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 4,121
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$537,487,267,944
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Al-Marri And The Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens Without Charges
 
By Glenn Greenwald
 
Of all the constitutionally threatening and extremist powers the Bush administration has asserted over the last seven years, the most radical — and the most dangerous — has been its claim that the President has the power to arrest U.S. citizens and legal residents inside the U.S., and imprison them indefinitely in a military prison, without charging them with any crime
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20297.htm
 
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Making Americans Unsafe
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
The Bush Regime’s “terrorist” protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20302.htm
 
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Israel Planing a September/October Surprise?
 
By Ray McGovern
 
No one who knows about third rails in US politics would expect the candidates or the fawning corporate media (FCM) to address how those now running Israel are likely to be looking at the implications of a large US troop withdrawal from Iraq next year.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20300.htm
 
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Memo to Obama, McCain: No One Wins in a War
 
By Howard Zinn
 
For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one “wins” in a war, but that hundreds of thousands of humans die, most of them civilians, many of them children?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20298.htm
 
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McCain-As-War-Hero Myth
 
By Ted Rall
 
When McCain was shot down during his 23rd bombing sortie, he was happily shooting up a civilian neighborhood in the middle of a major city. Vietnamese locals beat him when they pulled him out of a local lake; yeah, that must have sucked. But I can’t help think of what would have happened to Mohammed Atta had he somehow wound up alive on a lower Manhattan street on 9/11.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20299.htm
 
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Greens Nominate Cynthia McKinney
 
By John Nichols
 
The woman and the person of color that the Green Party has nominated is a smart, articulate and outspoken public figure who – despite the fact that she has taken her hits from a media and a political class that never could get comfortable with the idea that a young black women was walking the corridors of power and making no apologies – is more than capable of standing her ground in a presidential race that so far has been longer on style than ideas.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20303.htm
 
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Status Report on the Collapse of the U.S. Economy
 
By Richard C. Cook
 
The financial system, including mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is bankrupt, as the debts it is based on cannot be repaid.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20301.htm
 
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Bring Omar Khadr Home
 
By John S. Hatch
 
About six years ago Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen then fifteen years old, was captured by American troops in Ayub Kheyl Afghanistan. After dropping five-hundred pound bombs on the house in which he and others were hiding, Khadr was shot three times in the back.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20304.htm
 
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Afghan troops kill over 150 insurgents “from Pakistan”:
 
The Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan border police and US occupation forces have killed more than 150 fighters, mostly Pakistanis, in a military operation in south eastern Paktika province, a spokesman said Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/5nanvm
 
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US occupation force “kills dozens” of Afghan civilians in bombing:
 
Earlier, US forces admitted killing eight civilians in a neighbouring province – the latest in a series of bombing incidents involving civilians.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7510941.stm
 
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Pakistan army drives militants from two towns:
 
Pakistani security forces backed by gunship helicopters cleared two northwestern towns of Taliban militants after 15 soldiers were killed in an ambush last weekend, the military said on Thursday.
tinyurl.com/5gfuuz
 
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US to triple aid to Pakistan :
 
US non-military aid to Pakistan could be tripled to $7.5 billion over five years if the US Congress clears a bill
feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=382836
 
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Gates warns of militarization of US foreign policy:
 
“The Foreign Service is not the Foreign Legion, and the U.S. military should never be mistaken for a Peace Corps with guns,” said Gates.
tinyurl.com/5akkrw
 
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At least 13 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
Iraqi police killed 11 gunmen, including seven foreign Arab nationals, and captured 47 suspected militants in an operation in Samarra
uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKANS73745620080717
 
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Report: U.S. to station diplomats in Iran for first time since 1979:
 
The move would be a step in the direction of setting up a full embassy in Iran, a dramatic political shift for the Bush administration, which has spent the last few years guiding international pressure on Tehran over its contentious nuclear program.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1002762.html
 
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Middle East mourns fallen fighters:
 
The bodies of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters, returned as part of an exchange deal with Israel, are heading towards Beirut from southern Lebanon.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/07/200871774339294890.html
 
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Nasrallah appears in person at Beirut celebration for prisoners:
 
“The period of defeat is over and the time of victory has arrived,” Nasrallah told a cheering crowd of tens of thousands of supporters.
tinyurl.com/5j69oj
 
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Nasrallah ‘most admired’ Arab leader:
 
Twenty-six percent of respondents in six countries selected Nasrallah as their most admired leader, compared to 16% who chose Syrian President Bashar Assad and 10% who picked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
tinyurl.com/5b7s9m
 
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‘Nasrallah will not die a natural death’:
 
“I have no doubt that Nasrallah will not die a natural death. The State of Israel will settle its accounts with him. He knows that better than we do,” Hasson said.
tinyurl.com/67vqln
 
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Israeli trial opens debate on US donors:
 
Why, they ask, are Israel’s politicians so hooked on the support of US Jews? And how much influence does this give the US-Jewish community, the largest in the world, over the politics of their country?
tinyurl.com/6bj8eo
 
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Israel and Russia close to deal on Mediterranean pipeline:
 
The project consists of five pipelines that would carry water, natural gas, oil, electricity and fibre optics from Turkey’s Mediterranean coast to Israel.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1003119.html
 
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Occupied Somalia: Three Somalia Soldiers, One Insurgent Killed in Mogadishu Attacks:
 
Early Tuesday, rebels attacked the ex-pasta factory in north Mogadishu, where Ethiopian soldiers are based.
allafrica.com/stories/200807160011.html
 
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UN peacekeeper killed in Darfur:
 
Another UN-AU peacekeeper in Sudan’s Darfur region has been killed even as the UN Security Council condemned the killing of seven peacekeepers in the same region last week.
tinyurl.com/58t65t
 
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Bush warned he might send U.S. troops to Darfur: : –
 
Senegal’s president said on Thursday George W. Bush told African leaders at one stage the United States might send troops to Sudan’s Darfur if they did not act to halt what he saw as genocide there.
tinyurl.com/6mvuh8
 
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World’s poorest increase despite growth:
 
Recent rising food costs threaten to undercut what modest progress has been achieved, while three quarters of people living in least developed countries (LDCs) still survive on less than $2 a day, it said in a report.
africa.reuters.com/country/LS/news/usnL17852821.html
 
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Tom Friedman doesn’t understand why America is unpopular in the world:
 
Tom Friedman is befuddled. He cannot understand “the decline in American popularity around the world under President Bush” and is specifically upset about the fact that “China is now more popular in Asia than America and how few Europeans say they identify with the United States.”
tinyurl.com/59n8hk
 
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Pakistani Investors Riot as Stocks Plunge:
 
Hundreds of Pakistani investors rioted at the Karachi Stock Exchange Thursday demanding a halt in trading after share prices fell for the 15th straight session.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-17-voa28.cfm?rss=asia
 
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Venezuela hands out energy efficient light bulbs in 11 US cities:
 
Venezuela’s CITGO Petroleum Corp. is handing out energy efficient light bulbs across the U.S., despite political tensions between the two nations.
tinyurl.com/6huw4p
 
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Energy crisis threatens U.S. survival, Gore says:
 
“I don’t remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously,” Gore said.
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/gore.energy/index.html
 
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Above the law:
 
Bush won’t give Congress papers in CIA leak probe:
 
Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chairs the committee, called the executive privilege claim “ludicrous,” but postponed committee action against Mukasey, saying lawmakers needed time to review Bush’s claim.
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN16449017
 
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U.S. `Misery Index’ Climbs to 15-Year High on Prices :
 
The jump in consumer prices reported today by the Labor Department means the so-called Misery Index, the sum of the unemployment and inflation rates, is the highest since President Bill Clinton took office in January 1993.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHXJY.fS72Ss
 
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Banks reportedly not taking IndyMac checks:
 
Finally able to withdraw their money, customers can’t open new accounts
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25719584/
 
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Fannie, Freddie spent $200M to buy influence:
 
If you want to know how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have survived scandal and crisis, consider this: Over the past decade, they have spent nearly $200 million on lobbying and campaign contributions.
tinyurl.com/6ntuj7