Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,185,800"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 3,987
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$502,216,875,875
See the cost in your community
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How to Destroy a Country and Get Off Scot-Free
Linda Heard
Think about it for a moment. The warmongers invaded, crushed and occupied a country that was no threat to anyone. They stood by as it was looted, exacerbated sectarianism, flattened entire towns, tortured untold numbers of innocents, brought in gum-chewing, tattooed foreign mercenaries and paid crony companies billions of dollars for mythical reconstruction projects.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19563.htm
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Bush Still Spinning Nukes in Iran
By Marjorie Cohn
In spite of the unanimous conclusion in the National Intelligence Estimate and ElBaradei’s informed judgment, we cannot trust Bush-Cheney to abandon their imperial designs on Iran. Bush will probably provoke a military confrontation with Iran, then invoke the language in the 2002 Congressional authorization for the use of military force in Iraq that says, “The President has authority under the Constitution to take action in order to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19559.htm
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Children of Palestine and Israel
Cannon Fodder For The Rapture
By Robert Weitzel
John Hagee is not without fawning friends in Washington. Presidential hopeful John McCain made a campaign stop at the Summit and admitted to the audience that, “It’s very hard trying to do the Lord’s work in the city of Satan …”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19561.htm
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The Illusion of Democracy – If We Can Keep It
By Peter Chamberlin
We know today that many of the leading voices screaming for Muslim blood and total world war are respected religious leaders. Our greatest national leaders pretend to honor God and country by their outrageous plans for death and outright genocide, even though the apparent outcome of the neocon war will be the end of America as we know it. But that is the goal of the Armegeddon-loving preachers of the Christian-Zionist movement.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19560.htm
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In case you missed it
The Despoiling of America
How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State
By Katherine Yurica
George W. Bush began to wield the sword of God’s revenge with relish from the beginning of his administration, but most of us missed the sword play. I have taken the liberty to paraphrase an illustration from Leo Strauss, the father of the neo-conservative movement, which gives us a clue of how the hiding is done:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5646.htm
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The Collapse of American Power
Paul Craig Roberts
In his famous book, The Collapse of British Power (1972), Correlli Barnett reports that in the opening days of World War II Great Britain only had enough gold and foreign exchange to finance war expenditures for a few months. The British turned to the Americans to finance their ability to wage war. Barnett writes that this dependency signaled the end of British power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19556.htm
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America Was Conned – Who Will Pay?
By Larry Elliott, economics editor
The crisis will only end when house prices stop falling and banks stop racking up huge losses on their loans. Doing that, however, will require the US government to intervene directly in the real estate market to end the wave of foreclosures. Ideologically, it is ill-equipped to take that step and, as a result, property prices will fall and the financial meltdown will go on and on.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19562.htm
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Mankind at the Turning Point
A Planned World Economy
By Brent Jessop
Not satisfied with the control of resource prices the report also stresses the need for a planned redistribution of industry throughout the world, especially to South Asia.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19557.htm
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Bush Consolidates the National Security State
By Tom Burghardt
The Washington Post revealed Friday that the FBI is continuing its systematic violation of Americans’ Fourth Amendment guarantees against “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19558.htm
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NATO air strikes leave 32 civilians, 18 rebels dead in occupied S Afghanistan :
“It was Monday afternoon when villagers were busy in playing local game the stone throwing in Marmal village of Sangin district, suddenly the aircraft of the NATO-led Occupation Force appeared and dropped bombs, killing 50 on the spot,” Hajji Dad Mohammada told Xinhua.
tinyurl.com/347g5c
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Bomber kills 7 in Afghanistan:
A suicide car bomber attacked a group of international troops in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing three NATO troops and four Afghans, officials said.
www.torontosun.com/News/World/2008/03/18/5036856-sun.html
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Shooting rocks main Afghan prison :
Afghan security forces have sealed off the country’s main high-security prison after days of unrest there
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7303171.stm
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Afghan govt must bring rights abusers to justice:
U.N.: Many of the warlords are accused of serious rights abuses during Afghanistan’s three decades of war. They now dominate the parliament and some hold key positions within the state, but little has been done to bring them to book.
tinyurl.com/3cok9b
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Death toll rises to 50 in Iraq bombing Story Highlights:
Bombings killed six Iraqis and wounded 51 in Baghdad and Mosul on Tuesday, and the Iraqi Interior Ministry said the death toll in a suicide bombing the day before in Karbala rose to 50.
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At least 32 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
Three bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL18604014
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Over 1 million people slaughtered yet:
Cheney: Iraq invasion was “successful endeavour”:
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a “successful endeavour” during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a woman suicide bomber killed 40 people.
tinyurl.com/2y4vy8
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20pc of Iraqis displaced or refugees:
NEARLY one in five of Iraq’s population before the US-led invasion five years ago are living as internally displaced people or refugees in other countries, a global relief agency says.
tinyurl.com/256w8q
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Five-Year Iraq Occupation Has Caused Massive Refugee Crisis;
IRC Commission Calls U.S. / World Response ‘Grossly Inadequate’
tinyurl.com/28vwgm
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McCain says U.S. pullout from Iraq would boost Iran: –
U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Tuesday that a U.S. troop build up in Iraq was succeeding and a premature withdrawal would dramatically enhance Iranian influence in the region.
tinyurl.com/299uja
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Even if Dems win, total Iraq exit uncertain:
When asked in New Hampshire if they would promise to have all U.S. troops out by the end of their first term, Obama and Clinton both refused
tinyurl.com/yqra69
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Sadrists in Karbala accuse PM, local officials of seeking their “liquidation” :
“This attack targeting the Sadrists is led by the Karbala governor, the police chief and the prime minister in his capacity as supervisor of the operations room,” Sheikh Abdul-Hadi al-Mahammadawi, the head of the Sadrist office in Karbala, said
tinyurl.com/29h7a2
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US soldiers recall horror of war on innocent Iraqis:
‘Winter Soldier’ testimony sheds light on ignored atrocities caused by US troops in Iraq.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=24905
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McCain Gaffe: “Common Knowledge” That Iran Is Training Al-Qaida:
Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy expertise, misidentified in remarks Tuesday which broad category of Iraqi extremists are allegedly receiving support from Iran.
tinyurl.com/3copuh
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Asif: Days of dictatorship numbered :
Pakistan’s parliament has dealt an immediate blow to Pervez Musharraf, putting the assembly in a head-on clash with the president.
tinyurl.com/2fsvx3
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Jailed Barghouti mulls running for Palestinian presidency :
Jailed Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti said Monday that he is considering running for the Palestinian Authority presidency in the next elections that are expected to take place in 2009 or 2010.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/965610.html
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Arab MK to chief rabbis: Slam rabbinic calls to harm Arabs :
Ra’am-Ta’al Chairman MK Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsur on Monday urged Israel’s chief rabbis to condemn Halakhic rulings by National Religious rabbis calling on Jews to avenge the attack at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva earlier this month.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/965263.html
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U.S. presidential hopeful McCain gets celebrity welcome in occupied Jerusalem :
McCain began a two-day visit with a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum. As his motorcade pulled up, dozens of tourists greeted him and chanted “Mac is back,” while he shook their hands and posed for photographs.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/965745.html
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McCain backs occupied Jerusalem as ‘Israeli capital’:
US presidential candidate supports Israel’s illegal annexation of Arab east Jerusalem
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=24908
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Could you live like this?
Like the prey of a spider caught in a web? The Palestinians have been living like that for over 40 years… take a look what it’s like.
tinyurl.com/yslg49
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Cairo grappling with bread crisis:
At least two Egyptians killed in riots related to increasing demand for subsidized bread, especially in low-income areas
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3520337,00.html
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Tibetan Government-in-Exile Says 19 More Shot Dead in New Protests :
Witnesses in the Gansu county of Machu say police blocked off the streets after Buddhist monks and other Tibetans held a rally there. Witnesses tell VOA Tibetan service that they could confirm that at least 12 people were killed.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-03-18-voa26.cfm
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Hundreds dead in Tibet unrest: parliament-in-exile :
Hundreds of Tibetans have died in unrest in Lhasa and elsewhere in the Chinese-ruled Himalayan region, the India-based Tibetan parliament-in-exile said in a statement Monday.
tinyurl.com/yog8jb
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Dalai Lama to Resign if Violence Worsens:
The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control
tinyurl.com/23e5f8
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Crush Tibet: China’s only path:
The Dalai Lama’s spiritual power terrifies Beijing. Might, not persuasion, is its only response
tinyurl.com/2opxj9
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Russia may bring its troops to Kosovo to protect Serbs :
Russia in this case will be represented as peacekeepers, undermining the authority of the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping mission, creating potential for conflict, or heralding a partition of the territory.
www.russia-ic.com/news/show/5964/
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Guard killed in blast near U.S. embassy in Yemeni capital :
A Yemeni guard was killed in an explosion Tuesday near the U.S. embassy in the capital of San’a, a Yemeni Interior Ministry official said. Other local guards and some schoolchildren were also wounded in the blast.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/965660.html
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Chavez calls Bush ‘responsible for genocide’ :
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez yesterday lashed back at US President George W Bush calling him a “terrorist” responsible for “genocide.”
tinyurl.com/2fua4z
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Exxon $12 Billion Venezuela Asset Freeze Overturned:
A London court today dropped an injunction freezing assets belonging to Petroleos de Venezuela SA, known as PDVSA, because the dispute wasn’t connected to the U.K. Exxon said it won’t appeal the ruling
tinyurl.com/yor6lw
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Banned: Al-Hajj’s Guantanamo cartoon banned :
The US army has banned the publication of four cartoons drawn by Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera camera held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to his lawyer.
tinyurl.com/323xpe
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US supreme court hears gun case :
The US supreme court is hearing a legal challenge to Washington DC’s restrictions on gun ownership, the first time in almost 70 years the court has judged whether citizens have the right to keep and bear arms.
tinyurl.com/39pdxt
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Bush defangs watchdog for spy agencies:
Almost 32 years to the day after President Gerald Ford created an independent Intelligence Oversight Board made up of private citizens with top-level clearances to ferret out illegal spying activities, President Bush issued an executive order that stripped the board of much of its authority.
tinyurl.com/yplzc2
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CIA Expands Legal Help for Workers:
A change in administrations could make it more likely lawsuits will be filed against CIA interrogators for a controversial program approved by the Bush White House – the use of harsh interrogation techniques and the secret movement of prisoners, known as extraordinary rendition.
tinyurl.com/2h9tly
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Putin calls for rouble vigilance as dollar plummets: –
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged his government and Central Bank on Monday to keep a close eye on rouble appreciation as the dollar continues to plummet against world currencies.
www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7391155
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Is Britain heading for a Great Depression?:
The financial crisis plunged to a new low today as £51 billion was wiped off the value of Britain’s top companies.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/view17c.xml
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A financial crisis unmatched since the Great Depression, say analysts:
Students of the markets say the only recent parallel with the current turmoil is Japan in the 1990s, but other than that they have had to study the 1930s, when 9,000 banks failed, 1907 when JP Morgan told Wall Street enough was enough after a 50% drop in shares, and even to the series of economic and financial upheavals during the final quarter of the 19th century.
tinyurl.com/28gm2t
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Europe idle as US battles meltdown:
The US Federal Reserve has resorted to the nuclear option in its ever-more depleted arsenal, invoking a Depression-era clause to shoulder the risk of losses stemming from the collapse of Bear Stearns, and to lend money directly to broker dealers.
tinyurl.com/2ax5ty
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Fears mount over US economy :
The dollar on Friday fell below the Swiss franc for the first time ever and George Bush, US president, conceded that the country was “going through a tough time”.
tinyurl.com/yq9hec
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Paulson admits US economy is in decline :
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today said the economy is in “sharp decline,” the closest he has come yet to conceding that a recession has already set in.
tinyurl.com/24b8e8
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ANALYSIS: U.S. economy in crisis as it pays price for greed :
The stock market usually runs on 90 percent economics and 10 percent psychology. On Monday the proportions were reversed. Fear rules, the future looks threatening and uncertain, and the biggest fear is the collapse of the U.S. financial system.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/965543.html
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‘Ontario residents only’ at Tent City:
Large, often confused, crowds formed ragged lines behind police barricades where officers handed out color-coded wristbands. Blue meant they were from Ontario and could remain.
tinyurl.com/ypgwu7