Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,139,602
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 3,902
icasualties.org/oif/

The War in Iraq Costs
$482,882,670,716

See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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No Murder Charges Filed in Haditha Case

By Josh White

After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18995.htm

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In Case You Missed it

Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha

3 Minute Video Report

Ten-year-old Iman Walid witnessed  the killing of seven members of her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani,our Iraqi video diarist.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13452.htm

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A Drunken Night in Iraq, A Soldier Is Left Behind

By Donna St. George

The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured. Her right side was marked by the angular tread of a tire.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18996.htm

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Iraqis Resort to Selling Children

By Afif Sarhan in Baghdad

Abu Muhammad, a Baghdad resident, found it difficult to let go of his daughter’s hand but he had already convinced himself that selling her to a family outside Iraq would provide her with a better future.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18997.htm

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Evidence of Israeli ‘Cowardly Blending’ Comes to Light

By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth

It apparently never occurred to anyone in our leading human rights organisations or the Western media that the same moral and legal standards ought be applied to the behaviour of Israel and Hizbullah during the war on Lebanon 18 months ago. Belatedly, an important effort has been made to set that right.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19003.htm

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Extinguishing Liberty’s Light and Independent Views

Thinking For Yourself Is Now A Crime

By Paul Craig Roberts

What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush’s “surge” in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19002.htm

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Social Repression and Internet Surveillance

H. Res. 1695, 1955 & S.1959

By Nikki Alexander

If current employees of the Federal Government are not happy with the laws that govern this country and would prefer to live under totalitarian regimes they are free to exit and live elsewhere. They are not free to pervert our laws to conform with their own personal belief systems and ideologically based values.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18998.htm

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Education is Ignorance

Noam Chomsky

Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don’t think people didn’t know it. They knew it and they fought against it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19001.htm

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The NIST Report on the World Trade Center Collapse one year later:

Still Dead On Arrival

By Mark H. Gaffney

It is high time that Americans face the shocking reality that explosives were used to bring down the World Trade Center on 9/11.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm

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An Open Letter to the Jewish Community On Behalf of Ron Paul

By Jose Cohen

Whether we like or dislike Paul’s ideas, calling him an anti-Semite or anti-Israel is both a serious insult to the truth and a totally unwarranted accusation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19000.htm

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Iraq: Thursday : 41 Iraqis Killed; 34 Iraqis Wounded As US Occupation Grinds On :

In Baghdad, three unidentified bodies were found
antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=12155

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Military: Three U.S. soldiers killed in first reportd 2008 fatalities:

Two soldiers were killed and a third was injured Thursday in a small arms fire attack in the turbulent Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, a military statement said.
snipurl.com/1wlj2

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McCain : Would Be “Fine” To Keep Troops in Iraq for “A Hundred Years”:

The United States military could stay in Iraq for “maybe a hundred years” and that “would be fine with me,” John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire
snipurl.com/1wlj4

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Propaganda and disinformation:

Iran no longer aids Iraq militants: Iran’s leaders are no longer supplying weapons or training to Islamic militants in Iraq, the spokesman for the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Washington Times.
snipurl.com/1wlj6

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Bombs, battles kill 14 Taliban militants:

Roadside bombs and military operations killed 21 people, including a coalition soldier and 14 Taliban fighters, officials said Wednesday.
www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/inte
rnational/story/242218.html?imw=Y

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Seven Killed In Suicide Bomb Attack In Southwestern Afghanistan :

Seven people were killed and 12 others wounded in southwestern Afghanistan in a suicide bomb attack targeting Indian road construction workers and their Afghan police escorts, an official said on Thursday.
snipurl.com/1wlj9

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Pakistan: Top pro-Taliban commander’s hideout ‘bombed’ :

Warplanes bombed the suspected locations of militants in the lawless South Waziristan tribal area on Thursday after an intelligence report said that the militant Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud was hiding somewhere in the area.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1734496251

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Gwynne Dyer: A society girl with US style:

Benazir Bhutto did five years of hard time in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, after her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was overthrown and hanged by the worst of Pakistan’s military dictators, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/sto
ry.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10484953

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Israel kills Hamas resistance fighters in Gaza :

The move against members of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, on Friday centred on Bait Hanun and followed days of operations that have killed at least 11 Palestinians.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E6E5291
4-0BB0-4716-8755-A0C526283288.htm

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Report: Switzerland mediating Hamas-Israel 10-years ceasefire:

Al-Arabiya reported on Friday that according to Swiss sources, Swiss government officials were mediating between Israel and Hamas in indirect negotiations concerning a 10-year ceasefire and prisoner exchange.
snipurl.com/1wljc

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Fatah loses support among Palestinians:

Despite international political and financial support, the popularity of the Fatah faction headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has declined over the past month, partially because of mistrust in the group’s leaders, according to a poll published Friday.
snipurl.com/1wljd

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Olmert says that Israel not fully sticking to commitment on settlements:

Israel is not sticking to its commitment to halt building in Jewish settlements, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview published Friday in an Israeli newspaper, days before U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in the region to prod Israel and the Palestinians toward a final peace deal.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01
/04/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Olmert.php

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Israel Blockade: Children In Crisis :

Must watch video on what’s happening to children of Gaza
snipurl.com/1wljh

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Gilad Atzmon – The Tzabar and the Sabbar:

Zionism is a total disaster. It is a colonial, expansionist, nationalist philosophy based on racial chauvinism.
peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2008/01/gilad-atzmon-tzabar-and-sabbar.html

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Dr. Gates vs. Dr. Paul: What the Secretary of Defense is saying is simply this:

The United States will take a more active role in rebuilding the infrastructure and restoring the government of countries that it invades, destroys, and occupies. Oh yes, Dr. Gates (he has a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history) did mention that the military defends our freedoms. But as Jacob Hornberger has shown, U.S. troops do just the opposite.
www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance130.html

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Korea ‘declared nuclear programmes’ :

The reports came a newspaper said the country was bolstering its “war deterrent”, accusing the US of planning a nuclear war.
snipurl.com/1wlkj

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Paul Krugman: Dealing with the dragon :

Forget the war in Iraq. It is time to start talking about the biggest foreign policy issue America’s next president will face: the Far East rather than the Middle East.
www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,526682,00.html

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Kenya government rejects election re-run:

The Kenyan government on Friday flatly rejected an opposition request for a presidential election re-run within three months, saying the proposal smacked of “blackmail”.
www.afp.com/english/news/stories/080104141509.lohoywad.html

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Fear and Loathing in Bolivia: :

Two major developments marked the close of the year in Bolivia: the passage of a new constitution and the worsening of political polarization in the country
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=52&ItemID=14644

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FBI to lead investigation of destroyed CIA tapes:

In some law enforcement circles the prospect of the FBI’s interviewing high-level CIA officials and rummaging around the files of the agency’s secret interrogation programs represents a payback moment in the rich history of rivalry between the two agencies.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/03/america/intel.php

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US Army Bonus Payments Frozen:

President Bush, to the surprise of Congress and the Defense Department, vetoed the fiscal 2008 Defense Authorization Act on Dec. 29 after months bargaining with House and Senate leaders.
snipurl.com/1wkph

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Obama, Huckabee Score Victories in Iowa Caucus:

Senator Barack Obama and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee have won the Iowa caucuses, the first of the 2008 campaign.
www.democracynow.org/

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