14 March 2012— Information Clearing House
Backing into World War III?
By Sean Stone
It is no wonder that Russian Prime Minister Putin has called the Anglo-American policy in the Middle East a ‘cult of violence.’ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30804.htm
Demonizing Iran
Iranian-backed Terror Groups Expanding Reach in South America, Warns General
By Carlo Munoz
Iranian-backed terror groups are strengthening their ties to transnational criminal groups in South America and are working to expand their influence in the region, according to a top U.S. general. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30814.htm
Washington’s High-powered Terrorist Supporters
By Glenn Greenwald
We now have an extraordinary situation that reveals the impunity with which political elites commit the most egregious crimes, as well as the special privileges to which they explicitly believe they – and they alone – are entitled. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30808.htm
Israel’s Latest Ritual Slaughter
By Stephen Lendman
Naked aggression’s called self-defense. Resistance freedom fighting’s called terrorism. Facts on the ground are inverted. Whatever Israel does it right. Legitimate Palestinian responses aren’t tolerated. Victims get no rights. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30809.htm
American Morlocks: Another Civilian Massacre and the Savagery of Our Soldiers
By Nima Shirazi
The killing has continued unabated for over ten years and is routinely ignored by the mainstream media, which choose instead to praise American soldiers for their duty, their heroism, and their sacrifice. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30807.htm
Afghanistan: How Much Is Enough? Jack Cafferty CNN
Video
Remember that warning from Dwight Eisenhower about the military-industrial complex? It’s got this country by the throat.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30810.htm
American Massacres Have Been Common for Centuries
By Jack D. Douglas
American troops know they can massacre innocent civilians and captured POW’s with impunity, as long as they don’t get into the headlines of the world and make the Empire look like a Great Satan. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30806.htm
Al Jazeera Loosing Staff Over Syria ‘Bias’
By RT
Al Jazeera journalists quit channel citing bias on Syria coverage: Qatar’s aggressive stance towards Assad has led to a string of resignations at the country’s al-Jazeera TV news channel. Those who left describe bias at the station which they say has become a tool to target the Syrian regime. RT‘s Paula Slier describes those accusations. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30802.htm
A Tough-Oil World
By Michael T. Klare
Why Twenty-First Century Oil Will Break the Bank — and the Planet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30805.htm
What a Weirdo and a Loser?
Dennis Kucinich And “Wackiness”
By Glenn Greenwald
Establishment Democrats have long viewed Dennis Kucinich with a mixture of scorn, mockery and condescension. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30803.htm
The Religious-conservative Insanity of the American Right
By Avirama Golan
Liberal Jews in the U.S. are doubly fearful – of the messianic insanity now spreading in American politics, of its Israeli version and, most of all, of the link between the two. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30813.htm
Reclaiming The Commons
Human Lessons in the Era of Corporatism and Perpetual War
By Phil Rockstroh
While Republicans desire to set clocks back to the Bronze Age — Democrats now run on Republican Standard Time, as collectively, the nation’s citizenry continues to roll over and hit the snooze button. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30811.htm
Blatant ICH Obama-hatred
A Few Brave Souls Supported Me
By Dennis S
If the republicans take charge – so does the corporate oligarchy with its dominionist fringe of religious extremists, barely being kept at bay by Obama. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30801.htm
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
By Greg Smith
I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It’s purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30812.htm
US kill 30 people in southern Somalia: At least 30 people have been killed and a dozen injured in an attack by US assassination drones in southern Somalia, Press TV reports. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/231562.html
Growing the Empire:
Joseph Kony resolution introduced in House: The resolution, introduced by Reps. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. and Ed Royce, R-Calif., calls for, among other things, expanding the number of regional forces in Africa to protect civilians and placing restrictions on individuals or governments found to be supporting Kony. http://bit.ly/zjUfph
US Marine team trains Ugandan forces to face al-Shabaab, LRA: A thousand miles from the nearest major American base, about 30 U.S. Marines have been training a company of Ugandan soldiers for the fight against terrorism in East Africa since arriving in country, Feb. 3. http://bit.ly/yoUVQJ
US kills 15 people in NW Pakistan: Official: The US struck twice in Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 15 “suspected militants”, including two senior commanders of the Pakistan Taliban, security and intelligence officials said. http://bit.ly/xyshIU
10 killed in Yemen onslaught: – Ten people were killed Tuesday as battles intensified between Al-Qaeda and Yemeni forces, many of which are still led by relatives of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh http://bit.ly/zy5rEq
Bomber kills four Yemeni soldiers: Four Yemeni soldiers were killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle laden with explosives near a checkpoint in the south of the country, a police source said, in an attack claimed by an al-Qaeda-linked group. http://bit.ly/wDnnr4
Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?: Unlike most journalists covering Al Qaeda, Shaye risked his life to travel to areas controlled by Al Qaeda and to interview its leaders. He also conducted several interviews with the radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. http://bit.ly/Apgjgx
Somalia: 10 killed as the Fight for Gedo Region Continues: At least 10 people have been killed after clashes sparked between Kenyan alongside TFG forces and Al Shabaab in a district near Bardhere located in the region of Gedo. Radio Garowe reports. http://allafrica.com/stories/201203130157.html
Four killed on visit to Afghan massacre site:
“INSURGENTS” launched an attack on an Afghan Government delegation visiting the site where 16 civilians, most of whom were women and children, were killed: Police said one Afghan soldier and three militants were killed. http://bit.ly/yOht0b
The systemic atrocity of Afghanistan’s occupation: Is there a morally significant difference between murder, like the Panjwai massacre, and collateral damage? Ask Afghan civilians http://bit.ly/y9ohgH
Lawmakers press Pentagon on massacre suspect’s brain injury: The Army staff sergeant accused in Sunday’s shooting served three deployments to Iraq before he was sent to Afghanistan last year. The soldier, whose name has not been disclosed publicly, was treated for a traumatic brain injury suffered in a vehicle rollover in 2010 in Iraq, according to a U.S. official. http://trib.in/yDL5fU
Least we forget:
US Marine Kills Women Children Gets 3 Months: It was a stunning and muted end to a case once described as the Iraq War‘s version of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30339.htm
The systemic atrocity of Afghanistan’s occupation: Is there a morally significant difference between murder, like the Panjwai massacre, and collateral damage? Ask Afghan civilians http://bit.ly/y9ohgH
Satire:
Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America’s Reputation Worldwide? : The First Responders debate the U.S. military‘s use of drone planes to rain fiery death upon Afghanistan from above. http://onion.com/w2lc7Y
Yankee go home:
Defense chief sounds out Kyrgyzstan on key base: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sounded out the government of Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday over the future of an important air base that the Central Asian country’s president wants the U.S. military to vacate when its lease expires in 2014, U.S. officials said. http://reut.rs/yS8ign
Syria: 22 govt troops killed in ambushes, Assad calls May 7 parliamentary election: Annan said he had a “useful meeting” in Ankara with six representatives of the opposition Syrian National Council headed by Burhan Ghalioun, whom he said had “promised their full cooperation.” http://bit.ly/A96IJ3
Russia says Syrian ceasefire must be simultaneous:
Syrian government forces will not stop fighting or withdraw from positions unless rebel forces instantly mirror their move, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday, underscoring continued divisions between Moscow and the West. http://reut.rs/znBRjK
Assad’s troops retake major northern city of Idlib: Witnesses said this week that army defectors in the city have been running out of ammunition over the past few days. http://bit.ly/Ac1cCm
130 armed men surrender to Syrian authorities: Over 130 members of armed groups have surrendered to Syrian authorities in the northwestern province of Idlib. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/231472.html
Leaked Memo Says US SOF in Syria: U.S. Special Operation Forces reportedly have been in Syria since December training groups to conduct guerrilla attacks and assassinations to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to a leaked Stratfor memo published by WikiLeaks. http://mnstr.me/wP120B
Calls for Syria Regime Change Fuel Conflict – Moscow: “The ill-considered demands for regime change, unilateral sanctions designed to cause economic difficulties and social tension in the country, pushing the opposition toward confrontation with the government… and even calls for military intervention – all of these are risky recipes that can only lead to the escalation of the conflict,” he said. http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120312/172118120.html
CIA chief holds talks with Turkish PM on Syrian crisis: Turkey is scheduled to host the second so-called “Friends of Syria” meeting on April 2, which claims to work towards a political solution to the year-long violence in Syria and a humanitarian aid corridor to help the Syrian civilians. http://bit.ly/A2Tzg5
Report: U.S. asked Russia to warn Iran of ‘last chance’ to avoid military strike: Hillary Clinton asked her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in New York on Monday to tell Tehran that it has one last chance to solve the conflict peacefully by making progress in the talks with the P5+1 group. Otherwise, an attack on Iran‘s nuclear facilities will occur within months, the diplomats said. http://bit.ly/wW3PXe
Americans will back U.S. military action if Iran “seeks” nuclear arms, poll shows: Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 53% of U.S. citizens would support action against Tehran’s nuclear program, even if it meant a rise in gasoline prices. http://bit.ly/x1gQ0Q
Least we forget:
Congress Approves Nuclear ‘Bunker Buster’ Research: Congress has authorized research into the feasibility and cost of developing a robust nuclear earth penetrator (RNEP), with up to $15 million slated to go to U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories in fiscal year 2003 to work on modifying existing nuclear warheads. http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2002_12/bunkerbuster_dec02
Animation: The US Nuclear Bunker Buster: The United States still has a B61-11 nuclear ‘bunker buster’ in its arsenal which has a 400 kiloton yield, which could still cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and spread radiation to other countries http://bit.ly/13JjRo
Rendell questioned on ties to Iran terror group: A U.S. agency has asked former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell to turn over information on his relationship with an Iranian exile group, officials say. the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets has subpoenaed his records on speaking fees. http://bit.ly/wzRbPq
Speaking Fees From Iran Terror Group (MEK) Come Under Government Scrutiny: Rendell is far from the only former government official who has publicly acknowledged accepting speaking fees from supporters of the MEK, which has been lobbying to get the group off the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. http://bit.ly/o1kmNu
Israeli warplanes bomb north Gaza, no injuries: – Israeli warplanes bombed the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, casting uncertainty over a truce deal agreed 24 hours earlier. http://bit.ly/xYIO5I
Turkey’s Erdogan: Israel must stop ‘massacre’ of Palestinians in Gaza: Turkish PM’s comments came as Egypt mediates tense ceasefire between Israel, Gaza militants, and as Israel warns its citizens against travel to Turkey over imminent terror threat. http://bit.ly/xWtvnh
Israel is Egypt’s no. 1 enemy, MPs declare: The lower house of the Egyptian parliament has unanimously approved a text declaring that Israel is the number one enemy of Egypt and calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and a halt to gas exports to Israel. http://presstv.com/detail/231376.html
Gaddafi ‘contributed €50m to Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential election fund’: French president hit by new claims as confidential note suggests ex-Libyan leader helped finance his election campaign. http://bit.ly/yMSByk
FBI wouldn’t exclude extrajudicial killings in the US: United States Attorney General Eric Holder recently explained how the president can order the assassination of his own citizens abroad. But did his rationalization justify executions within the US? Apparently, the FBI wouldn’t exclude it. http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-mueller-assassination-holder-193/
The Story Behind US Gas Price Pain: With production up and demand down, the basics of supply and demand indicate that oil prices should be falling. Americans should be paying less at the pump. http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/story-behind-us-gas-price-pain
Oil, Alternatives, and Nuclear Weapons – An Interview with Marc Faber: As the world economy teeters on the brink and rising oil prices threaten to de-rail the delicate roots of recovery we asked legendary investor Dr. Marc Faber to join us and give his views on high gasoline prices, the shale boom, alternative energy, developments in the Middle East and much more. http://bit.ly/wNnavE
War criminal not safe in Canada:
Canada ‘not friendly’, Cheney cancels T.O. talk: Former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney has cancelled a speaking engagement in Toronto, citing security concerns related to violent protesters at a Vancouver event last year, the promoter said Monday. http://bit.ly/zUjDNA
Al Gore says ‘democracy has been hacked’ at SXSW: Gore talked of a “Wiki-democracy” of “digital flash mobs calling out the truth” and “a government square that holds people accountable.” http://bit.ly/z0AWjL
Santorum sweeps Alabama, Mississippi primaries: A resurgent Rick Santorum swept to victory in primaries in Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday night, upending the race for the Republican presidential nomination yet again and trying to nudge Newt Gingrich toward the sidelines. http://bo.st/xGDmfJ
Did Ron Paul Call GOP Election Fraud: Video http://bit.ly/y1fCAo
Obama campaign gets more Air Force aircraft: The U.S. Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Barack Obama‘s stepped-up visits to campaign events http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/09/obamas-campaign-gets-more-usaf-aircraft/
Stranger than Fiction:
UK: CCTV at gas stations will automatically stop uninsured cars being filled with fuel: Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras are already fitted in thousands of petrol station forecourts. Drivers can only fill their cars with fuel once the camera has captured and logged the vehicle’s number plate. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cctv-at-petrol-stations-will-automatically-stop-758518
In a world gone crazy:
Report: 9-year-old who skipped school is Tasered: An Ohio police officer says he used a stun gun twice on a 9-year-old who skipped school because the child refused to cooperate with his commands. http://on.msnbc.com/w0jXbs
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 : 2,916
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,311,845,649,905
The New Dark Age 
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