18 July 2013 — Information Clearing House
Kerry to Present Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
“Peace” Talks to Resume Based on 1967 Lines, recognition of Israel as Jewish State
By Barak Ravid and Jack Khoury
Negotiations on borders will be based on the 1967 lines, with land swaps – taking into account the current reality in the West Bank, i.e. the major settlement blocs.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35579.htm
Obama UN Pick Pledges to ‘Work Tirelessly to Defend’ Israel
By Julian Pecquet
Samantha Power promised Wednesday to “stand up for Israel and work tirelessly to defend it” as she sought to put to rest lawmaker concerns about her support for the U.S. ally.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35578.htm
The World Without Qatar
By Thierry Meyssan
Within two weeks, the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Washington was promising the leadership of the Arab world, have lost two of their main levers of power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35580.htm
Meet a Moderate Syrian Insurgent
By Pepe Escobar
You see how hard is the life of a moderate rebel? Not only we have to fight the despicable dictator in Damascus – we fight Shi’ite apostates and we even fight terrorists! Oh, Amrika!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35586.htm
Ex-CIA Milan Chief Held in Panama
By The BBC
A former CIA chief who was convicted by an Italian court of kidnapping a terror suspect has been detained in Panama, Italian officials say.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35585.htm
A ‘Black Day’ for Liberty – Chris Hedges
Indefinite Military Detention of American Citizens.
By Peter Z. Scheer
Sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 would allow the military to detain indefinitely persons who are deemed to consort with terrorists or those who commit “belligerent acts” against the United.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35576.htm
NSA Warned to Rein in Surveillance as Agency Reveals Even Greater Scope
By Spencer Ackerman
The National Security Agency revealed to an angry congressional panel on Wednesday that its analysis of phone records and online behavior goes exponentially beyond what it had previously disclosed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35577.htm
Why the U.S. Executive Branch Is a Clear and Present Danger to Our Democracy
By Fred Branfman
How an authoritarian U.S. Executive Branch which has focused on war abroad for the last 50 years now devotes increasing resources to surveillance, information management, and population control at home, posing a far greater threat to Americans’ liberties than any conceivable foreign foe.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35581.htm
Jimmy Carter Says U.S. “Has No Functioning Democracy”
By Alberto Riva
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is so concerned about the NSA spying scandal that he thinks it has essentially resulted in a suspension of American democracy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35582.htm
10 Ways That Big Brother Is Tightening On All Of Our Lives
By Michael Snyder
Do you ever feel like virtually everything that you do is being watched, tracked, monitored and recorded? If so, unfortunately it is not just your imagination.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35583.htm
Postcard from the End of America: North Philly
By Linh Dinh
Behind the anti-terror smoke screen, we have created a nation of paranoiacs and psychos. As we kill and rape, many of us rap about raping and killing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35584.htm
12 people killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan:
Militants killed eight Afghan civilians employed at a NATO military center near Kabul and four policemen in two incidents Thursday, authorities said.
Indian border guards kill 6 civilians in Kashmir:
At least six civilians have been killed and several others wounded in a raid carried out by Indian border guards against protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir.
India: Five killed in Maoist attack in Bihar:
The toll in the Maoist attack targeting security personnel guarding a construction site in Aurangabad District has risen to six.
Al-Qaeda plans own state in northern Syria :
Sources in the Free Syrian Army claim the terrorist group Al Qaeda plans to take control over transit routes on the border with Turkey – ousting other rebel troops from the area.
10 ‘militants’ killed in North Sinai security crackdown:
The Egyptian army has killed ten “Islamist militants” in North Sinai over the last 48 hours, a security source told state news agency MENA on Thursday.
Rights group says Egypt detainees beaten:
Amnesty International says detained supporters of deposed President Morsi have been beaten and denied access to lawyers.
Egypt’s Brotherhood proposes first talks via EU envoy:
The Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday it had proposed through an EU go-between a framework for talks to resolve Egypt’s political crisis, its first formal announcement of an offer for negotiations since President Mohamed Mursi was toppled.
NEWSPEAK: U.S. suggests Egyptian military may have averted civil war:
Egypt may have avoided a civil war this month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, saying this was one factor to weigh as Washington decides whether to cut off most U.S. aid to the Arab nation.
Egyptian Coup Planned Months Ago:
Egyptian military insiders say overthrow had been in the works for months, just waiting for popular dissent to reach critical mass
General who toppled Morsi will hold three jobs in Egypt’s new government:
The Egyptian general who announced that President Mohammed Morsi had been removed from office was named the country’s first deputy prime minister on Tuesday, a sign that the military, despite asserting it had no interest in governing, intended to maintain its influence.
Egypt is still not a coup in Washington:
Washington’s hesitation to use the term has drawn accusations from the pro-Morsi camp that the US was complicit in the coup. For the White House, it is an on-going and agonising determination that has legal and possibly even security implications.
The Egyptian coup is a warning to Turkey – but will Erdogan listen?: Op-Ed: :
Erdogan strongly condemned the coup, calling it the “killer of democracy and the future” and referring to Egypt’s “so-called administration”. Why does the coup matter so much to Erdogan’s AK party?
Erdogan refuses to speak to Egypt’s ElBaradei:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to speak to Egypt’s new Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei, the latest broadside in a spat that erupted after the military coup in the Arab world’s most populous country.
Bomb attack kills seven in Iraq tea house: police, medics:
A bomb blast in a tea house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed at least seven people on Wednesday, police and medics said.
Three farmers among six killed in Iraq:
A magnetic “sticky bomb” killed a man and his wife, both farmers, in the Dujail area as they drove to work, while another farmer was shot dead by gunmen near Balad, officials said.
Stray bullets from Syria kill two Turkish citizens:
One man and a 15-year-old boy were killed when they were hit by stray bullets from Syria in the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, Turkish security sources and health officials said on Wednesday.
Syria: Clashes between Kurds and Islamists : Video –
Clashes erupted between the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jahbat al-Nusra, killing at least four Jabhat al-Nusra
fighters in the city of Ras al-Ain
Jihadists expelled from flashpoint Kurdish Syrian town, NGO says:
Kurdish fighters have expelled jihadists from the Syrian flashpoint frontier town of Ras al-Ain near Turkey, a watchdog said Wednesday, adding that only the border crossing remains under the extremists’ control.
Syrian Kurds to declare autonomy from Damascus:
A Kurdish militia in northern Syria plans to become autonomous from Damascus in the coming days, after months of administering the border territory without Assad forces, Turkish media reported on Wednesday.
Gen. Dempsey: US Considering Use of Force in Syria:
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey says during congressional testimony Thursday that he has provided President Barack Obama with options for the use of force in Syria.
Ireland agrees to send peacekeepers to Golan: –
Ireland is to send 114 peacekeepers to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to help monitor a decades-old truce between Israel and Syria that has been shaken by a spillover of violence from Syria’s civil war.
Netanyahu denies agreeing to peace talks based on ’67 lines:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denied on Tuesday an official’s remarks that Israel had agreed to resume peace talks based on the borders of a Palestinian state being drawn along lines from before a 1967 Middle East war, and agreed land swaps.
Abbas to brief PLO on Kerry peace talks push:
Israel’s civil defense minister, Gilad Erdan, said a settlement freeze, which Netanyahu partially imposed in 2009 for 10 months, was a non-starter.
US officials say there are no new plans for talks:
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said there were no plans at the moment for an announcement on resuming peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
UK: Lib Dems withdraw party whip from MP David Ward over Israel comments:
Clegg acts after Bradford East MP tweeted that Zionists were ‘losing the battle’ and questioned future of ‘apartheid state’
China sends troops to Africa:
Three-hundred ninety-five peacekeepers from the People’s Liberation Army just arrived in the Saharan nation of Mali as part of the UN mission to help restore order there. Specifically, Beijing has sent engineering, medical and “guard” teams to the Malian capital of Bamako, according to the Chinese defense ministry.
Judge refuses to dismiss aiding the enemy charge against Bradley Manning:
“He was knowingly providing intelligence to the enemy,” said judge Colonel Denise Lind in rejecting Manning’s lawyer’s motion to dismiss that charge.
Bradley Manning: US ‘aiding the enemy’ charge a travesty of justice: Amnesty:
“The charge of ‘aiding the enemy’ is ludicrous. What’s surprising is that the prosecutors in this case, who have a duty to act in the interest of justice, have pushed a theory that making information available on the internet – whether through Wikileaks, in a personal blog posting, or on the website of The New York Times – can amount to ‘aiding the enemy’,”
‘Snowden won’t disclose more docs, I have thousands’ – Greenwald:
Edward Snowden is unlikely to make new revelations since “he doesn’t want to end up in a cage like Bradley Manning”, said The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, adding that he himself decides what to publish from the thousands of leaked documents.
The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People’s Data Than Previously Revealed:
For a sense of scale, researchers at the University of Milan found in 2011 that everyone on the Internet was, on average, 4.74 steps away from anyone else. The NSA explores relationships up to three of those steps.
Bush-Cheney began illegal NSA spying before 9/11, says telcom CEO:
Contradicting a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court records indicate that the Bush-Cheney administration began such surveillance at least 7 months prior to 9/11.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/352455
US to resume Guantanamo genital searches:
The ruling on Wednesday granted a temporary delay in enforcing a court order that banned the practice of full body inspections and gave the Obama administration time to mount a full appeal.
Federal Judge Parades Her Ignorance, Approves Torture of Guantanamo Prisoners:
A U.S. District Judge not only doesn’t know what torture is, she doesn’t know her own history.
UK police accused of supplying target information for military ‘kill list’:
British police have been accused of illegally supplying information on potential targets for a highly controversial military “kill list” in a legal challenge being launched at the high court on Wednesday.
Blood money: UK’s £12.3bn arms sales to repressive states:
Government approves thousands of deals with states it condemns for human rights abuses
US Military Intervene over Facebook Event:
As a joke, a German man recently invited some friends for a walk around a top secret NSA facility. But the Facebook invitation soon had German federal police knocking at his door. They had been alerted by the American authorities.
Millions of US license plates tracked and stored, new ACLU report finds:
Millions of Americans are having their movements tracked through automated scanning of their car license plates, with the records held often indefinitely in vast government and private databases.
Americans Finally Have Access to American Propaganda:
A law went into effect this month that ends the ban on U.S. government-made propaganda from being broadcast to Americans.
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: 4,801
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,350
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,456,874,863,753http://www.costofwar.com/
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