September 2012
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ICH 20 September 2012: “They” Hate Us Because We Bomb Them
20 September 2012 — Information Clearing House Italy Upholds Rendition Convictions For 23 Americans By Andrea Vogt and agencies Rome Ruling is world’s first judicial review of CIA practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32503.htm Continue reading
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ICH 19 September 2012: ‘If I Were a Fanatic I’d Let Off Nuclear Bomb in Chicago’: Romney
19 September 2012 — Information Clearing House ‘If I Were a Fanatic I’d Let Off Nuclear Bomb in Chicago’: Romney Video Romney brands Iran ‘crazy people’ in new secretly filmed outburst. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32487.htm Continue reading
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Men Behaving Badly By Moustafa Bayoumi
Here we go again. A preposterous provocation easily manages to ignite fevered protests in Muslim-majority countries around the world, and everyone is worse off as a result. The episode is playing like a sequel to the 2005 Danish cartoon controversy, but with bigger and better explosions than the original. Continue reading
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Video: Anti-Austerity Protests and Strikes Rock Spain
Spain’s struggling public sector workers and the unemployed converged on Spain’s capitol to denounce their governments decision to implement deeper spending cuts. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Why Are We The Good Guys? By David Cromwell
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that ‘the West’… Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 14 September 2012: 95% of Gaza groundwater ‘not fit for human use’
14 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protesters Injured In Bil’in’s Weekly ProtestIMEMC – Dozens of residents, and a number of International peace activists, marched towards the Annexation Wall, isolating the villagers from their lands, and were attacked by dozens of Israeli soldiers who fired gas bombs at them, and waste-water mixed with Continue reading
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NSA: Jimmy Carter’s Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
The National Security Archive is today posting – for the first time in its essentially complete form – one of the most controversial nuclear policy directives of the Cold War. Presidential Directive 59 (PD-59), “Nuclear Weapons Employment Policy,” signed by President Jimmy Carter on 25 July 1980, aimed at giving U.S. Presidents more flexibility in… Continue reading
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Video: Unearthing the Truth About the Bloodletting War on Drugs: Militarization and Economic Domination
Tens of thousands have died in Mexico (recent estimates, which will be discussed in a forthcoming Truthout article, indicate that the homicide total under the six year rule of Felipe Calderon may reach 120,000) and in other Latin American nations. As far as stopping drug flow goes, the war on drugs in Latin America is… Continue reading
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Dagestan—‘Syria comes to Russia…’ By William Engdahl
On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device. Continue reading
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Brought to You by…Big Oil?
The Washington Post had a two-page spread in its September 11 edition devoted to a “debate” on energy policy. But industry critics were missing from the picture. Why? Perhaps because the oil industry, undisclosed to Post readers, was sponsoring the discussion. Continue reading
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US-Backed Terrorists Murder US Ambassador in Libya By Tony Cartalucci
McCain’s “Libyan patriots” have now murdered US Ambassador John Christopher Stevens in the very city McCain spoke these words. An assault on the American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the epicenter of not only last year’s violent subversion and destruction of sovereign Libya, but a decade’s old epicenter of global terrorism, left Ambassador… Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 13 September 2012: Israel Seeks Expansion Of 40 Settlements
13 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center After Seeing Video Footage, Judge Orders Release Of Palestinian DetaineeIMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that an Israeli Military Court Judge ordered the release of a Palestinian man who kidnapped and detained by the Israeli army three weeks ago, in the southern West Bank city of Continue reading
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ICH 13 September 2012: The Great Islamophobic Crusade
13 September 2012 — Information Clearing House The Provocateurs Know Politics and Religion Don’t Mix By Robert Fisk It only takes a couple of loonies a few seconds to kick off a miniature war in the Muslim world. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32433.htm Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 12 September 2012: Report: Israeli filmmaker says ‘Islam is a cancer’
12 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Only Immediate Intervention Will Save The Lives Of Three Palestinian Hunger StrikersIMEMC – Press Release Ramallah, 12 September 2012 – Addameer is deeply concerned that the lives of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prison are in immediate danger as their prolonged hunger strikes Continue reading
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ICH 12 September 2012: The Pauperization Of America
12 September 2012 — Information Clearing House Al-Qaeda Now a US Ally in Syria By Joseph Wakim Syrian citizens who prefer the secular and stable state to the prospect of an Iraqi-style sectarian state may well be turning this same question around to the US government: are you with us, or with the terrorists? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32424.htm Continue reading
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Video: Pressure Put on Manning to Implicate Assange
Michael Ratner: As Wikileaks Founder Nears 100 Days in Ecuadorian Embassy Sweden’s refusal to interview Assange in London suggests they are working with US towards extradition Continue reading
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Target Iran: Drawing Red Lines in the Sand By William J Cox
The book contains a history of Iran and its conflict with the United States and Israel over its uranium enrichment program, a discussion of the likelihood of war between the parties and a peaceful solution that offers a comprehensive nuclear weapons policy for all nations. Continue reading
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Israel on the Offensive In Bid To Press President Obama To Attack Iran By Danny Schechter
Using an exaggerated if fictive Iranian threat to create nuclear weapons as their pretext, Israeli politicians are blatantly and publicly inserting themselves in America’s Presidential elections, demanding that President Obama do their bidding by articulating so-called “red lines” to further threaten Tehran. Continue reading
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The Unanswered Questions of 9/11 By James Corbett
The questions of 9/11 have only continued to pile up higher since that fateful day, and despite official platitudes we are no closer to having those questions answered today then we were when they first arose. In fact, for some of the most important 9/11 questions, the government’s own documents and records that could conceivably… Continue reading
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TIFF: Cultural Starwars By Eric Walberg
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival highlights the new direction in filmmaking: Iran is the enemy du jour, but at the same time it is not longer kosher to praise everything Israel does, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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