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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 March 2012: Can Russia Save the Day?
8 March 2012 — Information Clearing House US ‘Offered Israel New Arms To Delay Iran Attack’ By AFP The US administration offered to supply Israel with advanced bunker-busting bombs and long-range refuelling planes. In return, Israel would agree to put off a possible attack on Iran till 2013, after the US elections in November. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30759.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 7 March 2012: Obama’s Kill Doctrine
7 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Imperial Rage for War By Stephen Lendman “A new chapter is being written in the history of nations. Never before has a small country dictated to a superpower” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30740.htm Continue reading
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NATO behaving like a law unto itself By M. D. Nalapat*
The impunity with which NATO personnel have killed and injured civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya has resulted in a sense among its personnel that they are “superior” to the people of these countries, all three of which are outside the charmed circle of those countries NATO considers “civilized” Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 March 2012: Stratfor Leaks: NATO Commandos in Illegal Special Ops in Syria
6 March 2012 — Information Clearing House 13 French Army Officers Captured in Syria By Lauren Williams Around 13 French officers are being held by Syrian authorities in Syria, sources have confirmed to The Daily Star. Sources said the group is being held in a field hospital in the city. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30722.htm Continue reading
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Iraq: Twenty One Years of Crimes Against Humanity By Felicity Arbuthnot
With current US-led plans to remodel (read annihilate) the remaining Middle East, the 1991, twenty eight country attack on Iraq’s just 27 million people, where, arguably it all started, has largely dropped from Western consciousness, though certainly not that of Iraqis. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bombing Osirak, Burying UN Resolution 487 – An Exchange With The BBC’s Jonathan Marcus
On June 7, 1981, eight Israeli aircraft bombed the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor ten miles southeast of Baghdad. Ten Iraqis and one French civilian were killed. In response to the attack, UN Security Council Resolution 487 was passed 15-0, on June 19, 1981, with no-one opposing and no-one abstaining – not even the United States. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 March 2012: Putin Not Part of NWO, Labelled Evil by Elites
5 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Wikileaks Bin Laden’s Body Taken To US: Stratfor By The Journal Secret emails sent by American based intelligence company Stratfor, give rise to growing speculation the US military did not dispose of Osama Bin Laden’s body at sea. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30718.htm Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 5 March 2012 By William Blum: Bradley Manning as patsy
It’s unfortunate and disturbing that Bradley Manning’s attorneys have chosen to consistently base his legal defense upon the premise that personal problems and shortcomings are what motivated the young man to turn over hundreds of thousands of classified government files to Wikileaks. They should not be presenting him that way any more than Bradley should… Continue reading
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IED Use by Syrian Rebels Soars By Jason Ditz
The Pentagon’s report says the number of IED attacks is up 134% from December to January, though they insisted that the exact number of attacks is, for some inscrutable reason, classified. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 March 2012: Annihilation Hovers over Palestine, Not Israel
3 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Annihilation Hovers over Palestine, Not Israel By Imtiaz Muqbil As the threat of Iran‘s nuclear potential is hyped in Tel Aviv and Washington, it is the people in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem who are in real danger. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30704.htm Continue reading
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Hillary Clinton and Middle East war crimes By Bill Van Auken
The ratcheting up of Washington’s rhetoric is aimed at winning public support for yet another imperialist intervention in the Middle East, with regime-change once again dressed up as a crusade for human rights. Clinton’s statement, however, begs a question. How precisely does she determine when armed violence against civilians constitutes a war crime? Continue reading
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Arms supplies to Syrian opposition call for legal evaluation – Russia
An armed antigovernment mutiny has been crushed in the Syrian city of Homs. More than 100 mercenaries have been seized. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has admitted that supplying arms to Syrian rebels is in no way contributing to a settlement in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry has, for its part, urged the United Nations… Continue reading
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Part VII of our interview series on the Makings of a Police State
Peter Van Buren joins us to discuss the Obama administration’s unprecedented persecution and prosecution of government whistleblowers, and how the has already charged more people under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information than all past presidencies combined. Continue reading
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Our Gang of War Criminals By Dave Lindorff
Under the Nuremberg Principles, later incorporated into the United Nations Charter, to which the United States is a signatory, the planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, which is defined as a war started against another nation that does not pose an imminent threat of attack on the aggressor nation or nations,… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 March 2012: Another Bogus Argument for War with Iran
1 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators Say By ERIC LICHTBLAU In sworn statements that seem likely to reignite the debate, two former senators who were privy to top secret information on the Saudis’ activities say they believe that the Saudi government might have played a… Continue reading
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Syria “Conspiracy Theories”: It is a Conspiracy By Felicity Arbuthnot
Sanity dictated that this would be a U.S. fantasy rampage too far and vast – until realization hit that the author of the map of this New World, planned in the New World’s “New World Order”, was Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters, who, in one of the most terrifying articles ever published, wrote in 1997: Continue reading
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ColdType, March 2012
The cover story of this month’s biggest-ever issue returns to the Middle East where the world is being prepared for a replay of the just-ended war in Iraq. Our seven essays by writers in North America and Europe point out, among other things, that there seems to be a media blackout of the fact that… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 29 February 2012: Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ Will Make Protest Illegal
29 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Manipulating Public Perceptions U.S. Military Has “Detailed Plans” On Syria Options By AP Detailed plans developed to carry out military action against Syria have been drawn up by the Pentagon and could be implemented upon orders by President Barack Obama. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30673.htm Continue reading
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