The War on Terror is a Hoax By Paul Craig Roberts According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections. Among President Bush's last words as he left office was the warning that America would soon be struck again by Muslim terrorists. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21906.htm === James Bamford: The Spy Factory Must Watch Video By PBS - Includes Transcript "it (the NSA) also has turned its giant ear inward, listening in without warrant on thousands of American citizens, many of whom are on the government's secret watch list, now more than half-a-million names long." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21902.htm === How I Saved The USA Cheney warns of new attacks By JOHN F. HARRIS & MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEI An Interview With Alledged War Criminal Dick Cheney. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21903.htm === Change (In Rhetoric) We Can Believe In By William Blum The Obama administration will not produce any significantly worthwhile change in US foreign policy; little done in this area will reduce the level of misery that the American Empire regularly brings down upon humanity. And to the extent that Barack Obama is willing to clearly reveal what he believes about anything controversial, he appears to believe in the empire. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21907.htm === Can Mitchell turn Jerusalem into Belfast? By Ali Abunimah The Mitchell-led Belfast Agreement ended formal Protestant hegemony in favor of equality, mitigating partition's injustices. It promised that government power "shall be exercised with rigorous impartiality on behalf of all the people" and guaranteed "just and equal treatment for the identity, ethos, and aspirations of both communities." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21909.htm === Irish Civil Society Calls For Boycott of Israel By Pulse Israel has never declared its borders. Instead, it has continuously expanded at the expense of the Palestinians. In 1948, it took over 78 percent of Palestine, an area much larger than that suggested for a Jewish state by the UN General Assembly in 1947. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21905.htm === The Oldbury-upon-Utopia By Hasan Shikoh "They are pretending not to know that their fellow citizens of the world are being taken away and locked up in open-air concentration camps." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21911.htm === Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State By Joshua Holland And what if most modern Israelis aren't descended from the ancient Israelites at all, but are actually a mix of Europeans, North Africans and others who didn't "return" to the scrap of land we now call Israel and establish a new state following the attempt to exterminate them during World War II, but came in and forcefully displaced people whose ancestors had lived there for millennia? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21904.htm === Stalin's Forgotten Zion Birobidzhan and the making of a soviet Jewish homeland Video and Text In 1928, Jews from across the Soviet Union traveled to the Russian Far East. They were trying to build themselves a promised land. They brought their families, set up schools and created a community there. It took years of hard work but finally they built a capital city. It's called Birobidzhan. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21901.htm === Saudi Monstrosity and International Silence By Huda Jawad In January 2009, Saudi courts convicted 25 young Iraqi men of trespassing into Saudi Arabia. Their punishment: beheading. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21908.htm === Freedom Of The Press In The USA? NY Man Admits He Helped Air Hizbullah TV By ASSOCIATED PRESS The Pakistan-born owner of a satellite TV company has pleaded guilty to providing material aid to a terrorist organization by letting customers receive broadcasts from Hizbullah's television station. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21910.htm Netanyahu: Gaza offensive stopped too soon: The front-runner for Israel's election next week said Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza last month did not go far enough. http://tinyurl.com/ash6bs === Did the Israeli Army Wage a Jewish Jihad in Gaza?: Extremist rabbis and their followers, bent on waging holy war against the Palestinians, are taking over the Israeli army by stealth, according to critics. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/did-the-israeli-army-wage-a-jewish-jihad-in-gaza/ === UN says Hamas seized Gaza aid: "The police subsequently broke into the warehouse and seized the aid by force. The aid was due to be distributed to five hundred families in the area." http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/02/20092416031770359.html === Egypt prevents Al Jazeera journalists from entering Gaza: Ahmad Mansour and Ghassan Bin Jido, said that the Egyptian authorities did not provide an explanation for their decision, and that employees of other media outlets were allowed to cross into the besieged territory without delay. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061416.html === Mubarak: Hamas to blame for spilled Arab blood: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak voiced harsh criticism against Hamas on Wednesday, accusing the Islamist Palestinian movement of being responsible for the shedding of Arab blood. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061474.html === Time running out for attack on Iran: Israeli expert: - Israel has a year in which to attack Iran's nuclear facilities preemptively, an Israeli legislator and weapons expert said Wednesday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090204/wl_nm/us_israel_iran === Iran says US must accept nuclear programme: A senior adviser to Iran's president says dialogue with the US will succeed only if the Obama administration accepts Tehran's right to have a nuclear programme. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c33dd74-f2eb-11dd-abe6-0000779fd2ac.html === Report: Obama to offer Russia deal to cut nuclear arms by 80%: Obama's vision is for a treaty which would slash the number of nuclear weapons in both countries' stockpiles to 1,000 each, according to The Times. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061424.html === Latin America Breaks Free: As Ecuador's President Correa said upon receiving the news of Obama's victory: "The day will come when Latin America doesn't have to worry about who is in the presidency of the United States, because it will be sovereign and autonomous enough to stand on its own two feet." http://www.progressive.org/mag/dangl0209.html === In Bolivia, Untapped Bounty Meets Nationalism: In the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts both automakers and governments seeking to lower their reliance on foreign oil: almost half of the world's lithium, the mineral needed to power the vehicles, is found here in Bolivia - a country that may not be willing to surrender it so easily. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/world/americas/03lithium.html?_r=2&ref=world === The New Thought Police: George Orwell's secret police have nothing on two new NSA systems designed to read people's minds. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/police.html === Dozens of secret Bush surveillance, executive power memos found; Could be made public: Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Administration officials now sit atop a chart created by a public interest reporting group. The memos track new details about dozens of secret Bush Administration legal positions on torture, detention and warrantless wiretapping. http://tinyurl.com/bdshfgml === Pentagon pick shows challenges of Obama's ethics rules: The man President Obama nominated to become the No. 2 manager at the Pentagon isn't the first person for that job to come from the defense industry. But Mr. Obama's own executive order on ethics has now become a stumbling block as the White House seeks to push the former lobbyist through confirmation. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0204/p02s01-usgn.html === Mexico's Central Bank Intervenes to Halt Peso Slide: The intervention is an "extraordinary" measure beyond the bank's normal offer to buy $400 million worth of pesos a day, the press office said. http://tinyurl.com/ah4war === Striking workers stand firm on British jobs: Day eight of the unofficial strike action over the use of foreign labour at Lindsey Oil Refinery would see no let up in the battle which has seen walkouts across the UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/7869873.stm === Panasonic announces 15,000 layoffs: The Osaka-based company forecast on Wednesday that it would shed about five per cent of its workforce and register a loss of $4.2bn for the fiscal year ending in March http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/02/20092482430873204.html === Private Sector Cuts 522,000 Jobs in January: U.S. stock index futures gained more ground after the data. U.S. government bonds, which usually benefit from weak economic data, pared their gains after the ADP report. http://moneynews.newsmax.com/economy/employment/2009/02/04/178216.html === Auto sales hit 27-year low: - U.S. auto sales plunged to a 27-year low in January, a steeper-than-expected drop that took the slumping U.S. market below China's for the first time. http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5124RB20090203 === Foreclosures Now One in Five Home Sales: The declines mean that U.S. homeowners lost a cumulative $3.3 trillion in home values during 2008, with much of that loss coming in the fourth quarter. http://moneynews.com/streettalk/home_values_report/2009/02/03/177876.html === Obama: Catastrophe Coming If Stimulus Not Passed: President Obama said Wednesday the recession will turn into "a catastrophe" if the economic stimulus is not passed quickly, lobbying anew for the plan as its price tag climbed above $900 billion and drew more criticism. http://www.cnbc.com/id/29014724 More Here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. 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