The Hiroshima Myth. Unaccountable War Crimes and the Lies of US Military History

By Dr. Gary G. Kohls Global Research, July 31, 2013 This coming Tuesday, August 6, 2013, is the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, the whole truth of which has been heavily censored and mythologized ever since war-weary Americans celebrated V-J Day 10 days later. In the pitiful history lessons that were taught by my uninspired/bored […]

XKeyscore: NSA Tool Collects ‘Nearly Everything A User Does On The Internet’

• XKeyscore gives ‘widest-reaching’ collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history • NSA’s XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations By Glenn Greenwald One presentation claims the XKeyscore program covers ‘nearly everything a typical user does on the internet’ […]

The Manning Verdict: A Very Pyrrhic Victory

There Should Be No Sighs of Relief Wed, 07/31/2013 – 01:38 by: Alfredo Lopez The Bradley Manning verdict may seem a victory of sorts for the defense — it’s certainly being treated that way in the mainstream media — but the decision handed down Tuesday by Court Marshal Judge Colonel Denise Lind is a devastating […]

Sea World Entertainment and Guantanamo Bay: Captivity, Torture and Slow Death

31.07.2013 Sea World is under fire after its trainers failed to help a distressed pilot whale stuck on a ledge for at least 25 minutes as the audience watched in horror. The disturbing incident was caught on camera by one attendee who says his view of SeaWorld has been changed forever.–Huffington Post, 29 July 2013 […]

Pressure from European Union heightens political crisis in Slovenia

By Markus Salzmann 31 July 2013 The Slovenian government of Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek is coming under increasing pressure. While European Union (EU) representatives demand harsher austerity measures, a power struggle has erupted between the head of government and Zoran Jankovic, the influential mayor of the country’s capital, Ljubljana. The European Commission is demanding more […]

Denmark’s social democratic-led government targets health service for cuts

By Ellis Wynne  31 July 2013 Last month the Danish parliament passed a Bill drastically altering the terms and working conditions of general practitioners (GPs). The proposals in the bill were opposed by the same 3,500 doctors, members of the Praktiserende Laegers Organisation (PLO), who waged a campaign threatening to return their licences to practise. […]

Australia: Queensland flood victims still living in freight containers

By Mark Church 31 July 2013 In January 2011, a massive flash flood struck the Lockyer Valley town of Grantham, 100 kilometres west of Brisbane, killing 10 people, devastating the rural township and leaving 50 families homeless. The disaster was part of a series of major floods in southeastern Queensland, which also deluged more than […]

Congressional committee passes legislation attacking the Postal Service and its workers

By Hector Cordon 31 July 2013 The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved a bill Tuesday that would drastically reconfigure the operations of the United States Postal Service (USPS) and attack the rights of postal workers. The Postal Reform Act of 2013 (HR2748), supported by the USPS and the mailing industry, proposes to […]

Senate confirms deputy attorney general under Bush as new FBI chief

By Thomas Gaist 31 July 2013 The US Senate voted Monday 93-1 to confirm President Barack Obama’s pick for new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey. Comey will serve a 10-year term. Comey has previously worked in hedge fund management, academia, corporate law, and the arms trade. He was appointed deputy attorney […]

Obama outlines “grand bargain” to slash corporate taxes

By Eric London 31 July 2013 Speaking Tuesday at an Amazon fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, President Barack Obama presented a plan to slash corporate taxes and hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies in the name of securing “a better bargain for the middle class.” In the second in a series of appearances […]

The conviction of Bradley Manning: A travesty of justice

31 July 2013 The guilty verdict handed down Tuesday in the court-martial of whistle-blower Bradley Manning is a travesty of justice. The judge, Col. Denise Lind, found the 25-year-old Army private guilty of 19 of the 21 counts lodged against him, including five counts under the 1917 Espionage Act. Manning faces a prison term of […]

Balkanization of Key Mideast States Arabs, Beware the “Small States” Option

By Sharmine Narwani July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House –  At the heart of all politics lies cold, hard opportunism. New circumstances, changed alliances and unexpected events will always conspire to alter one’s calculations to benefit a core agenda. In the Middle East today, those calculations are being adjusted with a frequency unseen for decades. In […]

The Illusion of Israeli/Palestinian Peace for Our Time

By Stephen Lendman July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House –   Talks take place in Washington. Doing so alone assures betrayal and failure. It’s certain. America one-sidedly favors Israel. It’s duplicitous. It’s no honest broker. It never was. It’s not now. No legitimate Palestinian leader would permit Washington’s involvement. Collaborators betray their people by doing so. Talks […]

Ho Chi Minh and the Declaration of Independence

Video Ho Chi Minh, took inspiration from the U.S. Declaration of Independence when he drafted the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence. Archimedes Patti from the U.S. Office of Strategic Intelligence (OSS) relied upon Viet Minh intelligence and logistics to track and to disrupt Japanese activities in Vietnam. Once the Japanese surrendered, Patti was invited by Ho […]

That Most Charming of Couples: Nationalism and Hypocrisy

By William Blum July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House – It’s not easy being a flag-waving American nationalist. In addition to having to deal with the usual disillusion, anger, and scorn from around the world incited by Washington’s endless bombings and endless wars, the nationalist is assaulted by whistle blowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, who […]

Bradley Manning Cleared of ‘Aiding the Enemy’ but Guilty of Most Other Charges

• Manning convicted of multiple Espionage Act violations • Acquitted of most serious ‘aiding the enemy’ charge • Army private faces maximum jail sentence of 130 years By Ed Pilkington at Fort Meade July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “The Guardian” – Bradley Manning, the source of the massive WikiLeaks trove of secret disclosures, faces a […]

The Moral Verdict on Bradley Manning: A Conviction of Love in Action

By Norman Solomon July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House – The sun rose with a moral verdict on Bradley Manning well before the military judge could proclaim his guilt. The human verdict would necessarily clash with the proclamation from the judicial bench. In lockstep with administrators of the nation’s war services, judgment day arrived on Tuesday to […]

Australia’s Election Campaign Is Driven By A Barbarism That Dares Not Speak Its Name

By John Pilger July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House –  The election campaign in Australia is being fought with the lives of men, women and children. Some drown, others are banished without hope to malarial camps. Children are incarcerated behind razor wire in conditions described as “a huge generator of mental illness”. This barbarism is considered […]

8 Shocking Ways America Leads the World

The New American Exceptionalism: Number one in obesity, guns, prisoners, anxiety, and more… By Lynn Stuart Parramore July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “AlterNet” – People uninterested in change and progress tend to cling to the jingoistic fantasy that America is an exceptional country. Often this implies that the U.S. is somehow superior to other nations. […]

Egypt: Divide and Conquer?

By Phil Greaves July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House – Since the onset of the recent turmoil that is once again enveloping Egypt, (read: military coup) a long-standing current within political discourse has surrounded, and inevitably started to dominate the debate. False dichotomies attached to regional and national disputes in the Middle East by commentators and media […]

The Power Behind the Rebels Why No Revolution Exists in Syria

By Shamus Cooke July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House –  The era of Arab Spring euphoria is long ended, having devolved into doubt, confusion or wholesale rejection. Libya and Syria put an abrupt end to the Arab Spring celebrations, with the current situation in Egypt adding to the frustration. Part of the problem in deciding whether […]

West War Crimes in Syria Exposed

There was a time during the 30-month covert dirty war on Syria when the Western governments and mainstream media would make a clamor over reported massacres. By Finian Cunningham July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House –  Now, despicably, these governments and media just ignore such atrocities. Why? Because it is increasingly clear that the groups committing […]

How Rich is Congress?

By Money Choice July 30, 2013 “Information Clearing House – Congressional wealth is reported annually, and even though they have access to the same investments as the American public, they are far wealthier. How does the wealth of House and Senate representatives compare to their constituents’ wealth?   Source: MoneyChoice.org How Rich is Congress? July 30, 2013 “Information […]

Enhanced video – Shooting of Sammy Yatim by Toronto Police

Taliban free hundreds in Pakistan jailbreak

By Syed Fazl-e-Haider Pakistan Taliban KARACHI – As many as 243 prisoners escaped after heavily armed Pakistan Taliban, some dressed in police uniform, stormed one of the main prisons in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province late on Monday to free militants belonging to the outlawed group and other banned sectarian outfits. Thirty militants were among […]

UK: Splitting of Doncaster children services a model for further privatisations

By Liz Smith 30 July 2013 The decision to transfer children’s social care services in Doncaster, south Yorkshire, England from local authority control to an independent trust is a defining moment in the government’s push to privatise social services. This is the first time an entire children’s social services department has been removed from local […]

Australian Greens fraudulently posture as defenders of refugees

By Oliver Campbell 30 July 2013 Demonstrations in Australia’s main cities last weekend opposed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s anti-democratic policy of consigning all refugees arriving by boat to economically underdeveloped and impoverished Papua New Guinea. Workers, students and youth expressed outrage at the brutal treatment of people fleeing oppression and poverty. But the organisers used […]

Australian think tank proposes military base on PNG’s Manus Island

By Patrick O’Connor 30 July 2013 The Australian newspaper yesterday published a comment by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Sam Bateman and Anthony Bergin, urging the Labor government to rebuild a World War II-era military base on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. The government is currently preparing the island to detain up to 3,000 asylum seekers, under […]

UK: Splitting of Doncaster children services a model for further privatisations

By Liz Smith 30 July 2013 The decision to transfer children’s social care services in Doncaster, south Yorkshire, England from local authority control to an independent trust is a defining moment in the government’s push to privatise social services. This is the first time an entire children’s social services department has been removed from local […]

New York City public housing tenants protest plans for luxury development

By Alan Whyte 30 July 2013 Hundreds of tenants at a public hearing on July 24 loudly protested the plans of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) to lease 18 parcels of land at eight Manhattan housing projects for luxury housing. Private investors want to construct huge tower buildings containing about 4,300 luxury apartments. […]

Obama rejects federal aid for Detroit

By Jerry White 30 July 2013 The Obama administration has rejected any federal rescue package for Detroit. The White House, which handed trillions of dollars to the banks and auto corporations, has made it clear it will do nothing to protect the pensions, jobs and social services of Detroit’s workers, which are targeted for massive […]

The Egyptian coup and the tasks facing the working class

30 July 2013 The July 3 military coup in Egypt and the subsequent repression have starkly revealed the principal problem facing the working class internationally: the crisis of revolutionary leadership. More than two years after the upheavals that forced out longtime US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military—headed by its US-educated commander, General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi—is […]

The G20 wants to tax the multinationals

 VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 29 JULY 2013 The ministers for Employment and the Economy, as well as the governors of the central banks for the member states of the G20, met in Saint-Petersburg between the 18th and the 20th July 2013. The aim of this meeting was to prepare the summit meeting of the heads of […]

In Defense of Hezbollah, a “Terrorist” Organization

By Ahmad Barqawi July 29, 2013 “Information Clearing House –  Arab liberals and GCC-sponsored ‘intellectuals’ and media pundits could not contain their delight this past week as they all went into jubilant throes of rapture over the EU’s acquiescence to American pressure to black-list the Lebanese Resistance Group Hezbollah (or its Armed Wing as it were) as […]

Major Opinion Shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA Surveillance and Privacy

Pew finds that, for the first time since 9/11, Americans are now more worried about civil liberties abuses than terrorism By Glenn Greenwald July 29, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “The Guardian” –  Numerous polls taken since our reporting on previously secret NSA activities first began havestrongly suggested major public opinion shifts in how NSA surveillance and privacy are viewed. […]

“Big Data” Dynamo: How Giant Tech Firms Help the Government Spy on Us and Gut Privacy

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By Tom Burghardt July 29, 2013 “Information Clearing House –  As the secret state continues trawling the electronic communications of hundreds of millions of Americans, lusting after what securocrats euphemistically call “actionable intelligence,” a notional tipping point that transforms a “good” citizen into a “criminal” suspect, the role played by telecommunications and technology firms cannot be […]

The Assassination of Julian Assange “We Steal Secrets”: A Masterclass in Propaganda

By Jonathan Cook July 29, 2013 “Information Clearing House – I have just watched We Steal Secrets, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Wikileaks and Julian Assange. One useful thing I learnt is the difference between a hatchet job and character assassination. Gibney is too clever for a hatchet job, and his propaganda is all the more effective for […]

US Anti-Russia Policy Won’t Fly

By Edward Lozansky July 29, 2013 “Information Clearing House – It looks like some members of U.S. Congress have little to worry about except inventing ever harsher penalties for Russia. The United States’ real problems — such as the national debt approaching $17 trillion, the bankruptcy of Detroit, racial unrest, the widening gap between the wealthy and […]

US Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole

By Peter Dale Scott July 29, 2013 “Information Clearing House –   For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect, was also a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances. Since 9/11 however, constitutional practices have been overshadowed by […]

An Anarchistic Understanding of the Social Order Environmental Degradation, Indigenous Resistance, and a Place for the Sciences

By Andrew Gavin Marshall July 29, 2013 “Information Clearing House – FOR ROUGHLY FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, INDIGENOUS peoples have been struggling against the dominant institutions of society, against imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, impoverishment, segregation, racism, and genocide. The struggle continues today under the present world social order and against the dominant institutions of ‘neoliberalism’ and globalization: the state, […]

The Business of Mass Incarceration

By Chris Hedges July 29, 2013 “Information Clearing House – Debbie Bourne, 45, was at her apartment in the Liberty Village housing projects in Plainfield, N.J., on the afternoon of April 30 when police banged on the door and pushed their way inside. The officers ordered her, her daughter, 14, and her son, 22, who suffers from […]