Does This Look Like Victory? Starving Afghan Family Displaced by US Airstrike Must watch One Minute Video Exclusive footage from the recent US airstrikes in Afghanistan provides a sobering look at the dire situation on the ground. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22820.htm === New US Commander in Afghanistan Assembles Team of Assassins By Bill Van Auken In its escalation of the US war in Afghanistan, and its increasing extension across the border into Pakistan, the Obama administration has chosen as its senior commander an officer who is among those most deeply implicated in the criminal operations carried out under Bush and Cheney. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22812.htm === Should the U.S. also Suppress Evidence of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan? By Glenn Greenwald Using the standard that is now so accepted across the political spectrum in Washington -- information that will inflame anti-American sentiment should be suppressed rather than disclosed so at to not endanger our troops -- isn't it better if we just cover-up, rather than learn the truth about, the civilian deaths we caused in Afghanistan? http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22811.htm === Kerry Defends Tehran on Uranium Transcript: John Kerry interview By Daniel Dombey in Washington In an interview with the Financial Times, John Kerry, the top Democrat on foreign policy in the US Senate, labels the long standing demand that Iran stop enriching uranium as "ridiculous". http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22818.htm === Carter in Lebanon By FRANKLIN LAMB The Former President Finally Met the Ayatollah the CIA Once Tried to Kill. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22819.htm === Carter: Mideast Peace Not Possible Without Hamas By ALBERT AJI His comments came shortly before he met with the militant group's Syrian-based leader, Khaled Mashaal. Carter met with Mashaal twice under the Bush administration, angering some in the U.S. government who said he was legitimizing a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22815.htm === Gaza: No Right To Life Must Watch 7 Minute Video Report With the lack of medical services in Gaza, critically ill patients must travel into Israel for treatment. Many are asked to collaborate with Israeli intelligence services before they receive aid. It has been alleged that if they refuse to become informers they are refused medical treatment. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22821.htm === Smile On The Face Of The Tiger By John Pilger Obama offered no change, no plan, only a "tired, morally bankrupt American mantra [which] essentially argues that only the rich, the strong, the oppressors and the enforcers of injustice (notably the Americans and Israelis) have the right to use violence, while the poor, the weak, the oppressed and the victims of oppression must . . . submit to their fate and accept whatever crumbs their betters may magnanimously deign suitable to let fall from their table". http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22810.htm === Expert Advice On Dealing With A Prior Administration's Use of Torture By John W. Dean There are, in fact, precedents, and studies, that illuminate the grave problems confronting a democracy in making a choice when faced with the options of prosecuting and punishing versus forgiving and forgetting. I discovered this material some years ago when studying authoritarian governance. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22814.htm === Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon By James Petras When egregious violations of human rights are committed in Latin America by a US backed client-President following Washington's formula of 'free trade', deregulation of environmental protections and hostility toward anti-imperialist countries (Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador), Obama favors complicity over condemnation. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22813.htm === Oil and Indians Don't Mix By Greg Palast No oil company would dream of digging on the Bush family properties in Midland, Texas, without paying a royalty. Or drilling near Malibu without the latest in environmental protections. But when Natives are on top of Exxon's or BP's glory hole, suddenly, the great defenders of private property rights turn quite Bolshevik: lands can be seized for The Public's Need for Oil. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22816.htm === Bernanke's Next Parlor Trick By Mike Whitney Master illusionist Bernanke is just arranging the props for his next big trick. The fact is, Bernanke anticipated the current wave of deflation and set up a straw man (the banks) to deal with it so it wouldn't look like he was simply printing more paper to finance the deficits. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22817.htm more here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. 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