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The Mirage of Justice     :  Information Clearing House - ICH

The Mirage of Justice     :  Information Clearing House - ICH By Chris Hedges January 18, 2016 " Information Clearing House " - " Truth Dig " -   If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial—instead you will be forced to accept a plea deal offered by government prosecutors. If you are poor, the word of the police, who are not averse to fabricating or tampering with evidence, manipulating witnesses and planting guns or drugs, will be accepted in a courtroom as if it was the word of God. If you are poor, and especially if you are of color, almost anyone who can verify your innocence will have a police record of some kind and thereby will be invalidated as a witness. If you are poor, you will be railroaded in assembly-line production from a town or city where there are no jobs thr...

Towards the Collapse of Saudi Arabia   :  Information Clearing House - ICH

Towards the Collapse of Saudi Arabia   :  Information Clearing House - ICH While the Saud family enjoys the last few moments of its dictatorship, the decapitation of the leader of the opposition, Nimr al-Nimr, deprives half of the Saudi population of all hope. For Thierry Meyssan, the fall of the kingdom has become inevitable. It will probably be accompanied by a long period of extreme violence.

Israel And Its Lobby Lose The Iran Deal All Over Again, In News Of Damning Wiretaps  :  Information Clearing House - ICH

Israel And Its Lobby Lose The Iran Deal All Over Again, In News Of Damning Wiretaps  :  Information Clearing House - ICH Israel And Its Lobby Lose The Iran Deal All Over Again, In News Of Damning Wiretaps By James North and Philip Weiss December 31, 2015 " Information Clearing House " - " Mondoweiss " -  You’d think that there would be widespread outrage over the story everyone’s talking about today, the Wall Street Journal scoop that the Obama administration spied on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during the Iran Deal negotiations so as to counter his efforts to sink it. The wiretaps reveal that Israeli officials were up to their necks in the US political process; they “coordinated talking points with Jewish-American groups against the deal; and asked undecided lawmakers what it w...