"If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in.": General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

=
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.": Joseph Goebbels - Goebbels was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda

=
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.": Abraham Lincoln

===

Click here to read this newsletter online
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

===
 
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,284,105"
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
===
 
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,201
http://icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$572,247,172,123
 
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
===

2011 US Iraq Withdrawal Depends on Conditions on the Ground

By The Telegraph

"And so three years is a long time. Conditions could change in that period of time," said Adml Mullen, adding the United States will continue to talk with Baghdad "as conditions continue to evolve." Asked if the agreement could be changed, he said "that's theoretically possible".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21260.htm

===

Will The US Government Accept Responsibility For The Slaughter Of Over 1,000,000 Iraqis?

By Michael Schwartz

Historically, the U.S. government has a poor record of acknowledging its responsibility for death and/or destruction of other peoples, beginning with the genocide against Native Americans (never officially acknowledged), continuing through two hundred years of the slave trade and slavery (there has actually been a limp official apology), and culminating in the ongoing refusal to acknowledge one to three million deaths in Vietnam caused by the U.S. attempt to conquer that country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21262.htm

===

America's Moronic Iraqi Policy

By Paul Craig Roberts

If the US maintains its pro-Israeli stance against Arabs and Muslims generally, the implications of a growing Muslim population and a government obsessed with its "war on terror" are frightening for American civil liberty. In order to contain the potential terror that it will have imported, Washington would impose a total police state. We will have our own Saddam Hussein.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21254.htm

===

An Act of Treachery?

Pakistan Backed Raid, Says Nato

By The BBC

Nato-led troops in Afghanistan say they carried out an attack on an "enemy position" in Pakistan on Sunday with the help of Pakistani security forces.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21261.htm

===

Obama's Real Colour? Green

Methinks they do protest too much

By William Bowles

Selecting Barack Obama is a perfect example of the ideology of racism in action for its function is, in part, to 'disarm' opposition to US policies. Witness the millions of black and hispanic folks who voted for him. It should be clear to all that Obama could never have become the candidate, let alone the president without having been 'cleared' as it were, by the Democratic power brokers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21257.htm

===

James Zogby and the Politics of Perception

By Remi Kanazi

Zogby tries to calm the fears of Arab Americans about Barack Obama's first appointment, Rahm Emanuel, to White House Chief of Staff. Zogby expressed shock and dismay that his constituency, once euphoric over the election of Obama, was now sending him angry and cynical letters.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21265.htm

===

Dual Loyalties Will Doom Obama

By RANNIE AMIRI

History will record the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign to have been one in which American Arabs and Muslims were politically marginalized, ostracized and disparaged like no time before. Contrary to initial expectations, those bruised sensibilities are unlikely to find in President-elect Barack Obama the salve so desperately needed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21255.htm

===

The Irresponsibility of Appointing Hillary Clinton Secretary of State

By BILL and KATHLEEN CHRISTISON

In 2005 Hillary Clinton stood in Palestine and praised the apartheid wall that the government of Israel was building with large amounts of U.S. aid in furtherance of the Zionist goal of destroying one of the world's peoples -- the Palestinians
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21264.htm

===

Occupation 101

Must Watch Video

Warning - This video contains images depicting the reality and horror of occupation and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21259.htm

===

US Bin-Ladin Hunt Phoney

By Juan Cole

The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American forces stopped them from doing so. - The argument is that the Bush administration needed Bin Ladin to be at large in order to justify its military expansionism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21256.htm

===

Why Guantánamo Must Be Closed:

By Andy Worthington

Buying prisoners for bounties and shredding the Geneva Conventions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21258.htm

===

Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions

By CNBC.com |

CNBC, has been keeping a running tally of actual spending as well as the commitments involved. Try $4.28 trillion dollars. That's $4,284,500,000,000 and more than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation, based on our computations from a variety of estimates and sources.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21263.htm

===

Clashes along Afghan-Pakistani border kill 25:

Clashes on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border have killed at least 25 people, officials said Tuesday, including seven left dead after Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwest attacked pro-government tribal elders.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/18/asia/pakistan.php

===

16 killed in Afghanistan:

Six Afghan soldiers were killed, one of them beheaded, in a battle with Taliban insurgents, authorities said Tuesday, also reporting at least 10 militants had died in fighting.
http://tinyurl.com/5bnm95

===