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Date: 1 April 2006 |
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Date:1 April 2006 === RSS FEED www.informationclearinghouse.info/rssfeed.xml News Syndication You can include the headlines from this newsletter on your own website free of charge === Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? As Many As 250,000 Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2327 The War in Iraq Costs === War Against Iran, April 2006 Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292 By Jorge Hirsch The US promised Russia and China that the UN Security Council statement just approved will not be a trigger for military action after 30 days; true to its promise, the US will attack before the 30-day deadline imposed by the UNSC for Iran to stop its nuclear enrichment activity, i.e. before the end of April. The “justification” is likely to be an alleged threat of imminent biological attack with Iran’s involvement. === By Scott Ritter It’s high time to recognize that we as a nation are engaged in a life-or-death struggle of competing ideologies with those who promote war as an American value and virtue. === By Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D. The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre’s existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making… World War III! === “Let The Revolution Begin…” By Hobie Morris American democracy—that ironically we want to impose by force elsewhere in the world—has become in many important ways a hollow, weakening sham. A cleverly orchestrated con job where the “herd” (most Americans I’m sad to say) are kept appeased and satisfied by just enough “scraps” thrown to them by the plutocracy who are gorging themselves at the table of economic plenty. === By Robert Fisk This account fills one with rage that anyone could deny the reality of the Jewish genocide. C === Police reported the discovery of at least eight bodies, mostly young men who were shot in the head or strangled in Baghdad. === Four militants and an Iraqi army sergeant-major were killed in fighting when an army patrol stopped several men trying to steal a truck south of Baquba 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, === March was the least deadly month in more than two years for American forces in Iraq, but a surge in slayings of Iraqi troops and civilians suggests that the overall death rate in the conflict is growing, according to military data. === Senior members of Iraq’s ruling Shia Alliance bloc have for the first time openly called on Ibrahim al-Jaafari to step down as prime minister to break months of deadlock over the formation of a national unity government. === Ibrahim al-Jaafari’s chances of remaining Iraq’s prime minister suffered a serious setback on Saturday when leading officials within his own bloc called on him to step aside to end deadlock on forming a unity government. === MILITIAMEN from an Iranian-backed force were deliberately recruited by Britain to join the new Iraqi security services after Saddam Hussein was overthrown, the Government has admitted. === Jawad al-Maliki, a member of parliament and the number two man in the Dawa Party led by Ibrahim Jaafari, launched a campaign against American policies in Iraq, blaming the US for the deterioration of the security situation and saying that it had “demolished democracy and the elections in Iraq.” He warned that the US “will destroy Iraq.” === Thousands of Iranian troops will start a week-long military maneouvre in the Gulf tomorrow to ready armed forces for warding off ?threats, a senior commander announced on state television. === Moments after the Western powers insisted to reporters that they were on the same page with Russia and China regarding the Iranian nuclear threat, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov contradicted them, saying he saw no evidence that Iran’s program had a military component or that it posed a threat. === Iran and Venezuela have so much of the “black gold” their countries are practically floating on it. But in a world where a predatory USA can’t even breathe without it, that makes them public enemies one and two === Iran: Scenarios of an American strike: The risks are great if Washington’s neo-cons choose military options to prevent Iran from blocking US imperial designs for the Middle East. === As far as Iran is concerned, just as with Venezuela the first line of attack is to try and foment an ‘indigenous’ revolt, it’s not only cheaper it’s also a safer option, although outcomes cannot necessarily be as easily controlled. === Her name was Akaber Adbelrahman Zaid and she was on her way to a doctor’s clinic to have stitches removed from her chin. Instead she received a barrage of bullets to the head, when an undercover Border Police unit opened fire on the car in which she was travelling with her uncle. === Why do so few prominent people in the United States publicly criticize Israel or its American supporters? Because – modern history suggests – this is a sure, speedy route to political and professional oblivion, especially for politicians, academics, writers and others who work in the public realm. === In a sense, the real winner of the elections was Avigdor Lieberman, leader of Yisrael Beiteinu, which pushed past Likud to become one of Israel’s major political parties — turning Lieberman into a potential kingmaker. This is a remarkable development because Lieberman’s party stands for one thing: an Israel finally cleansed of the remainder of the indigenous Palestinian population. === Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, vowed on Saturday in Gaza City to end the security chaos “using law and order” and by “withdrawing armed civilians from the street to end this dangerous situation”. === British MI5 counter-espionage archives reveal a link between Soviet intelligence and the sixth prime Minister of Israel Menahem Begin, the Axis Information and Analysis agency reported Friday. === Sayed Sadeq, the speaker of the Takhar provincial governing assembly, died in hospital after receiving multiple gunshot wounds to his body. === U.S. corporate profits have increased 21.3% in the past year and now account for the largest share of national income in 40 years, the Commerce Department said Thursday. === Wallowing in poverty, with oil profits benefiting the elite, country provides 3 percent of the world’s annual oil production === Twenty-six Saudi detainees are to be released from Guantanamo Bay and transferred to Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks, the Saudi daily Al Watan reported on Saturday. === What the United States is doing “is probably more than other countries afford them,” he said. “But you have to balance … due process with national security and it’s a fine line. Our courts can’t interfere with the executive branch fighting a war.” === The information being gathered is all-inclusive. It is the record of the way we live our lives – the way we buy toothbrushes, the schools we attend, the amount and type of food we purchase, where and how much gasoline we buy. In the eyes of our freshly minted totalitarian system, this is the “beauty” of the system. === The United States’ increasing trajectory toward a more brutal form of Capitalism with fewer restrictions on corporations (and hence less protection for workers and consumers) coupled with a rapid acceleration of the American Empire’s quest for global hegemony will spark an influx of illegal immigrants. === This is a bill founded entirely in flagrant racism and baseness by a group of racist, evil-hearted, right-wing-activist plutocratic ideologues. === The war, which the North started (we Southerners refer to it as the War of Northern Aggression), was a conflict between nationalism and federalism. Regardless of which side you agree with, the events are so important to understanding America today that you owe it to yourself to get up to speed on what really happened, as opposed to the Hollywood version. === The words of the operators – but not the callers – were released following a lawsuit filed by the New York Times and a group of victims’ relatives. === Were explosives used? === Tony Rudy, former deputy chief of staff to Representative Tom DeLay, pleaded guilty in a case stemming from the corruption probe of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, bringing the scandal closer to the door of his one-time boss. === I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here === |
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