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 4,113
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$531,616,318,022
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Elections, Capitalism, And Democracy
 
By Charles Sullivan
 
Because right-wing extremism and corporate fascism are portrayed in the corporate media as reasonable centrist positions beneficial to the people-that is how they are perceived by those who receive their political education from those sources.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20181.htm
 
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Billion-Dollar Babies
 
Five Stealth Pentagon Contractors Reaping Billions of Tax Dollars
 
By Nick Turse
 
The top Pentagon contractors, like death and taxes, almost never change. In 2002, the massive arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman ranked one, two, and three among Department of Defense contractors, taking in $17 billion, $16.6 billion, and $8.7 billion.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20179.htm
 
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Hunger In Somalia
 
A Tragedy Unnoticed By The World
 
 2 Minute Video
 
 How conflict exacerbates Somalia’s starvation
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20180.htm
 
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Mahmoud Abbas’ Time Has Passed
 
By John Taylor
 
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, is a collaborator with the his peoples’ chief tormentors, Israel and the United States. Without Israeli and American support, Abbas would be gone in an instant. The general commanding Israeli forces on the West Bank, Gadi Shamni, put it best: “He’s a joke, a nothing. We are the only force propping him up. Should we withdraw from the cities, Hamas will sweep him and his men away as they did in Gaza.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20178.htm
 
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Britain’s War in the Cause of Fear and Ignorance
 
By John Pilger
 
Muslims are alone as they watch the British state, with its “obstinate incomprehension” of their faith, do to them as it would never do to those of other faiths. Imagine Jews treated this way. You cannot imagine it; the profanity is too great. The silence of British Jews, who have the history, is also great.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20182.htm
 
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Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill
 
By Greg Palast
 
Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay the $5 billion in punitive damages awarded by the jury. And now they won’t have to. The Supreme Court today cut Exxon’s liability by 90% to half a billion. It’s so cheap, it’s like a permit to spill.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20177.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 43 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
A car bomb killed 18 people and wounded 71 near the Nineveh provincial governor’s office in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Governor Duraid Kashmula said.
tinyurl.com/5ccldt
 
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U.S. airstrike kills 8 Iraqi civilians: police:
 
Iraqi police said on Thursday a U.S. helicopter airstrike killed eight civilians, including two children, but U.S. forces said the six adults killed were militants suspected of links to a bombing network.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0434078820080522
 
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Afghan attack kills 3 US coalition, occupation force members:
 
Afghan resistance members attacked occupation troops from the U.S.-led coalition patrolling south of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing three of them and an Afghan interpreter.
tinyurl.com/6x8wew
 
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Fact or fiction?
 
Ex-Taliban fighter tells of training, cash, orders from Pakistani military:
 
A former Taliban fighter has provided a gripping first-hand account of being secretly trained by members of the Pakistani military, paid $500 a month and ordered to kill foreigners in Afghanistan.
www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=world&articleID=2946094
 
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Canadian soldiers track border-crossing insurgents:
 
Canadian soldiers have quietly walked across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a mountainous region dense with insurgents, to collect information from the Pakistani Army about suicide bombers and weapon smuggling.
tinyurl.com/68xkus
 
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Peshawar on brink of falling to rebels: Report:
 
The security situation in this historic capital city of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province is grim, a news reports here reveals.
tinyurl.com/6zdfpf
 
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Musharraf toeing US line to break Pakistan:
 
A Q Khan: President Pervez Musharraf is working on the US agenda of dismembering Pakistan by 2015, a news agency reported here Wednesday quoting renowned Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=15584
 
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US wars have helped al-Qa’eda, says report:
 
American military intervention in Muslim countries has bred a generation of “angry young men” vulnerable to al-Qa’eda recruitment, a report from a leading security analysis group has said.
tinyurl.com/6k9ftd
 
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Olmert acknowledges secret meeting:
 
The Israeli government has been forced to acknowledge a top-secret meeting held Friday between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Aviam Sela, the chief architect of Israel’s 1981 attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor, after the media got wind of the details.
tinyurl.com/6jq28v
 
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In case you missed it:
 
Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran:
 
THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece
 
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Islamic Jihad accuses Israel of violating ceasefire 15 times:
 
The violations included the hovering of Israeli reconnaissance drones and F-16 fighters in Gaza skies, shooting at fishermen in the sea and opening fire on Palestinian farmers who approached their lands near the border security fence, said the movement.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/26/content_8444989.htm
 
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Islamic Jihad agrees to ceasefire with Israel:
 
The move was confirmed by an Islamic Jihad spokesman Thursday and it comes after a meeting Wednesday between Gaza’s two largest armed factions. The deal means Islamic Jihad will apparently stop firing rockets into Israel in return for an Israeli promise made to Hamas to not undertake air or ground assaults on the enclave and to re-open its cargo crossings with the territory.
tinyurl.com/6bgh9y
 
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Rockets fired from Gaza hit southern Israel:
 
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a violent offshoot of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, claimed responsibility for firing the rockets.
tinyurl.com/5nqzso
 
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Obama to Bush: Hamas must recognize Israel:
 
“A fundamental principle of America’s Middle East policy must be our unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security. I believe that is a bipartisan commitment and I will work to continue and advance that consensus. But I am deeply concerned that Israel’s security has been put at greater risk, both because of renewed threats from implacable enemies like Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas, and because of policy choices by the United States.”
tinyurl.com/68ne63
 
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Syrian VP: Syria allowed UN probe to prove US wrong:
 
The IAEA inspectors will not be allowed to probe beyond the Al Kibar site, despite the UN request to visit three other suspect locations.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3560502,00.html
 
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N Korea delivers nuclear report:
 
North Korea has handed over a declaration on its nuclear activities to China, prompting the US president to announce that Washington will move to take Pyongyang off a US list of state sponsors of terrorism.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/06/200862612112349518.html
 
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Former President Blames Ethiopian Occupation Troops for ‘Massacre’:
 
He also accused the United States government of revenging Somali people from their armed resistance they ousted US troops from country 1995.
allafrica.com/stories/200806250851.html
 
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Military facing $100B in equipment repairs:
 
The Pentagon faces a more than $100 billion bill to repair and replace worn out or destroyed equipment, vehicles and weapons, officials and members of Congress say, but paying for it may endanger plans to boost the size of the military.
www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-06-25-Military-repairs_N.htm
 
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The real McCain:
 
Paul Harris uncovers the dark side of John McCain.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/22/johnmccain.uselections2008?commentpage=1
 
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Gitmo Detainee’s Lawyer ‘Not Allowed To Tell Him’ He’s No Longer An ‘Enemy Combatant’:
 
Parhat’s lawyer told CBC radio’s As It Happens last night that Parhat is currently being held in solitary confinement and “has no idea” the appeals court ruled in his favor because, he added, “I’m not allowed to tell him”:
thinkprogress.org/2008/06/25/parhat-combatant-solitary/
 
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President Beck: I Wouldn’t Detain Terror Suspects, I’d ‘Shoot Them All In The Head’:
 
Today on his radio show, CNN host Glenn Beck expressed his disdain of the recent Supreme Court ruling granting terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts
thinkprogress.org/2008/06/25/beck-shoot-in-head/
 
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Seizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause : .
 
Congressional investigators and plaintiffs involved in lawsuits believe that digital copies?so-called “mirror images” of drives?are sometimes made of materials after they are seized by customs.
news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/seizinglaptopsandcameraswithoutcause
 
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The Democrats Betray the Fourth Amendment:
 
A bill essentially legalizing Bush’s warrantless surveillance program just sailed through the Democratic House and is expected to sail through the Democratic Senate.
independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2244
 
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US court overturns DC handgun ban:
 
A ban on handguns in Washington DC has been ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7474924.stm
 
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Native Americans demand billions from US in land profits suit:
 
Lawyers for the Native Americans said the government had failed to pay out tens of billion dollars in oil, timber, mineral and grazing royalties from lands held in trust by the Department of Interior since 1887.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080626/pl_afp/usnativecourtenergy
 
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Oil climbs $3 on Libya, OPEC comments: –
 
 Oil surged Thursday following reports that Libya may cut production and an OPEC official said crude could hit $170 a barrel this summer.
tinyurl.com/65r4pp
 
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San Francisco to vote on George W Bush sewage works:
 
San Francisco is to hold a vote on whether to rename one of its largest sewage treatment facilities after George W. Bush, in what supporters describe as “a fitting monument to the President’s work”
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4207235.ece