The New Dark Age

11 May 2012 — Information Clearing House

“U.S. Military Taught Officers:

Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam,”

By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman

“The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a ‘total war’ against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists”  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31290.htm

Extremists Ravaging Syria Created by US in 2007

By Tony Cartalucci

US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel funded and have backed regional army of Sunni terrorists since 2007 specifically to overthrow Syria and Iran.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31293.htm

 

King Bibi Rules Supreme

By Uri Avnery

Dirty tricks are the usual trade of politicians, and this one is no dirtier than many others.  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31296.htm

 

Does The West Have A Future?

By Paul Craig Roberts

The new tyranny is arising in the West, not in Russia and China. The danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office and in the brainwashed and militant Amerikan population, the most totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth.  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31289.htm

 

Underwear Bomb Seizure Being ‘Exploited’ By FBI

Urges Restoration of Searches Without Warrants

By News Agencies

“We also remain concerned about the threat from homegrown violent extremists.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31286.htm

 

Overhyped Terror Plots and Government Entrapment

The Spectacle of Terror and its Vested Interests

By Naomi Wolf

The news stories, which quickly surface, long enough to cause scary headlines, then vanish before people can learn how often the cases are thrown out.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31299.htm

 

War Criminal Admits He Destroyed Torture Evidence

‘Vomiting and Screaming’ in Destroyed Waterboarding Tapes

By Peter Taylor

“Portions of the tapes, particularly those of Zubaydah being waterboarded, were extraordinarily hard to watch,” Rizzo told me.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31288.htm

 

60 Minutes Producer: “The Nazis Did A Lot Of This”

By Andrew Sullivan

There are a couple of things worth knowing about Jose Rodriguez: that he is a war criminal and that he destroyed the evidence that would prove it without a doubt. The third thing you need to know is that he has no shame about any of this, and intends to make money off it.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31291.htm

 

Bush Found Guilty Of War Crimes

By Yvonne Ridley

In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were today (Friday) found guilty of war crimes.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31297.htm

 

How Soon Do Empires Forget The Lessons of History!

The 67th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi-Fascism

By Fidel Castro

No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31294.htm

 

Is The United States An Accidental Empire?

By The Globalist

The United States was born out of a struggle against an imperial power. Beginning in the 1840s – seven decades after its founding – it embarked on a succession of “wars of choice” that were profoundly at odds with its founding principles and left it with an empire of its own.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31287.htm

 

Guns Or Butter?

House Votes to Stop Pentagon Cuts, Cuts Social Programs Instead

By ANDREW TAYLOR

Turning their budget knife to domestic programs to protect the Pentagon, House Republicans on Thursday approved legislation cutting food stamps, benefits for federal workers and social services programs like day care for children and Meals on Wheels for the elderly.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31295.htm

 

Unfathomable Stupidity

TSA ‘Terror Baby’ Crackdown

Video

The TSA detains an eighteen month old for questioning.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31292.htm

 

Hollande in Retreat

Backpeddling In France

By Mike Whitney

There’s no better way to endear oneself to big finance than by taking the crusts out of old people’s mouths.  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31298.htm

 

Jamie’s Cryin:

Dimon, J.P. Morgan Chase Lose $2 Billion

By Matt Taibbi

If you’re wondering why you should care if some idiot trader (who apparently has been making $100 million a year at Chase, a company that has been the recipient of at least $390 billion in emergency Fed loans) loses $2 billion for Jamie Dimon, here’s why:  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31300.htm

 

Syria: 70 killed in huge Damascus explosions:  Human remains and badly burned bodies littered the streets after the explosions, which also destroyed as many as 40 cars and pickup trucks. Syrian Ministry of Interior says 70 people were killed by the explosions, including 15 whose bodies were completely torn apart. http://cbsn.ws/Je0nis

 

Another bomb attack foiled – state TV:  The security forces killed the would-be bomber, who had 1,200kg (2,640lb) of explosives in the car. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18034160

 

Syria says attackers came from “well known” countries:  Syria‘s UN Ambassador did not name the countries in an address delivered to the 15-nation council, which was meeting on international terrorism. But he had been accusing Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and also al Qaeda, for assisting the armed opposition in Syria. http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/2024521.html

 

Syria envoy says British, French, Belgian fighters killed:  Syria‘s UN envoy said Thursday that British, French and Belgian nationals were among foreign fighters killed in the country’s mounting conflict and that there was Al-Qaeda involvement. http://natpo.st/J5msfD

 

Believe It Or Not!:

Syrian Opposition’s Turn to Violence Creates U.S. Dilemma:  Syria‘s deadliest bombing to date highlights the Obama administration’s dilemma as foes of President Bashar al-Assad increasingly adopt tactics the U.S. and its allies have condemned as terrorism. http://bloom.bg/KUpiof

 

Turkey says still possible to invoke NATO’s Article 5 over Syria tension:

The possibility of invoking the right to military protection of Turkish borders against threats from Syria under Article 5 of the NATO charter is still on Turkey’s agenda, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said. http://bit.ly/JgrzzT

 

Regime change:

Kerry: Time to consider safe zones and arming the opposition in Syria:  The United States needs to do more to protect civilians in Syria, including considering setting up safe zones inside Syria and potentially arming the opposition, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA) told The Cable in an interview Tuesday http://bit.ly/JecOs2

 

Somalia: Rebels Killed in Clash:  Ethiopian troops and Somali government forces killed 17 Shabab rebels on Thursday after the rebels blocked a road in southern Somalia and stole supplies from passing trucks, said Mohamed Abdi Mayow, the governor of the Bakool region. http://nyti.ms/IYSajQ

 

US kills eight “militants” in Yemen:  “We heard three explosions rock the town” he said, adding that a “US drone” carried out the strikes on a residence where they had been meeting. “Eight militants were killed and their bodies were left in pieces,” the source told AFP http://bit.ly/JjP2A7

 

Undercover agent in al-Qaeda bomb plot ‘was British’:

As well as reporting that the secret agent was a British citizen, NBC News in the US also says UK intelligence agencies were “heavily involved” in his recruitment. http://on.msnbc.com/J4jOqs

 

Bodies of 7 men found in Fallujah:  Authorities found the corpses of seven men – all handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head – in a desert area of central Iraq on Thursday, officials said. http://bit.ly/JGmK0H

 

4 killed in Afghan suicide attack:  Four people were killed and five wounded on Thursday when a group of six suicide bombers wearing police uniforms attempted to storm a government building in southeastern Afghanistan, police said. http://bit.ly/JiFaUx

 

Two NATO occupation force troops killed in Afghanistan:  The American was killed by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform in Eastern Afghanistan. http://bit.ly/J5Rtjl

 

012:  Hollande’s communications director, Manuel Valls, confirmed to the Telegraph on Monday that France will “announce the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan between now and the end of the year.” The announcement will take place at the NATO summit being held in Chicago on May 20 and 21. http://huff.to/Jc2jW7

 

UN says three Libya prisoners likely tortured to death:  Several prisoners likely were tortured to death at a detention center in Libya under government control, the United Nations said on Thursday as it urged the country to make stamping out such practices a top priority. http://bit.ly/IOwnGH

 

Libya moving to “democracy” through torture?:  Thousands of supporters of Colonel Gaddafi are being detained, with some tortured in secret prisons by revolutionary brigades, the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya says. Rights groups have already raised the alarm on torture in Libyan prisons. http://bit.ly/J4Pjk0

 

“U.S. Concerned” Netanyahu, Mofaz May Attack Iran:  U.S. worried that Israel‘s new unity government could result in an attack on Iran at any given moment. http://bit.ly/KuyFy1

 

UN ambassador, at Boca Raton synagogue, asserts U.S. solidarity with Israel:  The Obama administration is committed to preserving the “unshakeable bond” between the U.S. and Israel and preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, UN Ambassador Susan Rice told a crowd of about 500 at a synagogue west of Boca Raton. http://bit.ly/IOwuSL

 

Democracy For Sale!:

Super PAC Spending Teeters at $100 Million Mark:  A single super PAC, the pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future, has already spent more — $44.5 million — than all outside groups combined had spent by this point in 2008. http://bit.ly/KOyknf

 

Obama’s Embrace of Marriage Equality Is VERY Smart Politics:  Mitt Romney’s response to President Obama’s announcement of support for marriage equality has been so tone deaf and exploitive that I suspect even George Romney would be disappointed in the kid. http://bit.ly/ITK772

 

House panel OKs East Coast missile defense plan:  The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast, rejecting Pentagon arguments that the facility is unnecessary and Democratic complaints that the nearly $5 billion project amounts to wasteful spending in a time of tight budgets. http://bit.ly/JWVmHo

 

ACLU in Appeals Court Today for No Fly List Challenge: .

The ACLU represents 15 U.S. citizens and permanent residents, including four military veterans, who are banned from flying to or from the U.S. or over American airspace, causing great personal hardship. They have never been told why they are on the list or given a reasonable opportunity to get off it. http://bit.ly/J5bo1V

 

USAF Drones May Conduct “Incidental” Domestic Surveillance:  U.S. Air Force policy permits the incidental collection of domestic imagery by unmanned aerial systems (drones), but ordinarily would not allow targeted surveillance of a U.S. person. The Air Force policy was restated in a newly reissued instruction on oversight of Air Force intelligence. http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/05/usaf_drones.html

 

Spain Underplaying Bank Losses Faces Ireland Fate:  Spain, which yesterday took over Bankia SA, the nation’s third-largest lender, is mired in a double-dip recession that has driven unemployment above 24 percent and government borrowing costs to the highest level since the country adopted the euro http://bloom.bg/Kow74y

 

JPMorgan Chase acknowledges $2 billion trading loss and ‘many errors’:  JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, said Thursday that it lost $2 billion in the past six weeks in a trading portfolio designed to hedge against risks the company takes with its own money. http://bit.ly/KQjH2R

 

Fed clears China’s first US bank takeover:  The United States opened its banking market to China’s biggest bank ICBC, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. http://yhoo.it/KnPWcr 

     

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:  4,807

 

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,997

 

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan

Total Cost of Wars Since 2001

 $1,331,068,007,403    http://www.costofwar.com/