The New Dark Age

16 November, 2010 — ICH

Terror Attacks Continue As US Kills 20 People In Pakistan
By Awais Saleem
Pakistan publicly criticises the drone attacks, saying they cause resentment and increase support for militants, but its intelligence agencies are believed to cooperate in identifying the targets.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26836.htm

Gruesome Find Told at US Hearing into Afghan Killings
By Laura Onstot
If proved in a full court martial, the crimes would be among the worst committed by US forces in Afghanist.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26840.htm

US Torture Victims To Receive Payouts Of Up To £1Million
By Nigel Morris and Tom Peck
British former inmates of Guantanamo Bay are to set to receive large payments from the Government to drop claims that British secret agents knew they were being tortured.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26834.htm

Blood on His Hands
By Sheldon Richman
Bush has disgraced the country, but don’t expect him to be asked to account for himself.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26832.htm

Bush Can’t Travel Abroad Without Risking Arrest
By Matthew Rothschild
The confessed waterboarder is a marked man. If he travels abroad, other countries can-and should-nab him and try him for the crime of torture.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26839.htm

U.S. Envoy Secretly Offered Troops in Iraq after 2011
By Gareth Porter
A special envoy from President Barack Obama raised the possibility in a secret meeting with senior Iraqi military and civilian officials in Baghdad Sep. 23 that his administration would leave more than 15,000 combat troops in Iraq after the 2011 deadline for U.S. withdrawal.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26837.htm

The Real Obama-Clinton Game Plan For Israel/Palestine?
By Alan Hart
My speculation here will convince many that I have taken leave of my senses  – is that Obama might have an ace up his sleeve.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26838.htm

This Congress won’t give Obama a free pass on Israel
By Moshe Arens
The new Congress can be expected to be openly supportive of Israel. That means that if the president were to resume his tactic of pressuring Israel he will find himself in opposition to many in the Congress.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26842.htm

Cantor Recants
By MJ Rosenberg
It is Cantor’s statement of loyalty to Netanyahu that is the shocker. Specifically, it is his promise that he would ensure that Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives “will serve as a check” on U.S. Middle East policy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26833.htm

U.S. Taxpayers are Paying for Israel’s West Bank Occupation
By Akiva Eldar
Travelers along the “original” West Bank roads, the ones enabling drivers to bypass Palestinian villages, can see signs declaring “USAID from the American People.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26841.htm

Senior Republican Against US Aid to Palestinians
By Yitzhak Benhorin
Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, who stands to head House Foreign Affairs Committee, opposes transfer of $150 in aid because Palestinian leadership ‘failing to live up to commitments’
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26844.htm

Ireland’s Debt Crisis Could Kill the European Union Stone Dead
By Mail Foreign Service
The debt crisis facing Ireland, Greece and Portugal could threaten the future of the whole European Union, EU President Herman Van Rompuy warned today.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26835.htm

Welcome To The USA
More Reasons to Hate the TSA
Video
Designed to confuse citizens and indoctrinate them to the idea that they should unquestioningly submit to absurd directives from authorities. It’s how you control a populace.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26843.htm

Two killed in attack on Afghan mayor:
A bombing Tuesday targeting the mayor of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz killed the man’s brother and a candidate in September’s parliamentary elections, police said.
bit.ly/befEgy

Nato chief says there is no alternative to staying in Afghanistan:
His comments came as Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, said intrusive foreign military operations in Afghan communities were exacerbating the threat from the Taliban.
bit.ly/bOZZSn

Holbrooke denies exit strategy for Afghanistan:
Special US representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, on Monday said there will be some drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan next year but the US combat mission will not end until 2014.
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20101116story_16-11-2010_pg7_28

Mulla Umar refused Karzai’s 35,000-govt jobs offer for Taliban fighters:
US, Afghan, Saudi and Pakistani officials have claimed that all efforts to organise the first-ever direct talks between Taliban and the Karzai administration in Saudi Arabia after Hajj have failed and the Taliban have refused to send any delegation to Jeddah, The News reported.
www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-85091.html

Report: US preparing for extensive Yemen operation:
The US is planning an extensive military operation against Al-Qaeda in Yemen, Washington is moving military and intelligence forces in order to aid US and Yemeni military strikes against Al Qaeda targets.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3985538,00.html

US Propose New Bases In Yemen:
The proposed bases would vary in size, but could each accommodate scores of troops, including specialized Yemeni commando units, which are trained by the U.S
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704658204575610623765564574.html

Gates: Attack on Iran Won’t Help:
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that a military action against Iran would not halt Tehran’s nuclear program, and would only make the government there more determined to forge ahead with the program.
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/198039

Iran security agents strike French diplomats: ministry:
Iranian security agents struck French diplomats in scuffles at a Tehran embassy residence, prompting France to summon Iran’s ambassador and complain of “unacceptable violence”, officials said Tuesday.
bit.ly/967Iec

Egypt police blamed for death:
Police in the Egyptian city of Alexandria have been accused of beating to death an unarmed man, bringing to the fore once again the issue of police brutality two weeks before parliamentary elections in the country.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/11/2010111516111485865.html

In case you missed it:
Congress must pass legislation to protect Jewish students from anti-semitic harassment:

Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) introduced legislation last week that would require that Jewish students be protected from harassment and intimidation on their campuses.
bit.ly/cmIxeH

Guantánamo Bay prisoner payouts a first step to ending legacy of torture:
Government agrees compensation for 16 former detainees as it seeks to draw a line under British complicity in abuses
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/16/guantanamo-bay-prisoner-payouts

EU criticised for ‘complicity’ in CIA rendition programmes:
Amnesty International says EU has failed to hold Britain and other countries accountable for involvement in the CIA’s illegal rendition and detention
bit.ly/9jsJZ0

CIA renditions unlawful: Amnesty:
European governments should not follow the United States’ reluctance to shed light on unlawful intelligence operations carried out against suspected Islamist terrorists, Amnesty International said in a report published on Monday.
www.news24.com/World/News/CIA-renditions-unlawful-Amnesty-20101115

Haiti cholera clashes:
UN troops shoot man dead: Peacekeepers kill at least one person in clashes as Haitians blame epidemic on Nepalese force
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/16/haiti-cholera-protests-peacekeepers-nepal

Haiti hospitals running out of space for cholera patients:
This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical facility in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince has 70 beds but is receiving 300 cases a day.
bit.ly/c6cnnt

Hi-tech eye scanners that track passengers as they walk through airport go on trial in UK:
High-tech machines that can recognise an individual’s iris as they walk around will be installed at Manchester Airport at check in during the government-backed pilot.
bit.ly/bLlM8L

NYPD Commences Use Of Iris Scans Of Suspects:
The process takes about five seconds. Every suspect will be scanned again using a handheld device shortly before they are arraigned to make sure the irises match.
newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/11/15/nypd-commences-use-of-iris-scans-of-suspects/

Ireland’s debt crisis could kill the European Union stone dead, EU president warns:
He spoke out as finance ministers tried to keep Ireland’s market turmoil from triggering a domino effect that could topple other vulnerable nations and rock the region’s currency union.
bit.ly/9Ubqfo

More US households short of food:
US authorities say that figure is the highest they have seen since they began collecting data in the 1990s
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11761970

TSA promises $10,000 fine for refusing sexual assault:
At the San Diego International Airport yesterday, about one-fifth of the travelers were selected for sexual assault by transportation security agents
bit.ly/cHR1et

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,421,933″
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq:  4,745
icasualties.org/oif/

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan :  2,218

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,108,258,548,279
www.costofwar.com/