8 March 2012 — Information Clearing House
US ‘Offered Israel New Arms To Delay Iran Attack’
By AFP
The US administration offered to supply Israel with advanced bunker-busting bombs and long-range refuelling planes. In return, Israel would agree to put off a possible attack on Iran till 2013, after the US elections in November. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30759.htm
Dyer: Reasons To Attack Iran
By Gwynne Dyer
What’s actually at stake here is not the survival of Israel, just the preservation of the huge strategic advantage Israel enjoys as the sole nuclear weapons state in the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30760.htm
Can Russia Save the Day?
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Mr. Putin would do well to draw his own “red lines” by addressing the UN Security Council and stating firmly and irrevocably that a preventative/preemptive attack on Iran (or Syria) is illegal and unacceptable, and will draw reaction from Russia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30756.htm
Why Putin is Driving Washington Nuts
New World Order is a no-go
By Pepe Escobar
Washington and its minions have been warned. Before last Sunday’s election, Putin even advertised his road map. The essentials; no war on Syria; no war on Iran; no “humanitarian bombing” or fomenting “color revolutions” – all bundled into a new concept, “illegal instruments of soft power” Continue
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30763.htm
NATO Forces Operating Covertly in Syria: Wikileaks
By Stephen Lendman
“The idea ‘hypothetically’ is to commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns, try to break the back of the Alawite forces, elicit collapse from within.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30748.htm
Afghan Tipping Point
Green on Blue
By Ann Jones
Dead Americans, Dead Goats, and Half a Million Gunmen on the Loose. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30752.htm
PTSD: Cancer Of The Spirit
By Robert Koehler
Can we squeeze the glory out of the word “war”? Can we talk about savage irrationality and lifelong inner hell instead? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30761.htm
The MEK’s Useful Idiots
By Philip Giraldi
Americans who are not Muslim should be concerned by the repeated entrapment of so-called terrorists, first of all because the process reveals that our private communications are no longer very private. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30750.htm
Legal Experts Destroy Rationale for Obama’s Assassination Policy …
And Slam Democrats for Supporting It
By Washington’s Blog
We see one of Dick Cheney’s ideas being ratified by Barack Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30757.htm
Eric Holder Tortures the Constitution
By Glen Ford
The danger is upon us, and it emanates from the White House. There’s a name for the danger: it’s called fascism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30753.htm
Liberal Whores
By Margaret Kimberley
Call a Georgetown law student a slut, and the liberal universe goes into supernova. Destroy Somalia and Libya, or obliterate due process of law, and the same people just yawn.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30762.htm
Surveillance State: The Making of the US Internal Security Apparatus
By Alfred McCoy
The power of police, information, and scandal in shaping both the modern Philippine state and the U.S. internal security apparatus. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30751.htm
Why Doesn’t the American Red Cross Want People to See
“Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?”
By Center for Economic and Policy Research
What does the Red Cross find so objectionable? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30755.htm
Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?
Video Documentary
Is this what you expected when you pledged your aid dollars? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30754.htm
Poor America
By Stephen Lendman
Cold hard truths reveal what they and complicit media scoundrels try hard to suppress. Growing impoverished millions reflect America‘s dark side. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30758.htm
Gunmen kill seven in northern Nigeria: At least seven people have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a police station and two banks in a remote part of northeast Nigeria. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/230667.html
Two hostages killed in failed rescue attempt in Nigeria:
Two western hostages held in Nigeria have been killed during a joint Nigerian-British rescue mission after 10 months in captivity, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday http://bit.ly/w1jujB
Yemen army kills seven militants in Zinjibar: military:
The Yemeni army has killed seven suspected Al-Qaeda militants in an artillery strike on Zinjibar, an extremist stronghold in the restive southern Abyan province, a military official said on Thursday. http://bit.ly/wWiWic
Russia says Libya training Syrian rebels: – A Russian official has accused Libya of running a training center for Syrian rebel forces that are combating the “legal government” of President Bashar Assad. http://bit.ly/Aqh24T
Libya accused of harbouring Syrian rebels: “We have received information that there is in Libya, with the support of the authorities, a special training center for Syrian revolutionaries and these people are sent to Syria to attack the legal government,” Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin told a UN Security Council meeting on Libya. – Sapa-AFP http://bit.ly/z9MI3T
Putin’s Russia stares down West on Syria: Russia is still not flinching in the face of Western and Arab pressure to change its stance on the Syria conflict and its defiance may yet increase as Vladimir Putin heads back to the Kremlin. http://yhoo.it/yLq4zS
Annan warns against use of force in Syria: Speaking to reporters at the Arab League in Cairo on Thursday, the former UN secretary-general said the solution to the worsening conflict “lies in political settlement” and must be “Syrian-led and Syrian-owned”. http://aje.me/xq10QX
Iran says Israel, US help put mercenaries into Syria: Arab countries are sending mercenaries to Syria to thwart any chance of a negotiated settlement to end President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on a year-long uprising against his rule, Iran‘s ambassador to France said on Thursday http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4200499,00.html
Syrian minister quits, condemns Al Assad’s brutal campaign: “I, the engineer Abdo Hussam Al Deen, the deputy oil minister… announce my defection from the regime and my resignation,” he said. “I am joining the revolution of the people who reject injustice and the brutal campaign of the regime, which is seeking to crush the people’s demand for freedom and dignity,” he added. http://bit.ly/wELO88
Carter: Netanyahu too eager for war with Iran: “I was glad to see President Obama discourage that immediate resumption of hostilities between Israel and its neighbors that the Israelis seem to be inclined to do,” the former president said in an interview with The Washington Times-affiliated “America‘s Morning News” radio broadcast. http://bit.ly/y5njaA
Israel and the US are seen as more threatening than Iran: A poll conducted in 12 Arab countries, representing 84 per cent of the population of the Arab world, has arrived at some interesting results. http://aje.me/xkA0ac
Did Israel Help Spark the Russia-Georgia War in 2008? : Fresh documents released by WikiLeaks raise new questions about the five-day war between Russia and Georgia in 2008. In particular, the role of Israel and its involvement in providing military intelligence to Russia in the run-up to the war. http://yhoo.it/zyJfGT
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian teenager in West Bank: Zakariya Abu Eram, 17, was shot dead on Thursday in clashes that erupted when Israeli troops attempted to arrest the teenager’s uncle in the occupied West Bank village of Yata. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/230656.html
Israeli apartheid week kicks off in South Africa: – The cultural week against the Israeli apartheid regime in occupied Palestine were launched in more than 13 South African cities in the context of global activities and events taking place in about 90 cities around the world. http://bit.ly/xomW8h
UN warns of humanitarian crisis in Yemen: Jamal Benomar said on Wednesday that about three million people were in need of immediate assistance and urged international donors to help the Arab world’s poorest country. http://aje.me/zO9XgR
Iranian activist continues hunger strike: A jailed Iranian blogger has entered the 60th day of a hunger strike in protest against his imprisonment for criticising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the government’s policies, his family and activists have said. http://aje.me/wNIOiY
UN official slams WikiLeaks suspect Manning’s treatment: US authorities’ treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Private Bradley Manning was “cruel and degrading,” the UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez said Monday. http://bit.ly/ypcG8r
Let U.N. officials meet with Bradley Manning:
Call top Pentagon attorney Jeh Johnson tell him to let U.N. officials meet with Bradley Manning http://bit.ly/w2ZcHj
FBI Launches Unprecedented Attack On NYPD Over Muslim Surveillance Tactics: Feds: Move Has Alienated People, Hurt Counter Terror Info Gathering Process http://cbsloc.al/zQu0zy
Eurozone approves second Greek bailout: Finance ministers meeting in Brussels approve $170bn rescue package needed to avoid default by debt-ridden nation. http://aje.me/zLE1Rk
Are Irish Taxpayers About To Bail Out Goldman?: Why is Dublin’s political establishment so keen to protect foreign investors at the expense of future generations? http://bit.ly/xvuIdQ
Whistleblowers: 70 percent of U.S. ground beef contains ‘pink slime’: “Pink slime” is largely made up of connective tissue that used to be reserved only for dog foods. It was not classified as “meat” because it was largely seen as unfit for human consumption http://bit.ly/yRDkNZ
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 : 2,915
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,309,975,537,189
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