraqi government has quietly dropped plans to take action — at least until a new Cabinet can be appointed and get working. === IRAQI pilots who flew in Saddam Hussein’s air force are being targeted by armed militias in an apparent witch-hunt against veterans who fought in the war against Iran two decades ago. === Critics blast government’s decision to slash subsidies in face of mounting deprivation === “We needed to be able to pick up the trash, restore power and get the people working again.” Instead, oil production remains below prewar levels; electricity is available for just 10 hours a day in the sweltering desert climate; 30 percent of the population is without drinkable water; 60 percent are unemployed. === In the middle of methodically recalling the day his brother’s family was killed, Yaseen’s monotone voice and stream of tears suddenly stopped. He looked up, paused and pleaded: ‘’Please don’t let me say anything that will get me killed by the Americans. My family can’t handle any more.’’ === Death Of A General: In this time of war, how far should a soldier go when interrogating a prisoner? Is torture OK? What if the prisoner knew where Saddam Hussein was hiding? What if the prisoner knew how to stop the attacks on our troops? How far is too far? === Iraqis arrested by US-led forces have been vanishing into a “black hole,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s human rights envoy told a Sunday newspaper. === Dreamland provides an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraqi city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. A tense and grimly humorous study of the soldiers unfolds as they patrol an environment of low-intensity conflict creeping steadily towards catastrophe. === The war in Iraq arrives on America’s shores by gurney. More than 16,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded. Each injury ripples through lives with its own pattern and force. And as two soldiers and their families are discovering, the war will be with them forever. === The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. === TWO employees of the Niger embassy in Rome were responsible for the forgery of a notorious set of documents used to help justify the Iraq war, an official investigation has allegedly found. === President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday he ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq to respond to critics. === A military insider sounds off against the war and the “zealots” who pushed it === “The opportunity cost of burning other people’s houses in foreign countries is that you can’t build houses in your own country,” he said. === Australian Wheat Board pumped $300 million into Saddam’s slush fund: === Armed rebels have killed two army officers, and shot a top cleric in troubled Sistan-Baluchistan province in southeastern Iran, a press report said. === SAS Spy On Iran Agents: BRITISH Special Forces are tracking up to 40 Iranian agents who have slipped over the border into southern Iraq. === Time is running out. Diplomatic moves are at a standstill because of the reluctance from Russia and China to impose sanctions against Iran, which has important support from developing countries where nuclear power is seen as a legitimate right. === Anthony Zinni, a retired general and former head of US Central Command, told CNN on Sunday that a pre-emptive strike on Iran would be extremely risky === Israel pressuring U.S. over Iran attack: Israeli officials who visited Washington recently gave the Americans an urgent message regarding Iran: The Islamic Republic was closer to developing a nuclear bomb than Washington realizes, and the moment of decision is approaching quickly === “Israel Should Not Be on the Forefront of a War Against Iran”: In an exclusive interview with TIME, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister warns about the threat from Iran, praises President Bush and vows to press ahead with West Bank withdrawals === President Bush says Iranians are behind the more lethal IEDs, the roadside bombs killing our troops in Iraq. Rumsfeld warns the Iranian Revolutionary Guard may now be in Iraq. Cheney says Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. McCain says, “the military option is on the table.” And Israel is getting impatient. === ISRAEL’S acting Prime Minister has declared that the Jewish state will cut all ties with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, brand it a hostile power, and rule out negotiations with the President, Mahmoud Abbas === Hamas said it considered Israel’s severing of contacts with the new Palestinian government “a declaration of war” and President Mahmoud Abbas accused the Jewish state of breaking international law. === Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) stated, “Israel should be ashamed, imprisoning hundreds of Palestinian children when their only crime is yearning to live honorably like Israeli children and all the children of the world.” === “It is worrisome that we now see that both Israel and the Palestinian side are turning inward and disregarding the need to negotiate with one another,” Stoere told Norwegian radio. === Maroof Rawashdeh stopped going to work for the Palestinian Authority when the money ran out to pay his bus fare. He has no idea when he might get another paycheck now Hamas has taken over a government that has no cash === Israel’s Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that his government would boycott foreign diplomats who meet with members of the new Hamas-led Palestinian government. === Israel’s racists and fascists courted by mainstream politicians === ANYONE who criticises Israel is likely, sooner or later, to be accused of being anti-Semitic. For several years I have worked with the Edinburgh Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a group of Jews, Christians, Muslims and others who try to do their bit to make life better for the people of Palestine. === It is the duty of everyone, and particularly of Jews with a conscience and a sense of justice to speak out against the falsifications of history by the Zionist lobby, and the dangerous misconceptions it has led the West to accept === Lebanese authorities have arrested nine men suspected of planning to assassinate the head of the Shi’ite Muslim Hizbollah group, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, security officials said on Monday. === Unidentified gunmen killed five Afghan health workers at a remote clinic in the northwestern province of Badghis, the provincial governor said on Monday. === An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier was killed when a suicide car bomber attacked troops in Afghanistan’s south-eastern province of Patika, police said Monday. === Those who arrogantly insist on recruiting the Enlightenment may not understand what they are arguing for === Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, looks to have narrowly lost the country’s general election to a leftwing coalition led by the former European commission president Romano Prodi according to exit polls released immediately after voting ended today. === Federal court papers in Miami say the FBI learned of a North American network supporting Islamic extremists worldwide after the 1993 arrest of a charismatic blind sheik in New York. === The United States is backing a new coalition of Somali militants fighting Islamic extremists for control of the lawless nation’s capital, a U.S. official said, as both sides prepared for a battle that could explode in widespread violence. === Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns summoned Venezuela’s ambassador to the State Department. Burns told the Venezuelan diplomat that his country was in violation of an international treaty that requires the host countries to ensure the safety of foreign diplomats. === Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. ambassador was “provoking the Venezuelan people” and threatened Sunday to expel the American diplomat, whose convoy was chased by pro-government protesters on motorcycles. === The head of the U.N. mission’s human rights unit in Haiti accused judicial officials and the U.S.-backed interim government on Thursday of illegally detaining most of the 4,000 people behind bars in the country. === Lawyers for a suicidal detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, believe that their client tried to kill himself again by slashing his throat sometime over the past few weeks but say U.S. government officials have refused to answer any questions about his condition. === More than 2.1 million people are in jail in the US at any one time; that is about one in 140 Americans, or as many people as live in Namibia, or nearly five Luxembourgs – and it is a number that continues to rise. === Video: Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons: Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? === McCain’s political record is not entirely pristine. He was a member of the so-called Keating Five — five senators linked to Charles Keating in the savings and loan scandals in 1991 === In general, I’m against kicking ‘em when they’re down — unless really awful people are involved. I figured Tom DeLay is so awful that plenty of people would gang up on him, so I could pass. === A Brigham Young University physicist said he now believes an incendiary substance called thermite, bolstered by sulfur, was used to generate exceptionally hot fires at the World Trade Center on 9/11, causing the structural steel to fail and the buildings to collapse. === Five admirals, Carlyle Group and Rand take over: Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. === Atlanta police estimated at least 50,000 people, many in white T-shirts and waving American flags, joined a two-mile march from a largely immigrant neighborhood Monday morning. === The War On Immigrants: The scenario I paint is a gloomy one in which the situation is grave, the stakes are immense and the time is short. It’s a battle to save the republic and our sacred Constitutional rights. I’m desperately trying to sound the alarm against an out-of-control imperial state engaged in a permanent war abroad for empire along with a “second front” at home against all working people === Activists Paint Grim Picture of Struggling City === Americans are relying on borrowed money to maintain our standard of living. A major crash is coming unless we take action now. === Listen to the radio documentary or read the transcript. === === This web site represents the effort of one person. I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here === |
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