Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,213,716"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,083
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$523,241,439,266
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Will Sistani End The War In Iraq?
 
By Pepe Escobar
 
AP report says Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on verge of issuing fatwa against occupying US troops.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20000.htm
 
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Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq
 
By Michael D. Shear
 
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” and “downplaying the major reason for going to war.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20001.htm
 
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Spinning The IAEA Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program
 
By Pepe Escobar
 
US corporate media put slant on report despite IAEA finding no proof of continued nuclear arms program.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20002.htm
 
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Where Is the Outrage?
Are we Americans truly savages?
By Robert Scheer
 
Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It’s a question demanding an answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report on U.S. complicity in torture, issued last week by the Justice Department’s inspector general.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20004.htm
 
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Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be Confronted
 
By Ron Kovic
 
As a former United States Marine Corps sergeant who was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam on Jan. 20, 1968, I am sending my complete support and admiration to all those now involved in the courageous struggle to stop military recruitment in Berkeley and across the country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20005.htm
 
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Poisonous Plutocracy Pushes Economic Inequality
 
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
 
The biggest political issue receiving no attention by the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates is the powerful plutocracy that has captured the government to produce rising economic inequality.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19999.htm
 
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My Questions For Obama
 
By Fidel Castro
 
Before judging our country, Obama should know that Cuba – with its education, health, sports, culture and science programmes, implemented not only in its own territory but also in other poor countries around the world, and in spite of the economic and financial blockade and the aggression of his powerful country – is proof that much can be done with very little.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20006.htm
 
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The Socialist United States of Latin America?
 
By Carlos Prado
 
Latin America: What are the real interests behind the creation of the Union of South American Nations?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20003.htm
 
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Two dozen rebels, civilians killed in Afghan air strikes:
 
Air strikes and ground fighting in Afghanistan killed more than two dozen militants and two civilians, officials said yesterday, amid a claim that several women and children were also killed
www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NjEyNTQyMDQ=
 
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NATO soldier killed, suicide attacks target Afghan cities:
 
A NATO soldier was killed and four were wounded in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan, while at least seven Afghans were wounded in two separate suicide attacks elsewhere in the country, officials said Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/3pkj8p
 
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Opium for the Masses: Who is the Enemy in Afghanistan?:
 
While the current occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq look to be part of an ambitious plan of US domination of the Muslim world, both are proving to be a much greater problem than their shadowy planners supposed.
counterpunch.com/walberg05282008.html
 
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Blast kills six Taliban in tribal Pakistan:
 
At least six suspected Taliban were killed and several others wounded when a blast ripped through their vehicle in a Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan, an official said.
tinyurl.com/4s2ent
 
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Pakistan coalition has agreed to expel Musharraf:
 
Pakistan’s ruling coalition has agreed to expel US-backed President Pervez Musharraf from power, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080528/wl_afp/pakistanpoliticsmusharrafsharif
 
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At least 8 killed as US occupation grinds on;
 
Police killed seven suspected al-Qaeda militants during clashes in a village just outside the town of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, on Tuesday and Wednesday, police said.
uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2854937520080528
 
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Suicide bombing kills eight in Iraq:
 
Ministry spokesman Major General Abdul Kareem Khalaf said the bomber struck at the Al-Kalah checkpoint in the town of Tal Afar in Nineveh province which has been the scene of major operation against Al-Qaeda since May 14.
www.pakistantimes.net/2008/05/28/top9.htm
 
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Iraq’s main Sunni bloc suspends government talks:
 
Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political bloc said on Wednesday it had suspended talks to rejoin the Shi’ite-led government after a disagreement with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over a cabinet post.
uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL2849820620080528
 
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Former anti-terror czar Clarke: Staying in Iraq ‘helps Al-Qaeda’:
 
Maintaining US combat troops in Iraq “helps Al-Qaeda” and Washington should pull them from the ravaged country if it wants to see progress in the war on terror, former US anti-terror czar Richard Clarke said Tuesday.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gUla04Uk5m19oX-RHiqjlT74bR6A
 
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Pentagon to shift funds to pay for Iraq war:
 
The Pentagon plans to shift $9.7 billion of its overall budget to pay for war operations but warned on Wednesday it will run out of money if the U.S. Congress does not approve more funding by mid-July.
tinyurl.com/4hzvhd
 
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Iraq War May Have Increased Energy Costs Worldwide by a Staggering $6 Trillion:
 
The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should. How are our lives going to change with oil heading toward $200 a barrel?
www.alternet.org/story/86515/
 
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Iranian guardsmen die after clash with PJAK:
 
Three Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen have died from wounds sustained during a clash near the Turkish border with members of a group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an Iranian news agency has said.
www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=143180
 
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Iran slams US for meddling in IAEA-Tehran talks:
 
Iran’s new Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday said parliament would set limits on cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the nuclear issue if the US continues to influence the UN nuclear watchdog’s interaction with the government.
tinyurl.com/3o8ts8
 
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US Says Iran’s Nuke Program Could Produce Disaster:
 
US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley says the world cannot let down future generations by allowing Iran to develop a nuclear bomb, saying such a development would be a disaster for the Middle East and the rest of the planet.UU
www.voanews.com/english/2008-05-28-voa59.cfm?rss=topstories
 
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Zbigniew Brzezinski accuses Jewish lobby members of McCarthyism:
 
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security adviser, said that the pro-Israel lobby in the US was too powerful, while the slur of anti-Semitism was too readily used whenever its power was called into question.
tinyurl.com/6kc6rh
 
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Report: Israeli occupation force kills 2 Hamas men in Gaza:
 
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that two members of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, were killed in an Israel Defense Forces strike in the southern Gaza Strip.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3548829,00.html
 
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Israel and Hezbollah to swap prisoners?:
 
The online version of German newsmagazine Der Spiegel said Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah in 2006, would be exchanged for five Lebanese “terrorists” held in Israeli prisons.
tinyurl.com/4vt94n
 
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Tutu: Gaza blockade illegal:
 
UN envoy Archbishop Desmond Tutu said the blockade was “a siege” and a “gross violation to Human Rights”, echoing rights groups which accuse Israel of collective punishment. Former US President Jimmy Carter last month referred to the blockade as an atrocity.
tinyurl.com/3mtabp
 
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Tutu ‘devastated’ by Palestinian survivor stories:
 
“This is not something you want to wish on your worst enemy,” added the retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town.
tinyurl.com/3mtabp
 
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Olmert told to go after court testimony:
 
Israel’s defence minister, Ehud Barak, delivered a powerful challenge to his former ally Ehud Olmert yesterday calling on the Israeli prime minister to resign or step aside after a series of embarrassing revelations emerging from a high-profile corruption investigation.
tinyurl.com/497jbz
 
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Likud: Date must be set to disperse Knesset:
 
“The Likud calls on all the House factions, from both the Right and the Left, to set a date for the dispersal of the Knesset and new elections.”
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3548995,00.html
 
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Draft cluster bomb ban agreed :
 
Israel, Pakistan, China and Russia, along with the US, are among the main producers and stockpilers of the weapon. They all oppose any ban.
tinyurl.com/4465uj
 
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German expert warns against potential US operations in Venezuela:
 
He thinks it is a “live-or-die” situation for the US government. Therefore, they would be ready to implement a military plan, which could include an invasion or an attack from Colombia. “For that reason, they brought the Fourth Fleet back, wiped out the Colombian guerrillas and will make Colombia play the same role that Honduras played against Nicaragua” in 1979
tinyurl.com/53tpfn
 
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Student researching al-Qaida tactics held for six days:
 
A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the “psychological torture” he endured in custody.
education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2282045,00.html
 
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‘Draconian’ Home Office fast-tracks Algerian’s deportation:
 
The Home Office was accused last night of rushing to deport a university administrator to conceal official blunders after he was arrested on terrorism charges only to be released without charge.
tinyurl.com/5op6hb
 
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Amnesty International report assails U.S:
 
Sixty years after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, governments in scores of countries still torture or mistreat their people, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a report that again urged the United States to close down the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/28/europe/29amnesty.php
 
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MP paid big price for speaking out in Harper’s Ottawa:
 
This is a world in which a member of Parliament, sent by the people to represent them, is cowed and threatened by an unelected staffer. It’s a place where a political party can silence internal debate and, in a hasty few moments, overthrow the results of an election.
www.thestar.com/article/431370
 
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McClellan First Noticed Bush’s Habit of Lying during Campaign Flap over Cocaine Use:
 
In his new tell-all book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs), former Bush flack Scott McClellan says the first time he caught George Bush lying was during the 2000 campaign when Bush was being accused of having used cocaine:
tinyurl.com/3n4w6w
 
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America’s Money: Debt crush:
 
Americans deep in debt are struggling more than ever amid the credit crisis and economic downturn.
money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/news/0805/gallery.real_people_debt/
 
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Rising Prices Hit Home For Food Stamp Recipients:
 
At a time when food prices are soaring, a growing number of Americans are struggling financially and local social service agencies are seeing record numbers of applicants, advocates are concerned that the purchasing power of food stamps has shrunk since 1996, when Congress recalculated benefit levels.
tinyurl.com/4pvmrn
 
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Food banks face high costs but feeding more people:
 
Like nearly a third of the first 50 customers to arrive at the Emergency Food Bank of Stockton that morning, Hoffman was new to the pantry. But since she lost her sales job at a local newspaper in December, she has not found work in Stockton, which has the highest foreclosure rate in the country and a hurting job market.
tinyurl.com/4qrsno
 
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ABC, FBI Punk’d by Terror ‘Fan Video’:
 
On Tuesday, ABC News posted a story headlined “Al-Qaeda Tape to Call for Use of WMDs.” Which would be awfully scary — if it were true.
blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/abc-fbi-punkd-b.html