February 2013
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UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay: “Pretext-maker” for Western Military Aggression By Ken Stone
Navi Pillay is up to her old tricks: she’s abusing her position as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide a pretext for imperial aggression against Syria. Today, February 18, 2013, she repeated her call for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to be referred for investigation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the… Continue reading
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Secret Memo by Donald Rumsfeld Proves Iraq War Started On False Pretenses
Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – just said that Powell knew that there were no WMDs: I wonder what will happen when we put 500,000 troops into Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and find nothing Continue reading
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Imperial Jockeying in Africa: U.S. Intervention Sets to Deepen By Ben Schreiner
According to U.S. intelligence officials, however, AQIM “remains mainly a regional menace,” with “no capacity” to launch attacks within the U.S. Even so, the Pentagon continues to move closer to directly targeting AQIM targets. Continue reading
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ICH 19 February 2013: Paul Craig Roberts: America Shamed Again: A Colonized People
19 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Hysteria Over Kim’s Nukes By Eric Margolis While everyone was fulminating against the wicked North Koreans, there was barely any mention of US-South Korean-Australian war games near North Korea that Pyongyang claimed were training for a US-led invasion. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34016.htm Continue reading
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The Children of Iraq: “Was the Price Worth It?” By Bie Kentane
Behind all these data, figures and numbers that I will present to you, are children with a name, a personality, they are sisters, brothers, daughters, a son, a grandchild, a friend. I regret to have to put them in tables and categories, each of them , so vulnerable and fragile, they became the victim of… Continue reading
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GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter
It’s apparent that, as the academic David Harvey states, the problems created by capitalism don’t get solved, they just get shifted around. Nowhere is this epitomized more clearly than the role of US agribusiness in India. Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Media and the Keystone March
Tens of thousands of climate activists marched in Washington D.C.on February 17. Did the corporate media notice them? Continue reading
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US-Saudi Funded Terrorists Sowing Chaos in Pakistan By Tony CARTALUCCI
Baluchistan, Pakistan – long target of Western geopolitical interests, terror wave coincides with Gwadar Port handover to China. Continue reading
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David Murray Quartet: ' Morning Song'
David Murray performing live at Village Vanguard in New York in 1986 with David Murray (tenor sax), Ed Blackwell (drums), John Hicks (piano), and Fred Hopkins (bass). Continue reading
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Al Qaeda: The Database By Pierre-Henri Bunel
This article originally published by Global Research in 2005 sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries, while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy, which threatens the security of the Western World. Continue reading
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The Moral Decoding of 9-11: Beyond the U.S. Criminal State, The Grand Plan for a New World Order By Prof. John McMurtry
I was sceptical of the 9-11 event from the first time I saw it on television. It was on every major network within minutes. All the guilty parties were declared before any evidence was shown.The first questions of any criminal investigation were erased. Who had the most compelling motives for the event? Who had the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 February 2013: Palestinians fleeing Syria bombed by Israel in Gaza
18 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Admits Using Private Palestinian Lands In Kibbutz MeiravIMEMC – The so-called “Israel’s Lands Administration” acknowledged that privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank’s Northern Plains have been used for the expansion of the Kibbutz Meirav, located within the Green Line. … Continue reading
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ICH 18 February 2013: Will Humanity Survive Obama’s Second Term?
18 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Upcoming Iranian Nuclear Talks Humanity May Not Survive Obama’s Second TermBy Stephen LendmanTehran’s nuclear program isn’t at issue. It’s red herring cover for imperial aims. It’s the oil, stupid, and regional dominance. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34004.htm Continue reading
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NYT Rewrites a (formerly) Accurate Occupation Headline By Peter Hart
Non-violent protesters came up with a novel way to protest Israeli plans to build more settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank: They occupied the land themselves. The Bab Al Shams tents went up on Friday on privately owned Palestinian land in what Israel designates as the E1 part of the West Bank. Israel’s announcement… Continue reading
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War in Mali: France in Africa – Fifth Republic or Third Empire? By Dmitry Minin
Paris has its own history of meddling into affairs of former French West African colonies, Cote D’Ivoire, for instance. The black continent (Libya, Mali) interventions have increased in scale and have become more frequent. It has given a rise to talks about the revival of French colonial policy. Continue reading
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War in Mali: France in Africa – Fifth Republic or Third Empire? By Dmitry Minin
Paris has its own history of meddling into affairs of former French West African colonies, Cote D’Ivoire, for instance. The black continent (Libya, Mali) interventions have increased in scale and have become more frequent. It has given a rise to talks about the revival of French colonial policy. Continue reading
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ICH 17 February 2013: JFK secretly freed rapists, drug dealers and Mafia hitmen to kill Castro
17 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Mali, Algeria, Libya and the New Front Line In ‘Energy Diplomacy’ By Patrick Kane The reality of the never-ending War on Terror is that it is integrally bound up with an imperialistic drive for resources. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33987.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 February 2013: Prisoner in Israeli isolation for 2 years ‘forgets speech’
17 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center ‘Anonymous’ hacks 600,000 Israeli email accountsIMEMC – In the latest action targeting Israel, the international computer hacking network known as ‘Anonymous’ has claimed credit for publishing the personal information, including encrypted passwords, of over 600,000 Israelis as part of its ‘Operation Israel (#OpIsrael) on Friday. … Continue reading
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ICH 16 February 2013: The Great Wealth Robbery
16 February 2013 — Information Clearing House What The Syrian Death Tolls Really Tell Us By Sharmine Narwani The latest UN-sponsored figure of 60,000 should not be reported as fact. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33980.htm Continue reading