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ICH 17 February 2013: JFK secretly freed rapists, drug dealers and Mafia hitmen to kill Castro
17 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Mali, Algeria, Libya and the New Front Line In ‘Energy Diplomacy’ By Patrick Kane The reality of the never-ending War on Terror is that it is integrally bound up with an imperialistic drive for resources. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33987.htm Continue reading
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ICH 16 February 2013: The Great Wealth Robbery
16 February 2013 — Information Clearing House What The Syrian Death Tolls Really Tell Us By Sharmine Narwani The latest UN-sponsored figure of 60,000 should not be reported as fact. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33980.htm Continue reading
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ICH 15 February 2013: Kissinger: If You Can’t Hear the Drums of War Your Deaf
15 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Obama, The US And The Muslim World: The Animosity Deepens By Glenn Greenwald Although it seemed impossible to achieve, Obama has presided over an America that, in many respects, is now even more unpopular in the Muslim world than it was under George Bush and Dick Cheney. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33951.htm Continue reading
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ICH 14 February 2013: US To Award Medals For Killing Civilians
14 February 2013 — Information Clearing House US strike kills 10 civilians as Obama touts end of Afghan occupation By Bill Van Auken Obama reiterated that Washington intends to maintain a military force in Afghanistan well past the formal date for the US-NATO withdrawal at the end of 2014 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33936.htm Continue reading
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ICH 12 February 2013: Khamenei Plays Hardball With Obama
12 February 2013 — Information Clearing House China Will Not Help To “Punish” North Korea By Moon Of Alabama China needs North Korea as a buffer against U.S. troops at its borders. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33933.htm Continue reading
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War Crimes and the Global War on Terrorism: US Arms Al Qaeda in Syria, Mass-Slaughters Civilians in Afghanistan By Tony Cartalucci
AFP has reported that a recent NATO airstrike in Afghanistan has killed over 10 civilians in an all-too-familiar headline glossed over by the Western media in an exercise of both depravity and hypocrisy. RT’s article, “NATO airstrike kills 10 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children – officials,” notes in particular that up to 11,864 civilians… Continue reading
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ICH 9 February 2013:
9 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria: How Jihadist’s Are Taking Over Syria‘s “Revolution” By Ruth Sherlock, Aleppo Life in Syria‘s most populous city has become a dog-eat-dog existence: a battle for survival in a place where the strong devour the weak. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33892.htm Continue reading
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ICH 8 February 2013: How Western Leaders Terrorized Muslim World
8 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Bulgarian Charge of Hezbollah Bombing Was an “Assumption” By Gareth Porter Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov’s dramatic announcement Tuesday on the Bulgarian investigation of the July 2012 terror bombing of an Israeli tourist bus was initially reported by Western news media as suggesting clear evidence of Hezbollah’s responsibility Continue reading
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ICH 7 February 2013: Poll : It’s Illegal to Target Americans: Ok To Kill Foreigners
7 February 2013 — Information Clearing House U.S. Goading Japan into Confrontation with China Will Japan Take the Bait? By John V. Walsh China has no record of expansionism overseas even going back to 1400 when it was the world’s premier naval power but never conquered or established colonies or took slaves. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33869.htm Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #113: American Foreign Policy – Have our war lovers learned anything?
Over the past four decades, of all the reasons people over a certain age have given for their becoming radicalized against US foreign policy, the Vietnam War has easily been the one most often cited. And I myself am the best example of this that you could find. I sometimes think that if the war… Continue reading
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ICH 6 February 2013: Obama Grants Himself License To Kill
6 February 2013 — Information Clearing House The Mali Blowback: More to Come? By Stephen Zunes U.S.-trained Army Captain Amadou Sanogo and other officers staged a coup and called for U.S. intervention along the lines of Afghanistan and the “war on terror.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33858.htm Continue reading
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ICH 6 February 2013: US Presidential Campaign Cost $7 Billion
6 February 213 — Information Clearing House Syria: Golden Days of Disinformation The Houla Massacre and the Battle of Taldou By Adam Larson This campaign has been enabled by a “world community” – the United Nations and several world governments, the bulk of the mainstream media, human rights groups, etc. – accepting of any rebel explanation Continue reading
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“The War is Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
This article, first published in June 2010, points to the “real economic reasons” why US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan eleven years ago. Continue reading
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54 countries helped CIA to kidnap, detain and torture – report
The report, titled Globalizing Torture, provides a detailed account of other countries covertly helping the US to run secret prisons, also known as ‘black sites’ on their territory and allowing the CIA to use national airports for refueling while transporting prisoners. Continue reading
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Her Majesty’s “Post Imperial” Government in Crisis: Prime Minister Cameron in Blunderland By Felicity Arbuthnot
Public anger and resentment is palpably mounting against pretty well all policies in a government seen as completely blind to the reality in Britain’s villages, towns and cities. Continue reading
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ICH 4-5 February 2013: Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Paul Craig Roberts, Glenn Greenwald and Many More
5 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Israel Plans Attack To Create And Occupy 10 Mile “Buffer Zone” Inside Syria Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv The plan envisages two Israeli infantry brigades and a tank battalion being based at outposts in Syrian territory. The current border, which is not internationally recognised, was redrawn after the 1973 Continue reading
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ICH 3 February 2013: Americans Are Living in an Orwellian State
3 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Turkish FM Slams Assad for not Responding to Israeli Strike By Yoel Goldman Ahmet Davutoglu says his government will not stand by as Israel attacks a Muslim country. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33824.htm Continue reading
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Wars That Aren’t Meant to Be Won By David Swanson
I looked at pretended and real reasons for wars and found some of the real reasons to be quite irrational. It should not shock us then to discover that the primary goal in fighting a war is not always to win it. Continue reading
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ICH 1-2 February 2013 Weekend Edition
2 February 2013 — Information Clearing House All That Pivots is Gold By Pepe Escobar What Beijing actually wants is to get rid of the US dollar peg. For that to happen, it needs vast gold reserves. So here’s Beijing pivoting from the US dollar to the yuan – and trying to sway vast swathes of the Continue reading
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New at SCF 27 January – 2 February 2013: Israel / EU / Venezuela / Syria-UK / Iraq / Big Brother / Serbia / China
2 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Yair Lapid: The New Star on the Israeli Political Scene 02.02.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ The main surprise of Israel’s latest elections for the19th Knesset was the Yesh Atid party («There is a future»), established less than a year ago it came in second with 19 seats, and Continue reading
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