“Are these people crazy?”… YES.

On 13 June, 2009, in Current events, by joe

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22820.htm
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New US Commander in Afghanistan Assembles Team of Assassins
By Bill Van Auken
In its escalation of the US war in Afghanistan, and its increasing extension across the border into Pakistan, the Obama administration has chosen as its senior commander an officer who is among those most deeply implicated in the criminal operations carried out under Bush and Cheney.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22812.htm
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Should the U.S. also Suppress Evidence of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan?
By Glenn Greenwald
Using the standard that is now so accepted across the political spectrum in Washington — information that will inflame anti-American sentiment should be suppressed rather than disclosed so at to not endanger our troops — isn’t it better if we just cover-up, rather than learn the truth about, the civilian deaths we caused in Afghanistan?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22811.htm
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Kerry Defends Tehran on Uranium
Transcript: John Kerry interview
By Daniel Dombey in Washington
In an interview with the Financial Times, John Kerry, the top Democrat on foreign policy in the US Senate, labels the long standing demand that Iran stop enriching uranium as “ridiculous”.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22818.htm
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Carter in Lebanon
By FRANKLIN LAMB
The Former President Finally Met the Ayatollah the CIA Once Tried to Kill.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22819.htm
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Carter: Mideast Peace Not Possible Without Hamas
By ALBERT AJI
His comments came shortly before he met with the militant group’s Syrian-based leader, Khaled Mashaal. Carter met with Mashaal twice under the Bush administration, angering some in the U.S. government who said he was legitimizing a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22815.htm
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Gaza: No Right To Life
Must Watch 7 Minute Video Report
With the lack of medical services in Gaza, critically ill patients must travel into Israel for treatment. Many are asked to collaborate with Israeli intelligence services before they receive aid. It has been alleged that if they refuse to become informers they are refused medical treatment.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22821.htm
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Smile On The Face Of The Tiger
By John Pilger
Obama offered no change, no plan, only a “tired, morally bankrupt American mantra [which] essentially argues that only the rich, the strong, the oppressors and the enforcers of injustice (notably the Americans and Israelis) have the right to use violence, while the poor, the weak, the oppressed and the victims of oppression must . . . submit to their fate and accept whatever crumbs their betters may magnanimously deign suitable to let fall from their table”.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22810.htm
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Expert Advice On Dealing With A Prior Administration’s Use of Torture
By John W. Dean
There are, in fact, precedents, and studies, that illuminate the grave problems confronting a democracy in making a choice when faced with the options of prosecuting and punishing versus forgiving and forgetting. I discovered this material some years ago when studying authoritarian governance.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22814.htm
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Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon
By James Petras
When egregious violations of human rights are committed in Latin America by a US backed client-President following Washington’s formula of ‘free trade’, deregulation of environmental protections and hostility toward anti-imperialist countries (Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador), Obama favors complicity over condemnation.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22813.htm
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Oil and Indians Don’t Mix
By Greg Palast
No oil company would dream of digging on the Bush family properties in Midland, Texas, without paying a royalty. Or drilling near Malibu without the latest in environmental protections. But when Natives are on top of Exxon’s or BP’s glory hole, suddenly, the great defenders of private property rights turn quite Bolshevik: lands can be seized for The Public’s Need for Oil.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22816.htm
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Obama’s Afghan War, the US Media, and the UN: the New Metric of Civilian Casualties:
A tacit agreement operates between the Obama administration, the U.S corporate media, most progressive U.S. liberals, and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA).
http://snipurl.com/k04un
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US plans push for ‘information war’ in Afghanistan:
The emphasis on public relations comes amid concern among US and NATO officials about the effect of civilian casualties from US-led air strikes. Insurgents have sought to exploit public outrage over the casualties.
http://snipurl.com/k04vj
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Afghanistan violence hits all-time high since U.S. invasion:
The violence that has surged for two years in Afghanistan reached a new high last week, and more difficulty lies ahead, the United States’ top war zone commander said Thursday.
http://snipurl.com/k04wi
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NATO to send 10,000 extra troop to Afghanistan:
NATO Defense Ministers agreed here Friday to send extra troops to Afghanistan for security during upcoming elections and to continue anti-piracy naval operation off the coast of Somalia.
http://snipurl.com/k04xq
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Heavy fighting ahead in Afghanistan, Gates warns:
As Western countries continue to pour troops into the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), “I think the realistic expectation of most people is that we expect a heavy fighting season ahead,” Gates said after talks with NATO counterparts in Brussels.
http://snipurl.com/k04yi
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Obama envoy raises possibility of U.S. strike on Iran:
Should Iran’s leaders come to believe that “Iran’s economic lifeline is going to be cut and the oil revenues are going to dry up, they may well decide that the nuclear program is not worth the cost,” they wrote.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092238.html
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Ross: failed diplomacy legitimizes Iran strike:
A senior US diplomat and leading Zionist says Washington’s overtures to Tehran will legitimize military options against Iran in case diplomacy fails.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=97805&sectionid=3510203
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Israel PM told to keep silent on ‘Palestinian state’:
The heat is on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from within his own right-wing party to resist US pressure and not utter the words “Palestinian state” in a keenly awaited policy speech.
http://snipurl.com/k0528
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U.S. official: Content of Netanyahu’s Sunday speech ‘not adequate’:
The proposals to be outlined in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on Sunday will not be enough to satisfy the Obama administration, a senior U.S. official was quoted as saying on Friday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092452.html
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Gordon Brown puts Israel lobbyist in charge of Britain’s Middle East policy”:
Britain’s prime minister has put a notorious pro-Israel lobbyist in charge of policy in the Middle East, Iraq and Iran, reaffirming his determination to continue with his Zionist policies even as his administration approaches the end of its life.
http://www.redress.cc/stooges/redress20090611
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Rev. Wright: “Zionists” Are Keeping Me from Talking to President Obama:
In an interview on a liberal satellite radio show, Rev. Jeremiah Wright attempted to clarify his comments to the Newport News, Virginia. Daily-Press about “them Jews” preventing him from speaking to President Obama.
http://snipurl.com/k054l
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Abuse Photos Part of Agreement on Military Spending:
The deal was concluded after Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, went to the Capitol to assure Senate Democrats that President Obama would use all administrative and legal means to prevent the photos’ release. At the same time, a federal court issued a ruling effectively ensuring that the photos would not be released for months, if ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us/politics/12cong.html?_r=2&ref=global-home
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More ‘sickening’ truths about torture soon to be revealed:
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently warned in a speech on the floor of the Senate that almost everything we think we know about the Bush administration’s torture program is wrong.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/11/maddow-more-sickening/
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Are these people crazy?
“George W. Bush kept us safe” :
“Providence kept us safe. But George Bush was the instrument in God’s hand as the leader of the free world.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/11/dobson-goeglein-bush/
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Canada: Federal Court orders repatriation of torture victim Abousfian Abdelrazik:
Canada’s Federal Court has ruled that since 2003 the Canadian government has repeatedly violated Abousifian Abdelrazik’s constitutionally-guaranteed right to return to Canada and ordered the Canadian government to repatriate the Sudanese-born Canadian citizen within 30 days.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/cana-j12.shtml
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Blood at the Blockade: Peru’s Indigenous Uprising:
On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil’s Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors – many wearing feathered crowns and carrying spears.
https://nacla.org/node/5879
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