Information Clearinghouse

[rucky]

www.informationclearinghouse.info

It's a guy with a computer. People email him articles from around the world & he puts 'em all in a daily email & on the web.

I've been a subscriber since the Iraq War, and I've read some very valueable stuff that you don't even always see on DU. Just wanted to share.

here's a sample of some of today's email headlines:

A Farewell To Law:

The lawless unilateral decision of the Bush Administration to declare war on Iraq was supposed to be legitimised afterwards. History shows it often happens to illegal actions that are successful. Yet, it did not happen with Iraq where the situation worsens every day.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/opinion.asp?ArticleID=102804

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A Must Read.

GCHQ whistleblower charged :

"Any disclosures that may have been made were justified because they exposed serious illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the US government which attempted to subvert our own security services. A Must Read.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5215.htm

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3 U.S. GIs Face Charges in POW Abuse Case :

U.S. military prosecutors have decided to prosecute three American soldiers from Pennsylvania on charges of abusing Iraqi prisoners of war, a U.S. Army spokesman said Friday.
http://tinyurl.com/v1f5

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Patrick Seale:

Who Will Be The Next Victim Of US : Is the US preparing to administer a dose of its Iraqi medicine to other states in the area? Has the neo-con agenda of softening up the area to make it comply with US and Israeli demands been given a new lease of life?
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/Opinion.asp?ArticleID=102893

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And then there was one . . .:

In his farewell address to the nation in 1796, George Washington, himself the country's greatest soldier, urged future generations to "avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty".
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/13/1068674312204.html

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Tokyo and Seoul backtrack on Iraq:

On the eve of a visit by Donald Rumsfeld, Japan and South Korea have backed away from committing more troops to support U.S. operations in Iraq.
http://www.iht.com/articles/117641.htm

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Iraq: the crumbling coalition:

Despite claiming in February that it had assembled a coalition of at least 30 "willing" nations, America has been unable to assemble a credible group prepared to provide troops in the numbers required.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=463564

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Troops In Iraq By Country
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5217.htm


Peace!

[MrPrax]

1. He has a great no-nonsense site...

I check it regularly as well...good mix of 'off the wall' and solid foreign reports...
Seems to have a particular knack towards reporting I/P things that don't get much coverage as well...
Really likes John Pilger too...which can't be all bad...


NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN OR FOX Mooooo's
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/index.html

[izzie]

2. I like the site and usually look at it dayly.

I do not pay but guess I could get more if I did. Right?

[ewagner]

3. Wow! This article brings things into focus....

The hole in the argument about Bu$h's lies about Iraq is filled.


A fatal weakness of America's war in Iraq has been Washington's refusal to acknowledge its true war aims. These have been concealed in a web of deceit and obfuscation. At the start, the declared aim of the war was to destroy Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction which were billed as a threat to the entire world. This flimsy pretext has now been dropped as no such weapons have been found. Then, the aim of the war was said to be essentially humanitarian, to 'liberate' Iraq from a nasty dictator and establish democracy in that unfortunate country. As Bush declared last week: 'Iraqi democracy will succeed – and that success will send forth the news, from Damascus to Tehran – that freedom can be the future of every nation'. It would have been more honest and more convincing had Bush said that the aims of the war were twofold: first, to establish an unchallenged strategic stronghold for the United States at the heart of the Middle East and astride its oilfields; and second to protect Israel's regional hegemony (although this latter war aim probably ranks first for Washington's Likudniks who occupy key posts in the Administration).

I check this link regularly just because of this kind of opinion.