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Gangster State America May 14, 2013 " Information Clearing House " -   There are many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion between federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig the markets for gold and silver. My explanation that the sudden appearance of an unprecedented 400 ton short sale of gold on the COMEX in April was a manipulation designed to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy has found acceptance among gold investors and hedge fund managers.  The sale was a naked short. The seller had no gold to sell. COMEX reported having gold only equal to about half of the short sale in its vaults, and not all of that was available for delivery. 

Life "no longer bearable" in Syria, says Palestinian refugee One of the most distressing scenes that Redwan Amayra witnessed in  Syria  was of a woman being shot as she carried some bread. After warplanes hit  Yarmouk , a Palestinian refugee camp near  Damascus , last November, Amayra decided to flee. A 60-year-old teacher employed with the  UN agency for Palestine refugees  (UNRWA), Amayra had just registered with the  Palestinian Authority’s  embassy in  Cairo . It is not the first time that his family has been uprooted: they were forced to leave  Safed , a town in the  Galilee  region of historic Palestine, when it was attacked by Zionist forces in 1948.

Ríos Montt Guilty of Genocide: Are Guatemalan President Pérez Molina, U.S. Officials Next? Ríos Montt Guilty of Genocide: Are Guatemalan President Pérez Molina, U.S. Officials Next? By Democracy Now!  - Video and Transcript May 13, 2013 " Information Clearing House " -" Democracy Now! " - In a historic verdict, former U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. Ríos Montt was convicted of overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Ixil region after seizing power in 1982. The ruling marks the first time a former head of state had been found guilty of genocide in his own country. .....

Syrian Rebel Commander Cuts Organs Out of Assad Soldier’s Body and Eats Them « Antiwar.com Blog Aryn Baker at TIME reports  on a video out of Syria depicting the savagery of rebel commander Khalid al-Hamad: The video starts out like so many of the dozens coming out of the war in Syria every day, with the camera hovering over the body of a dead Syrian soldier. But the next frame makes it clear why this video, smuggled out of the city of Homs and into Lebanon with a rebel fighter, and obtained by TIME in April, is particularly shocking. In the video a man who is believed to be a rebel commander named Khalid al-Hamad, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, bends .......

Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide May 12, 2013 "Information Clearing House - The conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide against Mayan villagers in the 1980s has a special meaning for Americans who idolize Ronald Reagan. It means that their hero was an accessory to one of the most grievous crimes that can be committed against humanity.  The courage...

Drone Operator Tells of Killing Civilians, Children « Antiwar.com Blog Print This  |  Share This  |  Comment Here is an NPR segment featuring a former Air Force pilot who operated drones. He describes targeting and killing people he thinks were civilians, or at least not a threat. He describes bombing a man running away, and when the smoke cleared saw the man get his leg blown off and bleed to death. He also describes killing a child in a drone strike.

BBC airs Israeli "Independence Day" propaganda presented as documentary On 17 April, the day after the BBC announced the appointment of the openly pro-Israel former editor of  The Times , James Harding, as the organization’s director of news and current affairs, it screened a program called  Israel: Facing the Future .