CIA
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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
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Truth, Propaganda and Media Manipulation
Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them. The… Continue reading
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US tightens military noose around Syria By Bill Van Auken
Amid an escalating drumbeat about a supposed threat that Syria’s government is preparing to use chemical weapons against its own people, Washington has deployed a naval armada off the country’s coast. Continue reading
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Historical Roots of the US “War on Terrorism”: The Pathology of a Single Superpower. NATO and Beyond
This incisive and carefully researched article originally published by Covert Action Quarterly in 1999 sheds light with tremendous foresight on the historical evolution of the US led “War on Terrorism” and the articulation of what has been described as “Global NATO”. Continue reading
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ICH 4 December 2012: A Window Into The American Soul
4 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Washington Floats Chemical Weapons Charge as Pretext for Syria Buildup By Bill Van Auken The alleged threat from Syrian “weapons of mass destruction” is entirely concocted. Not a single piece of hard evidence is cited by any government official or any media source. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33223.htm Continue reading
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CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information by Susanne Posel
In July of this year it became apparent through a flood of mainstream media reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) was “desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure” yet the NSA is notorious for its surveillance programs on American digital activity. Continue reading
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The Assads: Washington’s one-time favorite family in Damascus By Wayne MADSEN
Archived declassified files from the Central Intelligence Agency point to successive U.S. administrations supporting Syria’s long-serving President Hafez al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar al-Assad, as a bulwark against Arab radicals. Israel also recognized Hafez al-Assad as the “most pragmatic” of all the Arab leaders of his day… Continue reading
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ICH 16 November 2012: Uri Avnery: “Operation Short Memory”
16 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Egypt PM Says Gaza is ‘A Disaster’ By UPI “What I am witnessing in Gaza is a disaster and I can’t keep quiet. The Israeli aggression must stop,” he said. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33054.htm Continue reading
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Attacks on first responders transform criminality of drone strikes to sadism
Those of us on the left who came of age during the Vietnam War, as well as the period when CIA meddling in foreign affairs to deadly effect was at its peak, may have thought we’d lost our capacity to be shocked at what the United States has shown itself capable. But attacking those coming… Continue reading
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ICH 13 November 2012: Video: Confirmed: CIA Was Holding “Prisoners” at Benghazi Annex
13 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu: Engineering Consent For An Attack On Gaza Video Netanyahu: We’ll take whatever action is necessary to put a stop to this. This is not merely our right, it’s also our duty, and it’s something that I think is understood by any fair-minded person in any fair-minded government in the… Continue reading
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Beyond Bayonets and Battleships: Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power By Alfred W. McCoy
It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the heavens from the lower- to the exo-atmosphere. A wonder of the modern age, it can deliver its weaponry anywhere on the planet with staggering speed, knock out an enemy’s satellite communications system, or follow individuals biometrically for great distances. Along… Continue reading
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ICH 12 November 2012: Video: Survivors of Israeli Attack on Gaza Say Bombs Continued as Civilians Raised White Flags
12 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel Launches Missile Strike Against Syria By Niall Green The decision by the IDF to launch a strike now indicates that Washington and its allies are entering into a new phase of their conflict with the government of President Bashar al-Assad. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33008.htm Continue reading
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ICH 12 November 2012: Special – Petraeus Mistress Reveals Secret Benghazi CIA Prison?
12 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Petraeus Mistress Suggests Benghazi Attack Was Aimed At Secret CIA PrisonBy Tony LeeFormer CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus may have told his alleged mistress Paula Broadwell what really happened in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 Continue Continue reading
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ICH 11 November 2012: Israeli Insanity: Only ‘The Nuclear Option’ Can Work Against Iran
11 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Israeli Insanity Only ‘The Nuclear Option’ Can Work Against Iran, Former IDF Chief Says By Aaron Kalman “The only way to finish off Iran‘s nuclear program is by using the nuclear option,” said IDF Chief of General Staff Dan Halutz. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32998.htm Continue reading
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ICH November 8, 2012: US Says Iran Fired on US Drone Over Gulf
8 November 2012 — Information Clearing House US Says Iran Fired on US Drone Over Gulf By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press Little said the U.S. informed the Iranians that it would continue to conduct such surveillance flights in international airspace. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32978.htm Continue reading
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Money Laundering and Offshore Fraud for the Rich, Economic Austerity for the Poor By Julie Lévesque
Drug cartels, fraud, tax evasion and money laundering are common answers to those questions. Despite this reality and even in this era of fiscal austerity, the question world leaders avoid is: why is secret banking still allowed? Are they capable of putting a term to it but unwilling to do it because of the benefits… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report No.110 By William Blum: The universe unraveling
1 November 2012 — www.killinghope.org The universe unraveling The Southeast Asian country of Laos in the late 1950s and early 60s was a complex and confusing patchwork of civil conflicts, changes of government and switching loyalties. The CIA and the State Department alone could take credit for engineering coups at least once in each of the… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 October 2012: WikiLeaks reveals US detainee policies: Camp Delta
27 October 2012 Ecuador’s President suggests Assange be questioned at EmbassyVoice of Russia, News Today at 00:44 Sweden may send a representative of its prosecutor’s office to Ecuador’s Embassy in the UK to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange . This was stated by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who cited instances when representatives of… Continue reading
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ICH 23-24 October 2012: Blood is Their Argument: The Real Campaign Trail
24 October 2012 — Information Clearing House Third Party Presidential Debate Moderated by Larry King Video Four alternative candidates for president of the United States debated Tuesday night in Chicago and agreed America needs a good dose of what they could provide — clear, straight talk that has not been market-pasteurized. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32842.htm Continue reading
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CIA Chiefs Face Arrest over Horrific Evidence of Bloody 'Video-Game' Sorties by Drone Pilots By David Rose
The Mail on Sunday today reveals shocking new evidence of the full horrific impact of US drone attacks in Pakistan. A damning dossier assembled from exhaustive research into the strikes’ targets sets out in heartbreaking detail the deaths of teachers, students and Pakistani policemen. It also describes how bereaved relatives are forced to gather their… Continue reading