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 4,036
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War in Iraq Costs
$511,436,978,478
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert:
 
Source: U.S. Strike on Iran Nearing
 
By: Jim Meyers
 
“Israel is preparing for heavy casualties,” the source said, suggesting that although Israel will not take part in the strike, it is expecting to be the target of Iranian retribution.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19746.htm
 
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Hidden Agenda
 
Manifest Destiny and Israel
 
By Uri Avnery
 
There is no escape from the inevitable conclusion: the government is not working for peace. It does not want peace.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19747.htm
 
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Israel’s Senior Politicians and Security Service Snub Carter

By Rory McCarthy
 
Jimmy Carter faced a cold reception in Israel yesterday where senior political leaders avoided meeting him and the Israeli secret service declined to help the American agents guarding him.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19743.htm
 
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Our Debt to Jimmy Carter
 
By Haaretz Editorial
 
Ehud Olmert, who has not managed to achieve any peace agreement during his public life, and who even tried to undermine negotiations in the past, “could not find the time” to meet the American president who is a signatory to the peace agreement with Egypt.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19744.htm
 
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Self-Help For Self-Haters
 
By Seth Freedman
 
Zionists have managed to unforgivably drag their religion’s name through the mud for more than 60 years.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19745.htm
 
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Anti-China Tibet Hypocrisy
 
War Crimes in Occupied Afghanistan
 
By Dr Gideon Polya
 
The most fundamental human right is the right to life. According to data from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the UN Population Division, China has made huge advances in dramatically reducing mortality rate and infant mortality rate in both the Tibetan Autonomous Region and in China as a whole and to similar levels.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19748.htm
 
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Global Hunger, Corporate Greed:
 
When will enough be enough?
 
By Debnath Guharoy
 
Systemic deception has become acceptable culture in too many boardrooms, with nothing more than a wink and a nod required down the chain of command. When it gets to a point that an accountant is unable to explain complex new financial instruments and their equally befuddling acronyms, disaster cannot be far away.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19750.htm
 
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Credit Crunch?
 
The Real Crisis is Global Hunger
 
By George Monbiot
 
A food recession is under way. Biofuels are a crime against humanity, but – take it from a flesh eater – flesh eating is worse.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19751.htm
 
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The Martial Law Act of 2006
 
By James Bovard
 
Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that will make it easy for President Bush to impose martial law in response to a terrorist “incident.” It also empowers him to effectively declare martial law in response to what he or other federal officials label a shortfall of “public order” – whatever that means.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19749.htm
 
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At least 71 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
A suicide car bomb killed 13 people and wounded 14 others near a restaurant in western Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, a hospital source and police said
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL15793622
 
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Iraq bombings, clashes kill 62:
 
A car bomb outside a courthouse in the central city of Baquba, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda, killed at least 40 people and wounded 80 in the most devastating attack in the violence-wracked country in a month, police said.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=225881
 
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2 aides to top Iraqi Shiite cleric escape assassination attempts:
 
Both clerics are representatives of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The attacks come four days after a top aide of militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr was assassinated in Najaf.
tinyurl.com/6nqjnv
 
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Differences emerge in US and Iraqi strategies for al-Sadr:
 
Differences have emerged between the U.S. and Iraq on how to deal with Shiite militant Muqtada al-Sadr, with the Americans appearing more willing than the Shiite-led government to concede a legitimate political role to the anti-U.S. occupation cleric.
tinyurl.com/6n8buz
 
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Al-Qaida leader in Iraq urges Sunni fighters who joined Americans to come back in new audio:
 
In the recording, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who allegedly heads the Islamic State of Iraq, called on Sunni unity and urged Sunnis in the Iraqi army, police and the so-called “Awakening Councils” to abandon fighting the mujahideen, and instead turn their guns toward the “Crusader” enemy – shorthand for U.S. troops in Iraq.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/15/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Al-Qaida.php
 
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Iraq qualifies 35 companies for oil deals:
 
The announcement Monday on the ministry’s Web site is a major move that could bring foreign oil companies en masse into Iraq since the third-largest oil sector in the world was nationalized three decades ago.
tinyurl.com/63bs4c
 
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Brown: UK won’t pull more troops from Iraq until militia violence halted:
 
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday he won’t revive plans to withdraw hundreds of troops from southern Iraq until local security forces win the battle to drive out militia groups.
tinyurl.com/56vmck
 
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Iraq May Be Required To Pay For Its Own Destruction:
 
Iraq’s financial free ride may end :
 
From the fiercest foes of the war to the most steadfast Bush supporters, they are looking at Iraq’s surging oil income and saying Baghdad should start picking up more of the tab.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iraq_free_ride_over
 
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World Food Program’s Ambassador appeals to donors to help Iraqi refugees in Syria:
 
He held the USA responsible for the suffering of the Iraqis inside and outside Iraq, referring to their poverty, hunger and displacement, saying “the volume of the disaster is big and the doer of any problem should endure results of his actions.”
www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/04/15/170819.htm
 
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I can’t imagine why?
 
Attitudes Toward U.S. Worsen in Arab World:
 
Nearly two-thirds, or 64 percent, of more than 4,000 respondents in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said they held a “very unfavourable” attitude of the United States, up from 57 percent in late 2006
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41982
 
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War pimp alert:
 
US national security advisor in Israel for talks on Iran::
 
Visiting US national security advisor Stephen Hadley was to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday night
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080415/pl_afp/israelusirandiplomacy
 
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Israel test-fires ‘Iran’ missile :
 
Israel has conducted a test of a ballistic missile aimed at simulating an Iranian attack on Israel.
tinyurl.com/63yhod
 
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Iran would ‘eliminate Israel’ if attacked :
 
“We are not worried by Israeli manoeuvres, but if Israel takes such action against the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will eliminate it from the global arena,” Mohammad Reza Ashtiani was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
tinyurl.com/4dfn45
 
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Iran raises nuclear stakes before big powers meet:
 
Iran says it plans proposals to help end a row over its nuclear ambitions but at the same time it is raising the stakes before world powers meet by expanding work the West fears could produce bombs.
tinyurl.com/3lgdpz
 
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Israel builds more illegal settlements defying Annapolis – US ex-president Carter :
 
Former US President, Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday, that Israel has increased its settlement expansion, breaking promises it agreed to in the Annapolis Middle East peace talks made in the United States, last year
tinyurl.com/3o4vdl
 
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Ex-U.S. president Carter meets senior Hamas figure :
 
Carter greeted Nasser Shaer in Ramallah and called for a stronger role for Hamas, considered a terrorist organization both by the U.S. and Israel, in the Mideast peace process.
en.rian.ru/world/20080415/105155018.html
 
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Jimmy Carter Lays A Wreath at Arafat’s Tomb :
 
“He and Mrs. Carter and his son Jeff wanted to pay their respects to President Arafat,” Carter’s trip director Rick Jasculca told Cybercast News Service. But the former president didn’t make any comments there, he said.
tinyurl.com/4lya8k
 
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Egypt jails Brotherhood leaders :
 
Dozens of senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been jailed for up to 10 years in Egypt for financing a banned organisation.
tinyurl.com/66y8ud
 
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Two policemen, several insurgents killed in occupied Afghanistan:
 
Two Afghan policemen were killed and three were wounded in a roadside attack in southern Afghanistan, while Afghan and coalition forces killed several insurgents in two separate incidents in the same region, officials said
tinyurl.com/5xfs97
 
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European think-tank sees Taliban growing in Afghanistan:
 
The continuing strength of the insurgency and the Afghan government’s weakness make Western and European defeat in Afghanistan a realistic prospect, warns a report published by the newly-established European Council on Foreign Relations, a London-based think-tank.
www.neurope.eu/articles/85222.php
 
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Firing on Pak-Afghan border:
 
 Pakistan and Afghanistan security forces have exchanged fire according to officials, reports our Pakistan correspondent.
tinyurl.com/4gtp9d
 
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Putin accepts key party position :
 
Vladimir Putin, the outgoing president, has accepted the leadership of Russia’s biggest political party as he prepares to become the country’s prime minister.
tinyurl.com/69ogsd
 
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Russia plans to more than halve borrowings from World Bank – FM:
 
Russia plans to more than halve volumes of borrowings from the World Bank from 300-400 million US dollars, provided for earlier by the cooperation strategy, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin.
www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12576492&PageNum=0
 
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Brazil and Russia to build jet fighter and satellite launch vehicles:
 
Brazil’s Strategic Affairs Minister Roberto Mangabeira Unger says the agreement will lead to the development of a fifth-generation jet fighter. That’s the most modern sort now flying.
tinyurl.com/3hkp5q
 
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Venezuela sees annual $9 bln income in new oil law:
 
Venezuela expects income of $9 billion a year through a new oil law obliging companies to give “windfall earnings” to the leftist government when world prices are above $70 a barrel, a minister said on Tuesday
tinyurl.com/42fqa7
 
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UN urges action on food crisis :
 
The UN has called on the international community to take urgent action against the global food crisis, warning that escalating prices could undo years of progress in poverty alleviation.
tinyurl.com/6rg5aw
 
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Head of foreign relations panel says McCain would ignore global issues to pursue Iraq war:
 
“When it comes to Iraq, there is no daylight between John McCain and George W. Bush. They are joined at the hip,” Biden, a Democrat, said in excerpts of remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday at Georgetown University.
tinyurl.com/3kx5u6
 
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Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.:
 
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation’s most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea’s legal authority.
tinyurl.com/42hm4f
 
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Your Internet provider is watching you:
 
Fine print reveals that you have fewer rights than you might realize
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23957172
 
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Foreclosures continue to soar, worst is not over:
 
Filings up 57 percent in March over ‘07
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24115651/
 
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NYT: Retailer bankruptcies set to prompt thousands of store closings:
 
“The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are triggering a wave of bankruptcies in American retailing,” with ensuing store closures “expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country,” writes Michael Barbaro for the Times.
tinyurl.com/5u6e8y