2 May 2013 –– Information Clearing House
Obama Moving Toward Sending Lethal Arms to Syrian ‘Rebels”, Officials Say
By Karen DeYoung
The officials did not specify what U.S. equipment is under consideration, although the rebels have specifically requested ?antitank weapons and surface-to-air missiles.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34805.htm
The Free Syrian Army is Being Taken Over by Groups of Jihadist Thugs
By Paul Wood
Ghadi had spent the past two years on the run from the Syrian regime but it was the rebels fighting against the government, the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) who finally caused him to abandon the revolution and flee Damascus.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34804.htm
Stealing Syria’s Oil: The EU Al-Qaeda Oil Consortium
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin
In spite of the fact that it has now been confirmed by most media sources that the Syrian ‘opposition’ is Al-Qaeda, London and Paris persist in their insane drive to arm the terrorists, using the spurious argument that if they don’t arm the ‘moderates’ the ‘extremists’ will take over the country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34808.htm
The Syria-Iran Red Line Show
By Pepe Escobar
Obama in Syria is fast becoming a remix of Reagan in 1980s Afghanistan. We all know what came out of those “freedom fighters” afterwards.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34802.htm
Two Degrees of Separation:
Tsarnaev Brothers had a CIA Connection
By Dave Lindorff
This “coincidence” puts the two Tsarnaev brothers at just two degrees of separation from the CIA household of Graham Fuller.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34798.htm
The Boston Bombing, the CIA & the US Empire
Audio
Sibel Edmonds Talks to Lew Rockwell about what’s “Really” Happening in Central Asia & the Caucasus.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34809.htm
Tear Gas and Shotguns
Guantanamo Detainee Gives First Inside Account Of Raid
By Reprieve
“We all should have learned the danger of a secret prison from the Soviets. Unfortunately the US military has been dissembling again.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34803.htm
Guantánamo Bay
Enough To Make You Gag
Editorial By The Economist
The prison is a deeply un-American disgrace. It needs to be closed rapidly.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34801.htm
US Drone Strikes Being Used As Alternative to Guantánamo, Lawyer Says
By Dan Roberts
Lawyer who drafted White House drone policy says US would rather kill suspects than send them to Cuban detention centre.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34800.htm
American Exceptionalism: From Gettysburg to Damascus
By Thomas DiLorenzo
“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action,”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34807.htm
The Downwinders
Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
By Ellen Cantarow
More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34806.htm
Explosion kill 8 Afghan local police officers in Logar:
Deputy provincial security chief Raees Khan Sadiq Abdul Rahimzai confirming the report said the incident took place around 8am local time on Thursday morning after the vehicle of Afghan local police officers struck with a roadside bomb.
Afghan police officer killed in border clash with Pakistan:
Afghan and Pakistani forces clashed overnight in a historically disputed border region, leaving an Afghan police officer dead and others wounded, officials said Thursday.
Pakistan: 6 killed, 20 injured in explosion in Dera Allah Yar:
The bomb was planted in a motorcycle, that was parked in the bazaar, sources said.
Syrian air strike on Turkish border kills five – activists:
A Syrian air strike on a headquarters of a rebel brigade along the Turkish border killed at least five people, including children, and wounded dozens more on Tuesday, opposition activists said.
Turkish border police wounded in clashes on Turkey-Syrian border:
Five Turkish border guards were wounded in a clash at the Syrian border with an armed group that one Turkish official described as smugglers but an opposition activist suggested may have included rebel fighters of the Free Syrian Army.
Activists:: Dozens dead as Assad’s forces storm Syrian coastal village:
State forces and militias loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stormed the coastal village of Baida on Thursday, killing at least 50 people including women and children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Activists: Syrian troops advance in regime’s push to oust rebels from central city of Homs:
Troops loyal to President Bashar Assad regained control Thursday of the Wadi Sayeh district in the center of Homs.
Fractured Syrian rebels scramble for cash as private sponsors dwindle:
Financing from networks of well-off individuals like him, once the lifeblood of the Syrian rebellion, is starting to dry up as the conflict escalates, increasing the rebels’ dependence on state-sponsored support networks.
Syria’s Opposition Hopes to Win the War by Selling Oil:
European companies can now legally begin importing barrels of oil directly from rebel groups, which have seized several oil fields in recent months, mostly around the eastern area of Deir Ezzor. That would provide the opposition with its first reliable source of income since the revolt erupted in Feb. 2011
Syria’s other war: intra-rebel skirmishes:
The gash on Abu Ahmed’s face has almost healed but the troubling memory of Syrian rebels thrashing him with rifle butts evokes fear of another looming war: an intra-rebel conflict.
Syrian guerillas are ‘simple country folk with no clear ideology’ – captive journalist:
The Syrian opposition is made up of young men with little education, brainwashed into fighting President Assad, journalist Anhar Kocheva told RT. Kocheva spoke about her time as a hostage, describing a ragtag group of men devoid of tangible ideals.
Erdogan: Assad using chemical weapons against rebels:
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Bashar Assad’s regime has been using chemical weapons against the rebels, adding that he intended to discuss the issue with US President Barack Obama.
U.S. Sets Hurdles to Intervention in Syria:
Obama Seeks International Consensus on Assad’s Alleged Chemical-Weapons Use, Lowering Prospect of Military Action
US and UK to wait on fresh evidence over Syria chemical weapons claims:
Western intelligence agencies fear they can no longer prove for certain whether the Syrian government was responsible for alleged chemical weapon attacks, because initial samples and evidence trails have degraded over time.
Rebel gains in southern Syria sharpen Jordan’s dilemma:
The growing power of Islamist fighters in southern Syria is causing alarm in neighboring Jordan, which backs rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad but fears those linked to al Qaeda.
10 killed in Iraq attacks:
Three members of a government-backed paramilitary group were killed and 13 wounded in a car bomb explosion in Garma town near Fallujah city, some 50 km from Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a police source requesting anonymity.
Iraqi violence claims 700 lives in April:
April was the deadliest month in Iraq in about five years, with more than 700 people killed and another 1,600 wounded, the U.N. mission in Iraq said.
April deadliest month in Iraq in five years – UN: –
More people were killed and wounded in violent attacks across Iraq in April than in any month since June 2008, the United Nations mission in the country said today.
‘The civil war in Iraq has already begun’:
Politician claims conflict has started and warns it will be ‘worse than Syria’
Iraqi army losing hold on north to Sunni and Kurdish forces as troops desert:
Soldiers are deserting a beleaguered Iraqi army as it struggles to keep its hold on the northern half of Iraq in the face of escalating hostility from Sunni Arabs and Kurds who dominate in the region.
Kenya convicts two Iranians of planning to attack Western, Israeli targets:
Last year, when the two suspects were apprehended, officials said that they may have been planning attacks on Israeli, U.S., British or Saudi Arabian interests in Kenya.
At least 4 dead in Chad coup attempt: security sources:
At least four people were killed in a gunfight in the Chadian capital in what authorities said was a plot against President Idriss Deby’s government, security sources said on Thursday.
Libya’s Benghazi police station blown up:
A bomb destroyed a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi early on Thursday but caused no casualties, a security source said, in a second attack targeting the building.
Libya gunmen reject govt demand to end sieges:
Libyan gunmen besieging two ministries have rejected government demands to disband saying they are determined to stay put until authorities agree to their demand and sack former regime officials, one of them said on Thursday.
Somali Famine Claims 260,000 Lives:
Two hundred and fifty-eight thousand people, half of them children, died in the latest food crisis in Somalia, according to a UN report.
US troops deployed in Mali:
The United States has deployed a small number of troops to Mali, but insists they will only be used to provide support to the French-led operation there and will not engage in combat.
In Somalia, western donors made famine more, not less likely: Op-Ed:
Despite early warnings, the Somalia famine was allowed to happen. Why? Because of politics, al-Shabaab and donor fears
Saudi Arabia DENIES it warned the United States about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2012:
According to a highly placed source who spoke to MailOnline, the Saudis sent a written warning about Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012. That was long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and injured hundreds.
Man angry over Boston bombings breaks jaw of ‘f*cking Muslim’ Iraq war veteran;
A 39-year-old Muslim cab driver who served in the Iraq war says that an executive from an aviation company accused him of being a jihadist and broke his jaw in what activists are calling a hate crime.
Guantánamo Bay force feeding inhuman and degrading, says UN:
Officials call on US to either charge or release detainees amid fears for welfare of at least 21 hunger strikers being forcibly fed
Cuba says US must shut Guantanamo;
CUBA’S foreign minister has demanded that Washington shut its controversial jail at Guantanamo Bay and return the long-held military base to Havana.
Gitmo lawyer found dead in apparent suicide:
Hart was assigned by the government to defend Mohammed Rahim al-Afghani, who was detained by the CIA and allegedly subjected to torture methods until his transfer to Guantanamo in March 2008. The government maintained that al-Afghani was Osama bin Laden’s translator and a top al-Qaida official.
Ricin suspect’s dust mask tests positive for toxin:
Federal investigators found ricin on a dust mask discarded by the man suspected of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama and other public officials, according to an FBI affidavit released by a federal court judge on Tuesday.
Man opens fire with AR-15 rifle at Houston airport checkpoint before turning gun on himself:
The man allegedly fired in the air at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport, was fired at by an air marshall, who missed, and after shooting himself was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Print Your Gun Parts at Home:
New technology challenges gun control laws.
Capriles contests Venezuela poll in court:
Opposition leader makes formal appeal to Supreme Court over election results as president brands him a “cry baby”.
All aboard for the American Dream:
Desperate migrants ride the ‘Train of Death’ through Mexico to reach the U.S risking violent attack, rape and kidnap
Study reveals cannibalism in first US colony:
The Smithsonian Institution reported on Wednesday that settlers at the US state of Virginia’s Jamestown colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl.
Disturbing signs of climate change in 2012: UN weather agency:
World Meteorological Organization’s May 2 statement holds little good news
Police shut down Greek-only soup kitchen:
Attempt by ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party to hand out food to only Greeks in central Athens blocked amid scuffles.
Austerity measures in Greece undermining human rights, says UN independent expert:
“More than 10 per cent of the population in Greece now lives in extreme poverty, and unemployment amongst youth has reached an unprecedented rate of 59.3 per cent,” the UN independent expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina, said
Bank of Ireland doubles tracker rate mortgages overnight affecting 13,500 UK customers:
Thousands of homeowners are facing a huge increase in their mortgage repayments after the Bank of Ireland doubled rates overnight.
South Carolina House passes nullification bill to make Obamacare a crime:
The South Carolina state House on Wednesday passed a so-called “nullification” bill that is declares President Barack Obama’s health care reform law to be “null and void,” and criminalizes it’s implementation.
May Day mayhem in Seattle:
Police mace and fire flash bang grenades at protesters (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Homelessness on the rise in America:
Three years ago President Barack Obama promised to end homelessness for children and families within a decade. Since making that pledge, the number of families facing homelessness has been rising.
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 : 3,291
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,435,919,829,599
The New Dark Age 
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