Afghanistan
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ICH 25 December 2012: Happy Christmas – War Is Over
23 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Happy Christmas – War Is Over Video “War is Over, if you want it, war is over now” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33435.htm Continue reading
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ICH 24 December 2012: The Greatest Gift For All
24 December 2012 — Information Clearing House The Rape of Syria By Pepe Escobar That is disaster capitalism in action, phase I; the terrain is already prepared for a profitable “reconstruction” of Syria once a pliable, pro-Western turbo-capitalism government is installed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33425.htm Continue reading
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Ruppert Murdoch’s Bid to Persuade Gen. David Petraeus to Run as Republican Candidate in the 2012 Presidential Election By Jonathan Cook
A taped conversation shows that in early 2011 Murdoch sent Roger Ailes, the boss of his most important US media outlet, Fox News, to Afghanistan to persuade Gen David Petraeus, former commander of US forces, to run against Barack Obama as the Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Murdoch promised to bankroll Petraeus’ campaign… Continue reading
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ICH 23 December 2012: The Ultimate Logic of a Society Built on Mass Murder
23 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Resisting Genocide: Syria, North Korea, and Cuba By Gearóid Ó Colmáin As NATO and Gulf Co-operation Council terrorists persist in their attempt to destroy the Syrian Arab Republic with car bombs, torture, beheadings and mayhem, the Syrian state has still shown no evidence of imminent collapse. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33424.htm Continue reading
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ICH 21 December 2012: NRA Wants Guns in Every School
21 December 2012 — Information Clearing House House Approves Bill Authorizing $633 Billion in War Spending By David Alexander Reuters The Republican-controlled House approved the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 315-107. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33406.htm Continue reading
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NSA: Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Was Not a Grand Design But a Grand Entanglement Resulting from Faulty Intelligence, Excessive Secrecy…
On December 12, 1979, the Soviet Politburo gathered to formally approve the decision made several days earlier to send a “limited contingent” of Soviet forces into Afghanistan. Continue reading
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War or prosperity? UK’s price tag for Afghan war rises to $30 billion while cutting vital social services at home
“The UK has revealed that the cost of its involvement in the war in Afghanistan has reached $27.6 billion, and may end up being as much as $32.5 billion. Meanwhile, the UK continues to slash domestic social services to reduce its budget deficit. Continue reading
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ICH 19 December 2012: Unbelievable – Outrageous! – Do you agree?
19 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Egypt’s New Pharaoh By Chris Hedges Morsi and the Brotherhood have been exposed as the heirs of the old dictatorship in new garb. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33380.htm Continue reading
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ICH 18 December 2012: What If Children Mattered No Matter Where They Lived –
18 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Obama’s War on Syria and Its Implications By Shamus Cooke The Obama administration has already declared war on Syria, even if it isn’t “official” yet. Consider the facts, all of them acts of war: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33365.htm Continue reading
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ICH 17 December 2012: ‘Useless, useless, useless’: the Palestinian verdict on Tony Blair
17 December 2012 — Information Clearing House West has Lured al-Qaeda into Syria to be killed: Nasrallah By Tehran Times “I warn al-Qaeda: the Americans and the European countries and Arab and Islamic countries have set a trap for you in Syria, and opened for you a battlefield so you come from across the world… to Continue reading
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United States and al-Qaeda: Strange Bedfellows? Hassan N. Gardezi
There is a war raging in our times between a coalition of states led by the United States of America and al-Qaeda which has entered its second decade. One of the parties in this war, the United States, needs no introduction. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it became the sole superpower and is… Continue reading
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ICH 16 December 2012: Thinking the Unthinkable
16 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria: Insurgents On The Run? By Moon Of Alabama The “western” and Gulf support of the insurgents continues even after nearly all insurgent groups pledged their continued support for the jihadist Nusra Front which the U.S. designated as a terrorist organization. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33342.htm Continue reading
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ICH 15 December 2012: An Interview With Jesus Christ
15 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria: The Descent into Holy War By Patrick Cockburn It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in Syria. It shows two men being beheaded by Syrian rebels, one of them by a child. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33331.htm Continue reading
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Apostles of a war without end By Neil Clarke
The West stepped up its intervention in the Syrian civil war this week, with the United States formally recognising the rebel coalition as “the legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. Continue reading
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ICH 14 December 2012: 159 Killed in Syria: 27 Killed in Connecticut
14 December 2012 — Information Clearing House US-Backed Syrian Opposition Demands Support for Al Qaeda By Tony Cartalucci US-handpicked opposition leader, Moaz al-Khatib wants US to reconsider terror listing for Al Qaeda’s al-Nusra front. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33315.htm Continue reading
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ICH 13 December 2012: US ‘Tortured and Sodomised’ Suspect – European court rules
13 December 2012 — Information Clearing House European Court of Human Rights Finds US/CIA Guilty of Torture By Amrit Singh The CIA stripped, hooded, shackled, and sodomized el-Masri. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33307.htm Continue reading
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ICH 12 December 2012: Judge Censors US Torture Testimony
12 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Open Declaration of War? US Recognizes Syrian Opposition Body By RT Russia is “surprised” by the US move, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on Wednesday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33298.htm Continue reading
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UK Waging Endless Wars: At Home and Abroad by Finian Cunningham
Austerity is here to stay in the United Kingdom, lasting until at least 2018 and more likely beyond that year. It is a shocking peremptory order when you think about it. The people are being told, “Poverty is your miserable lot and don’t even question it.” Continue reading
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ICH 11 December 2012: I Am A Soldier. I Am Dirt. I Kill
11 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Road Map Drawn Up by Syrian Traitors to Serve Imperialists, Gulf Monarchies By Noureddine Merdaci In reality, the “revolt” in Syria, totally managed by foreign countries and their intelligence services, was a proxy war against the Syrian national state, a war which needed “Syrians at their service” only to Continue reading
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ICH 10 December 2012: U.S. Militarism Threatening World War III
10 December 2012 — Information Clearing House US Seen as ‘First Among Equals’ in 2030: Intel Report By Shaun Tandon The study predicted that Asia’s economy, military spending and technological investment would surpass those of North America and Europe combined by 2030, but warned of major uncertainty over an emerging China. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33279.htm Continue reading