Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,222,013"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,099
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$528,288,626,657
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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A Setback for the State of Exception
 
By Scott Horton
 
For the past seven years, Americans have witnessed an effort to engineer a “state of exception” to the American constitution. Its key element has been a new definition of war-the “war on terror”-which has neither territorial nor temporal boundaries. This war, as the Bush Administration crafted and advanced it, never served the security interests of the United States.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20097.htm
 
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Why Not Nancy?
 
By Cindy Sheehan
 
This past week, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) historically and courageously introduced 35 articles of impeachment against (p)Resident George W. Bush. Repeated calls to Speaker Pelosi’s offices gave many of us the assurance that impeachment was still off her “table.” The latest absolutely frivolous reason is that impeachment would be “divisive.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20098.htm
 
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In The Great Tradition
 
Obama Is A Hawk
 
By John Pilger
 
In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: “The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.” What has changed?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20095.htm
 
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The Irish People have spoken.
 
Lisbon Is Dead
 
By Mike Whitney
 
The Irish have plenty to celebrate today. They’ve thrown a spanner in the plans of the bankers and corporate mandarins who want to replace representative government and national sovereignty with their own skewed vision of capitalist Valhalla; a Euro Utopia where short-term profits always take priority over the needs of people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20094.htm
 
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Our Government’s Dirty Little Secrets.
 
House of Commons debates – Wednesday, 11 June 2008 –
 
Somalia (Human Rights)
 
By George Galloway
 
We must start the story in Ethiopia, where 4 million people, according to the United Nations, are facing starvation and 120,000 Ethiopian children have just one month to live, according to last week’s media reports. Television viewers were shocked to see the pictures last week of the widespread suffering redolent of 1984 and the great famine of that year.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20091.htm
 
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Warlords Next Door?
 
This Is A MUST Watch Channel 4 Video Documentary
 
Dispatches reveals how key politicians at the heart of the vicious fighting in Somalia – described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis – enjoy incredibly close links to Britain. They have British or EU passports, their families live here and they commute between Somalia and homes in English cities. British taxpayers are financing them in the name of democracy – yet in Somalia they are linked to allegations of mass murder, torture, extortion and corruption.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20092.htm
 
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The Middle East Never Tires Of Threats
 
By Robert Fisk
 
Governments love warnings, hence the endless waffle about the ‘war on terror’
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20096.htm
 
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Airstrikes kills 18 in occupied Afghanistan:
 
U.S.-led occupation forces called in airstrikes to back up ground troops in two Afghan provinces, killing more than 17 “militants” and a female civilian.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=210872
 
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Bomb kills 4 US troops in Afghanistan:
 
A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said.
www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_9585994?nclick_check=1
 
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Taliban blast prison, 1,100 inmates flee:
 
The Taliban said 400 of its own fighters escaped when the rebels attacked the facility in the southern city of Kandahar late yesterday with suicide bombs before shooting the guards.
tinyurl.com/6nl4ak
 
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In photos: ‘Afghanistan Prison Break’:
 
The commando-style attack, carried out by suicide bombers and other militants using small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades, broke the entrance of Kandahar province’s main jail.
htinyurl.com/3hvx3u
 
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Militants kill five Pakistan tribesmen: official:
 
Taliban militants have shot dead five Pakistani tribesmen they suspected were spying for foreign forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, a local official said Friday
tinyurl.com/6m8hr4
 
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Pakistan’s Sharif stirs call for Musharraf to be hanged:
 
Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif stepped up his attack on President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday, suggesting he could be hanged while addressing thousands of protesters outside the presidency.
tinyurl.com/6xccz4
 
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Iraq: Aat least 7 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi Army patrol in the town of Dhuluiya 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, on Friday, killing three Iraqi soldiers and wounding one
uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1445336120080614
 
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Iraqi forces set for major assault :
 
Iraqi forces backed by the US military have entered the southern city of Amara in an operation aimed at drive outing Mahdi Army fighters, have security officials said.
tinyurl.com/3unc79
 
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Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave:
 
Iraq has another option that it may use,” Maliki said during a visit to Amman, Jordan. “The Iraqi government, if it wants, has the right to demand that the U.N. terminate the presence of international forces on Iraqi sovereign soil.”
www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/41047.html
 
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Militants kidnap 28 Iranian border guards:
 
Pakistani border security forces were put on high alert after suspected militants kidnapped 28 Iranian soldiers posted at checkposts on the Iranian side of the border in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
www.dawn.com/2008/06/14/top4.htm
 
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Iran rules out nuclear halt:
 
“I am disappointed that the Iranian leaders rejected this generous offer out of hand,” Bush told a joint news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, adding it was a sign that Iran’s leadership was willing to isolate its people further.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=212399
 
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Palestinians barred from Dead Sea beaches to ‘appease Israeli settlers’:
 
Palestinians are being regularly and illegally barred from reaching Dead Sea beaches in the occupied West Bank, according to a Supreme Court petition filed by Israel’s leading civil rights organisation
tinyurl.com/5pcjg7
 
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Mugabe pledges to fight ‘lackeys’:
 
President Robert Mugabe has vowed that the main opposition party will never lead Zimbabwe and said he was prepared to “go to war” for his country.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7454569.stm
 
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UK: Protest at Bush visit – 5pm, Parliament Square, 15 June:
 
War criminal George Bush will visit London during his European tour this month. He is expected on 15 June. Stop the War is planning a protest in London on that day against Bush and his war policies, and against the British government’s continuing support for his wars. Watch this space for more details.
tinyurl.com/3pvawj
 
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Europe stunned by Irish rejection of treaty:
 
The result of the Irish referendum was a major blow, with Czech President Vaclav Klaus insisting that the Lisbon Treaty was now “finished” and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker conceding it would at least miss its January 1 target for coming into effect.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080613/wl_afp/irelandeureferendumeurope
 
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Nicolas Sarkozy plans to bypass Irish no vote:
 
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, is working with European Union officials and diplomats to plan a special “legal arrangement” to bypass Ireland’s referendum rejection.
tinyurl.com/5hn7xx
 
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Farc ‘offers to free Betancourt’ :
 
Alvaro Uribe said on Friday that a Farc guerrilla had agreed to release Betancourt if the Colombian government agrees not to extradite a Farc member.
tinyurl.com/6fx66j
 
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In case you missed it:
 
How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life:
 
In an extraordinary act of compassion at a time when Vietnamese citizens were being killed by US aerial bombardments, he pulled a barely conscious McCain to the lake surface and, with the help of a neighbour, dragged him towards the shore.
tinyurl.com/56k9cw