Israel Kills Iran's
Nuclear Scientists, U.S. officials
By Richard
Engel and Robert Windrem
Iranian nuclear scientists are being killed
by an Iranian dissident group that is
financed, trained and armed by Israel’s
secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC
News.
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Playing on Iran’s
Home Court
The Great Strait of
Hormuz Test
By Russ Winter
Iran has the capability of not only
closing the Strait for some time, but
creating a world of hurt for the U.S. Navy’s
5th Fleet.
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The Grand Ayatollah
of Nuclear Menace.
By William Blum
Is USrael actually fearful of an
attack from a nuclear-armed Iran?
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British, Qatari
Troops Already Waging Secret War in Syria?
By RT
Four centers of operation have been
established in the city with the troops on
the ground paving the way for an undercover
Turkish military incursion into Syria.
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US and Allies
'Considering Plans' for Military Aid to
Syrian Rebels
By NewsCore
The Pentagon had drawn up contingency plans
which could include supplying the Free
Syrian Army (FSA) with weapons and
establishing a humanitarian corridor to
deliver aid to civilians, The Times reported
today, citing a US official.
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America and its Drone
Strikes
By Saida Fazal
It is illegal and unethical on the
part of the government to allow such
murderous assaults on its own people.
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Repulsive Progressive
Hypocrisy
By Glenn Greenwald
Obama has used drones to kill
Muslim children and innocent adults by the
hundreds. He has refused to disclose his
legal arguments for why he can do this or to
justify the attacks in any way.
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Banks Avoid Liability
In 49-State Foreclosure
Fraud Settlement
By David Dayen
Forty-nine states, every one but
Oklahoma, as well as federal regulators will
participate in a foreclosure fraud
settlement that will release the five
biggest banks and their mortgage servicing
units from liability for robo-signing and
other forms of servicer abuse.
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The Federal Reserve's
Explicit Goal: Devalue The Dollar 33%
By Charles Kadlec
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC)
has made it official: After its latest two
day meeting, it announced its goal to
devalue the dollar by 33% over the next 20
years.
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American Drug War:
The Last White Hope
Video
How money, power and greed have corrupted
not just drug pushers and dope fiends, but
an entire government. More importantly, it
shows what can be done about it.
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Over 70 killed in
Syria, most in Homs:
activists said: Germany expels four Syrian
diplomats
Comdr. of Syria's al-Farouq
rebels killed: Once a
high-ranking officer, Talas defected from
the Syrian army late last year and his
so-called al-Farouq militant group is blamed
for terrorist attacks against civilians and
security and military forces in Syria.
Humanitarian crisis
deepens in Syrian city of Homs:
Government forces are trying to crush
pockets of violent resistance in Homs, the
epicenter of an 11-month-old uprising
Homs under siege: -
Video Report - The
situation in the Syrian city of Homs is
getting worse, as neighborhoods are
surrounded and the shelling continues.
Death and Diplomacy:
Homs on the brink : Video report
- Local journalist, Diana Nemeh,
says reports from Homs are difficult to
verify.
U.N.-Arab observer
mission proposed for Syria:
- As violence in Syria reportedly raged anew
on Thursday, the United Nations and the Arab
League were considering sending a joint
observer mission to the war-ravaged Middle
Eastern nation.
In case you missed it:
Neoconservatives
Planned Regime Change Throughout the Middle
East and North Africa 20 Years Ago:
Obama is implementing these same plans –
just with a “kindler, gentler” face.
Libya
Can’t Stop Fighters Joining Syria Rebels:
Earlier this week, former Libyan rebel
fighters from the city of Misurata announced
the combat deaths of three Libyan comrades
fighting against the Syrian regime. Many
former Libyan fighters speak approvingly of
heading to Syria to join an increasingly
armed uprising against Mr Assad.
Nato Death Toll in
Libya 'Cannot be Counted':
Britain has no way of knowing how many
civilians died in the Libyan conflict as a
result of Nato bombing, a group of MPs has
admitted.
Libya Struggles to
Curb Militias as Chaos Grows:
A government whose authority extends no
further than its offices, militias whose
swagger comes from guns far too plentiful
and residents whose patience fades with
every volley of gunfire that cracks at
night.
Tuareg rebels seize
Mali border town: Ban
called on the rebel groups "to immediately
cease their attacks and to engage in
dialogue with the government of Mali to
resolve their grievances." He offered UN
support for efforts to find a peaceful
solution.
US-led airstrike
kills 8 Afghans, including 6 children:
The civilians were killed while they were
feeding their animals on a mountain in Giawa
in Nejrab district, witnesses said.
Tiny fraction of
Afghan forces self-sufficient, US says:
- Only 1 percent of Afghan police and
soldiers are capable of operating
independently, a top U.S. commander said on
Wednesday, raising further doubts about
whether Afghan forces will be able to take
on a still-potent insurgency as the West
withdraws.
US Kills Another Four
People in Pakistan:
A US drone strike in Pakistan's Waziristan
tribal region killed four suspected
militants on Thursday, Reuters reported.
This comes as a US drone strike on Wednesday
killed at least ten (alledged) "Taliban
insurgents" in North Waziristan region.
Legal framework
required to stop CIA drone carnage:
CIA drones are attacking funeral processions
and civilian and Taliban rescue teams in
Pakistan. A staggering report exposing the
practice has outraged NGOs and legal
experts, who are demanding international
laws to govern drone warfare.
Five killed as
Turkish forces clash with PKK militants:
Kurdish militants launched an attack on
Turkish security forces near the Iraqi
border in southeast Turkey early on
Thursday, triggering clashes in which one
soldier and four Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
fighters were killed, security sources said.
Saudi crackdown kills
one, injures 14: Saudi
regime forces have opened fire on
anti-government demonstrators in the
kingdom's Eastern Province, killing one
person and wounding at least 14 others.
U.S. arms sale to
Bahrain raises eyebrows:
Little noticed as President Barack Obama
denounced the “unspeakable assault” by
Syria’s ruthless regime against
pro-democracy protestors and demanded Bashar
al-Assad to “step aside and allow a
democratic transition to proceed
immediately” was the resumption of American
arms sales to Bahrain.
Moscow warns against
Israel's stance on Iran:
- Israel's hard-line approach to speculation
that Iran is seeking to develop a nuclear
weapon could have "catastrophic
consequences", a senior Russian foreign
ministry official warned Thursday.
Israel's useful idiot:
Gingrich Warns of Iranian Nuclear Attack:
Newt Gingrich asserted on Wednesday that an
Iranian nuclear attack on the United States
was “a real danger” and that it could kill
and wound hundreds of thousands of
Americans.
Support grows for
Palestinian hunger striker:
Khader Adnan's "life is in danger" after
more than 50 days without food in protest
against his detention without charge.
IDF submarine fleet
bans dual citizenship:
The IDF now demands that new candidates for
service in Israel's submarine fleet waive
their foreign citizenship in order to join
the elite unit.
General strike enters
second day in Israel:
Israel's banks, ports and stock market have
remained closed for a second day as half a
million workers continued a general strike
while the government and the country's main
labour union held talks on the status of
contract workers.
Greece's unions to
hold two-day strike over cuts:
The unions, General confederation
of Workers of Greece (GSEE) and Civil
Servants Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY),
announced on Thursday that their members
will go on a two-day strike from Friday in
protest at the controversial decision.
Drones over U.S. get
OK by Congress: Look! Up
in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you.
That’s what privacy advocates fear from a
bill Congress passed this week to make it
easier for the government to fly unmanned
spy planes in U.S. airspace.
US: Government Uses
Anti-Terror Laws to Crush Dissent
: On January 31, 2012, the Department of
Homeland Security’s Behavioral Science
Division pointed to the following as
indicators of potential terrorism
Wall Street Firms Spy
On Protesters In Tax-Funded Center:
Wall Street firms, serially charged with
corruption, get to sit alongside the New
York Police Department and spy on law
abiding citizens.
Police officer
'chased himself' after being mistaken for
burglar: An undercover
police officer "chased himself round the
streets" for 20 minutes after a CCTV
operator mistook him for suspect.
The Rise of Super
PACs and the 2012 Election:
Super PACs represent much of what is wrong
with American democracy rolled neatly into
one package. They are tools that powerful
special interests and a tiny privileged
minority can use to work their will by
drowning out the voices of ordinary
Americans in a sea of (sometimes secret)
cash.
Some legislators send
millions to groups connected to their
relatives: Some members
of Congress send tax dollars to companies,
colleges and community groups where their
spouses, children and parents work as
salaried employees, lobbyists or board
members, according to an examination of
federal disclosure forms and local public
records by The Washington Post.
February 08, 2012
Intervention in Syria
will Escalate Not Stop the Killing
By Seumas
Milne
For the US, Britain
and their allies to indulge in moral
posturing over Syria or pose as friends of
its people is preposterous.
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US Will Continue to
Arm Anti-government Rebels in Syria
By Pepe Escobar
"This is an insurrection
funded by foreign governments"
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Obama Can Stop Israel
from Attacking Iran
By Sheldon Richman
It's not too late to prevent another war in
the Middle East.
Continue
Will Iran Be
Attacked?
By Paul Craig Roberts
There seems to be an infinite
supply of foreign leaders who prefer
Washington’s money and favor to loyalty to
their own countries’ interests.
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Playing with Fire
By Mike Prokosch
Instead of firing teachers, closing
libraries and senior centers, and cutting
bus routes, let's put the Pentagon on a
diet.
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Children of
Immigrants Targeted by Tax Warfare in
Congress
By Michelle Chen
The fundamental injustice of the tax system
grows clearer as tax day looms ominously
over working people and a few horde more and
more of the nation’s wealth.
Continue
US Kills 10 People In
Pakistan: A United
States drone targeted a compound in the
restive North Waziristan tribal region of
Pakistan today, killing 10 suspected
militants, officials said.
Fact or fiction:
Afghan official: Top
US envoy met Taliban leaders in Qatar:
"I can confirm that Mr Grossman met with the
Taliban representatives in Qatar. When the
president (Karzai) was in Rome, he came over
to his residence and briefed him about his
meetings with the Taliban," the official
said.
67% Favor Ending U.S.
Combat Role in Afghanistan by Next Year:
Voters strongly favor the Obama
administration’s plan to wrap up U.S. combat
action in Afghanistan by the middle of next
year
Official: U.S.
misjudged al-Qaida capabilities:
With the benefit of more than a decade of
hindsight, America may have misjudged the
true threat posed by al-Qaeda in the
immediate aftermath of the 2001 terrorist
attacks, a top Pentagon official said
Tuesday.
Suicide car bomb
kills 11 in Somali capital:
A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people
Wednesday in the war-torn Somali capital
Mogadishu when he detonated an
explosive-laden vehicle near the
presidential palace, officials said.
Syria: Civilians,
security forces killed in Homs car blast:
Several civilians and security forces were
killed and injured in a car blast by a
"terrorist group" in Homs, Syria's National
TV reported.
The killing has to stop : 'Besieged'
Homs endures tank assault
: Video -Activists said the army
was firing rockets and mortar rounds to
subdue opposition districts on Wednesday, as
tanks entered the Inshaat neighbourhood and
moved closer to Bab Amr.
Turkey urges aid for Homs, Syria conference:
He said that if the U.N. Security Council
failed to protect civilians, then
like-minded countries should find ways to
end the killing and deliver aid to civilians
trapped by military assault, especially
those in Homs.
Foreign troops
helping Syrian rebels :
"The foreign troops are not engaged in
direct combat with the Syrian forces
bombarding different parts of Syria's third
largest city of 1.2 million. They are
tactical advisers, manage rebel
communications lines and relay their
requests for arms, ammo, fighters and
logistical aid to outside suppliers, mostly
in Turkey," the report states.
Report: US preparing
military options in Syria:
the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command have
begun a preliminary internal review of U.S.
military capabilities in order to prepare
options in the event that President Obama
calls for them.
2 Lebanese accused of
arms smuggling to Free Syrian Army:
Two Lebanese men were arrested Tuesday on
suspicion of smuggling arms to the Syrian
opposition through illegal border crossings
in the Bekaa, including the town of Arsal.
Why the Syrian Rebels
Should Put Down Their Guns:
If the violence continues to spiral, the
regime is going to win. They are better
armed and better organized
The Free Syrian Army
base in Lebanon (II):
The second part of Al-Akhbar’s exclusive
series on the Free Syrian Army in Lebanon
delves into the organization’s shaky command
structures, casualty smuggling, and
political convictions.
Russia's Putin warns
against outside interference:
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on
Wednesday the world faced a growing "cult of
violence" and Moscow must not let events
like those in Libya and Syria be repeated in
Russia, issuing a warning to the West
against interference.
Russia says it offers
alternative path to peace in Syria:
Mr. Lavrov said he convinced Mr. Assad to
hold an open dialogue with all political
forces in his embattled country, and to
agree to hold a national referendum on a new
constitution for the country.
Results of Syria
talks must not be set in advance:
Russia: Lavrov reiterated
Russia's call for countries that have
influence with opponents of Assad to press
them to enter dialogue with the government.
Moscow has accused Western nations of
encouraging Assad's opponents to avoid
talks.
Why China vetoes UN
draft resolution for Syria issue:
The situation in Syria is still worsening
and civilian casualties in Syria are still
increasing. Vetoing the UN Security
Council’s draft resolution does not mean
that China will sit by and watch the sad
situation going on.
Israel embassies
preparing for Iran strike?:
Diplomats stationed in Israel request gas
masks, prepare contingency plans in case of
missile attacks; envoys fear that thousands
of dual-citizenship Israelis will seek
evacuation.
Iran's parliament
summons Ahmadinejad: The
summons was the first of its kind for an
Iranian president since 1979. It follows a
petition by a group of legislators for a
review of policy decisions by Ahmadinejad,
who has come under increasing attacks in
recent months from the same people who
brought him to power.
CIA digs in as
Americans withdraw from Iraq, Afghanistan:
The CIA is expected to maintain a large
clandestine presence in Iraq and Afghanistan
long after the departure of conventional
U.S. troops as part of a plan by the Obama
administration
RAF helicopter death
revelation leads to secret Iraq detention
camp: The truth about
the mission raises some searching questions
about the legality of some of the British
forces' operations carried out in close
co-operation with US allies.
Australia's link to
secret Iraq prisons: The
revelation has led to an Australian human
rights organisation investigating such
secret prisons to claim that the Australian
military might have been complicit in war
crimes by handing detainees over to the
so-called ''black site'' known as H1.
"Who Killed Che?
How the CIA Got Away with Murder":
New Book Ties Johnson Admin to Guevara’s
Death
Santorum beats Romney
in 3 states on conservatives:
Republican presidential candidate Rick
Santorum shrugged off his also-ran status
with strong victories in Minnesota, Colorado
and Missouri, riding a wave of distrust of
Mitt Romney’s conservative credentials and
stalling — for the time, at least — Romney’s
seemingly inevitable march to the
nomination.
Ron Paul places
second in Minnesota caucus:
Ron Paul had his best night of the year in
Minnesota on Tuesday, beating Mitt Romney
for a strong second-place showing and
proving he can expand his base of support
from four years ago.
Obama: “The Devil”
Made Me Take the Super Pac Money:
The Devil has just forced Mr. Obama to put
together his own infernal Super Pac, the
demon-spawn of the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s
United decision allowing corporations and
wealthy individuals to spend as much money
as they like on elections.
U.S. Faces Downgrade
If No Plan: Chambers:
The U.S., lacking a plan to contain $1
trillion deficits, faces the prospect of
another rating cut in six to 24 months
depending on the outcome of November
elections, according to John Chambers of
Standard & Poor’s.
Meeting the 'new
homeless' on Greece's freezing streets:
In the heart of central Athens, a stone's
throw from the city's glorious ancient
sites, another face of today's Greece is on
show
UK: Girls, 13, given
contraceptive implants at school:
Girls as young as 13 have been fitted with
contraceptive implants at school without
their parents knowing.
February 07, 2012
US Iran Policy in
'Lockstep' with Israel?
By Dave Lindorff
The most appalling thing of all was hearing
the US president say on national TV that he
is operating US policy towards Iran in
“lockstep” with the pipsqueak nation of
Israel--an apartheid country currently being
run by a bunch of corrupt, neofascist,
genocidal war-mongers and religious
fanatics.
Continue
Israelis Should be
Afraid of Their Leaders, not Iran
By Gideon Levy
Some of the people reading these
lines will not live through the winter; some
of them may not die a natural death.
Continue
Arab League Report
Shows that Syria Has Been Mischaracterized
By WashingtonsBlog
While the Western media act like the Syrian
government is wantonly and indiscriminately
killing its own people without provocation,
an independent investigation has found a
different reality on the ground.
Continue
From Washington this
looks like Syria's 'Benghazi moment'
By Robert Fisk
The West has been so deluged with
stories and lectures and think-tank nonsense
about the ghastly Iran and the unfaithful
Iraq and the vicious Syria and the
frightened Lebanon that it is almost
impossible to snap off these delusional
pictures and realise that Assad is not
alone.
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How About an
International Award for Hypocrisy
By Alan Hart
If there was such an award, the
statements of European and American leaders
in the immediate aftermath of Russia and
China’s veto of the Security Council
resolution to end the killing in Syria
suggest two most obvious nominees for it.
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US
Says Russia/China UN Veto
"Disgusting",
"Shameful", "Deplorable", "a Travesty" . . .
Really?"
By Arab Studies Institute
A Quick Listing of The United
States' Record of Veto Use at the United
Nations (UN): 1972–2011
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Top Official: Drone
Critics are Al Qaeda Enablers
By Glenn Greenwald
At least according to some “senior”
Obama official, those who report critically
on the civilian-killing,
rescuer-and-funeral-targeting American drone
attacks (i.e., those who “malign these
efforts”) are either supporters of or useful
idiots for Al Qaeda.
Continue
History In Afghanistan
By Kevin Sieff
Officials think they have found a way to
teach Afghan history without widening the
fractures between long-quarreling ethnic and
political groups: leave out the past four
decades. Continue
Anniversaries From
‘Unhistory’
By Noam Chomsky
The events we fail to commemorate say as
much about our national narrative as those
we acknowledge.
Continue
Dark History in Latin
America and the Struggle for Justice
By Cyril Mychalejko
Elliott Abrams, a former high level State
Department official during the 1980s,
testified last week that the Reagan
administration knew that Argentina's
military junta was systematically stealing
babies from murdered and jailed democracy
activists and giving them to right-wing
families friendly to the regime.
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This is What
Imperialism Does to Men
By Che Guevara
"In our condition as colonial slaves, we
could not observe: that “Western
Civilization” disguises behind its showy
facade a picture of hyenas and jackals."
Continue
The Right's Stupidity
Spreads, Enabled by a Too-polite Left
By George
Monbiot
Conservativism may be the refuge of the dim.
But the room for rightwing ideas is made by
those too timid to properly object.
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The Economics of
Incarceration
By Nile Bowie
For every 100,000 Americans, 743 citizens
sit behind bars. Presently, the prison
population in America consists of more than
six million people, a number exceeding the
amount of prisoners held in the gulags of
the former Soviet Union at any point in its
history.
Continue
55 killed in northern
Yemen violence: --
Dozens were killed in deadly clashes in
northern Yemen as Sunni Muslim Salafists try
to force back advancing Shia militants,
witnesses said.
25 killed in Syria
civil war: activists: At
least 21 "civilians" and four soldiers were
killed on Tuesday in violence across Syria,
the majority of them in the flashpoint
central city of Homs, activists said.
Russian FM: Syria's
Assad willing to accept expanded Arab League
mission: After talks in
Damascus, Sergei Lavrov also says Assad had
assured him he was 'completely committed' to
seeking an end to violence by all sides.
Gulf countries to
expel Syrian ambassadors:
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
decided Tuesday to expel Syrian ambassadors
from their countries in protest at the
continued government crackdown on
pro-democracy activists, Doha-based
broadcaster Al Jazeera reported.
US should mull arming
Syrian opposition, says senator:
Senior Republican senator John McCain urged
the United States Tuesday to consider arming
the opposition fighting the forces of
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
Lebanese security
officials seize suspicious cargo from US,
Brazil: Lebanon’s
security officials say a suspicious cargo
containing huge amounts of US dollars, guns,
special passports and credit cards have been
seized upon arrival in the Lebanese capital,
Beirut, from the US and Brazil.
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran
US Prof. Tells
Newsweek Israel Must Attack Iran – Now:
Prof. Ferguson maintains that whether he
likes it or not, President Barack Obama will
comes to Israel’s defense if it attacks Iran
in an attempt to slow down its nuclear
development, if not destroy its nuclear
facilities altogether.
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran
Israel and Iran on
the Eve of Destruction in a New Six-Day War:
There are plenty of arguments against an
Israeli attack on Iran. And all of them are
bad.
Israel faces Turkey
airfield question on Iran issue:
Airfields located in Jordan, Saudi Arabia,
Iraq and Syria were essential for Israeli
aircraft but that it was unlikely these
countries would provide permission for Tel
Aviv to use their airfields.
Clinton meets Israeli
FM amid Iran crisis: The
Israeli foreign minister is also meeting
with members of the US Congress during his
visit
Obama Declares
"Threat" From Iran a National Emergency:
Video
Iran calls new US
sanctions ‘psychological war’:
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin
Mehmanparast said "When they impose
sanctions on our central bank even though we
have no transactions with them, it shows ...
they think they are able to put pressure on
our people. create concerns and social
discontent," he added.
Iran defaults on
payments to Indian rice traders:
Iranian buyers have defaulted on payments
for about 200,000 tonnes of rice from their
top supplier India, exporters and rice
millers said on Tuesday, a sign of the
mounting pressure on Tehran from a new wave
of Western sanctions.
15 Pakistani
militants killed in Upper Orakzai:
Pak Security forces pounded militant
hideouts with jet fighters, killing at least
15 and injuring eight militants in different
areas of Upper Orakzai.
Afghan security guard
kills 5 colleagues, police:
An Afghan security guard killed three
colleagues and two police in southern Afghan
city of Kandahar, the provincial authorities
said on Tuesday
67% Favor Ending U.S.
Combat Role in Afghanistan by Next Year:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone
survey finds that 67% of Likely U.S. Voters
favor ending the U.S. combat military
mission in Afghanistan by the middle of next
year. Just 22% are opposed to ending combat
actions by then. Eleven percent (11%) are
not sure.
Seven killed in
Libyan refugee camp:
Killings at a Tripoli refugee camp highlight
ongoing persecution of black Libyans.
U.S. Planning to
Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Up to Half:
Less than two months after American troops
left, the State Department is preparing to
slash by as much as half the enormous
diplomatic presence it had planned for Iraq,
a sharp sign of declining American influence
in the country.
UK: Government 'may
sanction nerve-agent use on rioters',
scientists fear: Leading
neuroscientists believe that the UK
Government may be about to sanction the
development of nerve agents for British
police that would be banned in warfare under
an international treaty on chemical weapons.
UK: Germans jailed
for possessing documents useful to terrorism.
The documents they were carrying were
electronic copies of Inspire magazine, an
English publication launched by al-Qaeda in
the Arabian
2 U.S. Citizens
Barred From Returning to US:
A Muslim civil rights group wants the
Justice Department to investigate the
tactics of FBI agents in Portland after two
Libyan-Americans from Oregon were barred
from returning to the United States.
FBI warns of threat
from anti-government extremists:
- Anti-government extremists opposed to
taxes and regulations pose a growing threat
to local law enforcement officers in the
United States, the FBI warned on Monday.
24-hour general
strike under way in Greece:
A 24-hour general strike is under way in
Greece against the Cabinet’s austerity
policy. Railway and maritime traffic has
come to a halt, and public transport
disruptions have been reported.
Old Mortgages Rise
from the Dead, Haunt Homeowners:
Depositions from "affidavit slaves" depict a
surreal, assembly-line world in which the
banks and their partner firms hired hair
stylists, fast-food kids and Wal-Mart floor
workers, paying them $10 an hour, to pose as
bank vice presidents, assistant secretaries
and corporate attorneys.
January 06, 2012
U.S. Wrongly
Demonizes Iran
By Karl Lindemann
As with any country that is attempting to
develop its nuclear technology, Iran should
be monitored. But the current U.S. policies
are completely unwarranted.
Continue
Yet Another War for
Israel
By William A. Cook
Has it come to this, that unnamed Israeli
spokespeople, voicing AIPAC’s policies,
determine what nation the U.S. should invade
without consultation with the
representatives of the American people?
Continue
Two Front
International Struggle For Palestine:
By Lawrence Davidson
It is important to point out that
even a one-state solution capable of
bringing justice to the Palestinians, and in
doing so, saving the Jews from the folly of
Zionism, will not be possible without
worldwide intervention.
Continue
Facts from Fiction:
What's Really
Happening in Syria?
By RT
The deadly crossfire has left
international media relying on snatches of
information and dubious or unverifiable
sources to report the unrest dragging the
nation towards civil war.
Continue
Heading for War on
Syria
By Stephen Lendman
Assad confronted a Western-backed
armed insurgency replicating the Libya
model. By so doing he acted responsibly
against a heavily armed insurrection.
Continue
Obama Terror Drones
CIA Targeting
Rescuers and Funerals
By Chris Woods
and Christina Lamb
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has
killed dozens of civilians who had gone to
help rescue victims or were attending
funerals.
Continue
Behold: The U.S. God
Of War
The Holy Fire of
Patriotism
Must Watch Short Video
O Lord our God, ... help us to drown the
thunder of the guns with the shrieks of
their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to
lay waste their humble homes with a
hurricane of fire.
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Truth, Lies and
Afghanistan
By Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting
and talking with U.S. troops and their
Afghan partners. --- What I saw bore no
resemblance to rosy official statements by
U.S. military leaders about conditions on
the ground.
Continue
The January Jobs Are
Statistical Artifacts
By Paul Craig Roberts
The phony data serve many interests, but not
those of the American people.
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Occupying Corporations
How to Cut Corporate
Power
By Bill Quigley
The legal fiction of corporate
personhood and the constitutional rights
taken by corporations must cease. Join the
efforts to cut them down to size and restore
the right of the people to govern.
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