Date: 11 January 2008
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,165,204
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 3,921
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$484,859,118,988
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
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Bin Laden Turns Heat on Saudi Arabia
By Michael Scheuer
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s latest message is one of the richest, most comprehensive and starkly realistic he has issued since the start of the Iraq war. This essay considers al-Qaeda’s dour recognition of its inability to control post-occupation events in Iraq as a small vanguard organization and a non-Iraqi presence in the country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19051.htm
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CIA Reveals:
We Said In 1974 That Israel Had Nuclear Weapons
By Amir Oren
Israel was also suspected of providing nuclear materials, equipment or technology to Iran, South Africa and other then-friendly countries.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19042.htm
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Official Version of U.S.-Iranian Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
Democracy Now! Audio & Transcript
New information reveals that the alleged Iranian threat to American naval vessels may have been blown out of proportion. We speak to investigative historian Gareth Porter.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19043.htm
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Welcome To The Persian Gulf
By Daniel M Pourkesali
According to a report published in the New York Times, unnamed Pentagon officials are saying that the threatening voice heard in the audio clip which was recorded separately from the video images and merged together later by the Navy, “is not traceable to the Iranian military”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19047.htm
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Welcome, Mr President, To The Misery You’ve Created
By Jonathan Steele
In eight years Palestinians have seen the bald eagle of enlightened US power degenerate into a phoney, biased, cynical lame duck.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19052.htm
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Why Don’t You Bomb Yourself And Save Us All
By Gilad Atzmon
“President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial on Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19054.htm
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A Lasting Settlement?
By Karma Nabulsi
While George Bush talks up the prospects for peace, in reality he backs Israel’s assault on Palestinians’ legitimate national aspirations.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19046.htm
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“What Is The Lesson To Be Learned From The Holocaust?”
By Silvia Cattori
Hedy Epstein, is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished. In 1948, Hedy Epstein went to live in United States. In 2003, she decided to make a trip to Palestine. Shocked by the oppression that the Israeli government is imposing on the Palestinians, she is, since then, devoting herself to make it known to the world.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19044.htm
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Religion-Politics Mix Gives Rise to Fear
By Naomi Schalit
I’m a Jew and I’m scared.It’s not just that Mike Huckabee, an Evangelical and self-described “Christian Leader,” won the GOP Iowa presidential caucus last week. It’s the photos of his supporters praying and holding American flags.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19045.htm
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The Winning Ticket: Hillary and Diebold in 2008
By Mike Whitney
Something doesn’t ring true about Hillary’s “upset” victory in the New Hampshire primary. It just doesn’t pass the smell test.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19050.htm
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“You Can’t Do Anything Unless You Try!”
By Mary Pitt
The progressive movement turned out in force in 2006, defeated many of the hard-core Bushites and installed “liberal” Democrats in their stead. It didn’t help. They were stymied at every turn by their business-as-usual senior colleagues of both parties who really understood “how the game is played”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19049.htm
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Ron Paul Forcefully Responds To Racism Charges
Video
Ron Paul explain his dislike for collectivist racist views.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19053.htm
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“For America to Live, Europe Must Die”
By Russell Means
The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is Russell Means’ most famous speech.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19048.htm
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‘21 “Qaeda fighters” killed in US air blitz’:
A massive US air blitz on Al Qaeda” targets south of Baghdad killed a local leader and at least 20 other militants, the head of an anti-Qaeda front said on Friday.”
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Iraq: At least 17 killed as US occupation grinds on:
Iraqi soldiers killed nine “gunmen” and arrested 59 others during the past 24 hours
www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSANW175389
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Civilian Deaths Massive by Any Measure:
How many Iraqi civilians have lost their lives as a result of gunshots and bombings since the U.S. military invaded that oil-rich Arab nation nearly five years ago?
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40758
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Turkey shells northern Iraq :
Turkish artillery shelled northern Iraq on Friday morning, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or material damage, a Kurdish government official said.
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Blackwater dropped blinding tear gas on Iraqis, US soldiers:
Use of CS gas in war is prohibited by the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (signed in 1993)
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Bush: We Could “Easily” Be In Iraq For Another 10 Years:
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could “easily” last a decade, but that it would be at the invitation of the Iraqi government.
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26 killed in Pakistan suicide blast :
At least 22 police and four civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack Thursday outside the high court in the commercial heart of Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city.
www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=249255&n=34
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US Military ‘Extremely’ Concerned About Al-Qaida Safe Havens in Pakistan :
During a news conference at the Pentagon Friday, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen said al-Qaida militants are not only launching attacks in neighboring Afghanistan, but also inside Pakistan.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-11-voa61.cfm
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US would ‘regret’ Pakistan operation:
President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview published Friday that U.S. troops would be regarded as invaders if they crossed into Pakistan to hunt al-Qaida militants.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-11-voa61.cfm
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Shots at Benazir fired from a .30 gun: report :
Possibility of a second gunman
www.hindu.com/2008/01/12/stories/2008011256631500.htm
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1 NATO Occupation Force Soldier Killed in Afghan Blast:
A NATO vehicle struck a mine in southern Afghanistan, killing one soldier and wounding another, while a militant attack in the east left a policeman dead, officials said Thursday.
www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Jan10/0,4670,AfghanViolence,00.html
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US Admiral Says Iran Risks Gulf Conflict :
The top U.S. military commander in the Mideast said Friday that Iran runs the risk of triggering an unintended conflict if its boats continue to harass U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.
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US Navy threat may not have been Iranian:
THE US navy says there is “no way to know” if a threat radioed to US warships in the Strait of Hormuz came from Iranian speedboats, casting doubt on the earlier US version of Sunday’s confrontation.
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23036718-5005961,00.html
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Occupation of Palestinian land must end, Bush tells Israel :
President George Bush last night called for Israel to end what he unequivocally called its “occupation” of territory seized in 1967 and proposed “compensation” as a means of solving the issue of Palestinian refugees
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Gilad Atzmon – The Primacy of the Ear :
An alternative take on the Israeli Palestinian conflict and peace activism
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Blair accused of taking blood money :
Gets over £1m job with US bank profiting from Iraq war
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Did Hillary Really Win New Hampshire?:
More Questions About Diebold Voting Machines
www.counterpunch.org/lindorff01112008.html
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Will Your Vote Be Counted in 2008? :
Every vote counts. But will every vote actually be counted? One-by-one, states across the country are finding critical flaws in the accuracy and security of electronic voting machines.
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Paulson Sees `No Evidence’ Housing Decline Is Ending:
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the housing decline will continue, and a program aimed at heading off a wave of foreclosures may need to be expanded beyond subprime borrowers.
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BofA’s awesome Countrywide tax break:
Brace yourselves, taxpayers of America. You’re going to help Bank of America finance its $4 billion buyout of Countrywide.
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Write-down at Merrill Lynch may hit $15 billion:
Merrill Lynch is expected to suffer $15 billion in losses stemming from soured mortgage investments, almost double its original estimate, prompting the firm to raise additional capital from an outside investor.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/11/business/11wall.php
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China’s trade surplus hits record $262bn:
Surplus cutting drives have left the banking system swamped with cash as China faces EU and US pressure to boost the yuan
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US’s triple-A credit rating ‘under threat’:
The US is at risk of losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating within a decade unless it takes radical action to curb soaring healthcare and social security spending, Moody’s, the credit rating agency, said yesterday.
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fcc631cc-bfe6-11dc-8052-0000779fd2ac.html
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