The New Dark Age

11 August 2011 — Information Clearing House

Waging a Savage War on Libyan People
By Lizzie Phelan
I watched their heartbroken and incensed loved ones bury the 33 children, 32 women and 20 men.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28812.htm

Bring NATO War Criminals To Justice
Does the international community exist?
By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
NATO is committing war crimes daily in Libya.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28811.htm

More Lost By the Second
By Kathy Kelly
Imagine it. People in an Afghan village pass sleepless nights, anxious that their home might be targeted by a U.S.-led night raid.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28817.htm

AIPAC’s Iran Strategy
Mirrors Run-Up To Iraq War Tactics
By Eli Clifton
Sanctioning Bank Markazi might, as mentioned by the Wall Street Journal’s Jay Solomon, be interpreted as an act of war. But that doesn’t seem to bother AIPAC.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28810.htm

Why S&P Was Right To Downgrade U.S. Debt
By Philip Greenspun
The U.S. almost surely will default on some of its currently acknowledged obligations. The only question is whether it will be public employee pensions, Social Security, Medicare, or bonds.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28815.htm

Romney: ‘Corporations Are People’
By Maggie Haberman
Video of Mitt Romney’s tense moments at the Iowa State Fair.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28816.htm

An Explosive New 9/11 Charge
By Philip Shenon
Ex-national security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers-then covered it up.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28814.htm

Bombs kill 6 NATO occupation force soldiers in Afghanistan:
The attacks occur in southern Afghanistan, where most of the foreign forces are American or British.
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fgw-afghan-bombs-20110812,0,5333516.story

Up to six people killed, 14 injured, in two “coordinated” blasts in Pakistan:
Bombers killed up to six people on Thursday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, where a woman suicide attacker blew herself up and roadside explosives struck a police vehicle, officials said.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/11/161784.html

US has killed at least 168 children in Pakistan :
In just a single attack on a madrassah in 2006 up to 69 children lost their lives.
http://tgr.ph/qtaPos

Drones: Tyranny of flying terror:
The morally bankrupt Obama administration insists on using brutal and massive force against unarmed and hapless civilians in gross violation of international law and in flagrant breach of basic human rights.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=108381

Pakistan: Report lifts veil on military and intelligence apparatus’ repression in Balochistan:
A report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) late last month is a devastating exposure of the brutal and inhumane tactics Pakistan’s military and security agencies are using to suppress Baloch secessionists and nationalists in the country’s poorest province.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/paki-a11.shtml

Syrian forces kill five in swoop on northern towns:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had the names of five people killed and 16 wounded in morning raids by security forces backed by tanks on Qusair, near the Lebanon border, after overnight protests calling for Assad’s removal.
http://bit.ly/mWW1f7

Obama, Erdogan agree need for Syria ‘transition’:
White House: US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed during a phone call Thursday on the need for a “transition to democracy” in Syria, the White House said.
http://bit.ly/pRPS3E

Rebels fight Gadhafi troops in key oil terminal:
Mohammed al-Zawawi says two rebels died and 16 were wounded in Thursday’s clashes.
http://bit.ly/nTadKt

Patrick Cockburn: Libya’s Ragtag Rebels are Dubious Allies:
Rebels, from the Wars of the Roses up to the present civil war in Libya, usually try to postpone splitting into factions and murdering each other until after they have seized power and are in full control. However deep their divisions, they keep them secret from the outside world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28813.htm

Press Conference by Moussa Ibrahim on Majer/Zlitan Massacre by NATO Video – (English):
People should ask themselves why Libya is so resilient and why the Rebels need so much foreign support for bombing fellow Libyans. If there really was so much popular support the uprising would have ended many months ago.
http://bit.ly/rib8Hi

Libya: Weapons Transfers – the French and Qatar Connections:
Arms controls continue to be flouted in the context of the Libyan armed conflict. Both France and Qatar have openly admitted to supplying arms to the rebels as a complementary strategy to the NATO-led air strikes.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201108111096.html

US troubled by rising anti-Americanism in Egypt:
The Obama administration on Wednesday expressed concern about a “creeping” trend of anti-American sentiment in Egypt, where it says it has noticed mounting attacks and criticism of U.S. aid and motives as the country transitions to democracy.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110810/ap_on_re_us/us_us_egypt

Three killed in twin west Iraq blasts:
Twin bomb attacks against the home of a police officer in western Iraq killed at least three people and wounded 24 others Thursday evening, security and medical officials said.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/three-killed-twin-west-iraq-blasts-174548212.html

Demonizing Iran:
CNN Pundits Blame Iran For Attack On American Helicopter In Afghanistan:
You know, the Iranians don’t always come in the front door and oftentimes they work through proxies and they insert themselves to cause Americans and American forces difficulty around the world
http://youtu.be/7QYng7qjtV0

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Texas Congressman: Keep Tehran in check:
We must not underestimate the threat of Iran.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/176367-keep-tehran-in-check

Israel approves 1,600 illegal “settler” homes in occupied East Jerusalem:
The ministry is expected to approve the building of a further 2,700 homes, an official has said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14488066

In case you missed it:
International law is clear: Israeli settlements are illegal:
A recent Times Op-Ed article got it wrong: The Fourth Geneva convention explicitly prohibits colonizing occupied territories.
http://ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/illegal.html

Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers it Up:
You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, weeklong junkets to a foreign country – paid for by a lobby for that country – would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips.
http://original.antiwar.com/alison-weir/2011/08/10/israel-lobby-dominates-congress/

US asks China to explain why it needs aircraft carrier:
The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing’s lack of transparency over its military aims.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1146313/1/.html

David Cameron considers banning suspected rioters from social media:
PM says sites such as Twitter and Facebook ‘can be used for ill’ and that broadcasters should hand footage of riots to police
http://bit.ly/nqnoDH

A tortured choice in famine: Which child lives?:
Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her 1-year-old daughter on her back and her 4-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia’s drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some of the little water she had on his head to cool him, but he was unconscious and could not drink.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/a-tortured-choice-in-1097281.html

Greece begins €50bn privatisation drive:
The starting gun for one of the biggest fire-sales in western history was fired as Greek officials began appointing advisers for the country’s ambitious privatisation drive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/01/greece-50bn-privatisation-drive

Beijing Downgrades US-Treasury to A+ – Is Anybody Listening?:
The most important voice in the debate about the credit worthiness of America’s debt, is not the twisted opinions of the US-credit rating agencies, but rather, that of China’s credit rating agency
http://www.sirchartsalot.com/article.php?id=155

Jim Rogers: US Will Default:
Geithner Is Incompetent: Video –
http://bit.ly/peL396

Tea Party activists: Bring on defense cuts:
Groups affiliated with the conservative grassroots movement say defense cuts should be on the table as the supercommittee tries to compile at least $1.5 trillion in deficit cuts.
http://bit.ly/qXMU6L

Debt Panel Co-Chairman Murray Counts U.S. Defense Industry as a Top Donor:
As the newly appointed co-chairwoman of the 12-member, bipartisan committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings, Murray’s campaign supporters now are sure to come calling for her help.
http://bloom.bg/n9M9Cd

Bank Of America’s Backdoor Bailout – Dumping Mortgage Trash Onto Taxpayers Via Fannie Mae: –
The official bailout of the financial system may be over, but the government is apparently far from finished propping up big banks, as evidenced by the news that Bank of America has struck a deal to dump a bunch of near-worthless home loans on U.S. taxpayers.
http://bit.ly/osGQgv