31 December 2012 — Information Clearing House
Syria Swings Between Hell and Dialogue
By Ismail Salami
Lakhdar Brahimi has predicted 100,000 people could be killed “in the next year as Syria moves toward Somalization and rule by warlords.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33480.htm
31 December, 2012 — Global Research
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky
In this expanded edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all parts of the world show so convincingly, is a globalization of poverty.
28 December 2012 — Dissident Voice
FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
New documents obtained from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security by the Partnership for Civil Justice and released this past week show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
31 December 2012 — Global Research News – Rossiya 24
This exclusive documentary by Russian TV station, Rossiya 24, is a “must watch” as it gives a very good insight on the events that have been taking place in Syria since 2011. It shows how both the Syrian Army and the Syria people are defending their country Syria from the unimaginable crimes committed by extremist terrorists who operate with massive international media, military, intelligence, and financial support, a situation that no one would ever want to be in.
Warning: Contains graphic footage, 18+, not for shock, aimed only at documenting events in Syria and crimes of FSA terrorists. Continue reading
30 December 2012 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Soldier, Settler, Injured In Two Separate Incidents
IMEMC – Israeli media sources reported on Saturday evening that an Israeli soldier and a settler have been injured in two separate incidents after Palestinian youths hurled stones at them. …
30 December 2012 — Information Clearing House
Brahimi Says Has Syria Plan All World Powers May Back
By AFP
Lavrov said both he and Brahimi agreed there was hope for a solution as long as world powers put pressure on both sides.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33473.htm
012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EU: European Parliament study: Evaluating current and forthcoming proposals on JHA databases and a smart borders system at EU external borders
2. EU: Council of the European Union: Exchange of EU classified information (EUCI) with third States and international organisations
3. Council of Europe: Human Rights Commissioner: Restrictions on defenders of migrants’ rights should stop
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18 December, 2011 — Salon
As the army private’s hearing begins, this harrowing short imagines his detention
Director Kyle Broom wanted to take “Prevention of Injury (POI)” through the film festival circuit just like every other independent filmmaker, but this 20-minute film has the burden of being about something. The film’s main character is doesn’t have a name. He’s referred to in the credits only as “The Detainee.” Continue reading
18 December, 2011 — Salon
As the army private’s hearing begins, this harrowing short imagines his detention
Director Kyle Broom wanted to take “Prevention of Injury (POI)” through the film festival circuit just like every other independent filmmaker, but this 20-minute film has the burden of being about something. The film’s main character is doesn’t have a name. He’s referred to in the credits only as “The Detainee.” Continue reading
29 December 2012 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Three Children Sentenced To 4 Months Each
IMEMC – The Palestinian Detainees Studies Center reported that the Israeli Salem military court sentenced three Palestinian children from Azzoun town near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, to four months imprisonment each. …
29 December 2012 — Information Clearing House
US Kills 12 Civilians and Destroys a Community.
By Letta Tayler
A torched woman clutched her daughter in a lifeless embrace. Four severed heads littered the pavement. “The bodies were charred like coal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33462.htm
29 December, 2012 — Global Research
After two years of escalating civil war, the people of Syria confront a humanitarian catastrophe, with an estimated four million people—roughly 20 percent of the population—lacking adequate food and shelter. Hundreds of thousands have left for refugee camps in neighboring countries, and as many as three million are displaced within Syria itself.
28 December, 2012 — Global Research
UN “peace envoy” Lakhdar Brahimi is attempting to broker a transitional government ahead of proposed elections in Syria. For Brahimi, his efforts are not only in vain, they are entirely disingenuous. The proposal of a “transitional government” in the midst of what is in fact a foreign invasion, funded, armed, and perpetuated openly by foreign interests violates both Syria’s sovereignty and the UN’s own founding charter.
29 December 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation
A Thirty year plan accomplished in fifteen years
The passing of 2012, among other things, was marked by a publication of fundamental importance, in terms of understanding the processes occurring in the world and the U.S., the book by Zbigniew Brzezinski «Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power» (1). Continue reading
28 December 2012 — WSWS
012 World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT-12) in Dubai collapsed on Friday, December 14 after the United States delegation walked out and refused to sign the new International Telecommunications Union (ITU) treaty. Western allies including the UK, France, Germany, Australia and Canada joined the US. Continue reading
29 December 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation
29.12.2012 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ
The passing of 2012, among other things, was marked by a publication of fundamental importance, in terms of understanding the processes occurring in the world and the U.S., the book by Zbigniew Brzezinski «Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power» (1). Continue reading
28 December 2012 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Security video of killing of Hebron circus student shows claim of ‘toy gun’ fraudulent
IMEMC – An Israeli security video recently leaked to the media shows that a Palestinian teenager who was killed at a checkpoint on December 12th was actually walking away from soldiers when he was shot in the back. The video shows absolutely no indication of the boy carrying any object that could be mistaken for a gun, as the Israeli military originally claimed. …
28 December 2012 — Michael Hudson
How today’s fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I’s economic misunderstandings
When World War I broke out in August 1914, economists on both sides forecast that hostilities could not last more than about six months. Wars had grown so expensive that governments quickly would run out of money. It seemed that if Germany could not defeat France by springtime, the Allied and Central Powers would run out of savings and reach what today is called a fiscal cliff and be forced to negotiate a peace agreement.
But the Great War dragged on for four destructive years. European governments did what the United States had done after the Civil War broke out in 1861 when the Treasury printed greenbacks. They paid for more fighting simply by printing their own money. Their economies did not buckle and there was no major inflation. That would happen only after the war ended, as a result of Germany trying to pay reparations in foreign currency. This is what caused its exchange rate to plunge, raising import prices and hence domestic prices. The culprit was not government spending on the war itself (much less on social programs).
28 December, 2012 — Global Research – Pravda
Well congratulations Messrs. Obama, Cameron and Hollande, and your Foreign Department sidekicks Hillary Clinton, Laurent Fabius and William Hague. Your terrorists in Syria have managed to use chemical weapons against government forces, something you were warning President Assad against doing. Well, well, how the tables turn.
28 December 2012 — Washington’s Blog
Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge.
But after we – and others – slammed the censorship, the activists’ accounts have been reinstated. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 