By Bob Herbert
Proof of guilt? In 21st-century America, there is no longer any need for such annoyances. Human rights? Ha-ha. That’s a good one.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22900.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22900.htm
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The Propaganda War Against Iran
By Bill Van Auken
The opposition is lauded as democratic and reformist, while incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters are portrayed as virtual fascists. One would scarcely imagine that the two men represent rival factions within the same ruling establishment.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22907.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22907.htm
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Destabilization 2.0
Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran
By James Corbett
It’s the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other to see who can offer the most hyperbolic denunciation of the vote and President Ahmadenijad’s apparent victory.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22910.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22910.htm
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Ignorance is Strength
By Paul Craig Roberts
Big Brother Obama, following in the tradition of Big Brothers Bush and Cheney, declared that Oceania and the “entire world” are “appalled and outraged” by Iran’s violent efforts to crush protests organized by Oceania’s interference in Iran’s election. Meanwhile, Oceania continued its wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, crushing people right and left while gearing up to bring peace to Iran.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22905.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22905.htm
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“I Stand by my Firm Belief of this Election Being Null and Void”
Mousavi’s statement number 5 to Iranian people.
By Mir-Hossein Mousavi
We are not up against our sacred regime and its legal structures; this structure guards our Independence, Freedom, and Islamic Republic. We are up against the deviations and deceptions and we want to reform them; a reformation that returns us to the pure principles of the Islamic Revolution.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22904.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22904.htm
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Netanyahu: Iranians Want Regime Change
By Roni Sofer
Peres says ayatollah regime is ‘pathetic and rotten’
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22902.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22902.htm
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Islamo-fascism, Judaeo-fascism, Bapto-fascism, and Why We Need More Bars
By Fred Reed
AIPAC is not the firewall defending Israel that it believes itself to be, but rather the carpenter putting the first nails in Israel’s coffin. Permit me a few thoughts.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22901.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22901.htm
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Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions
Video Documentary
Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how–through the use of language, framing and context–the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14055.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14055.htm
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Tehran Protests Turn Into “Bloodbath”:
“It turned into a bloodbath … they threw some people off the bridges…after the Basijis came, they began to use tear gas, sticks and shooting,” he said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/24/world/main5110028.shtml?tag=stack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/24/world/main5110028.shtml?tag=stack
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Neda Soltan’s family ‘forced out of home’ by Iranian authorities:
Parents of young woman shot dead near protests are banned from mourning and funeral is cancelled, neighbours say
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/24/neda-soltan-iran-family-forced-out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/24/neda-soltan-iran-family-forced-out
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Iran’s Rezaei withdraws election complaints:
Presidential contender Mohsen Rezaei has withdrawn his complaints filed with the Guardian Council. – “The [current] political, social and security situation has entered a sensitive and decisive phase, which is more important than the election,” Rezaei said in a letter to the Secretary of the Guardian Council, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati.
http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=98899§ionid=351020101
http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=98899§ionid=351020101
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Iranian protesters focus rage on British Embassy in Tehran:
As the regime stepped up its efforts to blame the “little Satan” for the turmoil engulfing the Islamic Republic, Iranian MPs urged the foreign ministry to curtail ties with Britain. There was speculation that the British Ambassador would soon be expelled.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6557992.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6557992.ece
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US lawmakers take aim at Iran gasoline imports:
The US House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to target Iran’s gasoline imports, as lawmakers try to apply more pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on protests following its disputed presidential election.
http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=3&id=11552
http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=3&id=11552
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Selective Sympathy for Iran:
“There was no campaign to use Twitter as a tool to protest the killings and defend the Gazans right to live.”
http://snipurl.com/kt3fv
http://snipurl.com/kt3fv
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Netanyahu: No Palestine without demilitarization:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that his suggestion of a demilitarized Palestinian state was gaining international ground and was the only solution for Middle East peace.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1095316.html
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1095316.html
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US-Israel talks in Paris aborted:
A meeting between Israel’s prime minister and a senior US envoy has been cancelled amid growing differences over settlement building in the West Bank.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8117085.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8117085.stm
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The end of Zionism:
If these dangerous processes continue and even intensify, Israeli society will move from A.D. Gordon’s system of labor to the charitable support system of the pre-state Jewish community, and from “the people’s army” to a French-style foreign legion. That will bring us to the complete reversal of the Zionist revolution – and perhaps even to the end of the Zionist state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/883868.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/883868.html
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U.S. to send ambassador back to Syria: -
President Obama has decided to send a U.S. ambassador back to Syria, a dramatic sign of reconciliation between the two countries, senior administration officials tell CNN. The announcement is expected to be made this week.
http://snipurl.com/kt3jo
http://snipurl.com/kt3jo
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Sudan to execute US envoy killers:
Four Sudanese men have been condemned to death by a Khartoum court for killing a US diplomat and his Sudanese driver.
http://snipurl.com/kt3lu
http://snipurl.com/kt3lu
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CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents:
These documents, including an instructional guide on assassination found among the training files of the CIA’s covert “Operation PBSUCCESS,” were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/index.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/index.html
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Majority of Americans regain confidence in their military:
At 82 percent, public confidence in the military is up 11 percentage points from a year ago, and nearly matches the record-high 85 percent found during the 1991 Gulf War.
http://snipurl.com/kt3pi
http://snipurl.com/kt3pi
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UK: Pensions crisis: 96% of final salary schemes are doomed…
OAPs worst off in Britain… and state funds withering on the vine
http://snipurl.com/kt3qk
http://snipurl.com/kt3qk
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Australia: 1 in 4 pensioners living in poverty:
The report says more than one in four Australian seniors live in poverty by international measures, which is the fourth highest old-age poverty rate in OECD countries, after Ireland, Korea and Mexico
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/24/2606874.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/24/2606874.htm
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Some Little Known Facts About The USA:
Did you know that one in five US children still live in poverty, a rate exceeded only in Poland, Mexico, and Turkey
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/22/42672498.pdf
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/22/42672498.pdf
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Warren Buffett to CNBC: U.S. Economy In “Shambles”… No Signs of Recovery Yet:
In a live interview on CNBC today, Warren Buffett said there has been little progress over the past few months in the “economic war” being fought by the country. “We haven’t got the economy moving yet.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31526130
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31526130
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Obama warns of worse economy to come:
President Barack Obama painted a bleak picture Tuesday of the economy, warning unemployment will get worse
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/23/obama-warns-of-worse-economy-to-come/
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/23/obama-warns-of-worse-economy-to-come/
