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Can You Guess the 10 Best Countries For Women? Hint: the U.S. Isn't One of Them October 25, 2013 " Information Clearing House  - " AlterNet " -- The World Economic Forum released its annual  Global Gender Gap Report for 2013 measuring gender disparity between men and women around the world…and disappointingly the United States didn’t even make it in the top 20! The report, which ranks 136 countries, determines its findings across four primary areas including economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment and health and survival, ranking the United States 23  rd  on the list for 2013, HuffPost  reported .

Who Killed Michael Hastings? October 25, 2013 " Information Clearing House  -   Early in the morning on June 18, a brand new Mercedes C250 coupe was driving through the Melrose intersection on Highland Avenue in Hollywood when suddenly, out of nowhere, it sped up. According to an eye-witness, the car accelerated rapidly, bounced several times then fishtailed out of control before it slammed into a palm tree and burst into flames,  ejecting its engine  some 200 feet away. A witness, Jose Rubalcalva, whose house stood adjacent to the crash,  told Ana Kasparian  of the The Young Turks news network that no one could approach the burning car because  it kept exploding . In  a simulated full-frontal crash  of a 2013 C250 coupe, the car doesn’t explode on impact nor does it launch its engine 200 feet. In fact, said Nael Issa, a Mercedes Benz dealer in Long Beach, “The car has a crumble zone, so when it crashes it goes in like an accordion. And...

Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World October 25, 2013 " Information Clearing House  -  Obama's global terror campaign is not only dependent upon his drone assassination program, but increasingly it has come to rely upon the deployment of Special Operations forces in countries all over the world, reportedly between 70 and 120 countries at any one time. As Obama has sought to draw down the large-scale ground invasions of countries (as Bush pursued in Afghanistan and Iraq), he has escalated the world of 'covert warfare,' largely outside the oversight of Congress and the public. One of the most important agencies in this global "secret war" is the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC for short.

What a Surprise: U.S.-Based Iran “Experts” Promoting Israeli Policy October 25, 2013 " Information Clearing House  -  As the new round of nuclear diplomacy between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 unfolds,  an informal coalition of forces is coalescing in the West to oppose any prospective deal in which the United States would “accept” safeguarded uranium enrichment in Iran .  Of course,  Israel and the pro-Israel lobby are at the heart of this coalition .  Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s remarks about the Iran nuclear talks on NBC’s  Meet the Press  this past Sunday, see  here , are emblematic of the “zero enrichment” camp: