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"You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry.

The leaders stigmatize the enemy with every vice they can think of, every evil and human depravity. They stimulate their people's natural fear of all other men by channeling it into a defined fear of just certain men, or nations. Attacking another nation, then, acts as a sort of catharsis, temporarily, on men's fear of their immediate neighbors.
 
This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide." - Taylor Caldwell -, "The Devil?s Advocate" (1952) - pg. 299
October 30/31, 2012
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Israel Lobby Calls for an 'Iranian Pearl Harbor'

By Muhammad Sahimi

The War Party has revived the idea of creating the "right incident" for provoking a war with Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32891.htm





The Unfolding Human Catastrophe in Iran

By Muhammad Sahimi & Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

The sanctions are now in full force, and are hurting the same people who we were told were not meant to be their target, in what is yet another case of "collateral damage" inflicted by Western policy towards Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32894.htm




Regardless of Whether Obama or Romney Wins
America's relations with the Arab World will change

By Robert Fisk

Obama sat cowed in his White House seat as the Israeli prime minister effectively told him that UN Security Council resolution 242 - the very basis of the non-existent "peace process" - was a non-starter.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32896.htm




Who Lost the World?

By Ira Chernus

The enduring power of a foreign policy myth that will not die, the decades-old idea that America has an inalienable right to "own" the world and control every place in it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32892.htm




Drone-Murders of Americans 'Totally Right, Totally Constitutional': Homeland Security Chairperson

Must WatchVideo

This 2-minute video from We Are Change Luke Rudkowski powerfully captures what US "leadership" has become.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32899.htm




Citizens' Grand Jury Indicts Obama and Biden

PR Newswire

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden have been criminally indicted for having willfully released classified national security information concerning the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, U.S. and Israeli war plans concerning Iran and their cyber-attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32897.htm




Drowning on Wall Street and Ending World War II

By David Swanson

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Countrywomen, let's grow the fuck up.  Stop blaming an imaginary being for a storm that you and your government produced.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32895.htm




The Virtual Recovery

By Paul Craig Roberts

Presstitutes spoon out the government's propaganda.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32893.htm




U.S. Prosperity Slides in Index That Ranks Norway No. 1

By Simon Kennedy

The U.S. slid from the top ten most prosperous nations for the first time in a league table which ranked three Scandinavian nations the best for wealth and wellbeing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32898.htm
Hard News  
   
Two British occupation force soldiers killed in 'green on blue' Afghanistan attack: Two British soldiers have been shot dead by a man wearing Afghan police uniform in what appeared to be the latest "green on blue" attack where a rogue member of the Afghan forces has killed his allies.
http://is.gd/kjumnL



Somalia's General Farah killed in al-Shabab ambush: The governor of the Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia said General Farah was killed along with four other soldiers in an ambush on Sunday.
http://is.gd/kjumnL



US: Iraqi audit points to huge money laundering: American investigators say Iraqi auditors believe as much as $800 million in U.S. currency is being sent out of the country illegally each week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20120897



Syrian General assassinated in Damascus: According to Syrian TV, General Abdullah Al-Khaledi, a senior officer at the Syrian Air Force, was killed Tuesday in Damascus. The television report said he was shot in one of the capital's neighborhoods.
http://is.gd/DSmznn



UK blocks Russian condemnation of Syria terrorism: The incident in question took place last Friday when unidentified terrorists detonated a bomb near a children's playground in Damascus leaving several kids dead and several others injured.
http://is.gd/LzVLiw



Netanyahu: Iran strike will be good for Arabs: Paris Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought on Tuesday to convince Arab states that an Israeli military strike on Iran would benefit them, removing a potential threat and easing tensions across the Middle East.
http://is.gd/hDE8MM



Pentagon Nixed 1998 U.S. Nuclear Scientists' Probe of Iranian Programme: In 1998, the Defence Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S. nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear programme at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, according to the nuclear scientist who was organising the mission.
http://is.gd/au8ilg



Libya army has 'no control' in Bani Walid: defence minister: "The town is completely empty except for a small number of people who are living in tragic conditions; there is no activity; the impact of shelling is visible everywhere," the minister said.
http://is.gd/dPcUbE



Bahrain bans protests, public gatherings: "All rallies and gatherings have been suspended and no public activity will be allowed until security and stability are achieved," said Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Al Khalifa.
http://is.gd/WgzOyW



Kuwait arrests opposition leader ahead of mass protest: Kuwaiti authorities arrested a prominent opposition figure over his criticism of the Gulf Arab state's ruler. It came days before an expected mass rally protesting against a reform, which critics say undermines opposition political forces.
http://rt.com/news/kuwait-opposition-leader-arrested-561/



Birther-Linked Super PAC Runs Islamaphobic Ad Against Michigan Candidate: In a stunning appeal to Islamaphobia, a group linked to former Swiftboater and birther conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has launched a smear attack ad on a Muslim-American Congressional candidate.
http://is.gd/lXvn9T



We Are All from New Orleans Now: Climate Change, Hurricanes and the Fate of America's Coastal Cities
http://is.gd/18KxMu



Authorities start anti-looting campaign in the aftermath of Sandy: Firefighters in Philadelphia rescued a man from the rubble of a three-story building brought down as Hurricane Sandy swept through the East Coast, only for authorities to arrest him immediately on suspicion of looting.
http://rt.com/usa/news/authorities-sandy-storm-philadelphia-597/



German joblessness rises as euro zone crisis bites: German joblessness rose for a seventh month in a row in October, highlighting the vulnerability of Europe's biggest economy to the euro zone crisis
http://is.gd/DtVG9E



Greece delays austerity vote, warns of 'chaos': Greece's coalition government will delay a vote on major new austerity measures by another week, but warned Tuesday there would be financial "chaos" if a deal is not reached.
http://is.gd/pxPeUz



Greece gave birth to democracy. Now it has been cast out by a powerful elite: An exclusive club of powerful people engages in illegal practices, then pushes through necessary laws to legalise these practices, granting itself an amnesty, and in the end, there are no media to uncover what really happened.
http://is.gd/O5niY8

    

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Tom Feeley
Cost Of War
 
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,883

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,213
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
      
 
$1,387,988,114,155