17 August 2012 — Information Clearing House
New Evidence Shows: US Cover-Up of Murdered Civilians
By Gareth Porter
The majority of the deaths in the drone war in Pakistan have been civilian noncombatants – not “militants,” as the Obama administration has claimed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32211.htm
Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War
By Nick Turse
The US has been training, advising and conducting joint exercises all over the world with “proxy war on its mind”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32210.htm
Latest UN Syria Report Compiled by Washington Think-Tanker
By Tony Cartalucci
Collections of “interviews” conducted abroad and “in the field” shape latest UN report – compiled by US corporate-financier representative Karen Koning AbuZayd.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32219.htm
Saudi Shame on Islamic World
By Finian Cunningham
At the OIC summit, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in particular have arrogated the banner of the Muslim world, when in truth they are the unseemly standard bearers for imperialist butchery in the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32215.htm
Have They No Shame?
NY State Senator Puts on Israeli Uniform to Play Soldier on Syrian Border
By Philip Weiss
The office of NY state senator David Storobin, a Republican running for reelection, sent out this photograph today of the senator in the occupied Golan Heights, on the Syrian border.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32213.htm
Diplomatic Cables Reveal Australia Expects U.S. to Charge Assange
By Stephen C. Webster
Declassified diplomatic cables from Australia’s embassy in Washington D.C., reveal that Australian officials have already begun laying the groundwork for the U.S. to pursue charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32220.htm
Ecuador President Rafael “We Are Not A Colony”
Correa Stands Up To The Jackbooted British Gestapo
By Paul Craig Roberts
Pushed by their Washington overlords, the Brits have resorted to the tactics of a pariah state. Maybe we should be worried about British nuclear weapons.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32218.htm
Imperial Affront: Ecuador Will Face US Wrath for Asylum Decision
By Chris Floyd
Great harm has been done to the pride of the puffed–up poltroons who strut and preen atop the imperial battlements, thinking themselves the lords of all the earth and the apple of every little peon’s eye.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32216.htm
Assange or Corzine?
Priorities are a bitch.
By Aziz
The United States won’t prosecute Corzine for raiding segregated customer accounts, but will happily convene a Grand Jury in preparation for prosecuting Julian Assange for exposing the truth about war crimes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32214.htm
Ryan’s Budget: Right in Your Face, America!
By Ralph Nader
The Ryan budget plan is a Koch brothers’ dream and the American peoples’ nightmare.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32209.htm
Beneath the Bottom of the Barrel
By William Rivers Pitt
Almost half of middle-class workers, 49 percent, will be poor or near poor in retirement, living on a food budget of about $5 a day.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32212.htm
Dead Woman Working:
American Dream Died Long Ago
By Donna Smith
I look at my bank account every day, wonder how long it will hold out, and pray to die with at least enough to have cremation funds available. Some American dream, eh?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32208.htm
Barry McGuire:Eve Of Destruction
Video
Don’t you understand what I’m tryin’ to say. Can’t you feel the fears I’m feelin’ today?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32207.htm
Iraqi attacks kill close to 100:
The attacks began early on Thursday in the north of Iraq and ended with deadly bomb explosions near busy markets, restaurants and ice-cream parlours shortly before midnight.
Union says 36 killed in clash at S. Africa mine:
Dozens of people were killed after South African police opened fire on hundreds of workers on a wildcat strike at a platinum mine, in the deadliest day of protest since apartheid.
Two US occupation force troops killed by Afghan policemen:
Two Afghan security personnel opened fire on Western colleagues Friday, killing two US soldiers and causing a number of other casualties in two separate attacks, the military said.
Taliban infiltrated police – Omar:
Omar said Afghan security forces were assisting Taliban fighters who infiltrate their ranks, kill foreign troops and then carry their government-issued weapons back to insurgent camps.
NATO occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan in roadside bomb blast:
The death brought the number of international troops killed on Thursday to eight.
Have Obama and Romney Forgotten Afghanistan?: Op-Ed –
How’s this for a conspiracy of silence? With less than three months to go until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have successfully avoided saying almost anything about America‘s war in Afghanistan. Remember that war? You will at some point, however little the two candidates talk about it.
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria:
Securing Syria chemical weapons may take tens of thousands of troops:
As many as 50,000 or 60,000 ground forces may be needed if officials’ worst fears are realized, plus additional support forces.
Algerian Lakhdar Brahimi appointed new UN Syria envoy:
The 78-year-old will succeed Kofi Annan, who resigned earlier this month after his six-point peace plan failed to achieve a meaningful ceasefire.
Iran is simply not afraid of the United States, says Israel’s former military intelligence chief:
As Israel agonizes over whether to let its military option lapse, it needs more indications of US commitment to use force if necessary
Israel Fires Shells Into Lebanon:
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, Israeli troops fired a total of three shells at the Lebanese civilians, who were on the way back from Quds day, an event conceived by Iran’s former supreme Ayatollah Khomeini that celebrates the Palestinian nation and opposes Israel‘s control of Jerusalem.
“Death to the Arabs.”: Jerusalem ‘Lynching’ Raises Specter Of Israeli Racism: :
Two separate attacks on Palestinians civilians Friday morning raise serious questions about rising anti-Palestinian racism among Israeli youth. In the first incident, a mob of Israeli Jewish youth surrounded three Palestinians walking in Jerusalem’s Zion Square and assaulted them, yelling racist slogans including “Death to the Arabs.”
Libya is now Hell – Video –
A Green Libyan Soldier Speaks (He was wounded during the war) – The blurring of identity is necessary for fear of retribution to family.
US in pursuit of Assange, cables reveal:
AUSTRALIAN diplomats have no doubt the United States is still gunning for Julian Assange, according to Foreign Affairs Department documents obtained by The Saturday Age.
Russia issues warning to Britain over Assange:
Russia on Friday warned Britain against violating fundamental diplomatic principles after London suggested it could arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside Ecuador‘s embassy.
WikiLeaks: Julian Assange will take Britain to the ‘World Court’:
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will take Britain to the United Nation’s International Court of Justice if it refuses to grant him safe passage to Ecuador, his lawyer said.
Virus emergency declared in Texas:
Mayor of Dallas city announces emergency after mosquito-borne West Nile virus claims 17 lives.
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: 4,883
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,146
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,363,496,049,256
The New Dark Age 