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 4,115
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$534,954,637,267
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Iraq Insists on U.S. Withdrawal Timetable: official
 
By Ahmed Rasheed and Mohammed Abbas
 
Iraq will not accept any security agreement with the United States unless it includes dates for the withdrawal of foreign forces, the government’s national security adviser said on Tuesday.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20248.htm
 
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AIPAC’s Hirelings Rush to Resolution
 
By William A. Cook
 
Perception is often the stepchild of ignorance, especially when controlled by those with the most to gain. It is especially difficult for our Congress to perceive clearly when it grovels at the feet of its master, AIPAC. America’s Knesset, servile hirelings of Israel’s lobby, rush to pass yet another resolution conceived by AIPAC and authored and co-signed by its most slavish puppets, Ackerman and Ros-Lehtinen in the House and Lieberman and Bayh in the Senate.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20250.htm
 
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Fidel Castro and the FARC
 
Eight Mistaken Thesis of Fidel Castro
 
By James Petras
 
Castro’s remarks demand analysis and refutation, not only because his opinions are widely read and influence millions of militants and admirers in the world, especially in Cuba and Latin America, but because he purports to provide a ‘moral’ basis for opposition to imperialism today.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20251.htm
 
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The Axioms Of Evil
 
By Waleed Aly
 
Mandela is no longer suspected of ‘terrorism’ – a term so politicised it is largely useless.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20249.htm
 
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The New Geography of Trade
 
North America Doesn’t Exist
 
By Laura Carlsen
 
Fourteen years after implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a majority of the population in all three countries believes the agreement has had a net negative effect on their nation and it turns out that the North American Free Trade Agreement is a misnomer in every one of its terms-it wasn’t an agreement, it isn’t free trade, and North America doesn’t exist. So now what?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20252.htm
 
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Roadside bomb kills four mercenaries near Mosul:
 
The military says in a statement that the bomb struck a convoy carrying the contractors near the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.
tinyurl.com/64uy7z
 
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U.S. occupation force soldier killed by roadside bomb near Baghdad:
 
An American occupation force soldier was killed this morning when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
tinyurl.com/5ztnad
 
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Iraqi torture victims slam UK ‘contempt’:
 
The eight Iraqis arrived in London yesterday for this week’s long-awaited mediation into how much compensation the government is willing to pay to civilians who were tortured while held in British custody.
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/06/military.iraq
 
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad calls for US bases to be ‘eradicated’:
 
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Tuesday for United States military bases across the world to be “eradicated” and said there must be “fundamental change” in the next US government.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080708/wl_mideast_afp/iranusd8malaysia
 
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US holds Navy exercise after Iran comments on Gulf:
 
“The aim of Exercise Stake Net is to practise the tactics and procedures of protecting maritime infrastructure such as gas and oil installations,” Commodore Peter Hudson said in a U.S. Fifth Fleet statement.
rawstory.com/news/2008/US_holds_navy_exercise_after_Iran_0707.html
 
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Iran holds large-scale military drill:
 
“The Zionist regime is pushing the White House to prepare for a military strike on Iran,” Shirazi was quoted as saying. “If they show such stupidity, Tel Aviv and the US naval fleet in the Persian Gulf will be the first targets which will be set on fire in Iran’s crushing response.”
tinyurl.com/5crq2q
 
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Ahmadinejad: Iran to cut off aggressors hands:
 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that the Iranian nation will cut off hands of every aggressor before they can touch trigger.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0807085193182758.htm
 
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Ahmadinejad: All should urge US, UK to dismantle their nuclear weapons:
 
“As I have already said the era of domination, unilateralism, discrimination and bullying is now over.” “Why should the US administration be allowed to produce nuclear bombs and use it against people but other nations should be deprived of benefiting from peaceful nuclear energy?” he asked.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0807086730192549.htm
 
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Iran says it will hit Tel Aviv if attacked:
 
Iran will hit Tel Aviv, U.S. shipping in the Gulf and American interests around the world if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear activities, an aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL08523230.html
 
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Ahmadinejad: Zionist regime inherently doomed to annihilation:
 
“They label us as aggressors but this is a big lie because the Iranian nation throughout the history never attacked any nation,” he said. The Zionists are assigned to commit crimes, threaten others and invade Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon as well as threaten Iran and Iraq, he said.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0807088053192341.htm
 
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Israel reopens Gaza border, mortar fire continues:
 
Israel agreed to an Egyptian request and opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday despite Palestinian mortar fire that violated a shaky three-week-old truce.
tinyurl.com/6kp6bu
 
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Four Afghan police, NATO occupation force soldier killed in attacks:
 
A NATOoccupation force soldier and four Afghan police were killed Tuesday in new attacks linked to an “insurgency” in Afghanistan
tinyurl.com/5gbjgv
 
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Afghanistan blames Pakistan for bomb attack outside Indian Embassy: :
 
“The sophistication of this attack, and the kind of material that was used in it and the specific targeting, everything has the hallmark of a particular intelligence agency that has conducted similar terrorist acts inside Afghanistan in the past. We have sufficient evidence to say that.”
tinyurl.com/5kwpks
 
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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.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=242181
 
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Official: Gunmen kill 4 Pakistani security forces in troubled northwest tribal area:
 
A government official says unknown assailants fired on a vehicle carrying tribal police forces in Pakistan’s northwest, killing four and wounding seven.
tinyurl.com/5jzbve
 
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19 killed as Sudan accuses Ethiopia of deadly attack:
 
Sudan on Tuesday accused neighbouring Ethiopia of launching a cross-border military raid against police in which 19 Sudanese people were killed.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080708/wl_africa_afp/sudanethiopiaunrest
 
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2 Killed In Attack On Somali Interim Government:
 
“Authorities” in Somalia say “Islamic insurgents” have fired mortars at the town of Baidoa, killing at least two government soldiers and wounding seven others.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-08-voa31.cfm
 
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Somalia: Hundreds of families displaced by fighting in Baidoa:
 
A number of people were killed and injured and hundreds of families displaced, after a night of heavy fighting in the southwestern town of Baidoa, the seat of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), witnesses told IRIN on 8 July.
tinyurl.com/5ro8jf
 
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Russia ‘backed Litvinenko murder’:
 
Mr Litvinenko, who was a fierce critic of former Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned in London in 2006.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7494142.stm
 
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S.America: Free trade’s false promises:
 
Nafta has hurt the Mexican economy, and the US-Colombia free trade deal stands to replicate its mistakes
tinyurl.com/65k2xy
 
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Dutch health system rated best, U.S. worst – polls:
 
“Given that all countries other than the U.S. have universal health care systems in place, this may invite questions on why the U.S. remains the only wealthy, industrialized country without such a system,” Harris president George Terhanian told Reuters.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07438178.htm
 
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Home Prices Fall in 23 of 25 U.S. Metropolitan Areas:
 
The Sacramento, California, region saw the biggest drop, with prices falling 31.7 percent from April 2007. Sacramento was followed by the Las Vegas area (29.9 percent), San Diego (28.1 percent), Phoenix (25.5 percent) and Los Angeles (23.4 percent), Radar Logic said.
tinyurl.com/6n5w7p
 
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Long-term unemployment in the US climbs 37 percent in one year:
 
The number of people out of work for more than six months has shot up by 37 percent since June of 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/econ-j08.shtml
 
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U.S. businesses file for bankruptcy at a faster rate:
 
Bankruptcy filings in the U.S. during the month rose 33 percent from a year earlier and may surpass 1 million in a year for the first time since bankruptcy laws were tightened in October 2005.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/02/business/02bankrupt.php
 
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Pension plans suffer huge losses:
 
Report says weak markets, credit crunch have drained $280 billion from plans of largest U.S. companies
tinyurl.com/5e977o