Paul Craig Roberts: America’s Next 9/11
Date: 24 March 2008
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,191,216"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,000
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$505,270,526,180
See the cost in your community
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A Little Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down
America’s Next 9/11
By Paul Craig Roberts
There is so much that Americans do not know about secret schemes serving undeclared agendas. Those who have attempted to clue in fellow citizens are invariably frustrated, because Americans have been trained to dismiss the messenger who brings news of “false flag” events as a “conspiracy theorist.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19598.htm
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Curveball: ‘I Am Not To Blame’ for U.S. War in Iraq
By Maddy Sauer
Defector Says He Never Claimed Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19594.htm
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Happy Anniversary, America!
How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?
By David Michael Green
Watching George W. Bush in operation these last couple of weeks is like having an out-of-body experience. On acid. During a nightmare. In a different galaxy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19596.htm
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The Naive Armchair Warriors Are Fighting A Delusional War
By Alastair Crooke
Calls for the west to use force to restore its values in the face of radical Islam reveal a profound detachment from reality.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19599.htm
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Tibet and the March 10 commemoration of the CIA’s 1959 ‘uprising’
By Gary Wilson
Has Tibet become the front line of a new national liberation struggle? Or is something else happening there?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19595.htm
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How Ireland Exorcised The Ghost Of Empire
By Robert Fisk
On the 92nd anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, Robert Fisk sees numerous parallels between the bloody, intractable conflicts in Ireland and Israel – and says that the war in Iraq has shown us the true value of neutrality.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19597.htm
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US Occupation Forces Kill 30 in Baquba
By Deutsche Presse-Agentur
In one incident, US helicopters attacked four residential houses in the Dhalka area of the city, killing 15 people of a single family, Iraqi officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Two further people were wounded in the attack.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19586.htm
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U.S. Threatened Allies on Iraq, Diplomat Writes
By Colum Lynch
In the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threatened trade reprisals against friendly countries who withheld their support, spied on its allies, and pressed for the recall of U.N. envoys that resisted U.S. pressure to endorse the war, according to an upcoming book by a top Chilean diplomat.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19584.htm
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A Tear In Both Eyes
A Mother And A Daughter Reunited
2 Minute Video
Two survivors from the Sabra & Shatila massacre.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19593.htm
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Occupier Backs Occupation
Cheney Backs Israel Over Security
By BBC.
“America’s commitment to Israel’s security is enduring and unshakeable, as is our commitment to Israel’s right to defend itself – always – against terrorism, rocket attacks and other threats from forces dedicated to Israel’s destruction,” Mr Cheney said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19588.htm
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Where Has All The Rage Gone?
By Tariq Ali
Renegades occupy posts in every west European government defending exploitation, wars, state terror and neocolonial occupations.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19587.htm
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Rewriting History?
The Saddam’s Files
By Michael Isikoff
They show terror plots, but raise new questions about some U.S. claims.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19585.htm
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Presstitute and war pimp alert:
Signs of Iran’s Hand in Iraq
By MARK KUKIS/BAGHDAD
One of the armor-piercing roadside bombs in Iraq has a nickname among the militants who place the device. They call it the Najadia, a short variation on the long name of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “My group and I believe honestly in fighting the Americans – and getting financial benefit out of it,” says Hussein Ali, an Iraqi Shi’ite guerrilla who recounted a journey to Iran for training in explosives in an interview with TIME.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19591.htm
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Why All the Foreign Bases?
By Sam Baker
Why does the US need new military bases in Bulgaria and Romania? According to Chalmers Johnson, in his book “The Sorrows of Empire,” America already possesses more than 725 overseas bases. This incredible estimate comes from two official sources: The Department of Defense’s “Base Structure Report,” and “Worldwide Manpower Distribution by Geographical Area.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19592.htm
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Turning Off The Tap On Right To Water
By Maude Barlow
As it stands, Canada and the United States are the only two countries to go on record at the United Nations to oppose the right to water.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19590.htm
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Sunday: At Least 60 Die In Another Bloody Day Of US Occupation::
In Baghdad, meanwhile, police found the bodies of six people killed execution-style
tinyurl.com/2ava2o
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No mention of the 1.25 million Iraqis slaughtered but:
Bush ‘grieved’ that US toll in Iraq reached 4,000: White House :
Vice President Dick Cheney, on a visit to Jerusalem, said earlier that the grim milestone “may have a psychological effect on the public but it’s a tragedy that we live in a kind of world where that happens.”
tinyurl.com/yrqqhe
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Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran:
Iran ‘behind Green Zone attack’ :
The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday’s bombardment of Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7311565.stm
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THE REAL STORY OF ‘CURVEBALL’:
How German Intelligence Helped Justify the US Invasion of Iraq:
Five years ago, the US government presented what it said was proof that Iraq harbored biological weapons. The information came from a source developed by German intelligence — and it turned out to be disastrously wrong. But to this day, Germany denies any responsibility.
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,542840,00.html
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Iran starts supplying electricity to Basra :
Electricity transfer from Iran’s Abadan to Basra to compensate for the province’s energy shortage has just begun, the Iraqi official told the war-torn country’s state-run newspaper al-Sabah.
www.payvand.com/news/08/mar/1253.html
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Barak to Cheney: We must keep all options open vis a vie Iran:
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told United States Vice President Dick Cheney during their Sunday meeting that Iran’s nuclear proliferation is putting the stability of the entire Middle East, and the entire world, in jeopardy.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3522645,00.html
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US deploys nuclear sub to Persian Gulf’ :
An American nuclear submarine has crossed the Suez Canal to join the US fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf, Egyptian sources say. Egyptian officials reported that the nuclear submarine crossed the canal along with a destroyer on Friday and Egyptian forces were put on high alert when the navy convoy was passing through the canal.
www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=102736
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Cheney hits out at Iran, Syria:
Iran and Syria “are doing everything they can to torpedo the peace process,” Cheney told reporters in Jerusalem as he wrapped up a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories before heading to Turkey.
tinyurl.com/2bta4n
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Iran announces it is seeking membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization:
Iran’s Foreign Minister said Monday his country has applied to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional security group dominated by China and Russia.
tinyurl.com/yo3kfg
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UAE says to explore nuclear energy for electricity :
The United Arab Emirates says it will establish a $100 million agency to look into developing nuclear energy to satisfy rising electricity demand in the Gulf oil exporter on Iran’s doorstep.
tinyurl.com/yu9skn
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Palestinian civillian killed by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza: :
Yussef Abu Daher was shot dead near the Al-Qarara village by Israeli soldiers who opened fire from a military position near the Kissufim crossing, witnesses said.
tinyurl.com/22r7kl
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Hamas and Fatah Agree to Revive Direct Talks:
Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a Yemeni-sponsored deal Sunday promising to revive direct talks after months of hostilities, but differences remained over the future of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2008/03/24/251.html
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Israel will shun Abbas over Hamas :
Israel threatened to cut off peace talks with Mahmoud Abbas if his Fatah faction joins forces with Hamas.
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107682.html
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Israel won’t consider deal with Syria over Golan Heights :
Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday that Israel will not make a deal with Syria to return the Golan Heights, the Jerusalem Post reported.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/23/content_7843900.htm
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Hamas men ‘tortured by Egyptians’ :
The Palestinian militant movement Hamas has accused Egypt of torturing members of the group who were detained after crossing from the Gaza Strip.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7308538.stm
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Al-Qaida No. 2 Calls For New Attacks:
The four-minute tape with a voice that sounds like Ayman al-Zawahri accuses Egypt’s president of helping Israel in the offensive by sealing off the border between Egypt and Gaza.
www.nbc30.com/news/15687332/detail.html
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12 Taliban insurgents killed in S. Afghanistan :
“The clash, during which 12 rebels were killed, took place Sunday in Chora district when police backed by the international troops launched a clean-up operation against militants in that area,” Humat told Xinhua.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/24/content_7849485.htm
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Five Afghan deminers shot dead:
The attackers halted a convoy of workers for Afghan Technical Consultants (ATC) in the northern province of Jawzjan as they drove back to their base camp after mine clearing operations in a remote area, their director said.
tinyurl.com/yv54dp
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Musharraf approved US attacks on Qaida targets along Pak border’:
Since January, missiles reportedly fired from CIA operated Predator drones have hit at least three suspected hideouts of Islamic militants, including a strike on March 16 in Toog village in South Waziristan that left 20 dead.
tinyurl.com/25x8o8
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Dr Arshad Waheed killed in Wana :
Karachi-based Dr Arshad Waheed, who was running a clinic in Wana, was identified as one of the victims of an alleged US missile attack on a house sheltering militants in Wana on March 16.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=13711
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Bhutto Ally Elected Pakistan Premier :
A longtime loyalist of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was elected Pakistan’s new prime minister Monday and vowed to seek the release of judges detained under President Pervez Musharraf.
tinyurl.com/2xfnw7
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All Judges Jailed by Musharraf Freed :
Pakistan’s state-run news agency is quoting a senior Islamabad administrator as saying that all judges detained under the government of President Pervez Musharraf are free.
tinyurl.com/2adwca
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Pakistan chief justice freed from house arrest:
Pakistan’s deposed chief justice made his first public appearance in four months today after the country’s newly-elected prime minister ordered judges detained by President Pervez Musharraf to be freed.
www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=2792437
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Tibet : Death toll reaches 130:
TWO weeks of protests against China’s rule of Tibet have left about 130 people dead, an exiled Tibetan leader says as the unrest threatened to overshadow the lighting of the Olympic torch.
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23425614-38197,00.html
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China accuses Dalai Lama of terrorism:
China stepped into the news vacuum it created in Tibet to launch a barrage of criticism over the weekend aimed at the Dalai Lama, accusing him of colluding with Muslim terrorists to destabilize the country before the Olympics.
tinyurl.com/23hxst
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Protesters disrupt Olympic flame ceremony:
Pro-Tibetan demonstrators disturb high security ceremony to light Olympic flame in Greece
sport.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2267836,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=7
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Gorbachev slams US anti-missile plans in eastern Europe :
You believe that (the system) will be used against Iran? No, the whole system is aimed against Russia and China,” Gorbachev said in an interview broadcast by Czech public television today.
tinyurl.com/yve8af
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Troops leave for Comoros assault :
Five boats full of soldiers have left a port on the Comoros island of Moheli, a diplomat says, ahead of an operation to retake the island of Anjouan.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7311392.stm
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Ecuador threatens diplomatic efforts against Colombia if rebel camp death confirmed :
President Rafael Correa on Saturday threatened to seek international condemnation against Colombia if DNA tests confirm that Colombia’s military killed an Ecuadorean citizen during its raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador’s jungle.
tinyurl.com/2f3wm5
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Colombian minister: Ecuadorean killed in cross-border raid on rebels:
Ecuador briefly mobilized troops to its border with Colombia in the wake of the attack that killed top Colombian rebel commander Raul Reyes and 25 others.
tinyurl.com/ytphu9
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Coca Leaf Defended by Growers, Scientists… and Taxi Drivers:
”They will have to kill us to make us stop planting coca,” Bolivian coca grower Luis Mamani told IPS in response to a call from the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to prohibit traditional uses of the plant like coca leaf chewing.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41708
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Bolivia: Morales Takes Coca Campaign to U.N.:
Bolivian President Evo Morales is telling the world what he says it has been unwilling to acknowledge for the past half a century — that coca is not the same as cocaine.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34821
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A man of courage and conviction
Refusal Keeps Terrorism Convict in Prison:
Former Professor Fights Attempts to Force His Testimony Against Muslim Charities
tinyurl.com/yuxx97
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Bush Plans To Monitor Internet Data :
According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House is proposing a six billion dollar secretive system that would monitor Internet traffic and collect personal data.
tinyurl.com/2ezugv
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St Peter was not the first Pope and never went to Rome, claims Channel 4 :
St Peter’s journey to Rome led to the spread of Christianity in the West and the foundation of Roman Catholicism, so the Church has always taught.
tinyurl.com/28wk98
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US federal home loan banks get $100B in extra mortgage-buying power:
The Federal Home Loan Bank system can increase purchases of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities by $100 billion (€64.8 billion) over two years in the latest government effort to stabilize the devastated market for mortgage-backed assets.
tinyurl.com/2796ov
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Bank of America may face $6.5 bln loan loss-analyst:
Bank of America Corp, the largest U.S. retail bank, may set aside a record $6.5 billion in the first quarter to cover possible future loan losses, including in its mortgage and home equity portfolios, according to a banking analyst.
www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7406115
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Food stamp use hits all-time high in Ohio:
Amid a sluggish economy, a record 1.1 million Ohioans are getting food stamps, the state’s welfare agency said. That’s about 10 percent of the state’s population.
tinyurl.com/2cqoye
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Inflation Hits the Poor Hardest:
Inflation is walloping Americans with low and moderate incomes as the prices of staples have soared far faster than those of luxuries
tinyurl.com/3bnsug
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California: Ontario thinning homeless population at Tent City:
Authorities will begin forcing people without local ties to leave a homeless encampment that has grown to nearly 400 residents.
www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8677252
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Banks warned to curb payouts as crisis bites:
BANK OF England governor Mervyn King used his now-famous meeting with the chief executives of the “big five” UK banks last Thursday to admonish them for increasing shareholder dividends, as they came begging for more aid to help resolve their liquidity problems, the Sunday Herald understands.
tinyurl.com/2aleo8
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NEWS FOR SUNDAY – 23/03/08
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Iraq: Sunday: At least 63 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
In other news, the death toll in a suicide attack in Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, rose to 13 Iraqi soldiers, while the number of wounded reached 30, including 12 civilians, VOI said.
news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1396572.php
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Six killed by US friendly fire:
A US airstrike struck checkpoints manned by US-allied Sunni fighters north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing six guards and wounding two, Iraqi police said.
tinyurl.com/yrjmes
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In Iraq, jailed women tell of abuse:
Some don’t know why they were arrested, and many are held for months without seeing a judge. Justice officials deny the accusations, but evidence points to deep-rooted problems.
fairuse.100webcustomers.com/mayfaire/latimes109.htm
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Schoolgirl in Baghdad :
Noor Salman is 16-year-old Iraqi girl living in Baghdad. She writes about her experiences of life in the five years since the US-led invasion.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19589.htm
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Five years, five Iraqis: 2 Minute Video:
Hugh Sykes meets Khadem Sharif al Yabani, a motorcycle mechanic who took his sledgehammer to the statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad in 2003.
tinyurl.com/2a5v6p
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Defiant China rejects dialogue, vows to smash Tibetan protests:
China has turned its back on appeals for dialogue with the Dalai Lama, vowing to smash anti-China forces in Tibet, where it said the death toll from recent unrest had risen to 19.
tinyurl.com/yw476t
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Taiwan awaits change as pro China opposition party wins:
Calling it a victory for Taiwan people who supported change, Ma immediately pledged to improve ties with China, revive the island’s economy and promote ethnic harmony.
tinyurl.com/2bx9ts
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A funny kind of Christian:
His thirst for scapegoats shows how poorly George Bush understands the meaning of Easter
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/22/religion.usa