Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,197,469"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,028
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$509,762,929,411
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Khalil Regrets Toppling Statue of Saddam
 
By AFP
 
“If history can take me back, I will kiss the statue of Saddam Hussein which I helped pull down,” Khalil told reporters on the fifth anniversary of the statue’s toppling.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19701.htm
 
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Yes, The Occupation Has Begun.
 
This Was Media Manipulation on a Grand Scale?
 
– In Case You Missed It –
 
The photographs tell the story…
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm
 
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Not All Milk And Honey
 
By Seth Freedman
 
A group of Zionist teenagers decide to challenge their own beliefs and find out what life is like for Israeli Arabs.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19704.htm
 
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How Can Criticism of Israel Be Stoped?
 
By Alan Hart
 
By labeling it as anti-Semitism, or so supporters of Israel right or wrong believe. This has always been Zionism’s game but now the U.S. State Department, no doubt under immense pressure from the Zionist lobby and its Christian fundamentalist allies, is playing it, too.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19703.htm
 
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The Fading American Economy
 
Government Is The Largest Employer
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy lost 98,000 private sector jobs in March, half of which were in manufacturing. Today 13,643,000 Americans are employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19702.htm
 
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In Case You Missed it
 
Jim Rogers: Abolish The Federal Reserve
 
10 Minute Video
 
Somebody at CNBC, billed as “America’s business channel,” made a mistake. They allowed Jim Rogers, investor and buddy to George Soros, to get on and slam the Federal Reserve.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19705.htm
 
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Honouring The ‘Unbreakable Promise’
 
By John Pilger
 
On my wall in London is a photograph I have never grown tired of looking at. Indeed, I always find it thrilling to behold. You might even say it helps keep me going.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19706.htm
 
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Iraq: At lease 28 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
Iraqi authorities imposed curfews on Baghdad as well as the cities of Samarra and Tikrit to prevent violence on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the fall of the capital to U.S. forces.
www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUSL0986156220080409
 
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16 killed in Sadr City on 5th anniversary of Baghdad’s occupation : –
 
Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen clashed Wednesday in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, where attacks killed 16 people on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. occupation of the capital.
tinyurl.com/52tzjn
 
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Basra: What Reporters Omitted and Fabricated:
 
The latest battles in Basra, Iraq’s largest city and a vital oil port, provide ample examples of misleading and manipulative practice in corporate journalism today. One commonly used tactic is to describe events using self-styled or “official” terminology, which deliberately confuses the reader by giving no real indication or analysis of what is actually happening.
tinyurl.com/3n2pcv
 
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Petraeus says withdrawal from Iraq would drive up gas prices:
 
U.S. withdrawal also could help Al-Qaida establish a base in Iraq for terrorist attacks in the U.S., Petraeus said. “We have an enormous interest in getting this right,” the general added.
tinyurl.com/43bejd
 
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US war chiefs: Iran’s strategy backfires:
 
Crocker claimed that militias loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had alienated many Iraqis, and Iran’s reputation suffered because Iraqis take it as a given that the militias are backed by Iran.
www.twincities.com/politics/ci_8862807?nclick_check=1
 
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Petraeus Says Iranian-Backed Groups Are Greatest Threat to Iraq :
 
The so-called ``special groups,’’ which are funded, trained and armed by Iran, played a ``destructive role’’ in the recent clashes between extremist militias and Iraqi government forces in Basra and Baghdad, Petraeus said
tinyurl.com/44m6tv
 
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Iranian Government Slams US Over Fresh Iraq Accusations:
 
“This report indicates that despite the surge, whose result has been more killing, the Americans have not been able to reach their announced goals in Iraq,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement.
tinyurl.com/42xm8s
 
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Matthew Rothschild: Petraeus Prepares the Battlefield for Iran:
 
I watched much of General Petraeus’s testimony. And what jumped out at me were the bellicose comments he made about Iran.
www.progressive.org/mag_wx040808
 
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Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran
 
Experts, Senators Diverge Over Ways to Impose Tougher Sanctions on Iran:
 
Despite the December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran had halted part of its nuclear weapons program, there was no question the country was pursuing nuclear weapons.
public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002700234.html
 
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad rejects criticism of nuclear programme:
 
“Who do they think they are? They are no longer the owners of the world,” Ahmadinejad said.
tinyurl.com/3vn8fg
 
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Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran Netanyahu:
 
Iran’s nuclear armament will aid Islamic terror :
 
“Iran’s nuclear armament poses an existential threat to Israel, because it will provide a ‘nuclear umbrella’ to fundamentalist Islamic terror,” Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3529763,00.html
 
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Netanyahu ‘We won’t be able to deter nuclear Iran’:
 
“Iran will be the first nuclear state in history against which deterrence won’t work, even if the deterrent is nuclear,” opposition leader and Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu said
tinyurl.com/62ywnx
 
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Israel: Two killed in Sin Nahal Oz:
 
IOF troops and emergency medical teams, who arrived on the scene, came under heavy gun and mortar fire.
tinyurl.com/4bkwja
 
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Israeli occupation force soldier killed in Gaza ambush:
 
As the soldiers searched the area, they came under gun and anti-tank missile fire from a well-planned ambush by Palestinian resistance
tinyurl.com/3m2v5y
 
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Deadly clashes across Gaza Strip :
 
The Israeli military has shelled an area of Gaza City, following an attack by Palestinian fighters at the Nahal Oz crossing in the northern part of the territory.
tinyurl.com/5onzsu
 
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‘Jimmy Carter planning to meet Mashaal’ :
 
Former US president Jimmy Carter is planing to visit Syria in April and meet with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, the London-based daily Al-Hayat reported Wednesday
tinyurl.com/4svnxa
 
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Syria arrests Saudi official tied to Mughniyeh death:
 
Syria has arrested a Saudi official in connection with the assassination of top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Tuesday
tinyurl.com/4wuwvv
 
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CIA ‘sent prisoners to Jordan’ :
 
The CIA secretly transferred at least 14 ‘war on terror’ suspects to Jordan for interrogation and torture, a leading rights group says
tinyurl.com/6l6jft
 
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Eight dead in fresh Afghan attacks: officials: –
 
A policeman and seven Taliban rebels were killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan, including a foreign airstrike that also wounded two civilians, officials said Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/4oagtd
 
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China orders Tibetans ‘reeducated’ about Dalai Lama:
 
Class materials denounce exiled leader as a reactionary. The effort may have incited some recent unrest.
tinyurl.com/5vgmxm
 
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Haitians storm president’s palace :
 
The UN Security Council has pledged to support Haiti’s government amid growing anger across the country over the cost of basic foodstuffs.
tinyurl.com/5uwx8l
 
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House to vote on delaying Colombia trade deal:
 
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives announced plans on Wednesday to indefinitely delay action on a free trade pact with Colombia, likely frustrating President George W. Bush’s hope of winning approval of the agreement this year.
tinyurl.com/3westm
 
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Chavez to nationalize Venezuela’s top steelmaker:
 
Venezuela will take control of the country’s largest steelmaker in the second major takeover of foreign businesses in a week as President Hugo Chavez resumes his socialist drive to nationalize key industries
tinyurl.com/4vywsx
 
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Peruvian army general sentenced to 35 years for 1992 massacre :
 
Former president Alberto Fujimori and other top military officers are also being prosecuted for ordering the July 18, 1992 killings.
tinyurl.com/4cg8cc
 
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IMF warns of US recession :
 
The International Monetary Fund has warned that the United States will tip into a “mild recession” later this year, with only a “gradual recovery” in 2009.
tinyurl.com/5ssf4g
 
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IMF Approves Selling 400 Tons Of Gold:
 
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund has approved the sale of some 440.3 tons of its gold supplies in a wide-ranging financial overhaul and to replenish its depleting coffers.
 
www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010571641