Week in Review: Assault on Education, CIA Sabotage in Syria and Occupy Bilderberg

THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES

Assault on Education

“Barack Obama and Republican Party Presidential nominee Mitt Romney agree that the Stafford loan programshould be maintained at a 3.4 per cent interest rate, rather than being allowed to double by this July. This, somehow, is seen as a great boon to students and evidence of a bipartisan commitment to the upcoming generation. Keeping interest rates low purportedly encourages prospective students to choose more education than they might otherwise aspire to, to select more expensive colleges than they could otherwise seek, and to finance this education through more debt than they would otherwise incur. The first is undoubtedly socially progressive.” The Bipartisan Assault on Higher Education

 CIA Sabotage in Syria

“The CIA is implementing a device to sabotage the Annan plan and any attempt at peace in Syria. Reverting to its Cold War methods when it created subversive groups in the Eastern Bloc to infiltrate international combat fronts, the CIA organized a joint training seminar in Miami for members of the Cuban and Syrian armed opposition.” CIA SABOTAGE OF SYRIA PEACE PLAN: Miami Cuban Dissidents Join Hands with Syrian “Opposition”

Occupy Bilderberg

“Around 150 of the world’s elite approached the grounds of a suburban Virginia hotel on Thursday for the first day of the 2012 Bilderberg Conference, but also on hand were throngs of protesters who gathered to opposed the top-secret gathering.” Occupy Bilderberg faces off with secretive gathering


The Globalization of War: The “Military Roadmap” to World War III
ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER
– by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham – 2012-07-14

The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously.


THE IRAQ WAR READER: A History of War Crimes and Genocide. The Unleashing of America’s New Global Militarism
ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK
– by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham – 2012-06-27

The devastation of Iraq, unfettered aggression, crimes against humanity, and plunder and theft of sovereign resources.


SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War?
ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK
– by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-06-15

ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the “Libya Model”: it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces…


NEW DVD! The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering Ten Years of Deception
Now available to order from Global Research!
– 2012-06-10


VIDEO: Bilderberg: The Covert Globalist Government?
More information on GRTV
– by Abby Martin – 2012-06-06


HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION AND THE GREAT REVERSAL: An Antonomy of the Corporate Right Counter-Revolution
Part XII
– by Prof. John McMurtry – 2012-06-06


DEEPENING EUROPEAN BANKING CRISIS: G7 holds emergency meeting
– by Peter Schwarz – 2012-06-06


Military build-up in Indo-Pacific region: US “pivot” to Asia threatens war with China
– by Peter Symonds – 2012-06-06


OBITUARY: Global Research Contributor, Distinguished Financial Analyst Bob Chapman
– 2012-06-06

SYRIA WAR: Heated Anti-Assad Rhetoric Promotes War
– by Stephen Lendman – 2012-06-06


The Student Mobilization in Quebec: The Most Significant Act of Civil Disobedience in Canadian History
The Threat of Quebec’s Good Example
– by Prof. Peter Hallward – 2012-06-06


NUCLEAR RADIATION AND THE CHILDREN OF FUKUSHIMA
Japan’s Fukushima Child Victims’ Law – Why Allow Chlidren to Live in Hot Zones?
– 2012-06-06


PRESSURES ON RUSSIA: US Attempts to Mass-Murder Its Way to Victory in Syria.
US to Russia: “Give Up” or Swim in Sea of Syrian Blood
– by Tony Cartalucci – 2012-06-06

Syrian government expels Western ambassadors
Syria’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi
– 2012-06-05


Towards a Global Economic Slowdown: Stock Market Slide, Declining GDP, Rising Unemployment
– by Mike Whitney – 2012-06-05


Chossudovsky’s New Book: “Wipe Israel off the Map” Statement by Iranian Leader was Gross Distortion
– by Sherwood Ross – 2012-06-05


NATO ENLARGEMENT: From the North Atlantic to the South Pacific
Encompassing Australia and New Zealand
– by Rick Rozoff – 2012-06-05


Asia-Pacific: Pumping up the Next Military Conflict. American Exceptionalism to the Rescue
– by Bruce Gagnon – 2012-06-05


Financial Collapse At Hand: When is “Sooner or Later”?
– by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts – 2012-06-05

Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and Quantitative Easing, the question has been before us: How long can the manipulations continue?


VIDEO: Women and Children Murdered on Orders of President Obama
Get the information on GRTV
– by Jeremy Scahill – 2012-06-05


VIDEO: ‘Arab Yugoslavia’: Massacre Fallout Fuels Syria Intervention
Watch GRTV for all the details
– by John Laughland, Nebojsa Malic – 2012-06-05


VIDEO: Syria: US ‘Diplomatic Solution’ Full of Contradictions
Learn more about what’s happening on GRTV
– by F. William Engdahl – 2012-06-05


MODERN DAY LYNCHING: The Murder of Trayvon Martin. The Crime and the Context
– by Li Onesto – 2012-06-05


ISRAEL ATTACKS GAZA
Air raids hitting several areas in the Gaza Strip
– by Rosa Schiano – 2012-06-05


Obama’s Total War Doctrine: Intense and Constant Psychological Warfare. “Total War” against All Countries
– by Adrian Salbuchi – 2012-06-05


BREAKING NEWS: FUKUSHIMA: Formation of a Bacterium Type which Absorbs the Radioactive Substance
They found plutonium and strontium in every sample
– 2012-06-05


Towards a Worldwide Economic Slump: Fears of a Sharp Global Slowdown
– by Stephen Lendman – 2012-06-05


US-NATO Sponsored Sectarian Violence in Syria: An Instrument of Imperial Conquest
– by Tony Cartalucci – 2012-06-05


Seeds of doubt: Brazilian farmers sue Monsanto
– 2012-06-04


Secret Cooperation: Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines
– 2012-06-04


The Great Book Robbery: How Israel intentionally destroyed the Palestinian cultural heritage
– by Palestinian and Jewish Unity – 2012-06-04

Sacrificing Mubarak to Save His Regime
– by Esam Al-Amin – 2012-06-04


The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’
– by Ray McGovern – 2012-06-04

COLOMBIA: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP): 48 Years of Struggle
– by Miguel Urbano Rodrigues – 2012-06-04


President Bashar Al Assad’s 2012 Damascus University Speech
10 January 2012
– 2012-06-04


Israel Formulates Tripartite Plot to Destroy Syria
– by Dr. Ismail Salami – 2012-06-04

June 5: National Day of Justice for Trayvon Martin
– 2012-06-04

VATICAN NEWS: Foreign Fighters, Mercenaries, Terrorists, behind Syria Massacre
“The desolation of Homs and the war of information “: the Words of a Greek-Catholic Bishop
– by Vatican News (Agenzia Fides) – 2012-06-04


AS TENSIONS MOUNT WITH CHINA: US to shift bulk of Navy ships to Asia-Pacific
– by Patrick Martin – 2012-06-04


US-Australia plans for war on China
– by James Cogan – 2012-06-04

Wisconsin’s Recall Election
– by Stephen Lendman – 2012-06-04


Sample Anti-Drone Ordinance for Your City
– by Nick Mottern – 2012-06-04


VIDEO: Pointblank Massacre: Massive Fallout from Houla Killings
Watch GRTV to find out more
– by Alistair Crooke – 2012-06-04

CRIPPLING SANCTIONS AGAINST DAMASCUS: “Starve the Syrians into Compliance”
– by Kurt Nimmo – 2012-06-04

‘Napalm Girl Photo’ From Vietnam War Turns 40
– by Margie Mason – 2012-06-04


VIDEO: THREATENING CHINA: US Seeks Militarization of Strategic Asian Waterways
New interview on GRTV
– by Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-06-04


Celebrating Palestinian Resistance and Resilience
– by Eva Bartlett, Ali Mallah – 2012-06-03


Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders on Gaza Flotilla
– by Col. Ann Wright – 2012-06-03


The Globalization of Poverty: Deconstructing the New World Order
– by Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-06-03


EUROPE’S ECONOMIC CRISIS: Unraveling the “Welfare Safety Net”. Europe Moves Closer to Banktatorship
– by Mike Whitney – 2012-06-03


POLICE STATE USA: The Paranoid Style of American Governance
– by Prof. James F. Tracy – 2012-06-03

US legislation exhibiting undue suspiciousness toward allegedly strange “others” suggests how the paranoid style has imbued American governance, in the blizzard of new laws, programs, and executive orders dating from September 11, 2001.


AMERICA THREATENS CHINA: Pentagon Prepares for Confrontation in the Asia-Pacific Region
– by Rick Rozoff – 2012-06-03

Having vanquished most all islands of resistance and neutrality in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the Pentagon is moving its global military machine into the Asia-Pacific for a showdown with China.

SYRIA, Atrocities were not committed by the government but by armed gangs
Vatican News Service refutes Western media reports
– by Vatican News Service (Agenzia Fides) – 2012-06-03


THE ANNEXATION OF BAHRAIN TO SAUDI ARABIA? The Plan of the Saudi-Bahrain Merger
– by Kourosh Ziabari – 2012-06-03

Federal cuts to strip 70,000 more US workers of jobless benefits in June
– by David Brown, Barry Grey – 2012-06-03

Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies about Houla Massacre
– by Stephen Lendman – 2012-06-03


MEDIA DISINFORMATION: West Desperately Attempts to Spin Syrian Crisis
Latest fabrications includes defected “air force officer” with “super human” hearing and sight, and miraculous satellite imaging
– by Tony Cartalucci – 2012-06-03

Canada must prosecute any foreign national suspected of torture when entering Canada
Canada violated Convention by allowing Bush to enter Canada & failing to arrest him
– by Lawyers Rights Watch Canada – 2012-06-02


Syria Regime Change On Bilderberg Agenda
Pro-NATO intervention SNC head in attendance at elite confab
– by Paul Joseph Watson – 2012-06-02

BREAKING: Bilderbergers commit a felony? Illegal Meeting?
Violation of Logan Act of 1799
– 2012-06-02

Beyond the Arctic Circle: U.S. Missile Radar Targets Russia
– by Grigory Milenin – 2012-06-02


PLOTTING THE KILLINGS, SELECTING THE VICTIMS: Obama’s role in the selection of drone missile targets
– by Bill Van Auken – 2012-06-02


RISING UNEMPLOYMENT: US jobs report points to renewed global crisis
– by Andre Damon – 2012-06-02


Tareq Aziz: A Son’s Plea
– by Felicity Arbuthnot – 2012-06-02


SAVE SYRIA: Demand An End to US-NATO Supported Sectarian Terrorists
US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia have plotted bloodbath for years.
– by Tony Cartalucci – 2012-06-02


Nuclear Tuna and Media Trivialization: The Risk of Radioactive Tuna from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
– by Robert Alvarez – 2012-06-02

Risking Global War
– by Stephen Lendman – 2012-06-02


Drones: targeted killing is only part of the problem
– 2012-06-02


FUKUSHIMA: Pacific Ocean Will Not Dilute Dumped Radioactive Water
According to Previously-Secret 1955 Government Report:
– by Washington’s Blog – 2012-06-01

The Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per day of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean. Dissipation of radioactive results in scattered pockets and streams of higher radioactive materials in the Pacific.


Militarism and Neoliberalism: Two Sides of the Same Coin
NATO Summit Highlights Neo-Con/Neo-Liberal Overlap: Both of America’s imperial ideologies have failed
– by Paul Rosenberg – 2012-06-01

The Leveson Inquiry into the British press – oh, what a lovely game
– by John Pilger – 2012-06-01

US steps up pressure for intervention in Syria
– by Patrick Martin – 2012-06-01

“Militants”: media propaganda
To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-defined “militant” to mean “all military-age males in a strike zone”
– by Glenn Greenwald – 2012-06-01


How the Democrats Exploit Occupy
– by Ann Robertson, Bill Leumer – 2012-06-01


THE HOULA MASSACRE: Opposition Terrorists “Killed Families Loyal to the Government”
Detailed Investigation
– by Marat Musin – 2012-06-01

The terrorists were not pro-government shabbiha militia as conveyed, in chorus, by the mainstream media, they were in large part mercenaries and professional killers operating under the auspices of the self-proclaimed Free Syrian Army (FSA).


WAR WITHOUT THE UN GREEN LIGHT: U.S. Ready To Attack Syria Outside UN?
– 2012-06-01


GREECE. SYRIZA’s Proposals: The Exit From the Crisis Is On the Left
– 2012-06-01


Murder, Inc: Official Obama Policy
– by Stephen Lendman – 2012-06-01


Slavery By A Different Name: The Convict Lease System
– by Devon DB – 2012-06-01


VIDEO: Montreal: Welcome to the Revolution
Protests, free speech and civil liberties discussed on GRTV
– by Bryan Law, Eric Bouthillette – 2012-06-01


FOREIGN POLICY: Russia and the Changing World
– by Vladimir Putin – 2012-06-01

Syria Houla Massacre: Government Investigation Blames Anti-Regime Forces For Killings
– 2012-05-31

BREAKING: Bilderberg Meeting 2012, LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
– 2012-05-31

Occupy Bilderberg faces off with secretive gathering
– 2012-05-31

SUPER-SECRETIVE BILDERBERG CONFAB: Vetting Mit Romney’s Running Mate?
Marco Rubio to get the nod?
– by Joe Wolverton – 2012-05-31

With New Malware Virus, Israel Fans A Virtual Flame Against Iran
– by Pierre Klochendler – 2012-05-31


“TERMINATOR PLANET”: A Drone-Eat-Drone World
With Its “Roadmap” in Tatters, The Pentagon Detours to Terminator Planet
– by Nick Turse – 2012-05-31


Imagining the “Post-Occupy Social Movement”
– by Shamus Cooke – 2012-05-31


GLOBAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWN: Convergence of 4 Explosive Factors: Banks, Stock Exchanges, Pension Funds, Debts
Sovereign debt & deadly private debt.. $30 trillion of phantom assets…
– 2012-05-31

CIA SABOTAGE OF SYRIA PEACE PLAN: Miami Cuban Dissidents Join Hands with Syrian “Opposition”
– by Jean Guy Allard – 2012-05-31


VIDEO: Tuition Fees “Tip of Iceberg” of Canada Student Protests
Tune in to GRTV to learn all the details
– by Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-05-31


VIDEO: Maple Spring Bad News for Illegitimate Harper Government
Watch GRTV to get all the information
– by Joshua Blakeney – 2012-05-31


False Reporting on the Health of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez
– by Eva Golinger – 2012-05-31

UN officials acknowledge armed gangs’ role in Syria unrest
– 2012-05-31


The Bipartisan Assault on Higher Education
– by Barry Finger – 2012-05-31


US Military Spending: Where are the Jobs?
Military spending creates 11,200 jobs for each billion dollars spent
– by Greg Guma – 2012-05-31


Covert Ops & Washington’s Contingency Plans for North Korea
– by Nile Bowie – 2012-05-31


WAR ON SYRIA IMPLIES ESCALATION: Fallout from a Syria war would engulf Israel: Larijani
– 2012-05-30


SYRIA: Killing Innocent Civilians as part of a US Covert Op. Mobilizing Public Support for a R2P War against Syria
– by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-05-30

US military doctrine envisages the central role of “massive casualty producing events” in which innocent civilians are killed. The killings are carried out as part of a covert operation. The enemy is blamed for the resulting atrocities.


BREAKING: Amnesty International slams Canada for not arresting George W. Bush for War Crimes
Bush’s authorization of torture violated international law
– 2012-05-30


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