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November 11, 2011
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 Op-Ed Articles

Obama Wants World War III

 

By Michael S. Rozeff

 

One word from Obama can stop Israel from attacking Iran. Is he saying "No"? I don't hear it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29692.htm

 


Israels Useful Idiot
I Won't Let Iran Get Nukes

 

By Mitt Romney

 

"If you want peace, prepare for war." - " I will increase military assistance to Israel and coordination with all of our allies in the region."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29686.htm

 

America's Media War on Iran

 

By Stephen Lendman

 

When Washington goes to war or threatens it, America's media march in lockstep, cheerleading. Fiction substitutes for fact.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29690.htm

 


Reports of Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Sound Like a Repeat of Iraq Eight Years Ago

 

By Gwynne Dyer

 

"We will not build two (nuclear) bombs in the face of (America's) 20,000," said Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in response to an International Atomic Energy Agency report this week that accuses Iran of doing just that. He called Yukiya Amano, the head of the IAEA, a U.S. puppet.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29685.htm

 


"Israel's Advocate" to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank

 

By Jim Lobe

 

Ross was the only official in whom most American Jewish leaders had confidence. As most of them are Democrats who have long accepted Ross's faith in the 'peace process,' they viewed his role as the assurance that a steady, experienced, pro-Israel hand was on or near the tiller.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29683.htm

 


Israeli lobby drag America into wars
Washington's Enemy 'Doesn't Exist'

 

By Michael Scheuer

 

Actually, "it is America's relationship with Israel that is causing this war [on Islam]", and until Americans accept this, "we are not going to defeat this enemy," the author says.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29692.htm

 


Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO's Libya

 

By Franklin Lamb

 

The "new Libya" has entered its own "Terror" which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member states including American, French and British SAS units known locally as "disappearance squads".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29695.htm

 


The Profits of War
Bomb, Build, Benefit: UK Joins Gold Rush to Patch Up War-torn Libya

 

By RT

 

The countries that bombed the oil-rich country are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29687.htm

 


From The Archive
WAR is a Racket. It Always Has Been

 

By Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

 

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm

 


From The Archives
A Veteran Remembers

 

By Howard Zinn

 

They want us to forget what we learned at the Vietnam War's end: that our leaders cannot be trusted, that modern war is inevitably a war against civilians and particularly children, that only a determined citizenry can stop the government when it embarks on mass murder.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15587.htm

 


Veteran's Day
A Time To Honor Duped Murderers?

 

By fishychick

 

I am sick of pretending that a person who joins today's army is a hero. They are a mercenary at best, and a murderer looking for legitimate employment at worst.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29691.htm

 


Congress Members Took Part in Insider Trading: Abramoff

 

By Eamon Javers

 

Legal analysts say that Wall Street insider trading laws do not apply to Congress.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29688.htm

 


Can A New Labor Movement Save American "Civilization"?

 

By Bob Simpson

 

Civilization is more than some of us flushing a toilet or visiting an art gallery. Folks, it's time to raise the bar on what the word civilized really means.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29694.htm

 


In Mexico, a Universal Struggle Against Power and Forgetting

 

By John Pilger

 

"The net worth of the 10 richest people of Mexico - a country where more than 40 per cent of the population lives in poverty - represents roughly 10 per cent of the gross domestic product."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29682.htm

 


Mexico: Widespread Rights Abuses in 'War on Drugs'

 

By Human Rights Watch

 

"Instead of reducing violence, Mexico's 'war on drugs' has resulted in a dramatic increase in killings, torture, and other appalling abuses by security forces" .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29684.htm

 

 

 

Europe's Crash Landing

 

By Mike Whitney

 

The chances of the eurozone surviving in its present form are slim to none.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29693.htm

 

Hard News

US kill 38 more people in Somalia:
The US remote-controlled drones launched aerial attacks on Tabataa town, which is located in the southern Lower Juba region of Somalia. At least 38 people were killed and over 66 others were wounded in the terror strikes.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209381.html

 

Fighting kills 17 in Yemen:
Shells fired by government forces landed on houses across the city, killing people inside their homes. Hospital officials said an eight-year-old girl died when a shell crashed into her house in the al-Hasab neighborhood in western Taiz. Her mother was critically wounded.
http://news.yahoo.com/fighting-kills-17-yemen-u-n-envoy-pushes-194605282.html

 

14 killed, Syria accused of 'crimes against humanity':
At least 14 people were killed in violence in Syria on Friday, most of them civilians in the restive city of Homs, as Human Rights Watch accused the regime of crimes against humanity.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/11/14-killed-syria-accused-of-crimes-against-humanity/

 

Six killed in clash in northwest Pakistan:
At least six people were killed in a clash between Islamist militants and members of a local pro-government militia in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district today, officials said.
http://bit.ly/tj3FGC

 


Pakistan Drone Strikes Aided by Covert Emitters:
A British lawyer has claimed that two innocent Pakistani youths were killed on October 31 in a strike that followed three days after one of them attended a protest meeting in Islamabad
http://bit.ly/rEbkxa

 


NATO occupation force service member killed by insurgents in southern Afghanistan:
 NATO says the attack took place Friday but provided no other information. The death raises to 495 the number of coalition troops killed in the country so far this year.
http://wapo.st/spiyvF

 


US Soldier Is Convicted of Killing Afghan Civilians for Sport:
He was sentenced to life in prison but could be eligible for parole in less than 10 years.
http://nyti.ms/sDgT2D

 


Two Iraqis killed, 11 injured in blasts in Baghdad: -
Two Iraqis were killed and 11 injured in successive blasts in Baghdad on Friday evening, a police source said.
http://bit.ly/rqrwqs

 


UN Security Council panel fails to agree on Palestinian statehood bid:
The Palestinians currently have only eight supporters, diplomats say. If the Palestinian delegation chooses to force a vote without securing nine votes, the United States would not need to use its veto power to block it.
http://bit.ly/u40Cv4

 


Despite major rebuke, Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin endorses slaughtering Palestinians:
None of the paper's supposedly liberal columnists are willing to raise a peep in favor of Palestinian rights, and even if they were, they could face harsh reprisals for doing so
http://bit.ly/vd4Qis

 


Suspicions Persist about Iranian "Laptop of Death":
Not only is the information that's being publicized about Iran's alleged nuclear activities "not new", it's also based/builds on information that was doubted by experts in the first place.
http://www.lobelog.com/suspicions-persist-about-iranian-laptop-of-death/

 


US plans "bunker-busting" bombs sale to UAE:
Wall Street Journal reports US plan to provide thousands of advanced "bunker-busting" bombs to UAE is part of efforts to contain Iran.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=48967

 


Clinton urges China to put pressure on Iran: -
Clinton, meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Hawaii ahead of a weekend Asia-Pacific summit, talked "extensively" about Iran amid Western calls for further sanctions on the Islamic state, a senior US official said.
http://www.france24.com/en/20111111-clinton-urges-china-put-pressure-iran

 


US can focus on Asia-Pacific after Iraq and Afghan wars, says Hillary Clinton:
Secretary of state says pullback from two wars will allow US to work with, but also challenge, regional powers such as China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/11/hillary-clinton-asia-pacific-speech

 


Australia: Obama to announce US marine base in Darwin:
PRESIDENT Barack Obama is to announce that the US will begin rotating marines through an Australian base in Darwin in a permanent new military presence, intensifying the alliance in a sign of heightened concern about China.
http://bit.ly/sal2zt

 


Fighting reported in western Libya:
Clashes were being reported Friday in western Libya between two rival groups vying for control of the base of a brigade formally led by one of the sons of ousted leader Moamer Gaddafi.
http://bit.ly/vBA0Kl

 


Gadhafi son Saadi in Niger on humanitarian asylum: president: :
Niger has decided to grant Moamer Gadhafi's son Saadi asylum for humanitarian reasons, President Mahamadou Issoufou said Friday, adding that his brother Seif al-Islam is not in the country.
http://bit.ly/rZ2OlC

 


Whistling in the wind:
Libyans will not allow Qatar to control their country: former NTC leader:
"Qatar gave a lot to the Libyan revolution, but the Qataris are playing a role that is bigger than their actual potential. The Qataris possess soft power means, which is money and the media, but when a country stretches itself more than its capacity allows, it will be break in the middle," Jibril said.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/11/11/176492.html

 


NATO Is The Armed Wing Of Zionism: Sheik Imran Hosein:
They wanted to be in Libya so they can split Egypt up, Israel attacks from one side and NATO from the other side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O5jcx6hbZI&feature=player_embedded#!

 


Something smells :
Key Mexico minister killed in helicopter crash:
Blake, 45, was the second interior secretary to die in an air accident during the presidency of Felipe Calderon, after Juan Camilo Mourino died in a small plane crash in Mexico City three years ago.
http://yhoo.it/tajJoF

 


Dictators by Nature: 'EU enters death agony' :
Too much blame for the crisis is being put on the weakest nations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP6KxOSfqlE

 


California Refuses to Accept Obama's Banking Sellout:
There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, not even a law for a fifth strike, as The New York Times reported in the case of Citigroup, cited last month in a $1 billion fraud case.
http://bit.ly/tOIG1Y

 


Ex-soldier 'kills himself' in tent shooting at Occupy Vermont protest camp:
Just two days ago an Oakland man claimed he was shot with a rubber bullet as he filmed a stand-off between police and anti-Wall Street protesters.
http://bit.ly/shpuSG


"Let us be peace and joy"

Tom Feeley
Cost Of war

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

 

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 
4,801


Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,799

 

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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
  $1,276,410,229,663
http://www.costofwar.com/

 

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