14 July 2014 — Information Clearing House
Israel’s Incremental Genocide in the Gaza Ghetto
By Ilan Pappe
One can witness again consensual Israeli Jewish support for the massacre of civilians in the Gaza Strip, without one significant voice of dissent.
Israel Is Captive to Its ‘Destructive Process’
By Chris Hedges
The Palestinians in Gaza live in conditions that now replicate those first imposed on Jews by the Nazis in the ghettos set up throughout Eastern Europe.
Tormenting Gaza
By Richard Falk
Disappointing global response to Israeli aggression calls for more grassroots efforts to help Palestinian struggle.
Terror in Gaza: 57 Seconds After ‘Warning,’ Israel Destroys Home
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See how Israel “warns” Gazans it is going to bomb their homes and imagine the terror.
Gaza: Israel Can Never Crush Our Will
By Abdul Bari Atwan
The West, and their Arab allies, are seeking to destroy the spirit of resistance and dignity.
WANTED
A New Strategy For Palestinian Resistance
By Alan Hart
What must happen if Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is to be given new and more effective life?
In Case You Missed It
Philip Giraldi – Is Israel a U.S. Ally?
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Inside the beltway types and the media constantly refer to Israel as an ally, which it is not. Israeli soldiers have never fought beside American troops.
How Saudi Arabia Helped Isis Take Over the North of Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn
Saudi Arabia has created a Frankenstein’s monster over which it is rapidly losing control.
The Empire as Basket Case
An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country?
By Tom Engelhardt
What can be seen is the untracked rise of a Third World country inside a First World one, a powerless America inside the putative global superpower.
The Implosion Is Near: Signs Of The Bubble’s Last Days
By David Stockman
Financial markets have now become dangerous casinos in which speculative bubbles are guaranteed to build to dangerous extremes.
You Want a Solution?
Try Not to Get Hurt When It Collapses, Then Start Over
By Charles Hugh Smith
Just do nothing, and the whole rotten financial contraption will collapse, very likely within the next decade.
“Labor Reform”: Proposals to Maximize Workplace Bullying
By James Petras
The growing disparity of power between capital and labor resulting from “labor reforms” is the key factor producing inequality.
Israel Kills 172 People in Gaza:
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said “too many” Palestinian civilians have been killed, as the Palestinian death toll from the punishing Israeli campaign hit 172 with another 1,230 people wounded.
Eighteen members of al-Batsh family were killed in Gaza strike:
More than 16,000 others seek refuge at UN schools.
Israeli jets destroying Gaza water and sewerage systems: officials:
Palestinian officials on Saturday claimed that the Israelis had targeted water wells in different parts of Gaza City, leaving thousands of families without access to clean drinking water.
Israel says it has downed drone from Gaza:
Israeli army says it shot down drone near city of Ashdod after Hamas said it sent several drones on “special mission”.
Police: Suspects planned Palestinian teen’s death in advance, burned him alive:
Court lifts gag order on grisly murder of Palestinian teen, reveals suspects’ desire to avenge murder of 3 Jewish teens; victim’s cellphone found in one suspect’s home.
US warns against Israeli ground invasion of Gaza:
The United States on Monday warned against any Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, saying it would put even more civilians at risk than are currently in the crossfire
Abu Khdeir suspects to plead insanity:
Three Israeli suspects who have confessed to the gruesome killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was abducted in East Jerusalem and later burnt to death, are going to plead “temporary insanity”, according to Haaretz.
14 people killed in Iraq:
At least 14 people were killed in two separate attacks in Iraq on Monday, local and security sources said.
Iraq rebels storm town near Baghdad:
Sunni fighters seize control of official buildings and police station in Dhuluiyah, which army recaptured last month.
Prisoners killed in Iraq ‘to stop them joining jihad’:
The mayor of the Iraqi town of Baquba has taken it upon himself to reveal the truth about the fate of 46 prisoners, his nephew among them, who were killed in their cells.
5,500 Gulf citizens fighting with ISIS:
Around 4,000 of them are thought to be from Saudi Arabia, while the rest are believed to be from other GCC countries.
Eight killed in explosions near Egypt-Israel border:
At least eight people were killed Monday in explosions near a security compound in al-Arish on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, near Israel and Gaza.
Clashes on Syria-Lebanon border kill 7:
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting left seven Hezbollah fighters dead and 31 wounded. The activist group said 17 rebels were killed and 23 wounded, and that Hezbollah fighters captured 14 rebels.
UN authorizes cross-border aid access in Syria:
The U.N. Security Council on Monday authorized humanitarian access without Syrian government consent at four border crossings into rebel-held areas from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, although Syria has warned it deems such deliveries an attack.
UK policy of supporting Syrian rebels against Bashar al-Assad ‘stupid’:
Syrian minister claims Britain should apologise for backing rebel groups, and instead work with Assad against terrorism
Cui bono:
Qatar to buy Patriot missiles in $11 bln deal: US officials:
The sale would provide Qatar with roughly ten radars and 34 launchers for Patriot systems designed to knock out incoming missiles, as well as 24 Apache helicopters and Javelin anti-tank missiles.
Mali clashes kill 37 :
At least 37 people dead in clashes the army blames on rebel infighting days before peace talks due to start.
Nigeria: Scores killed as Boko Haram invades Borno villages:
Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect invaded Dille Village in Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State and opened fire on residents, setting ablaze three churches, including the Church of Brethren in Nigeria (EYN),as well as, shops and residential buildings.
Heavy fighting kills five in Libya’s Benghazi:
Nine wounded after heavy fighting between security forces and rival militias erupted overnight.
United Nations mission in Libya to be temporarily withdrawn amid violence: .
The decision comes one day after deadly clashes closed the country’s main airport.
As Ebola stalks West Africa, medics fight mistrust, hostility:
From Guinea, where the four-month-old outbreak claimed the first of more than 500 lives, to Sierra Leone, scores of patients are hiding away, believing hospitalization is a “death sentence”.
At least 30 rebels killed asUkraine forces break rebel airport blockade:
Ukraine’s military said on Monday that its warplanes had inflicted heavy losses on the pro-Russian separatists during air strikes on their positions around Luhansk airport
Russia Increases Troop Numbers on Border With Ukraine:
Russia has redeployed 10,000 to 12,000 troops along its border, just a month after drawing that number down to under 1,000, a military officer with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels said Monday.
Russia Considering ‘Surgical Strike’ on Ukraine – Report:
Moscow is considering “surgical retaliatory strikes” on the Ukrainian territory after the standoff has led to first civilian victims among Russians on Russia’s territory, a Kremlin source told Kommersant Monday.
Kremlin denies Ukraine bombing plan:
The Kremlin denied on Monday a report that Moscow was considering targeted strikes against Ukraine after shells landed across the border and killed a Russian civilian.
‘Father was lying on the porch with his arm blown off’ – eyewitness to Ukraine’s shelling
Eleven Armed Rebels Killed In Kunduz:
Afghan National Army forces conducting clearing operation in Chahardara district of Kunduz province killed 11 armed rebels.
Afghans to Work on Forming New Type of Government: Official:
In the long term, the Afghans will be working towards forming a new type of government altogether that offsets the strength of the president, as wielded by current president Hamid Karzai since he came to power, a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call Monday.
Over a dozen CIA-recruited spies work in German ministries – report:
US secret services have recruited more than a dozen officials in various German government ministries to work as spies, with some of them working for the CIA for many years, a German tabloid reported on Sunday.
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control:
At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that’s a ‘totalitarian mentality’
‘It defies belief’: Snowden condemns UK’s new surveillance bill:
NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has denounced the UK’s emergency surveillance bill, criticizing its heightened powers of intrusion along with the distinct lack of public debate it encompassed.
Carlos Slim’s empire broken up but oligarchs still control Mexico:
These reforms represent yet another stich-up at the expense of ordinary Mexicans. After all, one should always be cautious about reforms that have been pushed overwhelmingly by the very industry they are supposed to regulate.
Central American radio stations are playing anti-immigration songs paid for by the US government:
The commissioner of the United States Customs and Border Protection says his agency’s new million-dollar multimedia campaign has “a very clear, simple and direct message.” The way that message is being conveyed, however, isn’t as transparent.
Bowe Bergdahl to return to active army duty, officials say:
Sergeant held captive by the Taliban for five years to be assigned to Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in Texas
Lord Blencathra ordered to apologise for signing lobbying contract with Caribbean tax haven:
Lord Blencathra, formerly David Maclean, was found by the Lords Commissioner for Standards to have wrongly signed a contract with a Caribbean tax haven in which he agreed to lobby members of Parliament on its behalf.
The Head Of ‘The Central Bank Of The World’ Warns That Another Great Financial Crisis May Be Coming:
Speaking of the financial markets, Caruana ominously declared that “it is hard to avoid the sense of a puzzling disconnect between the markets’ buoyancy and underlying economic developments globally” and he noted that “markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”.
Citigroup in $7B Deal to Settle Mortgage-Bond Probe :
Citigroup agreed to pay $7 billion in fines and consumer relief to resolve government claims that it misled investors about the quality of mortgage-backed bonds sold before the 2008 financial crisis. Phil Mattingly reports on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
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 :3,459
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,549,312,900,386
The New Dark Age 
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