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 4,125
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$538,352,761,450
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Reality Check
 
The Democrats Are The Real Problem
 
By Mike Whitney
 
If the path to peace requires crushing the Democratic Party and its blood-thirsty candidates; so be it. The main thing is to stop the killing. If Obama won’t do it; we’ll find someone who will.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20322.htm
 
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The Problem Of Patriotism
 
By James Rothenberg
 
Race, sex, and religion do not demand your loyalty but your country does. Your village or town doesn’t. Your city doesn’t. The state you live in doesn’t. New York and California don’t care if you are loyal to them. What’s the difference? Armed force. Uncle Sam needs you. To fight.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20327.htm
 
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“War Sucks”
 
By Scott Ritter
 
“It Ain’t what you see on TV.”
 
Click to view
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20320.htm
 
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Army Court-Martials Resister For Blowing Whistle on ‘Bait-and-Kill’
 
By Dee Knight
 
“We would put an item out there and watch it. If someone found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item, we would engage the individual.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20325.htm
 
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Israeli Soldier Shoots Handcuffed And Blindfolded Palestinian Prisoner
 
2 Minute Video
 
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www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20321.htm
 
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Benny Morris Justifies Israel’s Coming Attack on Iran
 
By David Bromwich
 
The reputation of Benny Morris is founded on unquestioned scholarly achievement and a far more dubious political stance. As one of Israel’s “new historians,” he recovered the record of harassment, murder, and expulsion of the Palestinians in the war of independence — a finding that largely discredits the Israeli myth that the inhabitants fled from their own timidity, or because they were told to flee by Arab governments.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20323.htm
 
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Different Planets
 
When “Murderer Kuntar”, Became “Hero Samir al-Kuntar”.
 
By Uri Avnery
 
On Wednesday, Nasrallah became the most important and powerful person in Lebanon. Three months after the crisis that almost caused a civil war, when Prime Minister Fuad Siniora demanded that Hezbollah turn over its private communication network, Lebanon has become a unified country. Demands like the disarming of Hezbollah have become a pipe dream.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20324.htm
 
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Inflation and the Specter of World Revolution
 
By James Petras
 
In the past, inflationary disorders and desperation brought forth rightist demagogues who specialize in imposing order and stability. It ill behooves the left to once again ignore the destructive effects of inflation, the demands for order and stability and mass consumer discontent. Inflationary fears are as much entrenched as class and property issues.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20326.htm
 
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McKinney Goes Green
 
An Interview with Cynthia McKinney By Katie Paul
 
Controversy has always been Cynthia McKinney’s trademark. This election season, she may have finally found her perfect political home. Last weekend, the 53-year-old former Georgia congresswoman clinched the Green Party’s presidential nomination; 35-year-old hip-hop activist and activist Rosa Clemente will be her running mate.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20318.htm
 
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Iraqi PM: U.S. Troops Should Leave as Soon as Possible
 
 By Associated Press
 
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says U.S. troops should leave Iraq “as soon as possible,” according to a magazine report, and he called presidential candidate Barack Obama’s suggestion of 16 months “the right time frame for a withdrawal.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20316.htm
 
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The Adventures of the Parasite Army
 
Why Afghanistan is Not the Good War
 
By Ron Jacobs
 
It’s the perennial thorn in the colonialist’s side. It’s the war that won’t go away. It’s a wasp sting that swells, slowly choking the life out of the sting’s recipient. It is the nearly seven-year old occupation of Afghanistan by the United States and various NATO allies. Nearly forgotten by most Americans, the situation in that country has taken headlines away from the occupation of Iraq because of the resurgence of the anti-occupation forces.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20315.htm
 
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4 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded three others in central Baghdad’s Karrada district, police said.
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL20672424
 
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Two Soldiers Killed In Iraq Car Bombing:
 
Two Iraqi armed forces members died and eight others were wounded Saturday in a car bomb explosion in northern Iraq, military sources said..
www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212159132.shtml
 
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US occupation forces kill Afghan police, civilians:
 
NATO said Sunday that its forces accidentally killed at least four civilians in eastern Afghanistan, while an official in the nation’s west said foreign troops used air strikes on Afghan police, killing nine.
tinyurl.com/5brcvk
 
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Iraq PM retracts support for Obama, but damage done:
 
Although al-Maliki supports a “general vision” of American troop withdrawal from his country, the prime minister has not backed Obama’s plan for a 16-month timeline, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said
rawstory.com//news/2008/Iraq_PM_retracts_support_for_Obama_0720.html
 
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U.S. to Iran: Cooperate or face confrontation:
 
“We hope the Iranian people understand that their leaders need to make a choice between cooperation, which would bring benefits to all, and confrontation, which can only lead to further isolation,”
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25733175/
 
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Israeli marine attacks Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza water:
 
Israeli marine vessels opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats on the sea off northwest Gaza Strip early Sunday, violating a fragile ceasefire, security sources said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/20/content_8587708.htm
 
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Israeli soldier shoots handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian prisoner:
 
The footage released by B’Tselem on Sunday shows a 27 year Palestinian handcuffed and blindfolded as an army officer holds him by the arm and another soldier shots rubber bullets at his leg.
tinyurl.com/694e54
 
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US tells lies about torture, say MPs:
 
Britain can no longer believe what Americans tell us about torture, an MPs’ report to be published today claims. They also call for an immediate investigation into allegations that the UK government has itself ‘outsourced’ the torture of its own nationals to Pakistan.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/20/humanrights.uksecurity/print
 
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Collateral Damage:
 
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20319.htm
 
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‘Goebbels’ reference rocks WTO talks, US angry at Brazil:
 
Some pre-negotiation jabbing turned into a potentially damaging diplomatic incident Saturday when Brazil’s foreign minister said rich countries’ deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
tinyurl.com/5kfzjt
 
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Bank of China may hold huge US debt:
 
Bank of China Ltd may own about $20 billion of debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, representing two-thirds of total holdings among the six largest Chinese banks, according to CLSA Ltd.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-07/17/content_6854442.htm
 
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Commercial bankruptcies soar, reflecting widening economic woes:
 
Driven by a sour economy and skittish consumers, U.S. business bankruptcies saw their sharpest quarterly rise in two years, jumping 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008, according to an analysis by McClatchy.
www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/44717.html
 
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NEWS FOR – 19/07/08
 
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50 killed as two militant groups clash in Mohmand : Pakistan: :
 
Despite a ceasefire brokered by two senior Afghan Taliban commanders on Thursday, fighting between two rival militant groups took an ugly turn on Friday in which more than 50 militants were killed and dozens injured in the troubled Mohmand Agency.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=16072
 
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No foreign troops will be allowed to operate inside Pakistan:
 
Prime Minister: Addressing the nation on state-run Pakistan Television late Saturday, Gilani said his country had the capability to act against the terrorists and “we will take actions against them inside our frontiers on our own.”
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/19/asia/AS-Pakistan-Prime-Minister.php
 
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Canadian occupation force soldier among two dozen killed in Afghanistan: –
 
A Canadian soldier was among two dozen people killed in new Taliban-linked violence in Afghanistan, authorities said Saturday, as US presidential hopeful Barack Obama visited.
tinyurl.com/5lxqd9
 
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Obama visits Afghanistan on international tour:
 
Obama was due to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, the Afghan government said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080719/wl_sthasia_afp/usvoteobamaafghanistan
 
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US to Iran: You have two weeks:
 
“We hope the Iranian people understand that their leaders need to make a choice between cooperation, which would bring benefits to all, and confrontation, which can only lead to further isolation,” said McCormack.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=64209&sectionid=351020104
 
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US Secretary of State Rice says Iran must meet US conditions for talks:
 
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that early talks between the US and Iran, set to begin this weekend, will only go forward after Iran meets enrichment preconditions.
tinyurl.com/5v2vcy
 
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Jewish guerrillas told British: quit Palestine or die:
 
The document, which surfaced at an auction house this week, is addressed to “the soldiers of the occupation army” and aimed at British soldiers serving in Palestine, then under the British Mandate, preceding the establishment of Israel in 1948.
tinyurl.com/5o9dxn
 
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Occupied Somalia: 16 Killed in Heavy Battles:
 
Heavy fighting erupted early Thursday in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu between Islamist-led insurgents against an alliance of Somali and Ethiopian occupation forces.
allafrica.com/stories/200807180013.html
 
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Report: U.S. Africa Aid Is Increasingly Military:
 
The Pentagon, which controlled about 3 percent of official aid money a decade ago, now controls 22 percent, while the U.S. Agency for International Development’s share has declined from 65 percent to 40 percent, according to the 56-page report.
tinyurl.com/6oe8wu
 
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Mandela speaks out for the poor:
 
Nelson Mandela has bemoaned the growing gap between rich and poor in his country as he marked his 90th birthday.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/07/2008718102937738378.html
 
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Uribe scraps 2006 vote rerun:
 
Uribe said last month he would try to rerun the vote after the Colombian supreme court ruled that the constitutional amendment that allowed him to run for and win a second term, was tainted by corruption.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/07/2008718235432180208.html
 
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Protesters added to database of terrorist suspects:
 
Undercover Maryland state troopers infiltrated three groups advocating peace and protesting the death penalty – attending meetings and sending reports on their activities to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, according to documents released Thursday.
tinyurl.com/5uxdao
 
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Office of Special Counsel official quits in protest:
 
James Byrne’s resignation letter tells off his boss, Scott J. Bloch, for what he calls the Bush appointee’s ‘political agendas and personal vendettas.’
fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0408.html