Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,196,514"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,017
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$508,897,546,211
 

See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Iran Joined Militias in Battle for Basra
 
By Sarah Baxter and Marie Colvin
 
IRANIAN forces were involved in the recent battle for Basra, General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress this week. Military and intelligence sources believe Iranians were operating at a tactical command level with the Shi’ite militias fighting Iraqi security forces; some were directing operations on the ground, they think.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19679.htm
 
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British Fear US Commander is Beating the Drum for Iran Strikes
 
By Damien McElroy
Foreign Affairs Correspondent
 
British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19678.htm
 
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Petraeus Testimony Next Week Will Signal Iran Attack
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
The Bush regime will tell any lie and orchestrate any event in order to “finish the job” in the Middle East.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19684.htm
 
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McCain’s “War On Terror” Remix
 
Pepe Escobar 5 Minute Video report
 
 The Real News Network does a first take on McCain’s foreign policy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19690.htm
 
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Senator Embraces War
 
1 Minute Video
 
John McCain’s chart-topping single “Bomb Iran”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19687.htm
 
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Duped by Sen. John McCain
 
By David Sirota
 
I’ll admit it: I used to admire John McCain. To paraphrase the UFO poster from “The X Files,” I wanted to believe. Specifically, I wanted to believe the guy talking tough about campaign finance reform was committed to getting money out of politics.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19685.htm
 
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Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail
 
By Dan Eggen
 
Could the president, if he desired, have a prisoner’s eyes poked out? Or, for that matter, could he have “scalding water, corrosive acid or caustic substance” thrown on a prisoner? How about slitting an ear, nose or lip, or disabling a tongue or limb? What about biting?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19681.htm
 
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If Americans Knew
 
 Must watch 5 minute video
 
 It’s not a coincidence that Pro-Israel Jewish Americans, like Eliot Abrams, Dennis Ross, and Martin Indyk, are usually appointed in charge of Middle East policy, especially the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19688.htm
 
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Preventing the Rise of a ‘Messiah’
 
By Jonathan David Farley
 
The US government’s efforts to discredit Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders illustrate the lengths to which it will go to stifle left-wing movements.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19689.htm
 
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What Obama Could Have Said About His Pastor
 
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a True Patriot
 
By Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss
 
Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19686.htm
 
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Evidence Grows of U.S. Use Of Drug On Prisoners
 
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor
 
There can be little doubt now that the government has used drugs on terrorist suspects that are designed to weaken their resistance to interrogation. All that’s missing is the syringes and videotapes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19680.htm
 
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The Green Light
 
By Phillippe Sands
 
The Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field Manual. The attorneys would even fly to Guantánamo to ratchet up the pressure-then blame abuses on the military. Philippe Sands follows the torture trail, and holds out the possibility of war crimes charges.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19682.htm
 
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Fed Up: Bernanke joins G-7 to Stem Global Financial Meltdown
 
By Mike Whitney
 
The term “subprime” is a red herring; it is used by the media to minimize what is really going on. The meltdown in financing extends across the entire range of mortgage-security products. No loan-type has been spared. The wholesale market for anything connected to mortgages is frozen and the details are being intentionally withheld from the public.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19683.htm
 
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Billion?
 
By Dana Milbank
 
Meet Alan Schwartz, welfare recipient. As the chief executive of Bear Stearns, he’s getting rather more public assistance than your typical welfare mom — specifically, $30 billion in federal loan guarantees to help J.P. Morgan Chase take over his firm. But then, Schwartz has had rather more than his share of suffering of late.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19691.htm
 
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At least 54 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
22 people were killed and 55 wounded in clashes between U.S., Iraqi soldiers and gunmen in the Shi’ite Sadr city district of eastern Baghdad, police said. The U.S. military said a helicopter air strike had killed nine “criminals” in the area, giving no more details.
www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0632767520080406
 
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Al-Sadr militia prep for U.S., attack :
 
Militiamen loyal to anti-occupation cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are positioning explosives to defend the major routes into Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood in anticipation of a major battle with U.S. occupation and Iraqi government forces, residents said yesterday.
tinyurl.com/5teoea
 
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Political groups said to plan isolation of al-Sadr’s movement:
 
Iraq’s major Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties have closed ranks to pressure anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr into disbanding his Mahdi Army militia or be barred from political life, lawmakers and officials involved in the effort said Sunday.
tinyurl.com/5rrs72
 
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Iraqis angered by Blackwater contract renewal:
 
In spite of the criminal probe, the State Department announced on Friday the firm’s contract to protect U.S. personnel in Baghdad would be renewed.
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0559760920080405
 
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Officials Confirm Iran’s Role in Truce:
 
Officials in Iran confirmed for the first time Saturday that the country played an important role in brokering a recent truce between the Iraqi government and anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
tinyurl.com/6oxo82
 
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Putin: Iran Should Be Helped, Not Threatened:
 
“No one can seriously think that Iran would dare attack the U.S.,” a source in the Russian delegation at the NATO-Russia summit in Bucharest quoted Putin as telling leaders. “Instead of pushing Iran into a corner, it would be far more sensible to think together how to help Iran become more predictable and transparent.”
tinyurl.com/5s9elj
 
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Fifteen “Militants” Killed in Southern Afghanistan :
 
Officials in Afghanistan say NATO occupation forces and Afghan troops killed 15" Taliban militants” during separate raids in the country’s south.
tinyurl.com/6aafk3
 
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Yemeni clashes claim lives :
 
Witnesses say at least 15 people have been killed in fierce gun battles between Shia fighters and members of a tribe loyal to the government in the mountainous west of Yemen.
tinyurl.com/6m6fvg
 
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Blast kills 12 including Sri Lanka minister :
 
At least 12 people, including a Sri Lankan minister, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack outside the capital Colombo, authorities have said.
tinyurl.com/5jpxlq
 
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IDF shell kills Palestinian 5-year-old in Gaza:
 
A 5-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Sunday when an Israel Occupation Forces shell exploded near his home in the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972180.html
 
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Hamas official: Israel refused offers for temporary cease-fire :
 
A senior member of the militant Palestinian group Hamas said Sunday that Israel has refused its offers for a temporary ceasefire proposed through Egyptian mediation.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972132.html
 
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Hezbollah No. 2: IDF drills are preparation for war on Lebanon :
 
Sheik Naim Kassem also warned Sunday that the Islamic militant group was fully ready to defend Lebanon if Israel attacks again.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972141.html
 
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Israel, U.S. plan to release details on Syria attack :
 
Details of the attack are likely to be revealed by senior Bush administration officials during hearings before Congress. Advisers to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Yoram Turbowicz and Shalom Turjeman, discussed the issue last week in Washington with senior U.S. intelligence officials
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/971914.html
 
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Bush fails to win over Putin on missile shield:
 
President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed in talks Sunday to reconcile differences on a planned U.S. missile defense system but agreed a “strategic framework” guiding future U.S.-Russia relations
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23977927/
 
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Russia to fly 20-30 strategic patrol missions every month –
 
Russia is set to drastically increase its number of strategic aviation patrol flights over the world’s oceans to 20-30 a month, the Air Force commander said on Friday. “We will be making 20-30 flights a month, not two or three, as was the case until recently,” Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said.
en.rian.ru/russia/20080404/103759263.html
 
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Al-Qa’eda doesn’t kill the innocent, says second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri:
 
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qa’eda’s second in command, has defended the group’s terror tactics and insisted that Osama bin Laden is in good health
tinyurl.com/2wgfyt
 
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Food Riots Kill At Least Four, Dozens Injured In Haiti:
 
Violence engulfed different parts of Haiti for the last two days over the rising food prices including rice, fruits and beans that have surged by more than 50 percent over the last 12 months in the region.
www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010546869
 
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Food riots fear after rice price hits a high:
 
It was last updated at 00:03 on April 06 2008. A global rice shortage that has seen prices of one of the world’s most important staple foods increase by 50 per cent in the past two weeks alone is triggering an international crisis, with countries banning export and threatening serious punishment for hoarders.
tinyurl.com/5npokv
 
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Ecuador president blames CIA for incursion :
 
The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has accused the United States of infiltrating the Ecuadorian intelligence services.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/345564/cs/1/
 
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Bankruptcies Jump 30% in March, Led by Housing-Bust States :
 
The jump in March bankruptcy filings is another indication the U.S. economy is in recession, led by states where the housing boom turned to bust. The more than 90,000 bankruptcy filings in March were the highest since insolvency laws became more restrictive in October 2005
tinyurl.com/5ol2pj
 
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Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes :
 
A small army of law firms and default servicing companies, who represent mortgage lenders, have been raking in mounting profits. These little-known firms assess legal fees and a host of other charges, calculate what the borrowers owe and draw up the documents required to remove them from their homes.
tinyurl.com/5bcdj4
 
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Skybus Ends Service, Third Airline to Fold This Week:
 
Skybus Airlines Inc., a U.S. low- fare carrier that started operations less than a year ago, stopped service today, the third airline to shut down this week as fuel costs soared and the economy slowed.
tinyurl.com/6crpk6