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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Attack Iran
Trash the Constitution
 
By Ray McGovern
 
Two years ago I lectured at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. I found it highly disturbing that, when asked about the oath they took upon entering the academy, several of the “Mids” thought it was to the commander in chief.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19959.htm
 
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US Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons
 
Transporting Prisoners to Iraqi Jails to Avoid Media & Legal Scrutiny
 
By Democracy Now!
 
“There is a huge number of [secret prisoners] being held in Iraq, and one of the intriguing aspects of this that doesn’t get much reporting is that the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there, simply because that keeps [the media and lawyers] away from the prisoners so they can’t get any sort of legal rights,” reports British attorney Clive Stafford Smith.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19960.htm
 
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I Declared My Independence
 
Cynthia McKinney’s Speech – Al Nakba Rally, NYC May 16, 2008
 
By Cynthia McKinney’s
 
I declare my independence from all forms of dehumanization and am not afraid to speak truth to power. And I am happy to join with peace-loving people around the world who know that there can be no peace without justice.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19958.htm
 
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What Are We Waiting For?
 
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
 
Obama has not defined our domestic tyranny and told us how he will try to abolish it. Obama is no dissident or revolutionary. The change he mostly seeks is moving from senator to president. Not what I have been waiting for.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19963.htm
 
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Netanyahu: ‘No One Helps US More Than Israel’
 
By Jerusalem Post Staff
 
No country in the world helps the United States more than Israel does, asserted Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu in the Knesset Monday afternoon. The address came as part of a special welcome session for US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is currently heading a delegation of US congressmen.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19961.htm
 
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With Friends Like These…
 
By Uri Avnery
 
Lately we are flooded with friends. The Great of the Earth, past and present, come here to flatter us, to fawn on us, to grovel at our feet. God, save me from my friends, my enemies I can deal with myself!” says an old prayer. They disgust me. Continue
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19965.htm
 
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The Incredible Shrinking Superpower
 
By MASSIMO CALABRESI/AL JANADRIYAH
 
If Americans are adjusting to the idea of a weak Bush, an even tougher mental leap awaits them once he leaves office: accepting that the U.S. isn’t the force abroad it was just a few years ago. The next President’s hardest job may be getting the country used to that.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19964.htm
 
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The Old Titans All Collapsed. Is the U.S. Next?
 
By Kevin Phillips
 
The United States of 2008 is the world’s leading debtor, has by far the largest current-account deficit and is the leading importer, at great expense, of both manufactured goods and oil. The potential damage if the world soon undergoes the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s is incalculable. The loss of global economic leadership that overtook Britain and Holland seems to be looming on our own horizon.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19962.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 17 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
Gunmen killed five U.S.-backed neighbourhood policemen in a drive-by shooting on their vehicle in Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
tinyurl.com/4bnuwk
 
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11 Iraqi soldiers killed near Mosul:
 
Eleven Iraqi soldiers were killed in an ambush Monday by unidentified attackers in a northern region around Mosul, a local leader told reporters.
www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=254277&n=23
 
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Thousands Of Iraqi Troops Flood Into Sadr City:
 
Thousands of Iraqi troops moved unchallenged into Baghdad’s Sadr City Tuesday to seize the Shiite militia stronghold, in the largest attempt yet by the government to impose control, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
tinyurl.com/4dclcq
 
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Sadrists: Iraqi Military Breaking Ceasefire:
 
We are demanding normal rights of citizenship in Al-Sadr City, and this is what many Iraqis want in other governorates as well.
tinyurl.com/4x9eo5
 
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US: 500 youths detained in Iraq:
 
Civil liberties groups such as the International Justice Network and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) denounced the detentions as abhorrent, and a violation of U.S. treaty obligations.
www.fortmilltimes.com/106/story/168093.html
 
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Key architect of Iraq war defends case for US-led invasion:
 
An influential architect of the war in Iraq defended the case for US military action on Monday, saying the failure to find weapons of mass destruction did not mean the decision to invade was a mistake
tinyurl.com/54hjya
 
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Iraq could have largest oil reserves in the world:
 
Iraq dramatically increased the official size of its oil reserves yesterday after new data suggested that they could exceed Saudi Arabia’s and be the largest in the world.
tinyurl.com/5vr3y5
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
Joint Chiefs’ Mullen to Congress:
 
Iran Actions ‘Directly Jeopardize’ Iraq Peace: “Restraint in our response does not signal lack of resolve or capability to defend ourselves against threats,” Mullen told the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356743,00.html
 
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White House denies Iran attack report:
 
The White House on Tuesday flatly denied an Army Radio report that claimed US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term. It said that while the military option had not been taken off the table, the Administration preferred to resolve concerns about Iran’s push for a nuclear weapon “through peaceful diplomatic means.”
tinyurl.com/65y2mk
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
Gates rebuffs calls for diplomacy with Iran:
 
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates rebuffed calls for diplomatic engagement with Iran Tuesday, saying it was an open question whether talks would be productive while President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is in power.
tinyurl.com/3lowmz
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran::
 
Outlook for nuclear “package diplomacy” on Iran gloomy:
 
With the United States embroiled in election debates and battling violence in Iraq, Iran appears confident any refusal to rein in nuclear work will not bring serious repercussions — even though Washington has not ruled out military action.
tinyurl.com/3qo3t3
 
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Russian envoy: Don’t push Iran into a corner?:
 
A nuclear Iran is as much “a nightmare” for Russia as it is for the US and Israel, and Moscow doesn’t differ with Washington and Jerusalem on the need to stop Teheran, only on the way to do it, Russian Ambassador to Israel Petr Stegniy said Monday.
tinyurl.com/437prm
 
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Israel Kills 4 Palestinians in Gaza:
 
A boy, two militants and another Palestinian were killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, as talks continued in Egypt on a proposed truce, medics and witnesses said.
tinyurl.com/4wnmsb
 
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US says French contacts with Hamas ‘unwise’:
 
Despite calls for a large-scale military operation in Gaza, several former army and security officials have told the government that they support indirect talks with Hamas and oppose a major assault.
www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=113564
 
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Officials: Bush pledged funding for Arrow 3:
 
US President George W. Bush pledged his commitment to Israeli leaders during his visit to Jerusalem last week to obtain the necessary funding for the development and production of Israel’s Arrow 3 ballistic missile defense system, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
tinyurl.com/4j42j8
 
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Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Israel:
 
Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land.
tinyurl.com/55glfq
 
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When Free Speech Doesn’t Come for Free :
 
Free speech is not without consequence. In the United States, for example, criticism of Israel is tantamount to heresy.
www.counterpunch.org/kanazi05192008.html
 
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State Department Defines “Anti-Semitism”:
 
The Term “Zionism” Is Not Exempt
www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6862
 
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Surge In Attacks Leaves 17 Dead In Afghanistan :
 
Police prevented a suicide bomber from driving a stolen police jeep packed with explosives into a base in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, but a series of other attacks around the country killed 17 people.
tinyurl.com/3jnw29
 
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Afghan cop beheaded, bombs kill seven civilians:
 
Taliban militants beheaded a policeman in Afghanistan and killed an aid agency’s driver in a separate attack, while bombs killed seven civilians, authorities said Tuesday.
tinyurl.com/3e8e89
 
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Demolished by the Pakistan army: the frontier village punished for harbouring the Taliban: ·
 
200,000 flee after attack on militant stronghold
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/20/pakistan
 
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Osama: Palestinian Cause Was ‘Main Factor’:
 
If the Palestinian grievance is acknowledged or valorized, rather than dismissed out of hand, well that opens the door on the Nakba, on the dispossession, on the many landgrabs of the Jewish state and inevitably casts doubt on the inherent goodness of Zionism and the justice of the occupation, theirs and ours.
www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/05/osama-palestini.html
 
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Fresh fighting hits southern Sudan :
 
Fierce clashes between the Sudanese army and armed men of the Sudan People’s Liberation movement (SPLM) erupted on Tuesday despite earlier talks to find an end to the violence.
tinyurl.com/64vo3k
 
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Banning cluster munitions
 
The Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster  Munitions to negotiate a new instrument of international humanitarian law banning cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm
www.clustermunitionsdublin.ie/
 
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Timeline of Cluster Munitions Use:
 
2003 – The US and UK use nearly 13,000 cluster munitions, containing and estimated 1.8 million to two million submunitions, during three weeks of military operations in Iraq.
allafrica.com/stories/200805190039.html
 
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Cuba accuses envoy of terror link:
 
The authorities presented emails and other correspondence they said supported their claim against Michael Parmly, the chief of the US interests section in the Cuban capital.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/20/cuba.usa
 
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House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices:
 
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080520/pl_nm/congress_opec_dc
 
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I Spy Your PC: Researchers Find New Ways to Steal Data:
 
Researchers have developed two new techniques for stealing data from a computer that use some unlikely hacking tools: cameras and telescopes.
news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080519/tc_pcworld/146047
 
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‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails:
 
A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism.
tinyurl.com/5eafvt
 
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Wolfowitz takes helm of US-Taiwan Business Council:
 
He was forced to resign the top World Bank job last June after an internal probe found he violated rules by arranging a lucrative pay-and-promotion package for his girlfriend, a bank employee.
tinyurl.com/5dgdbu
 
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As homes foreclose in U.S., squatters move in: –
 
They enter through a broken first-floor window each night to sleep on a moldy bed in the abandoned four-family house at 827 Main Street, part of a new generation of squatters emboldened by America’s housing foreclosure crisis.
www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2849018120080519
 
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Pawn shops busy during hard economic time:
 
Lean economic times mean a steady stream of customers for some businesses. Pawn shops are seeing more and more people who need cash and are willing to part with cherished items to get it.
www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=8350150&nav=3YeX