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Information Clearing House Newsletter
News You Won't Find On CNN
07/05/08
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"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other." Bertrand Russell: Freedom, Harcourt Brace, 1940

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"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." : Bertrand Russell

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"Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred" - Bertrand Russell, Unpopular essays

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"Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. FDR: message to Congress proposing the monopoly investigation, 1938

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"Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery." : Stephen Crane

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Read this newsletter online http://tinyurl.com/dy6yy

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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,206,950"

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,073
http://icasualties.org/oif/

The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$517,684,814,259

See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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State's Creation Had Ugly Side

Palestinian refugee problem cannot be ignored

By Ehab Lotayef

The creation of Israel had an ugly side to it which shouldn't be forgotten or ignored. It is the destruction of a people and the creation of the world's largest refugee population and longest-lasting refugee crisis.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19880.htm

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A Picture Worth A Thousand Words

Newspaper Criticized For Publishing Photo

By Helen Thomas

Americans should be aware of their own responsibility for inflicting death and pain on the innocent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19878.htm

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Reality

By Mark A. Goldman

Americans, in general, seem averse to contemplating reality. Up until now it's been easy to get away with it, for as long as energy was cheap we were all free to pursue personal interests and put most everything else out of our minds. But soon reality is going to confront us at every turn. For some, it's already happening.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19888.htm

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The Challenge Of Modern Slavery

By Loretta Napoleoni

Almost every product we consume has a hidden dark history, from slave labor to piracy, from counterfeit to fraud, from theft to money laundering. We know very little about these economic secrets because modern consumers live inside the market matrix.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19879.htm

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At least 22 people killed In another bloody day of US occupation:

At least 22 people died Wednesday in a fresh bout of violence in Iraq, including eight people in a US strike on Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, while the police found rockets in a big weapons cache in the south
http://tinyurl.com/53fj6o

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Iraq prepares for Baghdad exodus:

Two football stadiums are on stand-by to receive residents from two neighbourhoods in the Sadr City area
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7387960.stm

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Iraqi PM and cleric Sadr head for showdown:

Iraq's parliament has begun debating a bill on provincial elections that will ban any party from competing in the Oct. 1 polls if they have a militia.
http://tinyurl.com/4hmzxb

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US House to vote on proposal to pull US combat troops out of Iraq by December 2009:

Such a bill would require the administration of President George W. Bush to begin a pullout within 30 days after the bill becomes law, and would require that the Iraqis finance their country's reconstruction.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080507/pl_afp/uscongressiraq

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Fact or fiction?:

Report: al-Qaida linked Kuwaiti militant tells daily that Iran supports Sunni fighters in Iraq:

In the interview in Kuwaiti Al-Qabas daily, al-Bathali said that Tehran is supplying al-Qaida fighters and other Jihad movements in Iraq with "weapons and money" and claimed he has personally sent fighters to Iraq by way of Syria.
http://tinyurl.com/4fqhtd

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British government defeated over Iranian resistance group :

"Europe must now recognise the Iranian resistance for democracy in Iran," said Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which includes the PMOI.
http://tinyurl.com/5xumuh

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Presstitute and war pimp alert::

Israel: Iran could have nukes by '09:

With Iran racing forward with its nuclear program, Israel now believes the Islamic Republic will master centrifuge technology and be able to begin enriching uranium on a military scale this year, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
http://tinyurl.com/56roqo

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McCain: We must counter Iran's threat:

'Iran obviously is on the path toward acquiring nuclear weapons' - an allegation that has been refuted by the UN nuclear watchdog and US intelligence agencies. "At the end of the day we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," he continued.
http://tinyurl.com/5q8xsd

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Iran nuke power plant 'ready in months':

'The Russians, who are setting up the plant, have said they have all they need,' he said. 'It is only a matter of time.'
http://tinyurl.com/3jzrmf

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ElBaradei: 'Good progress' in Iran talks:

"To verify Iran's past and present activities, we have made good progress," the UN nuclear watchdog chief said Wednesday in a joint conference with European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=54679§ionid=351020104

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'Iran's Jews won't mark Yom Ha'atzmaut':

Incoming Iranian Jewish MP slams Israel for the "murder of totally innocent Palestinian civilians."
http://tinyurl.com/4x93ae

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Israeli attack kills one, wounds 14:

Palestinian witnesses said a total of 25 tanks and armored bulldozers entered Abassan, an area east of Khan Yunis, setting off battles with members of the resistance movement
http://tinyurl.com/5469hv

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Audio slideshow: A house divided:

Rory McCarthy visits the house in Jerusalem divided by history and rival legacies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/slideshow/page/0,,2278057,00.html

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Free Israel!:

I look out at the face of the religious establishment in Israel and wish that my fellow citizens and I could manage to break free of the tyrannical regime of ultra-Orthodox Judaism that has nothing to do with the State of Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/981398.html

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Blast Kills 2 occupation force Soldiers, 1 Civilian in Afghanistan:

An alliance statement said two other occupation force soldiers were wounded when the blast hit troops on patrol in Khost province Wednesday.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354412,00.html

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Roadside blast kills 2, including Afghan police officer:

A roadside bombing Wednesday morning in Afghan eastern province of Khost killed a local senior police officer and his nephew, and wounded another, the police said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/07/content_8120953.htm

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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran::

Iran seeking to keep Afghanistan unstable:

US official: Iran is seeking to keep Afghanistan weak and unstable, delivering arms to the Taliban whilst ostensibly supporting Kabul's government, a senior US state department official said in Paris Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/5pvqf2

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Iran a potential threat in Latin America: US:

Isolated Iran sees Latin America as a place to push back US influence, from which it could maintain a 'terrorist threat' against the United States in the event of a conflict, a senior US official warned on Wednesday.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=111392

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Somalia: Ethiopian occupation troops slit throats of civilians, gouged eyes, gang raped:

A leading human rights group on Tuesday accused Ethiopian troops in Somalia of killing civilians and committing atrocities, including slitting people's throats, gouging out eyes and gang-raping women
http://www.startribune.com/world/18683214.html

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Amnesty report "scratches surface of atrocities" :

He said that killings, rape and disappearances were daily occurrences in occupied Mogadishu.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=78084

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Call for inquiry into US role in Somalia:

Amnesty International has called for the role of the United States in Somalia to be investigated, following publication of a report accusing its allies of committing war crimes.
http://tinyurl.com/6ctmcn

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Hundreds of Ethiopian occupation troops killeds in Somalia:

A government spokesman says hundreds of Ethiopian troops have died fighting the Islamist insurgency in Somalia.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/06/africa/AF-GEN-Ethiopia-Somalia.php

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Oil price 'may hit $200 a barrel':

The price of crude oil could soar to $200 a barrel in as little as six months, as supply continues to struggle to meet demand, a report has warned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7387203.stm

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White House tells court of missing emails from beginning of Iraq war:

The White House has admitted in court that it has lost three months of email backups from the initial days of the Iraq war, raising questions about the possible deletion of politically sensitive records.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/07/usa.usforeignpolicy

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Federal Agents Raid Office of Special Counsel:

Bloch, who was nominated to his post by President Bush in 2003, is the principal official responsible for protecting federal employees from reprisals for complaints about waste and fraud. He also polices violations of Hatch Act prohibitions on political activities in federal offices.
http://tinyurl.com/59jtd5

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Clinton lends her campaign $US6.4m:

The money more than doubled Clinton's personal investment in her bid for the Democratic nomination. She gave her campaign $US5 million earlier this year.
http://tinyurl.com/583a95

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