Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,236,604"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,112
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$534,642,131,412
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Maliki Stunner: He Wants US Pullout Timetable
 
By Robert Dreyfuss
 
The long-running showdown over the proposed US-Iraq treaty, aimed at legitimizing the American occupation of Iraq, is coming to a head, and it doesn’t look good for the United States.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20241.htm
 
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Breaking Iraq and Blaming Iran
 
British Black Ops and the Terror Campaign in Basra
 
By Andrew G. Marshall
 
Understanding the anatomy of the conflict that has raged in Basra since 2003 is a pivotal study in understanding the wider “War on Terror.” The British, for nearly a century maintaining a destabilizing presence in the region, notably in Basra, have not given up their Empire’s long-standing tradition of “Divide and Conquer.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20243.htm
 
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New War Brewing: US, Israel Take Dangerous Steps
 
By Eric Margolis
 
The U.S., Israel and Iran are playing a very dangerous game of chicken that soon could result in a new Mideast war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20240.htm
 
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Bush’s Blood-Orgy in Somalia:
 
“They Are Slaughtering Somalis Like Goats”
 
By Mike Whitney
 
While George Bush was busy railing at Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe at the G-8 summit in Toyako, Japan; his Ethiopian proxy-army in Somalia was grinding out more carnage on the streets of Mogadishu.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20246.htm
 
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Lies, Kidnapping and a Mysterious Laptop
 
You have been told that the Venezuelan President supports the Farc thugs
 
By Johann Hari
 
As Ingrid Betancourt emerged after six-and-a-half years – sunken and shrivelled but radiant with courage – one of the first people she thanked was Hugo Chavez. What? If you follow the news coverage, you have been told that the Venezuelan President supports the Farc thugs who have been holding her hostage. He paid them $300m to keep killing and to buy uranium for a dirty bomb, in a rare break from dismantling democracy at home and dealing drugs. So how can this moment of dissonance be explained?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20242.htm
 
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Surviving the Fourth of July
 
By Chris Hedges
 
I survive the degradation that has become America-a land that exalts itself as a bastion of freedom and liberty while it tortures human beings, stripped of their rights, in offshore penal colonies, a land that wages wars defined under international law as criminal wars of aggression, a land that turns its back on its poor, its weak, its mentally ill, in a relentless drive to embrace totalitarian capitalism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20247.htm
 
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Afghan car bomb kills 41 at Indian embassy:
 
A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people in what appeared to be the deadliest attack in Afghanistan’s capital since the fall of the Taliban, officials said.
tinyurl.com/5dejlq
 
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Eyewitness: Afghan bombing:
 
Witnesses told of body parts hanging from trees and of feverish efforts to help badly injured victims at a key hospital in the Afghan capital.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7493392.stm
 
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Afghan Min: ‘Regional Intelligence’ Involved In Embassy Blast:
 
Asked if this was a reference to neighboring Pakistan, ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary declined to comment.
tinyurl.com/5w5rch
 
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US attack kills at least 27 Afghan civilians :
 
Afghan officials said US killed up to 27 Afghans walking to a wedding ceremony in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, the second US attack in three days with reports of civilian deaths.
tinyurl.com/5b5rwz
 
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Explosion near Kandahar kills Canadian occupation force soldier:
 
The deadly ground of Afghanistan’s Panjwai district, just west of Kandahar City, has claimed the life of another Canadian soldier.
tinyurl.com/6lcuo5
 
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Half of Afghan province under Taliban: Think-tank:
 
A leading think-tank on Monday said that half of Afghanistan’s Maidan Wardak province was under the control of Taliban militants. Located at some 45 minutes distance by road from the country’s central capital Kabul, half of Maidan Wardak province was controlled by Taliban
tinyurl.com/58s8e3
 
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Serial blasts rock Karachi; 2 dead, 45 wounded:
 
Two persons were killed and 45 others injured as serial bomb blasts rocked Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Monday triggering panic among residents.
tinyurl.com/5b9gbe
 
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Pakistan suicide blast death toll rises to 18:
 
Three more police officers have died from the suicide attack near Islamabad’s Red Mosque, bringing the death toll to 18, an official said Monday.
www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jul/07/pakistan-suicide-blast-death-toll-rises-to-18/
 
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Diplomats ready to flee Islamabad:
 
FOREIGN diplomats based in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, were reportedly preparing plans yesterday for an emergency evacuation as alarm grows over a resurgence of suicide bomb attacks by militants linked to al-Qa’ida and the Taliban.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23983651-25837,00.html
 
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Pakistani Taliban resumes talks with gov’t:
 
Pakistani Taliban has resumed peace talks with the government and called for withdrawal of troops from Swat valley in Northwest Pakistan, the News Network International (NNI) news agency reported on Monday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/07/content_8506753.htm
 
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‘A Regional War that Is Spreading to Pakistan’:
 
Author Ahmed Rashid talks to SPIEGEL about the double crisis in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Taliban is gaining strength in northwestern Pakistan and is exploiting weaknesses in Islamabad and Kabul.
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,564325,00.html
 
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Iraq: At least 16 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
A female suicide bomber killed nine people and wounded 12 others when she blew herself up at a market in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0353793720080707
 
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Gunmen kill local Sunni party leader in northern Iraq:
 
Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead the local office head of a Sunni Arab party in a town near Mosul, the capital city of Iraq’s Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/07/content_8506797.htm
 
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Iraq demands troop withdrawal timetable in U.S. defence pact talks:
 
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday he is negotiating a deal with Washington that will for the first time set a timetable for a withdrawal of foreign forces as part of a framework for a U.S. troop presence into next year.
www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/07/07/afx5188344.html
 
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Iraqis Consider Alternative Deal For U.S. Presence:
 
An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, says the move was made because of public and political opposition in Iraq to a status of forces agreement.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92267256
 
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Cold Shoulders by Kathy Kelly:
 
Umm Hamdi doesn’t want her son to pick up a gun or lay an explosive device, for Iraq or for anyone. She would rather see him pick up a book. She cries herself to sleep at night wishing she could just see him. But she can’t bring her daughters back to the maelstrom of violence her native country has become with the U.S. invasion.
peacejournal.org/cold-shoulders-by-kathy-kelly/
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert:
 
Iran has resumed A-bomb project, says West:
 
Iran has resumed work on constructing highly sophisticated equipment that nuclear experts say is primarily used for building atomic weapons, according to the latest intelligence reports received by Western diplomats.
tinyurl.com/5rps2b
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert::
 
Ahmadinejad “defiant” amid report Iran has resumed bomb work:
 
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday his country would not stop enriching uranium and rejected as “illegitimate” a demand by major powers that it do so, the official IRNA news agency reported.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999720.html
 
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President Ahmadinejad: US, Israel not dare attack Iran:
 
President Ahmadinejad made the remarks while responding a question on the US and Zionist regime’s threats against Iran in an interview with the Malaysian official news agency (BERNAMA) and its state television.
www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0807075504190344.htm
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran Report:
 
U.S. fears Israeli strike won’t take out Iran nukes:
 
Senior United States defense officials fear that a much-anticipated Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would fail to destroy them due to lack of intelligence about their location, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999334.html
 
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Officials say Israel could not attack Iran without US support:
 
Israeli defense officials have told local media they are concerned that Israel is being used as a pawn by rival factions in the White House.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/379352/cs/1/
 
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Britain must act to prevent an attack on Iran:
 
All the evidence suggests that an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites would be a disaster for the greater Middle East, for the world economy and for western security. It would not even benefit Israel, which is adequately protected by its own nuclear deterrent.
tinyurl.com/5ee2o7
 
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Gideon Levy: Living forever by bombardment:
 
Every time some Middle Eastern country tries to obtain nuclear weapons, Israel will bomb it. Bomb – and bombard. Beyond the problematic assumption that we are allowed to do what others are not allowed, and what is secure in our hands is dangerous in the hands of others, this kind of conduct will lead to disaster.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999126.html
 
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Israel reopens Gaza crossing:
 
Israel yesterday reopened vital crossings into the Gaza Strip in keeping with a truce with Hamas there, and much-needed supplies began flowing into the impoverished territory again.
www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=111583&d=7&m=7&y=2008
 
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Hamas officials say group arrested rocket-launcher operators in Gaza:
 
According to Hamas officials, the group has recently arrested several rocket-launcher operators who were trying to sabotage the truce between Hamas and Israel, Israel Radio reported Monday morning.
tinyurl.com/6fm63e
 
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Hamas slams Israeli actions targeting Hamas-affiliated charities:
 
“ These charity organizations are serving all sectors of the Palestinian community, mainly poor families, orphans, and families of martyrs killed by the Israeli occupation,” Fawzi Barhoum told reporters in Gaza.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/07/content_8506821.htm
 
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Israel, Hezbollah agree on prisoner swap:
 
Israel and Hezbollah have signed a UN-mediated prisoner exchange deal and the date for the swap will be settled this week, a Lebanese political source and the Israeli prime minister’s office says
tinyurl.com/6cqboj
 
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Gilad Atzmon: United by a Bulldozer – And I think to myself… :
 
‘We have invested thousands in the construction of infrastructure and education and homes for the elderly in all those Palestinian villages and they, instead of thanking us, all those ingrates do is just come and kill us.’
tinyurl.com/64tzzn
 
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Medvedev warns US on missile shield: Sergei Prikhodko,
 
Medvedev’s aide, said that the Russian president had warned Bush that a possible deployment of the system in Lithuania instead of Poland “would be absolutely unacceptable for the Russian federation”.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/07/200877105811126208.html
 
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US condemns killing of UN envoy to Somalia:
 
Gunmen shot and killed Osman Ali Ahmed, the head of the UN Development Program (UNDP) in Mogadishu, and wounded his brother and son as they left a mosque on Sunday in the Somali capital.
tinyurl.com/6gv48y
 
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Somali premier calls for UN troops without delay:
 
The international community must deploy U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia without delay or risk worsening insecurity in the Horn of Africa, the country’s prime minister warned on Monday during a visit to Ethiopia.
africa.reuters.com/country/SO/news/usnBAN727187.html
 
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British MPs accuse Washington of lying over rendition flights:
 
They described false assurances given by the US about its use of Diego Garcia for the controversial flights as “deplorable”.
tinyurl.com/6hqds8
 
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Guantanamo Bay may be turned into marine ‘rapid reaction’ base:
 
The United States is considering transforming the Guantanamo Bay terrorism prison into a base for a Marines “rapid reaction force” to deal with threats in Central America.
tinyurl.com/67mncs
 
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US planned nerve gas tests on Australian soldiers:
 
THE US military planned to test deadly nerve gas on Australian soldiers in far north Queensland during the Cold War, declassified documents reveal.
www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23976753-952,00.html
 
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US complicit in murder of over 3,500 S. Korean political prisoners:
 
“The most important thing is that they did not stop the executions,” historian Jung Byung-joon, a member of the 2-year-old commission, said of the Americans. “They were at the crime scene, and took pictures and wrote reports.”
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080706/ap_on_re_as/korea_mass_executions_us
 
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Ex-hostage Betancourt urges Colombian president to tone down ‘hate’ speech toward rebels:
 
“We have reached the point where we must change the radical, extremist vocabulary of hate, of very strong words that intimately wound the human being.”
www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080707-0616-france-betancourt.html
 
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Panama expunges Posada pardon:
 
US-friendly President Mireya Moscoso issued the pardons in 2004-sparking a diplomatic spat with Cuba and Venezuela.
www.ww4report.com/node/5741
 
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Financial market losses could top 1,600 billion dollars: report:
 
Bridgewater, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, based its calculations on the state of risky debt-based US assets, such as mortgages, credit and credit card demands.
tinyurl.com/6m2xr9
 
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Retail Property, Vacancies Q2 Worst in 30 Years:
 
U.S. store closings and cutbacks turned the second quarter into the worst for strip mall owners in 30 years, as budget-conscious consumers flocked to low-cost warehouse-style grocery centers, according to a report by real estate research firm Reis.
tinyurl.com/62v9lt
 
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McCain promises to balance budget:
 
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to promise on Monday that he will balance the federal budget by the end of his first term by curbing wasteful spending and overhauling entitlement programs, including Social Security, his advisers told Politico.
www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11553.html