The New Dark Age

20 October 2011 — Information Clearing House

The Destruction Of Sirte
By Patrick O’Connor
If at any point during Libya’s civil war Gaddafi’s forces had done what the TNC fighters are doing now, there would have been blanket demands of charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29447.htm

People of Sirte Still Resisting NATO Backed Rebels
Video
Ahmed Bani, a military spokesperson from the rebels admitted that they are not making any progress in Sirte.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29448.htm

Netanyahu Slaps Abbas
Gilad Shalit Exchange May be Poisoned Chalice for Abbas
By Ian Black
Hamas, not Fatah, is gaining popularity in the West Bank after the deal with Israel to release Palestinian prisoners.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29450.htm

‘Theater of the Absurd’: Netanyahu and His Endgame in Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud
The entire Israeli colonial project would have been unfeasible without US funding, political backing and the silencing of any country that tried to challenge this iniquitous paradigm.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29449.htm

The Precarious Future of the Jewish State
Greater Israel-or Peace?
By Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer
More and more people are aware of what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians. They understand that this is bad for the United States from a strategic point of view, and it’s morally bankrupt behavior.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29451.htm

Unfolding a Plot: Mossad at Work
By Ismail Salami
What seemed at first to be a simplistic effort by the US to corner Iran into political isolation has begun to branch out into ramifications of Kafkaesque proportions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29454.htm

We Don’t Need A War With Iran
By Dan Simpson
Mr. Obama might be tempted to accede to what appear to be the wishes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some other Israeli politicians that America either attack Iran or give Israel a green light to do so.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29459.htm

The Arab Uprisings and Iran’s Green Movement
By Akbar E. Torbat
The media outlets in the West manufactured Mousavi and Karroubi as the leaders of the opposition in Iran. There are of course many opposition groups against the Islamic regime in Iran but their leaders are not known and surely are not Karroubi or Mousavi.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29458.htm

Sub Comandante Marcos Comes To Wall Street
By Cesar Chelala
The greed of the few shouldn’t take precedence of the rights of the many:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29453.htm

“This One Could Take Them All Down.”
By Chris Hedges:
“What happens is in all of these movements … the foot soldiers of the elite — the blue uniformed police, the mechanisms of control — finally don’t want to impede the movement and at that point the power elite is left defenseless …”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29452.htm

Prosecute The Banks In 2012
Greater Employment – Less Fraud
Must Watch Video
“We Put The U.S. Treasury Up For Auction And Goldman Sachs Was The Highest Bidder!”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29460.htm

The Only Way Out Of This Depression
By Scott Cruickshank
A national economy is very much like what the American family farm was at the turn of the 20th century.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29455.htm

Occupy The World! To the Barricades Comrades?
By William Bowles
The crisis of capital has now hit those who make up the very bedrock of capitalist society’s justification for existing, its so-called middle classes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29456.htm

A Manifesto for the Impending Second American Revolution
By Carmen Yarrusso
The immense human suffering caused by collaborating, corrupt governments throughout the world is about to awaken all humanity to a common cause.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29457.htm

45 Killed In Turkey / Iraq Attacks:
Kurdish rebels killed 24 soldiers and policemen Wednesday in south-eastern Turkey. Turkey responded with airstrikes on suspected bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq while Turkish troops crossed the Iraqi border in pursuit of the rebels. By late Wednesday, CNNTurk was reporting a total of 21 PKK members killed in those operations,
http://bit.ly/pW0Kju

US kills 18 civilians in Somalia:
The US drone attack struck Musa Haji district in Lower Juba region on Wednesday morning, and left 18 civilians dead and 37 more injured, a Press TV correspondent reported.
http://presstv.com/detail/205465.html

Ten killed in Afghanistan:
Ten people, including two foreign occupation force soldiers, were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.
http://bit.ly/n7T3Ew
 
Six militants killed in Pak tribal region:
The casualties occurred when security forces destroyed at least two suspected insurgent hideouts in central Kurram’s Asteergate area, the Dawn reports.
http://bit.ly/n7T3Ew

US forces to enter Pakistan: US forces are massing in eastern Afghanistan.
Local officials warned that Pakistan’s armed forces would repel any incursion across the border by American forces, but military sources in Islamabad and Afghan officials suggested the build-up was co-ordinated.
http://goo.gl/N4X2k

Kayani says Pakistan doesn’t need U.S. aid, warns against unilateral action:
The General ruled out the possibility of unilateral U.S. military action on Pakistani soil. Kayani said he would like to remind the Americans that Pakistan was a nuclear power and must not be compared with Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://goo.gl/GCXs4

14 killed as Assad forces fight deserters across Syria; 3rd day of offensive on Homs’ old districts:
Syrian troops fought army deserters near a southern town overnight following the killing of at least three protesters demonstrating against the arrest of a popular cleric, residents and activists said on Wednesday.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/19/172502.html

Massive rally in Syria to support president:
Syrian state television is showing tens of thousands rallying in a major city in a demonstration of support for the country’s embattled President Bashar Assad.
http://news.yahoo.com/massive-rally-syria-support-president-112212243.html

7 killed in Yemeni protest:
At least seven people have been killed and dozens wounded after armed men loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on demonstrators in the Yemeni capital, witnesses say.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/10/2011101811132991846.html

Obama Kills Another US Citizen in Yemen:
Two relatives of an assassinated U.S.-born militant cleric who were killed in an air strike last week in southern Yemen were teenagers out for dinner with friends when they were hit, their family said in a statement on Tuesday.
http://goo.gl/V4P0R

Libya : NATO war crimes charges:
Is NATO using forbidden weaponry in Libya: Once again, we see the demonic nature of NATO, which perpetrates war crimes almost daily as it supports terrorists, murderers, rapists, arsonists, looters and torturers in Libya
http://english.pravda.ru/world/africa/19-10-2011/119379-nato_war-0/

Wonder what Clinto got for the money?
Clinton Pledges More Aid for New Libyan Government in Unannounced Visit :
Video –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDuEV29evj8&feature=player_embedded

Guess what? : Libya leads world in recognising Syrian opposition’s right to rule:
Libya’s interim government has become the first in the world to recognise Syria’s opposition movement as a “legitimate authority” to rule Syria.
http://goo.gl/aDAeb

‘We defeated the Israelis’:
“Negotiation based on power forces the enemy to pay the price,” said Hamas supreme leader Khalid Mishal in a speech broadcast from Cairo. “We defeated the Israelis.”
http://goo.gl/ChkKq

Deported Palestinians arrive in exile:
Forty Palestinians freed as part of prisoner swap by Israel for Gilad Shalit arrive in Qatar, Turkey, Jordan and Syria.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/10/2011101935051821696.html

United States needs to reevaluate its assistance to Israel:
If Israel can reduce its defense spending because of its domestic economic problems, shouldn’t the United States – which must cut military costs because of its major budget deficit – consider reducing its aid to Israel?
http://goo.gl/DU0bn

UK: Adam Werritty attended Israeli secret service meeting:
Adam Werritty was at a meeting between the former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox and the Israeli secret service, Whitehall sources have disclosed.
http://goo.gl/xjgX0

Kenya Faces Somalia Quagmire After U.S., Ethiopian Failures:
Kenya’s military drive into neighboring Somalia to thwart attacks by the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab risks ending like previous interventions by the U.S. and Ethiopia — in retreat and failure.
http://goo.gl/CO4rk

Violence erupts as strike paralyses Greece: Video –
The clashes overshadowed the start of a 48-hour strike which shut down government departments, businesses and public services, as well as shops and bakeries. Flights were cancelled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02aa2g3i8Pc

Live Video Stream From Greece :
http://www.livestream.com/stopcarteltvgr

How Bank of America Covered Up Fraud by Silencing Whistleblowers:
Countrywide made life hard for an internal investigator, and a court ruled that when BofA took over, she was illegally fired in retaliation.
http://goo.gl/L1dxr

A demand from Occupy Detroit: Stop foreclosures:
The Occupy Detroit group has potentially set a precedent for groups aligned with the flagship in New York City.
http://goo.gl/BynT0

Unpaid student loans top $1 trillion:
Giving validation to Occupy Wall Street protests over the increasing burdens of student debt, a new report indicates that the total amount of outstanding student loans this year will exceed $1 trillion for the first time.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66347.html