Bush Backs Israeli Plan for Strike on Iran
Date: 14 July 2008
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,236,604"
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,119
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The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$536,628,405,413
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President Bush Backs Israeli Plan for Strike on Iran
By Uzi Mahnaimi in Washington
Despite the opposition of his own generals and widespread scepticism that America is ready to risk the military, political and economic consequences of an airborne strike on Iran, the president has given an “amber light” to an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties, the official told The Sunday Times.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20274.htm
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Amber Alert!
Get Ready For War
By Justin Raimondo
The Israelis, in concert with their amen corner in the U.S., have been engaged in a propaganda blitz targeting Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program, the whole point of which is not to pressure the Iranians into backing down, but to force the U.S. to take action in lieu of the Israelis going it alone.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20280.htm
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British MP : George Galloway Telling It Like It Is
This Is Must Listen – Audio
George Galloway talking about the consequences of an attack on Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20281.htm
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Iran: Battlefront In The New World War?
By Firmin DeBrabander
Iran is no third front in the War on Terror. War with Iran is a step beyond, to a new global conflict- a new Cold War, in a way- where the US plays its cards (in this case, the largest military in the world) to frustrate its opponents indirectly.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20279.htm
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Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?
Corporate media colludes with democracy’s demise
By Bill Moyers
Our media institutions, deeply embedded in the power structures of society, are not providing the information that we need to make our democracy work.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20277.htm
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Enabling Tyranny
By Paul Craig Roberts
If the President doesn’t like an existing law, he ignores it. If the President doesn’t like new laws passed by Congress, instead of vetoing them he prepares a “signing statement,” which says that he will determine what the law means.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20276.htm
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Betancourt Update
Is This the Beginning of Columbia’s Leftward Shift?
By Mike Whitney
Columbia is America’s last right-wing outpost in the hemisphere. There’s a good chance that it will be swept along by the leftist current that has overtaken most of Latin America already. Perhaps Betancourt’s role is simply to open the floodgates and let the tide rush in.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20275.htm
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China’s All-Seeing Eye:
With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.
By Naomi Klein
When Tibet erupted in protests recently, the surveillance system was thrown into its first live test, with every supposedly liberating tool of the Information Age – cellphones, satellite television, the Internet – transformed into a method of repression and control.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20278.htm
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40 militants killed in occupied southern Afghanistan:
At least 40 “militants” have been killed in an operation carried out by Afghan and US-led occupation forces in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, the military said Sunday.
tinyurl.com/6xuxsz
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At least 24 killed as police vehicle hit in Afghan attack:
24 people, including four policemen, have been killed in a suicide attack in a bazaar in occupied Afghanistan’s southern province of Uruzgan.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/07/200871381656939934.html
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9 US occupation force troops killed in large attack on remote outpost in Afghanistan:
A Western official says nine US soldiers have been killed in a multi-pronged insurgent attack on a remote American base in eastern Afghanistan.
tinyurl.com/5e38b9
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Taliban claim killing 20 US troops in Kunar:
“We attacked a US military camp at Wanth area of Waigal town in Nuristan at 4 am on Sunday and killed 20 soldiers. It was a well-planned attack in which our fighters hit them with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 rifles,”
paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?203161
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Afghan blast kills six guards:
Police say a roadside blast has killed six Afghan private security guards escorting a supply convoy for NATO-led troops in southern Afghanistan.
www.torontosun.com/News/World/2008/07/14/6153191.html
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Militants kill 2 policewomen, kidnap MP in central Afghanistan:
Armed militants fighting with the Afghan government force gunned down two women police in Afghanistan’s south-central Ghazni province, spokesman of provincial administration Ismael Jihangir said on Sunday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/13/content_8539040.htm
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Explosion kills NATO occupation force soldier in N Afghanistan:
A soldier with the NATO-led International Occupation Force (IOF) on Saturday died from injuries sustained in an explosion in northern Afghanistan, said an ISAF statement released here on Sunday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/13/content_8537677.htm
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US-led strikes kills 64 Afghan civilians;.
Official investigations have found that US-led air strikes a week ago killed 64 people, most of them women and children, the heads of separate investigation teams said Friday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080711/ts_afp/afghanistanunrestuscivilians
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Afghan Warlords, Now Turn Their Guns On U.S. Troops:
They defeated the Soviets with Washington’s help, but now they attack Americans as the new occupiers
tinyurl.com/5a4v7p
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Mullen visit feeds Pakistan’s worry over US attack:
The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, visited Pakistan on the weekend, fuelling speculation that the US was about to take action against militants in northwest Pakistan.
www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10228671.html
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Report: Pentagon official says Israel has ‘amber light’ for Iran strike:
U.S. President George W. Bush has given Israel an “amber light” to begin preparations for a military attack on Iran, a Pentagon official told The Sunday Times this week.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1001526.html
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Iran to target heart of Israel, 32 U.S. bases if attacked:
“In case the United States and Israel dare to shoot a bullet, Iran will target the heart of Israel and 32 U.S. bases in the region imminently,” said Mojtaba Zolnoor, vice representative of Khamenei to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6449058.html
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Iran tried to deceive world by ‘testing’ old missiles, US experts believe :
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, is to urge the Bush administration to adopt a tougher line against Iran and will try to persuade the American public of the need for military action during a three-day visit to Washington this week, a former top adviser said.
tinyurl.com/6cp6fz
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Iran would allow US diplomatic office: –
Iranian state TV is quoting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran would welcome the idea of setting up a U.S. diplomatic office in Tehran.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_us
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Ahmadinejad claims met coalition commanders in Iraq: reports:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he met two military commanders from US-led forces on his trip to Iraq in March and that they even took souvenir pictures to commemorate the encounter.
tinyurl.com/67bfrg
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At least 11 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
Five bodies with gunshot wounds were found near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.
uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKANW43682720080714
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58 permanent U.S. bases in Iraq?:
On Dec. 31, the United Nations mandate authorizing American and other foreign troops to operate in Iraq expires. Absent an agreement between the Iraqi and U.S. governments, U.S. troops would be in Iraq illegally past that date.
tinyurl.com/5g8cbu
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Nouri al-Maliki ready to oust US from Iraq green zone:
“By the end of the year, there will be no green zone,” he added. “The separation by huge walls makes people feel angry.” Dabbagh acknowledged that getting rid of the green zone would be a huge undertaking, given the thousands of American soldiers, private contractors and foreign workers who live inside.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article4322520.ece
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Anger boils over in Gaza as unarmed teen killed by Israelis:
Israeli occupation troops on Thursday shot to death an unarmed Palestinian teenager along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, the first death since the two sides reached a cease-fire last month.
tinyurl.com/6bpnhx
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Israeli army kills two Palestinians in two days:
Israel responsible for first Gaza truce fatality while Hamas arrests Fatah men firing rockets at Israel.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=26843
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Denied access to medical treatment, Palestinian baby girl is the latest victim of Israeli siege on Gaza: –
The number of Palestinian civilians who died due to the Israeli siege on Gaza went up to 205 with the recent death of a 19-month old baby girl.
tinyurl.com/5sw5yb
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Syria and Lebanon to establish ties:
It would be the first time the two countries had full-fledged embassies in each other’s countries since Lebanon became independent in 1943 and Syria in 1945.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/07/2008712162828278442.html
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Orwellian language: Pentagon: Cluster Bombs ‘Save Lives’:
The Pentagon not only told the world yesterday that it would keep on using cluster bombs — it called the controversial weapons life-savers, too
blog.wired.com/defense/2008/07/pentagon-cluste.html
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43 nations creating Mediterranean union:
Sarkozy went to special efforts to bring Syria into the international fold for the summit: Assad met Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, separately, both for the first time. And he met Sarkozy, after years of chill between their countries
tinyurl.com/662sw8
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Al-Arian Released on Bail:
The end result of the ruling by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., may mean Sami Al-Arian is one step closer to being deported.
tinyurl.com/6durhl
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Sami al-Arian: Palestinian political prisoner now charged with criminal contempt:
The U.S. Justice Department is continuing its vindictive campaign against former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, who has been held in federal custody for over five years, despite having been acquitted of terrorism charges in December 2005.
www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/aria-j14.shtml
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The ongoing persecution of Sami al-Arian:
There are few prospects in the justice system so grimly awful as when the feds decide never to let go. .
tinyurl.com/557toc
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Russia defends UN veto on Zimbabwe:
UN sanctions “would have created a dangerous precedent, opening the way for Security Council interference in the internal affairs of states in connection with one or another political event … which is a gross violation of the UN charter,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
tinyurl.com/5hrmpz
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Peru declares state of emergency after protests:
On July 9 protesters called a regional 24-hour strike to demand the government and the legislature annul a law that facilitates the sale of communal and native lands.
tinyurl.com/5tt8xb
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IndyMac bank seized by regulators, marking second largest bank failure in U.S. history.:
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) “took control of Pasadena-based IndyMac Bank on Friday in what regulators called the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.” The bank has succumbed to “huge losses from defaulted mortgages made at the height of the housing boom”
tinyurl.com/6n5826
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Bush ends offshore drilling ban:
“If offshore drilling would provide short-term relief at the pump or a long-term strategy for energy independence, it would be worthy of our consideration, regardless of the risks,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
tinyurl.com/5s222b
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Oil Brings Americans Closer to OPEC Debtor Dependence:
Petroleum-exporting nations from Saudi Arabia to Russia are not only charging Americans record high prices for fuel, they are also poised to become the biggest creditor to the U.S. government.
tinyurl.com/6s52nz
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FDIC Says At Least 90 US Banking institutions In Trouble:
The FDIC is monitoring 90 institutions with assets of $26 billion that it has identified as troubled.
tinyurl.com/5jqt6t
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Chinese Government is Top Foreign Holder of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Bonds:
As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
tinyurl.com/66jol6
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Photos reveal devastation of WWII Allied bombing raids on Germany:
Pictures of Dresden show the spectacular baroque Church of Our Lady before it was destroyed by controversial allied fire bombing, which killed up to 40,000 people.
tinyurl.com/63433v