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 4,155
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$552,344,021,471
See the cost in your community
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Video Shows US Carnage In Afghanistan
Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers’ claims of carnage caused by US troops
Tom Coghlan in Kabul
These are the images that have forced the Pentagon into a rare U-turn. Until yesterday the US military had insisted that only seven civilians were killed in Nawabad on the night of August 21.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20705.htm
“Modern Debt Peonage”?
Economic Democracy Is Turning Into a Financial Oligarchy
Mike Whitney: An Interview With Michael Hudson
The best that this weekend’s bailout can do is to postpone the losses on bad mortgage debts. But this is a far cry from actually restoring the ability of debtors to pay.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20709.htm
Why The Fannie-Freddie Bailout Will Fail
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.
With yesterday’s announcement of the most massive federal bailout of all time, it’s now official: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage lenders on Earth, are bankrupt.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20707.htm
US Waves Goodbye to Prosperity and Democracy
By David Hirst
If you were wondering what all the flag-waving at the Republican convention has been about, it is now clear. Americans are waving goodbye to the prosperity the nation has enjoyed since the Great Depression and a final goodbye to democracy. But while preparation for the most important decision made in the nation’s post-depression financial history towered above the conventions, I don’t think the fate of Freddie and Fannie and the remaining government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) was mentioned during either convention.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20708.htm
Country Last
By David Michael Green
Hey, did you know that John McCain was a POW? Did you also know that he was a POW, and that he was a POW? Now that I’ve recapped seventy percent of the Republican Convention last week, let me fill in the remaining 30 percent: hypocrisy, arrogance, lies and bullshit.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20711.htm
The Right Dictates MSNBC’s Programming Decisions
By Glenn Greenwald
MSNBC’s announcement that it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews with David Gregory as anchors for its main political events (the upcoming presidential debates and election) vividly illustrates several long-obvious facts.
First, nothing changes the behavior of our media corporations more easily than vocal demands and complaints from the Right, which petrify media executives and cause them to snap into line. Continue
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20710.htm
Palin’s Churches and the Third Wave
10 minute video documentary “Sarah Palin’s Churches and The New Wave”
Sarah Palin’s churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same ‘Spiritual Warfare’ movement that was featured in the award winning movie, “Jesus
Camp,” which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin’s churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the
Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young “Joel’s Army” to take dominion over the United States and the world.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20712.htm
U.S. attack on Taliban Stronghold” in Pakistan kills 20:
The strike Monday marked the fifth cross-border incursion by U.S. forces in about a week. On Wednesday, at least 20 people were killed in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan after U.S. helicopters flew nearly 20 miles across the border from Afghanistan and ground troops launched an assault on the small tribal village of Musa Nika.
tinyurl.com/63hzh4
Missiles stir Pakistani fury at US ‘invaders’:
Reports that “many” women and children had died in the attack drew outrage in Islamabad, with senior officials describing it “as a grave violation of our sovereignty”. A senior Pakistani air force official said he was awaiting orders from the Government to launch operations against “these invaders”.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24314547-25837,00.html
10 Militants Killed In Northwest Pakistan Fighting – Army: –
Fighting between soldiers and militants erupted in the Kabal district of Swat valley late Sunday and continued until dawn, a military spokesman said
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‘Dictatorship’ warning on eve of Zardari’s inauguration:
Asif Ali Zardari will be sworn in tomorrow as Pakistan’s president, following his election victory at the weekend, amid warnings from opposition voices that the country is in danger of a “civilian dictatorship” after the military rule of General Pervez Musharraf.
tinyurl.com/6clf74
US welcomes Zardari win in Pakistan:
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has welcomed the election of Asif Ali Zardari as Pakistan’s president and praised what she said is his emphasis on fighting “terrorism”.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/09/20089761849531631.html
Zardari to visit China to negotiate nuclear deal:
Asif Ali Zardari, the president-elect of Pakistan, will visit China next week to negotiate a nuclear deal similar to the one between India and the US, an official said on Monday.
tinyurl.com/5s66b9
Police: Bombs explode at Afghan police HQ, 8 killedd:
Two suicide attackers detonated bombs inside the police headquarters in occupied Afghanistan’s second-largest city Sunday, killing six policemen, officials said.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=334291
Canadian Occupation Force Soldier Killed In Afghanistan:
The latest Canadian occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan was less than one week away from the end of his tour when his armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar around 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
www.citynews.ca/news/news_26590.aspx
Roadside bomb kills Dutch soldier in occupied Afghanistan;
The Dutch Defense Ministry said one of its occupation force troops was killed and five were wounded by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
tinyurl.com/64urjb
Afghan Children Killed In US-Led Raid Appear On New Video (WATCH):
The Associated Press reports that two videos have surfaced which feature the aftermath of the botched US-led airstrikes in early August that, according to the UN, killed at least 90 Afghan civilians. The bodies of at least 10 children, and more adults, can be seen on the videos.
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Iraq: At least 12 killed in another bloody day of US occupation: –
A roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded another when it struck their patrol in central Tikrit
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L8663148.htm
Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq’s overcrowded juvenile prison system:
Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad’s prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/08/iraq.humanrights
Saakashvili vows to reclaim S. Ossetia, Abkhazia:
“Our goal is the return of our territory and the peaceful unification of Georgia,’’ Saakashvili said in a televised appearance, adding that such a process is between Russia and the ‘rest of the world’.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68783§ionid=351020606
Russia agrees Georgia withdrawal:
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has said Moscow will withdraw its forces from Georgia after the deployment of European Union monitors in the country.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/09/20089814488506311.html
US to establish naval base in Georgia:
The US is negotiating with Georgia and Turkey to establish a naval base at one of the two key Georgian ports of Batumi or Poti, reports say.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68735§ionid=351020606
Russia explores other options on Iran:
Russia is considering providing Iran with more nuclear aid amid escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington, a report says.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68836§ionid=351020104
Russia: Preparation for launch of Iran nuclear plant in final stage:
The director of the Russian company Atomstroiexport, Leonid Reznikov, said that the company will take steps by year’s end that will make the launch of the Bushehr plant irreversible.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1019225.html
Al-Qaeda video rounds on Iran:
The new footage, released three days before the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, also attacked Lebanese, Pakistani and Afghan leaders.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2008/09/200898124913695268.html
Chávez says Venezuela could engage in naval exercises with Russia in Caribbean:
”Go ahead and squeal, Yanquis,” Chávez said in a mocking tone on his Sunday television program, adding, “Russia’s naval fleet is welcome here.”
www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/08/america/venez.php
Russia to send naval squadron, planes to Venezuela:
Russia said Monday it will send a naval squadron and long-range patrol planes to Venezuela this year for a joint military exercise in the Caribbean, an announcement made at a time of increasingly tense relations with the United States.
yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/nationworld/ci_10409854
Canada PM sets date for snap poll:
Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, has dissolved parliament and set a date for the country’s third election in four years.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2008/09/200897145422970411.html
MSNBC Drops Olbermann, Matthews as News Anchors:
MSNBC is removing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as the anchors of live political events, bowing to growing criticism that they are too opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential campaign.
tinyurl.com/6o8ofk
Brazil, Argentina drop dollar for bilateral trade:
Brazil and Argentina are ready to stop using U.S. dollars to trade goods between them. Brazil’s president tells the Buenos Aires-based Clarin newspaper that exports and imports between the two nations will be bought and sold in local currency – reals and pesos.
tinyurl.com/5a8ucw
US Government stages world’s biggest bail out:
The country’s two biggest mortgage companies were nationalised amid fears that their bankruptcy would have triggered an economic collapse.
tinyurl.com/5krsuj
Why U.S. moved on mortgage giants:
The proposal to place both mortgage giants, which own or back $5.3 trillion in mortgages, into a government-run conservatorship also grew out of deep concern among foreign investors that the companies’ debt might not be repaid.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/business/fannie.php
China frets at US risk after Fannie/Freddie bailout:
The U.S. Treasury’s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is good news in the short term for China, the biggest holder of the giant mortgage lenders’ debt, but Beijing’s huge U.S. exposure still poses a serious risk, a prominent government researcher said on Monday.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7781955
Markets soar after US bail-out:
US stocks futures and Asian and European share markets have soared after the US government took control of mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Analysts, however, cautioned that the move was more a sign of the perilous state of the global financial system than of an imminent recovery.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/
2008/09/2008989119637206.html
Wa Mu Giving it Up: .
Regulators will be monitoring WaMu after the bank agreed to reduce risks and tighten its procedures, according to the statement, and the stock dropped as much as 14 percent.
bankimplode.com/blog/2008/09/08/wa-mu-giving-it-up/
US auto industry pushes for $50b loan:
Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $US50 billion ($A61.69 billion) in US government loans this month that would pay to modernise plants and help struggling US carmakers build more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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