Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,173,743"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 3,960
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$494,623,563,107
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?
option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Talking to a Wall
Palestine in the Mind of America
By Kathleen and Bill Christison
The self-absorption evident during this meeting, the general “don’t-rock-the-boat” posture, the overwhelming lack of concern for the victims of Israeli and U.S. power amount to a license to kill for the U.S. and its allies. The same unconcern allowed the United States to get away with killing millions of Vietnamese decades ago; it gives license to mass U.S. killing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19360.htm
 
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Bringing Down The New Berlin walls
By John Pilger
John Pilger describes how the Palestinian breakout of Gaza offers inspiration for people struggling to bring down the new Berlin Walls all over the world.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19358.htm
 
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The Lost Kristol Tapes
“This Is going To Be A Two Months War”
By Jonathan Schwarz
It’s a masterpiece, a double album of smarm, horrifying ignorance, and bald-faced deceit. While you’ve heard him play those instruments before, he never again reached such heights. It’s a performance for the history books – particularly that chapter about how the American Empire collapsed.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19359.htm
 
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Mr. Bush You Are A Fascist
Video
Keith Olbermann Special Comment. Click to view
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19361.htm
 
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Paulson’s Wild Ride On The Hindenburg
“The Worst Has Just Begun”     
By Mike Whitney
It’s a good thing Hank Paulson wasn’t around in 1929 or we’d all be hawking apples on a street-corner.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19354.htm
 
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Latin America’s Changing Mosiac
Movements in Flux and Center-Left Governments in Power
By James Petras
Once again intellectuals, particularly on the left, have succumbed to the rhetoric of social change, to symbolic acts, which are structurally inconsequential, to cultural identities rather than material interests and to the fatal attraction of close proximity to the centers of power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19356.htm
 
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Is Bush A Failure?
Video
Michael Parenti is one of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts. Here is a rich buffet of his deep but lucid writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, gender, and ethnicity – along with a few choice selections drawn from his own life experiences and political awakening.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19355.htm
 
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US occupation forces air strikes kill 8 in Iraqi family:
The dead included a woman and five children, VOI said.
tinyurl.com/3e2cxs
 
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US kills 6 fighters allied with occupation forces and two women:
Six members of an Awakening Council, groups composed mostly of Sunni Muslims who have turned against the insurgency, were killed early Thursday after they mistakenly fired on American soldiers in the north, the Iraqi police said.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/15/africa/15iraq.php
 
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Four killed in Iraq mosque attack :
At least four people have been killed in an attack by two suicide bombers outside a Shia mosque in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police say.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7247087.stm
 
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Iraqis say U.S. mistakenly killed 3, fired on them again: –
Three neighborhood security guards were killed and two others were injured when an American helicopter fired at their checkpoint south of Baghdad early today, police said.
tinyurl.com/2vsshh
 
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Is the US really bringing stability to Baghdad?:
In the US and Europe, the main measure of whether the war in Iraq is “going well” or “going badly” is the casualty figures. The number of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians being killed went down to 39 US soldiers and 599 Iraqi civilians in January. The White House is promoting the idea that the United States is finally on the road to success, if not victory, in Iraq.
tinyurl.com/yosweo
 
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Iraq death rate belies US claims of success:
The death rate in Iraq in the past 12 months has been the second highest in any year since the invasion, according to figures that appear to contradict American claims that the troop “surge” has dramatically reduced the level of violence across the country.
tinyurl.com/2kmj2q
 
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US Reacts Cautiously To Planned Ahmadinejad Visit To Iraq-:
“Do we see this as provocative?” McCormack said in reply to a question about the Iranian president’s visit. “Not inherently provocative. I don’t know what he is going to do and to say there. I guess we will see.”
tinyurl.com/2l45ha
 
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The illegitimacy of striking Iran:
There is no justification in international law for pre-emptive strikes of any nature
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/884/op1.htm
 
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Iranian foreign minister meets with heads of Hamas, Islamic Jihad in Syria:
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met in Damascus with Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal and with Secretary-General of Islamic Jihad, Ramadan Shalah, according to the IRNA news agency.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3507206,00.html
 
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Palestinians Resistance clash with Israeli Occupation Forces in Rafah: –
Members of the National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), engaged on wednesday in armed confrontations with Israeli Occupation Forces in Rafah, south of Gaza Strip.
www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?
Language=en&DSNO=1070585
 
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UN official ‘shocked’ by Gaza visit:
The UN’s top humanitarian affairs official said he was shocked by a “grim and miserable” situation he encountered during a visit to impoverished Gaza, and urged that the territory’s borders be opened.
tinyurl.com/38zu3t
 
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Hamas tells Egypt ready to discuss Israel truce:
Hamas said on Friday it has told Egyptian officials it would consider a ceasfire with Israel if it lifted its blockade of the Gaza Strip and ceased military operations in all Palestinian territories.
africa.reuters.com/country/EG/news/usnL15864659.html
 
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Hezbollah chief declares ‘open war’:
“Zionists, if you want this kind of open war, then let the whole world listen: Let this war be open,” Mr Nasrallah said in a fiery speech broadcast on a giant screen at the funeral of slain top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughnieh.
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23217391-38201,00.html
 
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‘Syria ready to talk to Israel’ :
Syria is prepared for peace talks with Israel, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim has said.
tinyurl.com/2w7nn4
 
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Taliban kill three policemen in Afghanistan :
Three Afghan policemen were killed when Taliban militants ambushed their patrol in western Afghanistan on Friday, officials said Friday.
tinyurl.com/323zyw
 
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Retired official says Pakistan vote rigged:
Speaking to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, the official said the country’s intelligence agencies, concentrating on key rural constituencies, have allegedly fixed the electoral rolls, “pre-stuffed” ballot-boxes and drafted compliant election officers.
tinyurl.com/3ylvkf
 
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We didn’t stop that war, but may have stopped the next:
The demonstration, and the movement around it, exploded the notion that society is slumped in a consumer-sodden apathy, and incapable of political engagement.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/13/antiwar.iraq
 
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UK branded ‘a disgrace’ in Iraq:
The Government has been branded a “disgrace” for continuing to be involved in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan on the fifth anniversary of the huge anti-war demonstration.
tinyurl.com/2l9l24
 
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The Case Against Alan Dershowitz:
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
www.counterpunch.com/menetrez02122008.html
 
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Which Holocaust?
Sarkozy defends Holocaust proposal amid uproar:
In a speech praising faith that also drew fire from secularists, Sarkozy told France’s Jewish community on Wednesday that every 10-year-old schoolchild should be “entrusted with the memory of a French child victim of the Holocaust.”
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080215/wl
_nm/france_sarkozy_religion_dc
 
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Blair used ‘irresistible pressure’ to halt investigation into BAE-Saudi arms deal:
Tony Blair wrongly influenced due legal process when he used “irresistible pressure” to end the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into alleged bribery and corruption involving arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia, it was alleged in the High Court yesterday.
tinyurl.com/29n74e
 
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Venezuela’s oil minister says Exxon demanding excessive compensation :
Exxon Mobil Corp. is demanding more than 10 times the compensation the company could rightly deserve from Venezuela for the nationalization of an oil venture, the country’s top oil official said Thursday.
tinyurl.com/367sgv
 
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Republican representative drives sanction against Chávez:
Republican Representative Eliana Ros-Lehtinen thinks there are enough grounds to believe that President Hugo Chávez’s government is endorsing irregular terrorist groups, and therefore she vindicated her faction’s proposal to include Venezuela in the list of countries supporting terrorism.
tinyurl.com/2oe496
 
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Who is Really on the Defensive?:
Hugo Chávez and High Anxiety at the NYT
www.counterpunch.org/irelan02132008.html
 
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Share land, not power:
Kenya’s independence from Britain brought political freedom, not the people’s liberation – hence the current crisis
commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_kimani/
2008/02/share_land_not_power.html
 
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Why blame China?:
It’s gratifying to have a new focus on Darfur but China’s role in halting the country’s conflict is no bigger than anyone else’s
tinyurl.com/2neay9
 
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We should say sorry, too:
Australia’s apology does not absolve Britain of its role in the degradation of the Aboriginal race
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/14/australia
 
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US official admits waterboarding presently illegal:
A senior official in the Bush justice department said for the first time today that the controversial interrogation tactic is currently illegal.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/14/terrorism.usa
 
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London bombs justify ‘torture’, says Bush:
President George Bush cited the London July 7 bombings in an interview broadcast last night to justify his support for waterboarding, an interrogation technique widely regarded as torture.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/15/terrorism.usa1
 
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Bush plans to veto waterboarding ban:
US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding.
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/
0,21985,23217392-5005961,00.html
 
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Lieberman backs waterboarding:
 ’It’s not like we’re burning people with hot coals’
rawstory.com/news/2008/Lieberman_
backs_waterboarding_Its_not_like_0215.html
 
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More than 24 thousand of Guantanamo interrogations were taped: report:
More than 24,000 interrogations of suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo prison camp were videotaped, though the US military has not confirmed the videos exist, a report said Thursday.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jPWdlTVbuJ6dCEe_riDVcxewo2Fg
 
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Bush Wants Limits on Access to Evidence:
The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to limit judges’ authority to scrutinize evidence against detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iTl59qEo
cyaIm0Odovt293VWgzHwD8UQCRT80
 
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US subprime crisis costs global 7.7 trillion dollars: bank :
The meltdown in the US subprime real-estate market has led to a global loss of 7.7 trillion dollars in stock-market value since October, a report by Bank of America showed Thursday.
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=0802
14202021.5qwu7lx0&show_article=1
 
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Is a Collapse in the Cards? :
As I write this, stocks around the world are falling, the U.S. Federal Reserve is madly cutting interest rates to try to head off a recession, and everyone is worried about a global economic slowdown
www.time.com/time/magazine/
article/0,9171,1713333,00.html
 
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House Cites 2 Bush Aides for Contempt :
The House voted Thursday to issue contempt citations against the White House chief of staff and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the mass firings of federal prosecutors.
tinyurl.com/2czyj7=
 
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