Monday, September 19, 2005

ADDED WEB LINKS  -  additional links to various subjects
See also: 'Links to recommended Web sites" on my home page.

9/11

Stranger than Fiction: 
an independent investigation of 9-11 and the war on terrorism    
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wtc_stf.htm

Architects and Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
9/11 Prejudice = Contempt Prior to Investigation  (Video).  
 "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation."    
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28906.htm
 

Destroying The World In War
The 11th Anniversary of 9/11
By Paul Craig Roberts.  You only have to know two things.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32421.htm
Dig Within: The Blog of Kevin Ryan.
Kevin is a chemistry laboratory manager, fired in 2004, for publicly asking questions about 9/11. Co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies, a founding member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice and the 9/11 Working Group of Bloomington, a board director at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.  Ryan has co-authored several books and numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles on the subject, and has given public presentations around the country.  He continues to do research into the crimes of 9/11 in order to help people come to a better understanding.
http://digwithin.net/
9/11: Illegitimacy of US Government
By Dr. Kevin Barrett.   New York City asks: What happened to the 1,116 missing 9/11 victims?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34491.htm
Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?
By David Ray Griffin.   This question has thus far been considered off-limits, not to be raised in polite company, and certainly not in the mainstream media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35016.htm

 9/11 and the Cheney Conspiracy
(Media Mayhem interview with Michael Ruppert - pt. 2/2, 49:23)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW5qiuLb8jY

 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory 
(The Colbert Report)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98

 ReThink911 – The Evidence Might Surprise You   
http://rethink911.org/ 

 Cynthia McKinney Supports ReThink911, Building 7 Investigation
VIDEO  (6:05)   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R9hcs9KLpk

 Architects and Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
VIDEO  (15:00)     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEvA8BCoBw
9/11: A Conspiracy Theory                                                                     VIDEO - Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98

9/11: What Really Happened?                                                        
VIDEO – 25:16                                                   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-wXcJA-et0&t=32
“Beyond Misinformation:
What Science Says About the Destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2, and 7”
'Architect and Engineers for 911 Truth' have just distributed 20000 copies of “Beyond Misinformation” to so-called 'opinion makers' so that "Now they can no longer claim ignorance of the evidence or turn a blind eye to the crime of the century, which is a cover-up of the fact that these buildings were brought down in controlled demolitions that day." 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By6ZfzUb_i7bNDIzVnpsVld5b2c/view?pli=1


AFGHANISTAN

A Crisis of Trust in Afghanistan  
By Gwynne Dyer.   “A defeatist position [in Afghanistan] is not possible for us. We cannot leave in our underpants...or without any.” - Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, two years before the Soviets pulled out.    

How Western Leaders Terrorized Muslim World
Using A Fake Clash of Civilizations
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja  -  "War on Terror" used the false pretext of the 9/11 attacks to pursue its pre-planned wars against the Muslim world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33889.htm




AFRICA

Africa and AFRICOM:  Neo-Imperialism and the Arrogance of Ignorance
By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY  -  Most Americans do not realize the extent to which the U.S. is becoming involved militarily in the welter of conflicts throughout Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa.     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34140.htm

Africa: Imperialism’s High Mark of Conquest in the 21st Century
By Glen Ford.   “Imperialism with a Black face has been fantastically successful, in Africa.”  
Africa’s Hitler?
Mugabe Victory in Zimbabwe: Dictatorship or Decolonization?
By Nile Bowie.   The last thing multinationals want is for other African leaders to look at Zimbabwe and Mugabe as a positive point of reference. 

Mandela’s Greatness May Be Assured -- But Not His Legacy
By John Pilger.   (An alternative perspective on Mandela)  When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister’s residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at the gates, it was as if the guards had not changed.

It was the CIA that helped jail Nelson Mandela 
Brian Becker   Crocodile tears to mask US imperialism's role as the enemy of African liberation.   http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/cia-helped-jail-nelson-mandela.html




AGENT ORANGE

Use of dioxin is a crime against humanity  
The International People’s Tribunal of Conscience in Paris made its final judgment on May 18, 2009 concluding that the use of dioxin by the US military in Vietnam from 1961 and 1971 was a war crime against humanity. 
http://www.cpv.org.vn/cpv/Modules/News_English/News_Detail_E.aspx?CN_ID=341096&CO_ID=30181

An OPEN LETTER to the AMERICAN PEOPLE from THE VIETNAM ASSOCIATION FOR VICTIMS OF AGENT ORANGE/DIOXIN, Hanoi, 6 Aug, 2004.  http://www.ffrd.org/Lawsuit/VAVAletter.htm

 Agent Orange ingredients found at Okinawa military dumpsite
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/11/national/agent-orange-ingredients-found-okinawa-military-dumpsite/
Agent Orange Funding Opens Door To US Militarism And Covert Action In Vietnam:
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers  
http://www.mintpressnews.com/agent-orange-funding-opens-door-to-us-militarism-and-covert-action-in-vietnam/203634/




ARGENTINA

Color Revolutions: Argentina Next?
By Tony Cartalucci  -  Suspicion grows as Western criticism of Argentina's nationalization and rebuffing of "rules of global finance" sharpens in tandem with street protests.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32987.htm



AUSTRALIA

New book confirms US-Australia plans for war on China.  By James Cogan, 4 June 2012.   A secret chapter in the Australian government’s 2009 Defence White Paper assessed the ability of the country’s military to fight alongside the US against China.     
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/uren-j04.shtml
Prisoner X: Oz-Israeli Ben Zygier Scandal
By Gideon Polya.   Thinking the best of Ben Zygier, one would like to believe that having betrayed Australia by becoming a child-killing IDF war criminal and a Mossad spy; he eventually was repelled by complicity in IDF war crimes and his betrayal of Australia. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34239.htm
Australia: Howard ignored advice and went to war in Iraq.  
Government's justification for war was not supported by any of it's own agencies' intelligence.  
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/howard-ignored-advice-and-went-to-war-in-iraq-20130411-2ho5d.html
Australian outback station at forefront of US spying arsenal 
Pine Gap remains an enduring symbol of the unshakeable bond between Australian and US intelligence services. It's a piece of America.  
http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/australian-outback-station-at-forefront-of-us-spying-arsenal-20130720-hv10h.html

 Australia's Quiet War
VIDEO  (14:22)   A secret squadron of Australian troops conducting covert operations in Africa has blurred the line between soldiering and spying with potentially disastrous consequences. http://media.theage.com.au/news/national-times/australias-quiet-war-3116868.html



CAMBODIA
Lest We Forget
How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a Hand
By John Pilger.   Almost two million Cambodians died as a result of Year Zero. John Pilger argues that, without the complicity of the US and Britain, it may never have happened.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34539.htm
QandA with Journalist John Pilger
“What the US Did to Cambodia Was an Epic Crime”
By Daniel Pye         http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39805.htm


CLIMATE / ENVIRONMENT
US Climate Bomb is Ticking:
What the Gas Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers.     Natural gas will hasten climate change, poisons the air, land and water, and carries unacceptable risks to our health.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14958-us-climate-bomb-is-ticking-what-the-gas-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know
Obama Signs 'Monsanto Protection Act' Written by Monsanto-sponsored Senator
By RT.   Barack Obama has signed a bill into law that was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34445.htm
Monsanto Protection Act:
A Post-Mortem for Our Legal System
By Clay Rossi.   There are certain facts that need not be forgotten for the next time (and there will be a next time) big business buys itself judicial immunity from Congress.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34482.htm

Monsanto Protection Act put GM companies above the federal courts: 
Campaigners say that not even the US government can now stop the sale, planting, harvest or distribution of any GM seed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/04/monsanto-protection-act-gm
Global warming dwarfs all other political issues.
Peter Gardner    http://petergardner.info/

Global Warming Action Party (Australia)    http://globalwarmingaction.org.au/

 Fukushima 'not under control' warns TEPCO official
The Japanese government and TEPCO were scrambling to reassure people Friday that they have a lid on Fukushima after a senior utility executive said the nuclear plant was "not under control".    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/13/fukushima-not-under-control-warns-tepco-official/

DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS


Iraq's depleted uranium contamination spreads: 
The report, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says "The use of DU in populated areas is alarming..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/06/iraq-depleted-uranium-clean-up-contamination-spreads
Dahr Jamail | Iraqi Doctors Call US Depleted Uranium Use "Genocide"     Official Iraqi government statistics show that, prior to the outbreak of the first Gulf War in 1991, the country's rate of cancer cases was 40 out of 100,000 people. By 1995, it had increased to 800 out of 100,000 people, and, by 2005, it had doubled to at least 1,600 out of 100,000 people.   http://truth-out.org/news/item/26703-iraqi-doctors-call-depleted-uranium-use-genocide


DRONE WARFARE
Drone Warfare's Deadly Civilian Toll: A Very Personal View
By James Jeffrey  -  I was minutes from ordering a drone strike on a Taliban insurgent – until I realised I was watching an Afghan child at play.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32498.htm
CIA Demands Drones Despite 80% Civilian Death Rate
By RT  -  The news comes just a day after the Pakistani Interior Minister quoted statistics suggesting 80 per cent of people killed in US drone attacks have been civilians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32794.htm
CIA Chiefs Face Arrest Over
Horrific Evidence of Bloody 'Video-Game' Sorties by Drone Pilots
By David Rose: Shocking new evidence of the full horrific impact of US drone attacks in Pakistan.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32820.htm
Joe Klein's Sociopathic Defense of Drone Killings of Children
By Glenn Greenwald - The only difference between the Joe Kleins of the world and Osama bin Laden is that they're on different sides.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32839.htm
Autonomous US stealth drone completes 1st test launch
The US Navy has executed the first launch of a stealth drone set to be the first robot aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence. The “killer robot” might be the next step in the development of machines with the power to decide who lives or dies.
http://rt.com/usa/us-drone-launch-autonomous-986/
What If a Drone Attacked in the US?
A White Paper Justification
By Camillo Mac Bica.   "This just in: Iran has utilized its newly developed drone capability to execute three members of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK), aka the People's Mujahideen of Iran, a terrorist organization responsible for killing and injuring many hundreds of Iranians. The strike took place early Tuesday morning in a suburb outside Cleveland, Ohio.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34185.htm
A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood
How Pakistan sold its sovereignty:  That back-room bargain, described in detail for the first time in interviews with more than a dozen officials in Pakistan and the United States, is critical to understanding the origins of a covert drone war that began under the Bush administration.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/world/asia/origins-of-cias-not-so-secret-drone-war-in-pakistan.html?_r=2&
Three Key Lessons From The Obama Administration's Drone Lies
By Glenn Greenwald.   The axiom that political officials abuse their power and lie to the public when operating in the dark is proven yet again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/11/three-lessons-obama-drone-lies
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34574.htm
The Real Reason For US Drone Attacks
Editorial By The Crescent.   Russia’s position remains unswerving and constantly advancing while the US is pushed into a corner, demonstrating incapacity to react except for condemnations and mere statements.
http://www.crescent-online.net/2013/05/the-real-reason-for-us-drone-attacks-3784-articles.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35069.htm

 "Dirty Wars"The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen
By Democracy Now!   The U.S. has basically outsourced anything vaguely resembling intelligence in Yemen to a network of Saudi spies and to Saudi intelligence.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34714.htm
Two Obamas, Two Classes of Children 
By Ralph Nader.   Even if households far from war zones are often destroyed in clear violation of the laws of war, the president is not deterred.     
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34583.htm

ECONOMICS


Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff
Video:  Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself.

The Incredible Debt Spider:
It's Time to End the Private Fed
By Rand Clifford:  $454,393,280,417.03...for the year 2011, that’s how much Americans paid a consortium of twelve private banks for creating dollars out of nothing, and loaning them to the government at interest.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33643.htm

The 40% Revolution:  Hidden Secrets of Money
 VIDEO - "We are entering the greatest financial crisis the world has ever known."

Wealth Inequality In The US
VIDEO  -  The reality is often not what we think it is.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34165.htm

The Greek Catastrophe
By James Petras.  As Greece enters the sixth year of Europe’s worst economic depression, with 30% of its labor force unemployed and over 52% of its youth jobless, the entire social fabric is unraveling; suicide rate skyrocketing, and close to 80% of the population is downwardly mobile.

Three (more) Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
By Jules Peck.    Ever increasing economic growth (the rational for capitalism) long since ceased to bring increasing marginal returns to wellbeing. In the ‘rich world’ wellbeing has flat-lined since the 1970s.

It's Offical: Banks In Europe May Now Seize Deposits To Cover Their Gambling Losses
By Henry Blodget.  This will create a general state of unease among rich depositors throughout the Eurozone.

Incomes Of Bottom 90% Grew $59 in 40 Years
By Natasha Lennard.   During the same period, average income for the top 10 percent of Americans rose by $116,071.   

It Can Happen Here:
The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors
By Ellen Brown.   Although few depositors realize it, legally the bank owns the depositor’s funds as soon as they are put in the bank. Our money becomes the bank’s, and we become unsecured creditors holding IOUs or promises to pay.

Economic Policy Deception: Prof Michael Hudson
Audio.   Prof Michael Hudson engages in a wide ranging analysis of the advantages to wealth that money printing and poor tax policy produce. From China to NY, Latvia to Greece, Spain to Australia this is the news we should be getting!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34246.htm

New Chinese President Xi Aims to Paint Africa Red
By Nile Bowie.   China’s deepening economic engagement in Africa and its crucial role in developing the mineral sector, telecommunications industry and much-needed infrastructural projects is creating "deep nervousness" in the West. 

Financial Wars:
Attack is the Best Form of Defence
By Alexander GOROKHOV.   The US has been using its best endeavours to create a Free Trade Zone with the European Union with a view to finally removing the remaining barriers to the penetration of American capital into Europe and, after engineering the collapse of the euro, to buy up Europe's tastiest morsels using vastly inflated dollars under the pretext of saving the EU's economy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34471.htm
The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery
By Ron Paul.   The elites in the EU and IMF have openly talked about using Cyprus as a template for future bank bailouts. This raises the prospect of raids on bank accounts, pension funds, and any investments the government can get its hands on.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34486.htm
It’s Our Economy
http://itsoureconomy.us/
The Economy Unites Us:
What’s Wrong With the Economy And How We Can Fix It
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese.   A new economy is rising around the world and within the US. We can build this new economy within the Capitalist economy so that it arises and replaces Capitalism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34549.htm

Winner Takes All
Why Derivatives Threaten Your Bank Account
By Ellen Brown.   All Depositors, Secured and Unsecured, May Be at Risk.  

The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers.   The common problem we face is the power of concentrated wealth and monopolistic corporate interests. This has created a crony capitalist economy that uses government to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35070.htm

 The Secret Rise of 21st Century Democracy
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout / News Analysis
New economies based on greater democratic control, real representation and citizen participation are on the rise. There is much to be learned from countries like Venezuela that break from the Washington Consensus.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14649-the-secret-rise-of-21st-century-democracy

 When Will The Economy Collapse
VIDEO  (12 minutes)     http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0tsUZinrCo8

 All Wars Are Bankers' Wars
VIDEO.  Written and spoken by Michael Rivero.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTI... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4


EUROPE - general

US-Russia Round Three: Macedonia

By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)     The unipolar and multipolar worlds are once more clashing in Eurasia, this time in the tiny Balkan country of Macedonia. A major proxy war is unfolding between the US and Russia over this geostrategic state, and it’s following the exact same patterns of the previous conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.                                               http://orientalreview.org/2015/05/15/us-russia-round-three-macedonia/
"FALSE FLAGS"

 42 ADMITTED False Flag Attacks                                                                  Posted on February 9, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog                  
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/41-admitted-false-flag-attacks.html 

GEO-POLITICS and FOREIGN POLICY

Stop the Machine!
A brief and crucial history of the United States (video)   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30620.htm

The Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy by JEAN BRICMONT
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/20/the-case-for-a-non-interventionist-foreign-policy/

Assassination Nation: Fifty Years of US Targeted ‘Kill Lists’: From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones.   By Doug Noble.   Those who are mortified by the latest revelations of Obama’s kill list have much to learn from a more comprehensive, historical perspective on US killing around the globe.       
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31925.htm

Perfecting The Method of "Color Revolutions" - Western leaders slip back into childhood     By Thierry Meyssan.  A genuine revolution entails an upheaval in social structures that takes place over several years, while a "color revolution" is a regime change that occurs within weeks.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32110.htm
The Power Principle  - Video Documentary  - 
"Probably the best film ever made about American foreign policy."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31417.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kmv8N9gIkaY 

 America’s Hype over WMD: Five Invasion Plots, Three Continents, Identical Lies - From Panama to Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria. http://www.globalresearch.ca/five-invasion-plots-three-continents-identical-lies/5316537

 The U.S. prepares for military action in Bolivia: 

Zinn Education Project – Teaching A People’s History
http://zinnedproject.org/

 Howard Zinn                                             
http://www.howardzinn.org/zinn/





HILLARY CLINTON

Hillary Clinton Pro-War and Imperialism Record in Bullet Points http://empireslayer.blogspot.com/2013/11/hilary-clinton-pro-war-and-imperialism.html

Hillary, Hitler, and Cold War II
Pat Buchanan blames the Bushes and Clintons
http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2014/03/06/hillary-hitler-and-cold-war-ii/

Hillary and Other Assorted Barbarians at Russia’s Gate
By Glen Ford   Hillary Clinton is a walking profanity – and, thereby, a prime candidate to be the next president of the United States.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/hillary-and-other-assorted-barbarians-russia%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-gate

Hillary Clinton's full record of support for war, terror, and other depravities.        http://www.whateverittakeshillary.org/
Secret Audio Recordings Exposes
How Hilary Clinton Distorted Facts To Push For Attack On Libya
By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and Kelly Riddell  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40843.htm http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/28/hillary-clinton-undercut-on-libya-war-by-pentagon-/




HIROSHIMA / NAGASAKI

 Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
American High School Textbooks Perpetuate The Big Lie
By Pat Elder.   Americans suffer from a misinformation campaign initially perpetrated by the Truman administration and carried on to this day by high school textbooks that continue to tell the story as if Hiroshima and Nagasaki were indispensible in ending the war and saving countless American lives.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35735.htm

 An Interview With Oliver Stone:
Why the U.S. Was Wrong to Drop Two Atomic Bombs on Japan
By Greg Mitchell.   Why are Americans so resistant to having an open mind on the subject of dropping the bomb twice in 1945? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35761.htm

 Bombs Bursting in Air: US firebombing and Atomic bombing of Japan 
The US destruction of more than sixty Japanese cities prior to Hiroshima.                   
http://japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/4065





"HUMAN RIGHTS"

The media's new converts to civic freedom over the Pussy Riot and Assange asylum affairs show a jingoism blind to US abuses.    

America's Deplorable Human Rights Record
By Stephen Lendman.
Far and away, America's human rights record is the world's worst. No other nation approaches its unprincipled history. Earlier crimes against humanity were largely internal and regional. 

Video report.  
The situation has alarmed Lt. Col Barry Wingard, a US military attorney who advocates for Guantanamo detainees.       

Guantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism
By Finian Cunningham.   Thanks to the suffering of prisoners at Guantanamo, the world is seeing some shocking home truths about the real nature of American government.

You Have the Right to Remain Silent:
The United Police States of America
By Dave Lindorff.   Attorney General Eric Holder, just told Congress that he had no intention of seeking criminal indictments against the nation’s top bankers, despite a wide-spread conviction that they are all guilty of the most massive fraud and theft in the history of the country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34443.htm

The 12th Anniversary of American Cowardice
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
By Tom Engelhardt.   How many cultures have turned dog collars (and the dogs that go with them), thumbs-up signs over dead bodies, and a mockery of the crucified Christ into screensavers?

Bradley Manning In His Own Words
In Leaked Court Recording, Army Whistleblower Tells His Story for First Time
AUDIO.    By releasing this audio recording, we wish to make sure that the voice of this generation's most prolific whistleblower can be heard—literally—by the world.

The U.N. human rights chief called on the United States on Friday to close down the Guantanamo prison camp, saying the indefinite imprisonment of many detainees without charge or trial violated international law.

U.S. Cooption of the Human Rights Movement Continues.
John V. Walsh and Coleen Rowley, April 03, 2013.
http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/04/03/an-appeal-to-pen-exec-director-suzanne-nossel-must-go/

Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights
James Peck.  For many decades the rhetoric of human rights has been used by the West to justify its aggressive actions around the world. in his superb and much neglected work painstakingly and meticulously documents such subversion over the past 50 years.

The Hijacking of Human Rights
By Chris Hedges.   “Humanitarian interventionists” studiously ignore our own acts of genocide, first unleashed against Native Americans and then exported to the Philippines and, later, nations such as Vietnam.

Threatened with Censorship and Ouster by PEN’s Henchmen.
In the vast and ever expanding firmament of Western Human Rights NGO’s, PEN, America Center, the writers’ organization, is far from the most luminous and ordinarily barely visible. But a dark side of PEN came clearly into view with the hiring of Suzanne Nossel as its executive director. And the same dark side is becoming all too apparent in organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, both of which have also employed Nossel in the past.

Putin signs "undesirable NGOs" Bill into Law.   
Internationally acting NGOs have increasingly become “weaponized”, used as tools for supporting political violence and coup d’état by Western or Western allied intelligence services  http://nsnbc.me/2015/05/25/putin-signs-undesirable-ngos-bill-into-law-2/

By Rick Sterling    Currently we see a major media campaign for a “no fly zone” billed as a “safe zone” in opposition controlled northern Syria.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41852.htm   
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/05/eight-problems-with-amnestys-report-on-aleppo-syria/




IMPERIALISM

 Investigating the New Imperialism   
William Bowles.    http://www.williambowles.info/
Convenient Myths And Liberal Imperialism     
By John Pilger.   What is the world’s most powerful and violent “ism”?    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32370.htm
Engineering Empire
An Introduction to the Intellectuals and Institutions of American Imperialism
By Andrew Gavin Marshall.   We have both the opportunity and the responsibility to understand and oppose what our governments do abroad, precisely because we have the opportunity to do so, unlike the majority of the world's population who live in abject poverty, under ruthless dictators that we arm and maintain.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35113.htm

IRAN

Why Iran Should Sue US at International Court of Justice   
By Franklin Lamb.   The US-led sanctions violate international humanitarian law due to the negative health effects of the sanctions on the civilian populations. This renders the sanctions illegal under international customary law.   
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31847.htm

US government wouldn't lie to start a war with Iran, would they? 
A look at the conservative history.       
http://www.examiner.com/article/us-government-wouldn-t-lie-to-start-a-war-with-iran-would-they-a-look-at-the-conservative-history

 History of Iran and USA in 10 min
VIDEO - A history of US / Iran relations, may explain the present crisis. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32761.htm
The Long History of Lies about Iran
By Muhammad Sahimi.   If the lies about Iraq taught us anything, it is that we must pay attention to the massive campaign of lies about Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34495.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+US+Racket+at+Root+of+Korea+Conflict&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email
Preparing For Israeli strike On Iran?
Reversing policy, US will sell Israel aerial refueling planes
By Times of Israel staff.   Israel will for the first time be permitted to purchase US aerial refueling planes and other ultra-sophisticated military equipment that could prove vital to any Israel strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34677.htm

Is Anybody Listening?
U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn't Building Nukes.
By Nima Shirazi.   In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Director of National Intelligence reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear weapon and has not even made a decision to do so.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34672.htm

Iran: How the West Missed a Chance to Make Peace With Iran
By Peter Oborne.   Peter Oborne shows how the West turned down a precious opportunity to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis eight years ago, and argues that it is western rather than Iranian intransigence that prevents a deal being struck today.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34723.htm

Iran Represents a Deathblow to US Global Hegemony
By Finian Cunningham.   The present threat of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula is not really about North Korea or the US-backed South Korean state.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/12/297864/iran-key-to-us-global-defeat/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34586.htm

Preparing For Israeli strike On Iran?
Reversing policy, US will sell Israel aerial refueling planes
By Times of Israel staff.   Israel will for the first time be permitted to purchase US aerial refueling planes and other ultra-sophisticated military equipment that could prove vital to any Israel strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34677.htm

New Report Is Critical Of US Sanctions On Iran:
Urges White House to Rethink Policy
By DAVID E. SANGER.   A panel of former senior American officials, issued a surprisingly critical assessment of American diplomacy toward Iran on Wednesday, urging President Obama to reconsider the likelihood that harsh sanctions will drive Tehran to concessions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34654.htm
IRAQ
The Horrors of WMD
US, UK ‘Cause Birth Defects in Iraq’
By RT.  Between 2007 and 2010 in Fallujah, more than half of all babies surveyed were born with birth defects. Also, over 45 percent of all pregnancies surveyed ended in miscarriage. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32740.htm

 Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre
VIDEO - The horrors of "Depleted Uranium".     
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm
The Spies Who Fooled the World
Video.    Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to justify the invasion of Iraq were based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34369.htm
War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity:
The story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq
By Ajamu Baraka.   What the U.S. war on Iraq demonstrated is that in order to maintain their fantasies of continued global dominance, the U.S. and its colonialist allies will resort to naked piracy. But it is not gold trinkets and slaves that are the contemporary booty – it is whole nations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34433.htm
Baghdad Burning:   
Girl Blog from Iraq... let's talk war, politics and occupation.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
Australia: Howard ignored advice and went to war in Iraq. 
The government's justification for war was not supported by any of it's own agencies' intelligence.  
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/howard-ignored-advice-and-went-to-war-in-iraq-20130411-2ho5d.html
US and UK Drowned Iraq in Blood
Barbarian Rhapsody: Ten Years Deeper Into Hell
By Chris Floyd.   I predict that in just a few years we'll be "debating" whether the president has the right to stick the severed heads of "terrorists" on spikes outside the White House.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34326.htm
Iraq: 935 lies, A Tyrant and Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Felicity Arbuthnot.    Iraq's new dictator is being supported by massive shipments of horrific weapons, while the country remains poor and devastated country, and a covert US re-invasion is under way.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37871.htm


ISRAEL / PALESTINE
What Christians Don’t Know About Israel
By Grace Halsell  -  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32697.htm
“How we can solve the Palestinian-Israeli problem”  - 
Video Documentary by Sami Moukaddem (97 mins).
“I simply got tired of western mainstream media presenting the Palestinian-Israeli issue as being complex.”   Includes over 35 interviews.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32792.htm
A Short History Of Palestine
VIDEO  -  The colonisation of Palestine fitted well the interests and policies of the British Empire on the eve of the First World War.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33582.htm
Israeli Myths and Propaganda
VIDEO  -  Israeli Professor Ilan Pappe reveals the truth about the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.    
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33870.htm
In Defense of Richard Falk
Who is Richard Falk and What Has He Done?
By Lawrence Davidson: In a sane world this work would make Richard Falk a universally acclaimed defender of justice. But ours is not a sane world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32938.htm
Zionism Is Crime Against Humanity: Turkish Prime Minister
By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathon Burch 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNQTG8B6hw&feature=player_embedded
Decolonizing the Mind: Omar Barghouti
How to End Apartheid in Palestine
VIDEO  -  Friday 1 February 2013, Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti talked with Amy Goodman, about the Palestinian people's resistance, and the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34150.htm
Obama Worse Than Bush And Blair: Noam Chomsky
Video and Transcript.   "Let's take Israel/Palestine.  I mean, his position is shocking."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34385.htm
65 Years Ago:
The Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By Alan Hart.   Before the Zionist state declared itself to be in existence on 14 May 1948, more than 200 Palestinian villages had already been emptied and about 175,000 Palestinians were already refugees. Some had fled in fear; others were expelled by Zionist forces.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34243.htm
Dead in the Water
How Israel committed the cold blooded murder of US sailors.
Video Documentary.   June 8, 1967: USS Liberty attacked by Israel in international waters - Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5073.htm

 IF AMERICANS KNEW – 
What every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine.     http://ifamericansknew.org/
Eyeless in Gaza
By Uri Avnery.     http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2014/08/15/eyeless-in-gaza/
Israel’s target is not Hamas, but Palestinian statehood
By Dan Glazebrook.     Genuine sovereignty would end Israel’s current presumed right to steal Palestinians' land, control their borders, place them under siege, and bomb them at will.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/israel-s-target-not-hamas-palestinian-statehood-1483362297
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39418.htm
Why Is The World Silent on Israeli Crimes in Palestine?
By Miko Peled.  VIDEO talk (1:01:02)
http://mikopeled.com/2014/07/28/why-is-the-world-silent-on-israeli-crimes-in-palestine/


KOREA
 

North Korea and the United States:
Will the Real Aggressor Please Stand Down?
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers  -  US political leaders and media pundits trumpet North Korea's recent testing of missiles and nuclear weapons as a great threat. But the US mass media do not tell the whole story.       
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34149.htm
US Criminal Propensity Justifies North Korea's Nukes
By Finian Cunningham.   No other state on earth has endured a trade embargo or a gamut of diplomatic, financial and economic sanctions more than North Korea.     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34242.htm
Western Media Set Up North Korea For War
By Finian Cunningham.   Western so-called news media coverage of the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula is like watching a cross between a bad James Bond movie and a cheap horror flick about flesh-eating zombies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34278.htm
N. Korea Warns : Danger of Nuclear War on Korean Peninsula
By Korea News Service.   On Monday U.S. B-52 strategic bombers - staged a nuclear bomb dropping drill aimed at a surprise nuclear preemptive attack on the DPRK. Their flight defying our repeated warnings clearly proves that the U.S. plan for a nuclear war has entered an uncontrollable phase of practice.   
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34429.htm
Putting the Squeeze on North Korea
By Gregory Elich.   Neither the U.S. nor South Korea is open to dialogue at the present time. Both are bent on exacerbating tensions.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34514.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A++Washington%27s+Plan+to+Provoke+North+Korea&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email
Washington’s “Playbook” on Provoking North Korea
By Stephen Gowans.   The White House approved a detailed plan, called ‘the playbook,’ to ratchet up tension with North Korea during the Pentagon’s war games with South Korea.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34523.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A++Washington%27s+Plan+to+Provoke+North+Korea&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email
US Protection Racket Root of Korea Conflict
By Finian Cunningham.   The conflict emanates from Washington and is perpetuated by Washington. Why? To justify what would otherwise be seen as simply outrageous US militarism in the Asia Pacific.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34497.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+US+Racket+at+Root+of+Korea+Conflict&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email
Prosecutable US Crimes Against Humanity In Korea
By Jay Janson.   Following is a short history of homicidal crimes against humanity bitterly suffered in the Land of the Morning Calm.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34476.htm
US Secretly Deploys B-1 Strategic Bombers, E-6 "Doomsday" Planes Near North Korea: 
This particular deployment has been kept secret from the public (at least the broader public), "a fact that could be the sign that the U.S. is not only making symbolic moves, but it is preparing for the worst scenario: an attack on North Korea."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-05/us-secretly-deploys-b-1-strategic-bombers-e-6-doomsday-planes-near-north-korea
US Has A Paranoid Policy Towards North Korea
By William Boardman.   The U.S. appears to have a comfortable lead in maintaining delusions of being threatened.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34572.htm
The Korean War, A History:
Watch - Video - Bruce Cumings      The historical origins of the Korean war, from the early disputes between North and South Korea and then on thru to the more recent history of North Korea.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37079.htm

The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea
by MIKE WHITNEY
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/17/the-problem-is-washington-not-north-korea/

This Is What’s Really Behind North Korea’s Nuclear Provocations
It’s easy to dismiss Kim Jong-un as a madman. But there’s a long history of US aggression against the North, which we forget at our peril.
By Bruce Cumings
https://www.thenation.com/.../this-is-whats-really.../

The Mindless Hawkish Response to North Korea’s Missile Test
"Threatening North Korea with regime change... is one of the stupidest things the U.S. could do..."
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-mindless-hawkish-response-to-north-koreas-missile-test/

What the N. Korean “Crisis” Is Really About
By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46997.htm

What Corporate Media Never Tells You About North Korea
By Joe Clifford
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46960.htm

NYT’s ‘Impossible to Verify’ North Korea Nuke Claim Spreads Unchecked by Media
http://fair.org/.../nyts-impossible-to-verify-north.../

Why Does North Korea Want Nukes?
by PAUL ATWOOD
https://www.counterpunch.org/.../why-does-north-korea.../

Facts of the Korean War: UN Security Council, Instrument of US led Wars, Blatantly Biased Against North Korea
http://www.globalresearch.ca/facts-of-the-korean-war-united-nations-security-council-blatantly-biased-against-north-korea/5606825

How History Explains the Korean Crisis
August 28, 2017
Special Report: Many Americans simply view North Korea and its leaders as “crazy,” but the history behind today’s crisis reveals of a more complex reality that could change those simplistic impressions, as historian William R. Polk explains.
By William R. Polk
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/28/how-history-explains-the-korean-crisis/

“History of U.S. Sabotage of Korean Peace and Reunification”
By S. Brian Willson
http://www.brianwillson.com/history-of-u-s-sabotage-of-korean-peace-and-reunification/

Facts of the Korean War: UN Security Council, Instrument of US led Wars, Blatantly Biased Against North Korea
http://www.globalresearch.ca/facts-of-the-korean-war-united-nations-security-council-blatantly-biased-against-north-korea/5606825

Trump and the Geopolitics of Crazy
The Times They Are A-Changin’ in North Korea
By John Feffer
August 22, 2017.
” The United States has beaten its head against the wall of North Korea for more than 70 years, and that wall has changed little indeed as a result. The United States, meanwhile, has suffered one headache after another… It's way past time for the Trump administration to take a few aspirin and a few deep breaths, and seize this opportunity to talk with the North Koreans before both head and wall sustain irreparable damage.”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176320/tomgram%3A_john_feffer%2C_avoiding_war_with_pyongyang/#more


LAOS
Laos After the Bombs
By Brett S. Morris  
From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.


LIBYA
War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure:  Nafeez Ahmed (14th May 2015) http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2869234/war_crime_nato_deliberately_destroyed_libyas_water_infrastructure.html


MEDIA

"Democracy Now" and the "Progressive" Alternative Media: 
Valued Cheerleaders For Imperialism and War.    
By Finian Cunningham

CNN and the Business of State-sponsored TV News
By Glenn Greenwald.   The network's relationships with governments must bear closer examination.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32364.htm

Here is CNN International's response to Glenn Greenwald's story in the Guardian about Amber Lyon's documentary (above). http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/05/cnn-internationals-response-to-the-guardian/

FAIR blog and FAIR TV
(FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
http://www.fair.org/index.php

Class War Films channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/ClassWarFilms
Syria and Iran:  Exposing the Lies and Disinformation
VIDEO - Disentangling the lies of the U.S. government and corporate media to destabilize and colonize Syria and Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32829.htm

Information Liberaton: The news you’re not supposed to know

We are 1776 . . .  
Stimulating Libertarian Minds One Article At A Time

World News Trust

NewsHounds: 
We watch Fox so you don't have to!
http://www.newshounds.us/
Hollywood’s Propaganda: Tales of torture and wanton killing are blockbusters in the USA
By Margaret Kimberley  -  Hollywood helps Americans feel good about being part of an empire that kills other peoples at will.      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34123.htm
Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/
The Media Didn't Fail on Iraq;
Iraq Just Showed We Have a Failed Media
By Jim Naureckas.   The real job of the media is not to sprinkle 1 percent truth amidst 99 percent bullshit.   
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34417.htm
21st Century Wire: News for the waking generation
http://21stcenturywire.com/

Consortiumnews.com
Independent Investigative Journalism Since 1995
http://consortiumnews.com/
The Madness of NYT’s Tom Friedman
By Robert Parry.   Friedman describes every foreign adversary who reacts against U.S. dictates as suffering from various stages of insanity.
http://consortiumnews.com/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Reason.com  -  Free Minds and Free Markets
http://reason.com/
Dissent Magazine (Australia)
http://www.dissent.com.au/
Clarity Press
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection
A collection of interesting, important and controversial perspectives largely excluded from the mainstream media.     http://www.unz.com/

'Limited But Persuasive' Evidence - Syria, Sarin, Libya, Lies
By David Edwards.   A natural counterpart to the burying of evidence of 'our' embarrassing crimes is the hyping of the crimes of official enemies.  

TV: Your Mind. Controlled
By Melissa Melton.   Are large segments of the American public literally walking around in a hypnotic trance? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35813.htm
The CIA, the Press and Black Propaganda
The All-powerful Cult of Death That Rules America
By Doug Valentine.   Despite the popular portrayal of the CIA as patriotic guys and girls risking everything to do a dirty job, the typical CIA officer is a sociopath.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36241.htm

US Human Radiation Experiments Covered Up by Public Broadcasting
By William Boardman   When the military scientists of an advanced technological nation deliberately explode their largest nuclear bomb (and 66 others) over Pacific islands and use the opportunities to study the effects of radiation on nearby native people, which group is best described as "savage"?    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37354.htm

Propaganda as Journalism
By John Pilger – Video.  War by journalism, US military's quest for domination/hegemony in the post 9/11 era, false history in the guise of 'objective' journalism.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17944.htm

The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald, and more.    
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/news/

TV: Your Mind. Controlled
By Melissa Melton.   Are large segments of the American public literally walking around in a hypnotic trance?    
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35813.htm

 The Vineyard of The Saker
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/                       
http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/

Newsscouter
News Stories, Opinions, Analysis, and Editorials from around the World: 
http://newsscouter.com/

How the CIA made Google:  
News Analysis - Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet
https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
William Engdahl blog
http://www.williamengdahl.com/

New Eastern Outlook
http://journal-neo.org/



MONSANTO

The Monsanto Revolution
By Timothy V. Gatto.   The government has acted against the welfare of its own people for the personal gain of a corporation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35126.htm

 Food Justice: Monsanto, Factory Farming, and Beyond
By Mickey Z.   "The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses."    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35124.htm



MIDDLE EAST - General

Arab Oil Cash to Kill Democracy in Egypt
By Finian Cunningham.   In order to determine whether the turmoil in Egypt is in the best interests of the mass of ordinary Egyptians, we should use the trusted maxim - follow the money. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35521.htm




MILITARISM
How To Start a War
The U.S. Use of War Pretext Incidents    
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30495.htm
Wars Of Empire:  Saddam Hussein - The Trial You Will Never See    
VIDEO.   This documentary was never showed in US.   
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32339.htm

 Monopolizing War?
What America Knows How to Do Best
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32437.htm

The Road To WW3
World War III Is Coming And Here's Why!?
VIDEO  -  The real motives behind the wars of the past two decades.

“War Is Horrible, but . . .”
By Robert Higgs  -  Anyone who has done even a little reading about the theory and practice of war— has encountered a sentence of the form “War is horrible, but . . . .”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32518.htm
American Militarism Threatening To Set Off World War III
By Professor Francis A. Boyle  -  Historically this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the U.S.-instigated Spanish-American War in 1898.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33272.htm
War Made Easy
VIDEO Narrated By Sean Penn  -  This guide to disinformation analyzes American military adventures past and present to reveal striking similarities in the efforts of various administrations to justify, and retain, public support for war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33469.htm
How Western Leaders Terrorized Muslim World
Using A Fake Clash of Civilizations
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja  -  The US "War on Terror" used the false pretext of the 9/11 attacks to pursue its pre-planned wars against the Muslim world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33889.htm
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars
By Michael Rivero  -  VIDEO  43:34
I know many people have a great deal of difficulty comprehending just how many wars are started for no other purpose than to force private central banks onto nations, so let me share a few examples, so that you understand why the US Government is mired in so many wars against so many foreign nations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5hfEBupAeo4#
Dresden bombing, Britain’s forgotten war crime of WWII: 
More than 500,000 German civilians and refugees, mostly women and children, were slaughtered by Britain’s saturation bombing in 1945, one of the worst massacres of all time.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/14/288935/britains-forgotten-war-crime-of-wwii/
Bush, Blair Wanted For Crimes Against Humanity: Boyle
Video   Francis Boyle, a professor of international law: “We will keep after Bush and Blair for sure for crimes against peace, war crimes and torture in general.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32818.htm
Beyond Bayonets and Battleships
Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power
By Alfred W. McCoy
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32990.htm
Resisting Genocide: Syria, North Korea, and Cuba
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin:  As NATO and Gulf Co-operation Council terrorists persist in their attempt to destroy the Syrian Arab Republic with car bombs, torture, beheadings and mayhem, the Syrian state has still shown no evidence of imminent collapse.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33424.htm
From El Salvador to Iraq: Washington's man behind brutal police squads: In 2004, with the war in Iraq going from bad to worse, the US drafted in a veteran of Central America's dirty wars to help set up a new force to fight the insurgency. The result:secret detention centres, torture and a spiral into sectarian carnage.                                http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/el-salvador-iraq-police-squads-washington
How the US Exported its 'Dirty War' Policy to Iraq – with Fatal Consequences
By Murtaza Hussain.   Pentagon officials at the highest levels oversaw torture facilities during the war in Iraq. The allegations are decidedly gruesome: rooms used for interrogating detainees stained with blood; children tied into extreme stress positions with their bodies beaten to discoloration. 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/08/us-export-dirty-war-iraq
WWIII Is Coming Soon & Here's Why!
Video.    We are on a road that leads straight to the World War 3, but in order to see that and to fully understand what is at stake you have to look at the big picture and connect the dots.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34399.htm
Kerry’s Middle East Tour Prepares Endless War in Afghanistan, Syria
By Alex Lantier.   Washington’s neo-colonial war in Afghanistan—like its proxy war in Syria, Iran’s main Arab ally—aims at establishing US imperialist hegemony over the Middle East and Central Asia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34434.htm
Rev. Martin Luther King Condemned US Wars (International Awareness Campaign)    
http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com

 Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com
10 companies profiting the most from war: 
The business of war is profitable. In 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold $410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold over $208 billion.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/10/10-companies-profiting-most-from-war/1970997/

US: Psychotic Superpower on a Hair-trigger
By Finian Cunningham.    This unstable, lawless rogue state, armed to the teeth and deluded by its own self-righteousness, poses the greatest risk to world security.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34252.htm

U.S. “Human Rights” Wars: Arms Control as a Weapon
By Glen Ford.   The newly approved Arms Trade Treaty is conceived and designed as a facilitator of war by its main sponsor, the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34498.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+US+Racket+at+Root+of+Korea+Conflict&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email
UN Arms Trade Treaty’s Deadly Loophole
By Nile Bowie.   If we assume that the United Nations makes the call on which states qualify as human rights abusers and which states do not, then Israel would not be hindered from purchasing conventional weapons, but a country like Syria would be barred from purchasing arms to defend itself and its territorial sovereignty.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34536.htm
The Elephant in the Room: Militarism
By Jeff Cohen.   Today there’s an elephant in the room: a huge, yet ignored, issue that largely explains why Social Security is now on the chopping block. And why other industrialized countries have free college education and universal healthcare, but we don’t.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34553.htm
Afghanistan, Ecology and the End of War
By Dana Visalli.   Our irrational behavior in Afghanistan reflects a pattern that extends well back into history. It is a little known fact for example that the genesis of the Korean War was the U.S. military occupation of the country two days after South Korea declared its independence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34319.htm
Obama Accused of Nuclear U-turn as Guided Weapons Plan Emerges
By Julian Borger.   Plan to spend $10bn on updating nuclear bombs goes against 2010 pledge not to deploy new weapons.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/21/obama-accused-nuclear-guided-weapons-plan

Court: US must name military school grads: 
The Obama administration must release the names of graduates of a controversial training camp for the Latin American military, a federal district court has ruled.
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/americas/295567-judge-us-must-release-names-of-latin-american-graduates-of-controversial-military-camp

 From Yemen to Pakistan to Laos:
Jeremy Scahill & Noam Chomsky on Secret U.S. Dirty Wars
Video.   Jeremy Scahill and author Noam Chomsky discuss Scahill's groundbreaking new book, "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35114.htm

 “Dirty Wars and Self-indulgence”
Critical review by Douglas Valentine    http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/06/dirty-wars-as-self-indulgence/
Syria in the Cross-hairs
Making the World Safe for Banksters
By Ellen Hodgson Brown.   Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36123.htm

 Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 
US Congressional Research Service.  The following list reviews hundreds of instances in which the United States has utilized military forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict to protect U.S. citizens or promote U.S. interests.   http://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42738.pdf
The Pentagon’s Phony Budget War
By Mattea Kramer.    How the U.S. Military Avoided Budget Cuts, Lied About Doing So, Then Asked for Billions More.    http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175815/tomgram:_mattea_kramer,_is_the_pentagon_doomed_--_to_be_flush_forever/


NGOs and “humanitarian war”

Amnesty's Shilling for US-NATO Wars
By Ann Wright and Coleen Rowley      
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31642.htm
Amnesty International: An Instrument of War Propaganda? 
By Felicity Arbuthnot - Amnesty has moved a long way from its fine founding aims.    
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32116.htm
Amnesty for occupation?: Op-Ed: Ashley Smith explains what's behind the political twists at Amnesty International.   http://socialistworker.org/2012/08/08/amnesty-for-occupation

Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/08/amnesty-international-is-us-state.html
Responsibility to Protect And The Myth of Large Numbers
By Vijay Prashad.   Libya is a recent example: exaggerated civilian casualty numbers to make a case for military intervention in strife-torn regions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34288.htm
Outside Agitators
By Patrick J. Buchanan.   People who pride themselves on bringing about revolutions should not whine when targeted regimes treat them like troublemakers. And who directs these “pro-democracy” groups?    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35200.htm
Humanitarian Wars and Their NGO Foot-Soldiers
By Daniel McAdams.   Once again, one man and an NGO have been able to ignite international opinion in favor of “humanitarian” intervention.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36429.htm


OBAMA

Presidential Rule by Deception: Obama, the Master Con-man
By Prof. James Petras.   Obama has set the standard of political deception and demagogy far beyond past and probable future US Presidents.  

Obama to Putin: Do as I say, not as I do…
By Adrian Salbuchi.   Includes useful info on the hypocrisy over extraditing wanted criminals. Putin echoes Russia’s and the world’s growing weariness with America’s hegemonic carrot-and-stick strategy, and its double talk.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35800.htm
Liar-in-Chief
By Paul Street.   People who command glass houses of a sociopathic, mass-murderous empire should not expect to be taken seriously when throw “humanitarian” stones at other butchers.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36238.htm

'I' Is for 'Impeachment'
Phil Giraldi.  …So are the Obama accomplishments worth impeachment? They go far beyond the precedents of a president firing a government minister or even lying about a sexual affair, and some might even consider that they exceed the Nixon gold standard of using government resources against the political opposition. Arming terrorists while asserting the right to go to war without constitutional process; targeting and killing citizens; declaring a state of war worldwide using robot death machines; spying on citizens and sharing the information with foreign governments; running secret prisons where suspects are tortured, never tried, and never can get out; and using the judiciary to block challenges to whatever is going on is quite a record. Not exactly something to be proud of, is it?      http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2013/09/18/i-is-for-impeachment/


PEARL HARBOUR

The REAL Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan (It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives)
 By Washington's Blog - Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives.     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32743.htm

By WashingtonsBlog
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32763.htm
How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor
By Robert Higgs  -  The claim that Japan attacked the United States without provocation was . . . typical rhetoric. It worked because the public did not know that the administration had expected Japan to respond with war to anti-Japanese measures it had taken in July 1941.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33278.htm



PERSONAL BLOGS
Barry Eisler blog : the heart of the matter
http://barryeisler.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/you-will-be-assimilated.html

Michael Parenti – political archive      

The Ironical Chronical   
http://www.otto5.com/

Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now  http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com

PAULINE MITCHELL: in memory of her life-time of struggle for world peace.

Ron Ridenour                             

Clearing the FOG: speaking truth to expose the forces of greed
Empire Slayer

Cannonfire (Joseph Cannon)

Pressing Issues: Greg Mitchell’s blog 
on media, politics, film, satire and more, including excellent information on Hiroshima, etc. 

In The Mind Field                                                                       Michael Uhl, PhD                                                  
www.inthemindfield.com                                                                                            
www.veteranscholar.com
PHILIPPINES
Philippine-American War: A War Anniversary that U.S. Wishes to Forget
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30445.htm


SOUTH AMERICA - General

 Covering Activism and Politics in Latin America
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/

School of the Americas Morphs Into US Training Industrial Complex

By JP Sottile   In a long, 200-year history of US interventionism, covert action and troubling support for repressive regimes, the story of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia, stands out as a grotesque example of militarism run amok.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/27563-the-new-school-of-the-americas#



SYRIA

Syria: The Bloody Road to Damascus - The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State      
By James Petras 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30769.htm

Syria, the United States and The El Salvador Option
By Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince     
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31826.htm#idc-cover

 Save Syria: Demand End to Supporting Sectarian Terrorists - US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia have plotted bloodbath for years.                              Tony Cartalucci, Land Destroyer, June 2, 2012.            http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/06/save-syria-demand-end-to-supporting.html

How Avaaz Is Sponsoring Fake War Propaganda From Syria http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/03/avaaz-sponsoring-fake-reporting-from-syria.html

The Syrian Opposition: Who's Doing The Talking?  
How US bankrolls propaganda for military intervention and regime change in Syria.      
By Charlie Skelton.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31845.htm

Hillary Clinton Is Today's Joseph Goebbels
Latest Syria "Massacre" - Goebbelsesque Propaganda
By Tony Cartalucci.   What the Western corporate-media is actually reporting is terrorist forces being defeated by the Syrian military in violence growing SOLELY because the West continues to funnel cash, increasingly advanced arms, and even foreign fighters into the country.     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31863.htm

Covering Syria: The Information War
By Aisling Byrne.   What we are seeing is a new stage of information war intentionally constructed and cast as a simplistic narrative of a struggle for human rights and democracy so as deliberately to exclude other interpretations and any geo-strategic motivation.     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31859.htm

George Galloway on Syria (video)      
http://www.youtube.com/watch?y=TuZeHYABaY&feature=related

Syria and the Dismembering of the Arab World      

Brief History of Syria
In an agreement known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, they decided to divide the Middle East into French and British 'spheres of influence'. Syria was to be put under French mandate. In early 1920, French troops landed on the Syrian coast.

"Syrian Opposition Coalition" Handcrafted by the US, and Founded in Doha
By Tony Cartalucci  -  Saudi and Lebanese officials working in tandem with the US, and US intelligence agents have outlined a criminal conspiracy that has now transcended two presidencies and provided the clearest example yet of the corporate-financier driven "continuity of agenda" that truly guides Western foreign policy.

Al-Assad: British Leaders 'Shallow, Immature'
Hala Jaber Interviews President Bashar al-Assad - Video and Transcript
'We don't expect an arsonist to be a firefighter,' Syrian president says.
By Amal Saad-Ghorayeb  -  One of the strategies in the information warfare against Syria is the psycho-pathologization and infantilization of Assad as detached from reality/delusional, irrational and irresponsible. But is he really?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34161.htm

The CIA Is Training Syria's Rebels
By Robert Dreyfuss  -  Let us not be shocked that the CIA is doing this; in fact, it’s very likely that this is the tip of a very large iceberg.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34144.htm

Obama Wades Deeper Into Syria's Morass
By Shamus Cooke  -  The destruction of Syrian society will continue, indeed, increase.  Although there are plenty of non-military options the Obama administration could pursue, he's instead choosing the bloodiest course possible.

Western Military Intervention in Syria Would Be a Disaster
John Wight.    By this point there should be few who still believe that the West is motivated by any noble motivation of spreading democracy to the Arab and Muslim world.

Exposed
US and Europe in 'Major Airlift of Arms to Syrian Rebels Through Zagreb'
By Richard Spencer.   The United States has coordinated a massive airlift of arms to Syrian rebels from Croatia with the help of Britain and other European states, despite the continuing European Union arms embargo.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34222.htm

US-British Al Qaeda Airlift:
3,000 Tons of Weapons Fuel Syria's Destruction
By Tony Cartalucci.   Just like in Libya where the West literally handed an entire nation to sectarian extremists, we are watching a verbatim repeat in Syria.  

Jihadists, Not Assad, Apparently Behind Reported Chemical Attack In Syria
By Anshel Pfeffer.   The explosion claimed the lives of Syrian Armed Forces soldiers who are apparently loyal to Assad, and the Syrian government was quick to demand an international investigation of the incident.

Obama Unleashes Dogs of War in Syria
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR.   The comprehensive destruction of Syria as a major military power in the Middle East means that all three major Arab powers which could offer defiance to Israel in the past and have been the repositories of "Arabism" at one time or another – Iraq, Egypt and Syria – have been dispatched to the Stone Age.

How Obama Chose War Over Peace in Syria
By Shamus Cooke.  
Obama's Bush-like determination to overthrow the Syrian government has led him down the same path as his predecessor.

Evidence Shows Syrian Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
By Raven Clabough.   This is not the first time that the rebel forces have committed heinous acts in their war on the Syrian people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34444.htm

Officials: Arms Shipments Rise to Syrian Rebels
By Dale Gavlak And Jamal Halaby.   Mideast powers have dramatically stepped up weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in coordination with the U.S. in preparation for a push on the capital of Damascus, officials and Western military experts said Wednesday.

By Patrick Henningsen.   The very idea of directly arming terrorists in Syria is not one which can be sold openly in either the US or Britain.  

A Syrian's Perspective:
Democracy vs. Foreign Invasion. Who is Bashar Al Assad?
By Arabi Souri.   Bashar is a reformer who has done much to further the causes of democracy and freedom.

Syria is a Battle for Palestine
By Nadezhda Kevorkova.   Bashar al-Assad didn’t turn away from the Palestinians, and that was the reason that the West directed the wave of militants against Syria and spread out the Islamic propaganda that Assad was the root of all their troubles.

 Hacked e-mail involving a Qatari scheme to stage a false flag “chemical weapons” attack which could then provide the pretext for intervention in Syria‏‏.     http://www.voltairenet.org/article177357.html

Exposed: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is EU-Funded Fraud
By By Tony Cartalucci .   NYT admits fraudulent Syrian human rights group is UK-based "one-man band" funded by EU and one other "European country."
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.mx/2013/04/exposed-syrian-human-rights-front-is-eu.html#more

 Elections Observers Report to UN
VIDEO (52:45)  UN Press Conference sponsored by Syrian Mission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnFQd4wBXnk

 Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention”
Ajamu Baraka.   Veteran grassroots organizer whose roots are in the Black Liberation Movement and anti-apartheid and Central American solidarity struggles.      http://www.ajamubaraka.com/

NATO Data: Assad Winning the War for Syrians’ Hearts and Minds
Special to World Tribune.   The data, relayed to NATO over the last month, asserted that 70 percent of Syrians support the Assad regime. Another 20 percent were deemed neutral and the remaining 10 percent expressed support for the rebels. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35176.htm
Syria: Who is Behind The Protest Movement
Article from May 2011:   http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-who-is-behind-...
This link says the whole thing in Syria is about a pipeline: http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2013/09/07/gas-pi...


"TERRORISM"

Manufacturing Terrorists
By Michael German.   How FBI sting operations make jihadists out of hapless malcontents.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34322.htm

According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, in the past 10 years, there’ve been 20 Terrorist plots against the US. Three of those plots were real but were discovered and stopped by private Americans. The other 17 were created–and then stopped–by the FBI.
As the situation in Ukraine continues to fester, a handy history guide -- from A (Argentina) to Z (Zaire)   http://www.salon.com/2014/03/08/35_countries_the_u_s_has_backed_international_crime_partner/
The Momentum for “Regime Change”: Snipers Are Commonly Used as “False Flag” Terrorists ...   http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-momentum-for-reg...




UKRAINE

Balls, Brains and History - The New Crimean War
By JOHN GRANT    http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/12/the-new-crimean-war/
Promised Land: Serbia and Ukraine, Crimea and Kosovo  
By Nebojsa Malic    http://original.antiwar.com/malic/2014/03/14/promised-land/
  
Everything You Really Need to Know About Ukraine
by Patrick L.Smith 

Ukraine and the Presstitute media
By Peter Koenig.    Obama, the naked, shameless emperor dares warn Russia not to intervene in Ukraine, or else… and the spineless European puppets with the mighty NATO in their back are aping similar threats.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37874.htm

“Journalists” Follow Obama on Ukraine
By Margaret Kimberley.    The corporate media are a key component of the U.S. imperial machine. Although styling themselves as watchdogs, they are in fact the dogs of war, whose mission is to hide Washington’s aggressions behind a fog of lies.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37868.htm

 The clash in Crimea is the fruit of western expansion
Seumas Milne.   The external struggle to dominate Ukraine has put fascists in power and brought the country to the brink of conflict. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/clash-crimea-western-expansion-ukraine-fascists

Mass Killing in East Ukraine and the Failure of Liberal Intellectuals
By Joshua Tartakovsky.

 Corporate Interests Behind Ukraine Putsch                                                JP Sottile     Behind the U.S.-backed coup that ousted the democratically elected president of Ukraine are the economic interests of giant corporations – from Cargill to Chevron – which see the country as a potential “gold mine” of profits from agricultural and energy exploitation.   http://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/16/corporate-interests-behind-ukraine-putsch/




USA

A People's History Of The United States - (The 20th Century) - 
By Howard Zinn - The complete audio book.      
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22922.htm

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy    
Video - this film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the “graveyard of social movements”, the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27665.htm

The Untold History of The Project for the New American Century    
VIDEO  - This documentary demonstrates how the first film theaters in the US were used over 100 years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War. The film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23683.htm

War and Empire - Are and Always Have Been the American Way of Life 
By Paul L. Atwood - As serious scholars know well, the real history of the nation is far removed from what James Loewen would call the "disneyfied" notions of American exceptionalism.   
Investor Wars: Korea Thru Syria
By Jay Janson.   In every single case of US mayhem (that if totaled up reaches many multi-holocaust proportions), civil war, fomented by the US itself, has been used as a pretext for unlawful barbaric criminal intervention by US Armed Forces.       

Decent Men vs. Strutting Ogres
By Linh Dinh.   Done with making anything useful, the United States is the world’s leading producer of weapons and illusions, mostly of itself.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32252.htm

Feast of Fools
 By Lewis H. Lapham
How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy.

"In America Today Peace is For Sissies"
An Interview With Paul Craig Roberts on Torture
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa  -  Americans are overwhelmed by how great and good and moral and indispensable they are. American hubris raises Americans above everyone else in the world.

By Stephen Lendman  -  Western civilization destroyed their way of life. There's nothing civilized about it.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32607.htm


By The Economic Collapse Blog  -  Most Americans still tend to doubt that we are heading into economic oblivion.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33415.htm

Noam Chomsky "Public Education and The Common Good"
VIDEO lecture by Noam Chomsky  -  How the public educational system in the US has been used not for the common good, but rather for the special interests of those who have power and money and want to perpetuate a docile non-critical thinking population.

U.S. Prison Population Seeing “Unprecedented Increase”
By Carey L. Biron  -  The United States has incarcerated far more people than any other country, today imprisoning some 716 people out of every 100,000.

It Has Happened Here
The police state is real
By Paul Craig Roberts  -  Ironic, isn’t it, that the president of the United States now murders his political opponents just as Saddam Hussein murdered his. How long before critics move from the no-fly list to the extermination list?

 Imagine ad  - Probably the single best ad of the 2012 presidential cycle was this one, entitled "Imagine", produced independently by supporters of the Paul campaign:  So full of common sense, compassion and understanding. No wonder the guy didn't stand a chance of getting elected.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Idw4LS19lvk

The Revealingly Substance-free Fight over Susan Rice
By Glenn Greenwald:  Her record of war advocacy and close ties to tyrants is notably missing from the debate over whether she should be Secretary of State.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33288.htm

By Margaret Kimberley:  It was during the Bush administration that the black face in the high place joined in committing the worst kinds of dirty work to be carried out by the United States around the globe.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33309.htm

22 US Military Veterans Commit Suicide Every Day: 20% higher than Department of Veterans Affairs’ 2007 estimate, according to a two-year study by a VA researcher.

US War Plan, Seven Countries In Five Years
By General Wesley Clark:  "The Warning Was Given And It Was Ignored."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34143.htm

The US and the M Word
By Dan DeWalt  -  Violating international borders, stalking an individual and blowing him up without the benefit of accusation or trial – most people would call that premeditated murder.

We Are Bradley Manning
By Chris Hedges  -  All those within the system who publicly reveal facts that challenge the official narrative will be imprisoned.

The US is the Don Corleone of International Politics
By Adrian Salbuchi.   WikiLeaks recently published new documents showing that US global intelligence corporations like Stratfor worked hard in a failed attempt to overthrow Venezuela’s democratically elected president.

Rand Paul's Filibuster Divides the Left and Right  
Anthony Gregory.

Above The Law
By Katrina vanden Heuvel.   If the national security state has the power of life or death above the law, and Wall Street has the power to plunder beyond the law, in what way does this remain a nation of laws?      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34287.htm
By Michael Shank.    Obama couldn’t get the $10 billion over ten years that he wanted to improve childhood nutrition in schools. (Contrast this with the $10 billion we spend monthly on our military in Afghanistan.)       http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34244.htm

Above The Law
By Katrina vanden Heuvel.   If the national security state has the power of life or death above the law, and Wall Street has the power to plunder beyond the law, in what way does this remain a nation of laws?

'Worse Than Nixon': Pentagon Papers Lawyer on Obama, Secrecy and Press Freedoms      
By Glenn Greenwald.    Career First Amendment and transparency advocate James Goodale sounds the alarm about the current president.

The Department of Homeland Security has plans to buy enough ammunition to fight the equivalent of a 24-year Iraq War – on US territory – and even US congressmen don’t understand why.     http://rt.com/usa/us-homeland-security-bullets-congress-703/

Scientific Assassinations Are Part of the CIA’s Record
By Wayne MADSEN.   The CIA’s Technical Services Department continued to maintain and develop stockpiles of cancer-causing biological agents used in special delivery weapons. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34275.htm

The head of the United States Cyber Command says the US is developing 40 new teams of cyber-agents that will both protect America’s critical infrastructure from hackers and as well as launch attacks against the country’s adversaries. 

The Making of “Untold History of the United States.”
Oliver Stone & Peter Kusnick.  A series of informative video interviews on The Real News.

Occupy Washington, DC
http://october2011.org/

Embargoes, Military Exercises and Other Acts of War or Why Peace-Mongering Is Un-American
By Ben Tanosborn.   America, in its imperial role, has become accustomed to get its way, whether acting alone or accompanied by its entourage of friends and lackeys, in pronouncing what actions by other nations affect the interests of the United States.

An Orwellian America
By Gordon T Long.   We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us.

US Driven By Nazi War Machine
By Finian Cunningham.   The absorption of Nazi military practice and intelligence into the CIA and other Western organizations at the end of the Second World War had fateful and far-reaching pernicious consequences. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34946.htm

Pit Of Hopelessness
Guantanamo Grows Tense, Inmates Suicidal
By RT.   At least two Guantanamo Bay detainees have attempted suicide since the confrontation between guards and prisoners in February that brought about the ongoing hunger strike.   

America Cannot Assert Moral Authority While Guantánamo Remains Open
Editorial.    For those not charged with any offence, their long detention is a most serious stain on the human rights record of the US.         

Obama Accused of Nuclear U-turn as Guided Weapons Plan Emerges
By Julian Borger.   Plan to spend $10bn on updating nuclear bombs goes against 2010 pledge not to deploy new weapons.

What We've Lost Since 9/11
Taking Down the First Amendment in Post-Constitutional America
By Peter Van Buren     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38828.htm
The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 
By Dr Gideon Polya  (05 July, 2013)     http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm
John McCain: War Hero Or War Criminal?
By Philip Giraldi.   John McCain was awarded an astonishing Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for his 22 missions spent bombing mostly civilian targets in (North) Vietnam.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35132.htm
No Military Coups for America? What About November 1963?
By Jacob G. Hornberger.   (Includes useful info on asassination of JFK) To suggest that the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA would help foreign militaries oust their rulers to save their countries but would not do the same for the United States when faced with similar circumstances makes no sense.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35520.htm

 Why the U.S. Executive Branch Is a Clear and Present Danger to Our Democracy
By Fred Branfman.   How an authoritarian U.S. Executive Branch which has focused on war abroad for the last 50 years now devotes increasing resources to surveillance, information management, and population control at home, posing a far greater threat to Americans' liberties than any conceivable foreign foe. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35581.htm

 History is a Weapon – A People’s History of the United States. 
By Howard Zinn. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html http://www.historyisaweapon.org/indextrue.html

 The World Can’t Wait!: Stop the Crimes of Your Government http://www.worldcantwait.net/
The U.S. Base on Diego Garcia: An Overlooked Atrocity
By Sheldon Richman.   The largest criminal organizations in the world are governments. The U.S. government is no exception.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35186.htm


VENEZUELA

US Prepares for Overthrow of Venezuela                                                    By Tony Cartalucci.  Rigged polling, coordinated Western propaganda campaign, and open conspiracy to install Henrique Capriles Radonski as head of new Western client-regime.     http://www.landdestroyer.blogspot.fr/2012/10/us-prepares-for-overthrow-of-venezuela.html?m=1


Venezuelan Elections: a Choice and Not an Echo
By James Petras.  A defeat will provide Obama or Romney with a trampoline to re-launch the reactionary neo-liberal and militarist policies of the pre-Chavez era – the infamous Clinton decade(of the 1990’s) of pillage, plunder, privatization and poverty.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32672.htm


Why the US Demonises Venezuela's Democracy
By Mark Weisbrot.  Venezuela is about to hold impeccably free and fair elections. Yet the US treats it as a dictatorship.     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32650.htm
The Revolution Within the Revolution Will Continue
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers.
Chavez was a leader who, in unity with the people, was able to free Venezuela from the grips of US Empire, bring dignity to the poor and working class, and was central to a Latin American revolt against US domination.     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34200.htm
El Comandante Has Left the Building
By Pepe Escobar.   How enlightening to watch world leaders’ reactions to the death of Venezuela’s El Comandante Hugo Chavez.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-02-060313.html
Where is America’s Hugo Chavez?
Who Will Stand Up Against the Military-Oil-Banker Mafia?
By Rob Urie.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34225.htm 

 Former US President Carter: Venezuelan Electoral System “Best in the World”     “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world”… in the US “we have one of the worst election processes in the world, and it’s almost entirely because of the excessive influx of money...”    http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7272
The Assassination of Hugo Chavez
VIDEO  (24:09)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34234.htm
Death Of A Bogeyman – The Corporate Media Bury Hugo Chavez.
By David Edwards.    What lies behind the Western media's obsession with Chávez? Why the extreme hostility and bias? . . .Venezuela is sitting on 'The world's biggest oil reserves'.
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/alerts-2013/724-death-of-a-bogeyman-the-corporate-media-bury-hugo-chavez.html
50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution:  
Never in the history of Latin America, has a political leader had such incontestable democratic legitimacy.
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/8133
Washington’s Secret “Five Point Plan” to Destabilize Venezuela
By Stephen Lendman.   Washington tolerates no independent governments. It demands pro-Western ones. It wants them serving US interests. Outliers are targeted for regime change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34544.htm
President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man
By James Petras.   Chavez opened a new and extraordinarily original and complex path to socialism based on free elections, re-educating the military to uphold democratic and constitutional principals, and the development of mass and community media. He ended the capitalist mass media monopolies and strengthened civil society.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34316.htm

The United States Shows its Contempt for Venezuelan Democracy
By Mark Weisbrot.   Washington's clumsy efforts to de-legitimise Venezuela's election mark a escalation of its push for regime change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34709.htm

The Making of “Untold History of the United States.”
Oliver Stone & Peter Kusnick.  A series of informative video interviews on The Real News.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=956
http://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-making-of-untold-history-of-united.html
Venezuela’s Struggle, Widely Misrepresented, Remains a Classic Conflict Between Right and Left
By Mark Weisbrot.    Venezuela is not Ukraine, where opposition leaders could be seen publicly collaborating with U.S. officials in their efforts to topple the government, and pay no obvious price for it.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37862.htm
President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man
By James Petras.   Chavez opened a new and extraordinarily original and complex path to socialism based on free elections, re-educating the military to uphold democratic and constitutional principals, and the development of mass and community media. He ended the capitalist mass media monopolies and strengthened civil society.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34316.htm

VIET NAM  WAR

Vietnam Was A U.S. Imposed Holocaust!
Documentary movie - Martin Sheen:  
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/vietnam-american-holocaust/

Viet Nam's "Perfect Spy" - Pham Xuan An
http://www.thanhniennews.com/pages/results.aspx?k=perfect%20spy
"Kill Anything That Moves":
Hidden Crimes of the War Kerry, Hagel Fought in Vietnam
By Democracy Now  -  U.S. atrocities in Vietnam were not just isolated incidents, but "the inevitable outcome of deliberate policies, dictated at the highest levels of the military."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33629.htm
 
"Beyond Vietnam" - A Time to Break Silence

"Kill Anything That Moves"
Nick Turse Describes the Real Vietnam War
Turse, who devoted 12 years to tracking down the true story of Vietnam, unlocked secret troves of documents, interviewed officials and veterans — including many accused of war atrocities — and traveled throughout the Vietnamese countryside talking with eyewitnesses to create his book, Kill Anything That Moves:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33915.htm 

Read the introduction from Nick Turse’s book, 
"Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam".

Deja Vu All Over Again: 
Notes on Jonathan Schell's Review of "Kill Anything That Moves".
By Michael Uhl    http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1536
Nick Turse: Exhuming Vietnam
An interview with the author of 'Kill Anything That Moves'
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2013/03/04/nick-turse-exhuming-vietnam/
‘They All Looked Alike’
Matthew Harwood reviews "Kill Anything That Moves". 
http://original.antiwar.com/matthew-harwood/2013/03/06/they-all-looked-alike/

Biography of Ho Chi Minh:  VIDEO (44:14)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w0Mtv5i4d4
The Clash of the Icons
Will the Real Daniel Ellsberg Please Stand Up!
by DOUGLAS VALENTINE.   …somewhere between the official Pentagon Papers story, and the CIA’s involvement in international drug trafficking, is a disturbing clash of facts from which Ellsberg will not emerge with his icon status intact.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/03/08/will-the-real-daniel-ellsberg-please-stand-up/
Nick Turse: Exhuming Vietnam - An interview with the author of 'Kill Anything That Moves' 
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2013/03/04/nick-turse-exhuming-vietnam/
The Blood-Soaked Resumé of a Peace Broker
What John Kerry Really Did in Vietnam
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR   http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/26/what-john-kerry-really-did-in-vietnam/
Mine Action Visitor Center, Dong Ha
http://www.landmines.org.vn/Visitor_Center/The_Center.html

 Ho Chi Minh and the Declaration of Independence
Video.   Excerpts from 1981 with Major Archimedes Patti, who during World War Two provided support to the Vietnamese Resistance (Viet Minh) under the command of Ho Chi Minh fighting the Japanese occupation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35704.htm
The Secret History of the Vietnam War
Interview with Nick Turse, author of “Kill Anything That Moves – The Real American War in Vietnam”.    
http://www.vice.com/read/vietnam-and-the-mere-gook-rule

Nick Turse: Exhuming Vietnam
An interview with the author of 'Kill Anything That Moves'   

70 battles the U.S. lost in Vietnam: 
http://www.g2mil.com/lost_vietnam.htm

 Vietnam: A War on Civilians  
Review by Chase Madar, a NY attorney, of the book:
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Nick Turse
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/vietnam-a-war-on-civilians/

 The Secret Weather Manipulation Program of the Vietnam War
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-secret-weather-manipulation-program-of-the-vietnam-1689249533
"Why I am opposed to the Vietnam War": Martin Luther King Jr gave this sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4731
Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
By Michael D. Yates    An analysis of how the war was conducted, what its consequences have been for the Vietnamese, how the nature of the war generated ferocious opposition to it (not least by a brave core of U.S. soldiers), how the war’s history has been whitewashed, and why it is important to both know what happened in Vietnam and why we should not forget it. Not only did the United States ravage Vietnam with unprecedented and murderous ferocity, committing war crimes in nearly every village, but this criminal conduct was official government policy.
http://monthlyreview.org/2015/05/01/honor-the-vietnamese-not-those-who-killed-them/

How women won the war for Vietnam
Presented by Phillip Adams - Thursday 22 October 2015 10:05PM
Lady Borton, an American Quaker and probably the only woman to remain in Vietnam throughout the American War, has documented numerous stories about how Vietnamese women fought the battle of the South and won. Because most men were sent to North Vietnam after the Geneva Accords, women were left to lead and carry out the Viet Cong resistance against the oppressive French colonials, then later the American soldiers. They were the spies, the informants, they took prisoners and learned how to fire guns. They were the soldiers and the backbone of the resistance.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/22nd-october-2015/6854984
Download audio:
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2015/10/lnl_20151022.mp3





WAR CRIMINALS

Bush Administration Convicted of War Crimes
Video.   Bush is now a convicted war criminal who dares not travel abroad out of fear of being arrested.      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35134.htm
The Executive Branch of the U.S. Government
World's Most Evil and Lawless Institution?
By Fred Branfman.   Executive Branch leaders have killed, wounded and made homeless well over 20 million human beings in the last 50 years, mostly civilians.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35432.htm
Arrest Barack Obama
War Criminals Not Safe Anywhere
Video.   "We'll get Bush in the US" the world's top war crimes prosecutor tells The Truthseeker after Dubya's deputies warn him against travel, lawyers file for Obama's arrest tomorrow when he hits South Africa.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35429.htm#idc-cover
If The Nuremberg Laws Were Applied...
By Noam Chomsky.   If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36110.htm

 What Happened to John Kerry?
By Robert Abele.   " Here he is in 2013: Among lawmakers on Capitol Hill, John Kerry has the most money invested in defense contractors, up to $38,209,020. This includes the significant investments in Raytheon and in General Electric, both of whom are major players in the U.S. war machine."    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36300.htm
If Charles Taylor is a War Criminal, Then So are Obama, Bush and Clinton
By Glen Ford.   “Clinton, Bush and Obama have instigated, encouraged and collaborated in the worst genocide since World War Two.”    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36437.htm



WHISTLE-BLOWERS

Bradley Manning: Prisoner of Conscience
By Francis A. Boyle.   Where are the “good” Americans? Well, there are some good Americans. They are getting prosecuted for protesting against and resisting illegal U.S. military interventions and war crimes around the world.    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35188.htm

 Bradley Manning's Legal Duty to Expose War Crimes
Marjorie Cohn.   Obama refuses to allow the officials and lawyers from the Bush administration who sanctioned and carried out a regime of torture – which constitutes a war crime under Geneva – to be held legally accountable.     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35168.htm
Bradley Manning Is Guilty of “Aiding the Enemy” -- If the Enemy Is Democracy
By Norman Solomon.   When the deceptive operation of the warfare state can’t stand the light of day, truth-tellers are a constant hazard.   
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35181.htm

 Ed Snowden, NSA, and fairy tales a child could see through
Jon Rappoport    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/ed-snowden-nsa-and-fairy-tales-a-child-could-see-through/

 “Everyone is Corrupt, I’ve Come to Learn”
By Thomas Hedges.   John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on Bush’s torture program and is now in prison has a warning for the rest of us. Kiriakou is also the sixth whistleblower to be charged under the Obama administration. Snowden is the seventh. Those are more indictments than any other administration in history, despite Obama’s signing the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act into law last year.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35525.htm





"WAR ON DRUGS"

‘Managing’ the Plaza: America’s Secret Deal with Mexican Drug Cartels  
By Tom Burghardt.   As the global financial crisis deepens, - they have inflated their balance sheets with a veritable tsunami of hot cash generated by the Narco-Industrial Complex.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32360.htm


“WATER WARS”

 Who Gets Africa’s Water? A serious crisis occurs when there is less than 500 cubic meter per person per year. The World Bank and the WTO are energetic and anti-democratic instruments, eagerly facilitating corporate control and commoditization of water.   http://crossedcrocodiles.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/who-gets-africas-water/
The Global Water Grab
By Shiney Varghese  -  “[t]he new ‘water barons’—the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires—are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33885.htm






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