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"They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars"

 

Jackson Browne  - Lives In The Balance -  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11924.htm 

 

 

"Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate." - Albert Einstein

 


"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil."   - Albert Einstein

 


"Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society"   - Albert Einstein
 
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 : 2,905

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
 $1,306,280,052,981  http://www.costofwar.com/

 

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"Regime Change"
'US to Announce Aerial Blockade on Syria'

 

By Ynet News

 

US readies for possibility of intervention without UN resolution, Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing US military official; plan to include humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees on Turkey's border.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30651.htm

 

 

 

Russia's Secret Service :
Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey Supply Arms to Syrian Opposition:

 

By Itar-Tass

 

Armed groups of Syria's opposition from the rebel force known as the Syrian Liberation Army get more and more weapons from abroad, a source in Russia's secret services told Itar-Tass on Friday.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30648.htm

 

 

 

Russia Seeks Major Role in Mideast Politics

 

By Patrick Seale

 

Russia is now demanding a seat for itself at the top table of Middle East affairs. It seems determined to have its say on the key issues of the day: the crisis in Syria; the threat of war against Iran; Israel's expansionist ambitions; and the rise of political Islam across the Arab world.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30650.htm

 

 

 

UK Gov Ignore Pro-Assad Civilians;
Al Qaeda Confirmed In Opposition

 

By Keelan Balderson

 

Since the beginning of the violence, Western media have been reluctant to report any deaths at the hands of the armed rebels, preferring to call them activists or opposition. Anyone loyal to Assad is cynically labeled part of the "regime" or "Assad's forces".  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30647.htm

 

 

 

Attacking Iran
Because We Can, Doesn't Mean We Should

 

By Camillo mac Bica

 

The United States must be vigilant and not succumb to the political blackmail and intimidation of any nation, or to the undue influence of powerful lobbying cabals such as AIPAC.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30653.htm

 

 

 

Insinuation as War Propaganda

 

By Anthony Gregory

 

Seventy-one percent of Americans-almost exactly the percentage that thought Saddam was behind 9/11-think that Iran has nuclear weapons.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30646.htm

 

 

 

CIA Admits Using "News To Manipulate US Public Opinion

 

3 Minute Video

 

Clip showing admittance of the CIA that they use the mainstream media to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of American citizens in the USA.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30652.htm

 

 

 

From The Archives
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis

 

Video - Documentary By Bill Moyers

 

This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of the United States Government. Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of the secret government.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17720.htm

 

 

 

From The Archives
Lives In The Balance : Jackson Browne

 

3 Minute Video

 

"You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war "  

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11924.htm

 

 

 

Progressives Embrace Humanitarian Imperialism - Again

 

By John V. Wals

 

It was yet one more sign that the "progressive" movement in the West has largely abandoned its antiwar, anti-intervention stance.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30645.htm

 

 

 

Bankers Are Like Pedophiles:
They won't stop till they are locked up

 

Must Watch - Video

 

Mark McGowan - The Artist Taxi Driver.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30649.htm

 

 

 

Cuba Sets a Global Example for the Achievements of Socialism

 

By Peter Phillips

 

Cuba is an international example of the potentialities of socialism, and an ongoing symbolic challenge to marketplace capitalism.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30644.htm

 

 

 

Why Socialism?

 

By Albert Einstein

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25996.htm

Hard News  

  

 
57 killed in Syria violence, including 16 soldiers:  Government forces killed 41 "civilians" in Syria on Saturday, while 16 soldiers were killed in explosions and clashes with rebels, (None of the rebels were killed- Strange?) a monitoring group said. http://bit.ly/vZNktX 

 

 

 

Syrian constitution vote begins:  The new charter would formalise a multi-party system in Syria and no longer designates the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party as "leader of state and society." It also states that the president can only be in office for a maximum of two seven-year terms. http://bit.ly/w339cX 

 

 

 

'Friends of Syria' pledge support for Syrian opposition:  In his most forceful words to date on the Syrian crisis, President Barack Obama said the U.S. and its allies would use "every tool available" to end the bloodshed by the government of President Bashar Assad. http://bit.ly/zrpLXe 

 

 

 

Please! Pass the sick bag:
Obama on Syria: U.S. can't be a bystander:
As fighting continues in Syria, President Obama indicted that the U.S. could beef up its role there, saying the U.S. cannot be a "bystander" as Syrian President Basha al-Assad continues the "slaughter of innocents." 
http://bit.ly/xQONcv 

 

 

 

Defenders of liberty and freedom?
Saudi Arabia backs arming Syrian opposition:
 Foreign minister tells conference on Syria that supplying weapons to rebels fighting Assad regime is 'an excellent idea' as Obama vows to use 'every tool available' to stop the slaughter 
http://bit.ly/ArkcMP 

 

 

 

In search of Syria's true friends:  The 'Friends of Syria' is a contradiction in terms. In reality, these countries are Syria's enemies which are not trying to reach a peaceful settlement but want to provoke a civil war, the Chairman of the Russian Parliamentary Committee for International Affairs Alexey Pushkov has declared. http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_02_24/66839793/ 

 

 

 

China: US, Europe have hegemonistic goals in Syria:
The official Xinhua News Agency said in a commentary that China's position on Syria was balanced and that "most of the Arab countries have begun to realize that the United States and Europe are hiding a dagger behind a smile." 
http://bit.ly/x2Szap 

 

 

 

Demonizing Syria:
US State Department quietly warning region on Syrian WMDs:  This week, the State Department sent a diplomatic demarche to Syria's neighbors Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia, warning them about the possibility of Syria's WMDs crossing their borders and offering U.S. government help in dealing with the problem 
http://bit.ly/zwrF6K 

 

 

 

Al-Jazeera's : "biased and unprofessional" coverage of Syria:  Emails said to reveal dismay among Al-Jazeera staff over its "biased and unprofessional" coverage of Syria have been leaked by pro-Assad hackers. http://bit.ly/ycqRQv 

 

 

 

Cairo speech a symbol of Hamas's split with Syria:  Hamas's Gaza prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, symbolically chose Cairo's Al Azhar Mosque, a spiritual and intellectual centre for global Islam, to declare Hamas had formally split with Syria, a former ally and once home to the Palestinian group's headquarters in exile. http://bit.ly/w9g63v 

 

 

 

Islamist party wins majority seats in upper house of Egypt's parliament:  The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice scored an outright majority in an election for Egypt's upper house of parliament after having emerged as the top party in an earlier lower house vote. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/25/196984.html 

 

 

 

25 killed in Yemen car bomb blast:  A security official said it was a suicide blast, and that it bore the hallmarks of an operation by the militant group. He did not provide a death toll. Both al Qaida and southern separatists are active in the region. http://bit.ly/A6dpG2 

 

 

 

What a joke!!
Yemen's Hadi takes oath, replaces Saleh:  A former army general, Hadi stood as the sole candidate to replace Saleh in a power transfer deal brokered by Gulf neighbours and backed by Western powers. He was elected after more than 60 percent of eligible voters took part in an election this week. 
http://bit.ly/zO9YjS 

 

 

 

6 Afghan soldiers killed, 16 wounded trying to defuse roadside bomb: Officials:  6 Afghan soldiers killed, 16 wounded trying to defuse roadside bomb. http://bit.ly/zWorQl 

 

 

 

Four dead in Afghan protests, UN complex attacked:  Rock-throwing protesters attacked a UN compound, clashed with police and set tyres alight in Afghanistan Saturday, as a fifth day of protests over the burning of Qurans left four dead. http://bit.ly/w00YVK 

 

 

 

Gunman kills two US Army officers in Afghan Interior Ministry:  The Americans, who were U.S. Army officers serving as advisers to the Afghan security forces, were sitting at their desks inside the government ministry building when they were shot. http://on.msnbc.com/xp2Nmw 

 

 

 

US drone crashes in Pakistan; Taliban claim responsibility:
The militants say they have collected the wreckage, and will soon release pictures of the drone. 
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/228586.html 

 

 

 

Hundreds of Pakistanis protest against US drone strikes:  Tribesmen from North Waziristan's tribal region also joined the sit-in in front of the parliament building in Islamabad, demanding the Pakistani government to end its alliance with the US in the so-called war on terror. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/228558.html 

 

 

 

Congressman Rohrabacher brands Pakistan as "hard-core, two-faced enemy" of America:  He further said the discovery that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani military town of Abbottabad motivated him to table the Balochistan resolution. http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-163820.html 

 

 

 

CIA carving out new role in Balochistan  In March 2011, The Peninsula, Qatar's leading English language daily, revealed that the "CIA is indulging in heavy recruitment of local people as agents (each being paid $500 a month) in Balochistan to locate members of the Quetta Shura, a term used by the Americans for Mullah Omar-led Taliban commanders." http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=94180&Cat=2 

 

 

 

Palestinian killed in West Bank clashes:  "At first, they were shooting at the Al-Aqsa mosque but we hid in the Dome of the Rock, and now they have started firing tear gas and sound bombs towards the gates," she said. http://aje.me/xGkOr6 

 

 

 

Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Netanyahu: IAEA Report Shows 'We Are Right on Iran':  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that the latest IAEA report showed that Israel's suspicions on Iran are justified. 
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153132#.T0lQ2VvyQ2x 

 

 

 

U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb:  Even as the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb. http://nyti.ms/yOy5f8 

 

 

 

Report: U.S. bolsters "defenses" in Persian Gulf amid Iran tensions:  Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. military is positioning new equipment and expanding surveillance in the strategic Strait of Hormuz region. http://bit.ly/zAGSlN 

 

 

 

New evidence casts doubt in Lockerbie case:  Secret legal files and new evidence show that conviction in aircraft bombing case would likely have been overturned. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/02/201222618624894299.html 

 

 

 

Somalia promises west oil riches as diplomats vow to defeat al-Shabaab:  "There's already a lot of scepticism from parts of the Somalian community about the reasons for the sudden focus on Somalia and the reasons behind the UK's interest. http://bit.ly/xhvB3n 

 

 

 

German minister calls for Greece euro exit:  Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Interior Minister became the first member of her centre-right government to openly call for Greece to leave the euro zone in a magazine interview released on Saturday. http://reut.rs/xWgmnV 

 

 

 

How Goldman Sachs Helped Mask Greece's Debt : Video -  Nick Dunbar, author of 'The Devil's Derivatives', reveals how the country turned to investment bank Goldman Sachs for help getting around the deficit rules. http://bit.ly/wJ3NRt 

 

 

 

Documents expose NYPD 'mosque crawlers'  New documents expose breadth of controversial New York surveillance programme targeting Muslims across state lines. http://aje.me/wBMLSh 

 

 

 

FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling:  These devices were often stuck underneath cars to track the movements of the car owners. In U.S. v. Jones, the Supreme Court ruled that using a device to track a car owner without a search warrant violated the law. http://on.wsj.com/AcMFT2 
  

 

 

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