The New Dark Age

27 July, 2010 — Information Clearing House

Ahmadinejad: US Will Start New Mideast Wars
By Press TV
“We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot, according to which they seek to launch a psychological war on Iran,” Ahmadinejad stated in an exclusive interview with Press TV on Monday. “They plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months,” he added.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26027.htm

Wikileaks: US Attack Killed 300 Civilians In Afghanistan: Report

By David Leigh
Locals told Reuters that up to 300 civilians – as well as a number of Taliban – were killed in the air strike after they had been rounded up to watch a Taliban-organised public hanging of two suspected spies.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26026.htm

War Bill Could Be Stopped Today With 144 Votes

By Ryan Grim
“Once again, war is being paid for with a credit card while investments in our children’s future are tossed aside”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26033.htm

Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Ron Paul, R-Texas Propose Vote to Exit Pakistan

By John Nichols
It’s not generally known that we have at least 124 Special Forces troops on the ground inside Pakistan. It is absolutely urgent that we take a stand to stop spreading war in Pakistan. To nip in the bud the U.S. ground presence.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26030.htm

New York Times Reporters Met With White House Before Publishing WikiLeaks Story

By Alex Pareene
The administration “praised” New York Times reporters for their handling of leaked Afghan war material.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26025.htm

Down To The Last Trillion in Red Ink US Treasury Running on Fumes

By Paul Craig Roberts
The White House is screaming like a stuck pig. WikiLeaks’ release of the Afghan War Documents “puts the lives of our soldiers and our coalition partners at risk.” What nonsense.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26032.htm

Israel’s Secret Police Exposed Settlers wage vendetta on Shin Bet

By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
The arrest by Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including attempts by one of its agents to enlist the accused to assassinate a Palestinian spiritual leader.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26031.htm

Systemic Racism in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

By Bill Quigley
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26028.htm

The Year America Dissolved

By Paul Craig Roberts
Clans were governing America. The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26029.htm

Car, suicide bombings kill 31 people in Iraq:

Two car bombs directed at Shiite pilgrims during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala killed 25 people yesterday, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. Sunni extremists are suspected.
bit.ly/9WL6yN

Two Iraqi women killed, 12 civilians injured in Mosul: –

Two women were killed and at least 12 civilians were injured in two separate incidents in Mosul, northern Iraq, on Tuesday, police said.
bit.ly/b60NCy

Audit finds Pentagon can’t account for $8.7B in Iraqi funds:

The audit found that shoddy record keeping by the Defense Department left the Pentagon unable to fully account for $8.7 billion it withdrew between 2004 and 2007 from a special fund set up by the U.N. Security Council
bit.ly/d6yZ8m

Audit: U.S. Can’t Account for 95% of Iraqi Funds:

Defense Department Unable to Trace $8.7B in Iraqi Oil Money Tapped by U.S. for Rebuilding Nation
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/27/world/main6717303.shtml

GE pays $23M to settle Iraq kickback charges:

General Electric Co. will pay $23.4 million to settle federal charges that some of its subsidiaries paid illegal kickbacks to the government of Saddam Hussein in order to win contracts under a U.N. program.
bit.ly/9aUp7E

Blix: U.S. ‘High On Military Action’ Before Iraq War:

Hans Blix, the 82-year-old former chief U.N. weapons inspector, said Washington was “high on military” action in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and refused to heed concerns over the paltry threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128803433

Afghan president: NATO rocket killed 52 civilians:

Hamid Karzai’s statement issued Monday says the Afghan intelligence service determined that a NATO rocket hit Regi village in Helmand province’s Sangin district. The dead included women and children. Karzai condemned the attack.
www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H6Q4281.htm

5 Taliban militants killed, 10 injured in Afghanistan:

Afghan security forces backed by NATO-led troops, kicked off a three day offensive that concluded on Monday, killing five Taliban militants and injuring 10 others, a statement of Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7082610.html

Rescue operation for missing U.S. soldier leaves 3 insurgents dead in Afghanistan:

“The rescue operation launched Monday in Andar district and so far three Taliban militants have been killed and two others sustained injuries,”deputy to provincial police chief Nawroz Ali Mahmoudzada told Xinhua.
english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7082554.html

British Soldier ‘Killed By Friendly Fire’:

The death of a British soldier from 36 Engineer Regiment in Afghanistan is being treated as a possible “friendly fire” incident, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
bit.ly/dc30MN

WikiLeaks report cites previously unknown “friendly fire” incident involving Canadians:

The dramatic WikiLeaks report contains details of what appears to be a previously unknown “friendly fire” incident in Afghanistan in which it says four Canadians were killed and seven were injured.
bit.ly/alqeM8

Afghan files: Task Force 373 – the Taliban hunters:

Channel 4 News analyses claims Task Force 373 appeared to botch attempts to kill al-Qaida operatives
bit.ly/aS2J0T

Congress’s response to WikiLeaks: shoot the messenger:

Despite the release of some 92,000 classified documents that cast doubt on the success of the US war effort in Afghanistan, all but the staunchest antiwar members of Congress focused their most scathing words Monday on WikiLeaks, the website that published the material.
bit.ly/cnzzKg

Pentagon Eyes Accused Analyst Over WikiLeaks Data:

Military investigators are checking computers used by Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst charged this month with leaking classified information, to see if he is the source of thousands of military documents published Sunday by WikiLeaks.
bit.ly/bJl8W4

Legal Fund Established to Fight Imprisonment of Accused WikiLeaks Whistleblower:

At 4PM EST on July 27, the Bradley Manning Support Network (www.bradleymanning.org) will begin accepting online donations for the legal defense of Private First Class Bradley Manning.
www.bradleymanning.org/

Pakistan says 24 Taliban killed:

Pakistani warplanes pounded Taliban positions Monday and military officials said at least 24 of the Muslim insurgents were killed and 14 others wounded.
bit.ly/cnpNva

Pakistan digging its own grave says US Congressman:

“The ISI’s attempt to distinguish good from bad militants will spin out of control. With its obsession with India, Pakistan is digging its own grave,” Congressman Ed Royce said in the wake of WikiLeaks revelations.
bit.ly/bJAqUW

Somalia: Thirteen killed during violence in Puntland:

Thirteen militia from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group were killed in clashes with troops of the semi-autonomous northern Puntland region of Somalia, President of Puntland Abdirahman Mohamed Farole said on Monday.
www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20100726222858676C608952

US forces 2,000 more AU troops into war:

Washington has been piling diplomatic pressure on African states to bolster the current force of 6,000 Ugandan and Burundian soldiers in Mogadishu, and yesterday the AU announced at the end of its three-day summit in Kampala that 2,000 more will soon be on their way in.
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/93335

Four soldiers killed in south Yemen ambush:

Suspected separatists killed four soldiers and wounded 13 including a senior security official in two attacks, officials said yesterday, part of a wave of unrest that has raised fears of a sustained separatist insurgency.
bit.ly/bmsAlo

Yemen Shiite rebels capture 200 soldiers:

Shiite rebels have captured 200 Yemeni soldiers in the country’s north where deadly fighting between the rebels and army-backed tribes is endangering a fragile truce, a military official said on Tuesday.
bit.ly/a180qb

Iran: U.S. will likely attack 2 Mideast countries within 3 months:

Speaking on state television, Iranian President Ahmadinejad also list of demands before Iran will resume nuclear talks.
bit.ly/cqBMXZ

Venezuelan bank penalized for alleged link with Iranian plan:

The European Union ordered on Tuesday to freeze all the funds and economic resources from the International Development Bank of Venezuela, a subsidiary of Iran’s Export Development Bank, for presumed ties with the Iranian nuclear program.
bit.ly/ck8RaD

Russia: EU sanctions on Iran ‘unacceptable’ :

Russia on Tuesday criticized the decision by the EU to impose a fresh round of sanctions on Iran. Using sanctions outside the UN Securtiy Council framework was “unacceptable,” a Foreign Ministry statement released in Moscow said.
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5841109,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf

Israel lauds new EU nuclear sanctions on Iran:

Move sends Tehran clear message that behavior is unacceptable, foreign ministry says, calling on more nations to impose extra measures.
bit.ly/8X3h49

Israel demolishes Bedouin village:

Israeli authorities have demolished the homes of about 300 Bedouins in a village in the southern Negev desert.The entire village of al-Arakib was bulldozed on Tuesday, with many of the former residents’ cattle, trees and belongings lost.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/2010727133151458970.html

British PM Cameron: Gaza must not remain a prison camp:

British prime minister David Cameron, who has often described himself as a “friend of Israel,” harshly criticized Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, telling a group of Turkish businessmen in Ankara that the strip was “a prison camp.”
bit.ly/c27A9x

Oliver Stone apologizes for saying Jews control the media:
Stone had told British publication The Sunday Times that U.S. public opinion was focused on the Holocaust as a result of the “Jewish domination of the media.” The remarks sparked a massive backlash, with a large number of Jewish organizations and Israeli officials publicly condemning the director’s comments.
bit.ly/anr51u

Judge faces anti-Semitism probe:

Judge George Bathurst-Norman was said by critics to have persuaded a jury to clear a group of campaigners who smashed up a factory making parts for Israeli warplanes. Summing up in the criminal damage trial, he compared Israel to the Nazi regime and accused the country of ignoring international law.
bit.ly/9wVCY6

Chavez reinforces Colombia border:

About 1,000 Venezuelan National Guard soldiers arrived in the border region over the weekend and were reinforcing posts along the 2,200km frontier, Franklin Marquez, a regional commander for the Guard, said on Monday.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/07/201072741030632890.html

BP taking $10 billion tax credit from Gulf spill:

Oil giant BP PLC will reduce its contribution to U.S. coffers by roughly $10 billion due to a tax credit the company is claiming it incurred from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
bit.ly/d86aiQ

Louisiana’s health department: 324 blame illness on spill:

That includes 241 people – or about three-quarters of the total – involved in spill cleanup or offshore work, and 83 people in the general public.
www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/26/1747690/la-health-department-324-blame.html

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,366,350″
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq:  4,731
icasualties.org/oif/

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,968

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,021,773,003,483
www.costofwar.com/

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