The New Dark Age

16 October, 2010 — Information Clearing House

The War On Terror
By Paul Craig Roberts
The “war on terror” is about creating real terrorists. The US government desperately needs real terrorists in order to justify its expansion of its wars against Muslim countries and to keep the American people sufficiently fearful that they continue to accept the police state that provides “security from terrorists,”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26610.htm

Pretext For War
Clinton Aide’s Idea: Let Iraq Shoot Down U.S. Plane
By Justin Elliott
A new book says a cabinet member proposed letting Saddam kill an American airman as a pretext for war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26615.htm

In Case You Missed It
Operation Northwoods
By by David Ruppe
In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3140.htm

‘FBI Knew of Mumbai Attacks Beforehand’
By Press TV
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been tipped off in 2005 about an American national, who masterminded attacks on the Indian financial hub three years later.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26613.htm

WikiLeaks’ Biggest Document Dump Yet Coming Monday:
By David Knowles
On Monday, the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks will release nearly 400,000 pages worth of classified U.S. Army documents on the war in Iraq, making it the single largest military leak in U.S. history.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26612.htm

“I Wonder, Why Was I Victimized?”
By Justin Elliott
Pakistani victims of U.S. drone strikes speak out in a new report on increasing civilian casualties in the region.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26607.htm

David Hicks says Guantanamo was ‘Six Years of Hell’
By Madeleine Coorey
Australia’s former long-serving Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks Saturday broke his silence on life inside the US-run prison, saying he endured deprivation and witnessed brutality in “six years of hell”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26614.htm

Israel’s Right Needs Perpetual War
By Zeev Sternhell
Israel needs both an external and an internal enemy, a constant sense of emergency – because peace, whether with the Palestinians in the territories or the Palestinians in Israel, is liable to weaken it to the point of existential danger.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26608.htm

Time To Stick It Again To The Arabs
By Gideon Levy
Netanyahu cloaks his hatred and condescension with cloying love of the nation, Katz with hollow love of the land. But love has nothing to do with it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26609.htm

Epidemic? Half of US Teens ‘Meet Criteria for Mental Disorder’
By Agence France-Presse
Fifty-one percent of boys and 49 percent of girls aged 13-19 have a mood, behavior, anxiety or substance use disorder, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26611.htm

US Attack Kills Nine People In Pakistan:
In the first attack, a US drone fired missiles at a car in Machikhel area of Mirali tehsil in North Waziristan, killing five militants, sources said.
bit.ly/a7m1oT

At least 5 Pakistani soldiers killed in Taliban attack :
At least five Pakistani soldiers were killed on Friday when suspected members of the Taliban attacked a military post in the northwest region of the country, near the Afghan border, officials said.
www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-63739.html

Three killed as NATO supplies attacked in Kalat, Khyber:
Three people were killed in attacks on NATO containers in Takhta Bag Jamrud and Kalat. The driver of a NATO container was shot dead by unidentified men near Mangochar in Kalat district.
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20101016story_16-10-2010_pg1_2

ANP lawmaker killed, eight injured in suicide blast: DPO:
The suicide bomber struck the hujra of ANP MPA Dr Shamsher Ali Khan, killing him and injuring eight others at village Dheri of Tehsil Kabal in Swat district, DPO Qazi Farooq Khan said.
www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=15550

Report criticizes civilian casualties in Pakistan:
“Despite the severity and consequences of these losses, civilian casualties receive too little attention from U.S., Pakistani, and donor-nation policymakers, as well as military officials,” said the report
bit.ly/bzv7k2

Zardari says he has proof of US terror against Pakistan:
The so called Pakistani sycophantic secularists are in cahoots with the war mongering Neocons and Neolibs in the US.
www.pakistanpatriot.com/?p=32963

Clinton says let’s starve the sick and hungry:
Clinton Suggests Conditions on Pakistan Flood Relief :
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested European Union leaders should follow the U.S. and withhold further flood-relief funding from Pakistan until Islamabad shows it is doing more to fight corruption and collect tax revenue from its wealthiest citizens.
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703631704575552062946060780.html

Musharraf’s ‘fish, duck and wine’ lunch with Israeli MPs in London:
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is stated to have shared a lunch with a couple of members of Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, at a Chinese restaurant in Kensington area of central London a few days ago.
www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-63164.html

Another Pak Taliban terrorist reaches US to rectify Times Square bombing failure :
Recent intelligence has indicated that the Pakistani Taliban, which orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing, may have successfully placed another operative inside the United States to launch a second attack in the ‘Target Number One’ country for terrorists, sources revealed.
www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-63240.html

6 Afghan civilians killed by roadside bomb:
Ghulam Jalani Farahi, police chief of Zabul province, says the car was destroyed by the blast Friday near the provincial capital Kalat.
www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/6-afghan-civilians-killed-683124.html

Two civilians killed in attacks on Kandahar city:
A series of blasts killed at least two civilians and wounded several others Saturday in Afghanistan’s main southern city, the scene of several recent deadly attacks on police.
www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20101016/afghanistan-bombings-101016/

17 NATO occupation force troops killed in Afghanistan as attacks surge:
Three NATO troops were killed Friday in Afghanistan in a surge of attacks that raised the death toll to 17 over the past three days for international troops in the country.
arabnews.com/world/article161506.ece

Polish soldier killed in Afghanistan:
One US-led soldier has been killed and another sustained injuries in a mortar attack in Ghazni province in eastern Afghanistan. The Polish Defense Ministry announced that the attack took place on Thursday while the country’s nationals with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were patrolling a highway in the province, AP reported.
bit.ly/caOjZP

Troops ‘overwhelmed and cannot defeat Taliban’:
THE Taliban have ”overwhelmed” foreign troops and cannot be defeated by military means, one of Australia’s top combat soldiers has warned.
bit.ly/cwU9Oi

Afghanistan’s aid workers advised to seek permission from Taliban:
In a gloomy assessment, the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office says the Taliban are ‘anticipating authority’
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/15/afghanistan-aid-workers-taliban

Brigade’s strategy: ‘Strike and destroy’:
As sordid accounts of the platoon’s activities continue to emerge, critics inside and outside the Army are questioning whether the brigade’s get-tough strategy, which emphasized enemy kills over civilian relations, influenced the behavior of the accused.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101307296.html

Fresh claims US is running secret prison in Afghanistan:
Prisoners are being abused at a “secret jail” in the main American military base in Afghanistan, according to a report from a US policy think tank.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11551409

Six killed in Iraq bomb attacks:
In Jurf al-Nadaf, some 10 kilometres (6 miles) southeast of Baghdad, a bomb targeting the convoy of Iraqiya official Karim Mahud killed his bodyguard and three passers-by, and wounded four other civilians.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101014/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest

Two Iraqi cops killed at checkpoint:
Iraqi authorities say gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint in Anbar province Saturday, killing two officers and wounding two others.
bit.ly/9Ye7DT

Israel invites bids for settlement units:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved building of the new units in Pisgat Zeev and Ramot late on Thursday, Israeli media reported on Friday.
www.presstv.ir/detail/146766.html

U.S. ‘disappointed’ by approval of new settlement construction :
”The Netanyahu government is determined to thwart any chance of resuming direct negotiations,” said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, hours after media reported on the planned construction.
bit.ly/9BwgBB

Abbas: We’ll never sign deal demanding recognition of Israel as Jewish state:
‘PA recognized Israel’s existence in 1993, and now Israel needs to recognize the Palestinian state in line with the 1967 borders,’ Abbas tells left-wing MKs in Ramallah.
bit.ly/dkNNy7

PLO official: Palestinians weighing alternatives to peace talks:
PLO secretary general Yasser Abed Rabbo says options under consideration include going to the UN and the Security Council for recognition of a Palestinian state.
bit.ly/aNlJxq

Turks accuse Israel of war crimes at int’l court:
Turkish lawyers representing pro-Palestinian activists filed a complaint Thursday with the International Criminal Court accusing Israel of committing war crimes in May when its troops raided a boat trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
bit.ly/c0Pehx

US supports terrorism: Turkish PM:
Erdogan touched on Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish human rights activists on May 31 and condemned the US “double standards,” noting that Washington openly “supported the Israeli state terrorism,”
www.presstv.ir/detail/146903.html

Demonizing Venezuela:
Russia, Venezuela Reach Deal On Country’s First Nuclear Power Plant:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reached a deal with Russia on Friday to build the South American country’s first nuclear plant, as questions arose why a nation rich in oil and gas would feel the need to venture into atomic energy.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/russia-venezuela-reach-de_n_763960.html

Three Banks Closed on Oct. 15:
These closures raise the total number of failed institutions to 149 so far in 2010.
www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=3015

Wells Fargo WON’T Halt Foreclosures Despite Evidence That Servicers Didn’t Read Paperwork:
Wells Fargo & Co. does not plan to halt foreclosures despite an employee’s testimony that she signed up to 500 foreclosure documents daily without reading them.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/wells-fargo-foreclosures-halt_n_764018.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:  4,743
icasualties.org/oif/

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,160

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,092,963,132,843
www.costofwar.com/

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