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If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers. - Albert Camus =
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face. - Rollo May === Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Pakistan and U.S. Have Tacit Deal On Airstrikes By Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick The United States and Pakistan reached tacit agreement in September on a don't-ask-don't-tell policy that allows unmanned Predator aircraft to attack suspected terrorist targets in rugged western Pakistan, according to senior officials in both countries. In recent months, the U.S. drones have fired missiles at Pakistani soil at an average rate of once every four or five days.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21233.htm === India-Pakistan Prospective Hotbed for Conflict? By Rev. Richard Skaff An extremist Pakistani government that will likely take over the country in the near future with the covert aid of the Anglo-American-Israeli axis, will force India into the aggressor's position, and will compel it to invade Pakistan, which was part of India to begin with, in order to defend its own sovereignty and safety.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21237.htm === "The Dollar Standard Is Coming To An End" 5 Minute Video - Dr. Paul on the Global Financial Summitt === The no-think nation The Crisis Has Hardly Begun By Paul Craig Roberts === Lehman Administrators' Task Will Dwarf Enron, Creditors Told · European arm has more than $500bn of debt
· Collapsed bank's creditors expect less than 10% By Simon Bowers === Leading Economist Warns of Food Riots By The London Banker and RGE Monitor === Obama Vows to Exit Iraq and Rebuild US 'Moral Stature' By Jitendra Joshi === All the King's Men By John S. Hatch For all the goodwill Mr. Obama now enjoys, it's possible that if he tries to ignore the crimes of the last eight years, he will reap a whirlwind of outrage exacerbated by the befalling economic disaster, another Bush legacy. He risks becoming a one-term President, replaced in the ever more desperate hope of real change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21244.htm === George W Bush Could Pardon Spies Involved in Torture By Tim Shipman in Washington A former CIA officer familiar with the backstage lobbying for pardons, said: "These are the people President Bush asked to fight the war on terror for him. He gave them the green light to fight tough. The view of many in the intelligence community is that he should not leave them vulnerable to legal censure when he leaves.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21234.htm === Torturing Demoracy Full Video And Transcript === A My Lai a Month By Nick Turse To this day, Vietnamese civilians in the Mekong Delta recall the horrors of Operation Speedy Express and the countless civilians killed to drive up body count. Army records indicate that no Ninth Infantry Division troops, let alone commanders, were ever court-martialed for killing civilians during the operation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21242.htm === The Architects of Fear: "Family Values" Up Close under the Roof of Domestic Terror By Craig Chalquist, PhD Are all conservatives abusers? No. But many who supported the prior administration's psychopathic war on human and environmental rights demonstrate the red warning signs of the Authoritarian Personality. This makes them extremely dangerous, the more so when their rhetoric of patriotic fervor and Christian decency goes unchallenged.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21235.htm ===
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Obama's First Big Mistake on the Job Rescuing Joe Lieberman By DAVE LINDORFF === America the Illiterate By Chris Hedges We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and clichés.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21239.htm === Nothing To Lose But Your Chains By Mickey Z. Today, the entire planet is enslaved...to profit-seeking corporations and the corrupt politicians they own (yes, including the Pope of Hope). Are this generation's abolitionists ready to step up and create change? Not ask for change, create change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21238.htm === White Rage: Rednecks Out to Kill Obama By Andrew Gumbel When millions watched Barack Obama give his history-making victory speech in Grant Park on election night, one thing stood out starkly - the bulletproof screen surrounding him. But just how serious is the threat of assassination to the President-elect?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21240.htm === Iraq cabinet votes to approve US troops deal: Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said that 27 of 29 ministers present at the meeting voted for the pact, which has been debated since January. The text is due to be presented to the 275-member parliament, which is likely to vote before November 24th, when the assembly will break for the feast at the end of the Hajj pilgrimage.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/1117/1226700658831.html === Pact sets end date for U.S. troops in Iraq: === Govt. approval on pact "meaningless", parliment. to reject it - Sadrists: The government's approval on the security pact between Iraq and the United States is "meaningless", according to a spokesman for Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc said.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=103148 === Staurday: 14 Killed by Iraq car bombs : === Iraqi cleric calls for peaceful mass protest against U.S. occupation: In a letter, al-Sadr called for a pan-Muslim Friday prayer sermon in central Baghdad's Firdous Square next week, instead of separate services in individual mosques.
http://tinyurl.com/5f2v7f === Lawmakers meet with top cleric on U.S.-Iraq pact: - Two senior Iraqi lawmakers have been meeting with the country's top Shiite cleric, hoping to win his support for a U.S.-Iraq security pact. - . An aide to al-Sistani has said he would "intervene" in the discussions if the agreement's final draft infringed on sovereignty
http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=9355875 === Iraq: Shi'ites call for Basra to be a mini-state: Two Shi'ite lawmakers have called for a referendum on turning the southern oil-rich province of Basra into a mini-state.
http://tinyurl.com/58rsta === New Blackwater Iraq Scandal: Guns, Silencers and Dog Food: === U.S. Task Force Found Few Iranian Arms in Iraq: === Iran switches reserves to gold - report: === U.S.: Afghan cell attacked, 10 "militants" killed: === Karzai offers Taleban safety deal: === Robert Fisk's World: There is no end to the centuries of savagery in Afghanistan: === U.S., Pakistan Work Together in Afghan Border Operation: The U.S. and Pakistan are waging a coordinated military campaign known as Operation Lionheart, which involves American strikes on insurgent targets in the Kunar region of Afghanistan and a full-scale Pakistani campaign in the tribal areas of Bajaur, a longtime extremist stronghold, according to senior American officials.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122655631330523919.html === Pakistan shuts NATO supply line: === Gaza blast kills 2 Palestinians: === UN closes Gaza aid centres as Israeli blockade hits food reserves: === What Is NorthCom Up To? : NorthCom has been in the news lately, after the Pentagon designated to it a battle-tested fighting unit from the war on Iraq. This appears to be against the law, according to the ACLU, since the army isn't supposed to be patrolling our own country.
http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx111208.html === Deaths as Colombians protest scams: === Venezuela's Chavez plans alternative financial crisis summit: On Friday, Chavez accused the G20 of ignoring the world's smaller countries. He also expressed doubt that its November 14-15 summit in Washington would be able to come up with measures to tackle the economic "hurricane" that he says the U.S. has caused.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20081115/118328889.html === Eurozone slips into recession:
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Let us work towards Peace and Joy
Tom Feeley
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