Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,205,025"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,056
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$515,369,807,423
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and Israel.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19839.htm
 
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Iran Steps Into Enemy’s Territory
 
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
 
This week, with his three-nation tour of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will fortify Iran’s regional ties and thus achieve a milestone in his administration’s “Look East” foreign policy orientation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19831.htm
 
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Neocons say: Pakistan, is threat to world peace
 
Try ‘Pakistan First’
 
By Jim Hoagland
 
the war in Afghanistan will not be won or lost in Afghanistan alone. It must also be won inside Pakistan, where things go from bad to worse for U.S. policy, which has been a set of forlorn wishes that seem to boomerang.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19830.htm
 
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“For Eli”
 
 Must Watch 3 Minute Video
 
 Fu** Your Yellow Ribbon.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19832.htm
 
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Taking Back the Debate Over Israel
 
By Gary Kamiya
 
Sick of right-wing Jews speaking in their name, progressive American Jews have launched J Street to change the way the game is played in Washington.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19838.htm
 
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Letters Give C.I.A. Tactics a Legal Rationale
 
By Mark Mazzetti
 
The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19833.htm
 
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Driving Guantanamo Detainees Insane
 
By Stephen Soldz
 
Last month a lawyer for nine detainees who are members of China’s Uighur ethnic minority told a Congressional committee that one of them, Huzaifa Parhat, said that life at Guantánamo was like having already died. The lawyer, P. Sabin Willett, said Mr. Parhat asked the lawyers to pass on a message. He told them to tell his wife to remarry.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19834.htm
 
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The Jeremiah Wright You Won’t Hear on FOX News
 
By Mike Whitney
 
Jeremiah Wright is 5' 10 ‘’ of tightly-packed explosives. He may be the best public speaker since Martin Luther King. He is bright, passionate, insightful and erudite. When he speaks; the sparks fly and the ground shakes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19837.htm
 
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Rev.Wright: Telling It Like It Is!
 
Video
 
Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19836.htm
 
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The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation
 
By Glen Ford
 
Having crushed the planet’s peasants and converted food into just another commodity for global manipulation, the Lord’s of Capital have unleashed upon humanity the threat – no, certainty – of mass starvation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19835.htm
 
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More than 30 killed in occupied Baghdad street battle:
 
Shiite militants ambushed a U.S. occupation force patrol in Baghdad’s embattled Sadr City district on Tuesday and more than two dozen people were killed in the fighting, a U.S. military spokesman and Iraqi officials said.
tinyurl.com/4dh5nz
 
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4 U.S.occupation force soldiers killed in Baghdad attack:
 
Rocket or mortar strike kills troops around the capital
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24356128/
 
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Senior Iraqi government official assassinated in Baghdad:
 
The spokesman Abdullah al-Lami says Jaber was a director general at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. He was in charge of the ministry’s projects and reconstruction department. His son also has been lightly injured in the blast.
tinyurl.com/4vskfe
 
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Turkish army says ‘many’ Kurdish rebels killed in attack on Iraq:
 
Forty-three fighter jets took part in the air attacks on Friday and Saturday, which targeted “Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions” in the Zap, Avashin and Khakurk regions, the statement said.
tinyurl.com/4fgr6c
 
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Medic says Army sergeant ordered him to suffocate Iraqi :
 
He faces up to life in a military prison and a discharge if convicted of premeditated murder and other charges. Authorities say he shot the insurgent in the abdomen, a nonfatal wound, before ordering Torres to suffocate him.
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5739449.html
 
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War criminals:
 
House Democrats work on huge Iraq money bill:
 
House Democratic leaders are putting together the largest Iraq war spending bill yet, a measure that is expected to fund the war through the end of the Bush presidency and for nearly six months into the next president’s term.
tinyurl.com/63vu9y
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert: :
 
Is an Iranian general the most powerful man in Iraq?:
 
One of the most powerful men in Iraq isn’t an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat
www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/35146.html
 
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Bush: Syria Nuclear Briefing A Warning To North Korea, Iran:
 
U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday said his decision to brief members of Congress on an Israeli attack on an alleged Syrian nuclear facility was meant as a “message” to North Korea and Iran.
tinyurl.com/4lc48v
 
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Iran President blasts of US
 
Describing the United States a ‘’bullying power’’ whose time had ‘’come to an end,’’ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad today spewed venom against Washington from the Indian soil saying it was collapsing and falling down.
tinyurl.com/3s9caz
 
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Report says Russia to examine Iran’s nuclear ideas:
 
Russia was quoted as saying on Tuesday it was ready to examine Iranian proposals to end a deadlock over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme.
tinyurl.com/3f3edx
 
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Iran President: Weak Dollar Behind High Oil Prices:
 
“The high crude oil prices do not have any relation to production or consumption,” Ahmadinejad said during a state visit to India. “(It is) because of the decrease in the value of the dollar.”
tinyurl.com/4o3d5v
 
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Hamas warns Israel of alternative to truce:
 
Senior Hamas leader Mahmud Zahar warned on Tuesday that Palestinian resistance groups would use “every means” against Israel if it does not accept a proposed truce in and around the Gaza Strip.
tinyurl.com/4sh9j3
 
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Assad says facility Israel bombed not nuclear: :
 
The Syrian site Israel bombed in September was not part of a nuclear weapons program, but was a military facility under construction, President Bashar al-Assad said in remarks published on Sunday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080427/wl_nm/korea_north_syria_dc
 
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12 Israeli jets violate Lebanon airspace :
 
Twelve Israeli warplanes have violated the Lebanese airspace by flying over a number of cities including Beirut, Lebanese army says.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=53542&sectionid=351020203
 
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Afghanistan clashes kill 23 “Taliban militants” :
 
Afghan and foreign occupation troops called in airstrikes as they battled militants in a series of clashes that left at least 23 “insurgents” dead and 20 others wounded, officials said Tuesday
www.dailynews.lk/2008/04/30/wld04.asp
 
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Suicide bomb on poppy team kills 18 Afghans:
 
Taliban militants killed 18 Afghans, including seven civilians, and wounded 31 more in a suicide bomb attack on an drug eradication team in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.
tinyurl.com/3lvzng
 
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15 killed in Afghan blast::
 
An attack involving a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday killed 15 Afghans and wounded 25 more, the NATO-led occupation force told AFP.
tinyurl.com/5yyljy
 
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Ex-Prosecutor Tells of Push by Pentagon on Detainees :
 
The former chief prosecutor here took the witness stand on Monday on behalf of a detainee and testified that top Pentagon officials had pressured him in deciding which cases to prosecute and what evidence to use.
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/washington/29gitmo.html
 
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From Kuwait.to Idaho;
 
Crews moving contaminated sand from ship to rail:
 
Longshoremen should finish unloading 6,700 tons of sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead Tuesday afternoon
tinyurl.com/6ln2hb
 
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Bolivia on the edge of ‘explosion’:
 
ENTERING the tiny sun-drenched two-storey Spanish colonial building in the capital of the energy-rich Bolivian province of Santa Cruz, it is difficult to imagine that this is the epicentre of preparations for armed struggle – and possible civil war – ahead of the region’s forthcoming and hugely controversial autonomy referendum on Sunday.
tinyurl.com/3lkkks
 
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UK: Bank bail-outs to be kept secret:
 
Ferocious and unprecedented secrecy means taxpayers will never know the names of the banks that have been supported through the special liquidity scheme, which was unveiled by Bank Governor Mervyn King last week.
tinyurl.com/4jzsdu
 
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BP’s first-quarter profit jumps 63 percent:
 
The oil company on Tuesday reported a profit of $7.6 billion compared to $4.4 billion in the first quarter of 2007.
edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/04/29/britishpetroleum.profit.ap/
 
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Shell profits up 25 pct on record high oil prices:
 
 Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell said Tuesday that first-quarter net profits leapt 25 percent to 4.58 billion pounds because of record-breaking crude oil prices.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iftQ-7-T9grM4N1CDCNwSxyYla7Q
 
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The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation :
 
Having crushed the planet’s peasants and converted food into just another commodity for global manipulation, the Lord’s of Capital have unleashed upon humanity the threat – no, certainty – of mass starvation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19835.htm
 
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A law unto himself:
 
Cheney lawyer claims Congress has no authority over vice-president
 
The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed today that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/29/dickcheney.usa
 
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Obama vows to back Bush’s war commander:
 
Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Barack Obama said on Sunday he would endorse Bush’s nominee to direct US military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout a region extending from North Africa to Central Asia.
www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/obam-a29.shtml
 
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Candidates’ plans would increase defict:
 
Plans outlined by the three main U.S. presidential contenders will increase the federal deficit, adding to the national debt significantly, budget experts say.
tinyurl.com/4q8h6j