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 4,118
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$535,843,109,332
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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US ‘Killed 47 Afghan Civilians’
 
By BBC
 
A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20267.htm
 
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Marine Describes Killing Prisoners In Iraq
 
By Tony Perry
 
Nelson said that he watched in shock as Nazario shot a kneeling prisoner at point-blank range: “He hit the dude in the forehead, the dude went down and there was blood . . . all over his [Nazario’s] boots.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20266.htm
 
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How Britin Wages War
 
By Jihn Pilger
 
John Pilger describes the insidious militarisng of Britain as the effects of two colonial wars and the cover-up atrocities come home.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20268.htm
 
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A Kodak Moment
 
The Not-So-Historic Talabani-Barak Handshake
 
By Ramzy Baroud
 
Not only is Israel directly and indirectly responsible for a large share of the war efforts (needless to say media propaganda and hyped “intelligence” on Iraq’s non-existing nuclear programme), but it also had much to say and do following the fall of the Iraqi government in March 2003.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20270.htm
 
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Worse than McCain
 
By Mike Whitney
 
For nearly a year now, the public has been treated to regular doses of Mr. Obama’s grandiloquent oratory and his sweeping “Follow me to Shangri-la” promises. These flourishes are usually followed by “clarifications” on the central issues which identify Obama as a center-right conservative with no intention of disrupting the status quo.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20269.htm
 
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Go To Helms, Regressives
 
By David Michael Green
 
The truth is that much of the racism and sexism and homophobia and liberal-bashing and all is just a smokescreen for economic raping and pillaging, and for getting your victims to assist you in that effort.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20272.htm
 
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The Seething
 
By David Glenn Cox
 
The bulk of the American people are struggling to make it now and what happens when they reach the tipping point and no longer can? The jig is up, the game is over, no more rebates, gimmicks, tax cuts or hollow promises. The seething is just the beginning. It is the job of the government to insure domestic tranquility.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20273.htm
 
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Is There an Oil Shortage?
 
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
 
Why would our Energy Secretary say there’s a supply and demand problem when none exists? Why would he say that speculators have little or nothing to do with the incredibly high price of oil and gasoline, when it’s clear they do? President Bush-a former oilman-gives the ever-growing demand for gasoline as the primary reason prices are so high, yet that notion can be dispelled with one minute of research.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20271.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 9 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
Iraqi police foiled a planned chlorine bomb attack when they seized a truck packed with explosives and chlorine bottles outside Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Four militants were killed in the incident.
www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSL118597420080711
 
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Israeli jets using Iraq’s Airspace:
 
The activities and traffic of warplanes- especially at nights- has lately increased in the US airbases in Nasiriya southeast of Baghdad and Haditha a city in the western Iraq province of Al Anbar, the Iraqi residents and sources said.
tinyurl.com/6ffmqu
 
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Iraq denies IAF using its airspace:
 
“As the Ministry of Defense, we haven’t observed any IAF warplanes practicing in Iraqi airspace,” said Major-General Mohammad al-Askari, spokesman for the Iraqi Defense Ministry.
tinyurl.com/659vn8
 
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Afghan forces kill Taliban “governor”:
 
Afghan security forces killed a Taliban member who the insurgents had recently appointed “governor” of the northwestern province of Faryab, police said on Thursday.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=246838
 
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Nine injured by ‘friendly fire’:
 
A UK Apache helicopter opened fire on troops from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment on Wednesday after they were “mistaken for the enemy”.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7500705.stm
 
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‘US strike’ hits Pakistan troops:
 
Officials in Pakistan say the shells were fired by coalition troops operating in the Barmal area on the Afghan side of the border.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7501354.stm
 
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US military in Pakistan warning:
 
More foreign fighters, including al-Qaeda militants, are operating in Pakistan’s tribal region than before, America’s top soldier has said.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7501090.stm
 
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Taliban threaten to kill hostages in NW Pakistan:
 
The DAWN NEWS TV channel quoted Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar as saying that Taliban would start killing the 29 security personnel under their custody if the arrested Taliban were not freed.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/12/content_8532084.htm
 
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British Ministry of Defence pays out £3m and issues grovelling apology to Iraqis tortured by British Army:
 
 THE Ministry of Defence has agreed to pay almost £3 million to the family of an Iraqi who died while being detained by UK troops, and to nine other men who were also allegedly mistreated.
thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/MoD-pays-out-3m-and.4278661.jp
 
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Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives:
 
Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.
tinyurl.com/5gf6y7
 
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Kucinich impeach bill charges Bush ‘fabricated threats’; Pelosi hints at possible hearing:
 
Concerned that the 35 articles of impeachment he introduced a month ago might be too much for members of the House Judiciary Committee to handle all at once, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) simplified things Thursday.
tinyurl.com/64q437
 
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Israel hints at pre-emptive attack on Iran:
 
From a US perspective, if the Bush administration is to strike, it probably has to do so before the general election campaign moves into high gear this autumn. The possibility – many would say likelihood – that the next President will be the Democrat, Barack Obama, who favours negotiation with Iran, only heightens the urgency for anti-Iran hawks.
tinyurl.com/6m7jl7
 
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Israel’s Barak, top general to visit U.S. this month:
 
Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak and armed forces chief Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi will separately visit Washington this month for discussions on Iran’s nuclear program, diplomatic sources said on Friday.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1117737320080711
 
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Iran Tests show US shield ‘not needed’:
 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said the results of Iran’s missile tests prove that US plans for a defence shield in Europe are unnecessary.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7501498.stm
 
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‘This is like apartheid’: ANC veterans visit West Bank:
 
Veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle said last night that the restrictions endured by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories was in some respects worse than that imposed on the black majority under white rule in South Africa.
tinyurl.com/634d3l
 
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Lebanon forms unity government with Hezbollah:
 
Lebanon formed a unity government on Friday in which Hezbollah and its allies hold effective veto power, as agreed under a deal that ended a paralyzing political conflict in the country.
tinyurl.com/5naabn
 
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Somalian troops kill 7; Somalian aid worker shot in separate incident:
 
Somalian troops shot and killed seven civilians in southern Mogadishu on Friday. In a separate incident on Friday, three gunmen outside the capital, shot a Somalian aid worker affiliated with the UN World Food Program, a witness said, the latest in a string of attacks on humanitarian workers.
www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=world&articleID=2954375
 
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Zimbabwe sanctions bid fails:
 
Russia and China have vetoed a United Nations resolution calling for sanctions to be imposed on Zimbabwe.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/07/200871121647223590.html
 
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Sudan president to be charged by ICC of war crimes:
 
The Washington Post quoted UN officials and diplomats as saying that Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will be charged by the International Criminal Court (ICC) with genocide and crimes against humanity.
www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article27817
 
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Chavez and Uribe in trade talks:
 
One of Latin America’s fiercest US opponent and its closest ally will set aside their differences on Friday to discuss energy and trade deals worth some $6 billion.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/07/200871144743555883.html
 
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Corruption alters landscape for Uribe:
 
Today, 33 members of Congress — about 10 percent of Colombia’s House and Senate — are in prison for colluding with paramilitary groups that terrorize rural areas and control profitable cocaine-trafficking routes. Another 10 percent are under investigation, including the Senate president, and more cases are being added every month.
www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/602000.html
 
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Court to rule on Mexico bid to halt U.S. executions:
 
The ICJ in The Hague ruled in 2004 that the United States had violated international law by failing to inform 51 Mexicans on death row of their right to consular assistance and said the cases should be reviewed.
tinyurl.com/66nfp7
 
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Government mulls Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac takeover: report:
 
The U.S. government may take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if their funding problems worsen, the New York Times said on Friday, causing shares of the mortgage finance companies to plunge.
tinyurl.com/6g74nq
 
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Fannie, Freddie May Need to Lose $77 Billion First :
 
 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders, battered by losses of more than 80 percent this year, shouldn’t bet on an imminent government bailout of the biggest U.S. mortgage finance companies.
tinyurl.com/58whmu