Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,209,263"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,079
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$520,751,063,848
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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So Just Where Does The Madness End?
 
By Robert Fisk
 
I am not sure what was the worse part of this week. Living in Lebanon? Or reading the outrageous words of George Bush? Several times, I have asked myself this question: have words lost their meaning?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19944.htm
 
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Israel Must Be Held To Same Nuclear Scrutiny As Iran
 
By JOE PARKO
 
Israel is using nuclear blackmail against the U.S. Essentially, Israel is saying that if we don’t agree to use our nuclear weapons against Iran, then they will use theirs. Israel is determined to keep its monopoly on nuclear weapons in the Middle East and is using its nuclear arsenal to force the U.S. to support its demand.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19942.htm
 
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A Two-State Solution for the United States and Israel
 
By David Bromwich
 
In the American mind today, Israel stands for a policy of benign chauvinism, justified preemptive war, and provisional domination of the Middle East: the very policy the Bush administration has sought to graft onto the United States, while borrowing Israeli army rules of engagement for use in Iraq.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19943.htm
 
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Democracy in America
 
By Bill Moyers
 
We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power -and to the claims of empire, with its ravenous demands and stuporous distractions. A sense of political impotence pervades the country – a mass resignation defined by Goodwyn as “believing the dogma of ‘democracy’ on a superficial public level but not believing it privately.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19945.htm
 
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With Contempt
 
An Open letter to Dianne Feinstein
 
By Michael Piotrowski
 
Mark my words: you have perhaps a year, maybe two, before the riots start. High gas prices, high food prices, incompetent disaster relief, home foreclosures, lack of jobs, and a loss of faith in the system will combine to create chaos.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19941.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 16 killed in another bloody day of US occupation;
 
U.S. forces killed six “militants” and destroyed a weapons cache in an airstrike in the town of Khan Bani Saad, near Baquba, the U.S. military said.
tinyurl.com/5cv9gv
 
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We covered up Iraqi bomb attack which destroyed a £30million Hercules, admits MoD:
 
The Ministry of Defence covered up the fact that Iraqi insurgents destroyed a £30million RAF Hercules transport aircraft by planting bombs next to a runway
tinyurl.com/6r8aj2
 
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PTSD Marine Kills Brother, Self:
 
The Troubled Marine Had Met With President Bush Just Weeks Before Driving To The Grand Canyon To Commit Suicide
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/17/national/main4104749.shtml
 
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McCain: I will win Iraq, kill bin Laden :
 
John McCain declared yesterday that within four years of being elected president he would have won the Iraq war, killed or captured Osama bin Laden, halted the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea
tinyurl.com/5qwg7z
 
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McCain’s Phony Withdrawal:
 
When tomorrow’s papers tell you McCain has set a 2013 “timetable” for leaving Iraq, don’t believe it for a second
www.reason.com/news/show/126525.html
 
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Talabani: Iran sends no weapon to Iraq:
 
“Those who make such claims against Iran only express their personal views which don’t reflect those of the Iraqi government,” he said in interview with the Al-Arabiya TV on Friday.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=56077&sectionid=351020201
 
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Obama’s Plan to Talk With Iran Shows `Weak Judgment,’ Kyl Says: –
 
Republican Senator Jon Kyl said Barack Obama’s willingness to negotiate with Iran shows ``weak judgment,’’ signaling his party will likely focus on portraying the Democratic presidential candidate as naive about rogue nations.
news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080518/pl_bloomberg/aceaadxtxiw4
 
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Obama, McCain grow closer on Iraq as election nears:
 
After starting out with radically opposing views, White House hopefuls Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama appear to be moving closer together on Iraq as the election draws nearer.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080517/pl_afp/usvoteiraqmilitary
 
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Obama courts Jewish vote as doubts persist:
 
A recent Gallup Poll suggesting Obama leading Sen. John McCain 61 percent to 32 percent among Jewish voters.
tinyurl.com/5fo92h
 
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US House speaker: Nancy Pelosi: Nothing should be ruled out in order to stop Iran:
 
“Iran must be stopped. They are a threat to the neighborhood and a source of funding for Hamas and Hizbullah,” Pelosi told Channel 1.
tinyurl.com/5f8t2d
 
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Congressional Leader Pelosi Says She Agrees With Bush Over Backing Israel:
 
The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said Sunday that when it comes to backing Israel, she and President George W. Bush are united.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356540,00.html
 
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‘US must condition friendships on efforts to stop Iran’:
 
Washington must assert to the rest of the world that if they want to be friends with the US, they need to do more to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, visiting US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Sunday in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post.
tinyurl.com/5p5a9z
 
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We face a common Islamist threat, Netanyahu tells Mubarak:
 
Netanyahu, whose Likud party Israeli opinion polls say would probably win a snap general election, said that he also discussed Egypt’s efforts to prevent weapons smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
tinyurl.com/64p3ao
 
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Iran busts CIA terror network:
 
The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of a terrorist network affiliated to the United States.
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=168823
 
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Suicide attack in Pakistan kills 13:
 
A suicide bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Mardan has killed at least 13 people, a senior minister says, raising an earlier toll of five deaths.
news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=565070
 
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Taliban release Pakistan envoy after fighters freed:
 
Taliban militants freed a kidnapped Pakistani ambassador on Saturday after the release of more than 40 Taliban fighters in recent days, a senior security official said.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=173599
 
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Pakistan seeks to allay West’s fears of army pull out:
 
The Pakistan army sought on Sunday to allay Western fears that plans to pull back some troops from tribal lands meant it was relaxing its fight against a Pakistani Taliban commander.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080518/wl_nm/pakistan_army_dc
 
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Blasts kills five Afghans:
 
A Taliban suicide bomber killed four Afghans on Sunday in the heart of a town taken from rebels five months ago and a foreign soldier in a US-led force died in another blast, officials said.
tinyurl.com/5u4eg3
 
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Soldier with US-led occupation force killed in Afghanistan:
 
A soldier with a US-led military coalition and an Afghan “non-combatant” were killed Sunday when a bomb blew up their vehicle in southern Afghanistan, the force said
tinyurl.com/64somk
 
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U.S. plans new detention center in Afghanistan:
 
The Pentagon is proceeding with plans to build a new, 16-hectare detention complex on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/18/asia/afghan.php
 
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Islamic insurgents take town in occupied Somalia:
 
Ali Bashi, of Fanole rights group, said the Islamic Courts Union ousted militiamen loyal to Somalia’s fragile government from Jilib overnight and were patrolling the southern town Saturday. Two militia fighters were killed and three others were wounded in the fighting, he said, citing reports from his office in Jilib.
www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0518Somalia0518.html
 
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Georgia: Russia ‘bolstering forces’ :
 
Georgia has accused Russia of deploying heavy weapons and extra troops in a separatist region of Georgia.
tinyurl.com/689mcf
 
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Venezuela and Colombia at a standoff over possible border incursion:
 
Tension between Colombia and Venezuela increased Sunday after Colombia’s defense minister rejected an accusation by the Venezuelan government that 60 Colombian troops had illegally entered a border region of Venezuela known to be a redoubt for Colombian guerrilla groups.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/18/america/farc.php
 
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Demonizing Chavez:
 
Chavez must explain FARC rebel files:
 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez must explain documents found on Colombian rebel computers that Washington and Bogota charge show deep ties between the leftist leader and the guerrillas, a top U.S. official said.
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnN18473784.html
 
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Interpol’s Report Confirms that the Supposed FARC Computers Were Manipulated:
 
The Colombian Army used and modified the archives contained in the computers, USB memory and hard disks, before delivering them to the Colombian police.
www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3448
 
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Demonizing Chavez:
 
Chavez’ terrorism ties:
 
Hugo Chavez, the increasingly troublesome president of Venezuela, gets away with so much because he comes across as something of a clown. His insults of other heads of state, particularly George Bush, whom he calls “the devil,” and even his threats to wage war against his neighbors seem inoffensive because he behaves like a buffoon.
www.charleston.net/news/2008/may/18/chavez_terrorism_ties41332/
 
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Grow Them Young, Pay Them Well – Anti-Chavistas, That Is:
 
Goicoechea is leader of Venezuela’s “pro-democracy student movement” that in Cato’s words “prevented Hugo Chavez’s regime from seizing broad dictatorial powers in December 2007.”
www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/17668
 
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Venezuela’s President Chavez says he will reach out to new U.S. president:
 
Whoever is elected, Chavez wants to start immediate exchanges. ‘’It is through talking that we can then come closer and share and compare our views and then reach an agreement.’’
tinyurl.com/59t2ha
 
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Ecuadorian president says to quit if proved to have links with FARC:
 
The president said he handed over proof of his innocence to the Organization of American States amid accusations that he had received money contributions from FARC rebels during his presidential campaign in 2006.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/18/content_8198496.htm
 
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Morales prepares ‘ultimatum’ for gas companies: :
 
Morales said his government is readying an ‘’ultimatum’’ to Brazil’s Petrobras, Spain’s Repsol YPF, Britain’s BP and others working in Bolivia.
tinyurl.com/66ctkv
 
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Latam-EU nations ‘to fight poverty’ :
 
In a declaration issued at the close of Friday’s talks, representatives from nearly 60 countries promised to act with urgency to address the rising cost of staple foods.
tinyurl.com/66ctkv
 
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ABC Australia: Unanswered 9/11 questions:
 
The collapse of New York’s World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001 is arguably one of the most well documented events in human history. Less well documented is the controversy over why the buildings fell as they did.
www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2240510.htm