21 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Engineering Consent For More Wars
U.S. Military Investing Heavily in Africa
By Shashank Bengali
The Pentagon has begun a burst of spending in Africa, investing in air facilities, flight services, telecommunications and electrical upgrades as the U.S. military deepens its footprint in a region with a rising threat of “Islamist terrorism”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36604.htm
16 August 2013 — Information Clearing House
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Silent Martyrs Lie Soaked In Blood
By Robert Fisk
Some had chosen to see the dead – that ultimate statement – in all their reality.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35876.htm
18 July 2013 — Information Clearing House
Kerry to Present Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
“Peace” Talks to Resume Based on 1967 Lines, recognition of Israel as Jewish State
By Barak Ravid and Jack Khoury
Negotiations on borders will be based on the 1967 lines, with land swaps – taking into account the current reality in the West Bank, i.e. the major settlement blocs.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35579.htm
9 June, 2013 — Truthdig
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., on Wednesday after the third day of his court-martial. AP/Patrick Semansky
FORT MEADE, Md.—The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing Manning revealed, because they are classified, have been barred from discussion in court, effectively removing the fundamental issue of war crimes from the trial. Continue reading
24 May 2013 — Coldtype.net
The latest issue of ColdType is now on line at http://coldtype.net
This month’s Cover Story, Chris Hedges’ The Shame of America’s Gulags, provides a disturbing insight into conditions inside the most secure prisons in the United States. It’s chilling reading from a country that lays claim to being the freest and most humane in the world.
19 May 2013 — Truthdig
Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion no longer have external impediments. We wanted to illustrate what unrestrained corporate exploitation does to families, communities and the natural world. Continue reading
15 May 2013 — Democracy Now!
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hartford, Connecticut, and the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery. Continue reading
13 May 2013 — Information Clearing House
Syria Endgame Approaching Fast
By Shamus Cooke
Syrian government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war provocations and peace offers from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34922.htm
6 May 2013 — Information Clearing House
UN Investigator ‘Stupefied by Syrian Opposition Sarin Use’
Video
It’s the rebels, not President Bashar Assad’s forces, who have used chemical weapons.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34842.htm
6 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
Truthdig
In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning. For much more, including an in-depth …
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/listen_chris_hedges_interviews_julian_assange_20130505/
25 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report
26 March 2013 — Information Clearing House
Jihadists, Not Assad, Apparently Behind Reported Chemical Attack In Syria
By Anshel Pfeffer
The explosion claimed the lives of Syrian Armed Forces soldiers who are apparently loyal to Assad, and the Syrian government was quick to demand an international investigation of the incident. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34403.htm
13 March 2013 — Coldtype
In the March issue of COLDTYPE MAGAZINE – download your free copy today
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12 February 2013 — Media Lens
A spectacular event captured on film in a new documentary, ‘Chasing Ice’, depicts the stark impact of global warming on the Arctic. The stunning sequence shows the largest glacier calving event ever filmed. An on-screen graphic emphasises the huge scale of the ice collapse: Continue reading
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 Yom Kippur War.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33827.htm
3 December 2012 — Information Clearing House
Syria WMD Claim Is False
By Moon Of Alabama
If the Wired writers, had even some basic knowledge about ammunition engineering they would not fall for such a stupid claim some anonymous official makes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33215.htm
26 November 2012 — Information Clearing House
Mashaal: I Accept a Palestinian State on ’67 Borders
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Hamas leader says he’ll move to a peaceful path contingent on the “end of the occupation” and Palestinian statehood.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33150.htm
20 August 2012 — Information Clearing House
The War in the Shadows
By Chris Hedges
There are hundreds of millions of people who have a tragic intimacy with the twisted and brutal soul of American imperialism. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32231.htm
6 July 2012 — Information Clearing House
U.S. Helicopter Blasts Afghan Man to Pieces…
As The Pilot Sings ‘Bye, Bye Miss American Pie’
Video
It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31780.htm
15 February 2012 — Dandelion Salad – uncjschool on Feb 15, 2012
War correspondents Chris Hedges and David Zucchino, a 1973 graduate of the UNC journalism school, had a discussion with UNC J-school students on Feb. 13, 2012, in Carroll Hall. Hedges spoke later that evening as part of the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Vision Series.
The New Dark Age 