World Peace Hanging By A Thread

By Fidel Castro Ruz

The sheer tranquility with which the United States and civilized Europe carry out this campaign with incredible and systematic acts of terrorism is enough to shock anybod.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30317.htm

Resist U.S. Imperialist War Threats On Iran

By Sara Flounders

There is growing apprehension that through miscalculation, deliberate provocation or a staged false flag operation, a U.S. war with Iran is imminent.    

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30321.htm

Bush's CIA Director:
We Determined Attacking Iran Was A Bad Idea

By Josh Rogin

"When we talked about this in the government, the consensus was that [attacking Iran] would guarantee that which we are trying to prevent -- an Iran that will spare nothing to build a nuclear weapon and that would build it in secret,"    

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30322.htm

US Politics Reaches New Low
Obama Campaign Video Says U.S.-Israel Bond 'Unbreakable'

By Barak Ravid

Obama's new presidential campaign video features top Israeli officials, including PM Netanyahu and President Peres, singing Obama's praises.    

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30313.htm

US Newspaper Editor
Israel Should Consider Assassinating Obama

By John Cook

Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or "order a hit" on Barack Obama. Either way, problem solved!    

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30312.htm

Anti-peace Coalition Governing Israel

By Uri Avnery

From the crib on, they learn that Jews are the Chosen People; that the Almighty personally promised us this country; that the Goyim - including the Arabs - are just inferior human beings.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30316.htm

Creating American Terrorists

By Philip Giraldi

Mr. Obama? You portray yourself as a man of honor and a defender of constitutionalism, but you have opened the gates to lawlessness and authoritarian rule.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30314.htm

"It Is Clearly Unconstitutional"
Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin Over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens

Video and Transcript

"I think that for those of us who care about civil liberties, the right of dissent and freedom, we have to stand up."   

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30315.htm

Citizens United ... Against Secret Corporate Campaign Cash

By Isaiah J. Poole

Saturday is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30318.htm

Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable

By Sarah van Gelder

7 signs the corporatocracy is losing its legitimacy ... and 7 populist tools to help shut it down.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30320.htm

Hunger Is A 'Weapon of Mass Destruction', Says Jean Ziegler

By Siv O'Neall

What made this murderous situation possible where thousands of people are dying (37,000 every day) from lack of food and clean water?    

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30319.htm

Ecology and the Pathology of Capitalism

By Charles Sullivan

Contrary to everything we have been taught, there is no actual United States of America. The U.S. is an occupied territory that could more accurately be described as the Corporate States of America.    

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30304.htm 

At least 120 dead in blasts in Nigeria's Kano :   Death toll continues to rise in northern city after a series of co-ordinated attacks targeting police and state offices.   

http://bit.ly/zAFjpI

14 killed as anti government forces ambush Syrian police truck :
Four bombs that went off in 'two phases' hit the truck, and then attackers targeted an ambulance that arrived to assist the wounded, SANA reported.  

 http://bit.ly/zPw2gm

9 killed near Syria-Turkey border:   "At least nine people, mainly (army) defectors, were killed in clashes between government forces and deserters in Idlib," Abu Omar, a Syrian activist, told dpa by phone.  

 http://en.trend.az/regions/met/turkey/1982659.html

Syrians Being Trained in Guerilla Warfare in Camps in Antioch:
Members of the Human Rights Committee at the Turksih Parliament said on Saturday that there are special camps in Antioch areas in which individuals who fled Syria are staying and are being trained in guerrilla warfare.   

http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2012/01/21/395686.htm

U.S. may close embassy in Syria:   The Obama administration is preparing to evacuate American personnel and close the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria, by the end of this month unless the embattled government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad provides additional security for the facility, senior administration officials said.   

http://wapo.st/wxmAUR

Thirteen killed in Afghan violence:   At least 13 people, including five Afghan border police, a NATO soldier and two would-be suicide bombers were killed across Afghanistan Saturday, officials said.   

http://news.yahoo.com/thirteen-killed-afghan-violence-004417550.html

Afghan Taliban say recruited soldier who killed French:   The Afghan Taliban said on Saturday they had recruited an Afghan soldier who shot dead four French soldiers a day earlier, raising fears the militant group had managed to deepen its infiltration of the country's struggling security forces.   

http://cour.at/zQCwkw

Afghanistan's Karzai says he met with insurgent faction Hizb-i-Islami for peace talks:   Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he personally held peace talks recently with the insurgent faction Hizb-i-Islami, appearing to assert his own role in a U.S.-led bid for negotiations to end the country's decade-long war.  

http://wapo.st/ydLc4c

Pakistan official says US military will be allowed to return, but not CIA drones;   U.S. military trainers will be invited back into Pakistan "as early as April or May," but the nation has ruled out allowing CIA drones back into the country, Fox News has learned.   

http://fxn.ws/wB5jga

4 Iraqi troops killed in attack in Fallujah:   Gunmen armed with AK-47 assault rifles opened fire at an army checkpoint in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Saturday, killing four soldiers, according to a security official.   

http://wapo.st/zo0iYk

U.S. General Urges Closer Ties With Israel:   Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Friday for closer engagement between the United States and Israel during a short visit here at a time of tension over Iran's nuclear program.   

http://nyti.ms/ySNnny

Zbig: Israelis "bought influence" and outmaneuvered Obama:   The president "should have stuck to his guns" on Mideast peace, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, former NSC advisor   

http://bit.ly/yuSgKT

Hamas political chief to step down:   Meshaal, who is normally based out of the Syrian capital Damascus, will remain active in Hamas "in the service of the people, the movement and the Palestinian cause," the statement said.   

http://bit.ly/yCOSBK

Protesters attack NTC's Benghazi headquarters:   Libyans frustrated with pace of reforms break through gate of ruling council's compound, throwing at least one grenade.   

http://bit.ly/yiOGbs

Final results: Muslim Brotherhood wins sweeping victory in Egyptian elections:   Brotherhood's coalition wins 38 percent of seats, hardline Islamist Nour Party wins 29 percent of list seats and the secular New Wafd and the Egyptian Bloc coalition came third and fourth respectively.   

http://bit.ly/wLm37v

Yemen officials: Saleh to depart for Oman:   "Outgoing" President Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave soon to Oman, en route to medical treatment in the United States, Yemeni officials said on Saturday, part of an American effort to get the embattled strongman out of the country to allow a peaceful transition from his rule.   

http://bit.ly/zFu06b

Dispute over oil rich islands in South China Sea could escalate into 'state-on-state conflict:   Admiral Patrick Walsh said a diplomatic row between six Asian nations over the Spratly Islands could escalate into a 'state-on-state conflict' as countries attempt to seize new oil resources.   

http://bit.ly/y1SHhN

Obama's Keystone Denial Prompts Canada to Look to China Sales:   Currently, 99 percent of Canada's crude exports go to the U.S., a figure that Harper wants to reduce in his bid to make Canada a "superpower" in global energy markets.   

http://bloom.bg/wYZ77r

Liberia's Charles Taylor "was" CIA spy: -   Liberia's Charles Taylor, the first African head of state to be prosecuted for war crimes by an international tribunal, used to work for the CIA, the Boston Globe newspaper reported this week.  

 http://n24.cm/AoQY02

Gingrich delivers show-stopper at beginning of South Carolina debate:   "To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine," Gingrich told King, the moderator of the debate.   

http://bit.ly/Awgx5r

Gingrich Surges With Old, Familiar Ploy: Racist Attacks on Poor People;   Gingrich argues that the reason so many people are on food stamps is not that the economy has thrown millions into poverty, but rather that lazy black families are getting on the dole and don't want to work.   

http://bit.ly/xpqorJ

One Mexican State Bordering The US Was Deadlier Than All of Afghanistan Last Year:   Per capita, a person was at least nine times more likely to be murdered in Chihuahua last year than in Afghanistan.   

http://bit.ly/zvNcuD

Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth?:   A decade ago, Ecuador was a banana republic, an economic basket case. Today, it has much to teach the rest of the world   

http://bit.ly/yh8J4N

Millions were in germ war tests:   Much of Britain was exposed to bacteria sprayed in secret trials   

http://bit.ly/9K55bY

Police Device Can See Through Clothing:   Video   http://bit.ly/xtDyhg