21 November 2012 — Information Clearing House
Breaking News Gaza Ceasefire Agreed in Cairo
Ceasefire takes effect
By Aljazeera
Israel and Hamas agree to truce after eight days of attacks in which 162 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed. http://is.gd/XP9tr1
Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 7
By Stephen Lendman
Israeli guarantees aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Don’t expect this time to be different. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33105.htm
How Many Children will Israel Be Allowed To Slaughter?
By Stuart Littlewood
America and Britain snigger and carry on handing out rewards to the psychopaths. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33107.htm
It’s Palestinians Who Have the Right to Defend Themselves
By Seumas Milne
To portray Israel as some kind of victim with every right to “defend itself” from attack from “outside its borders” is a grotesque inversion of reality. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33110.htm
The ‘Both-sides-are-awful’ Dismissal of Gaza Ignores the Key Role of the US Government
By Glenn Greenwald
For years now, US financial, military and diplomatic support of Israel has been the central enabling force driving this endless conflict. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33109.htm
Jimmy Carter: ‘Israelis’ Policy Is to Confiscate Palestinian Territory’
By Elisabeth Braw
Israel’s leaders don’t want a Palestinian state: Carter http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33116.htm
MSNBC’s Disgrace: In Five Hours of Prime Time, Fifteen Minutes on Israel-Gaza
By Greg Mitchell
None of MSNBC’s five prime-time, liberal, hosts last night or their guests would utter a single word critical of Israel in the current conflict with Gaza. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33108.htm
Is Israel’s Gaza Assault Laying the Groundwork for an Attack on Iran?
By Moran Stern
Beyond neutralizing Hamas, the current operation is helpful in other ways in preparing for an Iran attack. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33106.htm
IAEA Data on Sensitive Iranian Stockpile Mislead News Media
By Gareth Porter
The latest round of media coverage of the Iran issue again highlights the failure of major news outlets to reflect the complexity and political subtleties of the Iranian enrichment programme. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33117.htm
Our Governments Good Intentions?
“America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy”
By William Blum
The Truth About U.S. Foreign Policy and Everything Else. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33104.htm
Where’s the News?:
World Bank Warns Globe Could be Cooked by 2060
By Dave Lindorff
The World Bank is predicting catastrophe for billions of people and for life on this entire planet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33113.htm
California Gets Face Scanners To Spy On Everyone At Once
By RT
Imagine the police taking a picture: any picture of a person, anywhere, and matching it on the spot in less than a second to a personalized profile – in Southern California it’s already happening. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33112.htm
Bionic Mannequins Spy on Shoppers
Video
Store mannequins are meant to catch your eye. Soon you may catch theirs. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33114.htm
More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before
By Elizabeth Flock
This Thanksgiving, 42.2 million Americans will be on food stamps, according to the Economic Policy Institute. This is roughly the size of the populations of California and Connecticut combined. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33115.htm
Black Friday Madness:
Tent Cities Set Up to Buy Consumer Crap
By John Galt
What kind of culture sets up “tent cities” in an effort to beat out their neighbors to see who can buy the latest garbage at the cheapest price? And probably on credit. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33111.htm
Dozens killed as Kurds, rebels clash in northern Syria: NGO:
Fresh fighting between Kurdish militiamen and Syrian rebels erupted on Tuesday in the northern Syria town of Ras al-Ain, where dozens have died since the new front in Syria‘s complex civil war opened last week.
Syria Kurdish leader rejects new opposition coalition:
A party that controls much of Syria‘s Kurdish region on Tuesday rejected the new opposition coalition, highlighting the deep divisions still remaining between the many Syrian armed groups 20 months into the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. http://is.gd/nFhV6k
Another 26 people killed as Israel continues attack on Gaza: :
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza, saying the attacks could not be considered self-defence. http://is.gd/e7MsQN
Israel bombs AFP’s Gaza office for second time, 3 Palestinian reporters killed in previous attacks: On Tuesday, two Israeli strikes killed three Palestinian journalists. The building housing AFP was hit in another attack later, and no casualties were reported. A Wednesday attack on AFP’s building killed a two-year-old child. http://is.gd/dqpDWu
Many injured in Tel Aviv bus explosion:
The blast shattered windows on the bus as it drove along a tree-lined street next to Israel’s huge defence ministry complex on Wednesday. http://is.gd/EcGj6d
Israel launches massive airstrikes on Gaza after Tel Aviv bombing (VIDEO): Israeli forces have launched numerous missile attacks on Gaza, killing at least 6 after a bomb struck a bus in Tel Aviv, injuring 16. It is the eighth day of Israel’s ‘Pillar of Defense’ campaign, which has killed over 130 Palestinians so far. https://rt.com/news/gaza-airstrikes-israel-eight-242/
Note: I have been unable to find evidence of this on any Iranian website: Iran supplied Hamas with Fajr-5 missile technology: Revolutionary Guards commander says his forces helped militant group in Gaza build missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv. http://is.gd/9TIHm6
Iran FM spokesman Mehmanparast refuses to confirm or deny supplying Hamas, Islamic Jihad with weapons.: When asked how the rockets had reached Gaza, Mehmanparast said that question should be asked to Israeli intelligence officials.
25 killed as Syrian army repels rebel attack on base: Syria‘s army repelled a rebel attack Wednesday on a military base at Sheikh Suleiman, 25 kilometres (15 miles) northwest of the city of Aleppo, and killed at least 25 insurgents, a watchdog said http://is.gd/TgT5qD
Syrian jets blast rebels in Damascus suburb: Heavy fighting also raged in other outskirts of the city in the most serious challenge to Assad’s seat of power in months. http://is.gd/Bk8WlY
Turkey Asks NATO For Missile Defense Against Syria: In a statement, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance would discuss the request “without delay.” http://is.gd/jWfrJu
Kurdish fighters gather in disputed Iraqi area, defying Baghdad decision to send extra forces: The commander of Kurdish forces dispatched fighters to a disputed northern area of Iraq Wednesday, as tensions mounted between Iraq‘s central government and the Kurdish-ruled autonomous region. http://is.gd/SgUN7L
Turkey PM accuses Baghdad of dragging Iraq to civil war: “The (Baghdad) regime wants to lead this (country) into a civil war,” Erdogan told reporters in Ankara before he left for Pakistan. http://is.gd/DfJr6V
5 killed in bomb attack on army vehicle in southwestern Pakistan:
Local police officials say at least four soldiers and a woman were killed in the deadly attack. http://is.gd/mtwai1
Two killed in suicide bomb attack near Kabul NATO base: A suicide bomber killed two Afghan guards outside a NATO-run compound in the main diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, Interior Ministry officials said, an attack that was quickly claimed by the Taliban. http://is.gd/wWn5Y9
Libya: Benghazi Security Chief Killed by Gunmen: Unknown gunmen have assassinated the temporary security director for the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in the latest violence to rock the city, state media reported Wednesday. http://is.gd/EkP08q
Mali: Tuareg rebels lose their last base in north: Islamist extremist rebels say they have pushed secular Tuareg fighters from Menaka, their last base in northern Mali. http://is.gd/nzLaoj
DR Congo soldiers surrender to rebels: Hundreds of soldiers and police surrender to M23 at a stadium in Goma after the group takes control of the city. http://is.gd/27hhzK
Russia Seeks Closer Military Ties With China: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday indicated Russia’s continuing interest in cooperation with China on defence sector issues. http://is.gd/1moLyF
US sides with Iran and N. Korea in record UN vote over the death penalty: A record 110 countries on Monday backed a resolution calling for the abolition of the death penalty.The United States, Japan, China, Iran, India, North Korea, Syria and Zimbabwe were among 39 countries to oppose the non-binding resolution in the assembly’s rights committee. Thirty-six countries abstained. http://is.gd/8XRuq0
Report: French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy’s computers: The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyber-warfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l’Express.
Homeland Security Wants to More Than Double Its Predator Drone Fleet Inside the US:
Drones pose a multitude of privacy concerns to all Americans, as the Congressional Research Service detailed. The report explains drones can be equipped with, among other capabilities, facial recognition technology, fake cell phone towers to intercept phone calls, texts and GPS locations, and in a few years, will even be able to see through walls. http://is.gd/PZUIY3
Wal-Mart Accused of Threatening Workers With Retaliation Ahead of Black Friday Protests : Wal-Mart workers across the country are planning to stage unprecedented walkouts and protests on Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. http://is.gd/GYeJ7A
Students march in London protest: Thousands of students have marched through London to protest against the rising costs of university and further education. It was the first national student protest since a wave of unrest over tuition fees two years ago http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20412792
Morgan Stanley’s Recession Doom Scenario: The global economy is likely to be stuck in the “twilight zone” of sluggish growth in 2013, Morgan Stanley has warned, but if policymakers fail to act, it could get a lot worse.http://is.gd/2gmuGV
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 : 3,230
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,395,297,181,018
The New Dark Age 
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