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Iran Sanctions Are a Precursor to War

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Information Clearing House - By Ron Paul - Dec. 22 (Advocacy) - If a foreign government attempted to isolate the US economically, cut off our supply of gasoline, or starve us to death, would it cause Americans to admire that foreign entity? Or would we instead unite under the flag for the survival of our country?

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Tell me why

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Declan Galbraith - Sep. 07 (Opinion) - Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this? Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed? Tell me why (why) 'cause I don't understand When so many need somebody We don't give a helping hand

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Jane’s Harman Us

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Becky Akers - Apr. 27 (News Analysis) - In fact, AIPAC so emphasizes "Israel" at the expense of "American" that the Kennedy Administration, among others, insisted it register as an agent of a foreign government. Jane’s conversation with this foreign agent concerned two of its officers whom the Feds accuse of espionage. Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman will finally stand trial this June; the FBI alleges that they forwarded classified information from a source at the Pentagon to the Israeli government.

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U.S. Spending on Nuclear Weapons Exceeds $52 Billion

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Information Clearing House - By Federation of American Scientists - Jan. 13 (Research) - Because nuclear weapons costs are not officially tracked, it has been difficult or impossible to perform “cost-benefit” analyses of nuclear policies or to debate priorities among competing nuclear weapons programs. Yet such priorities naturally emerge, undebated. Thus, the majority of nuclear weapons spending (55.5%) is allocated towards upgrading, operating and sustaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal. A much smaller fraction (10%) is devoted to controlling the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, the study found.

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Mumbai Attacks: Piecing Together the Story

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Information Clearing House - By "AlterNet" reports a number of sources - Dec. 02 (Investigative Report) - There is a torrent of information and analysis on the recent attacks in Mumbai, but much of the story is nowhere to be seen in the American mainstream media. Here's a guide to what you might have missed:

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President-elect's Queries to Briefers : Information Clearing House - ICH

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Information Clearing House - By Ray McGovern - Nov. 09 (Comment) - The president-elect needs to start asking hard questions. Now. Here are some he might want to select for his next briefing:

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Petraeus: US is flying Georgian troops into battle zone

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Deborah Haynes - Aug. 08 (News Report) - 'US aircraft have started to fly some of Georgia's 2,000 troops in Iraq back home to join the fight in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq said toda "The flights are ongoing to redeploy the elements of the Georgian contingent so that they can deal with the security issues in their country," General Petraeus told The Times in an interview at his office inside Baghdad's Green Zone.

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'Bodies are lying everywhere. It's hell'

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Mark Franchetti - Aug. 08 (News Report) - Why has Georgia's president chosen to raise the issue now? Because he thought everyone was focused on the Olympics and the Russians would hesitate to respond with force. Why has Russia been willing to go to war? The Kremlin is angry about western, particularly American military support for Georgia, its desire to join Nato and US plans for a missile defence shield in Europe. Will anyone else intervene? Unlikely, western armies are busy and the prospect of taking on Russia is not enticing. What happens next? The Georgians will back down looking like the bad guys. Both sides will go back to hating each other. Result: Russia 1, Georgia 0.

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The Spy Who Loves Us : Information Clearing House

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Philip Giraldi - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - "The Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial espionage in the United States. An Israeli citizen working in the US who has access to proprietary information is likely to be a target of such espionage." Israel conducts much of its high-tech spying through its corporate presence in the United States.

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Mortgaging America : Information Clearing House - ICH

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Eric J. Weiner - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - With the U.S. economy in shambles, Paulson just spent four days touring the Middle East, hat in hand, looking for investors to bail us out.

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'It's all China's fault. Really'

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Mike Whitney - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - If Bernanke cuts rates; commodities (and oil) will skyrocket and foreign investors will ditch the dollar

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Cluster Bombs Are Not Good for Children, Hillary

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Paul Rockwell - Mar. 13 (News Analysis) - "Senator Clinton, like her husband, does not measure human rights by one yardstick. The lives of Arab and Iranian children are measured on a different scale."

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No Evidence Iran Building Nuclear Weapons : Mohamed ElBaradei

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:22:46 -0700

Information Clearing House - By No author named. AP. - Oct. 28 (News Report) - WASHINGTON: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster.

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Who Runs the World

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:13:04 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Carolyn Baker - Oct. 02 (Review) - In other words, as an engineered economic meltdown drives hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of businesses and individuals into bankruptcy, key players in the Big Three ruling elite organizations can buy up the train wreck left behind for pennies on the dollar-a brilliant fast-track strategy for owning the world.

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American Economy: R.I.P.

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:48:40 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Paul Craig Roberts - Sep. 10 (News Analysis) - The US economy continues its slow death before our eyes, but economists, policymakers, and most of the public are blind to the tottering fabled land of opportunity.

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A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:47:11 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Phil Rockstroh - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - Resistance and the refusal to fight immoral wars constitutes bravery as well. This most recent version of the proto-fascist glorification of the military has its origins in the rightist revisionist history of the Vietnam War. Over the decades, the right has deftly and dishonestly framed the narrative and succeeded in foisting its mythos of unquestioning loyalty to all things military upon the history-bereft, reality-resistant American populace. At its dark and deceitful heart, this is a fantasy that is as fact free as it is invidious.

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Return of the Robber Barons

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:08:08 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Paul Craig Roberts - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - The latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the real wages and salaries of US civilian workers are below those of 5 years ago. It could not be otherwise with US corporations offshoring good jobs in order to reduce labor costs and, thereby, to convert wages once paid to Americans into multi-million dollar bonuses paid to CEOs and other top management. Good jobs that still remain in the US are increasingly filled with foreign workers brought in on work visas.

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The Fed's Role in the Bear Stearn's Meltdown

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:09:34 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Mike Whitney - Jun. 30 (News Report) - To large extent, the housing bubble has concealed the systematic destruction of America's industrial and manufacturing base. Low interest rates have lulled the public to sleep while millions of high-paying jobs have been outsourced. The rise in housing prices has created the illusion of prosperity but, in truth, we are only selling houses to each other and are not making anything that the rest of the world wants. The $11 trillion dollars that was pumped into the real estate market is probably the greatest waste of capital investment in the nations' history. It hasn't produced a single asset that will add to our collective wealth or industrial competitiveness. It's been a total bust.

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Hillary's Mother-F'ing Tour Business

Fri, 04 May 2007 15:02:08 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Greg Palast - May. 04 (Special Report) - Code Pink and New York environmentalists have been pulling out their hair over Senator Clinton's backing of the operation of the creaky old Indian Point nuclear plant just above - and within irradiating distance of - New York City. The owner of the Indian Point nuke? Hillary's old buck buddies, Entergy. Am I saying Hillary would arrange for a payoff to keep witnesses silent, to poison US foreign policy for the profit of corporate cronies, to vote in Washington loaded down with conflicts of interest? I would never say so. Even if the evidence will.

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US Empire and the Middle East: Zionism, Puppet Regimes and Plitical Allies

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:48:22 -0700

Information Clearing House - By James Petras - Apr. 04 (News Analysis) - The Zionist Power configuration's blatant and open dominance of US Middle East policy have for the first time provoked widespread opposition among patriotic nationalists among US military officials and conservatives, as well as a growing number of academics and even among a tiny group of Jewish millionaires (Soros) and intellectuals. For the first time major debate has opened up regarding whether Israel is a 'strategic asset' or 'strategic liability' to US imperial interests.

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The Denial Machine

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:17:08 -0800

Information Clearing House - By the fifth estate team - Feb. 01 (Advocacy) - This documentary shows how fossil fuel corporations have kept the global warming debate alive long after most scientists believed that global warming was real and had potentially catastrophic consequences. It shows that companies such as Exxon Mobil are working with top public relations firms and using many of the same tactics and personnel as those employed by Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds to dispute the cigarette-cancer link in the 1990s. Exxon Mobil sought out those willing to question the science behind climate change, providing funding for some of them, their organizations and their studies.

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Another Bloodbath in Lebanon?

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:16:13 -0800

Information Clearing House - By Mike Whitney - Dec. 05 (Opinion) - When Hezbollah puts a million people on the streets of Beirut, it doesn't appear on the front page of the New York Times. That spot is reserved for Bush's "made-in-Washington" extravaganzas like the Cedar, Orange or Rose revolutions. Those bogus revolutions were cooked up in American think tanks and engineered by US NGOs; that's why they got headline coverage in the Times. The Beirut demonstrations don't promote the political agenda of the America's ruling elite, so they're stuck on page 8 where they'll be ignored.

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Propaganda and Haditha

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:54:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Dah Jamail, Jeff Pflueger - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - This piece is a summary of five most commonly deployed crisis management propaganda tactics which the State and Media combine that we can expect to see in relation to the Haditha Massacre. Listed in a loose chronological order of their deployment, the tactics are: Delay, Distract, Discredit, Spotlight and Scapegoat. Each of the five public relations campaigns will here be discussed in the context of the Haditha Massacre

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Vladimir Putin and the rise of the petro-ruble

Mon, 22 May 2006 21:05:12 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Mike Whitney - May. 22 (News Report) - Putin's plan to make it possible to trade oil in ruble

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Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism [excerpt]

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:37:05 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Michelle Goldberg - May. 12 (Special Report) - Across the United States, religious activists are organizing to establish an American theocracy. A frightening look inside the growing right-wing movement......George Grant, former executive director of D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries, wrote: "Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ -- to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness. But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish...Thus, Christian politics has as its primary intent the conquest of the land -- of men, families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the Kingdom of Christ."

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