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The US media and the release of POW Bowe Bergdahl By Patrick Martin
The American media is once again exhibiting its boundless capacity for dispensing propaganda and promoting the most backward and reactionary conceptions. Such is the campaign of vilification directed against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, released May 31 in Afghanistan in a prisoner exchange with the Taliban. Continue reading
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Re-shaping the Taliban Leadership? Sustaining ‘America’s War on Terrorism’ By Umberto Pascali
Is this a way to send back to Afghanistan five top Taliban leaders who have been “re-conditioned” and “turned” in Guantanamo and are now working for the US? Is this a move against the “unloyal” President Karzai & his successors? The Taliban leadership has been, reportedly, decimated by the drones assassinations. It is not difficult… Continue reading
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No, Putin Isn’t Following ‘Reagan Playbook’ in Ukraine–Thank God By Jim Naureckas
David Ignatius is a Washington Post columnist who is notable for his coziness with his sources in the CIA. So when he writes a column (4/8/14) headlined “Putin Steals the CIA’s Playbook on Anti-Soviet Covert Operations,” it’s hard to know how to take that: Is it supposed to be a criticism or a compliment? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 November 2013
2 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterUndercover Forces Kidnap A Former Detainee In HebronIMEMC – The Safa News Agency has reported that undercover soldiers of the Israeli military infiltrated, on Friday evening [November 1 2013] into the Hebron city, and kidnapped a former political prisoner. … Continue reading
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The Government Can’t Prove Bradley Manning Hurt Anyone–but Joe Klein Knows By Peter Hart
As the Washington Post reported today (8/1/13), retired Brig. Gen. Robert Carr testified about the work that was done by his Information Release Task Force–a 125-person group that “operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week” at a cost of $6.2 million–all to establish the harm done by Manning. So what did they find? Continue reading
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The Government Can't Prove Bradley Manning Hurt Anyone–but Joe Klein Knows By Peter Hart
As the Washington Post reported today (8/1/13), retired Brig. Gen. Robert Carr testified about the work that was done by his Information Release Task Force–a 125-person group that “operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week” at a cost of $6.2 million–all to establish the harm done by Manning. So what did they find? Continue reading
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ICH 14 July 2013: White Supremacy Acquits George Zimmerman
14 July 2013 — Information Clearing House Good Coups, Bad Coups By Joost Lagendijk Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait promised no less than $12 billion support to the new regime in Cairo. – “It’s pretty clear what the counter-revolutionary Gulf monarchs expect for their generosity, and it’s not democracy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35536.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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Interview: “My Afghanistan – Life in the Forbidden Zone” by Nagieb Khaja, Ian Sinclair
Nagieb Khaja, a well-known journalist and filmmaker in Denmark, has travelled extensively in Afghanistan since 2004. In 2008 he was kidnapped by the Taliban. His new documentary ’My Afghanistan – life in the forbidden zone’ provides civilians in Helmand province with camera phones, thus giving a voice to those normally ignored by the Western media. Continue reading
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ICH 17 April 2013: Did The FBI Know About Boston Bombing Beforehand?
17 April 2013 — Information Clearing House After Reports of a Bombing Suspect in Custody, Boston Police Say No Arrest http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34646.htm Continue reading
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ICH 23 March 2013: Capitol Hill, Calls for Attack On Syria
23 March 2013 — Information Clearing House CIA Passing Info to Syrian Rebels: Report By AFP The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34378.htm Continue reading
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ICH 11 March 2013: The Crucifixion of Tomas Young
11 March 2013 — Information Clearing House US: Psychotic Superpower on a Hair-trigger By Finian Cunningham This unstable, lawless rogue state, armed to the teeth and deluded by its own self-righteousness, poses the greatest risk to world security. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34252.htm Continue reading
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Wars That Aren’t Meant to Be Won By David Swanson
I looked at pretended and real reasons for wars and found some of the real reasons to be quite irrational. It should not shock us then to discover that the primary goal in fighting a war is not always to win it. Continue reading
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ICH Weekend Edition – January 26-27 2013: US-Led Sanctions Contribute To The Destruction Of Syria’s Millenary History
26 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Jordan’s King Abdullah: “The New Taliban Are In Syria” By Christopher Dickey Speaking at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, King Abdullah warned of Al Qaeda’s presence in Syria and said that it could take years for peace to return to the war-torn country. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33725.htm Continue reading
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ICH 22 January 2013: Imperialist Powers Escalate War in Mali
22 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Powder Keg in the Pacific By Michael T. Klare Will China-Japan-U.S. Tensions in the Pacific Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33689.htm Continue reading
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ICH 13 January 2013: 100 Killed: France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali
13 January 2013 — Information Clearing House The “War On Terror” Spreads to Africa: By WashingtonsBlog The situation in Mali is simply a convenient, after-the-fact rationale for a long-planned expansion of the U.S. military footprint in Africa. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33601.htm Continue reading
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ICH 24 December 2012: The Greatest Gift For All
24 December 2012 — Information Clearing House The Rape of Syria By Pepe Escobar That is disaster capitalism in action, phase I; the terrain is already prepared for a profitable “reconstruction” of Syria once a pliable, pro-Western turbo-capitalism government is installed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33425.htm Continue reading
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ICH 23 December 2012: The Ultimate Logic of a Society Built on Mass Murder
23 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Resisting Genocide: Syria, North Korea, and Cuba By Gearóid Ó Colmáin As NATO and Gulf Co-operation Council terrorists persist in their attempt to destroy the Syrian Arab Republic with car bombs, torture, beheadings and mayhem, the Syrian state has still shown no evidence of imminent collapse. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33424.htm Continue reading
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ICH 12 December 2012: Judge Censors US Torture Testimony
12 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Open Declaration of War? US Recognizes Syrian Opposition Body By RT Russia is “surprised” by the US move, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on Wednesday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33298.htm Continue reading
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ICH 2 December 2012: Bradley Manning: A Tale Of Liberty Lost In America
2 December 2012 — Information Clearing House The Mother Of All Worst-case Assumptions About Iran By Stephen M. Walt The U.S. national security community forgets that similarly dire warnings were uttered before many of these others states got the bomb, yet none of these fearsome forecasts took place. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33196.htm Continue reading
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