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· 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse · 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse · 660 images of adult pornography · 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees · 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts By Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Nearly two years after the first pictures of naked and humiliated Iraqi detainees emerged from Abu Ghraib prison, the full extent of the abuse became known for the first time yesterday with a leaked report from the US army's internal investigation into the scandal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11969.htm The History of CIA Interrogation From the Cold War to the War on Terror Democracy Now! Audio Interview Professor Alfred McCoy talks about his book "A Question of Torture", a startling expose of the CIA development of sychological torture from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib. CIA mercenaries attempted to assassinate McCoy more than 30 years ago. Click here to listen http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11965.htm Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle Our leader über alles By Paul Craig Roberts Last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference signaled the transformation of American conservatism into brownshirtism. A former Justice Department official named Viet Dinh got a standing ovation when he told the CPAC audience that the rule of law mustn't get in the way of President Bush protecting Americans from Osama bin Laden. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11968.htm How Will We Know When We Have Lost, America? By N K. A We will know we have lost when we do what we have done in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, Bagram and the other entirely secret and not so secret CIA and military detention centers round the world. We will know we have lost when the first target in the massacre of a village or city is its hospital. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11963.htm Flamethrowers By Chris Floyd A militarist state must have war: to justify its draconian rule (and those $550 billion "defense" budgets), to find new fields for dominion and swag, and to seal with blood its illegitimate compact with the people, seeking to make them complicit in its crimes, which are committed in their name, for their "security." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11962.htm Europe's contempt for other cultures can't be sustained A continent that inflicted colonial brutality all over the globe for 200 years has little claim to the superiority of its values By Martin Jacques When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal. Now - and increasingly in the future - it will be very different. And the subject of these feedback loops, or consequences, will concern not just present but also past behaviour. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11960.htm 10 Killed In continuing Violence: Four bodies were found in western Baghdad, blindfolded, hands bound and shot in the head, police said http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO730873.htm U.S: . Iraq Attacks Increase: The US military has warned that rebel attacks across Iraq have increased 30 percent over the past few weeks, the statement coming as attacks across the country Thursday wounded 30 people and killed at least eleven. http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=134479 Japan plans Iraq troop withdrawal: Japan will start withdrawing its troops from Iraq in late March, around the same time Britain will begin its pullout http://tinyurl.com/aqu9k Iran calls on UK troops to pull out of Basra: "The Islamic Republic of Iran demands the immediate withdrawal of British forces from Basra," Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters through an interpreter during a visit to Lebanon. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11966.htm Bush Administration's War Spending Nears Half-Trillion Dollars: ABC News has learned today that President Bush will ask Congress for an additional $65.3 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It brings the total funds requested this year to more than $110 billion for those operations. http://tinyurl.com/akwna Cindy Sheehan and Sam Bostaph : The Human Cost of War : The land that nourished the first written language and the roots of civilized political order has become a charnel house. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11967.htm Taliban claim seven Afghan troops in Ghazni : Taliban claimed to have killed seven Afghan troops in southeastern Afghanistan. http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=134443 6 Killed in New Taleban Attacks: Suspected Taleban rebels killed four policemen in Afghanistan while a bomb blast claimed the lives of two militia soldiers working with security forces, officials said yesterday http://tinyurl.com/dvdgm Two Italian aid workers found dead in Afghanistan : - Two Italian aid workers in Afghanistan were found dead in their Kabul apartment and the cause of their death remains a mystery, Italian Foreign Ministry sources said here on Thursday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/17/content_4190210.htm San Antonio soldier among 4 killed in Afghanistan blast: The Pentagon today identified a 26-year-old San Antonio man as one of four U-S soldiers killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan. http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4516454 Afghan TV screens gruesome Taleban video: Disturbing video footage of beheaded bodies being paraded through the streets of southern Pakistan, in front of powerless police, has been broadcast today in Afghanistan. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-2045546,00.html David Martin: The Long War - George Bush's War Without End : Now that the cakewalk that was to be our invasion of Iraq is nearing its third anniversary and the roses that were to be thrown at us have turned into improvised explosive devices, it has become official - we are engaged in a long war. Make that "The Long War." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11971.htm A must listen interview: Self-Described Economic Hit Man John Perkins: "We Have Created the World's First Truly Global Empire" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11964.htm War pimp: Rice: Iran is global terror 'banker': The Iranian government is a "central banker" for global terrorism and working with Syria to destablise the Middle East, the US Secretary of State has said. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B80A4B0-87FE-4685-9E13-06B8EE0AAC2C.htm The next Iran war : A new report examines the likely course and proliferating dangers of a United States attack on Iran. http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=2&articleId=3274 Michel Chossudovsky: The Dangers of a Middle East Nuclear War: New Pentagon Doctrine: Mini-Nukes are "Safe for the Surrounding Civilian Population" http://tinyurl.com/dtjao Russian official says Iran will be overpowered by US military strike: - Chief of the Russian Federation General Staff Colonel-General Yuri Baluyevsky said Thursday that Iran's military abilities were too limited to deal with a military strike directed by the US. http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=829978 Iran Seeks Allies In Latin America For Nuclear Program : Iran is reaching out to Latin American countries from Venezuela to Uruguay, seeking to line up diplomatic allies as it faces increasing scrutiny of its nuclear program. http://tinyurl.com/daeec Reports: China, Iran near huge oil deal: China and Iran are close to setting plans to develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field, according to published reports, in a multibillion-dollar deal that comes as Tehran faces the prospect of sanctions over its nuclear program. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/13896836.htm Experts assess impact of China's oil needs : - In 1993, there were just 700,000 passenger cars in the entire country of China. By 2003, there were 5 million. In 2005, Chinese companies sold 5 million new passenger cars and its 2006 production capacity is now estimated at 8 million new cars. http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=128992 Federal judge dismisses Canadian extraordinary rendition suit : In what is believed to be the first suit filed challenging US extraordinary rendition practices. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/02/federal-judge-dismisses-canadian.php More Abu Ghraib Torture Pictures http://tinyurl.com/dyktw Judge's anger at US torture : A high court judge yesterday delivered a stinging attack on America, saying its idea of what constituted torture was out of step with that of "most civilised nations". http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1711833,00.html U.N. chief: U.S. should close Guantanamo prison: Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday said the United States should close the prison at Guantanamo Bay for terror suspects as soon as possible, backing a key conclusion of a U.N.-appointed independent panel. http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/02-06/02-17-06/16world-nation.htm Close Guantanamo, says Peter Hain : Pressure to close the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay grew today after Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain backed its shutdown. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article346014.ece Plan to investigate eavesdropping killed: The Bush administration helped derail a Senate bid to investigate a warrantless-eavesdrop- ping program Thursday after signaling it also would reject Congress's request to have former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other officials testify about the program's legality. http://tinyurl.com/agjtl Judge Orders Action on Spying Documents : A federal judge dealt a setback to the Bush administration on its warrantless surveillance program, ordering the Justice Department on Thursday to release documents about the highly classified effort within 20 days or compile a list of what it is withholding. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11961.htm Bush May Be Crossing the Rubicon From Republic To Dictatorship: Through the justifications it has put forth for warrentless wiretapping, the Bush administration is almost literally crossing the Rubicon, beginning the process of transforming the United States from a republic into to a presidential dictatorship. http://tinyurl.com/b3ccp In case you missed it: Despotism & Democracy : Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4971.htm The Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism : Flash Presentation http://www.bushflash.com/14.html Charles Sullivan: The Making of a Zombie Culture : The systematic torture of captives is a non-event for the consumers of the corporate news, whose minds have been deftly manipulated to reach this conclusion without their knowledge. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11972.htm Putting a Wrench Into the Gears of This War Machine": On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, a group of war resisters began a 34 day liquids only fast in Washington, DC. The fast is sponsored by the Voices for Creative Nonviolence http://tinyurl.com/d35ll US says has "inoculation" strategy to curb Chavez: Washington wants to curb Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's anti-American influence by lobbying allies to try to expose any anti-democratic policies, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11970.htm Chavez Calls U.S. Foreign Policy 'Crazy' : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked Washington's foreign policy as "crazy" Thursday for labeling his government as one of the region's biggest dangers just days after making a diplomatic overture to mend frayed ties. http://tinyurl.com/7pawl Israel's Apartheid Roads: IDF bars Palestinians from some West Bank crossings : A military order that took effect last week bars Palestinians in the West Bank from entering Israel via the roads that Israelis use, even if they are transported by Israelis. Instead, Palestinians must use one of 11 crossing points earmarked for them. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/684024.html Israel blocking Hamas members from PLC swearing-in : Israel decided on Friday to block Hamas members of the Palestinian parliament from traveling from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank city of Ramallah for Saturday's swearing-in ceremony, Israel Radio reported. The ceremony will instead be conducted via video conference. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/684030.html Bush Faces Big Choices as Hamas Takes Reins: On the eve of Hamas' takeover of the Palestinian parliament, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush still appears uncertain about how hard a line to take with the movement it has long considered a terrorist organisation. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32190 Commercial photos show Chinese nuke buildup: Commercial satellite photos made public recently provide a new look at China's nuclear forces and bases -- images that include the first view of a secret underwater submarine tunnel. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060216-010445-8580r.htm Nigeria oil 'total war' warning : A Nigerian militant commander in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta has told the BBC his group is declaring "total war" on all foreign oil interests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4723076.stm Nigerian military launches attack on targets in the Delta: A Nigerian militant group has threatened to escalate its campaign against the government and oil producers after the country's military launched an attack on targets in the oil-producing Niger Delta http://news.ft.com/cms/s/46ac59f2-9f13-11da-ba48-0000779e2340.html Fire razes Shell oil well: As death toll in gunship attack on bunkerers rises to 30: AN oil well operated by Shell 30 kilometres south of Port Harcourt caught fire yesterday 24 hours after militant youths threatened revenge against it for making its facility available for an attack on an Ijaw community in Delta State http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f117022006.html Waterworld: how life on Earth will look 1,000 years from now: By the next millennium the global map will have been redrawn by disastrous climate changes, according to a new forecast http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2044465,00.html Climate change: On the edge : Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article345926.ece Sea levels likely to rise much faster than was predicted: Global warming is causing the Greenland ice cap to disintegrate far faster than anyone predicted. A study of the region's massive ice sheet warns that sea levels may - as a consequence - rise more dramatically than expected. http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article345927.ece Global warming '30 times quicker than it used to be' : Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a previous episode of global warming. http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article345928.ece Tsunami bomb NZ's devastating war secret : Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11958.htm Specter calls for probe of his office: Sen. Arlen Specter said yesterday that he would ask the Senate ethics committee to investigate whether any rules were violated when he directed almost $50 million to companies and institutions that employed the husband of one of his top aides as a lobbyist. http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/13892261.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp The Little-Noticed Order That Gave Dick Cheney New Power: Have you ever heard of Executive Order 13292? http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200602160841.asp Ted Rall: The Shootist : What is Dick Cheney Covering Up? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11959.htm Shoot First, Avoid Questions Later: The White House's secretive response to Cheney's misfire cannot be understood apart from the society of Texas royalty. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,401260,00.html Guns and Roses: Why It's Still Cheney's Chappaquiddick : After trying to get me to say that Cheney and Pamela Willeford had an affair (which I wouldn't - I stick with what I know), Tucker Carlson confronted me on "The Situation" tonight* about the fact that Willeford's husband was apparently on the ranch at the time of the incident. http://tinyurl.com/axdrd Humor: Cheney Goes Ahead With Folsom Prison Concert: Contains some adult language http://cheneyplaysfolsom.cf.huffingtonpost.com/ Belafonte's absence at King funeral is noticeable : Could he have been excluded to ensure the presence of President George W. Bush at the "first lady'' of civil rights' funeral? http://tinyurl.com/c3v5c Peace & Joy Tom Feeley Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.": Aldous Huxley -(1894-1963) Author "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise" : Adolf Hitler - German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."-" : George W. Bush - 43rd US President Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.: Sir Winston Churchill To read this newsletter online http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ RSS FEED http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/rssfeed.xml News Syndication Information Clearing House provides a FREE news syndication service to other websites. 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