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 4,098
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$527,727,227,491
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Nato’s Lost Cause
 
By Tariq Ali
 
The west’s ‘good war’ in Afghanistan has turned bad. A local solution, rather than a neocolonial one, is what’s needed.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20076.htm
 
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The Ugly Truth – The Ugly American
 
5 Minute Video
 
“In our sterilized world, with our censored news we rarely see the ugly side of what we are responsible? for… remember… our tax dollars are paying for this nightmare.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20077.htm
 
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Jail Time for Tenet?
 
By Ray McGovern
 
When Bush screwed up royally – whether in his personal or business affairs – he had to suffer the humiliation of asking his father or his father’s friends (sometimes Arab friends) to bail him out. But now? Wow! As president, young George has found he can escape accountability altogether.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20078.htm
 
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Bush Executive Order Expands Data Collection
 
Will Share Data with “Foreign Partners”
 
By Matthew Rothschild
 
George Bush just issued a directive to expand the acquisition of biometric information, and to ensure that agencies across the executive branch share it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20074.htm
 
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Obama’s Right Turn?
 
By Stephen Zunes
 
In many respects, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has played right into the hands of cynics who have long doubted his promises to create a new and more progressive role for the United States in the world.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20073.htm
 
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 Nancy Pelosi Pulled Iran Bill On Request of Israel
 
 Video
 
 Ron Paul: in a speech given on 06 June 2008, congressman Ron Paul, tells how speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, acting on behalf of israel and AIPAC, ‘deliberately’ pulled a supplemental bill requiring congressional approval for attacking Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20081.htm
 
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The Jewish Experience
 
By Gilad Atzmon
 
For more than half a century, those who have been trying to combat the forces that are behind the Israeli paradigm have been identifying Israeli policies and practice with Zionism and Zionist Ideology. I am afraid to say that they were wrong all the way along.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20079.htm
 
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Price Of Oil Will Double
 
By Danny Fortson, Business Correspondent
 
The chief executive of the world’s largest energy company has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel “in the foreseeable future”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20080.htm
 
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The Paradox Of Our Tme
 
By Dr. Bob Moorehead
 
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20075.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 24 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
U.S. occupation forces killed four “suspected militants” and arrested nine others
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSKAM224561
 
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Patrick Cockburn: The reality is that Iraqi authority would be nominal:
 
The US is lowering the number of bases it wants from 58 to “the low dozens” and says it is willing to compromise on legal immunity for foreign contractors according to information leaked to The Independent.
tinyurl.com/4ujhdy
 
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Bush forced to rethink plan to keep Iraq bases:
 
President offers concessions after furious reaction in Baghdad to American ‘colonialism’
tinyurl.com/3l54ul
 
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Iranian “Bases”:
 
By removing Saddam, disbanding the army, dividing Iraq into provinces and widening the sectarian and ethnic divide, in other words by ridding Iraq of all the fundamentals of a unified, sovereign nation, the invasion had fulfilled its Iranian purpose.
tinyurl.com/3ettre
 
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How Iran Has Bush Over a Barrel:
 
If wasn’t clear before it should be now: the Bush Administration can’t afford to attack Iran. With gas already at $4 a gallon and rising almost every day, Iran figuratively and literally has the United States over a barrel.
www.time.com/time/world/article/
0,8599,1813706,00.html?xid=rss-world
 
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Israeli hawks pushing for strikes on Iran:
 
Six months ago, after American intelligence agencies declared that Iran had shelved its nuclear-weapons program, the chances of a U.S. or Israeli military strike on the Islamic Republic before President Bush left office seemed remote.
www.montereyherald.com/ci_9561128?source=rss
 
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Nancy Pelosi Pulled Iran Bill On Request of Israel: 
 
Ron Paul: in a speech given on 06 June 2008, congressman Ron Paul, tells how speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, acting on behalf of israel and AIPAC, ‘deliberately’ pulled a supplemental bill requiring congressional approval for attacking Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20081.htm
 
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Bush hints at military strike against Iran:
 
President Bush on Wednesday raised the possibility of a military strike to thwart Tehran’s presumed nuclear-weapons ambitions, speaking aggressively even as he admitted having been unwise to have done so previously about Iraq.
www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/
06/12/20080612bush-europe0612.html
 
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Bush slams anti-US ‘propaganda’:
 
US President George W Bush has denounced “misinformation and propaganda” which he says are sullying his country’s image abroad.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7451045.stm
 
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Gaza death toll climbs to 14 as Israel kills three Hamas members:
 
The death toll from violence in occupied Gaza climbed to 14 by late Thursday after an Israeli air attack killed three members of the radical Islamic Hamas organization, a Palestinian hospital spokesman in Gaza said
tinyurl.com/4ec9zr
 
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Livni: Future Palestinian state must fit Israel’s security needs:
 
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Wednesday that a future Palestinian state must be established according to Israel’s security needs, including supervision of border crossings and the disarming of militants
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/991908.html
 
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U.S. Army training Egyptians to find and destroy “smuggling” tunnels:
 
A second, larger group of Egyptian soldiers is also due to arrive shortly for training, which is taking place at a U.S. Army base in Texas.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/991542.html
 
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Post-American Israel -Dominique Moisi:
 
Israel will be forced to confront the reality of Palestinian despair, which the unique relationship with America has allowed it to obfuscate and evade for too long
tinyurl.com/6hbkyt
 
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Two killed, as many injured as Taliban, locals trade fire:
 
Two persons were killed and two others sustained injuries on Thursday when Taliban and locals traded fire at Mulla Gori
tinyurl.com/6xt5dv
 
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Two UK soldiers killed in occupied Afghanistan:
 
Two British soldiers were killed while on foot patrol in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, bring the total of British military deaths in the country since 2001 to 102, the Ministry of Defence said.
tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1844288
 
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Donors pledge $20 billion for Afghanistan:
 
The lion’s share of funds came from the United States, which offered $10.2 billion over the next two years.
tinyurl.com/6mg6q8
 
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The dream of Afghan democracy is dead:
 
In public, defeat in Afghanistan is unthinkable for western governments. In private, for many it already seems inevitable – at least if the western definition of “victory” remains the vastly overblown goals set since the overthrow of the Taliban, within any timeframe that is likely to be acceptable to western electorates.
tinyurl.com/5z82g3
 
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Taliban vow to avenge US attack that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers:
 
 ’We have the right to defend our country. Any aggression by NATO forces inside Pakistan will be responded with full force,’ said Dr Asad, a spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban
tinyurl.com/6ycjyd
 
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US think tank report denounced:
 
Pakistan has denied and denounced a report from a US think tank alleging that elements within the country’s security and intelligence forces help insurgents fighting in Afghanistan.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=15314
 
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UN’s most expensive mission exposed as farcical shambles:
 
Almost six months after the United Nations launched its largest, most expensive and most hyped peacekeeping mission, promising to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, the operation is failing to protect the people it was sent to save.
tinyurl.com/5hvq4y
 
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Report cites Ethiopian ‘war crimes’ :
 
An international human rights group has accused the Ethiopian army of carrying out executions, rapes and torture against civilians in the eastern Ogaden region of the country.
tinyurl.com/5wd36p
 
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Cuba scraps limits on wages :
 
Cuba’s government has announced that it is to remove limits on the amount of money people can earn in a move to improve productivity.
tinyurl.com/49vvy8
 
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Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey:
 
Arrest of 47 people over alleged coup plot sparks fears of hidden ultra-right network
tinyurl.com/6xrgt6
 
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Identity Matters:
 
Italy: Rome, which has not had a conservative mayor since Italian fascism collapsed in 1943, has elected Gianni Alemanno, a Berlusconi ally who ran on a vociferously anti-immigrant platform, to lead the city’s government. At Alemanno’s victory rally, his supporters gave the Roman salute while evoking Mussolini, shouting, “Duce! Duce! Duce!”
fpwatch.blogspot.com/2008/06/identity-matters-italy.html
 
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Rise of the right:
 
The use of fascist symbols, the threat of violence, the demonisation of minorities … hasn’t Italy been here before?
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/30/riseoftheright
 
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Russia plans Arctic military build-up:
 
The defence ministry said naval vessels would be sent to the Arctic Ocean, which is believed to be home to 25 percent of the world’s untapped energy resources, as part of a Summer training zone.
tinyurl.com/3j5uqy
 
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What Happened: Dennis Kucinich, President Bush, and Impeachment:
 
House Democrats swept away a proposal by former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich to impeach President Bush for, among other charges, allegedly lying to the American public about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
tinyurl.com/5jh68t
 
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Drive to impeach Bush ‘to continue’ :
 
A US congressman and former presidential candidate has vowed not to give up his fight to impeach the president over going to war in Iraq, after the House of Representatives sidelined his bill, possibly until after George Bush leaves office.
tinyurl.com/5xluk8
 
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Speaker Must Be Removed For Her Illegal Position on Impeachment Investigation:
 
Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States. Speaker Pelosi’s position remains, “Impeachment is off the table.” This is not leadership, but complicity with war crimes:
tinyurl.com/6nvn6r
 
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British House of Commons backs longer detentions for terror suspects:
 
In a 315-306 vote, the lower house of Parliament says suspects can be kept up to 42 days behind bars without being charged. The current cap is 28 days. The amendment now goes to the House of Lords.
fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0338.html
 
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UK: Davis Resigns U.K. Parliament to Protest Terror Law :
 
David Davis, the lawmaker in charge of home affairs policy for Britain’s opposition Conservative Party, resigned his seat in Parliament to force an electoral contest over the government’s new anti-terrorism rules.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2060
1085&sid=akbOepiGH3Kk&refer=europe
 
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David Davis resignation: Shock move from experienced minister:
 
Davis has always been a libertarian. He was unhappy with Howard’s enthusiasm for identity cards, but when they served in the shadow cabinet together they agreed a compromise position and the divisions did not cause serious embarrassment to the party.
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/12/daviddavis.conservatives3
 
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Supreme Court backs Guantanamo detainees:
 
In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court’s liberal justices were in the majority
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25117953/
 
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Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network:
 
Does the FBI track cellphone users’ physical movements without a warrant? Does the Bureau store recordings of innocent Americans caught up in wiretaps in a searchable database?
blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/secret-spy-cour.html
 
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U.S. Has No Remaining Grain Reserves: .
 
The only thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat, which is about enough wheat to make 1/2 of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America.
www.boingboing.net/2008/06/10/us-has-no-remaining.html