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 4,033
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$510,873,713,789
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran
 
Iran Top Threat To Iraq, U.S. Says
 
Focus on Al-Qaeda Now Diminishing
 
By Karen DeYoung
 
Last week’s violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to senior U.S. officials.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19720.htm
 
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Al Qaeda to Iran
 
Khaleej Times Editorial
 
LATEST movements in Washington’s war lobby indicate a reassessment of the Iraq policy with Iran slowly replacing Al Qaeda as the prime terrorism threat as officials juggle with justification for continued surge level troops.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19724.htm
 
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It’s Occupation, Not War
 
By Charley Reese
 
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ended some years ago. In Iraq, the war ended with the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government; in Afghanistan, with the fall of the Taliban government. What’s been happening since is occupation and resistance to occupation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19721.htm
 
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Semantics Can’t Mask Bush’s Chicanery
 
By Robert Fisk
 
Now he’s gone a stage further. After announcing victory in Iraq in 2003 and “mission accomplished” and telling us how this enormous achievement would lead the 21st century into a “shining age of human liberty”, George Bush told us this week that “thanks to the surge, we’ve renewed and revived the prospect of success”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19726.htm
 
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Notes From The Iraqi Resistance…
 
Transcript of an interview with M.Al-Shammari, ( head of the Islamic Army of Iraq/IAI )
 
By Layla Anwar
 
The Resistance did change its tactics but not its strategy. The Americans are desperate for some calm before the November elections, but the Resistance will decide when to implement an upsurge in its attacks against the occupier, maybe during certain “crucial moments” but this is up to the Resistance to decide when and how.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19733.htm
 
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Bush ‘Divorced From Reality’
 
By Chris Gelken
 
Former Senator blasts US occupation during lively television debate on Iraq.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19722.htm
 
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In Case You Missed It
 
What Are We Doing?
 
10 Minute Video
 
Bud Deraps, an 82 year old WWII Navy veteran, speaks out against Depleted Uranium.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19734.htm
 
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Why Food Costs Are Climbing
 
By Eric Reguly
 
As food prices surge, starvation looms for millions. Experts call for emergency action but admit there’s no quick fix.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19725.htm
 
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Let Them Eat Ethanol!
 
By Sharon Smith
 
Wall Street millionaires have spent months mourning their losses from once ridiculously over-valued investments. Yet these same free market cheerleaders remain blissfully unaware of the magnitude of the crisis facing the real victims of the unfolding global meltdown they so enthusiastically enabled.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19728.htm
 
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Castro and Chávez Attack US Backing For Biofuels
 
 Leaders say diverting crops for fuel starves poor
 
 By Rory Carroll
 
Cuba and Venezuela have launched an offensive against biofuels, warning that the US-backed rush towards ethanol will worsen global hunger and poverty.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19730.htm
 
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More Than Three Billion People Condemned To Death From Hunger And Thirst
 
By Fidel Castro
 
THAT is not an exaggerated figure, but rather a cautious one. I have meditated a lot on that in the wake of President Bush’s meeting with U.S. automobile manufacturers.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19729.htm
 
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An Economy Built On Lies
 
By Gary North
 
In this report, I am going to present an astounding document. You have not heard of it. It is at the heart of the current residential real estate crisis. It has to do with liar loans.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19735.htm
 
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Wanta Save the Economy? Give Workers a Raise
 
By Mike Whitney
 
A specter is haunting Wall Street---the specter of insolvency. One major player, Bear Stearns, has already gone under, and from the looks of it, another may be on the way. It’s getting ugly out there.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19723.htm
 
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Recession, Depression, Collapse:
 
What’s Fear Got To Do With It?
 
By Carolyn Baker
 
The world we wanted to have is not within our reach; the world we deeply dread is upon us. Meanwhile, the world we have known, ugly as it may be but nevertheless familiar, is vanishing before our eyes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19731.htm
 
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Why Americans Are Bitter
 
By Mary Pitt
 
We lose our jobs, we lose our homes, we lose our sons in the war without end, and now many of us are losing our tempers! Some are old enough to remember the miseries of the Great Depression and we feel another one coming on as history is repeating itself.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19727.htm
 
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The U.S. Healthcare System Has Collapsed.
 
CBS Video Report
 
Remote Area Medical was founded to bring free medicine to remote parts of the world, but now also helps thousands of Americans who have no health insurance or are underinsured. Scott Pelley reports.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19732.htm
 
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At least 20 killed in another bloody day of US occupation
 
A stick bomb on an oil truck detonated, killing two people and wounding ten others on Saturday near an Iraqi Army checkpoint in western Mosul
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL13729154
 
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2 killed as US occupation forces fire missile at own vehicle:
 
The US military says an Apache helicopter has accidentally destroyed one of its own armoured vehicles in eastern Baghdad
www.eecho.ie/news/story/?trs=mhojqleyojid
 
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US GIs in Iraq Suffer Worst Week of ‘08:
 
Bloodiest Week of 2008 for US Troops in Iraq Ends With Roadside Bomb Death, Pushing
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4639410
 
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The Architects Of war: Where Are They Now? :
 
President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded – not blamed – for their incompetence.
thinkprogress.org/the-architects-where-are-they-now/
 
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Iraq fires 1,300 police and soldiers in south:
 
Iraq’s government has fired 1,300 police and soldiers because of their failure to perform during fighting last month with Shi’ite militia in the south of the country, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13138140.htm
 
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Sadr: Gates will be my enemy forever :
 
Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says he will not enter any kind of political process that would allow US forces to remain in Iraq.
www.presstv.com/pop/wmp.aspx?id=51206
 
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US confrontation with Iran unlikely in Iraq: US defense secretary :
 
“But I think that the process that’s underway is, as I said, headed in the right direction.”
tinyurl.com/58qjeo
 
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War pimp alert:
 
Hadley: Iran a Threat in Iraq :
 
“Iran is very active in the southern part of Iraq. They are training Iraqis in Iran who come into Iraq and attack our forces, Iraqi forces, Iraqi civilians. There are movements of equipment. There’s movements of funds,” Hadley said. “So we have illegal … militia in the southern part of the country that really are acting as criminal elements that are oppressing the people down there.”
tinyurl.com/5zhz42
 
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Cheney cold-shouldered:
 
Dick Cheney’s belligerence and aggressive anti-Iran rhetoric is driving Arab nations into the arms of Russia
tinyurl.com/5sy72l
 
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Iran Explosion Not Sabotage Act :
 
At least 11 people have reportedly been killed and 191 more injured when an explosion occurred at ‘Rahpouyan-e Vesal’ cultural and religious center
tinyurl.com/5qnep3
 
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Iranian, Lebanese officials to skip Doha Forum over Livni’s participation :
 
Livni also hopes to use the three-day visit to build a consensus among Arab nations against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and to promote a “gradual” normalization of ties between Israel and Gulf states in order to facilitate the peace process.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974142.html
 
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2 killed in Gaza blast, medics say:
 
At least two members of Hamas resistance movement were killed and four were wounded in an explosion in a house in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the militant group and Palestinian medical workers said.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3531336,00.html
 
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Gaza Strip ‘facing blackout’ :
 
The Gaza Strip’s only power station may have to shut down in two or three days if Israel continues to prevent fuel supplies from entering the territory, the plant’s director said.
tinyurl.com/5o5f69
 
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Hamas warns Israel of Gaza uprising against siege :
 
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) warned on Sunday that the Palestinians in Gaza are likely to take up a popular uprising to end a ten-month Israeli blockade.
tinyurl.com/5tmufr
 
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Carter comes to Israel on peace mission, but finds himself shunned :
 
What is really behind the cold shoulder is Carter’s plan to meet with Hamas’ Damascus-based political leader, Khaled Meshal, when his peacekeeping mission moves later in the week to Syria, the Israeli official said. “Israeli leaders are not publicly criticizing Carter out of respect for his former position as U.S. president,” he added.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974412.html
 
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Rice condemns Carter’s Hamas plans :
 
Condoleezza Rice has criticised reported plans by former US president Jimmy Carter to meet a senior Hamas leader in Syria next week.
tinyurl.com/6hc2qy
 
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Ex-President Carter Shrugs Off Criticism Of Hamas Meet:
 
Carter, who reportedly plans to meet exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Syria, said he viewed Hamas’s inclusion in peace talks as “very important” and stressed he wasn’t traveling as an official U.S. negotiator.
tinyurl.com/6dynot
 
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Israeli intel projects a one-month war with Syria :
 
Israel’s intelligence community has concluded that the next war would involve missiles and Hizbullah, last at least a month and include Syria.
tinyurl.com/5t8bya
 
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24 Taliban killed in clashes in occupied Afghanistan:
 
Afghan and foreign troops clashed with militants and called in airstrikes on them in southern Afghanistan, killing 24 and wounding 8, an official said Saturday.
www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=8157318
 
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Three civilians, four policemen killed in attacks in occupied Afghanistan :
 
Three civilians were killed and as many were wounded in a roadside attack in south-eastern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, while Taliban militants attacked a police patrol in southern region, killing four and wounding seven officers, official said.
tinyurl.com/6yb3jo
 
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Taliban kill 4 counter narcotics police in Afghanistan:
 
Police say an unknown number of insurgents were also killed in the incident.
tinyurl.com/66l5su
 
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Army has killed 7,000 Taliban:
 
BRITISH occupation troops are to scale back attacks on the Taliban after killing 7,000 insurgents in two years of conflict, defence sources said last week.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3735981.ece
 
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Occupation forces accidentally drops off weapons for Taliban:
 
Afghanistan’s intelligence chief said today a coalition helicopter accidentally dropped food and weapons in a remote area of southern Afghanistan where Taliban fighters recovered the supplies.
www.eecho.ie/news/story/?trs=mhojqleysnsn
 
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Pak-based militants may attack US: Bush :
 
President George W Bush believes another 9/11 attack on the United Sates should be considered a reality, and warned that such an attack could originate from Pakistan.
tinyurl.com/6qkdvx
 
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Election aftermath: Zimbabwe braced for Mugabe crackdown:
 
Zanu-PF leader snubs a regional gathering as he prepares to unleash his thugs to ensure victory in the second round of the presidential election.
tinyurl.com/5mn7ng
 
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Haiti senators vote to remove PM :
 
Haiti’s parliament has voted to dismiss Jacques Edouard Alexis, the country’s prime minister, in the wake of riots over food prices and unemployment that left at least five people dead.
tinyurl.com/5d9nth
 
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Biofuels nothing short of disaster:
 
Environmentalists to blame as emissions worsen, world’s poor starve
tinyurl.com/5lcfcv
 
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Bush admits waterboarding approval:
 
George Bush has admitted that senior US officials including Dick Cheney had approved CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, on key al-Qaeda suspects.
tinyurl.com/5m3bk3
 
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The Torture Drawings the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to See:
 
Drawings by journalist Sami Al-Haj depicting torture at Gitmo have been censored.
www.alternet.org/rights/81406/
 
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Military Personnel Account for 20% of U.S. Suicides :
 
About 1,821 current or former soldiers committed suicide in 16 states in 2005, the most recent year of available data, according to the report published today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost half were diagnosed with depression and a third left suicide notes.
tinyurl.com/3jwx9y
 
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US to expand domestic spying program :
 
Chertoff said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would open a new domestic satellite surveillance office in several stages and would use advanced overhead sensor data for law enforcement as soon as privacy and civil rights concerns are resolved.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=51460&sectionid=3510203