The Faux Defense of Western Liberties from the Anti-Muslim,
Mark Steyn Right
By Glenn Greenwald
One of the tactics endlessly used by America's right-wing
warriors in their crusade against Islamic radicalism is the pretense that they
are motivated by a defense of core Western freedoms, particularly free speech
rights.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22561.htm
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Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late?
By Medea Benjamin
While I was being tackled by security guards at Washington's
Convention Center during the AIPAC conference for unfurling a banner that asked
"What about Gaza?," my heart was aching.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22563.htm
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Information Clearing House Newsletter
News You Won't Find On CNN
May 6 2009
ICH: US Afghan Strikes Kill 100, 'Mostly Civilians'
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"We meet," it said, "in the midst of a nation brought to the
verge of moral, political and material ruin....Corruption dominates the ballot
box, the[state] legislatures and the Congress and touches even the
bench.....The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion
silenced....The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up
colossal fortunes for a few." - The founding convention of the People's Party &
better known as the "Populists" (1892).
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"All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such government, and to provide new guards for thir future security." : The
Declaration of Independence (1776)
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Change.... What Change?
US Afghan Strikes Kill 100, 'Mostly Civilians'
By AFP
Deputy provincial governor Mohammad Younus Rasouli said he had
seen the bodies of 20 children brought by villagers to the provincial capital,
also called Farah.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22558.htm
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Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat
By William Pfaff
An account from the Taliban side of the Afghanistan war, which
was published in the New York Times on May 5, provides devastating evidence of
the failure that almost certainly will eventually overtake the United States
and NATO.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22560.htm
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In case you missed it
Breaking The Silence
Video By Award winning journalist John Pilger
A hard hitting special report into the "war on terror" Click to
view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12555.htm
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Afghans to Obama
Get Out, Take Karzai With You
By Patrick Cockburn
Suppose the president's motorcade this week had taken a
different route and headed, not for the airport, but for the southern outskirts
of Kabul, he would soon have experienced the limits of his government's
authority. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22565.htm
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Rudman: Deus ex Machina on Torture
By Ray McGovern
The announcement in mid-March that CIA Director Leon Panetta
had picked former Sen. Warren Rudman to act as CIA "liaison" with the Senate
Intelligence Committee during its "review" of interrogation and detention
practices has drawn virtually no criticism from the Fawning Corporate Media
(FCM). Yet, it is a dead give-away as to how congressional leaders plan to go
through the motions for a year or so, and then let everyone off the hook.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22562.htm
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Stanford Antiwar Alums Call for War Crimes Investigation of
Condoleezza Rice
By Marjorie Cohn
During the Vietnam War, Stanford students succeeded in banning
secret military research from campus. Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and
present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and
misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq War.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22564.htm
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US kills more than 100 Afghan civilians:
"We confirm that in the military operation the other night more
than 100 non-combatants have been killed," Farah province police chief Abdul
Ghafar Watandar told AFP, referring to strikes early Tuesday.
http://snipurl.com/hhznj
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'Dozens of bodies' found in Afghan area hit by US attack:
The International Committee of the Red Cross reported on
Wednesday that its officials saw women and children among dozens of bodies in
two villages targeted by air strikes. A former Afghan government official said
up to 120 people died in the bombing on Monday night.
http://snipurl.com/hhzoq
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In pictures: US Afghanistan attack kills more than 100
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8036327.stm
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Afghan district governor among 15 killed in attacks :
Fifteen people were killed in Afghanistan including a district
governor and four Taliban militants, officials said Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/hhzqh
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Seven police killed in Afghan blast: provincial chief:
Seven police officers were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday
when their jeep hit a roadside bomb apparently planted by insurgents, a
provincial police chief said.
http://snipurl.com/hhzrs
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Australian death squad 'assassinates' Taliban leader :
AUSTRALIAN special forces have taken part in a targeted
assassination of a senior Taliban leader, an operation army commanders claim
will disrupt the insurgents' campaign in southern Oruzgan.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25440872-31477,00.html
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Gates in Kabul for US surge preparations: -
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew into Afghanistan on
Wednesday to make preparations for deploying an extra 21,000 US soldiers as
Washington escalates its war against Taliban insurgents.
http://snipurl.com/hhzts
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Over 60 Taliban killed in clashes with Pakistan army:
The military said it killed about 35 militants positioned near
emerald mines in the valley and another 27 in neighbouring Buner, where troops
have halted a Taliban push toward the capital Islamabad.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/eyausngbeyql/rss2/
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Manufacturing Consent For Attacks On Pakistan:
Pakistan threat 'worst since Cuban missile crisis':
Loss of control in nuclear-armed Pakistan threatened the world
with the worst global crisis since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the closest
the world has ever come to nuclear war, a senior former US diplomat warned on
Tuesday.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d0ce1c8-397f-11de-b82d-00144feabdc0.html
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Haqqani says Pakistan's nuclear assets are safe:
Pakistan on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of its nuclear
assets falling into the wrong hands, with its top diplomat in Washington asking
American experts to desist from scaring people with highly unlikely
hypothetical scenarios.
http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/May09/06/11.htm
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Israel rejects nuclear pact call:
The region's only reported atomic power refuses to sign
non-proliferation treaty.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/05/2009569555452336.html
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Loss of nuclear monoply - an Israeli nightmare: .
The U.S. has been protecting Israel for years, creating a
diplomatic umbrella and pushing away any attempt, in any international debate,
to discuss the nuclear weapons the entire world believes Israel possesses.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1083541.html
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Iran wants US to break ties with Israel:
After an unexpected call by the US on Israel to join the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran emphasizes the need for taking practical
steps.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=93809§ionid=351020101
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UN watchdog finds traces of enriched uranium in Egypt:
A second senior diplomat who also demanded anonymity said the
particles were at or near weapons grade level, or in the stage that could be
used for atomic arms.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1083538.html
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UN blames Israel for Gaza attacks:
A United Nations inquiry into the war in Gaza has found that
Israel was to blame for at least seven direct attacks on UN operations -
including schools and medical centres.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/05/200955143232389149.html
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Israel fired missile that killed 30-40 people in a Gaza school
:
'The board found that the undisputed cause of the injuries and
the deaths to persons in the immediate vicinity of the school was the firing of
122 mm mortar rounds by the IDF, which landed in the area outside the school
and at the compound of a family home nearby,' the report said.
http://snipurl.com/hi03k
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Ban Backs Down:
UN rejects Gaza probe under Israeli pressure:
Ban, who appointed the four-person inquiry board in February,
rejected the reports' recommendations for further investigations into whether
Israel had breached international law, including its use of deadly white
phosphorus bombs, and said he would only seek compensation for the more than
$11 million of damage to U.N. property.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/05/06/72150.html
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The Racist Lieberman in Europe:
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel was
a racist state, addressing the United Nations in Geneva, a commotion resulted
and all of the Western diplomats exited the conference hall. Today, Israeli
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who rejects the right of Israeli Arabs to
Israeli citizenship, is visiting European states and being greeted warmly. We
should understand the benefit of his visit.
http://snipurl.com/hi061
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Army extends immigrant recruiting:
Pilot program seeks to boost the ranks of language and
healthcare specialists by offering citizenship.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immigrant-recruits4-2009may04,0,5003914.story
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KBR Connected to Alleged Fraud, Pentagon Auditor Says:
KBR, the Army's largest contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, is
linked to "the vast majority" of suspected combat-zone fraud cases that have
been referred to investigators, as well as a majority of the $13 billion in
"questioned" or "unsupported" costs, the Pentagon's top auditor said yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/04/AR2009050403283.html
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Bank of America comes up $34bn short in stress test:
The US government has told BoA to bolster its capital cushion -
and similar instructions are expected at up to 10 other banks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/06/bank-of-america-stress-test
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Wells Fargo said to need $15 billion:
Wells Fargo & Co., the fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets,
requires about $15 billion in new capital as a result of regulators' stress
test on the lender, according to a source familiar with the matter.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/05/06/BU3817FO2Q.DTL
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Wells Fargo freezes traditional pension plan:
Wells Fargo & Co. told employees on Monday it will no longer
contribute to their traditional pension plan, effectively cutting the total
compensation of its workers less than two weeks after announcing record
first-quarter profit.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/06/BU2S17F7M2.DTL&type=business
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20% of homeowners 'underwater':
Study finds more than 20% of U.S. homeowners - about 20 million
residences - owe more than their homes are worth.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/05/real_estate/underwater_homeowners/?postversion=2009050609
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Rich Default on Luxury Homes Like Subprime Victims:
The number of U.S. homes valued at more than $729,750, the
jumbo-loan limit in the most affluent areas, entering the foreclosure process
jumped 127 percent during the first 10 weeks of this year from the same period
of 2008
http://snipurl.com/hi0by
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