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see all of ICH yet don’t miss this one! www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18075.htm From: Information Clearing House Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:20:56 -0400 (EDT)
The Dark Heart Of Fascism In The United States
“They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. … Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder… And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.” : Eugene Victor Debs = The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own: Aldous Huxley - English novelist and critic, 1894-1963 = “Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.” : Arthur Miller playwright = “….if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a “liberal” then I am proud to be a liberal. “: John F. Kennedy === Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In America’s War On Iraq - At Least 655, 000 + + tinyurl.com/usq4x Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 3637 icasualties.org/oif/ The War in Iraq Costs $446, 260, 178, 217
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Bush Speechwriter Calls for Attack on Syria By Gary Leupp Neocon officials in the Defense Department call them “low-hanging fruit”— as though countries were produce ripe for picking and eating. The term refers to nations targeted for regime change that might be achieved with minimal strain, at least when compared with the effort needed to topple the regime in Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18069.htm
Is the US Preparing To Attack Pakistan? By Eric Margolis The Bush Administration may be preparing to lash out at old ally Pakistan, which Washington now blames for its humiliating failures to crush al-Qaida, capture its elusive leaders, or defeat Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan. One is immediately reminded of the Vietnam War when the Pentagon, unable to defeat North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces, urged invasion of Cambodia.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18070.htm
Bush In Free Fall By Robert Scheer
At what point will President Bush finally grasp the enormous disaster that the neoconservatives, from Vice President Dick Cheney on down, have visited upon his presidency? Or, to put it numerically, just how does a president descend from a 92 percent approval rating one month after 9/11-the highest of any president since modern polling began-to the two-thirds disapproval score that has stalked him through the last year, thanks to the Iraq debacle, without getting the message? www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18068.htm
A Republic, If We Can Keep It. Ernest Partridge Bush’s “National Continuity Policy, issued May 9, states, in effect, that in the event of a “catastrophic emergency, ” which might mean a terrorist attack or natural disaster, within “the homeland” or abroad, the President could, as a “unitary executive, ” seize near dictatorial powers. This means that another hurricane of Katrina size, or a Richter-7 earthquake, or even a massive civil disobedient protest, could trigger the onset of a Bush dictatorship.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18072.htm
Democracy Interrupted By Frank J. Ranelli Why we as a nation, have been titrated, which is the gradual increasing of dosage, pressure, and propaganda, till the desired effect - an inured and compliant society - have willingly bequeathed away our autonomy of self-government, embraced the genesis of tyranny, and begin our seemingly inexorable march towards dictatorship.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18073.htm
John Conyers Is No Martin Luther King By Ray McGovern I have seldom been so disappointed with someone I had previously held in high esteem. And before leaving, I told him so. Throwing salt in our wounds, he had us, and some fifty others in his anteroom arrested and taken out of action as the Capitol Police “processed” us for the next six hours.
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Agency of Rogues By Chalmers Johnson The secret prison was set up on a secure U.S. Naval base outside the U.S. and so beyond the slightest recourse to legal oversight. It was there that the CIA clandestinely brought its “suspects” to be interrogated, abused, and tortured.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18071.htm
The Dark Heart Of Fascism In The United States The Whitehouse Coup BBC Audio Documentary Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18074.htm
Suicide Bombers Kill 50 During Iraq Soccer Celebrations: Two suicide bombers killed at least 50 people celebrating a dream run for Iraq’s national soccer team, who have advanced to the Asian Cup finals for the first time ever.
www.citynews.ca/news/news_13182.aspx
Iraq: At Least another 23 Killed As U.S. occupation grinds on:
Police found the bodies of five people in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25467756.htm
10 killed in Sadr City and Baghdad raids by Iraqi-US occupation forces:
Eight people were killed and 10 wounded in raids by joint Iraqi-US forces in Sadr City, while two more were killed and 27 terrorist suspects and gunmen detained in security crackdowns across Baghdad in the past 24 hours, www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/86569.html
Sunnis Suspends Iraqi Gov’t Membership: The Iraqi Accordance Front, which has five Cabinet members as well as 44 of parliament’s 275 seats, said it was giving al-Maliki a week to meet their demands or they would quit his 14-month-old Cabinet altogether.
tinyurl.com/25xn2q
Iraqi parliament passes crude oil refineries” bill : The Iraqi parliament unanimously passed a bill allowing private investments in crude oil refineries. - This bill is the first step towards approving the oil and gas bill, said MP Hassan Al-Sunaid, a United Iraqi Alliance party member.
tinyurl.com/2vjctt
US House votes to bar permanent Iraq bases: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to bar permanent US military bases in Iraq, in the latest bid by Democrats to trim White House options on the war.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=187014
US Rejects Iranian Proposal for Higher-Level Talks on Iraq : Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, had proposed the higher-level talks earlier Wednesday.
www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-25-voa56.cfm
US envoy blasts Iran after Iraq talks : At a second meeting with his Iranian counterpart in two months, the US ambassador blasted Tehran on Tuesday for arming and training Shiite militias but agreed to set up a security subcommittee with Iran and Iraq to carry forward work on stabilizing the country.
www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070020138
Bush asks Congress fund nuclear arsenal revamp:
“The future security environment is very uncertain, and some trends are not favorable, ” it said, pointing to North Korea and Iran as countries whose nuclear programs “underscore the importance of US security guarantees.” tinyurl.com/ysoarw
Iran: National Intelligence Estimate lacks supporting evidence:
Current and former intelligence officials say the Bush Administration’s National Intelligence Estimate regarding terrorist threats to the United States does not provide evidence to support its assertions tinyurl.com/3×9vey
Scott Horton Interviews Philip Giraldi: MP3 - Former CIA counter-terrorism officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi debunks the War Party’s claims that Iran backs al Qaeda, explains U.S. support for the terrorist groups Mujahadeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah against Iran, and the two most likely circumstances in which Cheney will use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against them.
tinyurl.com/yolchf
Iran raises stakes in war of nerves over enriching uranium: Iran warned yesterday that it would consider taking “illegal” steps, including possible abrogation of the non-proliferation treaty, if further UN sanctions are imposed because of its nuclear programme.
www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0, 2134160, 00.html
Russia delays Iran nuclear plant to 2008: Russia has no chance of finishing Iran’s first nuclear power station before autumn 2008, a year behind schedule, a Russian subcontractor helping to build the plant told RIA news agency on Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/ytgsc4
South Korean hostage found shot dead in Afghanistan; 8 other captives released : Afghan police discovered the bullet-riddled body of a South Korean hostage Wednesday as the Taliban released eight other captives who were taken to a U.S. military base, officials said.
tinyurl.com/2esa4x
Roadside bomb kills UKoccupation force soldier in Afghanistan: A British soldier was killed and two others injured by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan today.
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French occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan: A French soldier was killed in Afghanistan in a rocket attack on Afghan army quarters southwest of Kabul, the French defence ministry said on Wednesday.
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AUSTRALIAN soldiers have shot dead a civilian truck driver in occupied Afghanistan.: The patrol, from the reconstruction taskforce, gave the driver verbal and visual signals as required under the rules of engagement then fired when the truck would not stop.
www.news.com.au/story/0, 23599, 22132260-38197, 00.html
Italian FM favors ending U.S. military occupation in Afghanistan : Italy’s foreign minister said Wednesday the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan should be ended because of the unacceptably high number of civilian casualties.
tinyurl.com/33qoke
Robert Fisk on Zahir Shah: The last king of Afghanistan :
He was King of a nation that, in the the minds of many, does not really exist. He was a feudal master who believed in liberating women. He was a figurehead who lived a life of luxury in exile while his people suffered the agonies of war and occupation. The story of Zahir Shah is the story of Western arrogance and Eastern impotence news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2795838.ece
Rocket fire kills 10 in Pakistan: The rockets hit two houses, a mosque and a shop in Bannu, a troubled city in North West Frontier Province at about 2 am (local time), said Khwaja Mohammed, a city police official.
www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG4_sub.asp?ccode=ENG4=4640
Al-Qaeda’s Pakistan “bases” leave U.S. a dilemm: To bomb or not to bomb al-Qaeda’s new bases in Pakistan? That, increasingly, seems to be the question the administration is contemplating.
tinyurl.com/2sdz8l
Reports: Pak Army strikes in Waziristan : There are reports that the Pakistan military has carried out limited airstrikes at nine locations in north Waziristan.
tinyurl.com/2tkm7a
“Busharraf”: From the U.S. perspective, Gen. Musharraf’s continued rule is much preferable to the alternatives: a radical Islamist state or one governed by weak pro-democracy forces that can’t count on the support of Pakistan’s army.
tinyurl.com/2rhcck
Juan Cole: Bush’s incompetence gives al-Qaida new life:
In a videotape that CNN characterized as having been “intercepted, ” excerpts of which appeared on an anti-terrorist Web site last week, a grayer bin Laden appears in fatigues against a mountainous backdrop www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/07/24/al_qaida/
Lebanon: Nahr al-Bared shelling intensifies : The artillery and tank shelling, the heaviest in recent days, began again at dawn on Wednesday, following intermittent fighting during the night. Two soldiers were killed in military operations on Tuesday, a senior military official said.
tinyurl.com/2pr94n
IDF appeals to Israeli expatriates: In an effort to increase the number of former soldiers who perform reserve duty in the West Bank, the IDF has launched a campaign asking such soldiers living abroad to come to Israel to help out.
tinyurl.com/3aaus9
Arabs push Israel for final talks : Two Arab ministers have presented Israeli leaders with a regional land-for-peace plan and have called for a rapid timetable for talks with the Palestinians over statehood.
tinyurl.com/3ava5v
Palestinian president says he is close to calling new elections: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said he is close to calling new legislative elections, a move designed to freeze the Hamas group from power.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0, 7340, L-3429773, 00.html
Hunger Strikes Continue at Guantánamo: The number of hunger strikers at the U.S.-run military prison at Guantánamo—located in southeastern Cuba and illegally occupied by the United States—has now increased to more than 20. According to an Associated Press report, the U.S. military is using force-feeding to keep the prisoners from starving to death.
www.periodico26.cu/english/news_world/gitmo072107.htm
Muslim cleric testifies for defense in Padilla trial:
“We raised the money for him in the community - in the mosque, ” said Awad, now imam at the Birmingham Islamic Society in Alabama. “He went to study Islam and Arabic language.” tinyurl.com/34bwdr
Trial of David Hicks ‘a charade’ : The trial of Australian national David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay was a charade that served to corrode the rule of law, Australia’s top legal body has said.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6913374.stm
UK: Reporters held in ‘fake bomb’ bid : Two journalists have been arrested after attempting to plant a fake bomb on a freight train, police said.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6914717.stm
Military Commander Believes Al-Qaida Cells In U.S. : The military commander in charge of defending the U.S. homeland says that he believes that there are Al-Qaida cells in the U.S. or people working to create them.
tinyurl.com/3ann3s
Military reviews placing special ops on U.S. soil: - The U.S. military command in charge of protecting the homeland asked the Pentagon earlier this year for a contingent of special operations officers to help with domestic anti-terrorism missions.
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“Controversial” 9/11 professor fired : Churchill, an ethnic studies professor at the state-funded university, said in an interview that the allegations were a pretext to remove him because of his unpopular views.
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Putin sends a sub to lay claim to part of the Arctic : Russia is to raise the stakes in its claim to a vast chunk of the Arctic Circle by sending a submarine under the North Pole to plant a titanium flag on the seabed. The mission is part of a race to assert rights over the area, which is rich in energy reserves.
tinyurl.com/2k9fqz
China shying from shaky US mortgage market: While China is eager to invest a portion of its US$1.33 trillion foreign-exchange reserve overseas, it is unlikely to take a chance on buying additional US mortgage-backed securities (MBS) as they are now considered too risky, Chinese economists said.
www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/IG26Cb02.html
$500 Million Dollar Bailout Extended to US Mortgage Borrowers:
Several different US states have or are set to announce multi-million dollar bailout plans for mortgage borrowers who are in danger of losing their home. Will the money come from taxpayer pockets? tinyurl.com/2gbpoc
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