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ICH 201 August 2013: The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’
20 August 2013 — Information Clearing House How Some Ordinary Egyptians Became ‘Malicious Terrorists’ By Robert Fisk It is true that gunmen have fired from Brotherhood crowds. A handful at most – and it does not justify the Egyptian press calling tens of thousands of people “terrorists” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35922.htm Continue reading
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ICH 19 August 2013: Congresswomen’s Voicemail: Where’s My Bribe?
19 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Egypt: From Anarchy to Insanity Needs Global Intervention By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. Military dictators have replaced Pharaoh to make Egypt a land of unpredictable warring people. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35910.htm Continue reading
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WHO Is Delaying Release of Iraqi Birth Defect Data? By Kelley B. Vlahos
who Observers say they are on the cusp of getting the hard evidence needed to prove Iraqis are suffering from a disproportionate rate of birth defects and cancers, likely due to massive pollution caused by the war. So what’s the problem? Or should we say, WHO is the problem? Continue reading
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ICH 18 August 2013: In Search of Palestine – Edward Said’s Return Home
18 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria: Politics Not Theology By Robin Yassin-Kassab “I’m a Muslim, but my first religion is humanity. I don’t care about the religion of the president. But I’ll fight to the death to not be ruled by a murderer.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35896.htm Continue reading
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ICH 17 August 2013: Chomsky: American Power is Dangerous
17 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Bonapartism” Egypt’s Revolution After the Smoke Clears By Shamus Cooke Why would one enemy of the revolution be attacking another? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35888.htm Continue reading
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ICH 16 August 2013: Murdering the Wretched of the Earth – Chris Hedges
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 Continue reading
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Egypt’s Junta Has Nothing to Lose By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The appointment of Robert Ford as the new American ambassador to Egypt was indeed an ominous sign that the Obama administration expected civil war conditions to arise in Egypt. Ford’s forte during his hugely successful «diplomatic» assignment in Baghdad in the middle of the last decade was to organize the notorious death squads, which tore… Continue reading
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ICH 14 August 2013: Bloodbath in Cairo
14 August 2013 — Information Clearing House At least 1,000 people killed as police move to disperse Cairo sit-ins: Security forces launched crackdown to clear pro-Morsi camps in two squares in the Egyptian capital, killing at least 1,000 and injuring 10,000, latest reports say http://is.gd/Hij7lM Continue reading
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Screaming in Bradley Manning’s Trial By David Swanson
I don’t blame Bradley Manning for apologizing for his actions and effectively begging for the court’s mercy. He’s on trial in a system rigged against him. The commander in chief declared him guilty long ago. He’s been convicted. The judge has been offered a promotion. The prosecution has been given a playing field slanted steeply… Continue reading
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Two Births: A Gilded Arrival and a Poisoned Legacy By Felicity Arbuthnot
On 22nd July two babies were born – in different worlds. Prince George Alexander Louis, son of Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, arrived in the £5,000 a night Lindo Wing of London’s St. Mary’s Hospital, weighing a super healthy 8lbs 6 oz. On the same day, a universe away, in Falluja, Iraq –… Continue reading
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ICH 13 August 2013: Humanity Is Drowning In Washington’s Criminality
13 August 2013 — Information Clearing House The Dead Afghan’s Tale: How Afghanistan’s Poorest Bear the Brunt of the War By Mujib Mashal Abdul Basit has seen what no 7-year-old should see. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35840.htm Continue reading
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The Absent Voices of the Imperial War Museums By Shah Jahan
Ninety-three years on, the Imperial War Museum now spans five branches and has a remit of covering all the conflicts that have involved Britain and the Commonwealth since the First World War. The main branch of the Imperial War Museums, IWM London, has been closed for six months in preparation for next year’s WW1 centenary… Continue reading
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ICH 12 August 2013: America’s Descent Into Madness
12 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Neocons Seek ‘Control’ in Egypt By Chris Rossini Control is the aim of neoconservatism, and what the whole disgusting endeavor in Egypt is all about. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35830.htm Continue reading
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ICH 10 August 2013: US pick as ambassador to Egypt ran Iraq ‘death squads’
10 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Israel Kills 5 People In Egypt: Officials: By Associated Press An Israeli drone strike inside Egypt killed five suspected Islamic militants and destroyed a rocket launcher Friday, two senior Egyptian security officials said. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35799.htm Continue reading
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The Missiles That Brought Down TWA Flight 800 By David Swanson
If you watch Kristina Borjesson’s new film, TWA Flight 800, you’ll see a highly persuasive case that this passenger jet full of passengers was brought down by missiles, killing all on board. Continue reading
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The Unnatural Death of Dr David Kelly: The Illusions of the Illicit Hutton Inquiry – the ‘Forensics’ By Dr. David Halpin
If Albion is perfidious in foreign lands is it not likely its cunning and its lying will be strong suits on the home front? The trappings of Crown, ancient ceremony, and red empire stamp authority and apparent integrity on the British state. These, and much else, are the coinage of a supine and incestuous media… Continue reading
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ICH 8 August 2013: US Wars, Dehumanization, and Me
8 August 2013 — Information Clearing House America’s Mambo with Mubarak Dancing Between Dictatorship and Democracy By Andrew Gavin Marshall The United States champions its domestic propaganda outwardly, presenting itself as a beacon of democratic hope, a light of liberty in a dark world. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35789.htm Continue reading
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ICH 7 August 2013: US; The Real Global Terror Alert
7 August 2013 — Information Clearing House A Familiar Script in Egypt By Sarah Gold Anyone who thinks military rule bends toward democracy in Egypt has misread the country’s history. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35779.htm Continue reading
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ICH 6 August 2013: Engineering Consent For Preemptive Attacks
6 August 2013 — Information Clearing House A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph By Robert Scheer August 6 marks 68 years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35770.htm Continue reading
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ICH 5 August 2013: The US Terror Scare: Manipulating Public Perceptions
5 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Israel-Palestinian Talks Washington Acts Like Matchmaker… Between Rapist and Victim By Finian Cunningham The art of US diplomacy in the Middle East is evidently to give Israel a carte blanche to do whatever it likes with regard to trampling on Palestinian rights and lives. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35759.htm Continue reading
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