The New Dark Age

8 May 2012 — Information Clearing House

US Kills 5 Afghan Kids

By Glenn Greenwald

The way in which the U.S. media ignores such events speaks volumes about how we perceive them.  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31275.htm

Hillary Clinton Admits the U.S. Government Created al-Qaeda

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31276.htm

 

President Paul

America’s best bet on foreign policy.

By Michael Scheuer

Paul’s call for staying out of other people’s wars unless genuine U.S. national interests are at stake is deemed radical, immoral, even anti-American. Amazing.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31274.htm

 

Stop the Pointless Demonization of Putin

By Stephen F. Cohen

Not infrequently, Putin is compared to Saddam Hussein and even Stalin.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31267.htm

 

A Vital (and Unlearned) Lesson from Julius Caesar

By Glenn Greenwald

When a band of Roman traitors was uncovered, he urged they not be killed due to the precedent it would set.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31270.htm

 

Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial

By Andy Worthington

While people like Jose Rodriguez remain free to peddle their lies and distortions about torture, and to profit from it, America‘s name not only continues to be tarnished, but the American public also continue to be shamefully misled.  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31271.htm

 

Watch What You Say

Welcome to America’s Biggest Spy Center

By James Bamford

What will be going on within the top-secret walls of the $2 billion Utah Data Center? The answer…surveillance – but not just surveillance – we’re talking the biggest spy center this nation has ever seen.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31269.htm

 

Kelly Thomas Video: ‘Dad, They Are Killing Me’

By LA Times

Warning – Video Contains Scenes Of Shocking Police Violence

The sounds of the baton and a fist hitting the homeless man can be heard on an audio recorder that one of the officers had on his belt. Several spectators in the courtroom left during the video, and the judge paused it at one point as people in the crowd groaned.  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31266.htm

 

A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?

On the History of the US Economy in Decline

By Noam Chomsky

For many people in the United States, there’s a pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it’s quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis.  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31272.htm

 

US Jobless Toll-a Failure of Capitalism

By Patrick Martin

Big business is the cause of the economic crisis confronting tens of millions of working people, not the solution.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31268.htm

 

At least 32 Yemen troops killed in militant attack:  Gunmen killed at least 32 government soldiers on Monday when they stormed a military position in southern Yemen where militants control broad swathes of territory, a military official said. http://trib.in/IVVf5l

 

Believe It or Not!:

CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot:  The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought a plane ticket when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said. It’s not immediately clear what happened to the alleged bomber. http://yhoo.it/KIjSgw

 

Government of Yemen has ‘no information’ on bomb plot:  A senior Yemeni official told Reuters that the government has “no information” on the alleged underpants bomb plot the CIA claim to have disrupted. http://itv.co/KKx3hc

 

Afghanistan: US airstrikes kill at least 14 civilians:

NATO officials confirmed on Monday that an airstrike launched late Friday in the Sangin district of Helmand Province, Afghanistan resulted in the death of one mother and five children. http://bit.ly/Jal5P7

 

US secretly releasing Taliban prisoners from Bagram prison:  America has secretly been releasing high-level Taliban prisoners from a top security military prison as part of negotiations with insurgents. http://tgr.ph/JLZoC8

 

US Refuses To Negotiate With Al Qaeda For Hostage Warren Weinstein’s Release:

Weinstein, 70, was taken from his home in Lahore, Pakistan, nine months ago by heavily armed men. He was working as a country director for J.E. Austin Associates, a consultancy doing contract work for the U.S. Agency for International Development to build small businesses in the region. http://bit.ly/IIsiHL

 

Taliban kill 14 Pakistani troops, string up heads:  Taliban fighters killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheaded all but one of them and hung two of the heads from wooden poles in the center of town, officials said Monday. http://bit.ly/KKxckx

 

Nine killed by mortar shelling in Somalia:  Rebels armed with mortars and machine guns attacked African Union forces in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu overnight, sparking a battle that killed at least nine people, officials and residents said today. http://ind.pn/IHmmAh

 

Libya rebels kill 2 people, storm PM’s Tripoli office demanding wages:  Former rebels angry over an unpaid stipend stormed the office of Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib in the capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday, killing at least two security officials and wounding many more. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17995427

 

Billions go missing in Libya:  The disarray in Libya‘s state finances at the end of last year was so bad the new leadership did not know the size of state assets, how their money was being spent, or what had happened to more than $2 billion transferred from the sovereign wealth fund. http://bit.ly/JU8G3q

 

Reporters Without Borders blasts new Libyan press law:  Comments harming the 17 February Libyan Revolution, glorifying the former regime and its leader, Col. Gaddafi, or his sons, or insulting the Libyan people, their flag and Islam are all also criminal offences under the new law. http://allafrica.com/stories/201205080529.html

 

Four killed in attacks across Iraq:  Four people were killed and 15 others were wounded, including security forces in five separate attacks across Iraq on Monday, security and medical officials said. http://yhoo.it/Jru25P

 

Iraq’s Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi faces Interpol arrest notice:  A Red Notice is a request for local police to detain a wanted person with a view to their extradition. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17988571

 

Officials warn of Syrian civil war, 7 killed:  Activists said: Across Syria, clashes between state forces and rebels who have joined the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad raged overnight and flared again on Tuesday afternoon, http://www.tradearabia.com/news/INTNEWS_217217.html

 

Turkey ready to ask NATO for military intervention in Syria: Erdogan:

 Erdogan also stated that the turmoil in Syria has to be brought to an end with the cooperation of international powers. “We have been very patient with Syria issue so far,” he claimed. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/240144.html

 

Lebanon: Munitions seized from Italian ship:  Lebanese authorities seized 60,000 firearms cartridges hidden in two cars on an Italian container ship in Tripoli. According to the security source who gave the news http://bit.ly/IJ6uNv

 

Syria tallies ballots from parliamentary election :  Monday’s election for the 250-member parliament is the first part of reforms Syria approved in February. The judicial sub-committees started to count votes in all Syria provinces. http://bit.ly/Ju0AMH

 

Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran:

 EU tells Iran it “must” suspend uranium enrichment:  “Iran must suspend its enrichment activities and heavy water related projects, including research and development,” Gyorgyi Martin Zanathy, head of the EU delegation, said. http://reut.rs/IBopkl

 

U.S. Vice President Biden: No options off table on Iran nuclear program:  Speaking at the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, Vice President attempts to leverage long-term relationship with the Jewish community to convince audience that Obama is pro-Israel. http://bit.ly/L2n3BL

 

In case you missed it:

Why shouldn’t Iran have nuclear weapons?  Israel has American warheads ready to fire : Israel is the fifth-largest nuclear power on the planet with much of its delivery systems technology funded by US taxpayers. http://ind.pn/vUzvmg

 

Mankind’s Most Desperate Hour:  A time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos. This is a close-up look into the insanity of the main governments of the world over the last 67 years. http://blog.imva.info/world-affairs/mankinds-desperate-hour

 

Iran accepts Chinese yuan in exchange for oil:  The Financial Times on Monday reported that China for months has been transferring renminbi to Tehran through Russian banks to pay for Iranian crude. OPEC’s second largest oil producer was using the currency to spend on goods and services imported from China. http://bit.ly/IXcMUk

 

Israel Warns Hizbullah Over Responding to Attack on Iran:  Israeli military officer warns that a Hizbullah retaliation to an attack on Iran would prompt Israel to launch a war in Lebanon. http://bit.ly/Je37tE

 

Netanyahu, Mofaz agree to form unity government, cancel early elections:  PM, opposition leader reach dramatic late-night agreement to form national unity government, in which Kadima head Mofaz expected to be appointed deputy prime minister. http://bit.ly/ITgfTX

 

Candidate who wants Olmert’s job once ‘sought deaths of 70 Palestinians a day’:

A leading candidate to be Israel‘s next premier called for a death toll of 70 Palestinians a day when he was head of the military during the second intifada, according to a best-selling book by two Israeli journalists. http://ind.pn/GZLvzz

 

Israeli Court Rejects the Release of Hunger Strikers:  Israel‘s Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals for the release of two Palestinian prisoners who have been on a hunger strike for 69 days to protest their incarceration without formal charges, sharpening concern for their lives and raising the specter of widespread unrest in the event of a death. http://nyti.ms/JNpjcP

 

The International Committee of the Red Cross urges hospitalization of six Palestinian hunger strikers:  “We urge the detaining authorities to transfer all six detainees without delay to a suitable hospital so that their condition can be continuously monitored,” Juan Pedro Schaerer, the head of the ICRC’s delegation in the occupied territories, said on Tuesday. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/240203.html

 

Israel to revive razing of homes as form of collective punishment:  Israel is planning to revive a controversial form of collective punishment by razing the family homes of two Palestinians convicted of murdering Jewish settlers in the West Bank. http://tgr.ph/IHAF6C

 

Clinton Defends Israel in India:  “Clinton’s defending Israel may be an attempt to gain favor with Jewish voters in the elections this November. President Barack Obama has come under fire for his policy on Israel. http://bit.ly/JcfvMy

 

Congressman Rothman: Nearly $1 Billion for Israel :  Today, I am proud to announce that $947 million has been appropriated toward Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow for the coming year. These rocket and missile defense systems allow Israel the ability to protect its civilians while giving its leaders the strategic space and time to take the appropriate action to root out terrorists and carefully plan their next steps. http://bit.ly/JPPPXl

 

Expanding Empire: U.S. Seeks Faster Deployment:  U.S. military leaders have developed new proposals to speed the deployment of elite American special-operations forces to a growing number of the world’s trouble spots, advancing the Obama administration’s emerging approach to armed involvement abroad. http://on.wsj.com/KGl5o6

 

Julian Assange’s The World Tomorrow: Nabeel Rajab & Alaa Abd El-Fattah:  Julian Assange speaks with two leading Arab revolutionaries in the middle of conflict, Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt and Nabeel Rajab from Bahrain. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31273.htm

 

US files charges against American who alleged torture:  The U.S. government has issued an arrest warrant for an American citizen who is seeking asylum in Sweden after he went public with allegations of illegal detention and torture while in the United Arab Emirates – which he believes was carried out at the behest of the FBI. http://on.msnbc.com/KSJg5o

 

Teens Jailed After Video Recording Police Investigation From Balcony:  Pearl Police, who charged up the stairs to arrest the teens and burst through their apartment door without a warrant after a shooting took place in the parking lot below, charged the teens with disorderly conduct. http://bit.ly/IHUv2k

 

Welcome to 1984:

Intelligent lights make up wireless network :  Some critics say this is nothing more than the watchful eye of big brother keeping track of your every moment. http://bit.ly/uuZ63R

 

Skynet: More eyes around Tucson:  Seeking an edge over the competition, KVOA-Channel 4 put together a network of remote-controlled HD cameras throughout the city to capture live footage of news as it occurs. http://bit.ly/IRMkyV

 

Army wants to monitor your computer activity:

The Army will soon shop for software pre-programmed to detect a user’s abnormal behavior and record it, catching malicious insiders in the act. http://bit.ly/J4Nypt

 

Good Riddence:

Nicolas Sarkozy Fades From French Political Scene:  Sarkozy becomes the first French one-term president since Valery Giscard d’Estaing lost his re-election bid in 1981. http://huff.to/JumteS

 

Germany to Greece: No austerity, no aid:  On Tuesday, the leader of the Left Coalition party, which benefited from rising anger over austerity to take second place in Sunday’s poll, declared Greece’s policy pledges under its EU/IMF rescue null and void. http://natpo.st/JcQC2Y

 

House GOP Plans To Cut 25 Percent From Programs ‘Directly Benefiting The Poor’, To Protect Military Budget:  The Republican-led House this week will takes up legislation to slice $261 billion from food stamps, Medicaid, social services and other programs for struggling Americans over the next decade to stave off more than $50 billion in military spending cuts scheduled to take effect next year. http://nyti.ms/IHYLPN

 

100 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have Jobs:  The federal government considers those Americans to be “not in the labor force” so they are not included in the unemployment rate. In fact, this is one of the key ways that the government manipulates the unemployment numbers. http://bit.ly/KMpDcF

 

The 86 million invisible unemploye: Chart:  Young people between 16 and 24 make up another fifth. More than half don’t have a college degree and more than two thirds are white. http://cnnmon.ie/K1M8wi

 

Many Fortune 500 Firms Pay Less in Income Taxes Than You:  American citizens collectively pay higher income tax rates than General Electric, Boeing, DuPont, and countless other companies. http://aol.it/Lxcxp4

 

Consumer Credit Soars As US Government Encourages Student, Car Loan Bubbles:

The total non-revolving debt is now $1.739 trillion: an all time record. As for the source of such debt? why the US government of course, in what is the supreme ponzi scheme http://bit.ly/KACJjf