The New Dark Age

6 February 2012 — Information Clearing House

U.S. Wrongly Demonizes Iran
By Karl Lindemann
As with any country that is attempting to develop its nuclear technology, Iran should be monitored. But the current U.S. policies are completely unwarranted. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30448.htm

Yet Another War for Israel
By William A. Cook
Has it come to this, that unnamed Israeli spokespeople, voicing AIPAC’s policies, determine what nation the U.S. should invade without consultation with the representatives of the American people? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30452.htm

Two Front International Struggle For Palestine:
By Lawrence Davidson
It is important to point out that even a one-state solution capable of bringing justice to the Palestinians, and in doing so, saving the Jews from the folly of Zionism, will not be possible without worldwide intervention. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30458.htm

Facts from Fiction: What’s Really Happening in Syria?
By RT
The deadly crossfire has left international media relying on snatches of information and dubious or unverifiable sources to report the unrest dragging the nation towards civil war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30456.htm

Heading for War on Syria
By Stephen Lendman
Assad confronted a Western-backed armed insurgency replicating the Libya model. By so doing he acted responsibly against a heavily armed insurrection. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30455.htm

Obama Terror Drones
CIA Targeting Rescuers and Funerals
By Chris Woods and Christina Lamb
The CIA‘s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30449.htm

Behold: The U.S. God Of War
The Holy Fire of Patriotism
Must Watch Short Video
O Lord our God, … help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30450.htm

Truth, Lies and Afghanistan
By Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. — What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30454.htm

The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts
By Paul Craig Roberts
The phony data serve many interests, but not those of the American people. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30451.htm

Occupying Corporations
How to Cut Corporate Power
By Bill Quigley
The legal fiction of corporate personhood and the constitutional rights taken by corporations must cease. Join the efforts to cut them down to size and restore the right of the people to govern. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30457.htm

The Cancer in Occupy
By Chris Hedges
The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30453.htm

Civil war rages as 25 killed in Syria: Upwards of 17 civilians were killed and dozens wounded as security forces renewed their bombardment of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. http://bit.ly/zldQel

Syrian deserters destroy army post: rights group: Syrian army deserters destroyed a military control post in the northeast overnight, killing three officers and capturing 19 soldiers in the process, a rights group said Monday. http://yhoo.it/xeyf48

Armed groups fire missiles into Homs: According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 17 people have been killed in Homs on Monday. Government troops have been fighting terrorist groups in Homs for several days. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/225250.html

Syrian army defectors form higher military council: The council, named “The Higher Revolutionary Council” and designed to supersede the Free Syrian Army (FSA), said its head was General Mustafa Ahmed al-Sheikh, the highest ranking deserter who had fled to Turkey. http://reut.rs/yyo7fC

After Russia’s UN veto, US talks of “coalition of the willing” against Syria: The discussion on the resolution was a political manoeuvre from the outset, designed either to force Moscow and Beijing into agreeing to a UN cover for a Libya-style operation against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, or justify a predetermined alternative route to regime-change. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/feb2012/syri-f06.shtml

Russia, China Vetoes Spur Western Hysteria, Indecent Comments: Russia and China condemned Monday the angry Western reaction to its veto of a UN resolution over Syria where US envoy expressed her “disgust” and France Defense Minister said such countries deserve a “kick in the ass”! http://bit.ly/y1PSvx

U.S. closes Syria Embassy, pulls all staff: Robert Ford, the American ambassador, and 17 other U.S. officials left Syria and were expected to travel back to the United States. Ford informed Syrian authorities of the decision to leave earlier in the day, State Department officials said. Two diplomats left by air and the others went overland to Jordan. http://bit.ly/w4azA9

9 killed as car bomb explodes in Afghan blast : The blast went off at a parking lot outside the police building in Kandahar, Saisal Ahmad, a spokesperson for the provincial government, said on Sunday. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/02/20122597730407.html

US colonel: Don’t believe US statements on progress in Afghanistan:
 I spent five years covering the Iraq war, and at the end of it I was not inclined to believe anything official spokesmen had to say about Iraq anymore. http://bit.ly/wt2Ozt

Four soldiers killed in blast N. Iraq: Four Iraqi army soldiers were killed in a bomb blast that targeted their patrol in Mosul, northern Iraq, Iraqi police said on Monday. http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2219788&Language=en

US-made bomb killed Iran expert: Report: The United States provided an anti-Iran terrorist group with the bomb used to assassinate Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan last month, a report has revealed. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/225277.html

President Obama: U.S., Israel in ‘lockstep’ on Iran: President Barack Obama said Sunday that he’s committed to working in “lockstep” with Israel to try to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72479.html

House Intel Chair: Israel Attack on Iran Would Harm U.S. National Security: “If Israel does a unilateral strike, this could be a real problem for the national security interests of the United States,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said today http://abcn.ws/w3ELmR

No Evidence Iran Would Attack U.S.: Obama: Obama said: “We don’t see any evidence they have those intentions or capabilities.” http://bit.ly/yG8Zy7

An Act Of War: US freezes all assets of Iranian government and central bank:
US President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday imposing new, stricter sanctions on Iran and its central bank, saying a broader asset freeze was necessary because Iranian banks were concealing transactions. http://bit.ly/wkQ8gb

Iran vows to retaliate against any country that stages attack: Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran‘s most powerful military force, did not elaborate. His comments appeared to be a warning to Iran‘s neighbors not to let their territory or airspace be used as a base for an attack. http://bit.ly/xoFd0o

‘Israeli attack will prompt Pakistani response’: European diplomat based in Islamabad says Israeli strike would force Pakistan to support Iranian retaliation, while EU official says ‘political and economic consequences of attack would be catastrophic for Europe’ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4185684,00.htm

Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Santorum: Iran would nuke Missouri: Rick Santorum warned that if Iran procures a nuclear weapon, it would pose a threat even to Missouri. http://bit.ly/xgsZJT

Iranian calls for pre-emptive strike on Israel: Mr. Tavakoli said a pre-emptive strike would be justified in Islamic terms and in practical military terms, given the threats emanating from Israel. http://bit.ly/w9biEs

Israel can clear Mideast of nukes, it just won’t: If Israel accepts an invitation to the conference in Helsinki, it will have an opportunity to move ahead on a deal: comprehensive nuclear disarmament in exchange for comprehensive peace, says researchers’ position paper. http://bit.ly/wZh7pl

India delegation to go to Iran to boost oil exports: “You have to devise a mechanism with which you can pay for the import of oil and avoid attracting sanctions,” the official said. http://yhoo.it/AfMAMz

Pacifists protest possible war against Iran: Hundreds of protesters demonstrated Saturday in New York and pacifist groups took to the streets in dozens of other US and Canadian cities in a “Day of Mass Action” against a possible war with Iran. http://bit.ly/zDxYPX

Abbas to lead Palestinian unity cabinet, following Hamas-Fatah deal: Agreement between rival factions represents a significant breakthrough in the efforts to reach Palestinian reconciliation; still not clear when unity government will be sworn in. http://bit.ly/wWkIXS

U.S. Jews who put Israel first are merely exercising their democratic rights: Some may retort that Israel is a foreign country, not a domestic policy choice; a vote based on a foreign countries interest is clearly not something that a loyal citizen would do. There are many responses to this accusation, I will lay out two. http://bit.ly/yxKKyK

Egyptian foreign workers’ trial goes ahead despite US threat: Egypt has referred to trial the cases of 19 US citizens and 24 other employees of civil society groups charged with illegally using foreign funds to foment unrest. http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/115079

Lawmakers: U.S. aid to Egypt at risk: A bipartisan group of more than 40 House lawmakers are warning top Obama administration and Egyptian officials they’ll oppose U.S. aid to Egypt unless a standoff over nongovernmental organizations is resolved quickly. http://politi.co/xqll5m

Offshore Everywhere :
How Drones, Special Operations Forces, and the U.S. Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty As We Know It http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175498/

U.S. Marine expeditionary unit possible in Australia: The Navy’s top officer raised the possibility Saturday of a Marine expeditionary unit deploying to Australia on a rotational basis as part of a new agreement reached between the Pacific nation and the U.S. http://bit.ly/xpFveB

Australia: Passengers face body scans before flights: PASSENGERS at airports across Australia will be forced to undergo full-body scans or be banned from flying under new laws to be introduced into Federal Parliament this week. http://bit.ly/wJ9wTI

Soros: Obama, Romney ‘Not Much Difference’: Billionaire financier George Soros thinks that, if Mitt Romney wins the presidency, there will be “little difference” between him and Barack Obama in the White House. http://bit.ly/wzFvr0

012: February 1st 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. http://bit.ly/waC7ve

Temperature Soars Mysteriously Inside Fukushima Nuclear Reactor: – The temperature of a reactor at Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has soared and remained mysteriously high Monday, despite more water being pumped through it. http://bit.ly/yybhbi

Greece caves to pressure and cuts state jobs: Move to eliminate 15,000 civil service jobs signals major shift in policy in run-up to crucial coalition meeting. http://aje.me/ABhAEw

Romanian PM resigns after protests: Romania’s prime minister, Emil Boc, and his government resigned on Monday in an apparent attempt to take the heat out of protests against austerity measures and alleged government cronyism that have been simmering for three weeks. http://on.ft.com/xhXPw4

The battle for McPherson Square: Video – Rough police tactics rout 300 protesters from their tent city in the heart of Washington http://bit.ly/zatKWU

Cost Of war

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq “1,455,590”
 
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq:
4,801

Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,883

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
 $1,299,645,270,576 http://www.costofwar.com/