CounterCurrents: Gaza Fishermen Suffocated At sea, Brexit Backlash Against EU, Revolt Against Elites, Headaches Of Empire: Brexit’s Effect On The United States

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Brexit Backlash Against EU, Revolt Against Elites 
Co-Written by Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/26/brexit-backlash-against-eu-revolt-against-elites/

By pushing austerity and commodification of public services, people are now more economically insecure with less wealth and lower incomes. The response of many is anger. Some protest austerity, others blame people of a different skin color, heritage or ethnicity. The surprise vote in the UK to leave the European Union is the latest, and perhaps the biggest, example of the blowback economic and political elites are getting for their actions.

Headaches Of Empire: Brexit’s Effect On The United States
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/26/headaches-of-empire-brexits-effect-on-the-united-states/

There remains a conspicuous fear in the US Republic that civilization must be a centralising endeavour.  Smaller states only matter if they are wedged into a series of agreements and arrangements with an overseeing hegemon.  The hegemon dictates the measures to be taken, even if they may be cushioned by promises of good relations and a false sense of autonomy.

Globalization And The American Dream
Co-Written by Helena Norberg-Hodge & Steven Gorelick

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/26/globalization-and-the-american-dream/

Implicit in all the rhetoric promoting globalization is the premise that the rest of the world can and should be brought up to the standard of living of the West, and America in particular. For much of the world the American Dream – though a constantly moving target – is globalization’s ultimate endpoint.

Gaza Fishermen Suffocated At sea
by Saleh el Namey 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/26/gaza-fishermen-suffocated-at-sea/

A group of Gaza fishermen were working an early morning shift when the Israeli navy opened fire. Rajab Abu Riyala and his brother Khaled were shot during that 31 May incident. A bullet had to be removed from Rajab’s knee as a result. They were among five fishermen arrested on two vessels by Israel. All were brought to Ashdod, a port in present-day Israel, and were detained for most of the day.

Counter-Thinking  BP :What Is Normal Blood Pressure?
by Professor BM Hegde 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/26/counter-thinking-bp-what-is-normal-blood-pressure/

Would anyone tell me what is normal BP anyway? I  know the average human BP but not the NORMAL BP.  If one converts averages into normals we are straight away adding between 5-25% false positives, another profitable business. RCTs, the multiple studies that form the basis of this conclusion, themselves, have been seriously questioned for their authenticity.

Negotiating With Undeclared Emergency
by Pushkar Raj 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/26/negotiating-with-undeclared-emergency/

The challenge before the civil society today is to confront this saffron mindset replacing secular values embedded in Indian history, culture and constitution. This might be easier when there are alliances across movements and groups and sharing of experiences of constructive and non-violent methods to assert democratic rights by engaging and organizing people through education.

Video: Ayodhya or Saket : The politics of Ram Temple
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/26/ayodhya-or-saket-the-politics-of-ram-temple/

A documentary by Vidya Bhushan Rawat on the Ayodhya issue and how it affected the communal harmony of India. It is being republished in the context of resurgent Hindutva programme in India which catapulted Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India. This documentary is all the more significant in the context of the coming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

CounterCurrents: Is Truth A Casualty In Media’s New Paradigm, God Is Not In His Heaven And All Is Wrong With The World

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Mass Joint Funeral Held For 14 Palestinians In Hebron
By Ma’an News Agency

http://www.countercurrents.org/maan020116.htm

Thousands of mourners flooded the streets of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron to attend the joint funeral of 14 Palestinians whose bodies were returned by Israel the night before. The bodies were among 23 handed over by Israeli authorities on Friday night, in line with a decision made by Israeli officials to withhold the bodies of Palestinians killed while carrying out alleged attacks on Israelis


Syria Is The Middle Eastern Stalingrad 
By Andre Vltchek

http://www.countercurrents.org/vltchek020116.htm

In Stalingrad, millions died so we could live. Nothing was left of the city, except some melted steel, scattered bricks and an ocean of corpses. Nazism was stopped. Western expansionism began its retreat, that time towards Berlin. Now Syria, quietly but stoically and heroically, stands against Western, Qatari, Saudi, Israeli and Turkish plans to finish the Middle East. And the Syrian people have won. For how long, I don’t know. But it has proven that an Arab country can still defeat the mightiest murderous hordes


God Is Not In His Heaven And All Is Wrong With The World 
By Sukumaran C. V.

http://www.countercurrents.org/sukumaran020116.htm

The world today direly needs love and tolerance and non-violence. To have such a world, the U.S. and the West should retrospect and shun their predatory economic policies that create terror and terrorists. And the true followers of Islam should try to free the religion from the grip of the fanatics and democratise it


Is Truth A Casualty In Media’s New Paradigm 
By Moin Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi020116.htm

Journalism of courage is no longer hit-and-run guerrilla warfare. It’s a medium of empowerment by bringing to light information that either somebody in the establishment is trying to hide or something that others may not have had the integrity, intellect or courage to discover, print and then follow up until other institutions, from the media to the judiciary, join in and take the idea to its logical conclusion


Endless Racism In The Iranian Model Of The Nation-State 
By Ali Badri

http://www.countercurrents.org/badri020116.htm

Five large ethnic groups live in Iran under the discriminatory policy and denial of all their basic rights of the Persian state, which uses occupation to suppress their rights and voices. Arab (Ahwaz territory), Kurds (Kurdistan territory), Baluch (Baluchistan territory), Turks (Azerbaijan territory), Turkmen (Turkmen Sahra territory) are living under the conditions mentioned above. This article could not cover f all the rights which are restricted or taken away from these peoples. From the right of choosing ethnic names for their children to the right of learning in the mother tongue, Iran did not only deprive these peoples of their rights but also has taken steps to make the populations Fars-centric


Travails Of Being A Muslim In India: Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan 
And The Intolerance Debate 
By Ram Puniyani

http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani020116.htm

To say that Indian Muslims are better off than the Muslims in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia is degrading our own system which has emerged due to the freedom struggle, our system which is trying to keep Indian Constitution as the reference point. Needless to say we do need a course correction and those following the politics in the name of religion need to be countered to preserve our democratic-plural values

RSN: Hope and Despair: Can the Planet Be Saved?, Israel's Checkpoint Violence: Blood and Occupation, Richest in US Shape Private Tax System to Save Billions, Those Demanding Free Speech Limits to Fight ISIS Pose a Greater Threat to US Than ISIS,

Few things have set our nation apart ore than FREE SPEECH. 

Watching Totalitarian Nations around the globe killing journalist, imprisoning those who report TRUTH, beheading those who report the TRUTH on the internet should give all of us pause. 

Scientists who report the TRUTH are vilified and attacked in the US.

Do we want to be relegated to the Dark Ages of IGNORANCE? 

What kind of a nation have we become? What kind of a nation do we want to leave to the next generation?

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Glenn Greenwald | Those Demanding Free Speech Limits to Fight ISIS Pose a Greater Threat to US Than ISIS

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Abusing the force of law to silence legitimately expressed views - by criminalizing the advocates of one side of a debate - is as direct an attack on core free speech rights as anything that can be imagined."
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Excerpt from an online article. (photo: The Intercept)

Excerpt from an online article. (photo: The Intercept)

n 2006 – years before ISIS replaced Al Qaeda as the New and Unprecedentedly Evil Villain – Newt Gingrich gave a speech in New Hampshire in which, as he put it afterward, he “called for a serious debate about the First Amendment and how terrorists are abusing our rights–using them as they once used passenger jets–to threaten and kill Americans.” In that speech, Gingrich argued:

Either before we lose a city, or, if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up (terrorists’) capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech [protections] and to go after people who want to kill us–to stop them from recruiting people before they get to reach out and convince young people to destroy their lives while destroying us.

In a follow-up article entitled “The First Amendment is Not a Suicide Pact,” Gingrich went even further, arguing that terrorists should be “subject to a totally different set of rules,” and called for an international convention to decide “on what activities will not be protected by free speech claims.”

To make his case, Gingrich cited a 2005 Commentary article by the extremist former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, entitled “Free Speech for Terrorists?,” the central premise of which was that “the free-speech clause was never intended to frustrate government’s ability to suppress true threats to national security.” In general, McCarthy argued, we must say that “some things are truly evil,” and “that advocating them not only fails to serve any socially desirable purpose but guarantees more evil.” Thus, the U.S. Government must “convey in the strongest terms that the advocacy of terrorism in this day and age is entitled to no First Amendment protection.”

Back then – just nine years ago – Gingrich’s anti-free-speech remarks were, for the most part, quickly dismissed as unworthy of serious debate. Even National Review, which employs McCarthy,included Gingrich’s anti-free speech proposal on its 2011 list of the bad ideas the former speaker has espoused in his career. In 2006, I argued that the Gingrich/McCarthy desire to alter the First Amendment to fight The Terrorists was extremist even when judged by the increasingly radical standards of the Bush/Cheney War on Terror, which by that point had already imprisoned Americans arrested on U.S. soil with no due process and no access to lawyers. With rare exception, Gingrich’s desire to abridge Free Speech rights in the name of fighting terrorism was dismissed as a fringe idea.

Fast forward to 2015, where the aging Al Qaeda brand has become decisively less scary and ISIS has been unveiled as the new never-before-seen menace. There are now once again calls for restrictions on the First Amendment’s free speech protections, but they come not from far-right radicals in universally discredited neocon journals, but rather from the most mainstream voices, as highlighted this week by The New York Times.

Excerpt from an online article. (photo: The Intercept)

The NYT article notes that “in response to the Islamic State’s success in grooming jihadists over the Internet, some legal scholars are asking whether it is time to reconsider” the long-standing “constitutional line” that “freedom of speech may not be curbed unless it poses a ‘clear and present danger’ — an actual, imminent threat, not the mere advocacy of harmful acts or ideas.”

The NYT cites two recent articles, one in Bloomberg by long-time Obama adviser Cass Sunstein andthe other in Slate by Law Professor Eric Posner, that suggested limitations on the First Amendment in order to fight ISIS. It describes growing calls to ban the YouTube lectures and sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American cleric whom the U.S. assassinated by drone in 2011 (and then, two weeks later, killed his 16-year-old American son). It also notes that the desire to restrict the internet as a means of fighting ISIS has seeped into the leadership of both parties: Donald Trump said the “internet should be closed up” to ISIS, while “Hillary Clinton said the government should work with host companies to shut jihadist websites and chat rooms,” a plan that would be unconstitutional “if the government exerted pressure on private firms to cooperate in censorship.”

All of these proposals take direct aim at a core constitutional principle that for decades has defined the First Amendment’s free speech protections. That speech cannot be banned even if it constitutes advocacy of violence has a long history in the U.S., but was firmly entrenched in the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1969 decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio, about which I’ve written many times. The Brandenburg ruling “overturned the criminal conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader who had threatened violence against political officials in a speech.” Even more important was the law which the Brandenburg court invalided as unconstitutional:

The KKK leader in Brandenburg was convicted under an Ohio statute that made it a crime to “advocate . . . the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform” and/or to “voluntarily assemble with any society, group, or assemblage of persons formed to teach or advocate the doctrines of criminal syndicalism.”  The Court struck down the statute on the ground that it “purports to punish mere advocacy” and thus “sweeps within its condemnation speech which our Constitution has immunized from governmental control.”  The Court ruled that “except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” — meaning conduct such as standing outside someone’s house with an angry mob and urging them to burn the house down that moment — “the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force” (emphasis added).

The First Amendment bars the U.S. Government from banning or punishing speech even if that speech advocates “the duty, necessity, or propriety of unlawful methods of terrorism.” And that’s exactly how it should be.

There are millions of people in the world who believe and argue that the U.S. has been supporting tyranny and bringing violence to predominantly Muslim countries for decades as a means of dominating that region, and that return violence is not only justifiable but necessary to stop it (just as there are millions of westerners who believe and argue that they must bring more violence to the countries of that region). In particular, it’s astonishing to watch Americans – whose favorite political debate is deciding which country should be bombed next or which individuals should be next assassinated – propose changes to the First Amendment to make it a crime for others to justify (not engage in, but merely justify) the use of violence in what they argue is valid self-defense.

Abusing the force of law to silence legitimately expressed views – by criminalizing the advocates of one side of that debate – is as direct an attack on core free speech rights as anything that can be imagined (to understand how extremist the proposal is, see Ken White’s response to Posner’s article). Trying to dictate which views can and cannot be expressed on the internet, aside from being futile, is the modern-day hallmark of an authoritarian. Throughout its history, the U.S. has suffered far greater harm from overwrought authoritarians acting in the name of security than it has external threats; the tyrannical impulses that drove the Alien and Sedition Acts, World War I prosecutions of anti-war dissidents, the internment of Japanese-Americans and McCarthyism did at least as much damage to the U.S. as any foreign adversary.

Above all, this has been the core lesson of the “War on Terror”: the greatest threats to western countries have come from those seeking to limit rights in the name of fighting terrorism, not the terrorists themselves. There is no more compelling example than those who now explicitly advocate Newt Gingrich’s 2006 idea of formally restricting the First Amendment.

For the reasons I set forth here, no human beings or human institutions should ever be trusted to promulgate lists of Prohibited Ideas and Viewpoints. But even if you are someone who yearns for such lists, it should be immediately obvious that your dream of prohibiting ideas is utterly futile, particularly in the digital age (so predictably, the killing of Awlaki did not silence his ideas but rather, as the NYT reports, “enhanced the appeal of his message to many admirers, who view him as a martyr”). And, just by the way, there is still not a single example of a terrorist attack carried out on U.S. soil by anyone radicalized by ISIS’s social media campaign (contrary to initial reports, the San Bernardino attackers were inspired by the message of Awlakiand al-Qaeda, not ISIS); this is the threat that some individuals are now invoking to dismantle a core protection of the First Amendment?

What makes all of this especially ironic is that not even a year has elapsed since the western world congratulated itself for its flamboyant street celebration of free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders. Remember all that? Yet now, explicitly advocating new restrictions on free speech and internet freedom is the norm.

It is essential to note that, for many years, the U.S. and other western governments have been abridging free speech rights in the name of terrorism. They’ve already repeatedly prosecuted people – almost always Muslims, of course – for the ideas they have expressed on the internet and elsewhere. Those abridgments have already been severe when the villain was al Qaeda; now that it’s ISIS, these attacks on free speech are intensifying throughout the west.

But there is a difference between violating constitutional rights, as those cases have done, and formally restricting them, as people like Sunstein and Posner are now agitating to do. Guaranteeing free speech rights is one of the things that the U.S., relative to the rest of the world, still does well (not perfectly, but well). It is not an exaggeration to say that the people now plotting how to exploit terrorism fears in order to formally restrict rights of free expression themselves pose a clear and present danger to the U.S. (Sunstein previously proposed that the U.S. Government “cognitively infiltrate” the internet by sending teams of covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups” to discredit what he regards as false conspiracy theories, as well as pay so-called “independent” credible voices to bolster the Government’s messaging). And as far as “hate speech” goes: there are few things more “hateful” than wanting to imprison one’s fellow citizens for expressing prohibited political ideas.

I certainly don’t think their right to espouse these dangerous ideas ought to be suppressed or punished. The solution to their dangerous ideas is to confront and refute them, not outlaw them. But it is vital to recognize the danger they and their ideas entail. We’ve been told for years that The Terrorists “hate our freedoms,” yet we cannot seem to rid ourselves of those who think the solution is to voluntarily abolish those freedoms ourselves.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34337-those-demanding-free-speech-limits-to-fight-isis-pose-a-greater-threat-to-us-than-isis

What Everyone Should Know About the Police Killing of Tamir Rice 

Judd Legum, Think Progress 

Legum writes: "Here are seven facts that everyone should know about the Tamir Rice case." 

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A rally on behalf of Tamir Rice. (photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP)

oday, prosecutor Tim McGinty announced that he would not seek criminal charges against the officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback. The decision came after a grand jury, which has been hearing evidence for three months, declined to issue an indictment. Rice’s family and others sharply criticized McGinty’s conduct throughout the grand jury process, arguing that he was manipulating the proceedings to the benefit of the officers.

Here are seven facts that everyone should know about the case.

1. The officer fatally shot Tamir Rice less than 2 seconds after exiting his police car.

This is according to the official report from the prosecutor: “Officer Loehman discharged his firearmwithin two seconds of exiting the car. Officer Loehmann fired two shots, one of which hit Tamir in the abdomen and caused him to fall in the area between the patrol car and the gazebo.”

The officers both claimed to have warned Rice multiple times before firing. None of the witnesses heard any of these “verbal commands.”

2. A state judge ruled there was probable cause to charge the officer who killed Tamir Rice with murder.

As the investigation dragged on activists “invoked a provision of Ohio law that allows citizens to bypass prosecutors and seek a judge’s opinion on whether cause exists to bring criminal charges.” The judge, Ronald B. Adrine, “found that sufficient cause exists to charge Loehmann with murder, involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, negligent homicide, and dereliction of duty.” He also found that Loehmann’s partner, Frank Garmback, could be charged with “negligent homicide and dereliction of duty.”

“After viewing it several times, this court is still thunderstruck by how quickly this event turned deadly,” Judge Adrine wrote in his opinion.

The prosecutor ignored the judge’s ruling.

3. The officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice was deemed “unfit for duty” at the last police department where he worked.

As a member of the Independence Police Department in Ohio, Loehmann was described in his personnel file as “an emotionally unstable recruit with a ‘lack of maturity’ and ‘inability to perform basic functions as instructed‘ during a weapons training exercise.”

A memo in Loehman’s file said “his handgun performance was dismal,” citing a “dangerous loss of composure” during training. He was in the process of being fired. From a letter in his file:

A memo in Timothy Loehmann's file. (photo: Thinkprogress.org)

The Cleveland Police Department then hired Loehmann without reviewing his personnel file from Independance.

4. Neither officer involved in the shooting administered first aid to Rice after he was shot.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported:

Rice lay on the snow-covered grass beside the cruiser’s passenger side for four minutes as Loehmann, 26, took cover behind the trunk and Patrolman Frank Garmback, the driver, positioned himself opposite his partner near Rice’s body.

Rice wasn’t given first aid until a medically trained FBI agent on duty in the area arrived at the scene…

Matt Meyer, one of the prosecutors, brushed off the officers inaction saying the department “did not train their officers to administer first aid to gun shot victims.” Meyer added that Loehmann was dealing with a sprained ankle he sustained during the incident and Garmback was occupied with Rice’s 14-year-old sister, who he tackled and handcuffed.

5. The officers refused to testify but the prosecutor submitted their written statements to the jury.

This unusual accommodation was highly beneficial to the officers, allowing them to present their version of the events without being subject to any questioning.

“Submitting self-serving, unsworn written statements — rather than appearing live before the grand jury so that the officers’ versions of events are subject to vigorous cross examination — shows that these officers know their story will not withstand real scrutiny,” Subodh Chandra, an attorney for the Rice family, said.

6. The prosecutor commissioned reports from two “experts” with a history of sympathy toward police, then released them to the media.

McGinty commissioned reports of two out-of-state experts with a history of sympathy toward police, Kimberly Crawford, a retired FBI agent, and S. Lamar Sims, a Colorado-based prosecutor. Crawford and Sims concluded the officers conduct was “reasonable.” These reports were presented to the grand jury and released to the media.

McGinty did not explain why he picked Crawford and Sims to produce reports.

Two months prior to releasing his report, Sims appeared on television and appeared to defend the officers shooting of Rice. Crawford produced a memo of use of force by law enforcement that was rejected by the Justice Department as too generous to the police.

Two experts in police use of force commissioned by the Rice family found “the shooting was unjustified.” Those experts, Roger Clark and Jeffrey J. Noble, also found that the prosecutors reports “contradicted one another, made unfounded assumptions and ignored principles of police training.”

7. Explaining his decision not to press for an indictment, the prosecutor said “We don’t second-guess police officers.”

The job of the prosecutor, quite explicitly, is to reexamine the police officers conduct and to question the appropriateness of their actions. From the beginning, it appeared to be a task that was uncomfortable for prosecutor Timothy McGinty.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/34335-what-everyone-should-know-about-the-police-killing-of-tamir-rice

Hillary Clinton Now Claims She Has "Concerns" About Deporting Migrant Children
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
Jilani writes: "In 2014, as the Central American migrant crisis became apparent, it was Clinton who first broke with the Obama administration, calling for the migrant children to be sent back."
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Richest in US Shape Private Tax System to Save Billions
Noam Schreiber and Patricia Cohen, New York Times
Excerpt: "The very richest are able to quietly shape tax policy that will allow them to shield billions in income."
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How One NYC Trafficking Survivor Went From 'Slavery' to Being Her Own Boss-Thanks to a Co-op
Abigail Savitch-Lew, In These Times
Savitch-Lew writes: "The Damayan Cleaning Cooperative hopes to gather enough contracts to allow each member to work at least 20-40 hours a week. In the long term, the members hope they can provide employment for other people in their community."
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Israel's Checkpoint Violence: Blood and Occupation
Vijay Prashad, CounterPunch
Prashad writes: "Over the course of the past few weeks, Israeli military and security forces have used deadly force against a number of children whom they accuse of knife attacks. Israeli political leaders have given carte blanche to their military to kill anyone they see as a threat."
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Hope and Despair: Can the Planet Be Saved?
Rebecca J. Rosen, Adrienne Green, Li Zhou, Alana Semuels, and Bouree Lam, The Atlantic
Excerpt: "Experts on ecology, conservation, and climate change offer their reasons for optimism and pessimism going into 2016."
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ICH: Empire of Chaos Preparing For More Fireworks in 2016, Jewish extremist leader says Christmas has 'no place' in the Holy Land, Russian intel spots 12,000 oil tankers & trucks on Turkey-Iraq border,

Empire of Chaos Preparing For More Fireworks in 2016 By Pepe Escobar

"Romans before the fall were as certain as we are today that their world would continue forever... They were wrong. We would be wise not to repeat their complacency."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43813.htm

Republican Candidates Defend Killing Civilians to Fight Terrorism-and So Do Democrats
By Stephen Zunes


There's a bipartisan effort to justify the killing 
of civilians in the "war on terrorism."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43809.htm

Open Your Doors
Christmas Plea to World From Father of Drowned Syrian Child
By Andrea Germanos

"At this time of year I would like to ask you  all to think about the pain of fathers, mothers  and children who are seeking peace and security." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43812.htm

The 'Anti-Imperialist' Who Got Libya Wrong Serves Up The Same Failed Analysis on Syria
By Stephen Gowans



Assad commands more support in Syria 
than does the armed opposition.
 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43811.htm


Nigerian Military: "The Real Boko Haram"
By Glen Ford



When the United States and Saudi Arabia partnered to spread global jihadist terror, they set the stage for massacres throughout Asia and Africa.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43808.htm

US Intended to Destroy Civilian Populations During Cold War: Declassified Document By Andrew Buncombe



A plan for the "systematic destruction" of explicitly targeted "population" in all cities, including Beijing, Moscow, Leningrad, East Berlin, and Warsaw.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43807.htm

"The Time of the End is the Time of No Room"
By George Capaccio

The fascists and neo-Nazis among us aim to reawaken the very same mentality that led to the unimaginable cruelty and barbarity of their predecessors during World War II. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43810.htm Wiretapped calls reveal communication between Turkish officers and ISIS – report: Turkish officers on the Syrian border have communicated with Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, Turkey's Cumhuriyet daily reported, citing an investigation by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's office which allegedly eavesdropped on their phone calls. Russian intel spots 12,000 oil tankers & trucks on Turkey-Iraq border - General Staff: “The [aerial] imagery was made in the vicinity of Zakho (a city in Iraqi Kurdistan), there were 11,775 tankers and trucks on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border,” Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy told journalists on Friday. Russian jets bomb ISIS oil tankers in Syria (MoD VIDEO): The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing its air attacks on Islamic State (IS) oil tankers and trucks in Syria. The vehicles explode after being hit by precision airstrikes, and are engulfed in flames. Qatar and Russia agree on Syria peace plans: With crucial backing from the US and Russia, the plan aims to install a ceasefire in Syria, possibly in January, when talks in Geneva, Switzerland, could also begin. Syria: 26 pro-government fighters killed in IS assault:The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has expanded its control inside an eastern Syrian city after clashes and suicide attacks killed at least 26 government fighters, a monitor said. Three IS suicide bombers drove explosive-laden cars into the neighbourhood, killing at least 11 members of pro-government forces, the Britain-based monitor said. Syria government raids kill 20 people including 7 children: pro-rebel monitor: Air raids by Syrian government warplanes killed 20 civilians, including seven children, in an area southeast of Damascus on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. Nine Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria in last 48 hours: Nine Hezbollah fighters were killed in the last 48 hours during battles in two rebel-held towns near Syria's capital Damascus, a security source told The Daily Star on condition of anonymity Friday Top Syrian rebel leader killed in air strike in Damascus suburb: rebel sources: Zahran Alloush, the head of Jaysh al Islam, one of the most powerful insurgent groups in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus, was killed in an aerial raid that targeted his group's headquarters, two rebel sources said on Friday. IS fighters' families to leave southern Damascus in U.N. deal: group: Hundreds of families of Islamic State militants and some injured fighters are expected to leave rebel-held areas of southern Damascus under a U.N.-brokered deal, a monitoring group said on Thursday. Russia slams Amnesty, says Syria war crimes report 'fabricated': Foreign Ministry says report documenting deaths of hundreds of civilians in Russian air strikes is based on 'false data' US encouraged coup againt Assad in 2011: WSJ: American intelligence officials identified army officers belonging to Assad's minority Alawite sect who could lead a coup, but they found few weak spots to exploit, the Journal said, citing interviews with more than two dozen people, including current and former U.S. officials. Wiretapped calls reveal communication between Turkish officers and ISIS – report: Turkish officers on the Syrian border have communicated with Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, Turkey's Cumhuriyet daily reported, citing an investigation by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's office which allegedly eavesdropped on their phone calls. Russian intel spots 12,000 oil tankers & trucks on Turkey-Iraq border - General Staff: “The [aerial] imagery was made in the vicinity of Zakho (a city in Iraqi Kurdistan), there were 11,775 tankers and trucks on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border,” Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy told journalists on Friday. Russian jets bomb ISIS oil tankers in Syria (MoD VIDEO): The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing its air attacks on Islamic State (IS) oil tankers and trucks in Syria. The vehicles explode after being hit by precision airstrikes, and are engulfed in flames. Qatar and Russia agree on Syria peace plans: With crucial backing from the US and Russia, the plan aims to install a ceasefire in Syria, possibly in January, when talks in Geneva, Switzerland, could also begin. Arab League demands immediate Turkish withdrawal from Iraq: - The Arab League demanded in a ministerial meeting in Cairo on Thursday an immediate Turkish unconditional withdrawal from the Iraqi territories, the Egyptian state TV reported. Egypt demands immediate Turkish withdrawal from Iraqi territories: Egypt’s foreign affairs minister called on Thursday for “the immediate and unconditioned withdrawal of Turkish forces from Iraq,” describing it as a violation of the country's sovereignty. Turkish coast guard says 19 migrants, including 6 children, drown as boat capsizes: The number of people drowned in the Aegean off the coast of the Turkish city of Izmir after their boat capsized has risen to 19, with six children among the dead. Israeli troops kill 4 Palestinians in West Bank: At least four Palestinians have been shot dead by the Israeli army in separate incidents across the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Video shows Jewish zealots celebrating Palestinian baby's death: Wedding party video of Jewish zealots celebrating a Palestinian baby's death by arson sparks outrage in Israel and inflames the debate on Jewish violence. Jewish extremist leader says Christmas has 'no place' in the Holy Land: Faith and anti-racism groups call for police investigation into incitement to violence after Lehava head calls for Christian 'vampires' to be expelled from Israel and Christmas banned FOR NEWS AND ADDITIONALS ARTICLES, CLICK ON LINK:  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/