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
$520,984,855,654
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Whose War?
 
By Cindy Sheehan
 
Instead of working overtime to see which party can exploit US troops better and harder than the other, (their pretend opposition and political playacting is exactly like watching pretend wrestling on TV where two “foes” spit epithets at each other and then fake-wrestle for a faker prize) Pelosi, et al, should be burning the midnight oil to craft a humane solution to what has become the Democrats’ as much as the Republicans’ problem.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19947.htm
 
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The Conservative Movement:
 
From Failure to Threat
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
In theory, conservatives adore the Constitution and seek to protect it with appeals to “original intent.” In practice, conservatives hate the Constitution as the protector of homosexuals and abortionists. Conservatives regard civil liberties as coddling devices for criminals and terrorists.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19946.htm
 
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America’s University Of Imperialism
 
Soldiers of Reason by Alex Abella
 
Reviewed by Chalmers Johnson
 
Wohlstetter’s activism on behalf of American imperialism and militarism lasted well into the 1990s. According to Abella, the rise to prominence of Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi exile and endless source of false intelligence to the Pentagon, “in Washington circles came about at the instigation of Albert Wohlstetter, who met Chalabi in Paul Wolfowitz’s office”. (In the incestuous world of the neo-cons, Wolfowitz had been Wohlstetter’s student at the University of Chicago.)
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19952.htm
 
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Terror Most Imperial
 
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
 
For centuries the colonizers exploited and dominated the third world. Today, one of the more subtle tools of imperialism is the use of value-laden language that seeks to define the Arab and Muslim world.  With labels such as ‘terrorists’ and ‘Islamofascism’,   they wish to establish an ‘Orientalist’ perspective of otherness denoting barbarism as set apart from Israel and the West which represents admirable qualities.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19950.htm
 
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George Bush’s Power to Inspire
 
By Peter Chamberlin
 
The failure of the Bush/Bandar/Olmert axis to ignite a prolonged shooting war between the Lebanese resistance forces and their hired guns Hariri and Jumblatt is a clear declaration to the world that the glorious neocon policies of Bush have been proven complete failures on the battlefield. Yet, he and Cheney keep pushing for new openings to ignite a new conflagration.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19955.htm
 
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Balfour to Blair
 
This is a must watch video
 
Balfour to Blair, investigates the history of British policy in the Middle East from the beginning of the 20th century to today.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19948.htm
 
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All the President’s Nazis (Real and Imagined)
 
An Open Letter to Bush
 
By Larisa Alexandrovna
 
Your family’s fortune is built on the bones of the very people butchered by the Nazis, my family and the families of those in the Knesset who applauded you today.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19949.htm
 
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In case you missed it
 
A Nazi In The (pocket) Is Worth Four In The Bush (family)
 
Prescott Bush – The Nazi’s American Banker
 
By William Bowles
 
What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James Baker III, Gulf Oil, Pennzoil, Osama bin Ladenon and on it goes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3255.htm
 
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The CIA Is More Active Than Ever In Venezuela
 
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD
 
Let’s remember that it isn’t about who occupies the chair in the Oval Office, but those who are around that person. And that doesn’t change much whether the occupant is a Democrat or a Republican. The military-industrial complex, the big bankers and the transnationals are the ones that really govern in the United States. And they are not leaving power in November.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19954.htm
 
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War’s Shopping Cart
 
Pepsi, Apple, Krispy Kreme and other consumer firms profit from Iraq too.
 
By Nick Turse
 
Napoleon supposedly said, “An army marches on its stomach.” Over the years of occupation to come, and for the next invasion too, remember that, whatever land it occupies, the Pentagon marches on a stomach filled with Cap’n Crunch, Rice-A-Roni and Diet Pepsi Vanilla — and, ever increasingly, you’re marching with it to.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19956.htm
 
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For Profit
 
By Malcolm Martin
 
The US government has been hollowed out during the rise to absolute power of the corporations. Elections have become an elaborate “reality show” that plays out on corporate television for viewers entertainment.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19951.htm
 
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US-Led Capitalist System Headed for Collapse?
 
Syed Rashid Husain
 
As much as 60 percent of today’s crude oil price is pure speculation driven by large trader banks and hedge funds. It has nothing to do with the convenient myths of Peak Oil. It has to do with control of oil and its price.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19957.htm
 
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How to Build a Human Bomb
 
By George Monbiot
 
Guantanamo Bay is killing people thousands of miles away.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19953.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 17 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
Gunmen killed two policemen in a drive-by shooting on a police patrol on Sunday in central Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL19570284
 
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Tension rises as U.S., Iran trade charges:
 
The Iranians accused the U.S. on Sunday of using air power in Iraq to target civilians. Iran’s Foreign Minister said in Tehran it was pointless talking to the Americans on Iraq because of their military actions in Iraq.
www.hindu.com/2008/05/19/stories/2008051954111500.htm
 
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IAEA has no evidence on Iran’’s building nuclear arms – ElBaradei:
 
Mohammad El-Baradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said here Monday the UN nuclear watchdog has no evidence proving that Iran was building a nuclear bomb, but affirmed that the Iranian nuclear file was part of security of region.
tinyurl.com/6zww6a
 
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Russia to head on with Iran nuclear power plans:
 
Head of Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (ROSATOM) Sergey Kirienko stated Monday that his country would not make any changes to the scheduled construction of the Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran.
tinyurl.com/5gqahu
 
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McCain and Obama Trade Barbs on Iran:
 
“I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela-these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying we’re going to wipe you off the planet.”
tinyurl.com/3l82mg
 
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US Congressional leaders say they don’t rule out military option against Iran:
 
Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives said in Israel on Monday that they do not rule out military action against Iran to stop it from acquiring nuclear bombs.
tinyurl.com/5ot8cq
 
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Military: Israeli occupation force soldiers kill Palestinian teenager:
 
A witness, taxi driver Mohammed Mustafa, told The Associated Press, “They asked him to lift up his shirt and raise his arms and then they shot him,” he said.
tinyurl.com/6ga9vx
 
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Israel’s government holding talks with Hamas:
 
Vice Premier Haim Ramon on Monday acknowledged that Israel was holding talks with Hamas, in violation of a government decision not to conduct talks with the Islamist Palestinian group until it complies with the demands of the Quartet.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985012.html
 
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Rights groups accuse police of brutality during Nakba protest:
 
Activists and Arab rights organizations are accusing the Israel Police of brutality against protesters during a procession marking Nakba day 10 days ago in a pilgrimage to the abandoned village of Saphoria in Tzipori.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/984991.html
 
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Israel justice minister calls for relaxation of religious marriages rules:
 
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, the body that authorizes and conducts marriages in the country, should allow marriages between people of different religious faiths, Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann said Sunday.
tinyurl.com/5amj4c
 
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Prosecutor: Talansky personally handed Olmert envelopes of cash:
 
State Prosecutor Moshe Lador said Monday that American millionaire Moshe Talansky personally handed money to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on several occasions.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/984930.html
 
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2 NATO occupation force soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan:
 
Two NATO soldiers were killed in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the alliance said.
www.bakersfield.com/893/story/448875.html
 
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Resolution urges UN Somalia force :
 
The resolution, passed on Thursday, urged the UN to move its Somalia political office from Kenya to the Horn of Africa nation and set conditions for the deployment of UN peacekeepers.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6A2217D4-5028-47C0-9E52-749663E69662.htm
 
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Thousands flee S Africa attacks:
 
Some 6,000 people have fled a wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa, which has left at least 22 dead, aid workers say.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7407914.stm
 
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Venezuela insists Colombian army illegally entered its territory:
 
Venezuelan Information Minister Andres Izarra said Sunday that Caracas has photos and other materials to prove that Colombian troops illegally crossed the Venezuelan border last week.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/19/content_8205690.htm
 
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Venezuela to summon U.S. diplomat to explain alleged violation of airspace by U.S. plane:
 
The U.S. Navy plane was detected in Venezuelan airspace near the Caribbean island of La Orchila on Saturday night, and the plane was contacted by radio, Defense Minister Gen. Gustavo Rangel Briceno said.
tinyurl.com/5oomuv
 
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Thousands killed by US’s Korean ally:
 
Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation’s U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=174859
 
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Fear, secrecy kept 1950 Korea mass killings hidden:
 
Among the Koreans who witnessed, took part in or lost family members to the mass killings, the events were hardly hidden, but they became a “public secret,” barely whispered about through four decades of right-wing dictatorship here.
tinyurl.com/6b2vuo
 
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Did Rumsfeld Calls for “Another Attack” of Terror to Bolster Support for Bush?:
 
A newly released audiotape by the Department of Defense of a December 12th, 2006 Luncheon taped Rumsfeld telling a group of military analysts that the American public needs another 9/11 Attack to wake up.
www.nolanchart.com/article3806.html
 
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Dutch government bans electronic voting:
 
The nation will return to paper voting.
tinyurl.com/5c2kmb
 
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UK: House price crash warning:
 
Mr Miles, chief UK economist for investment bank Morgan Stanley, believes that more than half of the rise in house prices has been fuelled by the speculation that prices would continue to rise rapidly.
tinyurl.com/5l8bz9
 
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What’s next for the economy? Look at California:
 
Tough times in world’s seventh largest ecomomy: consumer spending down, unemployment up, municipalities going bust
tinyurl.com/62bcer
 
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Drop in life expectancy shows health care failure:
 
Recently released government research on the health of the American people brought the nation some troubling information — our life expectancy, which many proudly assumed was steadily climbing, is actually declining in many parts of the country.
www.madison.com/tct/opinion/286819
 
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Who’s afraid of a synthetic human?:
 
In the future there will be no more human beings. This is not something we should worry about.
tinyurl.com/5t8plg