8 February 2014 — Information Clearing House
The Truth About The Criminal Bloodbath in Iraq Can’t Be ‘Countered’ Indefinitely
By John Pilger
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight.
Do More to Prevent War
By David Swanson
The war in Syria goes on. The children we were supposed to care about enough to bomb their country are still suffering, and most of us still care.
Iran Sends Warships to US Maritime Borders
By FARS
In September 2012, Iran’s Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari reiterated Iran’s plans for sailing off the US coasts to counter the US presence in its waters in the Persian Gulf.
Warlords of Tripoli
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The war in Syria is dragging neighboring Lebanon to the edge of the abyss, and nowhere is the growing chaos more stark than in the second city of Tripoli.
‘Dirty Tricks’: UK Spies Use Sex, Cyber Attacks to Discredit Targets – Snowden Leaks
By RT
Intelligence agents working for the United Kingdom have employed “dirty tricks” including sexual “honey traps” to ensnare rival agents, hackers, suspected terrorists, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
Leaked Conversation About Ukraine Fans U.S.-Russian Tensions
By Doug Saunders
The Kremlin and Mr. Yanukovych have new ammunition with which it can accuse the protesters of being puppets of U.S. and European agendas.
Washington Destabilizes Ukraine
By Paul Craig Roberts
Arabs and Muslims will sell out their people for Western money. So will western Ukrainians.
Did The Shin Bet Just Hack My Computer?
By Jonathon Cook
I lost control of my computer for an hour shortly after I had contacted the Israeli prime minister’s spokesman for a comment from the Shin Bet.
Congressmen Try to Restrict Free Speech To Prevent Boycotts of Israel
By Mitchell Plitnick
The bill introduced by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) relates only to academic boycotts against Israel.
Read the Memo Explaining Why the U.S. Can Totally Kill Its Own Citizens Without Trial
By David Weigel
A DOJ white paper explaining Obama’s targeted killing program.
Full Spectrum Peeping Tomism
By Linh Dinh
We’re still in the early stage of our Fascist transformation, so until the jackboots step on their ituned heads, many Americans will dismiss talks of Big Brother as mere paranoia.
Market Manipulations Become More Extreme, More Desperate
By Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler
February 6, provided a clear picture of how the Fed protects its policy by manipulating the gold and stock markets.
More Evidence That Capitalism Never Solves Its Crises
By Jerome Roos
As long as there is money to be made, investors don’t care one bit about corruption, laziness or profligacy – because they know full well that these things don’t matter.
Obama Killed It
The American Dream is Dead
By Mike Whitney
You wonder why people are so glum about the future? It’s because America has changed, and not for the better.
Prosperity For Main Street, Not Wall Street
By Public Banking TV
Our cities are not broke. They are struggling with onerous interest payments to Wall Street bankers who are nothing but middlemen. These interest payments impoverish your communities, while enriching Wall Street.
Chris Hedges: Crisis Cults and the Collapse of Industrial Civilization
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The reasons behind the collapse of complex societies.
Climate Disasters – Ending Congressional Stupor Now!
By Ralph Nader
Every year one institution allows no change in its political climate; nothing is warming up our Congress of 535 legislators who are split between believers and disbelievers on the climate change crises.
Top Drug Official Can’t Say If Weed’s Less Addictive Than Meth
By Travis Gettys
“I asked what was more dangerous; you couldn’t answer it,” Blumenauer said. “And I just want to say that you, sir, represent what’s part of the problem.”
The Truth About Drug Addiction
By Stefan Molyneux
What is the origin and truth about drug addiction?
Syria barrel bomb raids on Aleppo ‘kill 20’: Activists Say:
The raids come as government forces press an advance into the east and north of Aleppo city, large swathes of which fell to the opposition after a massive rebel offensive in July 2012.
Syria Evacuates Civilians From Besieged Homs Center:
Syria evacuated 83 civilians on Friday who had lived under government siege in the devastated city of Homs for a year and a half, the first concrete result of talks launched two weeks ago to try to end the country’s civil war.
Rebel gunfire ‘injures Homs aid workers’:
Four aid workers have been wounded by rebel gunfire as a UN aid convoy entered the besieged district of the Syrian city of Homs, state media report.
‘First British suicide bomber in Syria’ believed to have struck Aleppo prison:
Mr Britani would be the eighth Briton to die fighting in the three-year-long civil war, if reports by are confirmed.
Syria Now “a Matter of Homeland Security,” Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson said Friday:
” Extremists are actively trying to recruit Westerners, indoctrinate them, and see them return to their home countries with an extremist mission,” said Johnson.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As –
12 Killed in Iraq Attacks:
At least 12 people, including nine gunmen, were killed and 14 suffered injuries in different violent incidents across Iraq Saturday, police said.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As –
Iraqi orders are to kill, not capture, terrorists:
A controversy is brewing over the actions of Iraqi armed forces during “anti-terrorism” operations, as senior army officers have issued clear orders to kill rather than arrest those being pursued.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As –
Suicide bomber killed in Mosul:
Police forces within Nineveh Operations Command killed a suicide bomber while he was attempting to detonate his explosive vest targeting a police patrol in Sinhareb Bridge of the left side of Mosul city.
Yemeni tribesmen attack oil pipeline repair crew, 8 killed:
At least eight people were killed when armed tribesman launched an attack on Friday to stop maintenance crews repairing an oil pipeline blown up last month in southeast Yemen, tribal sources said.
Khamenei: U.S. would overthrow Iranian government if it could – media:
“American officials publicly say they do not seek regime change in Iran. That’s a lie. They wouldn’t hesitate a moment if they could do it,” he was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency.
Top Iranian official: Israel a ‘cancer’ in the Middle East:
US delegation walks out of Tunisia constitution party in protest of remarks made by Iran’s parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani.
Kerry: Netanyahu does not want NATO in West Bank:
“Netanyahu has made it clear he doesn’t want NATO,” Kerry said, but noted that the possibility of a third-party force “is something for the parties to work out.”
70% of Israelis don’t trust US on security, says poll:
Seventy percent of Israeli Jews do not believe the US can be relied upon to maintain key Israeli interests and security requirements in the American- brokered agreement being drafted with the Palestinians, a Geocartography Institute poll taken this week found.
Danish parliament leader to visit occupied West Bank, Gaza – but not Israel:
Danish parliament speaker snubs Israel despite plan to visit Palestinian Authority.
Egypt Army Kills 16 Suspected Militants in Sinai:
Egypt’s military killed 16 suspected Islamic militants in a series of airstrikes on hideouts in the northern Sinai Peninsula, a spokesman said Saturday, alleging that the fighters had ties to the ousted president’s Muslim Brotherhood group.
Three killed in clashes as president Morsi loyalists keep protesting:
Three confirmed dead in Fayoum, Ismailia and Menya as Friday clashes continue nationwide; at least four security personnel injured in early-morning Giza bomb blast
Man lynched in Central African Republic, court plans investigation:
An angry crowd killed and mutilated a man who fell from a truck filled with Muslims fleeing the capital of Central African Republic on Friday, witnesses said, while an international court said it would investigate alleged crimes committed there.
Muslims flee Central African Republic capital:
Christian crowds jeer Muslims leaving Bangui as International Criminal Court says situation “gone from bad to worse”.
Afghanistan: 8 Year-Old Girl Killed, 8 Others Injured in Nangarhar Blast:
An eight-year-old girl was killed and 8 other civilians were injured in a roadside bomb blast in Jalalabad city, in eastern Afghanistan, on Saturday afternoon, local officials said.
In a reversal, Afghan civilian deaths rise in 2013:
The total of 2,959 deaths recorded by the U.N. in 2013 was a 7% rise from 2012
Civilian drone deaths triple in Afghanistan, UN agency finds:
The report, by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama), found that drone strikes accounted for at least a third of all civilian deaths in air strikes last year.
US apologises on leaked Ukraine EU remarks:
Nuland goes on to say that she did not believe opposition leader Vladimir Klitschko should become a member of the government: “So I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. … I don’t think it’s a good idea.”
US Accuses Russia of Leaking Diplomat Conversation on Ukraine:
Washington has accused Russia of being behind the leak of an intercepted telephone call between top US diplomats discussing the unfolding political crisis in Ukraine and using foul language to disparage the EU.
Russia official denies role in Nuland leak:
Russian official Dmitry Loskutov has denied he or the government played a role in leaking the recording of a call involving US diplomat Victoria Nuland.
Merkel condemns U.S. diplomats’ comments on Ukraine – aide:
In a leaked conversation posted on Youtube, State Department official Victoria Nuland tells the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in a discussion about the strategy for political transition “fuck the EU”. She has apologised to EU officials.
Russia presses Ukraine on debt amid protests:
Russian finance minister pledges to give second tranche of $15bn bailout package, but wants gas debt paid first.
Bosnia protests: 150 injured as demonstrators set fire to presidential palace:
More than 150 people were wounded in Bosnia on Friday in the worst civil unrest in the country since the 1992-95 war as anger over the dire state of the economy and political inertia boiled over.
NSA bulk collection ensnares under 30 percent of phone records daily – report:
The NSA has spent years collecting metadata – which includes the numbers dialed, number of calls received, time of call, duration of the call, and other information – from landline phones. Yet the agency has struggled to maintain pace with the explosion in cell phone usage, officials said.
UK: Police will have ‘backdoor’ access to health records despite opt-out, says MP:
The database that will store all of England’s health records has a series of “backdoors” that will allow police and government bodies to access people’s medical data.
UK: Immigration minister resigns for employing illegal immigrant:
Prime minister accepts resignation of Mark Harper, who launched government’s ‘go home’ campaign last year
Life in The National Security State:
The news that Sister Megan Rice, an 84-year old nun and two army veterans, Michael Walli, 65, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 58, are about to receive prison sentences for challenging, no, for daring to protest America’s long love affair with nuclear weapons has drawn little or no media interest.
‘NATO 3’ found not guilty of terrorism charges:
The three young men, accused by the state of Illinois of plotting violent acts at the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago, were found guilty on two counts of mob action.
Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times – :
TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to 5 million becquerels of strontium per liter – both a record, and nearly five times higher than the original reading of 900,000 becquerels per liter.
Amid Epic Drought, South America’s Largest City Is Running Out Of Water:
Sao Paulo is South America’s largest city, and is currently experiencing its worst drought in 50 years.
US Treasury introduces ‘extraordinary measures’ as Feb. 27 debt deadline looms:
The US Treasury on Friday was forced to enact ’emergency measures’ after spending its borrowed time and money. By month’s end, Uncle Sam’s piggy bank will be down to just $50 billion, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Congress.
Exclusive: Pentagon to boost missile defense spending by over $4 billion: sources:
Nearly $1 billion of that sum will pay for a new homeland defense radar to be placed in Alaska, with an additional $560 million to fund work on a new interceptor after several failed flight tests
Obama’s deputy drug czar admits marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol:
“When we look at deaths and illnesses, alcohol, other hard drugs are certainly – even prescription drugs – are a threat to public health in a way that just isolated marijuana is not. Isn’t that a scientific fact? Or do you dispute that fact?”
Cops sexually assault mother, break 10-year-old son’s leg, claims lawsuit:
Cops break a 10-year-old boy’s leg with a kick then sexually assault mother by flicking pierced nipple, a shocking new lawsuit claims.
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 :3,417
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,512,106,717,951
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