The New Dark Age

10 August 2011 — Information Clearing House

NATO Kills 85 Civilians In Libya
Video
Video shows outrage to the massacre of 85 civilians by NATO
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28809.htm

Iranian Group’s Big-money Push to Get Off US Terrorist List
By Scott Peterson, Staff writer
A high-powered array of former top American officials is advocating removal from the US terrorist list of a controversial Iranian opposition group with a long anti-American history.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28803.htm

US Politicians For Sale?
By The Young Turks
What do politicians do when they leave office and how does that influence their behavior while they are in office?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28804.htm

Democracy Died First in Wisconsin
Long Live the Oligarchs
By Thom Hartmann
Thanks to an irrational and likely illegal Supreme Court ruling, we have moved into an era of oligarch-run politics.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28807.htm

Studies Suggest The Rich Are Different – And Not In a Good Way
By Brian Alexander
Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28808.htm

UK: Things Fall Apart
By William Bowles
Demonized and/or sentimentalized by the state/corporate media, exactly as in Victorian times, an entire section of the working class have been reduced to some inferior, sub-human species by the political class and its media partners-in-crime.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28805.htm

Between a Burning London and a Frozen Society: Time to Build a Human World
By John Stubley
We cannot wait for the rest of the world to be engulfed by flames before we act. The materials are at hand.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28806.htm

US kills people 21 in North Waziristan:
Initial reports said three “militants” were killed in the attack but officials said the toll had gone up to 21 after more bodies were found from the rubble of the house.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?242581

US has killed more than 440 people in 51 US attacks in Pakistan in 2011:
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has killed at least 443 people in Pakistan in 51 drone attacks this year so far, the Conflict Monitoring Centre’s latest report has said.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-45547.html

US Learns No Lesson:
Faced with a prolonged war against terrorism on global level, its defeat in Afghanistan, the United States seeks to fight covert wars in some Islamic countries, which will especially include Pakistan.
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/08/us-learns-no-lesson/

Afghan official: 4 police officers killed in firefight with NATO troops:
Firefights broke out between NATO forces and Afghan police in two parts of Afghanistan overnight, with four Afghan officers killed in one of the incidents, officials said Wednesday.
http://wapo.st/p6rW67

NATO kills 85 civilians as US launches anti-Qaddafi offensive in Africa :
The United States has launched a diplomatic offensive against Libya among African nations as Tripoli accused NATO of a “massacre” of 85 villagers in air strikes in support of rebels.
http://thedailynewsegypt.com/region/us-launches-anti-qaddafi-offensive-in-africa.html

Gaddafi’s “dead” son shows up on TV…again:
Libyan state TV has broadcast what it said was footage of Colonel Gaddafi’s son Khamis visiting people wounded in an air attack. Earlier rebels claimed he had been killed in a NATO air strike last week.
http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-khamis-alive-libya/

‘PJAK kills 5 Iranian security forces’:
Five Iranian security forces have been killed when their vehicle was ambushed by members of the terrorist group of the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in northwest Iran, an official says.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193186.html

US lawmaker urges Palestinians to drop UN bid:
A leading US Democrat on Wednesday said that Congress was united in its opposition to a Palestinian bid for UN membership and called for a speedy resumption of peace talks with Israel.
http://bit.ly/pmgqJO

London riots: the underclass lashes out:
London’s rioters are the products of a crumbling nation, and an indifferent political class that has turned its back on them.
http://tgr.ph/oCFEE3

Dylan Ratigan: Obama Needs To Tell U.S. Your Congress Is Bought!: Video –
Dylan Ratigan with his panel Karen Finney, Susan Del Percio & Jimmy Williams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHgM8SUAwy8&feature=player_embedded#at=47

US turns other cheek at China debt lashing:
The United States is pointedly turning the other cheek despite an explosion of criticism of its debt debacle in China’s official media, including a charge its economy is no more than a Ponzi scheme.
http://bit.ly/mZg36Z

Jeremy Grantham: The US Is A Banana Republic:
When a top investor like Grantham sees the US like this, is it any surprise the market has crashed?
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-grantham-danger-children-at-play-2011-8