Iraq
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The Chilcot Inquiry. The British Government’s Role in the War on Iraq. Margaret Aldred and the Judicial Coverup By Dr. C. Stephen Frost
There have been five inquiries in the United Kingdom into the Iraq War: the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the Hutton Inquiry, the Butler Inquiry and the Chilcot Inquiry (the Iraq Inquiry). Not a single word of evidence at any of those inquiries has been heard under oath. Sir John… Continue reading
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ICH 8 June 2013: How Israel Killed Thirty-four US Sailors
8 June 2013 — Information Clearing House At Special UNSC Session Israel Threatened to Attack Syrian Forces, UN Peacekeeping Chief Says By Barak Ravid Ladsous said that the Israel Defence Forces and Syrian military were on the verge of the most direct military clash between the neighboring countries on the Golan Heights front in the past 40 Continue reading
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ICH 6 June 2013: Meet the ‘Friends of Jihad’
6 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Meet the ‘Friends of Jihad’ By Pepe Escobar Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about “the Syrian people” and congratulate themselves within the “Friends of Syria” framework for defending them from “tyranny”. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35189.htm Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 6 June 2013
6 June 2013 —williambowles.info WikiLeaks trial comes into focus New Zealand Herald Three days into Private Bradley Manning’s court-martial for giving thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, prosecutors have shown the soldier was trained to guard classified information and knew it could easily fall into enemy hands, yet defied … http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10888732 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning (not) on TV Network News By Peter Hart
If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers’ rights and the public’s right to know what the government is doing, the trial is of enormous consequence. Continue reading
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ICH 4 June 2013: NATO Data: 70% Support Assad
4 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention” By Ajamu Baraka I continue to be amazed with the ease with which the dividing line is blurred between what is real and what is fiction in the reporting on Syria by the Western media. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35180.htm Continue reading
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ICH 3 June 2013: 1 in 6 Going Hungry in U.S: New Report
3 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Who Benefits If The Killing In Syria Goes On? By Patrick Cockburn This is a cynical but probably correct explanation for why the US, Britain, France and the Sunni monarchies do not want the war to end. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35163.htm Continue reading
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ICH 1-2 June 2013: Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game
2 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Syrian Opposition Fighters Arrested with Chemical Weapons By Bill Van Auken Turkish police rounded up 12 members of Syria’s Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusra Front along with chemical weapons materials. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35150.htm Continue reading
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The Geopolitics of Gas and the Syrian Crisis By Dmitry MININ
What has one of the most democratic countries of the Middle East, Syria, done to tick off some of its neighbors in the West, the fierce fighters for democracy? The irrationality and unscrupulousness of the approaches Western countries have taken to the Syrian crisis, when the same people who in Europe are considered terrorists are… Continue reading
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ICH 31 May 2013: Western States Pouring Fuel on The Syrian Crisi
31 May 2013 — Information Clearing House “Rebels” Don’t Want Peace Syria’s Opposition Won’t Attend International Peace Talks NBC – Video The best hope yet for ending Syria’s civil war has suffered a serious setback. The main opposition group said it would not take part in talks in Geneva in the coming weeks. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35140.htm Continue reading
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Israel is Fighting a Regional War in Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The entry of Israeli troops and the Mossad security service into Syria with repeated Israeli air strikes via illegal use of Lebanese airspace on the Syrian military research facility in the town of Jamraya clarifies Israel’s role in destabilizing Syria. Israel has also admitted that “intense intelligence activity” is being maintained in Syria by Israeli… Continue reading
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ICH 29 May 2013: Time for Russia to Make a Stand
29 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syrian Rebel Alliance Openly Threatens Ethnic Cleansing By Alex Newman The rebel FSA spokesperson said in a TV interview that minority communities would be “wiped off the map” if the regime’s forces managed to capture the city of Al-Qusair. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35128.htm Continue reading
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Bush Adminstration Convicted of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity By Francis A. Boyle
In February 2011, Bush was forced to cancel a scheduled appearance in Geneva, Switzerland after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint charging him with violating international treaties against torture. Continue reading
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ICH 28 May 2013: How Obama and Al-Qaeda Became Syrian Bedfellows
28 May 2013 — Information Clearing House How Obama and Al-Qaeda Became Syrian Bedfellows By Shamus Cooke It’s now clear that Obama’s foreign policy in Syria is actively encouraging terrorism. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35115.htm Continue reading
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“The machiavelian threefold game of the neoconservatives” by Laurent Guyénot
To realize their fantasies of world domination, the neocons resorted to a triple discourse, as Laurent Guyénot shows in this study, i.e. a cynical political philosophy developed by their mentor Leo Strauss for domestic consumption; a cold analysis of Israeli strategic interests for the benefit of leaders in Tel Aviv, and a fear-mongering warning against… Continue reading
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ICH 27 May 2013: The Evil of "Humanitarian Interventionism"
23 May 2013 — Information Clearing House US Makes Syria an ‘Offer it Can’t Refuse’ – again By Finian Cunningham This is the scenario that Washington and its NATO allies are contriving for the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad… http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35093.htm Continue reading
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From Iraq, a tragic reminder to prosecute the war criminals By John Pilger
The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are the desert’s fingers. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school playgrounds, consuming children kicking a ball; and it carries, according to Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, “the seeds of our death”. An internationally respected cancer specialist at the… Continue reading
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ICH 26 May 2013: Let Us Mourn The Millions America Slaughtered, Then Mourn US Soldiers
23 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Let Us Mourn The Millions America Slaughtered, Then Mourn US Soldiers By Jay Janson Prosecute our own before our victims unite and prosecute all of us. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35090.htm Continue reading
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ICH 24 May 2013: The Real Reason For US Drone Attacks
24 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria: Opposition’s Booby Trap Blueprint for Qusayr By Radwan Mortada “The battle will be long and Qusayr is completely booby-trapped and will turn into a ball of fire as soon as Nasrallah’s men step inside.” He concludes, “We succeeded in luring Hezbollah’s fighters and Assad’s army to where we Continue reading
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ICH 23 May 2013: Chomsky ‘Obama Must be Taken Before ICC for the War on Terror’
23 May 2013 — Information Clearing House What is the U.S. REALLY doing in Syria? By Stephen M. Walt Washington can use Qatar and Saudi Arabia as its middlemen, roles they are all too happy to play for their own reasons. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35048.htm Continue reading
The New Dark Age 