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 4,035
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$511,149,492,967
See the cost in your community
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The Coming War with Iran:
It’s About the Oil, Stupid
By Joe Lauria
World civilization is based on oil. The world is running out of oil. The oil companies and governments are not telling the truth about how close we are to the end. Dick Cheney knew about peak oil back in 1999 when he spoke to the London Petroleum Institute as Halliburton CEO.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19737.htm
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American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed
By Paul Craig Roberts
Why does the US assume that only it can initiate aggression, boycotts, freezes on financial assets of other countries and bans on foreign banks from participation in the international banking system? If the rest of the world were to tire of American aggression or to develop a moral conscience, it would be easy to organize a boycott of America and to ban US banks from participating in the international banking system.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19739.htm
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Muqtada and the Mahdi Army
A Cleric, a Pol and a Warrior
By Patrick Cockburn
The iraqi government has decided that the moment has come to crush the Mahdi Army and the followers of Muqtada Sadr once and for all. Despite its failure to eliminate his militiamen in Basra at the end of March, the government, with American backing, is determined to try again, according to senior Iraqi officials.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19736.htm
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Financial Collapse Will End The Occupation
And it won’t be “A time of our choosing”  
By Mike Whitney
The Iraq War signals the end of US interventionism for at least a generation; maybe longer. The  ideological foundation for the war (preemption/regime change) has been exposed as a baseless justification for unprovoked aggression. Someone will have to be held accountable.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19742.htm
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Uri Avnery Congratulates Carter for Decision To Meet With Hamas Leaders
By Uri Avnery
An increasing number of people are coming to realize, the policy of boycotting Hamas, starting on the day that the movement won the democratic elections held among the Palestinians, has failed utterly and caused terrible suffering and bloodshed to both peoples.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19741.htm
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Cheney, Torture and the Chance to Restore the Rule of Law
By John Nichols
How will responsible Americans respond? The power to hold Cheney to account rests with Congress. The power to get Congress to act rests with the American people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19740.htm
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The World According to Monsanto
A Must Watch Video Documentary
A documentary that Americans won’t ever see.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19738.htm
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At least 44 killed as US occupation grinds on:
12 members of Iraq’s Kurdish Peshmerga security force, part of the Iraqi army, were killed and two wounded when a car bomb hit their truck west of Mosul
www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL1445467
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Bombings in northern Iraq kill 13 people:
Police chief Col. Mutlaq al-Shimmari says a parked car bomb exploded as an Iraqi army convoy passed in the Rabiaa area west of Mosul. He says 10 soldiers died in that attack and seven were wounded.
tinyurl.com/54lwmc
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Al-Sadr demands that troops fired for deserting in Basra get jobs back :
Monday’s statement comes a day after more than 1,300 soldiers and policemen were sacked for abandoning their posts or refusing to fight when clashes broke out.
tinyurl.com/4errbd
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Iraqi forces free kidnapped British journalist :
Butler, a British journalist working for CBS News, was abducted Feb 10 along with his Iraqi interpreter from a hotel in central Basra, some 550 km south of Baghdad.
tinyurl.com/4hyphw
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Your tax dollar at work:
Died hanging from wrists and gagged, with over 25 rib fractures:
This is my first of a series of diaries about prisoners murdered by US forces. It will tell the story of an Iraqi man who died hanging by his cuffed wrists from a door frame, gagged, and beaten to death by his US interrogators. As the Final Autopsy Report noted:
www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/12/151937/351/893/494404
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War in Iraq wrong for 62% of Americans:
Many adults in the United States regret their government’s decision to launch the coalition effort, according to a poll by CBS News and the New York Times. 62 per cent of respondents think the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq.
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=166196
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Kurd rebels threaten to attack Iran:
A Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks inside Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the Islamic country.
www.dawn.com/2008/04/14/int5.htm
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There Is No Difference Between Terrorist Organization PKK And PJAK:
The two countries fight against terror and cooperate with each other and Iran looks at the PKK and PJAK as a single terrorist organization under two different names, Mohtaj said.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=225672
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US and Iran holding ‘secret’ talks on nuclear programme:
Iran and the United States have been engaged in secret “back channel” discussions for the past five years on Iran’s nuclear programme
tinyurl.com/464bep
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President: Iran to put nuclear know-how at disposal of all nations:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here on Monday expressed Iran’s readiness to put its expertise on peaceful nuclear technology at disposal of all nations within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regulations.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0804145150163333.htm
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Iran nuclear chief cancels IAEA summit:
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, the Iranian vice-president, gave no reason for calling off talks with Mohamed ElBaradei, who was expected to use the meeting to investigate claims that Tehran had attempted to develop nuclear weapons.
tinyurl.com/4nq8gj
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Israel threatening world security :
Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh told Press TV that over 100 countries in the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency have condemned Israel for not cooperating with the IAEA.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=51135&sectionid=351020104
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Israel to connect to US missle early warning system:
The United States has agreed to connect Israel to its ballistic missile early warning system to warn of any missile attack from archfoe Iran, a senior Israeli defence official said on Monday.
tinyurl.com/3zbx7p
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Israel can stand up for itself:
It seems more likely that it is the abashed silence of an American president whose bluff has been called in front of the entire world.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/14/opinion/edchafets.php
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Israel fears US will sell F-35 to Saudis:
While this could pose a major challenge for the IDF, defense officials told the Post on Sunday it also presented Israel with a unique opportunity to ask the Americans for new advanced technology that would not be sold to the Saudis, to enable Israel to retain its qualitative edge in the region.
tinyurl.com/4oxz7b
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Has Israel Finally Met Its Match?:
On January 31, 2008, when the Winograd Commission submitted its final report on the Second Lebanese War of July 2006, this was a first in Israeli history: a report on why the Israeli military had failed in a war.
www.counterpunch.org/shahid04142008.html
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‘We’ll take fight to Israel’s backyard’:
“Their confusion will be greater than we saw in the previous war, because they will see that the holy warriors will confront them not only in south Lebanon, as they have done previously, but in their houses and their settlements,” Al-Hakika quoted the unnamed official as saying.
tinyurl.com/4tp6vy
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Mauritania mulls ending Israel ties :
Mauritania, one of three Arab League countries with diplomatic relations with Israel, has said it will review its relations with the Jewish state.
tinyurl.com/65ugzl
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Attacks Kill 17 In Occupied Afghanistan :
Weekend attacks in Afghanistan killed at least 15 police officers and two British soldiers, offcials said Monday.
www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212141946.shtml
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No food price relief seen for poor Afghans:
Top finance and development officials from around the world called in Washington on Sunday for urgent action to stem rising food prices, warning that social unrest will spread unless the cost of basic staples is contained.
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnISL218886.html
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Pakistan, Afghan forces exchange fire over wheat flour smuggling :
Pakistani and Afghan border security forces exchanged fire on Monday after the Pakistani forces tried to stop ‘smuggling of flour’ to the neighboring country, officials said.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0804143105181048.htm
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Nine killed in suicide attack on Pakistani soldiers:
A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a military convoy in the northwestern Pakistani town of Bannu on Wednesday, killing himself along with six soldiers and two children, military and intelligence officials said.
tinyurl.com/3tmp7a
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US seeks direct access to Pakistan’s N-arsenal:
The United States has sought direct access to the body controlling the country’s nuclear assets for an American official to be posted at its embassy in Islamabad.
ia.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/14pak.htm
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Musharraf slams Western meddling:
“You cannot superimpose the human rights and democracy environment of a Western country onto other countries,” he said.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2008-04/14/content_6613318.htm
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Michel Chossudovsky: China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp :
The human rights issue has become the centerfold of media disinformation.
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8673
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Four Foreign Teachers Killed In Occupied Somalia:
Four teachers in Somalia, two of them reportedly British citizens, fell prey to a guerrilla-style conflict in the central part of the country between Islamist militia and government forces backed by Ethiopian troops on Sunday night.
www.rttnews.com/FOREX/gblnews.asp?date=04/14/2008&item=3
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Venezuelan PM working to created a South American defense council:
During a speech Sunday night, Chavez said the council would unite the region’s countries to “design our own defense policies.” He said Venezuelan officials planned to discuss it with Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim while he visits Caracas on Monday.
tinyurl.com/43wfwa
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Cuba allows housing privatisation :
Raul Castro has issued a decree enabling Cubans to acquire titles to housing they currently rent from the state, according to a US media report.
tinyurl.com/6bab6k
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Mercenaries Training US Local Police Officers:
There are many police and law enforcement officials who are concerned with the growing trend of using military-trained mercenaries to train and work with local police officers in the United States, but there are many who believe the events of September 11, 2001 dictate the need for a new paradigm.
canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2549
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Soaring food prices now top threat, IMF says:
Ministers representing 185 countries agreed on the weekend that soaring food prices threaten global calamity and pledged to co-operate on a solution to save the world’s poorest people from starvation.
tinyurl.com/495ttk
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Famine and starvation looms:
Fatal food riots in Haiti. Violent food-price protests in Egypt and Ivory Coast. Rice so valuable it is transported in armoured convoys. Soldiers guarding fields and warehouses. Export bans to keep local populations from starving.
tinyurl.com/4cyo8f
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Plea for urgent food crisis action :
With help from its twin institution, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank has called for richer nations to contribute $500 million to ease the burden
tinyurl.com/58rhfo
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Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear:
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics-ruthless legal battles against small farmers-is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805
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Money for Iraq war: What else could be done with it?
At the low end of estimates of the cost of the war – $120 billion a year – the money would cover the projected cost of Clinton’s universal health care plan. It could pay for Obama’s less inclusive health care plan and his proposal to bail out homeowners with troubled mortgages.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/14/america/14warcosts.php
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U.S. business inventories up, sales down:
U.S. business inventories rose 0.6 percent to $1.46 trillion in February, but sales fell 1.1 percent to $1.142 trillion, the Commerce Department said Monday.
tinyurl.com/3jbozl
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Fourth-largest US bank resorts to emergency fundraising:
America’s fourth-largest bank, Wachovia, is raising $7bn (£3.52bn) through emergency fundraising as the subprime mortgage crisis in the US continues to reverberate through the banking sector.
tinyurl.com/4zh3ac
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U.S. housing collapse spreads overseas:
The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices down from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even in parts of India.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/13/business/housing.php
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Co-Payments Soar for Drugs With High Prices :
Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases
tinyurl.com/6nfa46
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‘Now we have the technology that can make a cloned child’:
A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier to carry out than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep, raising fears that it may one day be used on human embryos to produce “designer” babies.
tinyurl.com/5z9yuy