3 July 2014 — Information Clearing House
Washington’s War Crimes From Africa And The Middle East To Ukraine
By Paul Craig Roberts
Washington’s response to Putin’s stand down is to increase the slaughter of civilians, all the while denying that any such slaughter is occurring.
Leopold would love Dick Cheney.
Empire’s Age-Old Aim: Wealth and Power
By Lawrence B. Wilkerson
Torturing people is dependent on a nation’s supposed needs, killing people on the expediency of policy, waging war on monetary and commercial gain, and lying to the people is a highly reputable tactic in pursuit of each.
Behind the Sound Bites Lies the Hideous Truth
By Gerald A. Perreira
The battle that is coming has been in the making for a long while – so has the resistance that will oppose it.
Terror in the Skies
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
When it comes to mass murder, for Washington, sky is the limit.
How The Public Was Manipulated Into Believing The Israeli Teens Were Alive:
By Noam Sheizaf
The government-led campaign calling for their release helped the legitimacy of Israel’s military operation in the West Bank. Local and even international media played along.
A Jewish Democracy: In Practice It Is A Terrorist State
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“For you to lie, to kill your own people if it serves the tribal interest this is exactly what you believe in.” Gilad Atzmon.
On Israel-Palestine and BDS
By Noam Chomsky
One way to punish Israel for its egregious crimes was initiated by the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom in 1997: a boycott of settlement products.
Chaos Incorporated
Ukraine Is Next On The agenda.
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For Washington’s neocons the world is a huge playground. In the name of “democracy” they have destroyed one country after another. Ukraine is now on the agenda.
Creeping Repression, Galloping War
The Efflorescence of American Fascism
By Norman Pollack
Putin does not want war. It’s doubtful that Obama fully reciprocates that sentiment.
This Independence Day, America Again Has a Monarch
By Andrew Napolitano
We have gone from an inherited tyrant to an elected one.
238 Years Later, Would Americans Still Choose Freedom Over Slavery?
By John Whitehead
Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials.
More Americans Killed By US Cops Than In Iraq War and Occupation
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500 innocent Americans are murdered by police every year (USDOJ).
Fact or propaganda?
Scores of Sunni militants reported killed by Iraqi army:
More than 100 Sunni militants were killed in battles with the Iraqi army Thursday and late Wednesday, but the militants’ group gained potentially significant economic ground in their struggle for leverage in the region, taking control of Syria’s largest oil field.
War criminal says:
‘You Have to Kill Them’ : Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq :
Ambassador Dennis Ross told Defense One. “Ultimately what they want to do is show how they are able to take us on. And so we will be drawn into this more and more inevitably because we will have to interrupt their ability to plan and operate lest they become a threat to us.”
46 Indian nurses ‘abducted’ by ISIS in Saddam’s hometown:
The Indian staff were reportedly forced to board two buses, which then drove off to an undisclosed location. Akbaruddin said that five of the nurses received minor injuries from cut glass, though he denied they had been caught in an explosion.
Baghdad braces for ‘Zero Hour’ sleeper cell strike:
Iraqi insurgents are preparing for an assault on Baghdad, with sleeper cells planted inside the capital to rise up at “Zero Hour” and aid fighters pushing in from the outskirts, according to senior Iraqi and U.S. security officials.
New video shows Isis fighters in control of Syria’s biggest oil field:
The capture of the al-Omar oil field gives Isis control of crude reserves which could be useful to its advancing fighters, and underlines how the al-Qaeda offshoot has eclipsed its militant rivals by capturing territory and assets across Syria and Iraq in the past few weeks.
Russia Delivers 2nd Batch of Jets To Iraq As USA Unloads 4000 Hellfire Missiles:
While this morning the intelligentsia of mainstream media proclaimed “the situation in Iraq is calming down” predicated on the fact that oil prices were lower and stocks at record highs, we suspect the additional war material to Iraq will do nothing but increase the determination of the “Islamic State” to increase its Caliphate.
Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq :
Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said Saudi Arabia had deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq on Thursday after Iraqi forces abandoned the area, but Baghdad denied pulling forces back and said it remained in full control of its frontier.
ISIS seizes oil field and towns in Syria’s east:
Militants from the Islamic State group seized control of Syria’s largest oil field from rival Islamist fighters on Thursday, strengthening its advance across the eastern Deir al-Zor province, an opposition monitoring group said.
Syrian army recaptures Aleppo’s industrial city:
The Syrian government forces on Thursday fully recaptured an industrial city in the northern province of Aleppo, according to the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV.
Syria : UK planned to train and equip 100,000 rebels:
The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army to defeat President Bashar al-Assad, BBC Newsnight can reveal.
Murdered Palestinian teenager’s family says new footage shows his abduction:
Claims that Mohamed Abu Khdeir was targeted by Israeli extremists in revenge attack appear to be bolstered by video
Press TV: On Israel’s Genocidal Nature : Must Watch :
Press TV has conducted an interview with Gilad Atzmon, a political commentator, from London, about the violent reaction by the Israeli PM and Israeli settlers to the confirmed deaths of three missing Israeli settlers.
17 people killed in security raids in Egypt’s Sinai:
Egyptian troops killed 12 alledged militants, who are suspected members of al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, destroying their vehicles which were used in attacks against Egyptian soldiers in southern of Rafah, the sources said. Also in Rafah, five suspected militants were killed and three others arrested while they were trying to plant bombs.
Two killed in Cairo blast on anniversary of Mursi ouster:
Two men were killed in a bomb blast in Cairo on Thursday, security sources said, one of several explosions on the anniversary of the army’s removal of Egypt’s president Mohammed Mursi.
Tony Blair and Egypt’s truly horrendous human rights record:
Since the military’s unseating of Mohamed Morsi a year ago, there has been a surge in arbitrary arrests and detentions. Harrowing cases of torture in police and military detention are piling up, and the last 12 months have seen a reported 80 deaths in custody – one every four or five days
Migrants held in Libya say they were hung from trees, whipped:
Human Rights Watch documents horrific abuse claims by migrants in detention centres
The looting of Libya:
120 Libyan rebels charter plane to Sarajevo to watch a movie:
Some 120 Libyan rebels have chartered a plane and travelled to Sarajevo to watch the premiere of a documentary about their revolution.
Somalia lawmaker, bodyguard killed in capital attack:
Mohamed Mohamud Heyd, his bodyguard, a parliamentary aide and another lawmaker were on their way to attend a parliamentary meeting in Mogadishu when their car was sprayed with bullets, said Captain Mohamed Hussein of the Somali police.
Growing the Empire:
U.S. discloses secret Somalia military presence, up to 120 troops: (Reuters) –
U.S. military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist militant group al Shabaab, U.S. officials said.
African nations give rebels in Congo six months to disarm: –
African nations have agreed to suspend military operations for six months against Rwandan rebels in Congo to give them more time to lay down their arms, regional government officials said.
Bomb explodes among children playing in Afghanistan, 2 killed:
At least two Afghani children were killed and eight others were wounded in a bombing in Herat province Thursday, the Afghan Interior Ministry reported.
What did $7 billion spent on opium eradication in Afghanistan buy? More opium.:
Opium production and heroin addiction are soaring in Afghanistan.
‘Thanks, Ukraine Air Force’: Bombarded villagers accuse Kiev of killing civilians:
The village of Kondrashovka in eastern Ukraine lies devastated after shelling by Kiev troops which killed seven people. Bodies torn to pieces are strewn across the settlement and those who survived are asking: why did Kiev kill their families?
Swedish court sets date for Julian Assange rape case hearing:
The court announced on Thursday that the two sides will present their arguments on 16 July in a public hearing – the first formal legal discussion of the case since Assange sought asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London two years ago.
Use Tor? You’re on the NSA’s ‘EXTREMIST’ list:
A detailed analysis of the NSA’s XKeyscore snooping software has shown the extent of the paranoid agency’s targeting of Tor users, Linux Journal readers and and anyone else interested in online privacy.
NSA targets the privacy-conscious:
Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search.
Is Your Android Device Telling the World Where You’ve Been?:
Do you own an Android device? Is it less than three years old? If so, then when your phone’s screen is off and it’s not connected to a Wi-Fi network, there’s a high risk that it is broadcasting your location history to anyone within Wi-Fi range that wants to listen.
Drone memo should reverse Gitmo convictions, attorneys claim:
“That completely blows away one of the major prongs of the government’s theory in all these Guantanamo cases,” Sam Morison, Khadr’s Pentagon-based lawyer, told The Canadian Press
German Parliament OKs national minimum wage:
Most workers in Europe’s biggest economy will be guaranteed at least$11.60 per hour under the legislation, which takes effect Jan. Some employers will have two years to phase in the minimum wage; under-18s will be exempted, as will the long-term unemployed for six months after they return to work.
Deported Veterans of America:
Some of them have risked their lives on the front lines in wars like Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Today they find themselves deported to Mexico
U.S. Bank Must Cough up $200 Million:
U.S. Bank this week agreed to pay $200 million to settle federal allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by originating and underwriting FHA-insured mortgage loans that violated guidelines
Record Number of Americans Not in Labor Force in June:
The number of Americans 16 and older who did not participate in the labor force climbed to a record high of 92,120,000 in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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 :3,455
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
1,546,599,270,809
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