24 March 2013 — Information Clearing House
Obama Boosts Syria Support as Congress Pushes Military Intervention
By Samer Araabi
“The CIA is on the ground helping sort out who should get money, and they’re training people in Jordan.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34398.htm
Violence and Dignity – Reflections on the Middle East : Noam Chomsky
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Professor Noam Chomsky, delivering the 2013 Edward W Said Lecture:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34400.htm
Chavez Knew US Special Services Were After Him
By Nil Nikandrov
Hugo Chavez was not the man obsessed by the thought he was being followed and watched, that’s what the propaganda tried to make him look like.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34397.htm
“We Need The Truth”
US an ‘Orwellian State’
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Abby Martin talks to US Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, about the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war and other issues that set him aside from the average establishment politician.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34402.htm
WWIII Is Coming Soon & Here’s Why !
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We are on a road that leads straight to the World War 3, but in order to see that and to fully understand what is at stake you have to look at the big picture and connect the dots.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34399.htm
Cyprus Banks Impose ATM Withdrawal Limit of 100 Euros Per Day
By RT
A spokesman for the country’s second largest lender, Cyprus Popular Bank, said the new measure began at 1pm local time (11am GMT) and would remain in place until the bank reopens, or until confirmation of continued emergency funding from the European Central Bank.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34395.htm
The Battle of Cyprus
A Safe and a Shotgun or Publicly-owned Banks?
By Ellen Brown
The deposit confiscation scheme has long been in the making. US depositors could be next . .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34401.htm
Three (more) Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
By Jules Peck
Ever increasing economic growth (the rational for capitalism) long since ceased to bring increasing marginal returns to wellbeing. In the ‘rich world’ wellbeing has flat-lined since the 1970s.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34396.htm
Suspected Islamists kill 25 in northeast Nigeria – police:
The gunmen carried out four simultaneous assaults on Ganye in Adamawa state on Friday, opening fire on a bar, a bank, a prisoner warder and separately attacking a prison, Mohammed Ibrahim, police spokesman for the western Adamawa state said.
Two Suicide Bombers Killed, Four Arrested in Kano:
Kano city was saturday rocked by explosions, resulting in the death of two suicide bombers, who were blown up by their own explosives at the Eastern bye-pass in Hotoro quarters in Kano.
Clashes in Mali kill 7: Military sources:
At least seven people including two civilians have been killed in clashes between the Malian army and local fighters in northern Mali as the French-led war in the West African country rages on.
Islamists battle Malian army for second day in Gao:
Fierce fighting between Islamist rebels and Malian and French forces raged for a second day in the northern Malian town of Gao on Sunday, residents said.
Central African Republic president flees as rebels enter Bangui:
François Bozize leaves the capital as armed rebels seize presidential palace amid heavy gunfire
France sends 350 extra troops to Central African Republic: Official:
A first contingent of 200 troops arrived in Bangui on Saturday and 150 more were despatched Sunday from Libreville, the capital of Gabon, the source said. France now has nearly 600 troops in its notoriously unstable former colony.
French troops secure CAR capital airport:
Paris also calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting after rebels attacked Central African Republic‘s Bangui.
Egypt’s president says may move to protect nation:
Egypt’s president said on Sunday he may take unspecified measures to “protect this nation,” two days after supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood and the opposition clashed in Cairo.
Yemen clashes between Al-Qaeda, militiamen kill 9:
The officials said Sunday that pro-government fighters recaptured the town of Batis, north of the city of Jaar in Abyan province, after three days of fighting that left six militants and three pro-government militiamen dead. Seven were wounded and 11 Al-Qaeda members were captured.
Gunmen kill 3 guards of Huthi leader:
Gunmen in Yemen on Saturday killed three guards of a leader of the Huthi Shiite rebels who escaped the assassination bid in Sanaa where he is taking part in a national dialogue, witnesses said.
Secretary of State John Kerry warns Iraq on Iran flights to Syria:
The United States has made clear that Iraq shouldn’t allow Iran to use its airspace to ship weapons and fighters to Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry told reporters Sunday during an unannounced trip to Baghdad.
Syria chemical weapons: finger pointed at “rebels”:
There has been extensive experimentation by insurgents in Iraq in the use of chlorine, which is harmful when mixed with water to form hydrochloric acid
West Drops Syria WMD Narrative As Evidence Points to Western-Armed Terrorists:
A strange silence has fallen across the Western media regarding the chemical attack which Israel had even claimed to have “confirmed.”
Syria insurgents ‘refuse to recognise new rebel PM’:
“We in the Free Syrian Army do not recognise Ghassan Hitto as prime minister because the (main opposition) National Coalition did not reach a consensus,” at the March 18 vote, said FSA political and media coordinator Louay Muqdad.
Syrian opposition leader Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib resigns:
Mr Khatib’s resignation comes days after Ghassan Hitto was chosen as prime minister in rebel-held areas, an appointment that he is thought to have objected to.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21917630
Israel fires into Syria after alledged, Golan attack on troops:
Israel said it fired into Syria on Sunday and destroyed a machinegun position in the Golan Heights from where shots had been fired at Israeli soldiers in a further spillover of the Syrian civil war along a tense front.
Fear over Syrian weapons motivated apology to Turkey, Netanyahu says:
“The fact that the crisis in Syria intensifies from moment to moment was the main consideration in my view,” Netanyahu wrote.
Erdogan: Normalization depends on Israel’s actions:
Normalization of diplomatic ties between Israel and Turkey will not occur until Israel meets its commitments to ease blockade, compensate victims, Turkish PM stresses
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4360531,00.html
Israel must ease new Gaza restrictions: rights groups:
Two Israeli rights groups demanded on Sunday that Israel lift fishing restrictions imposed on Gaza after militants fired two rockets across the border, slamming them as “collective punishment.”
‘Obama to Abbas: Don’t go to ICC over settlements’:
‘Asharq al-Awsat’ reports Abbas agrees to forgo legal action against Israel for 2 months; $500 million in US aid released to PA.
“Prisoner X”: ‘Mossad spy’ spilled secrets to Hezbollah: report:
A man identified by media as an Australian-Israeli Mossad agent and found hanged in a Tel Aviv jail had passed secrets to Hezbollah before his death, an influential German magazine reported Sunday.
Israeli occupation forces in Hebron violently seized and detained dozens of Palestinian children:
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Chinese warning to foreign powers:”
Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations during a speech in Moscow, sending a signal to the West and echoing a message often repeated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
17 Pakistani security personnel killed in fidayeen attack:
At least 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden water tanker into a check post in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of the country.
Pervez Musharraf returns from exile for polls, vows to save Pakistan:
Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on Sunday ended nearly four years in self-exile defying threats of arrest and assassination by Taliban, saying that he returned home to “save” Pakistan and would face all “challenges” that lay ahead.
Musharraf mobbed by supporters on arrival in Karachi:
Soon after landing, Musharraf challenged those who said that he would be killed on his arrival and that he would never land in Pakistan. “Where are you?” Musharraf asked, raising his fist in the air as he addressed supporters. “I am back and standing amongst my people.”
Mass rally as Imran Khan kicks off campaign:
Tens of thousands gather in Lahore as Pakistan’s cricketer-turned-politician launches election bid for May 11 polls.
US force feeding Guantanamo hunger strikers: Attorney says detainee “skin and bones”:
Eight of the acknowledged hunger strikers have refused meals for so long and lost so much weight that the military is force-feeding them liquid nutrients through a tube down their nose.
Pentagon Requests $49 Million To Build New Guatanamo Prison;
The proposed facility is an apparent replacement for Camp 7, which was constructed to hold 14 “high-value” detainees – including the self-described 9/11 attack architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – who had been in CIA custody, but were handed over to the military in 2006.
Diplomat was banned from talking about Dr David Kelly when giving evidence at Iraq Inquiry:
Carne Ross, the UK’s Iraq expert at the UN Security Council between 1998 and 2002, said he was told by the ‘very aggressive’ official that if he discussed Dr Kelly during his testimony, he would be silenced.
Mortgage Company Tried to Take Home of 75-Year-Old Blind Woman Over $49 She Already Paid:
James B. Nutter & Co., which approved a reverse mortgage on Ridge’s home in 2007, last month filed to foreclose on the same home for unpaid property taxes amounting to $49. But Ridge’s attorney, Nan Hazel, who is working pro bono, says she has receipt proving her client paid in full
Senate embraces Internet taxes:
Senators vote 75 to 24 to glue an endorsement of Internet sales taxes onto a Democratic budget bill, despite opponents predicting the idea is antibusiness and a “bureaucratic nightmare.”
US retailer J.C. Penney cut 43,000 jobs last year:
Over the past year, department store chain J.C. Penney cut 43,000 jobs, 27 percent of its workforce, a report filed Wednesday with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission revealed
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 : 3,271
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,435,996,972,563
The New Dark Age 
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