Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,221,154"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,094
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$526,562,128,972
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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A Free And Self-Governing People
 
Bill Moyers Video
 
“It is up to you to fight for the freedoms that makes all other freedoms possible”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20059.htm
 
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The West’s Weapon Of Self-Delusion
 
By Robert Fisk
 
Will this ever end? Even Barack Obama – or “Mr Baracka” as an Irish friend of mine innocently and wonderfully described him – found time to tell his Jewish audience that Jerusalem is the one undivided capital of Israel, which is not the view of the rest of the world which continues to regard the annexation of Arab East Jerusalem as illegal. The security of Israel. Say it again a thousand times: the security of Israel – and threaten Iran, for good measure.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20055.htm
 
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The Empire — A Status Report
 
By William Blum
 
The events of recent years indicate that the world is wising up to and becoming less intimidated by Washington’s overarching ambition for world dominance. Latin America is increasingly attempting to escape the empire’s clutches. Leaders keenly aware of how US imperialism works and determined to keep it out of their own country are in power in Venezuela, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and perhaps the latest addition, Paraguay.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20053.htm
 
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Blackwater’s Private Spies
 
By Jeremy Scahill
 
In Colombia alone, US military contractors are receiving nearly half the $630 million in annual US military aid for the country. Just south of the US border, the United States has launched Plan Mexico, a $1.5 billion counternarcotics program. This and similar plans could provide lucrative business opportunities for Blackwater and other companies.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20054.htm
 
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Legislating Tyranny
 
By Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
 
Never in its history have the American people faced such danger to their constitutional protections as they face today from those in the government who hold the reins of power and from elements of the legal profession and the federal judiciary that support “energy in the executive.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20056.htm
 
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‘I Have Moral Authority’
 
By Jonathan Freedland
 
Jimmy Carter has snubbed the lecture circuit cash cow to devote his post-presidential life to brokering peace in the Middle East and fighting disease. So why is it that so many Americans can’t stand him?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20057.htm
 
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A blatant and absolute fraud! 
 
What Is The Cause Of The Word-Wide Rise In Oil And Food Prices?
 
By Ibrahim Turner
 
What is in store for the billions of poor people around the world who live on $1 a day? What is in store for the relatively rich populations of America and Europe when fuel prices have greater and greater impact on already rising food prices, driven up by these same speculators?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20058.htm
 
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Intellectual Violence
 
By Angie Riedel
 
There’s just no contest there. Lies are the single most prevalent form of violence in our country today, and that intellectual violence is taking a serious toll.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20052.htm
 
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Sunday: Iraq: At least 20 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen and two civilians in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad.
www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GCA-iraq/idUSL0823724520080608
 
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Iraq: Saturday: At Least 14 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
The U.S. occupation force said they killed four gunmen and captured two wanted men southwest of Mosul.
www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL0768303320080607
 
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Iraq says it wants to restrict movement of U.S. troops:
 
Iraq said on Friday it would not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement for military operations in a new agreement being negotiated on extending the presence of American troops on its soil.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080606/ts_nm/iraq_usa_military_dc
 
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Iraq May Rebuff Troop Terms in New Security Plan:
 
The Iraqi government doesn’t want to extend the UN resolution and prefers to replace it with a bilateral agreement, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said yesterday. It might address issues such as whether U.S. soldiers have immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law.
news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080606/pl_bloomberg/azm4qsqo9oqg
 
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Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah warns from uprising against US security pact:
 
Al-Modaresy described the long-term treaty with the US as a ‘sword directed over the Iraqis necks,’ during a meeting with reporters.
tinyurl.com/47t9ro
 
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Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,’sets 4 conditions for US pact:
 
“The cleric stressed that any long-term pact in Iraq should maintain four key terms including safeguarding Iraqis’ interests, national sovereignty, national consensus and being presented to the Iraqi parliament for approval.” leader of the largest bloc in Iraq’s parliament, Seyyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim said quoting Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58791&sectionid=351020201
 
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Iraqi Premier al-Maliki arrives in Tehran:
 
He is to meet later Sunday morning with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to discuss the latest developments in Iraq, including an agreement between Iraq and the United States to be finalized next month.
tinyurl.com/5acd6m
 
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Iraq will not be used to “harm” Iran, PM vows :
 
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sought to reassure Iran over a planned security pact with Washington on Sunday, vowing Iraq would never be used as a platform to attack the Islamic republic.
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/352757/1/.html
 
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Israel ready to attack Iran:
 
The blunt warning that Israel’s government is ready to strike at its chief rival in the region was given by Shaul Mofaz, transport minister and a deputy prime minister, in a press interview published yesterday.
tinyurl.com/3tz684
 
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IAEA warns against attacks on states with suspected nuclear plants:
 
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned against threats of military action against states with suspected nuclear plants, charging that the threats are undermining the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),
tinyurl.com/4od9vj
 
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Iran demands Security Council action on Israel threat:
 
Iran demanded action from the U.N. Security Council about an Israeli threat to attack its nuclear sites if it continues uranium enrichment, according to a letter released on Saturday by Iranian U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee.
uk.reuters.com/article/email/idUKN0731886420080607
 
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Olmert aides: Progress made with U.S. on forging common view on Iran:
 
The sources said there had also been progress in Israel’s request for advanced fighter aircraft, and the inclusion of the Israel Air Force in the USAF global early warning system against incoming ballistic missiles.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/990801.html
 
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West is ‘resigned’ to Iran bomb: Israeli minister:
 
An Israeli minister on Saturday accused the international community of failing to halt Iran’s nuclear drive and the West of being “resigned” to Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons.
tinyurl.com/3t92be
 
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Israel wants to make war while the sun shines:
 
Israel, not for the first time doing US bidding, decided to muscle in on the act and warn Iran of the consequences should it continue with its nuclear programme.
www.gulfnews.com/opinion/editorial_opinion/region/10219342.html
 
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Don’t Bomb Iran:
 
I urge you to support S. Res. 356, which would require that any military action against Iran be explicitly approved by Congress.”
act.truemajorityaction.org/p/7002/iranadvo?campaign_KEY=1528
 
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IDF kills 1, wounds 17 Palestinians in attack on Gaza:
 
Israel occupation Force attacked a Hamas government position in the northern Gaza Strip early Friday morning, injuring at least 15 Palestinians. In a different incident, one member of the Palestinian resistance movement was killed and two were wounded during a battle with Israeli occupation troops in northern Gaza.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/991066.html
 
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Report: Israel to conquer Gaza, transfer control to PA:
 
According to the report, Abbas is attempting to nip the operation in the bud by holding negotiations with Hamas.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3552955,00.html
 
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School In Palestine:
 
Hundreds of powerful photos from occupied Palestine:
poetryforpalestine.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!92AA638F9B6EA940!2383/
 
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Several militants killed in Afghanistan north of Kabul:
 
U.S.-led occupation and Afghan forces raided several homes in a district just north of the capital, killing several militants who shot at them, the coalition said Saturday.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/07/asia/AS-GEN-Afghanistan.php
 
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Report: Syria foiled attempted coup by Assad’s brother-in-law:
 
The paper reported that Assef Shawkat, President Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law and head of Syria’s military intelligence had tried, assisted by hundreds of officers, to drive the president from power.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/990938.html
 
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Afghanistan : Fear, disillusion and despair: notes from a divided land as peace slips away:
 
Six years after the fall of the Taliban, Nato claims the war is being won. But as Peter Beaumont discovered in his journey across the country, the West is in danger of losing the peace as millions suffer the fallout from social and economic collapse.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/990938.html
 
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Afghans plead for £25bn in aid as disorder grows:
 
PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai will fly to Paris this week to appeal to the international community for £25 billion to rebuild Afghanistan’s battered economy and to promote food production.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4087300.ece
 
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Bush’s former Iraq ambassador to seek Afghan presidency:
 
In his time, he has been President George Bush’s point man in Baghdad, Kabul and the UN, as well as a lobbyist for both the Taliban and international oil companies. Now Zalmay Khalilzad is preparing to run for the presidency of his native Afghanistan.
tinyurl.com/3zkzlk
 
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At least 23 killed as Uganda rebels ‘start war’ in Sudan :
 
Officials in south Sudan have accused Uganda’s Lords Resistance Army rebel group of effectively starting a war after it killed 23 people in a raid near the Congo border.
tinyurl.com/4ovwqf
 
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Bill Moyers: The role of the press in selling the war:
 
Journalists Jonathan Landay and John Walcott of McClatchy newspapers and Greg Mitchell of EDITOR & PUBLISHER analyze the reaction of the administration and the media to McClellan’s book.
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06062008/watch2.html
 
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Chavez revokes controversial spying law:
 
“I started listening to criticism (of the law) and in the end, I think there are some mistakes there, I have no problem acknowledging it. So I decided this morning to correct that law,” Chavez said during a function of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
nz.news.yahoo.com/080607/8/5yz9.html
 
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Chavez offers olive branch to next US president:
 
President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he wants to work together with the next US president and that Venezuela and the United States should cooperate to resolve problems including world hunger, energy shortages and climate change.
tinyurl.com/49kxpa
 
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Justice the victor for Jara:
 
The net is finally closing on El Principe, the Pinochet henchman who brutally killed Chile’s most famous musician
tinyurl.com/5sdrtu
 
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Russia criticises US over economy :
 
Russia new president has used his first major speech since taking power in May to blame the United States for the global financial downturn.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/06BFEABD-15BB-413F-8C5A-C9D50F8C9D43.htm
 
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US Economy is a National Security Crisis: ‘US Needs to Raise $6 Trillion” :
 
The Achilles Heel of the United States is our economy. According to Glynn, in the aftermath of September 11th almost a trillion dollars was wiped out of the economy, and we are still reeling as a result of it.
www.prweb.com/releases/2008/6/prweb961894.htm
 
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Recession fears as US markets dive :
 
US stocks have suffered their worst day for 15 months after the government said unemployment had risen by the biggest rate in more than 20 years.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3344C9EB-CC28-4A0F-8202-86C99CE69989.htm