ICH 30/31 October 2012: Israel Lobby Calls for an ‘Iranian Pearl Harbor’

31 October 2012 Information Clearing House

 

Israel Lobby Calls for an ‘Iranian Pearl Harbor’

By Muhammad Sahimi

The War Party has revived the idea of creating the “right incident” for provoking a war with Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32891.htm

 

The Unfolding Human Catastrophe in Iran

By Muhammad Sahimi & Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

The sanctions are now in full force, and are hurting the same people who we were told were not meant to be their target, in what is yet another case of “collateral damage” inflicted by Western policy towards Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32894.htm

 

Regardless of Whether Obama or Romney Wins

America’s relations with the Arab World will change

By Robert Fisk

Obama sat cowed in his White House seat as the Israeli prime minister effectively told him that UN Security Council resolution 242 – the very basis of the non-existent “peace process” – was a non-starter.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32896.htm

 

Who Lost the World?

By Ira Chernus

The enduring power of a foreign policy myth that will not die, the decades-old idea that America has an inalienable right to “own” the world and control every place in it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32892.htm

 

Drone-Murders of Americans ‘Totally Right, Totally Constitutional’: Homeland Security Chairperson

Must WatchVideo

This 2-minute video from We Are Change Luke Rudkowski powerfully captures what US “leadership” has become.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32899.htm

 

Citizens’ Grand Jury Indicts Obama and Biden

PR Newswire

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden have been criminally indicted for having willfully released classified national security information concerning the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, U.S. and Israeli war plans concerning Iran and their cyber-attack on Iran‘s nuclear facilities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32897.htm

 

Drowning on Wall Street and Ending World War II

By David Swanson

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Countrywomen, let’s grow the fuck up. Stop blaming an imaginary being for a storm that you and your government produced.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32895.htm

 

The Virtual Recovery

By Paul Craig Roberts

Presstitutes spoon out the government’s propaganda.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32893.htm

 

U.S. Prosperity Slides in Index That Ranks Norway No. 1

By Simon Kennedy

The U.S. slid from the top ten most prosperous nations for the first time in a league table which ranked three Scandinavian nations the best for wealth and wellbeing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32898.htm

 

Two British occupation force soldiers killed in ‘green on blue’ Afghanistan attack:

Two British soldiers have been shot dead by a man wearing Afghan police uniform in what appeared to be the latest “green on blue” attack where a rogue member of the Afghan forces has killed his allies.

http://is.gd/kjumnL

 

Somalia’s General Farah killed in al-Shabab ambush:

The governor of the Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia said General Farah was killed along with four other soldiers in an ambush on Sunday.

http://is.gd/kjumnL

 

US: Iraqi audit points to huge money laundering:

American investigators say Iraqi auditors believe as much as $800 million in U.S. currency is being sent out of the country illegally each week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20120897

 

Syrian General assassinated in Damascus:

According to Syrian TV, General Abdullah Al-Khaledi, a senior officer at the Syrian Air Force, was killed Tuesday in Damascus. The television report said he was shot in one of the capital’s neighborhoods.

http://is.gd/DSmznn

 

UK blocks Russian condemnation of Syria terrorism:

The incident in question took place last Friday when unidentified terrorists detonated a bomb near a children’s playground in Damascus leaving several kids dead and several others injured.

http://is.gd/LzVLiw

 

Netanyahu: Iran strike will be good for Arabs:

Paris Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to convince Arab states that an Israeli military strike on Iran would benefit them, removing a potential threat and easing tensions across the Middle East.

http://is.gd/hDE8MM

 

Pentagon Nixed 1998 U.S. Nuclear Scientists’ Probe of Iranian Programme:

In 1998, the Defence Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S. nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear programme at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, according to the nuclear scientist who was organising the mission.

http://is.gd/au8ilg

 

Libya army has ‘no control’ in Bani Walid: defence minister:

“The town is completely empty except for a small number of people who are living in tragic conditions; there is no activity; the impact of shelling is visible everywhere,” the minister said.

http://is.gd/dPcUbE

 

Bahrain bans protests, public gatherings:

“All rallies and gatherings have been suspended and no public activity will be allowed until security and stability are achieved,” said Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Al Khalifa.

http://is.gd/WgzOyW

 

Kuwait arrests opposition leader ahead of mass protest:

Kuwaiti authorities arrested a prominent opposition figure over his criticism of the Gulf Arab state’s ruler. It came days before an expected mass rally protesting against a reform, which critics say undermines opposition political forces.

http://rt.com/news/kuwait-opposition-leader-arrested-561/

 

Birther-Linked Super PAC Runs Islamaphobic Ad Against Michigan Candidate:

In a stunning appeal to Islamaphobia, a group linked to former Swiftboater and birther conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has launched a smear attack ad on a Muslim-American Congressional candidate.

http://is.gd/lXvn9T

 

We Are All from New Orleans Now:

Climate Change, Hurricanes and the Fate of America‘s Coastal Cities

http://is.gd/18KxMu

 

Authorities start anti-looting campaign in the aftermath of Sandy:

Firefighters in Philadelphia rescued a man from the rubble of a three-story building brought down as Hurricane Sandy swept through the East Coast, only for authorities to arrest him immediately on suspicion of looting.

http://rt.com/usa/news/authorities-sandy-storm-philadelphia-597/

 

German joblessness rises as euro zone crisis bites:

German joblessness rose for a seventh month in a row in October, highlighting the vulnerability of Europe’s biggest economy to the euro zone crisis

http://is.gd/DtVG9E

 

Greece delays austerity vote, warns of ‘chaos’:

Greece‘s coalition government will delay a vote on major new austerity measures by another week, but warned Tuesday there would be financial “chaos” if a deal is not reached.

http://is.gd/pxPeUz

 

Greece gave birth to democracy. Now it has been cast out by a powerful elite:

An exclusive club of powerful people engages in illegal practices, then pushes through necessary laws to legalise these practices, granting itself an amnesty, and in the end, there are no media to uncover what really happened.

http://is.gd/O5niY8

 

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 : 3,213

 

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan

Total Cost of Wars Since 2001

 

$1,387,988,114,155

http://www.costofwar.com/



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