March 2017
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ICH Headlines 7 March 2017
7 March 2017 — Information Clearing House The Bushes Are Not America’s Friends By Michael Scheuer A lesson from two George Bushes: Never give the elite the benefit of the doubt. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 5-6 March 2017
5-6 March 2017 — Information Clearing House The Donbass Is Breaking Away from an Agonized Ukraine By The Saker Tectonic shifts are continuing to occur in the political landscape of the Ukraine. Continue reading
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Video: 'J is for Junk Economics': Michael Hudson on TRNN (5/5)
Economist Michael Hudson explains why social security does not need to be ‘pre-funded’ by its beneficiaries Continue reading
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Video: 'J is for Junk Economics': Michael Hudson on TRNN (4/5)
Economist Michael Hudson takes on the mythology surrounding government budgets and explains how the term ‘stability’ has been used as a cover for financial fraud (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Obama Ordered Abuse Of Intelligence To Sabotage Trump Policies By Moon of Alabama
In its last months the Obama administration ordered the intelligence agencies to collect and distribute information of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. This to prevent any change by the Trump administration of the hostile policy towards Russia that the Obama administration instituted. The intent was also gives the intelligence services blackmail material to… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 3 March 2017
3 March 2017 — Information Clearing House The White House is Considering Direct Military Action to “Counter” North Korea By David Choi An internal White House review on North Korea strategy revealed the option to use military force or a regime change against North Korea. Continue reading
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Bees: The jury has retired
Last month, with your support, the Bee Defenders Alliance were at the European Court of Justice standing up for the bees. This group of independent scientists and beekeepers were taking on the world’s biggest pesticide companies – Bayer, Syngenta and BASF. I delivered them your message of support along with messages from over 57,000 Sum… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Rehabilitating Bush – The Deadly Illusion Of Corporate Dissent
3 March 2017 — Media Lens The title of the editorial said it all: ‘The Guardian view on George W Bush: a welcome return’ In a tongue-in-cheek, almost jovial, piece the Guardian unsubtly rehabilitated a man responsible for crimes that are among the most egregious in all history. Continue reading
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Analysis of Trump’s Address to US Congress, Syria: Imperialist Divide and Conquer Strategy
2 March 2017 — Global Research Trump’s Address to the US Congress: Making America Safe for Wall Street and War Profiteers By Stephen Lendman, March 02 2017 His Tuesday address was long on making America safe for Wall Street, war profiteers and other corporate predators, short on what’s most needed to serve all Americans equitably and promote world peace. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 2 March 2017
2 March 2017 — Information Clearing House Syria – Erdogan’s Lost Bet – Trump Likely To Follow A Cautious Strategy By Moon Of Alabama Trump’s more belligerent remarks on Syria, on safe zones and military escalation, are rhetoric. Continue reading
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America’s love affair with Salafi jihadists By Rania Khalek
The most significant chapter in the US-Islamist love affair came in the 1980s, when the US armed the Mujahedeen to bleed the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. It was the largest and longest running covert operation in US history. People like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Osama bin Laden associate whose claim to fame was splashing acid in… Continue reading
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Video: 'J is for Junk Economics': Michael Hudson on TRNN (3/5)
All right, Michael, in this book — and we’re now in segment three — and we are going to talk about Trump’s plan to lower taxes. He has said that he would reduce corporate taxes from 35% to 15%. The 35% itself is a bit of a myth, because I don’t think there are too… Continue reading
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New Report: British Drone Operations Against ISIS, 2014-2016 By Chris Cole
Drone Wars UK is today publishing a new report detailing UK armed drone and air operations against ISIS. The report contains data on UK operations in Iraq and Syria gained through Freedom of Information requests since 2014 as well as background and a timeline of UK air operations. In addition, the report highlights continuing issues… Continue reading
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Media Fawn Over Trump’s Success at Saying Words in Semi-Coherent Fashion
What came to be known as the “expectations game” during the George W. Bush years was wielded with notorious cynicism. The assumption behind this game in those days was that Bush was a bumbling doofus who could hardly string together a coherent sentence, so if he got to the level of a high school debate,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for March 2, 2017: HBCUs and Free Tuition Movement, Sheepdogging Thru Trumpland, Liberals Expose Themselves
2 March 2017 — Black Agenda Report Time For A Movement For Free Tuition at HBCUs and Public Colleges amd Universities A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon Instead of worrying about where Kellyanne Conway’s feet are, or blasting Betsy DeVos’s ignorance on HBCUs we should insist that black college presidents start or Continue reading
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Trump’s Middle East “Adventurism”, Agriculture: Organic Vs Industrial, Climate Change: Who is the Biggest Villain?
1 March 2017 — Global Research Trump’s “New Adventurism” in the Middle East, Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program By Dr. Amir A. Amirshekari, March 01 2017 President Trump has embarked upon a “new adventurism” in the Middle East region. Israel and several Arab countries, backed by the US, are trying to create a new intergovernmental military alliance, such as Continue reading
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Shotgun Pointed at Black Children Trivialized as ‘Confederate Flag Incident’
1 March 2017 — FAIR With a loaded shotgun, actually. As FAIR has noted before (4/1/15, 3/8/16), how a story is framed is as important—if not more so—than the content of an article. Sixty percent of Americans don’t read past the headline and 60 percent of Americans share articles on social media without reading them. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 28 February 2017
28 February 2017 — Information Clearing House Trump’s Proposed U.S. “Defense” Spending Would Be 80 Percent of Russia’s Entire Military Budget By Alex Emmons U.S. spends more money than the next seven biggest spenders combined, including China and Russia. Continue reading
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Historic Increase of US Military Budget, Eva Bartlett: Fake Media Narrative on Syria, CIA: Peddler of Fake News
28 February 2017 — Global Research Historic Increase of US Military Budget: Trump Boosts Most Wasteful Department, Reduces All Others By Eric Zuesse, February 28 2017 Trillions of dollars are being poured down, into ‘Defense’ (including aggressions such as the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.) and into ‘intelligence’ (including the false ‘intelligence’ that was used to Continue reading
The New Dark Age 