Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,201,597"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,045
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$513,660,912,243
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Why Does the Bush Regime Want to Rule Iraq?
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
Bush invaded Iraq with the intent of turning Iraq into an American colony. The so-called government of Maliki is not a government. Maliki is the well paid front man for U.S. colonial rule. Maliki’s government does not exist outside the protected Green Zone, the headquarters of the American occupation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19789.htm
 
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Massive Attack
 
By Richard Silverstein
 
Hillary Clinton’s pledge to ‘obliterate’ Iran if it attacks Israel is unnecessarily bellicose.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19788.htm
 
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What About the War, Benedict?
 
By Ray McGovern
 
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States last week against a macabre backdrop featuring reports of torture, execution and war. He chose not to notice.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19793.htm
 
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Will the CIA Kill or Oust Ecuador’s President?
 
By Jacob G. Hornberger
 
Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa may not be long for this world, both in a political sense and in genuine life-or-death sense.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19790.htm
 
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The New Face Of Hunger
 
UN Cuts School Children’s Meals
 
By Jeremy Lovell in London
 
A “SILENT tsunami” unleashed by costlier food is threatening 100 million people, the United Nations has warned, revealing that its World Food Program has begun cutting the provision of school meals to some of the world’s poorest children as the global food-price crisis worsens.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19791.htm
 
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The Great Silence
 
Our Gilded Age and Theirs
 
By Steve Fraser
 
The myth of the “ownership society” confronts the reality of the “foreclosure society.” The great silence of the second Gilded Age may give way to the great noise of the first.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19794.htm

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U.S. to Insist That Travel Industry Get Fingerprints
 
By Spencer S. Hsu and Del Quentin Wilber
 
The U.S. government today will order commercial airlines and cruise lines to prepare to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the country under a security initiative that the industry has condemned as costly and burdensome.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19792.htm
 
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At least 30 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
The Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, said it received five dead bodies riddled with shrapnel and bullets overnight. It said 22 other people had been wounded.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=139442
 
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Female bomber kills 18 in attack on Iraq police station :
 
A woman suicide bomber killed 18 people and wounded two in an attack on a police station in Iraq’s Diyala province, the US military said Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/4qz2ge
 
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U.S. military says kills 15 “gunmen” in Baghdad:
 
U.S. troops said on Wednesday they killed 15 gunmen overnight in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad where fighting has raged for weeks between militiamen loyal to Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and security forces.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=139579
 
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How urgent are US “emergency” Iraq funds?:
 
An “emergency” request to the U.S. Congress for funds to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is strewn with money to buy military goods that cannot yet be used in either country
www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7478146
 
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Iraq: Al-Sadr’s Militia ‘Won’t Fight Government’ :
 
Al-Ubaydi also said the current standoff with the government is politically motivated, and accused fighters affiliated with a rival Shi’ite party of carrying out Iran’s work in Iraq.
tinyurl.com/46wgpt
 
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Iranian Role in Training Militants Questioned:
 
U.S. military commanders in Iraq say Shiite militants, believed to be linked to Muqtada al Sadr’s Mahdi Army, have received training and equipment from Iranian military commandos. The militants are believed to be behind the recent upsurge in well-aimed rocket fire on the U.S.-protected green zone. Others say the threats from these elite Shiite fighters – and the role of Iran – have been exaggerated.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89850119
 
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IAEA, Iran agree on process to clarify Iran’s nuclear programs:
 
The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran have reached an agreement on the process to look into allegations regarding Tehran’s nuclear programs, IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said Wednesday.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=139564
 
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Israel Sees Iran Threat Recede? :
 
In a series of interviews on the eve of the Passover holiday, Olmert sounded the same message: Iran will not get the bomb. “I want to tell the citizens of Israel: Iran will not have nuclear capability,” he told the daily Haaretz newspaper in one of the interviews.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42080
 
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Petraeus picked to lead Mideast command:
 
If confirmed by the Senate, Petraeus would replace Navy Adm. William Fallon, who abruptly stepped down in March after a magazine reported that he was at odds with President Bush over Iran policy.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=139694
 
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10 police killed in Afghan attacks including suicide bombing :
 
A suicide bombing and other attacks on Afghan police left 10 officers dead and 10 others wounded Wednesday, officials said
tinyurl.com/3uy8cq
 
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Suicide blast in Afghan bazaar kills 4:
 
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a bazaar in an Afghan town close to the Pakistan border on Wednesday, killing three civilians and wounding at least 14 more, Afghan officials said.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP317852.htm
 
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One Pakistani soldier killed in clash with Afghan forces:
 
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and another was injured on Wednesday in a gunfight with the Afghan forces, the military said.
tinyurl.com/3pn38z
 
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Pakistan frees pro-Taliban leader, makes peace with group:
 
Pakistan freed a pro-Taliban cleric and quickly signed an accord with his hard-line group Monday, the first major step by the new government to talk peace with Islamic militants and break with President Pervez Musharraf’s policy of using force.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=137721
 
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U.S. concerned about possible Pakistan-Taliban talks :
 
The United States is concerned about a possible peace agreement between the Pakistani government and Taliban militants along the border with Afghanistan, the White House said Wednesday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/23/content_8037846.htm
 
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US ‘war on terror’ backfiring, says thinktank:
 
The US “war on terror” has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and turning them into legitimate political actors in the eyes of their local populations, a thinktank said today.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/23/usa.somalia
 
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Surging Towards Gaza:
 
How the U.S. is Reproducing Israel’s Flawed Occupation Strategies in Iraq
www.alternet.org/waroniraq/83169/
 
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Hamas offers conditional truce in Gaza:
 
But Israel unlikely to approve cease-fire bid that requires opening of strip’s borders
tinyurl.com/459t9o
 
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Peace talks fail to hearten Gazans :
 
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military over the last six months, but it was the high number of civilian casualties in the Israeli army operations over the last week that so shocked people in Gaza.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7356730.stm
 
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UN: Gaza Food To Halt Unless Israel Supplies Power:
 
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees will have to halt the distribution of food to the Gaza Strip within 24 hours if it doesn’t receive fresh fuel supplies, its Gaza director said on Wednesday
tinyurl.com/4jtaqo
 
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Opposition slams decision to allow aid into Gaza:
 
Knesset members outraged over government decision to reopen Gaza crossing on Tuesday for humanitarian aid
tinyurl.com/3u7lxj
 
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US soldier spied for Israel, court told:
 
The complaint specifically mentions three documents that Kadish is accused of leaking – one “concerning nuclear weaponry” containing “atomic-related information”; one regarding a modified version of an F-15 fighter jet that the United States sold to another country; and one containing information about the Patriot missile system.
tinyurl.com/3gvvr4
 
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Ezra: New spy case won’t harm U.S.-Israel ties :
 
“The relations between Israel and the United States have always been based on true friendship and similarity of values and interests,” he added.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/977076.html
 
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U.S. to Link North Korea to Syria:
 
North Korea was helping Syria build a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor before Israel bombed the site last September, the Bush administration is set to tell Congress.
tinyurl.com/5yqndc
 
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CIA to describe North Korea-Syria nuclear ties:
 
Officials will tell Congress members this week that North Korea was helping Syria build a reactor last year when it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, a U.S. official says.
tinyurl.com/5eoxlg
 
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Syria: North Korean diplomat denies nuclear links :
 
A North Korean diplomat has denied claims of nuclear cooperation between Damascus and Pyongyang, but stressed there was strong military cooperation between both countries.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2100660033
 
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For the benefit of Israel, US media stoops to trashing Carter:
 
Jimmy Carter’s visit to the Middle East will be remembered not for his meetings with Hamas leaders but for the savagery of the reactions he received from the American media.
onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3209.shtml
 
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Food price rises are “mass murder”-UN envoy:
 
Global food price rises are leading to “silent mass murder” and commodities markets have brought “horror” to the world, the United Nations’ food envoy told an Austrian newspaper on Sunday.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20698300.htm
 
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Chavez says food prices “massacre” of world’s poor:
 
Soaring food prices are a “massacre” of the world’s poor and are creating a global nutritional crisis, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday, calling it a sign that capitalism is in decline.
africa.reuters.com/commodities/news/usnN22332428.html?rpc=401&
 
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The new face of hunger:
 
Last year wheat prices rose 77% and rice 16% (see chart 1). These were some of the sharpest rises in food prices ever. But this year the speed of change has accelerated.
www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_ID=11049284
 
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Bolivia’s president says biofuels hurting food prices:
 
Bolivian President Evo Morales says biofuels are causing higher food prices in his country and could cause serious problems around the world.
tinyurl.com/3t2b7s
 
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Americans hoard food as industry seeks regs:
 
Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to drive food prices higher. Meanwhile, some Americans are stocking up on staples such as rice, flour and oil in anticipation of high prices and shortages spreading from overseas.
tinyurl.com/5mntlc
 
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This is the most dangerous period in more than 40 years : Navy Adm:
 
Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the threats of extremism and changes happening around the world associated with energy and resources make the present day “the most uncertain and potentially the most dangerous time since I’ve been serving,”
tinyurl.com/42j4a9
 
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Climate change ‘may put world at war’:
 
Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.
tinyurl.com/4puefo
 
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The incredible shrinking terror case:
 
Once labelled Canada’s first homegrown, Islamist terror plot, the case of the so-called Toronto 18 is quietly melting away.
www.thestar.com/columnists/article/414859
 
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Police: DNA database ready as early as next year :
 
Bermuda could have its own DNA database within a couple of years, to aid the Police in cracking more crimes. Radical reforms through the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) mean more DNA samples, fingerprints and photographs will be collected when people are taken into custody from August this year.
tinyurl.com/46bhnj
 
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Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’ :
 
In a recent briefing with Canadian press (which has yet to be picked up in the U.S.), Chertoff made the startling statement that fingerprints are “not particularly private”:
tinyurl.com/4jk6uy
 
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California foreclosure “surge”: Up 327% from ‘07 levels:
 
The number of California homes lost to foreclosure in the first quarter surged 327% from year-ago levels — reaching an average of more than 500 foreclosures per day — DataQuick said in a report, warning that the widening foreclosure problem could “spread beyond the current categories of dicey mortgages, and into mainstream home loans.”
latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/04/california-fo-1.html
 
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We Want Healthcare NOT Warfare—NOW!:
 
An estimated 9000 Americans have died since the beginning of the Iraq war because they lack health insurance
www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/32935