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Information Clearing House Newsletter 29 December 2011: U.S., Israel Discuss Bombing Iran
29 December 2011 — Information Clearing House U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran By Eli Lake The Obama administration is trying to assure Israel privately that it would strike Iran militarily if Tehran’s nuclear program crosses certain “red lines” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30098.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 December 2011: How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the U.S.
17 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” Troops and Prisons Move, Wars and Torture Never Ends By Ted Rall War is an addiction. If we wanted to, we could quit any time. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30023.htm Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 19 November 2011
19 November 2011 — williambowles.info Qaddafi son Saif caught in S. Libya CBS News Free Libya TV broadcast an image said to be Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam after his arrest in the south of Libya, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (CBS) Muammar Qaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam — the only wanted member of the ousted ruling Continue reading
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NATO Has Assassinated Gaddafi — Now the Puppets Can Dance by Boots Riley
NATO has assassinated Gaddafi. Now the puppets can dance. This is not about democracy, as the “new” leaders are a combination of his ex-cabinet officials and ex-Mujahideen who took out the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan in the 80s and installed the Taliban for the CIA. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Part 1 Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan
In a shameful editorial, the Guardian burnished its credentials as a hand-wringing liberal supporter of the war. Readers were told that the war that had been ‘unavoidable’ and that ‘we’ had then stayed in the country ‘through all the twists and turns imposed by events’, struggling with ‘the incoherence of our own changing policies, for… Continue reading
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The Iranian “Plot” by ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Even by the forgiving standards of American credulity, the supposed Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the US is spectacularly ludicrous. Why would Iran want to kill the Saudi envoy – the mild-mannered functionary, Adel al-Jubeir? Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter September 19, 2011: Troy Davis and the American Way
19 September 2011 — Information Clearing House A Formal Funeral for the Two-State Solution By Ali Abunimah At least in theory, the Palestinian Authority’s bid for statehood at the UN is supposed to circumvent the failed peace process. But the ill-conceived gambit actually amplifies the flaws of the very process it seeks to replace. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29159.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 September 2011: Imagine
11 September 2011 — Information Clearing House New American Ally in Somalia: ‘Butcher’ Warlord By David Axe If you thought it was bad that Washington is paying a shady French mercenary to do its dirty work in Somalia, you ain’t seen nothing yet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29097.htm Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, September 11, 2011: New Documents Detail America's Strategic Response to 9/11
The documents published here describe multiple important post-9/11 strategic decisions. One relates to the dominant operational role played by the CIA in U.S. activities in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9 September 2011: Russia / USA / Middle East / WWII / 9/11 / Taliban / Korea / Israel
9 September 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation 9/11: The Ultimate Triumph of the Strategy of Tension (II) 10.09.2011 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN (USA) Few media outlets reported on Bin Laden’s longstanding ties to the U.S. intelligence community, links that were maintained after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center… Bin Laden’s past ties Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 9 August 2011
9 August 2011 — williambowles.info NATO rejects growing criticism of airstrike against Libyan TV Washington Post By AP, BRUSSELS — NATO is rejecting growing international criticism of its airstrike on Libyan television transmitters, saying it has no evidence the attack caused any casualties. Spokeswoman Carmen Romero said Tuesday that the alliance had not … http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/nato-rejects-growing-criticism-of-airstrike-against-libyan-tv/2011/08/09/gIQAEYkR4I_story.html Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 8, 2011: They Died in Vain; Deal With It
8 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Saudi Arabia’s Message to Syria, Decoded By Brian Whitaker It is Iranian influence, not the killing of civilians, that Saudi Arabia is concerned about as it recalls its ambassador in Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28782.htm Continue reading
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Ahmad Karzai: From dishwasher to drug kingpin BY Eric Walberg
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house, according to Kandahar’s Canadian Governor Tooryali Wesa. He was shot in the head and chest with a AK-47 fired by Sardar Mohammad, a former bodyguard to another Karzai brother Qayyoum. Continue reading
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Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class By James Petras
During Obama’s Presidency, Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment has been frozen, resulting in a net decrease of over 8 percent, which is exactly the amount spent chasing just 5 dozen ‘Al Qaeda terrorists’ in the mountains bordering Pakistan. Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Victory in defeat By Eric Walberg
There are many parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan. The recent American mayors’ resolution to “bring our war $$ home” and Obama’s announcement that troops are now being withdrawn are fresh reminders, but the story they tell is grim, says Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 27, 2011
27 June 2011 — Stop NATO South African President Again Blasts NATO’s War In Libya NATO’s Air War In Libya: 12,745 Sorties, 4,804 Strike Missions Libyan War Exceeds 100 Days: NATO Bombs Gaddafi Residence Video And Text: Global Regime Change: Cash And Cyberware On U.S. Offensive Tbilisi: NATO Representative Promotes Georgia’s Integration Four U.S. Missiles Continue reading
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