Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,255,026"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,154
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$551,218,998,242
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Meet the Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear War
The Real McCain
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
McCain the Maverick is a merely a fine-honed act, underscored by these kinds of casual hypocrisies.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20689.htm

Going on an Imperial Bender
How the U.S. Garrisons the Planet and Doesn’t Even Notice
By Tom Engelhardt
At the height of the Roman Empire, the Romans had an estimated 37 major military bases scattered around their dominions. At the height of the British Empire, the British had 36 of them planetwide. Depending on just who you listen to and how you count, we have hundreds of bases. According to Pentagon records, in fact, there are 761 active military “sites” abroad.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20687.htm

The Problem Is Empire
By Tom Hayden
We will have to go back to the lessons Roman and British empires to learn the painful lessons of imperial overextension. The lessons in blood bravely shed in lost or dubious causes. The lesson of a weakened capacity to fund healthcare, education, our children’s futures. The lesson that democracy is diminished as the secrecy of the warmaking state expands. The lesson of being hated in a world where alliances are a necessity, not a choice.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20688.htm

‘Ethnic Cleansing By Stealth’
By Seth Freedman
With every cruel and unusual punishment meted out against West Bank villagers, Israel is fomenting more and more hate against its own people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20685.htm

Why We Were Falsely Arrested
By Amy Goodman
Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists. I was arrested with my two colleagues, “Democracy Now!” producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, while reporting on the first day of the RNC. I have been wrongly charged with a misdemeanor. My co-workers, who were simply reporting, may be charged with felony riot.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20686.htm

44 militants, four civilians killed in Pak:
At least 44 militants were killed on Thursday by Pakistani troops as part of a major offensive against the Taliban in the country’s restive northwestern region, where four civilians also died in shelling allegedly carried out by security forces.
tinyurl.com/6ech85

Four killed in suspected U.S. drone attack in Pakistan:
Four “Islamist militants” were killed and five wounded in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday, security officials and witnesses said.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080904/ts_nm/pakistan_missile_dc

American Forces Attack Militants on Pakistani Soil:
The commando raid by the American forces signaled what top American officials said could be the opening salvo in a much broader campaign by Special Operations forces against the Taliban and Al Qaeda inside Pakistan, a secret plan that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has been advocating for months within President Bush’s war council.
tinyurl.com/5hwbgd

Pakistani parliament condemns US-led attack:
Parliament passed resolutions Thursday condemning an American-led attack in Pakistani territory after the government summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest the unusually bold raid that officials say killed at least 15 people.
channels.isp.netscape.com/celebrity/story.jsp?idq=/
ff/story/0001/20080904/0903881042.htm

Pakistanis furious over U.S.-led border raid :
 ”At a minimum they want an apology … and an assurance that this kind of operation will not be repeated … It could have an irreparable effect on long-term relations.”
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080904/wl_nm/pakistan_usa_dc

Taliban rebels abduct 25 police recruits in Pakistan:
The trainees were abducted in the tribal North-Western Frontier Province late Wednesday when they were returning to the Police Training College after vacations in Hangu district, the provincial police chief Naveed Malik said.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/402801/cs/1/

Four NATO occupation force soldiers, three Taliban killed in Afghanistan:
Four NATO occupation force soldiers, including three Canadians, were killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan, while three Taliban militants were killed in a fight with Afghan and foreign forces in the western region, officials said Thursday.
tinyurl.com/6efawh

Afghans seek punishment for civilian deaths in raid:
Hundreds of Afghans gathered near a village bombed by U.S.-led coalition forces to call on the government to punish those responsible for civilian deaths in the raid.
nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4990845/afghan
s-seek-punishment-civilian-deaths-raid/

Poll: US seeking to grab Pak nukes:
Many people believe that the United States is wreaking mayhem in Pakistan to take control of its nuclear arsenal, a new poll indicates.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=68455&sectionid=351020401

Russia may push forward with S-300 sales to Iran:
“In the current situation, when the U.S. and the West in general are stubbornly gearing toward a confrontation with Russia after the events in South Ossetia, the implementation of a lucrative contract on the deliveries of S-300 [air defense systems] to Iran looks like a logical step.”
www.asiaplus.tj/en/news/53/38162.html

French President Warns Iran Risks “Catastrophe” Of Israeli Strike: –
French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran Thursday that its determination to press on with its controversial nuclear drive risked an Israeli strike that would be a “catastrophe.”
tinyurl.com/65m9tn

Congress is about to pour lighter fluid on Iran:
The U.S. Congress may inadvertently lay the foundations for war against Iran when it reconvenes in Washington this month.
tinyurl.com/5a8vcs

Syria Outlines Israel Peace Plan:
Syrian President Bashar Assad disclosed that his country has given Turkish mediators an outline of general proposals for peace with Israel and is waiting for Israel’s response before holding any face-to-face negotiations.
www.express.co.uk/posts/view/59833/Syria-outlines-Israel-peace-plan

2 U.S. occupation force soldiers killed in Baghdad:
A roadside bomb killed two American occupation force soldiers Thursday in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. They were the first combat deaths in the capital in a week.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-09-04-Iraq-soldiers_N.htm

Iraqi army readies for showdown with Kurds:
Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga forces are bracing for conflict in the disputed city of Khanaqin in the most serious threat of clashes between Arabs and Kurds since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/iraq.kurds

‘US firm responsible for murder of 12 Nepalis in Iraq’:
A lawsuit filed in California against Kellogg, Brown and Root on Wednesday, states Nepali men, between the ages of 18 and 27, were recruited in Nepal and were assured they would be doing work in hotel and restaurant kitchens in Amman, Jordan, but were sent instead to Iraq to work at a US air base.
www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/sep/sep04/news08.php

UK: Cabinet Office ordered to release secret memos on Iraq dossier:
 Secret emails and memos showing how the Iraq war dossier was “sexed-up” must be released by the Cabinet Office, The Independent has learnt.
tinyurl.com/62edm5

David Kelly’s closest female confidante on why he COULDN’T have killed himself:
A female confidante of Dr David Kelly raised disturbing new questions last night over how the Ministry of Defence weapons inspector was able to kill himself.
tinyurl.com/6zgoxu

Cheney says Russian credibility at doubt after war:
“After your nation won its freedom in the Rose Revolution, America came to the aid of this courageous young democracy,” said Cheney, referring to the 2003 uprising that brought Saakashvili to power. “We are doing so again as you work to overcome an invasion of your sovereign territory and an illegitimate, unilateral attempt to change your country’s borders by force that has been universally condemned by the free world.”
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080904/wl_af
p/georgiarussiaconflict_080904121716

Nicaragua joins Russia in recognizing South Ossetia, Abkhazia:
The “leftist” Sandinista government of Nicaragua became the second country – after Russia – to recognize the break- away Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The president of the Central American country, Daniel Ortega, said late Tuesday before the leadership of the Nicaraguan Army that he supports the plan by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to bring these territories closer to Russia.
tinyurl.com/5wonjn

Fears for Ukraine as pro-west coalition fails:
Ukraine’s pro-west coalition collapsed on Wednesday, plunging the country into political uncertainty, hitting financial markets and undermining recent efforts by western leaders to show their support for Kiev following Russia’s intervention in Georgia.
tinyurl.com/5jnb4x

N Korea ‘rebuilding nuclear plant’:
South Korea has accused its northern neighbour of violating a nuclear disarmament pact, saying Pyongyang had begun working to restore its nuclear facilities.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific
/2008/09/20089421923531167.html

McCain-Palin: The GI Joe-Barbie ticket:
They both represent a certain two-dimensional picture of American life, or life as it should be, where all the women are drop-dead gorgeous and all the men happily rush off to war, to fight against unnamed and ever-shifting ‘baddies’.
in.rediff.com/news/2008/sep/04guest.htm

Evangelical faith drives Palin’s pro-Israel view:
Sarah Palin displays an Israeli flag in her governor’s office in Juneau, even though she has never been to the country, and attends Protestant evangelical churches that consider the preservation of the state of Israel a biblical imperative.
tinyurl.com/6qt3vv

Biden: Israel’s decisions must be made in Jerusalem, not D.C.:
The Vice Presidential nominee vowed that the U.S. will “always stand by Israel, without telling Israelis what they can and cannot do.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1017891.html

Ecuador Giving U.S. Air Base the Boot:
Standing up to the United States tends to be widely popular — and a new economic reality. With major projects underway in Manta by the Venezuelan government and a Hong Kong company, the U.S. dollars don’t amount to much.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303289_pf.html

Payroll report: Nation loses 33,000 jobs in August:
The decline was lead by a drop of 78,000 jobs among goods-producing companies — the 21st consecutive monthly decline, according to payroll manager Automatic Data Processing Inc. The service sector, however, gained 45,000 jobs in August.
www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/09/01/daily39.html

Stocks plummet after retail, unemployment data:
Wall Street dived sharply lower Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down over 300 points as retailers and the Labor Department added to the mountain of dismal economic news that has all but dashed investors’ hopes for a late-year recovery.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street