10 February 2014 — Information Clearing House
The Folly of Arming Israel
By Chase Madar and Tom Engelhardt
“Ethnic cleansing” is a harsh term, but apt for a situation in which people are driven out of their homes and lands because they are not of the right tribe.”
Bill to Block Federal Funding to Universities that Boycott Israel
By Eugene Volokh
Leading First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams has said that the bill would be unconstitutional.
‘We Track ‘Em, You Whack ‘Em.'”
The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald
Obama once reportedly told his aides that it “turns out I’m really good at killing people.” The president added, “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.
Death By Metadata:
Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Reveal NSA Role in Assassinations Overseas
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“We are living in the era of pre-crime”
NSA “Exploiting” U.S. Citizens Online Porn Viewing Habits: James Bamford
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“Everyone’s a Target: How America Lost Control of the National Security Agency”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37602.htm
Legalizing Oppression
Chris Hedges interviews Lynne Stewart
By Chris Hedges
The lynching and disbarring of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, is a window into the collapse of the American legal system.
Kids For Cash:
Inside One of the Nation’s Most Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandals
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The shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
5 Ways Rich People’s “Entitlements” Cheat You and Me
By Paul Buchheit
The more they take from us, the greater their belief that they deserve the wealth we all helped to create.
Still Locking People Up for Being Poor? Really?! It’s 2014.
By Mike Brickner
Debtors’ prisons sound like ancient history, right? Unfortunately, they’re all too common across the United States.
25 people killed as Islamist fighters seize Alawite village in central Syria :
Residents of Maan, around 5 miles east of Syria’s main north-south highway, are from the same Alawite minority as the Assad family
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Syria: UN personnel running for covering as bombs fall near their vehicles :
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2nd-round Syria peace talks bog down in bitterness:
A second round of peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition bogged down quickly Monday over who was responsible for escalating violence that has killed hundreds in the past few days and disrupted food aid for trapped civilians.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As – Iraq speaker targeted in blast as 21 “militants” killed:
Iraq’s parliament speaker narrowly escaped an attack in his home town on Monday while 21 militants died when a car bomb they were readying mistakenly went off, officials said.
Israeli soldiers pose for photos while abusing Palestinian child: Video –
Israeli forces in the eastern occupied Jerusalem village of al-Eizariya were caught on video on Friday posing for trophy photos as they held a wounded, handcuffed Palestinian child in a stranglehold.
AIPAC’s First Loss In 30 Years: Video:
For the first time in 30 years, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s top legislative priority, has been beaten back. New questions are being raised about its role in Congress.
AIPAC demonstrates muscle, then partially retreats on Iran:
With a forceful speech from Robert Menendez, AIPAC is pushing back, and reasserting its influence on Capitol Hill.
Iran says new centrifuge developed to enrich uranium:
Iran has developed a new generation of centrifuges which are 15 times more powerful than those currently being used to enrich uranium, its atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Monday.
Iranian poet executed for ‘waging war on God’:
Death sentence carried out on ethnic Arab Hashem Shaabani, accused of being an “enemy of God” and a threat to security.
Yemen to become six-region federation: state news agency:
The decentralisation of power aims to meet the southerners’ demands for autonomy.
17 Taliban militants killed, 16 detained in Afghan operations:
The interior ministry of Afghanistan following a statement, said the militants were killed or detained during coordinated operations conducted by Afghan police, Afghan army, and Afghan intelligence – National Directorate of Security during the past 24 hours.
Car bomb in Afghan capital kills 2 contractors:
A suicide attacker rammed a car bomb into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Monday, killing two foreign civilian contractors, authorities said.
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.
Seven Killed in Sucide Bombing in Northwest Pakistan:
A suicide bomber fearing arrest blew himself up at a mourning gathering, killing at least four women, while unidentified gunmen shot dead three teachers in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of northwest Pakistan today.
Police: US consulate employee killed in Pakistan:
Pakistani police say gunmen have shot and killed a local employee of the U.S. consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Pakistan Taliban sets tough terms for peace:
Tehreek-e-Taliban says government has to free all jailed fighters if peace negotiations are to make headway.
Mali says extremists killed 30 in north, contradicting UN report:
Mali’s government says terrorists killed 30 Tuaregs in the north of the country, contradicting reports of clashes between local Tuareg and Peul communities.
Politician killed in Central African Republic after he denounces violence:
A weekend of violence that left at least 10 dead included two gruesome lynchings of minority Muslims.
Russia, Egypt Ink $2 Billion Arms Deal:
Egypt struck a deal with Russia to buy $2 billion worth of military equipment. This is according to the Egypt Independent who has cited a senior official in Cairo. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have agreed to pay the price on Egypt’s behalf, Gazeta reported.
4 suspected “militants” killed in Russia’s Dagestan:
Russian authorities say police have killed five people including a prominent warlord in a clash in the restive North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
Eurocrat fury as Swiss ‘re-build walls’ against EU immigration:
The EU has threatened to review all bilateral agreements with Switzerland if Bern goes all the way and blocks immigrant inflow. On Sunday Swiss voters narrowly approved the return of strict quotas for immigrants from within the EU.
Obama Administration Wrestling With Whether To Kill U.S. Terror Suspect:
An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year.
Criminalizing journalism?: Video –
Glenn Greenwald responds to comments made this week on Capitol Hill that journalists like himself could be criminal accessories for handling leaked documents.
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
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,512,638,444,396
The New Dark Age 