Information Clearing House Newsletter 13 February 2012: A Death Sentence for Greece

13 February 2012Information Clearing House

“The Real Opposition in Syria is Not the Syrian National Council or Free Syrian Army,”
 By Idaf
 I’m fed up with the simplified, naive views and the manipulative perception management tactics that aim to draw unrealistic picture about the conflict by conveniently framing it simply as idiot proxies and armed elements (SNC/FSA) vs. the brutal mass-murderer autocratic regime (the regime). http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30512.htm

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Lobby of Lambeth Council – 29 February 6pm at Lambeth Town Hall

13 February 2012Lambeth Save Our Services

As I live in the Borough, I have to admit to some bias, as it will be my services that get cut and worse, privatized under the misleading name of ‘Co-Operative council’. Read on…


When we lobbied the council last year we shut their meeting down

Spread the word: http://lambethsaveourservices.org/

  • Let us know you’re coming on facebook
  • Download a leaflet and give it to all your friends
  • Display a poster in your window, and ask your local shops if they’ll display one too

Lambeth’s Labour led council has been spending thousands of pounds of taxpayers money selling us their vision of the Co-Operative council. But, what exactly does this mean?

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INTEL WARS: The Lessons for U.S. Intelligence From Today’s Battlefields

13 February 2012National Security Archive

For more information contact: Tom Blanton – 202/994-7000 | nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., February 13, 2012 – Spendthrift, schizophrenic policies and a massive, multi-tiered bureaucracy more focused on preserving secrets than on mission accomplishment leave our intelligence operatives drowning in raw data, resource-starved, and choked on paperwork, according to a new book, Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror (Bloomsbury Press, 2012), by intelligence historian Matthew Aid. Excerpts from the book and declassified documents cited in it were posted today by the National Security Archive, where Aid is a Visiting Fellow.

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Video: ‘Western media indiscriminate in Syria reports’ — RT

13 February 2012 — ‘Western media indiscriminate in Syria reports’ — RT

Reports about hundreds of dead and wounded coming from Syria on a daily basis has become commonplace in Western media, while the sources of such information are highly questionable, investigative journalist Asa Winstanley told RT

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GR Weekend Review: Global Economic Crisis, World War and the Russia-China Veto, Drones over America, Occupy Wall Street

12 February 2012 — Global Research

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WAR PLAN IRAN: Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulf

GR ONLINE NEWS READER
– by Finian Cunningham, Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-02-16
GR ONLINE NEWS READER. The region is on a hair-trigger for a conflagration that would involve nuclear weapons and the collision of global powers… Continue reading

VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 February 2012: Syria 2011-2012, a rematch of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon

12 February 2012VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Troops Detain 5 Residents At A Settlement Near Jenin
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers kidnapped, On Sunday evening, five Palestinian residents from Ya’bod village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and held them for several hours at the Mabo Dothan settlement, in the Jenin district. …

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Information Clearing House Newsletter 12 February 2012: Russia Says West Arming Syrian Rebels

12 February 2012Information Clearing House

Russia Says West Arming Syrian Rebels
Accuses West of being “Accomplices” in Violence
By David Blair
 “Western states that push the Syrian opposition into uncompromising measures, which arm them and give them advice and instructions, are accomplices in the process of inflaming the crisis,”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30500.htm

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Stop NATO News: February 13, 2012: Pentagon Chief Uses NATO For Missiles, Global Hawks, Wars

13 February 2012Stop NATO

  • Pentagon Chief Uses NATO For Missiles, Global Hawks, Wars
  • Poland: U.S. To Add Air Force Unit To Missiles
  • Poland: U.S. Plans To Provide Missiles, Bombs For F-16s
  • NATO-Georgia Commission Meets At Alliance’s Headquarters
  • Guam: U.S. Holds Air Force Exercises With Japan, Australia
  • U.S. Military Chief, Egyptian Field Marshall Meet In Cairo
  • Post-Afghan Warfighting: Canada Conducts Arctic Military Exercise
  • Computer Game Simulates NATO-Russian War In Arctic
  • Dutch Troops Withdrawn From U.S-NATO Mali Drills Amid Fighting
  • Passy: After Four Wars, U.S. Can Boost Use Of Bulgarian Bases

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