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
$535,247,248,356
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Sistani Opposes Iraq-US Security Deal
 
By Press TV
 
In a meeting with Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq Al-Rubaie on Tuesday, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani expressed his concerns over the security deal by calling it an excuse that will justify the presence of US forces in Iraq.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20254.htm
 
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It’s The Oil, Stupid!
 
By Noam Chomsky
 
The deal just taking shape between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq – questions that should certainly be addressed by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq, where it appears that the population has little if any role in determining the future of their country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20260.htm
 
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If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It!
 
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
 
Mr. Bush is following in Reagan’s footsteps. With Israeli military maneuvers threatening war and provoking Iran without any protest from the international community, Mr. Bush has ordered a naval buildup in the Persian Gulf for ‘protecting’ the safe flow of oil. No doubt, the U.S. navy will be hard at work provoking Iran and the tension caused will enable the U.S. to demand more ‘protection money’ from the Arab states.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20261.htm
 
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Learning From Past Blunders
 
By Paul Barratt
 
The US in particular – has been highly selective in its outrage about nuclear proliferation. The force of the proposition that any proliferation whatsoever is unacceptable has been undermined by an attitude that who was proliferating mattered more than the proliferation itself.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20255.htm
 
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Looking Into the Lobby
 
By Philip Weiss
 
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference is one of Washington’s most important-and least reported-events.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20253.htm
 
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A Few Words from the FARC
 
By Mike Whitney
 
“We understand that peace is the solution to the problems that affect our people. We understand that peace means that in Colombia we have a true democracy. Not a democracy for the capitalists, but a democracy for the people, who can protest, who can participate, who have the right to live, who have the right to healthcare, to education, who have the right to communication, to electricity, to agrarian reforms, to fight corruption, to not have to kneel before foreign powers, but to be a country free, independent and sovereign”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20256.htm
 
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A Work Force Betrayed
 
Watching Greed Murder the Economy
 
Paul Craig Roberts
 
The collapse of world socialism, the rise of the high speed Internet, a bought-and-paid-for US government, and a million dollar cap on executive pay that is not performance related are permitting greedy and disloyal corporate executives, Wall Street, and large retailers to dismantle the ladders of upward mobility that made America an “opportunity society.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20259.htm
 
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The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing:
 
Barack Obama’s Whitewashed History of U.S. Foreign Policy
 
By Paul Street
 
“In Obama’s world view, as in that of his Harvard friend and former foreign policy adviser Samantha Power, American crimes generally don’t exist. They didn’t happen.” Denial is serious business. “Candidate Obama’s foreign policy pronouncements have been loaded with promises of future criminality under an Obama administration.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20257.htm
 
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A People’s History of American Empire
 
By Howard Zinn
 
Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me about the American Empire
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20258.htm
 
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At least 18 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
Two roadside bombs killed six people and wounded 18 outside a bank in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad
uk.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUKL0927901120080709
 
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At least 10 killed, 42 injured in Iraq blasts:
 
A suicide bomber targeting a military convoy carrying an army general killed at least four persons and injured 22 in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul while a twin-bomb attack outside a bank in Fallujah left six dead and 20 injured, the police said Wednesday.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/380448/cs/1/
 
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War, Invasion and Occupation Displaced One-sixth of Iraq’s residents: : –
 
One-sixth of Iraq’s residents are displaced inside and outside of the country, UN secretary general’s representative, David Shearer, said on Tuesday.
tinyurl.com/6bajum
 
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Call for Iraq pullout date opposed:
 
“We have always been opposed and remain so to an arbitrary withdrawal date,” Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman, said to reporters travelling with George Bush, the US president, in Japan.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/07/20087962457364612.html
 
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‘US backs Jundullah to destabilize Iran’:
 
Pakistan’s former Army Chief, Retired General Mirza Aslam Baig, says the US is supporting the outlawed Jundullah group to destabilize Iran.
www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=63054&sectionid=351020101
 
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Iran successfully tests long-range missile:
 
IRGC Naval Commander Morteza Saffari said various missile, rocket and torpedo launchers as well as military vessels and land-to-sea missiles were tested during the exercise.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=63074&sectionid=351020101
 
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Iran: Ballistic might, solely defensive:
 
Iran’s Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says the country’s missile capabilities will be used to protect the nation from invaders.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=63130&sectionid=351020101
 
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Iran Missile Test Shows Threat Not Imaginary – Rice:
 
“It’s evidence that the missile threat is not an imaginary one,” Rice told journalists at a news conference in the Bulgarian capital when asked about Iran’s latest test of its Shahab-3 missile.
tinyurl.com/59a3cr
 
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US relocates warship after Iran warning:
 
A US Navy official speaking on condition of anonymity said Tuesday that the US Naval Forces Central Command moved the USS Abraham Lincoln to the Arabian Sea.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=63029&sectionid=3510203
 
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Iran and Pakistan under siege of western conspiracies: Former Pakistan Army Chief:
 
He said that intelligence agencies of allied forces are very active in Afghanistan and working against the interests of Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia.
tinyurl.com/5e3pyz
 
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Pakistan’s Taliban take control of town, military stays in fort:
 
The Islamic militia, linked with al Qaida, has controlled Darra for about six months. Wrapped in head scarves, with just their eyes showing, and bristling with weaponry, its members patrol the streets and impose their own austere rules. They’ve become such a routine sight in the town that no one pays them any attention.
news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080708/wl_mcclatchy/2986295
 
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Taliban take 35 policemen hostage in NW Pakistan:
 
Local Taliban have taken 35 policemen hostage in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on Wednesday, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/09/content_8519228.htm
 
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U.S. Occupation Forces “kill 400 Taliban” in Afghan operation:
 
U.S. Marines have killed more than 400 Taliban since they began an operation to seize a district in southern Afghanistan in May, their commander said on Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/6zqfq7
 
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13 die in Afghan attacks:
 
In the central province of Ghazni, separate clashes between police and Taliban militants killed two police officers and 10 rebels, according to a local police chief.
quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1091&Itemid=48
 
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SAS occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan:
 
A 25-year-old rugby-mad Australian occupation force soldier has been killed and two others have been injured in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan.
www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/07/09/4625_ntnews.html
 
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Polish soldiers face trial for killing Afghan civilians:
 
Prosecutors claim to have strong evidence that seven Polish soldiers unlawfully killed civilians in the Afghan village of Nangar Khel, according to an indictment that reached the capital’s Military District Court on Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/64yw4j
 
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Three Killed In Gunfight At US Istanbul Consulate:
 
Three Turkish policemen have been killed and two others injured after assailants opened fire in front of the US consulate in Istanbul, the local governor and media reports say.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/07/2008799318301604.html
 
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2 Killed as fighting erupts in Lebanon city:
 
At least two people have died and dozens wounded in a fresh outbreak of violence in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/07/200879354192724.html
 
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Israel shuts, then opens, Gaza Strip crossings:
 
Israel closed the crossings into the Gaza Strip yesterday morning in response to the mortar attack by Palestinian militants Tuesday, but reopened them later in the afternoon, following a telephone conversation between Egypt’s chief of intelligence, Omar Suleiman, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1000214.html
 
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Jews live longer than Arabs in Israel, says report:
 
Jews live longer and enjoy lower infant mortality and poverty rates in Israel than the country’s Arab citizens, said a report published Wednesday by a watchdog partly funded by the European Union.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0946623320080709?rpc=401&
 
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Israel Throws Hundreds of Palestinian Students onto the Streets:
 
The Tragedy of Hebron Schools and Orphanages Affiliated with the Islamic Charitable Society
tinyurl.com/6gm8sz
 
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US draws Russian fire, signing missile defence deal:
 
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed Tuesday what she called a “landmark” missile defence deal with the Czech Republic, drawing immediate condemnation and threats from Russia.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jlUNg_QKeXWgNZa1nLc5h2AqbFFQ
 
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Russia says will use military means if U.S. deploys shield:
 
“If the real deployment of an American strategic missile defence shield begins close to our borders, then we will be forced to react not with diplomatic methods, but with military-technical methods,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its www.mid.ru website.
au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4775455
 
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Dollar continues to weaken after Iran missile test:
 
Wall Street’s performance was muted after oil prices rebounded sharply following news overnight of Iran’s missile tests, triggering a sell-off in the dollar as investors no longer needed as much of it to buy U.S. assets.
tinyurl.com/5u3n5x
 
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Small Banks’ Reckoning Day Is Coming:
 
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., $45.4 billion of the $631.8 billion in construction loans outstanding at the end of the first quarter were delinquent.
online.wsj.com/article/SB121494953423420859.html
 
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Pending home sales fall 4.7 percent:
 
“The overall decline in contract signings suggests we are not out of the woods by any means,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a statement.
tinyurl.com/5f9vu8