Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,219,596"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,090
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$525,479,533,327
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Killing The Innocent
 
US Troops Discuss “Drop-Weapons”
 
Video
 
Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using “drop weapons” to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20038.htm
 
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Collateral Damage
 
What It Really Means When America Goes to War
 
By Chris Hedges
 
American Marines and soldiers have become socialized to atrocity. The killing project is not described in these terms to a distant public. The politicians still speak in the abstract terms of glory, honor, and heroism, in the necessity of improving the world, in lofty phrases of political and spiritual renewal. Those who kill large numbers of people always claim it as a virtue.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20041.htm
 
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Slow Death in Gaza
 
“The Europeans seem to be quite satisfied acting as America’s puppet states.”
 
By Margaret Kimberley
 
No change in American policy is on the horizon, as “the rot in America goes beyond this administration, and so does the rot in Israel.” The “abomination,” as Desmond Tutu describes it, against 1.6 million people in Palestine shows the hypocrisy of American and Israeli pretenses to civilization.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20040.htm
 
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Heart of darkness
 
Princess Patricia, A Taliban Takeover.
 
By Eric Walberg
 
Western readers have become numbed into accepting the code words “enemy” and “insurgents”, ignoring the underlying fact that the Taliban are still the legitimate government, that these so-called insurgents are in fact widely seen as freedom fighters battling the non-Muslim foreign occupiers – the real “enemy” – who invaded the country illegally and have killed hundreds of thousands of resistance fighters and innocent civilians illegally.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20042.htm
 
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Obama Resigns From Black Nation
 
“Barack Obama is true-blue to the slaveholding forefathers and heroic blond mothers of the storybook U.S. of A.”
 
By Glen Ford
 
How far is Barack Obama willing to run from the very same Black nationalism that was fundamental to his victories in so many state Democratic primaries?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20039.htm
 
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Bernanke’s Speech: “It’s all China’s Fault. Really”
 
By Mike Whitney
 
Thanks to the Fed’s ham-fisted monetary policies, a Force-5 economic hurricane is presently looming right offshore and there’s nothing Bernanke or Paulson can do to stop it from touching down. If Bernanke cuts rates; commodities (and oil) will skyrocket and foreign investors will ditch the dollar. If he raises rates, banks will fail and the housing crash will accelerate. There are no good options.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20043.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 34 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
A roadside bomb struck an army and police convoy, killing two policemen and one soldier and wounding four policemen, just north of Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, said a police official.
tinyurl.com/3tfo2r
 
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Militia rockets kill civilians in Baghdad:
 
A tractor-trailer loaded with Shiite militia rockets accidentally exploded Wednesday in a densely populated area of northeast Baghdad, killing 18 people and wounding 75, the U.S. military said.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24962128/
 
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Iraq rejects any article within long-term agreement violates sovereignty :
 
The official spokesman for the Iraqi government on Tuesday highlighted that the government asserted not to accept any article which violates the national sovereignty during negotiations to ink a long-term agreement with the U.S.
tinyurl.com/4v9kfl
 
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In case you missed it:
 
Is The Iraq War: Legal or Illegal?:
 
Is the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq legal or illegal? Do any of the charges of illegality we’ve been hearing about have any legal basis at all? And why should we even care about international law anyway?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18090.htm
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
Stop Iranian bomb by “all possible means”:
 
Olmert: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday Iran’s nuclear program must be stopped by “all possible means” and Tehran must be made to see it would suffer devastating repercussions if it pursued atomic weapons.
tinyurl.com/4s4m73
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
Bush meets Olmert, calls Iran “threat to peace”:
 
U.S. President George W. Bush told visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday that Iran was an “existential threat to peace” and said the world must take that danger seriously.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080604/ts_nm/usa_israel_bush_dc
 
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Obama: I Will Do ‘Everything in My Power’ to Prevent Iranian Nukes:
 
Barack Obama on Wednesday defended his approach to dealing with Iran, telling a U.S. lobbying group for Israel that he would do “everything in my power” to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capability.
tinyurl.com/65c823
 
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Obama Offers Forceful Support For Israel:
 
The U.S.-led Iraq war has allowed Iran to build its influence, “and the United States and Israel are less secure,” he said. Condemning its leader for denying the Holocaust, threatening Israel, trying to attain nuclear weapons and arm Hamas and other organizations, Obama said, “Israel’s security is sacrosanct. It is nonnegotiable.”
www.whiotv.com/politics/16492990/detail.html
 
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Full Text: Obama speech at AIPAC “Policy” Conference:
 
I want you to know that today I’ll be speaking from my heart, and as a true friend of Israel.
tinyurl.com/59l27o
 
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Hamas Slams “Hostility” Of Barack Obama’s Israel Speech;
 
The Islamist Hamas movement that rules the Gaza Strip slammed a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Wednesday, saying it confirmed U.S. “hostility” to Arabs and Muslims.
tinyurl.com/3re8e2
 
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John McCAIPAC:
 
Tone deaf to Israel’s brutalization of the Palestinians, McCain called Israel “an inspiration to free nations everywhere.”
www.progressive.org/mag_wx060308
 
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Hamas welcomes Abbas calls for dialogue
 
Taher al-Noono, spokesman of the deposed Hamas government in Gaza, told reporters “the government welcomes the initiative and accepts it.
tinyurl.com/3zr3kt
 
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Knesset advances bill to make occupied Jerusalem capital of the Jewish people:
 
The Knesset on Wednesday approved in a preliminary reading an amendment to the Basic Law whereby occupied Jerusalem would be considered not just the capital of Israel, but the capital of the Jewish people.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/990152.html
 
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US-Led Coalition Kills 12 “Insurgents” in Occupied Afghanistan:
 
The occupation force says its troops were on a “humanitarian mission” in Helmand province Wednesday when one of their vehicles struck a mine and militants opened fire. It says the coalition soldiers called in air strikes that killed at least 12 of the attackers.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-06-04-voa43.cfm?rss=asia
 
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Afghan attacks kill six, including child:
 
Taliban-style suicide blasts and other attacks killed six people in Afghanistan as the new NATO commander said he wanted to work with his Pakistani counterparts to tackle extremist violence
news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=574864
 
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Three Occupation Force Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan:
 
Three soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in roadside bomb blasts and encounters with militants in southern and eastern Afghanistan, the military said.
tinyurl.com/3oxhz6
 
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Afghan war to drag on for 10 years: Australian military chief:
 
The war in Afghanistan is likely to last at least another decade and 10,000 more foreign troops are needed there now, Australian military and political leaders said Wednesday
paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?201404
 
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Venezuela Reiterates Extradition Request in Posada Carriles Case:
 
Venezuela again asked the US Government on Tuesday to extradite international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted by Caracas for the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cubana airliner that killed all 73 people on board.
www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/0604reiteravenez.htm
 
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US elections: Jimmy Carter tells Barack Obama not to pick Hillary Clinton as running mate:
 
 ”I think it would be the worst mistake that could be made,” said Carter. “That would just accumulate the negative aspects of both candidates.”
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/04/uselections2008
 
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McCain: I’d Spy on Americans Secretly, Too:
 
If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president’s wartime powers trump federal criminal statutes and court oversight, according to a statement released by his campaign Monday.
blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/mccain-id-spy-o.html
 
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Two bombs explode east of Algiers :
 
A suspected suicide bomber targeted the entrance to a military barracks in the first attack, a security official said.
tinyurl.com/4p964k
 
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UK: 42-day detention: Smith reveals details of new safeguards:
 
Jacqui Smith today announced that the government’s proposal to allow the detention of terrorism suspects for up to 42 days would only apply in situations where there was a “grave exceptional terrorist threat”.
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/03/terrorism.civilliberties