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
$533,587,911,697
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Rep. Ron Paul Assails Congress’s
 
“Virtual Iran War Resolution”
 
By Congressman Ron Paul
 
This is unbelievable! This is closing down Iran. Where do we have this authority? Where do we get the moral authority? Where do we get the international legality for this? Where do we get the Constitutional authority for this? This is what we did for ten years before we went into Iraq.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20226.htm
 
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Full Text
 
Virtual Iran War Resolution
 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 22, 2008
Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself and Mr. PENCE) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony, and for other purposes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20227.htm
 
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Iran Warms To Freeze-For-Freeze Plan
 
By Gareth Porter
 
A senior Iranian official reportedly told members of the Iranian parliament Monday that Iran has agreed to freeze its enrichment programme for six weeks and begin negotiations with the P5+1 group of states as early as next week.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20228.htm
 
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Hunkering Down in Afghanistan with Field-Marshall Obama
 
By Mike Whitney
 
By every objective standard, conditions are worse for the Afghan people than they were before the invasion in 2001. The economy is in shambles, unemployment is soaring, reconstruction is minimal, security is non-existent and malnutrition is at levels that rival sub-Saharan Africa.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20233.htm
 
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A Declaration Of Independence From The Government Of The USA
 
By Anonymous
 
If a government no longer serves its intended purpose then it is proper that each individual formally withdraw his or her consent to be ruled by that government.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20232.htm
 
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The Rise of Food Fascism:
 
Agrarian Elite Foments Coup in Bolivia
 
By Roger Burbach
 
Like many third world countries Bolivia is experiencing food shortages and rising food prices attributable to a global food marketing system driven by multinational agribusiness corporations. With sixty percent of the Bolivian population living in poverty and thirty-three percent in extreme poverty, the price of the basic food canasta—including wheat, rice, corn, soy oil and potatoes, as well as meat-has risen twenty-five percent over the past year with prices gyrating wildly in the local markets.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20231.htm
 
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Holding Muslims at Arm’s Length
 
By Derrick Z. Jackson
 
In his year-and-a-half-long run for president, Obama has visited churches and synagogues, but no mosque. This has the musty feel of light-skinned African-Americans passing for white, paranoid over daylight visits from dark-skinned relatives.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20230.htm
 
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‘When John McCain was my captive’
 
By Andrew Harding
BBC News in Haiphong, Vietnam
 
So is Mr Duyet implying that that Senator McCain lied about his treatment at the Hanoi Hilton? – “He did not tell the truth,” he says.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20229.htm
 
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Nato occupation troops kill 25 “Taliban”:
 
Afghan and Nato-led occupation forces killed 25 “Taliban militants” in a 10-hour gun battle in western Afghanistan, a provincial police chief said on Thursday.
tinyurl.com/5kl64a
 
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5 Afghan soldiers killed in blast:
 
Provincial police Chief Mustapha Khan says the blast hit an Afghan army convoy late Wednesday in Logar province.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkKFU8CvHoLV5ont_58iLTVBWLVQD91M9VN00
 
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Militants destroy US-led army convoy :
 
A Taliban spokesman said they abducted six security guards from the vehicles and seized a cache of weapons.
tinyurl.com/6ro7nb
 
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Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan:
 
The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_afghanistan_marines_4
 
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Military Chief: US Doesn’t Have Enough Troops To Send To Afghanistan:
 
The nation’s top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasingly violent insurgency, but that the Pentagon does not have sufficient forces to send because they are committed to the war in Iraq.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/03/military-chief-us-doesnt_n_110651.html
 
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One in five Afghan troops leave fledgling military force: documents:
 
Defence Department documents prepared last May say 10 to 20 per cent of the 20,000 Afghans who went through military training end up leaving the fledgling army.
www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=regional/ontario&articleID=2949910
 
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Children suffer more in Afghanistan than any other country: UN:
 
Children in Afghanistan suffer more than in any other country in the world from violence, war and poverty, and sometimes become suicide bombers, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday.
tinyurl.com/6b8q2d
 
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Elite Sadr unit hopes to vanquish US:
 
The leader of the Sadr movement, Muqtada al Sadr, announced more than two weeks ago that a specialised armed group would be set up to carry out guerrilla attacks on American troops. The rest of the movement’s Mahdi Army militia – thought to number about 100,000 – were to put down their weapons and concentrate on political and spiritual resistance to the US presence in Iraq, he said.
www.thenational.ae/article/20080701/FOREIGN/883703575/1011/NEWS
 
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Iraq: 14 Killed In Another Bloody Day Of US Occupation :
 
U.S. occupation forces killed two militants and captured 10 others
tinyurl.com/5lgeuc
 
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Democrat Obama signals flexibility on Iraq:
 
Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is signaling more flexibility on his pledge to quickly pull U.S. troops out of Iraq if elected as part of a move toward the political center.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=236118
 
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ACLU Releases Navy Files On Civilian Casualties In Iraq War
 
 ”At every step of the way, the Bush administration and Defense Department have gone to unprecedented lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Nasrina Bargzie, an attorney with the ACLU National Security Project.
www.aclu.org/natsec/foia/35878prs20080702.html
 
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Iran: nuclear talks remain open:
 
Mottaki, who was in New York for talks at the United Nations, hinted there has been diplomatic progress on easing tensions with the West. His tone was conciliatory towards the United States and he remarked he sees improvements in the US attitude towards Iran.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=62417&sectionid=351020104
 
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IRGC commander calls for US to prove it won’t make troubles for Iran :
 
The United States government must prove that it is not going to make troubles for Iran’s nation, said deputy for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps top commander Mohammad Hejazi.
isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1157632&Lang=E
 
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Interest sections in Tehran and Washington “considerable” :
 
Iran’s foreign minister: “We welcome relations between the two nations including tourism and scientific cooperation of universities, such things can draw a more realistic image of Iran for US public opinion,” he said.
isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1157297&Lang=E
 
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Downing of Flight 655 was state-sponsored terrorism: analyst:
 
The U.S. Navy’s guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988, killing all 290 passengers and crew members, including 66 children.
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=172253
 
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Islamic Jihad says Israel violated Gaza ceasefire 13 times:
 
The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement said that most of the breaches occurred on the border areas of the Gaza Strip when Israeli soldiers fired at farmers who approached their lands near the security fence that separates between Gaza and Israel.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/03/content_8484253.htm
 
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Militants ‘fire rocket’ from Gaza:
 
The Israeli military said the rocket landed in an open field near the town of Sderot without causing casualties. It is the sixth reported rocket strike since the took effect on 19 June.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7488240.stm
 
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Paraguay joins shift to the left in Latin America:
 
Paraguay has become the latest Latin American country to throw out a rightwing president in favour of a reforming leftwinger. But does former priest Fernando Lugo, a man with little political experience, stand any real chance of transforming his battered country
tinyurl.com/58o6bc
 
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Venezuela’s Chavez Congratulates Uribe For Hostage Rescue:
 
According to a statement from the state news channel, Chavez telephoned Uribe Wednesday to congratulate him for having secured the freedom of the hostages.
tinyurl.com/6m5yhf
 
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Obama Voters Protest His Switch on Telecom Immunity:
 
Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most ardent supporters.
www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/politics/02fisa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
 
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Euro May Be Poised for `Explosive Breakout,’ Citigroup Says:
 
The euro may be nearing an ``explosive breakout,’’ reaching record levels against the U.S. dollar, according to a Citigroup Global Markets Inc. research note.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=azgZfuwN3MVM&refer=home#
 
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Bush’s Dollar Drop Maps Loss of U.S. Clout at Final G-8 Summit:
 
When President George W. Bush went to his first Group of Eight summit in 2001, a dominant issue was the dollar — the strong dollar, that is. The U.S. currency was on a record-setting streak, and the free-marketeering president wasn’t going to stand in the way.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aH0_cYGS8Avc&refer=home
 
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U.S. Loses 62,000 Jobs, Jobless Rate Holds at 5.5%:
 
U.S. employers cut jobs in June for a sixth consecutive month as soaring fuel prices and a slowing economy forced companies to reduce costs.
tinyurl.com/6hw4dq
 
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States face dwindling unemployment insurance funds:
 
The funds states use to pay unemployment benefits are running low, raising fears of higher taxes on businesses and less money to help out-of-work employees during tight economic times.
tinyurl.com/5kfg28