Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,225,898"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,104
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$530,778,087,765
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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The Real State of Iraq
 
By Juan Cole
 
The apocalypse that the United States has unleashed upon Iraq is among the greatest catastrophes to befall any country in the past 50 years. It is a much worse disaster over time than the Burmese cyclone or the Mississippi floods.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20157.htm
 
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The Myth of ‘Weapons-Grade’ Enrichment
 
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
 
Talk about the double standards at the United Nations. Whereas UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly condemned Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric against Israel, expressing “shock and dismay”, he has remained ominously, and inexcusably, silent about the blatant Israeli threats of military attacks on Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20162.htm
 
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Prez Sez: “I’m Addicted; Bigger Syringe, Please!”
 
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
 
Several years ago, the President of the United States acknowledged that America is addicted to oil. He did nothing to address the addiction, protected its Drug Lords (the Big Oil companies) and their enormous profits, and now has demanded a bigger syringe so as to mainline his favorite drug into the veins and arteries of the American people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20156.htm
 
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How Should the Middle East invest its Rising Trade Surplus?
 
By Dr. Michael Hudson
 
For the Middle East to use its export earnings to develop its own economies may require breaking with the U.S. diplomatic sphere. At the very least it gives the region an interest in getting the United States to end its occupation of Iraq – including the military bases it is now in the process of constructing.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20159.htm
 
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The Hedonists of Power
 
By Chris Hedges
 
Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers. The popular media are courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are courtiers. Our pundits and experts are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games. We are being had.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20158.htm
 
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The Fourth World War
 
Video – Taken from a speech by Marcos calling the war against globalization
 
Despite the titanic struggles of dispossessed peoples around the world, the wealth of nations continues to reside in fewer and fewer hands. The economies of poor countries collapse under vicious IMF policies, and capitalism’s global ‘clubs’ thrive ever and ever upward. Meanwhile, people keep struggling, ultimately downward.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20153.htm
 
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Alternatives to Free Trade: Fair Trade and Beyond
 
By Shamus Cooke
 
Capitalism cannot be reformed. In the dog-eat-dog world of profit-making and competition, “fairness” plays absolutely no role.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20161.htm
 
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On Humiliation, and Gaza’s Dying Children
 
By Ramzy Baroud
 
A six-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza was killed by Israeli fire on 12 June. “Medics say the girl was decapitated by a [tank] shell,” Associated Press (AP) reported the next day.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20160.htm
 
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The Israel Lobby
 
Must Watch – Video Documentary – VPRO
 
The question arises to what extend the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell’s former chief-of-staff) explains how the lobby’s influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House.
 

With political scientist John Mearsheimer, neocon Richard Perle, lobby organization AIPAC, televangelist John Hagee, historian Tony Judt, Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth, colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Democrat Earl Hilliard, Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy and investigative journalist Michael Massing. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20155.htm
 
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In case you missed it
 
Christian Zionism
 
Dispensationalism And The Roots Of Sectarian Theology
 
A History of Dispensational Approaches
 
By Rev. Steven Sizer
 
Dispensationalism is one of the most influential theological systems within the universal church today. Largely unrecognised and subliminal, it has increasingly shaped the presuppositions of fundamentalist, evangelical, Pentecostal and charismatic thinking concerning Israel and Palestine over the past one hundred and fifty years.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4531.htm
 
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Michael Parenti – The Struggle for History
 
– Video –
 
An excellent lecture by the well-known American political scientist, historian, and media critic, Michael Parenti.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20154.htm
 
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RIP
 
George Carlin on “The American Dream”
 
4 Minute Video
 
Click to view
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20163.htm
 
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55 militants killed in Afghan “battle”:
 
The U.S.-led occupation force in Afghanistan says it has killed 55 militants in the east of the country.
tinyurl.com/5ew4ky
 
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British Occupation Forces Use ‘Vacuum’ Bomb Against “Taliban”:
 
British forces in Afghanistan have used one of the world’s most deadly and controversial missiles to fight the Taliban.Apache attack helicopters have fired the thermobaric weapons against fighters in buildings and caves, to create a pressure wave which sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies.
tinyurl.com/5ew4ky
 
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6,000 troops urgently needed in Afghanistan: NATO:
 
Up to 6,000 additional troops are urgently needed in Afghanistan and a failure to deploy them will only prolong the presence of Western forces in the country, a German NATO general said on Sunday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080622/wl_nm/afghan_nato_troops_dc
 
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Occupied Iraq: Mortar attack kills 10 US-allied Sunnis:
 
Iraqi officials say a mortar attack north of Baghdad has killed 10 members of a U.S.-allied Sunni group that has joined forces with the Americans against al-Qaida in Iraq.
tinyurl.com/6lgy9n
 
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Iraq: At least 6 killed as US occupation grinds on;
 
The U.S. military said it had initial reports that one U.S. soldier had been killed and five others wounded in a firefight southeast of Baghdad. One gunmen had been killed, it said.
uk.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUKANW33724320080623
 
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Iraqi official opens fire on visiting U.S. troops, killing one:
 
A local council member Raed Hmood Ajil opened fire on the U.S. troops for “unknown reasons” and was killed at the scene by American forces
www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/41895.html
 
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Israel ‘will attack Iran’ before new US president sworn in, John Bolton predicts:
 
John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush’s successor is sworn in.
tinyurl.com/6xyff7
 
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Sarkozy to Knesset: A nuclear Iran is intolerable:
 
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking at a special session of the Knesset in his honor, vowed Monday that France would always defend Israel in the face of any existential threat – a direct reference to Iran and its nuclear program, which he called unacceptable.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/995435.html
 
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Iran: European Union issues new sanctions on assets:
 
The list of new sanctions will also ban certain individuals and organisations with links to Iran’s nuclear programme from entering Europe.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.2278605977
 
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UN nuclear team to inspect bombed site in Syria:
 
U.N. nuclear inspectors headed on Monday for an alleged nuclear site in Syria that the United States says housed a secretly built reactor nearing completion when it was bombed by Israel nine months ago, a diplomat said.
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL23167847.html
 
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US making false accusations: Syrian paper:
 
On Sunday, officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna confirmed its team had left for Syria for the visit which is to examine U.S. allegations that Syria has secret nuclear sites.
tinyurl.com/5dcuvh
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert::
 
Assad’s Risky Nuclear Game:
 
Syria and Iran may be better friends than many thought. Reports indicate that the two might have been cooperating on nuclear weapons research. Now, though, Damascus may be rethinking those ties and looking for friends in the West.
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,561409,00.html
 
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Gaza awaits easing of Israeli siege:
 
Word on the ground is that the Israelis are not allowing any increase of goods into Gaza, Al Jazeera’s correspondents say.
tinyurl.com/5vkobh
 
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Hamas says too early to judge’’s commitment to truce:
 
The Hamas leader appreciated the “responsible” role of the other Palestinian factions by abiding by the truce.
tinyurl.com/6e3boz
 
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Lebanon: 9 killed in Tripoli riots:
 
Lebanese security sources reported Monday that nine people have been killed in the latest wave of violent riots which swept through in the city of Tripoli.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3559129,00.html
 
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Deadly clashes end Lebanese peace deal:
 
Violence has been rising in Lebanon between supporters of the Government and the Opposition as Mr Siniora has been unable to form a government of national unity.
tinyurl.com/6fc9t5
 
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Fighting breaks out in northern Lebanon; 4 dead:
 
Fighting broke out in northern Lebanon on Sunday between pro- and anti-government factions leaving at least four people dead and 29 wounded, security and medical officials said.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080622/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon
 
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13 killed in occupied Somalia:
 
Fresh clashes have erupted between fighters from the Islamic Courts Union and Ethiopian forces in the Somali capital Mogadishu, leaving at least 13 people dead, most of them civilians.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/06/200862084822676959.html
 
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How Cuba fought for Africa’s freedom:
 
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, a heroic struggle in which, between October 1987 and June 1988, in some of the fiercest fighting in Africa since the Second World War, the South African Defence Force (SADF) were humiliatingly defeated by liberation forces in Angola.
links.org.au/node/483
 
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Bolivia province votes for autonomy:
 
Tarija has only 400,000 inhabitants but has 85 per cent of the country’s natural gas, which accounts for 13 per cent of Bolivia’s gross domestic product.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/06/2008622191127402883.html
 
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The price of hunger:
 
We know the cost to end world hunger. What’s the cost of neglect?
tinyurl.com/6zj2al
 
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Keeping America Safe: Prosecuting Children as Terrorists:
 
President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the rest of the warmongers and terror-pimps in the White House would have us believe that Omar Khadr is a monster. Khadr is the 21-year-old Canadian who is facing one of the first show-trials at Guantanamo.
www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/21/9787/
 
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Citigroup to cut thousands of jobs:
 
The job cuts are part of a plan to reduce about 10 per cent of the investment banking group’s 65,000 staff, it said.
english.aljazeera.net/business/2008/06/200862351521560279.html