"If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." - Justice Robert Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States at Nuremberg

 

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"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." - George Orwell

 

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"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious-makes you so sick at heart-that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all." Mario Savio - Berkeley -  December 2, 1964

 

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Information Clearing House has been described by John Pilger as having a "wonderfully free rebellious spirit" If you agree with John act now click the link http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm  .

 

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:   4,770 icasualties.org/oif/

 

 

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America's commitment to Israel's security also flows from a deeper place -and that's the values we share.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28163.htm

 

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The dangerous political leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his oppressive domination of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank must be opposed. He does not want peace.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28162.htm

 

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By Times Of India
US special forces were embedded with Pakistani troops for intelligence gathering and were also deployed on joint operations in their territory, according to secret US diplomatic cables.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28157.htm

 

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As trends forecaster Gerald Celente and I have warned, the warmongers in Washington are driving the world toward World War III. Once a country is captured by its military/security complex, the demand for profit drives the country deeper into war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28156.htm

 

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We are left with two choices: either Bush and associates are guilty of the "supreme international crime" including all the evils that follow, crimes that go vastly beyond anything attributed to bin Laden; or else we declare that the Nuremberg proceedings were a farce and that the allies were guilty of judicial murder.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28161.htm

 

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The gullible truly want to believe their government and so they do, but cynics - and they are growing in number even in America these days - recognise weak, transparent propaganda when they see it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28158.htm

 

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The failure of society at large to secure the rights of all segments of the population, has resulted in what can only be described as a nail in the coffin of our right to privacy, at least for those who can afford it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28164.htm

 

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Because he realized that the U.S. was the greatest snow job of all time. He likened the place to a hologram, in which everyone in the country was trapped inside, with no knowledge that the world (U.S. included) was not what U.S. government propaganda, or just everyday cultural propaganda, said it was.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28160.htm

 

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Count me among the growing number of people who believe support of the Democratic Party, as such, is not merely a waste of time but, worse, a deeply negative activity.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28159.htm

 

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Lagarde is a perfect-fit for the job. She's a trusted US-ally and a friend of Wall Street. She won't go off the reservation, consort with "commies" like Joseph Stiglitz, or veer from her script.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28165.htm

 

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More than a dozen bomb attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday left at least 18 people dead, including 10 people killed in a suicide attack, and 80 wounded.
http://www.manilatimes.net/news/world/dozen-bomb-attacks-rock-baghdad-kill-at-least-18/

 

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Militants blew up an oil tanker truck carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan yesterday and a secondary explosion killed 15 people who gathered to siphon fuel from it, government officials said.
http://bo.st/kTiaBf

 

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"We will be forced to respond if you do not come up with a strategy that stops the drone strikes," Pasha is reported to have told Morell, the newspaper said on its website.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110522/wl_nm/us_pakistan_usa_drones

 

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Thousands demonstrated in Karachi on Sunday to demand an immediate end to US missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas and urge the blocking of NATO supplies passing through the country.
http://bit.ly/mDWYkt

 

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Islamic charities from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates financed a network in U.S. ally Pakistan that recruited children as young as eight to wage holy war, a local newspaper reported on Sunday, citing Wikileaks.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/22/us-pakistan-saudi-uae-idUSTRE74L0ER20110522

 

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The local Dawn newspaper said on Saturday it obtained secret dispatches from WikiLeaks that revealed that US Special Forces were deployed with Pakistani troops in joint operations in Pakistan by September of 2009.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/22/pakistan-army-denies-us-troops-were-in-northwest.html

 

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Just two months before she was killed in a terror attack, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had approached then US Ambassador in Islamabad asking for help to evaluate her personal security but it was ignored, latest WikiLeaks cables have revealed
http://bit.ly/l2rE1h

 

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 Three suicide bombers were killed while a fourth was still putting up resistance, said the provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-214361.html

 

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Syrian security forces opened fire on a funeral procession for slain anti-government protesters Saturday, pushing the number of people reported killed in a two-month uprising to more than 900 and making it one of the deadliest of the Arab Spring.
http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_18113526?nclick_check=1

 

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The men were armed and wore black ski masks. In broad daylight, they grabbed Adil Ali el-Aghouri from in front of his house last month, beat him, took him to a rebel military base and threw him in a prison cell.
http://wapo.st/ljkIia

 

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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh described a Gulf-brokered deal he was expected to sign later on Saturday as a 'coup' dictated by foreign agendas.
http://bit.ly/mqIfu4

 

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Yemen transition deal falls through, says diplomat:

 

Witnesses say army helicopters remove US, other ambassadors from besieged embassy
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemen-transition-deal-falls-through-says-diplomat-1.811314

 

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 Echoing the concerns of Israeli leaders, the critics maintain that reverting to those boundaries - which existed prior to the Six Day War of 1967 - would endanger Israel and empower its enemies.
http://bit.ly/mSlwfX

 

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In a statement released after the president's speech, Thursday, May 19, 2011, Congressman Ron Paul took Barack Obama to task. "Unlike this president, I do not believe it is our place to dictate how Israel runs her affairs."
http://www.newsmax.com/DougWead/ronpaul-barack-obama-middleeast/2011/05/20/id/397095

 

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There's a growing belief that other stealthy choppers might have been present, as well. It's the latest in a series of revelations regarding the sophisticated tactics and techs behind the high-stakes raid.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/another-stealth-chopper-in-the-osama-raid/

 

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The US military's top officer warned Saturday about a worrisome disconnect between civilians and troops, saying soldiers are becoming isolated from the rest of American society.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110521/pl_afp/usmilitarypoliticssociety

 

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Despite insisting he wanted to keep a low profile, Mr Bush has padded his bank account by making scores of speeches paying between $100,000 and $150,000 a time.
http://bit.ly/mgVfAc

 

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Thousands of protesters in Madrid furious over soaring unemployment staged a silent protest and then erupted in cheers of joy as a 48-hour ban on their demonstration took effect on Saturday.
http://bit.ly/lb87bB

 

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Calderón stands firm as thousands take to the streets to demand an end to drug gang violence.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/05/mexico-calderon-thousands

 

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Tom Feeley