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The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium

 

By Bill McKibben

 

In fact, it was arguably among the most important pieces of data in the last, oh, three centuries.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29942.htm

 

 


Pakistan Says U.S. Drones in its Air Space Will be Shot Down

 

By NBC News

 

According to the new Pakistani defense policy, "Any object entering into our air space, including U.S. drones, will be treated as hostile and be shot down,"  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29946.htm

 

 

 

Wars Without Victory Equal an America Without Influence

 

By Patrick Cockburn

 

Nouri al-Maliki, will meet tomorrow in Washington so they can claim that the US emerges from the conflict unweakened and leaves behind an increasingly stable, democratic and prosperous Iraq. This is misleading spin.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29949.htm

 

 

 

The Real Definition of Terrorism

 

By Glenn Greenwald

 

If the U.S. invades and occupies your country, and you respond by fighting back against the invading army - then you are a . . . Terrorist.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29948.htm

 

 

 

Syria's Bashar Assad Speaks to Western Press

 

By Tony Cartalucci

 

Syria's President Bashar Assad Sets ABC News Senior Propagandist Barbra Walters Straight.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29947.htm

 

 

 

Palestinians are an Invented People, says Newt Gingrich

 

By The Associated Press

 

Republican frontrunner says Israelis have a right to their modern-day homeland but implies Palestinians do not.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29945.htm

 

 

 

Bankers are the Dictators of the West

 

By Robert Fisk

 

The banks and the rating agencies have become the dictators of the West. Like the Mubaraks and Ben Alis, the banks believed - and still believe - they are owners of their countries.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29952.htm

 

 

 

Europe's Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy

 

By Michael Hudson

 

At least in the most badly indebted countries, European voters are waking up to an oligarchic coup.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29943.htm

 

 

 

So What Shall We Ruin in November 2012?

 

By Lawrence Davidson

 

Which do they care to ruin - the Republican party or the USA? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29941.htm

 

 

 

Americans' Net Worth Plummets as Corporations Stockpile Cash

 

By Derek Kravitz and Dave Carpenter

 

The US suffered its biggest quarterly loss in more than two years as stocks, pension funds and home values lost value.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29940.htm

 

 

 

Why Is Eric Cantor Blocking the Congressional Insider Trading Act?

 

By John Carney

 

The Republican leader in the House of Representatives is now blocking progress on a bill that would definitively outlaw insider trading by federal lawmakers.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29944.htm

 

 

 

The Goal is Not to Occupy it is to End Corporate Rule

 

By Kevin Zeese

 

We seek to replace the rule of money with the rule of people.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29950.htm

 

 

 

Must we Permit the US Military to Detain Americans Without Trial?

 

By Seema Jilani

 

The National Defense Authorisation Act before Congress threatens further erosion of US citizens' civil liberties.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29953.htm

 

Hard News  

  

Three Afghan "Taliban" killed, 32 held :
Three Taliban "insurgents" were killed and 32 arrested during a series of joint military operations carried out in various Afghan provinces over the last 24 hours, the Afghanistan interior ministry said Sunday morning. 
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-124368.html

 

 

 

Two foreign occupation force soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan:
Two soldiers with the NATO-led occupation forces were killed Sunday in an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan, the military coalition said. 
http://bit.ly/vCCJRs

 

 

 

Karzai says foreigners fuel Afghan corruption:
Foreigners are fuelling the problem of corruption in Afghanistan, a country already ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday. 
http://yhoo.it/vAookS

 

 

 

Talks Under Way in Pakistan, Taliban Say:
The deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that the militant group was in peace talks with the government and that an agreement to end its brutal four-year insurgency was within striking distance. 
http://nyti.ms/vCC7HS

 

 

 

Pakistani Taliban deny talks with government:  Taliban spokesman denies claims of peace talks with government one day after group's deputy chief said talks had begun. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/12/20111211125656979739.html

 

 

 

Pakistan forces take control of Shamasi base as U.S. troops pull out: 51 U.S. troops have vacated the airbase and their luggage has been shifted to Afghanistan and FC [Frontier Corps] took the control of base," the paper said. http://en.rian.ru/world/20111211/169711938.html

 

 

 

Seven killed in Iraq violence:
A spate of gun and bomb attacks across northern and central Iraq yesterday killed seven people and left four others wounded, security officials said. 
http://bit.ly/vr45xw

 

 

 

NATO to withdraw Iraq mission at year-end: Iraq:
NATO will withdraw its Iraq training mission at year-end after Baghdad refused to grant it legal immunity, Iraq's top security adviser said on Sunday, mirroring the nearly-complete pullout of US forces. 
http://bit.ly/vWUps5

 

 

 

Baghdad: The Most Dangerous Citiy in the World:
Research consulting firm Mercer has released its 2011 Quality of Living Report. Baghdad is the most violent city on the list. 
http://247wallst.com/2011/12/09/the-most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world/

 

 

 

Huge numbers of Iraqis still adrift within the country:
 "Iraq had the first or second or largest number of refugees, inside and outside, of any country in the world; now it is the third or fourth," said Dendar Duski, the minister of migration and displacement in Baghdad. 
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/12/11/132550/huge-numbers-of-iraqis-still-adrift.html

 

 

 

5 people killed as Syrian troops battle army deserters :
Fighting between Syrian forces and defectors calling themselves the Free Syrian Army threatens to push the confrontation into civil war. 
http://wapo.st/tSRxR9

 

 

 

Israel: End of Assad would be 'blessing':
Ehud Barak predicted that Syrian President Bashar Assad would be toppled within weeks. 
http://bit.ly/vazXgk

 

 

 

Israeli forces kill Palestinian protester:
Mustafa Tamimi was throwing stones at an Israeli military vehicle when a tear gas canister was shot at him directly. 
http://bit.ly/sNrHI8

 

 

 

Gingrich stands by 'invented' Palestinians remark:
US presidential hopeful says he supports "two-state solution" but defends controversial comments about Palestinians. 
http://bit.ly/soqf76

 

 

 

Gingrich would "instruct" CIA to "hunt down" freed Palestinian prisoners:
I'm told that at least thirty of the people released were involved in killing Americans, and I would instruct the CIA to hunt down those thirty. 
http://bit.ly/sr0J9S

 

 

 

Libya One killed as "rebels" attempt to assassinate country's new army commander:
Army spokesman Sgt. Abdel-Razik el-Shibahy said fighters from the western mountain town of Zintan opened fire on two occasions on Saturday on the convoy of Gen. Khalifa Hifter, the commander of the newly rebuilt army. He said guard was killed and four others wounded in the second attack. 
http://bit.ly/tJcISW

 

 

 

Iran to sue US over airspace violation:
Jalali added that Iran has lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council about the American RQ-170 Sentinel spy aircraft that was flying over eastern part of the country, and the blatant US violation of its territorial integrity. 
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/215057.html

 

 

 

Satellite Images Suggest Something Happened at Iranian Nuclear Facility -- But Was It an Explosion?:  Israeli sources have suggested that the blast occurred at the nuclear facility; Iran, in turn, has denied that any sort of blast happened there. http://fxn.ws/vwLKQ8

 

 

 

How Iran Assertions Turn Into 'Facts':  Basing a debate around an assumption that might be entirely false is, of course, a problem. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29951.htm

 

 

 

Medvedev orders poll probe after protests:  President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an investigation on Sunday into allegations of fraud in Russia's parliamentary election, one day after tens of thousands of protesters demanded it be annulled and rerun. http://bit.ly/vwJEvs

 

 

 

Wall Street Propagandists Scramble To Cover US Ties to Russian Protesters.:  As the evidence begins to mount pointing the accusing finger at the increasingly illegitimate corporate-financier occupiers of the West's governments as having built up Russian opposition movements and being behind the current unrest filling Russia's streets, the corporate media has already started to rewrite events as they unfold. http://bit.ly/tyE2Ae

 

 

 

El Salvador apologises for 1981 massacre:
Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of the killings at the small northeastern village of El Mozote, where US trained troops rounded up men, women and children, accused many of collaborating with leftist armed groups, and murdered them in cold blood. 
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/12/2011121154053714204.html

 

 

 

Sterilisation: Peru's darkest secret:
An investigation into whether Alberto Fujimori's government carried out mass forced sterilisations in the 1990s has been reopened 
http://ind.pn/rwPlsn

 

 

 

Noriega bound for Panama after 22-year absence:  The ex-general could eventually leave prison under a law allowing prisoners over 70 to serve out their time under house arrest. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/12/2011121104544338377.html

 
"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 : 2,825

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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
 $1,290,294,425,363      http://www.costofwar.com/

 

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