The New Dark Age

9 October, 2010 — Information Clearing House

America’s Third World Economy
By Paul Craig Roberts
The ladders of upward mobility that made American an “opportunity society” have been dismantled.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26544.htm

The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America
By Robert Reich
Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before – and they’re doing it behind closed doors.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26549.htm

Boiler Rooms, Foreclosure Mills: The Story of America’s Mortgage Industry
By Michael Hudson
The news about the nation’s foreclosure scandal has been coming fast and furious, driven by tales of backdated documents, false affidavits and “rocket dockets” that push families into the street.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26545.htm

Israel and Monty Python’s Dead Parrot
By Yvonne Ridley
Nothing lasts forever; empires and emperors come and go; borders disappear and expand; and so will arrogant, vicious little Israel.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26543.htm

George Galloway Returns To Canada
By The Canadian Charger and Rabble TV
Anti-war activist and former British MP George Galloway arrived in Canada to a throng of supporters waiting to greet him at the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Eighteen months ago, Galloway was refused entry and deemed a security threat.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26546.htm

A Senseless War Begins Its 10th Year
An address to the nation from President Barack Obama (as reported by Michael Moore)
By Michael Moore
My generals have also admitted the following to me: 1. There is no way we can defeat the Taliban. They enjoy too much popular support in the rural areas, the majority of the country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26548.htm

Behind the Coup in Ecuador
By Eva Golinger
The rightwing is on the attack in Latin America. Its success in 2009 in Honduras against the government of Manuel Zelaya energized it and gave it the strength and confidence to strike again against the people and revolutionary governments in Latin America.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26547.htm

Afghan governor among 16 killed in Mosque bombing:
The governor of Kunduz province has been killed along with at least 15 other people in a huge explosion at a mosque in northern Afghanistan, according to an Afghan official.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/10/2010108101226418853.html

US-led airstrike kills 6 members of Afghan security forces:
The air strike has provoked anger among the villagers as hundreds protested. The crowd shouted anti-American slogans as they were accompanying the bodies of the deceased to the governor’s home. “Death to America!” chanted the crowd.
www.presstv.ir/detail/145754.html

Afghan security contractors ‘fund Taliban’:
Heavy US reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban, a US Senate report says.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11498443

Taliban Allies, Warlord Flunkies Guard U.S. Bases :
The U.S. military’s bases in Afghanistan are frequently guarded by Afghans who pay kickbacks to warlords – and even aid the Taliban. That’s what the Senate Armed Services Committee found after a year-long investigation into 125 contracts held by private security firms in Afghanistan
bit.ly/byjLEu

Afghans blame US forces for violence:
“The problem is that they (the US-led forces) are spending especially the American expenditure more in the military side. As far as the rehabilitation of the country is concerned, they are doing it through their own companies, and there is too much corruption from these companies,” former Afghan Prime Minister Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai told Press TV.
www.presstv.ir/detail/145815.html

US attack kills another 5 people in Pakistan:
The drone strikes came after a Pakistani official said that U.S. drone strikes were not justified, because they represent a violation to Pakistan’s sovereignty and that they are not serving strategic interests.
www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-59098.html

Pakistan’s Convoy Halt Forces U.S. to Reduce Tensions:
Pakistan’s military leadership has brought an end to the unilateral attacks in Pakistan pushed by Gen. David Petraeus and forced Washington to make a new accommodation.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53115

Gunmen in Pakistan torch another 30 NATO fuel tankers in new attack:
Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan set fire to nearly 30 tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, an official said, two days after the United States apologised to Pakistan for a cross-border air raid that killed two Pakistani soldiers.
bit.ly/d5G7st

Nato contractors ‘attacking own vehicles’ in Pakistan:
The owners of oil tankers being used to supply fuel to Nato in Afghanistan say some of the attacks on their convoys are suspicious.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11489955

Iraq: Fears of a coup grow amid political stalemate:
Fears of a military coup in Iraq are growing as the country enters its eighth month without a government, according to political and intelligence sources cited by pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat. One source even predicted such a coup could be led by outgoing prime minister Nouri al-Maliki
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.1076396062

Israeli troops ‘kill two Palestinians’:
At least two Palestinians have reportedly been killed in another Israeli attack against the occupied West Bank, witnesses say.
www.presstv.ir/detail/145741.html

US man suspected of trying to spy for Israel:
Akamai Tech employee tells undercover FBI agent he is Jewish American who wants to ‘help homeland’
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3965793,00.html

In case you missed it:
Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.? :
Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn’t tell us before September 11.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm

In Global Hunt for Israeli Hit Men, Tantalizing Trail Goes Cold:
Two suspects, traveling with forged passports, appeared to have fled to the U.S. shortly after the killing.
bit.ly/bLd3RY

No proof U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is affiliated with al-Qaida:
On Awlaki, the governor said he didn’t have any information to suggest the radical cleric had ties to al-Qaida.
bit.ly/9dtc03

What happened in Europe’s secret CIA prisons?:
The CIA used a secret prison in Poland to detain and torture its most important 9/11 suspect, a former top human rights official alleges in a new BBC documentary.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11469369

Obama Won’t Sign Notary Bill That Might Speed Home Foreclosures:
A senior House Democrat asked major U.S. lenders to temporarily suspend foreclosure proceedings nationwide because of allegations of forged signatures and robo-signers who rubberstamped foreclosure affadavits without examining them. Three big lenders have already suspended home foreclosures in 23 states, including New York.
www.publicintegrity.org/blog/entry/2510/

BofA Freezes All U.S. Foreclosures to ‘Clear the Air’: –
Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. lender, extended a freeze on foreclosures to all 50 states as concern spread among federal and local officials that homes are being seized based on false data.
bit.ly/bNqtrX

JPMorgan, Bank of America Face `Hydra’ of Foreclosure Probes:
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Ally Financial Inc., defending allegations of fraudulent home foreclosures from customers and Congress, may face the most financial peril from investigations by state attorneys general.
bit.ly/d9TBzu

US economy sheds more jobs:
Economy loses 95,000 jobs in September in the last monthly labour snapshot ahead of mid-term elections.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/10/2010108134010231968.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:  4,742
icasualties.org/oif/

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,138

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,090,026,204,032
www.costofwar.com/

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