Hi. I intend my emails to offer the story or opinion you won't likely get when you read your morning paper. Yesterday, I started having computer problems caused either by the National Security Act, a virus or my own incompetence. All are possible but the result was that though I sent 'Jericho,' then 'Fisk' out as usual, they didn't arrive until several hours later.
It seems to be cleared up but my computer maven will come tomorrow to figure out what happened and fix it. Another problem is choosing which of the great stories and opinions to pass on, out of the many I now get. So, today I send you just one of my best sources, for you to pick and choose on your own. You might consider signing-up for it yourself. Every day bring such gems. Best to all of you. Ed PS. If you missed the great map at the top of this morning's mailing, clic-on as per request, just below the subject line. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Information Clearing House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 5:00 PM Subject: ICH: Killing Children: The "My Lai phase" of the Iraq war The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day : Theodore Roosevelt = "The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world." : James Baldwin - From chapter one of "The Devil Finds Work" (orig. pub. 1976) = "My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest...no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism...true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village." : Gandhi === To read this newsletter online http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ RSS FEED http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/rssfeed.xml News Syndication You can include the headlines from this newsletter on your own website free of charge http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/syndicate.htm === Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? As Many As 250,000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11674.htm Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2318 http://icasualties.org/oif/ The War in Iraq Costs $248,822,016,155 See the cost in your community http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182 === U.S. Companies Profited As Iraqi Children Died By Callum Macrae and Ali Fadhil A financial scandal that in terms of sheer scale must rank as one of the greatest in history. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12408.htm === The 50 Billion Dollar Robbery: Where has the 50 billion dollars of reconstruction money gone? By BBC Following the Iraq war, billions of dollars of Iraq's money was directed to American companies to rebuild the country. But much of it remains unaccounted for, and Peter Marshall has been investigating startling allegations of post war profiteering. Real Video - 14 Minutes http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12389.htm === Killing Children: The "My Lai phase" of the Iraq war by Mike Whitney What goes through George Bush's mind when he sees the dead bodies of Iraqi women and children loaded on the back of a pickup truck like garbage? Is there ever a flicker of remorse; a split-second when he fully grasps the magnitude of the horror he has created? WARNING - GRAPHIC PICTURES http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12404.htm === The bodies are piling up By Cindy Sheehan Today George said that the temptation to abandon "our" commitments is strong. Did he have a mouse in his pocket? I never made a commitment to preemptive war. I didn't authorize Congress to abrogate their responsibilities to declare war. I didn't give the orders to invade a country that was absolutely no threat to the USA. I also didn't give the orders to use depleted uranium and wmd in Iraq. I wasn't the one who devoted myself to torture and imprisoning people without due process. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12422.htm === Dark Pearl By John S. Hatch It's quite normal for a son to want to follow in his Daddy's career footsteps and to dream of exceeding the accomplishments of the old geezer. But what if you're Genghis Jr., or Attila Jr., or George II? That can complicate matters a little. How to outdo Daddy's deeds when he was so devilishly good at what he did? How many people can a Vlad Jr. impale? You almost have to have a plan. In modern times you need a PNAC. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12423.htm === Iraq: 26 Killed In Continuing Violence: Gunmen shot and wounded four pilgrims in Mahmudiya, just south of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO061594.htm === Did Marines Commit Crime in Iraq Civilian Deaths?: A bloody videotape shot by a local Iraqi journalism student has prompted the Pentagon to launch a criminal investigation into an incident that left at least 15 Iraqi civilians dead in the city of Haditha. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12421.htm === One Morning in Haditha": U.S. Marines killed 15 Iraqi civilians in their homes last November. Was it self-defense, an accident or cold-blooded revenge? A TIME exclusive http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1174682,00.html === Iraqi police say U.S. troops executed 11, including baby: Iraqi police have accused U.S. troops of executing 11 people, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old infant, in the aftermath of a raid Wednesday on a house about 60 miles north of Baghdad. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12409.htm === 10 bodies found in Baghdad, including 13-year-old girl: The 10 bodies were the latest gruesome discoveries tied to the underground sectarian war being conducted by Shiite and Sunni Muslims as they settle scores in the chaos that grips the Iraqi capital http://tinyurl.com/j9kf5 === Death squads on the prowl in a nation paralysed by fear : Unseen by the outside world, silent populations are on the move, frightened people fleeing neighbourhoods where their community is in a minority for safer districts. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article352362.ece === Two Wounded Iraqi Children and Their Fathers Tell Their Stories: After being caught in crossfire and 3 year-old Alaa Khalid Hamdan was seriously injured when a U.S. tank opened fire on her family's home. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12419.htm === Howard Zinn: America's Blinders: What is the idea of our moral superiority based on? Surely not on our behavior toward people in other parts of the world. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12414.htm === Mike Whitney : Baker's Latest Assignment; tell Bush we lost: After years of struggle, Baker and company have finally created the one-party system of their dreams with a government that is unaccountable to the people, the law, or its political base. Unfortunately, he's about to learn what others have known for some time; the nation is in the vice-like grip of homicidal maniacs who have no intention of relinquishing power or admitting defeat. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12411.htm === Greg Palast : Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools: The Mission Was Indeed Accomplished http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12424.htm === Paul Craig Roberts: A Collapsing Presidency: Neocons are Jacobins. They are a foreign import and do not share our American values. Neocons are a grave danger to the United States and to the world. Neocons have led America into two gratuitous on-going wars that cannot be won, and they are determined to lead us into more wars. It is our duty to defend our country and to oppose these evil people. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12415.htm === Decline and fall : Kevin Phillips, no lefty, says that America -- addicted to oil, strangled by debt and maniacally religious -- is headed for doom. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12413.htm === Why the war is a waste : Speaking truth to tyranny is the place to start. Otherwise, we will learn directly, not just from history books, that just as empires rise, they also fall, brought down by their own hubris. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12412.htm === U.S. War Spending to Rise 44% to $9.8 Bln a Month, Report Says: Spending will rise to $9.8 billion a month from the $6.8 billion a month the Pentagon said it spent last year, the research service said. The group's March 10 report cites ``substantial'' expenses to replace or repair damaged weapons, aircraft, vehicles, radios and spare parts. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12410.htm === Media Avoids Covering Vote on Permanent Bases: Something is happening in Iraq that most Americans have never heard about, but many Americans think the war is being fought for: the United States is building what look like permanent military bases. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/9190 === Polls show public want Australian troops out of Iraq : A new opinion poll out today suggests that almost two thirds of people in this country want Australian troops to leave Iraq within the next couple months. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1595909.htm === Seven die in Pakistan blast : Dera Ismali Khan is close to the Waziristan tribal region which has been the theatre of conflict between Pakistani forces and the suspected Al-Queda and Taliban militants for over three years. http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/20/stories/2006032004741400.htm === Four Afghan policmen killed in motorbike ambush: Suspected Taliban gunmen on motorbikes shot and killed four Afghan policemen today in a lawless southern province where 3,300 British troops will soon be based, a provincial official said. http://tinyurl.com/jj6db === Iranian police kill 10 'bandits' near Afghan border: "On Saturday evening, some armed bandits and agents who were trying to enter the country and create insecurity were spotted by... border troops," a police commander, Eskandar Momeni, was quoted as saying in the report late Sunday. http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/03/21/d60321130695.htm === War pimp alert: Iran set to step up enrichment: "Iran is on the verge of operating a 164-centrifuge cascade with UF6 (uranium hexafluoride gas)," a Western diplomat said, referring to machines arrayed in series, known as cascades, used to produce fuel for nuclear power reactors or material for the explosive core of an atom bomb. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18546583-23109,00.html === Iran: Time To Leak: Where are the whistleblowers about Iran? http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/20/iran_time_to_leak.php === Who is the rogue state really?: Iran is not guilty of abdicating or reneging on its obligations as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). Under the terms of that treaty, Iran has an inalienable right to develop research, production, and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12425.htm === Bush Repeats US Would Use Military To Protect Israel : "I made it clear, and I'll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally Israel," Bush said during a question and answer session after a speech in Cleveland. http://tinyurl.com/fwln9 === Palestinians losers in Mideast water war: Israel is believed to monopolise around 75 percent of Palestinian water resources in a region where rainfall is infrequent and water a strategic asset. http://tinyurl.com/ezj23 === Baruch Marzel: IDF must assassinate left-wing activist Uri Avnery : National Jewish Front leader Baruch Marzel, now campaigning for the March 28 Knesset election, said Monday the leaders of the Kadima party are "traitors" and "criminals" and called on the Israel Defense Forces to assassinate the far-left leader of the Gush Shalom movement Uri Avnery. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/696472.html === "To Hell With All of You": The Power of Saying No: As the new Hamas government is sworn into power in the Palestinian Authority, we might ask: What would bring a people, the most secular of Arab populations with little history of religious fundamentalism, to vote Hamas? http://www.counterpunch.org/halper03202006.html === Jimmy Carter: It's not too late for lasting peace in the Middle East : Israel should withdraw from the occupied territories, and its right to exist must be recognised by all Arabs http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12417.htm === Guantanamo protest in SF halts traffic downtown, 17 arrested: - Police arrested 17 protesters and pulled several others wearing orange jumpsuits from a makeshift prison cell Monday in the heart of the city's financial district. http://www.fresnobee.com/state_wire/story/11954502p-12719132c.html === Australia: Suspected terrorist abused in custody, court told: The lawyer for one of the eight terrorism suspects rounded up in Sydney last year has told a court his client was being abused and was denied medical treatment while in custody. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1596011.htm === Chavez blasts Bush as "donkey" and "drunkard" http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12420.htm === Secret loans: Blair warned but gave the go ahead: TONY Blair's intimate involvement in sanctioning the loans which have rocked his government is exposed today, after one of his closest confidantes confirmed that he "knew exactly what was going on" and was aware of the risks from the start. http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=433082006 === This misadventure has alienated most of the world from Bush : Since going to war, the president has managed to make himself almost as unpopular with US voters as he is with Iraqis http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1734805,00.html === Pictures: Anti-War Protest Columbus, Ohio http://members8.clubphoto.com/michael472642/4155844/guest.phtml === "An Evening of Conversation" with Harry Belafonte : We hear from legendary musician, actor and humanitarian Harry Belafonte on why he was disinvited from speaking at the funeral of Coretta Scott http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12418.htm === Pentagon hired contractor to advise on collecting information on churches, mosques, other U.S. sites: A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on houses of worship, schools, power plants and other locations in the United States. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12416.htm === Rewriting The Science: As a government scientist, James Hansen is taking a risk. He says there are things the White House doesn't want you to hear but he's going to say them anyway. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/printable1415985.shtml === This web site represents the effort of one person. I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm === Peace & Joy Tom Feeley === Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." 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