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 4,061
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$515,660,158,689
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Blood Diamonds’ ‘Blood Oil’ and ‘Blood Food’ By Pablo Ouziel
 
True commitment to stopping the war in Iraq requires a global human rights strike, in which the working population of the world stops producing, until the governments and the corporations realize that the voice of the people does indeed matter.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19840.htm
 
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Military or Market-Driven Empire Building: 1950-2008 By James Petras
 
The dismantling of the military driven empire will not occur ‘by choice’ but by imposed circumstances, including the incapacity of domestic institutions to continue to finance it. The demise of the militarist governing class will follow the collapse of their domestic economic foundations.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19843.htm
 
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The Military Option By Uri Avnery
 
Hitler wanted to destroy the Soviet Union and reach a compromise with the British Empire. He belittled the United States and almost ignored it. The result of the war was that the Soviet Union took over a large part of Europe, America became the main world power and the British Empire disintegrated forever.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19846.htm
 
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Israel is Suppressing a Secret it Must Face By Johann Hari
 
How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19845.htm
 
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Driven To Starvation By William A. Cohn
 
How the auto industry continues to destroy the environment and is now abetting global hunger and poverty.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19841.htm
 
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Fastened to a Dying Animal By Phil Rockstroh
 
Here in this crumbling empire once known as the American Republic, here in a nation that, at present, for all practical purposes, only produces Cheetos and killer drones, whose architecture is being winnowed down to thriving rural meth houses and foreclosed upon suburban mchouses, whose corrupt corporate culture has bequeathed upon our suffering planet dying oceans and the hyper-caffeinated tsunami of Red Bull Capitalism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19844.htm
 
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“Man Overboard!” Obama turns away from a drowning friend By Mike Whitney
 
 Barak Obama held a press conference yesterday and made it official; his friendship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is over, terminated, kaput. He would no longer associate with a man who believed that the United States of America could do horrible things to its people or that 9-11 might have been the result of US foreign policy. As Obama said, that’s just “outrageous”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19847.htm
 
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My Pastor Is Holier Than Yours By Mary Pitt
 
The mainstream media is having a field day with this minutia while parading “experts” on both politics and religion across our screen. Hours of air time are spent on this trivia while the soldiers keep dying in Iraq, the criminality of the Pentagon policies, the brutal treatment, not only of our prisoners, but of our “all-volunteer” servicewomen, is conveniently swept under the rug and onto the back pages of the newspapers.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19842.htm
 
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Sadr City attacks kill at least 925 Iraqis:
 
Clashes between Shiite militiamen and security forces have killed more than 900 people in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to press the offensive to its conclusion.
tinyurl.com/54362s
 
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Civilians among 28 killed as US bombs Sadr City:
 
Photographs showed the dust-covered body of at least one child being pulled from a mountain of rubble after Tuesday’s fighting.
tinyurl.com/3nhvzk
 
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Another proud day in US military history :
 
Pictures show destruction caused by US bombing of civillians
tinyurl.com/4n8z3o
 
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151 Congressmen Profit From War:
 
More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq.
rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/151-congressmen-profit-from-war/3283/
 
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Iraqi PM Vows to Disband Shi’ite Militia, Sunni Insurgent Groups :
 
Mr. Maliki made the pledge at a news conference Wednesday in Baghdad. His comments follow days of heavy fighting that pits U.S. and Iraqi forces against Shi’ite militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad’s Sadr City.
tinyurl.com/4yqw98
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert:
 
“Hostile” Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan:
 
“What the Iranians are doing is killing American servicemen and -women inside Iraq,” said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/29/eveningnews/main4056941.shtml
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
US Report: Iran World’s Most Significant Terrorism Sponsor :
 
The report identified Iran as the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism with support for hard-line Palestinian factions opposed to U.S.-led peace efforts, Lebanese Hezbollah militants, and Iraqi insurgents.
tinyurl.com/54kmtw
 
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US Denies Report It Is Ramping Up Military Plans Vs Iran:
 
“I’m not aware of any ramping up or revision of war plans for Iran,” Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters traveling with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates
tinyurl.com/3kzfrt
 
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White House downplays arrival of second U.S. aircraft carrier in Gulf:
 
“They reinforce that the U.S. has an enduring commitment to the region and to our allies, and we continue to protect our allies and interests wherever necessary,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino during a White House briefing.
tinyurl.com/4z246e
 
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Warships ‘to remind Iran of US power’ :
 
The decision to send a second US aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf should be a “reminder” to Iran of Washington’s military might but was not an escalation of force in the region, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23623738-15084,00.html
 
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Top Russian official says Iran’s nuclear program is strictly peaceful :
 
A senior Russian government official said on Wednesday after talks with the Iranian leadership that the Islamic Republic was not developing nuclear weapons.
en.rian.ru/russia/20080430/106309079.html
 
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Azerbaijan to release cargo for Bushehr :
 
Azerbaijan said Wednesday it will release a shipment of Russian equipment for Iran’s first nuclear power plant that has been held at the border since late March.
www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D90C9M7O0.htm
 
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Iran dumps U.S. dollar for oil trades:
 
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the depreciating dollar a “worthless piece of paper” at a rare summit last year in Saudi Arabia attended by state leaders from OPEC countries.
edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/04/30/iran.oil.ap/index.html
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert:
 
Israeli President Urges World to Control Iran:
 
The world could have faced destruction if Hitler had succeeded in acquiring nuclear weapons, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday at a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353500,00.html
 
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Militant killed, 3 others hurt in Israeli attack on occupied Gaza :
 
An Israel Air Force aircraft attacked a metal workshop in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing an Islamic Jihad top militant and wounding three other people, Palestinian officials said.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/979472.html
 
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Egypt Says 12 Palestinian Resistance Groups Agree to Truce With Israel :
 
The larger Hamas militant group that controls Gaza told Egypt last week it would support a six-month cease-fire with Israel in Gaza, to be followed by a similar truce in the West Bank.
tinyurl.com/3oqelo
 
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Rice talks to pro-Israel group :
 
Rice also poured cold water on any prospects that Israel and Syria could negotiate peace terms.
www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Apr/20080430News037.asp
 
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7 killed during raid on militant hide-out in Afghan capital:
 
Hundreds of intelligence agents on Wednesday raided the hide-out of militants with suspected links to an attack on President Hamid Karzai, as the Afghan capital was sucked deeper into the war against the Taliban.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/30/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Violence.php
 
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NATO soldier killed, 4 wounded in explosion in Afghanistan :
 
One soldier serving the NATO-led International Occupation Force (IOF) was killed and four soldiers were wounded Wednesday in an explosion during a patrol in eastern Afghan province of Logar, the IOF said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/01/content_8084660.htm
 
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Afghanistan terror attacks ‘up 16%’:
 
Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-September 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in Pakistan, and terrorist attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan have increased 16% last year, the US have said.
tinyurl.com/3jnm3a
 
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Afghan stability will take a generation-US general :
 
Stabilizing Afghanistan will need an international commitment lasting a generation, the general who has just spent more than a year commanding U.S. occupation forces there said on Tuesday
tinyurl.com/43vl8d
 
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Afghan intelligence chief says Karzai assassination plan hatched in Pakistan :
 
‘’We have no evidence whether … the operation has had any mercy or go-ahead from the government of Pakistan and (its) special agencies,’’ Saleh told reporters in Kabul. ‘’There (is) very, very strong evidence suggesting that Pakistan’s soil once again has been used to inflict pain on our nation.’’
tinyurl.com/3pq8tl
 
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Ethiopian occupation troops kill at least 12 in Somalia :
 
At least 12 Somali civilians have been killed after Ethiopian troops opened fire on them in the southwestern town of Baidoa, witnesses say.
tinyurl.com/5mjwke
 
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US Terror Report Points Out Venezuela, Iran:
 
The US State Department on Wednesday released its annual report on terrorism threats in countries around the world, which mainly highlighted Venezuela’s associations with Iran and Cuba, Iran’s interference in Iraq and the resurgence of al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
tinyurl.com/3jraf6
 
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US Navy re-establishes fleet for Caribbean, Latin America :
 
The move comes as popularly elected leftist regimes, including that of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, pose a growing challenge to US influence in Latin America.
tinyurl.com/4ydow6
 
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Venezuelan ex-general sentenced in 2003 bombings:
 
Rodriguez, also known by his nickname “The Crow,” was among military officers who rose up against President Hugo Chavez in a short-lived 2002 coup.
tinyurl.com/3hprqe
 
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Obama ‘outraged’ by ex-pastor :
 
Obama, speaking on Tuesday in North Carolina, which is due to hold a primary next week, described Wright’s comments as “divisive and destructive” and said he believed “they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate”.
tinyurl.com/5b6y4l
 
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How Daniel Pipes Destroyed a New York City Principal :
 
The New York Times has a cautionary tale of how mainstream hate masquerading as patriotism can destroy projects designed to promote peace and understanding.
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/28/75357/1269/743/504708
 
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US central bank slashes rates :
 
The US central bank has cut interest rates by a quarter-point from 2.25 per cent to two per cent.
tinyurl.com/6e8ln8
 
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The Housing Market is Nowhere Near Bottom:
 
Housing is what started the current mess we are in. Thanks to record low interest rates from the Federal Reserve, the US consumer went on a debt-induced home buying binge. That binge is now coming home to roost. And it’s not going to let up for the foreseeable future.
tinyurl.com/6lq7c8