Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,199,782"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,044
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$513,394,237,847
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Message To Fed Chief Bernanke
 
“Enough With The Cuts, Already”
 
By Mike Whitney
 
The Fed’s loose money policies have put the dollar at risk of losing its role as the world’s reserve currency. If the dollar falls from its perch, the empire will soon follow. The macroeconomic impact of Greenspan’s low interest rates will be seismic.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19787.htm
 
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The Double Trouble of Taxation
 
By Ron Paul
 
Big government is destructive when it takes your money and when it spends it. There is no economic benefit to supporting a government sector as massive as ours. In fact, this country thrived for well over 100 years without an income tax.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19785.htm
 
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Out of the Way, Peasants
 
By Steven Greenhut
 
Government officials are zealous about dealing with problems caused by average citizens, but they are far less interested in dealing with the excesses of fellow members of the privileged, government elite. There are rules for “us” and rules for “them” – us being the subjects and them being the rulers. Feel free to pound the table in anger now!
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19784.htm
 
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Bush Has A Sneering Contempt For The Law.
 
A Must Watch
 
Bruce Fein and former United States Congressman Bob Barr
 
On his say so alone he can identify anyone in the United States as creating a “significant risk of undermining reconstruction program in Iraq, or political reform by creating a risk that an act of violence might be committed.” And when he identifies you, he doesn’t inform you. But you are instantly subjected to a financial death penalty. All your assets are frozen; no one then can do any business with you.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19783.htm
 
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Clueless in America
 
By Bob Herbert
 
Ignorance in the United States is not just bliss, it’s widespread. A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19786.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 23 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
U.S. soldiers in an M1 Abrams tank and Bradley fighting vehicle killed three militants late on Monday after a U.S. route clearance vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device, the U.S. military said.
tinyurl.com/3rqzgm
 
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Female bomber kills 6 cops, injures 12 in Diala :
 
At least six policemen were killed and 12 persons were injured on Tuesday when a female bomber blew herself up near a police department in northeast of Baghdad, a police source said.
tinyurl.com/4zd8bq
 
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US Bombs Kill 5 In Sadr City:
 
The American occupation force reported another five people killed in the embattled township. Residents said low flying jets dropped bombs in Sectors 22 and 24 of Sadr City – About two hours later, according to witnesses, helicopters fired missiles at four targets in Sadr City, where hundreds of people have died since Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered a crackdown on militias across Iraq in late March.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-04-22-voa23.cfm
 
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US snipers accused of targeting civilians in Sadr City:
 
Residents, doctors of Baghdad’s Sadr City say US snipers deliberately shoot civilians in feet, stomachs.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=25503
 
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Iraq’s Sadr cannot be defeated by force: experts:
 
Suddenly, after many months in which the news from Iraq has been mostly about falling violence, the country is reeling towards a rebellion by millions of Sadr’s followers against a government crackdown on his black-masked Mehdi Army militia
in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-33157320080421
 
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Iraq Wants U.S. to Compromise More on Security Deals:
 
Iraq is resisting U.S. proposals for a pair of new bilateral security agreements, saying it expects Washington to compromise on “sensitive issues,” including the right to imprison Iraqi citizens unilaterally, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Monday
tinyurl.com/3ztvhe
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
Gates: Iran Hell Bent on Getting Nukes :
 
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he believes Iran is “hell bent” on acquiring nuclear weapons, but he warned in strong terms of the consequences of going to war over that.
tinyurl.com/4yczuf
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
Clinton: If Tehran “nukes” Israel, U.S. could ‘totally obliterate’ Iran :
 
Hillary Clinton, facing a crucial primary in Pennsylvania Tuesday, said that if she were in the White House and Tehran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, the United States would be able to ‘totally obliterate’ Iran.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976991.html
 
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India Rejects US Call For It To Pressure Iran On Nuclear Bid:
 
India on Tuesday told Washington to mind its own business after a U.S. official said New Delhi should urge Iran to curtail its nuclear program during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
tinyurl.com/3hxvdg
 
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Iranian nuclear shipment halted:
 
Azerbaijan has halted a Russian shipment of equipment intended for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, demanding more information for fear of violating United Nations sanctions, officials said.
tinyurl.com/3mpk46
 
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Japan freezes assets of Iranian companies, individuals :
 
The cabinet on Tuesday approved new sanctions to freeze the assets of 12 organizations and 13 individuals related to Iran’s nuclear development programs, in line with a March 3 U.N. resolution.
tinyurl.com/4oy8nk
 
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U.S. arrests suspected spy for giving nuclear secrets to Israel :
 
U.S. authorities arrested an American engineer on Tuesday on suspicion of giving military secrets involving nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to Israel during the 1980s, the Justice Department said.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/977076.html
 
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In case you missed it:
 
Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.?: Video:
 
Now Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn’t tell us before September 11. Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron has details in the first of a four-part series.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm
 
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When my finger was on the button for Israel:
 
I was a young law student applying for a part-time internship. To my amazement, I was soon casting votes at the U.N. and working for Ariel Sharon.
tinyurl.com/49g6b2
 
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Israel Kills Three Palestinian Militants :
 
Israeli occupation troops have killed three Palestinianresistance members in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday after fighters attacked a military position near the Erez border crossing with Israel.
tinyurl.com/46rlmw
 
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Silence in Israel on Hamas proposal:
 
THE Israeli Government says it is not commenting on an apparent offer by Hamas, relayed by the former US president Jimmy Carter, of peace in exchange for an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
tinyurl.com/53f45g
 
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Hamas: We’ll give final response to truce proposal on Thursday:
 
Hamas lawmaker Salah Bardawil also said that Hamas is considering whether to accept a truce with Israel which would take effect just in the Gaza Strip.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976967.html
 
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Abbas says Carter visit lacked “positive results” :
 
Carter said after private meetings with Hamas leaders in Egypt and Syria last week that the Islamist group, which is shunned by Israel, Abbas and the West, would accept a peace deal signed by the Palestinian president if it passed a referendum.
tinyurl.com/4jeeo5
 
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Rice: U.S. explicitly warned Carter not to meet with Hamas :
 
“The United States is not going to deal with Hamas and we had certainly told President Carter that we did not think meeting with Hamas was going to help further a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/977044.html
 
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Israel Strengthens Hamas Leadership:
 
The one political result of Israel’s attacks and sanctions on Gaza has been that the Hamas leadership, and particularly Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, have emerged greatly strengthened.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42079
 
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Afghan police kill 9 Taliban fighters in Kandahar :
 
Authorities recovered the bodies of four dead militants after Tuesday’s clash, while the insurgents took away five more dead fighters as they retreated, Raziq said
tinyurl.com/4yl7pm
 
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6 police, NATO occupation force soldier killed in Taliban attacks in Afghanistan:
 
Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Arghistan district of southern Kandahar province on Monday night, killing six police officers, Rahmatullah Khan, border police commander in the province said.
tinyurl.com/3fktsh
 
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Missing diplomat in ‘Taliban’ video :
 
Pakistan has confirmed that a man shown in a video aired on an Arabic television channel is its ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, who went missing in February.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1A2C8A67-EC0C-44B9-8366-30B8BE8F8350.htm
 
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EU chief supports Pakistan’’s talks with Taliban :
 
A day after Britain voiced its support to US-criticized Pakistans policy to hold talks with Taliban militants, EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana also expressed support to the decision.
tinyurl.com/547lml
 
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Al-Qaida No. 2 pledges attacks on Iraq invaders:
 
In new audiotape, al-Zawahri answers questions from group’s followers
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24251285
 
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Our dirty little secret:
 
The way women are treated in Saudi Arabia is a disgrace – and Muslims, including myself, are colluding with the regime’s gender apartheid
commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/riazat_butt/2008/04/our_dirty_little_secret.html
 
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Is religion a threat to rationality and science?:
 
Religion may make many people better, but it is preventing them from being as good as they could be. If only we could transfer all that respect, loyalty and intense devotion from an imaginary being – God – to something real: the wonderful world of goodness we and our ancestors have made, and of which we are now the stewards.
education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2275308,00.html
 
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Somalis flee after Mogadishu battle :
 
Hundreds of people have fled occupied Mogadishu after heavy clashes between anti-government fighters and Somali and Ethiopian troops reportedly killed more than 80 people over the weekend.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0B73D645-799B-4F97-9AAA-0A66A5093DE8.htm
 
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‘Genocide’ warning in Zimbabwe :
 
Church leaders in Zimbabwe have called for international intervention to prevent the country’s post-election crisis decending into “genocide”.
tinyurl.com/68y8ct
 
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Uribe cousin ordered held in Colombia “para” probe:
 
Colombian authorities on Tuesday ordered the arrest of President Alvaro Uribe’s cousin and one of his closest allies for suspected ties to paramilitary death squads in a deepening political scandal.
tinyurl.com/3mlgnr
 
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Colombian death squad scandal intensifies:
 
More than 30 current or former members of Congress, the vast majority allies of the president, have been arrested for allegedly backing and benefiting from the illegal right-wing bands formed to protect the wealthy from a guerrilla war
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24257396/
 
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Chief of Southern Command says US will not seek to replace air base in Ecuador:
 
Washington has no plans to replace its only military post in South America if Ecuador’s government refuses to renew a 10-year lease on its drug-interdiction air base in the Pacific port of Manta, the chief of the U.S. Southern Command said Monday.
tinyurl.com/473pjm
 
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Lugo vows Paraguay ‘consensus’ :
 
Fernando Lugo, the former bishop who is set to be Paraguay’s next president, has vowed to govern by consensus after defeating the Colorado party candidate in Sunday’s presidential election.
tinyurl.com/4g93o8
 
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Bolivian leader Morales denounces global business :
 
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales carried his national reform plans to the United Nations Monday, telling a meeting of world indigenous peoples to be wary of transnational corporations and industrialists.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/351103/cs/1/
 
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Amnesty unveils shock ‘waterboarding’ film:
 
Malcolm Nance, who trained hundreds of US servicemen and women to resist interrogation by putting them through “waterboarding” exercises, demanded an immediate end to the practice by all US personnel.
tinyurl.com/52luw6
 
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Tortured Explanations:
 
Never before in the modern history of the United States has there been an officially sanctioned, government-wide system of inflicting torture and abuse on detainees. Until now.
www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/04/tortured_explainations.html
 
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VA confirms 18 vets commit suicide every day:
 
In a stunning admission, top officials at the Veterans Health Administration confirmed that the agency’s own statistics show that an average of 126 veterans per week — 6,552 veterans per year — commit suicide, according to an internal email distributed to several VA officials.
onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3204.shtml
 
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US: Vets’ Lawsuit Opens Door on Suicides, Poor Care:
 
“The suicide problem is out of control,” said Gordon Erspamer, an attorney representing the groups Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth in a class action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). “Our veterans deserve better.”
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42077
 
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Standing on the bodies:
 
Clinton TV ad uses images of Pearl Harbor and Bin Laden:
 
Her campaign commercial marked the first time a Democratic candidate had used Osama bin Laden in the presidential race, although Republicans, including Rudolph Giuliani, did so.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/22/america/campaign.php
 
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Have they no shame?
 
 Rethinking ‘War Hero’:
 
“624787.” In his first national campaign ad for president, Sen. John McCain is shown reciting his rank and serial number as he lies in a Vietnamese hospital bed as a prisoner of war. The ad describes him as “a real hero.”
tinyurl.com/4qmba7
 
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Bush’s disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years :
 
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080422/a_pollbox22.art.htm