July 14, 2017
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War crimes: Mosul families count their dead as US airstrikes kill thousands of civilians
Award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, writes from Mosul, recording accusations by local people who assert the US-led coalition has ‘massively’ overused force. They allege that the intensity of the bombardment from the air was out of all proportion to the number of Isis fighters on the ground Continue reading
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The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
First published by GR on June 14, 2014, updated August 2014, this article reveals how the US and its allies facilitated the incursion of Islamic State (ISIS) convoys into Iraq in June 2014 prior to the onset of the counter-terrorism bombing campaign launched by Obama in August 2014. Continue reading
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Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US
Major media’s relative lack of interest in the mass arrests by Metro DC police on Inauguration Day is a fact noted by activists and journalists since the incident almost six months ago. One way to measure the dearth of coverage is to compare the attention paid to comparable protester arrests in Russia last month. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 13 July 2017
13 July 2017 — Information Clearing House Syria Summary – Will The Trump-Putin Agreement Hold? By Moon Of Alabama The U.S. effort to impose itself on the area is doomed. Continue reading