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
$552,637,744,502
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

Not One Cent For Gaza
By Yvonne Ridley
It seems the Palestinian leader is overseeing the brutal siege of his own people in Gaza without a care or thought for them.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20713.htm

Empire and Imperialism and the USA
By James Petras
The world of competing imperial countries has created complex international organizations, which conflict, compete and collaborate. They operate on all levels, from the global to the cities and villages of the Third World. Imperialist powers enter and exploit through a chain of collaborator classes from the imperial center through international organizations to local ruling, economic and political classes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20714.htm

Bin Laden’s aims with 9/11 and Bush’s in Iraq:
By John Pedler
Report expaining what bin Laden’s aims were with 9/11, and what G W Bush and the Cheney neo-cons hoped to achieve with the invasion of Iraq. Ignorance about this is astounding – yet knowing this is essential to understanding how GW Bush’s push for unipolarism and its failure lies at the root of both America’s international and financial disasters.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20716.htm

The Voice of War and Oil
By Rand Clifford
After years of America recruiting former Soviet Republics as client states, raking in vast profits from their militarization, and profiting on oil considerations, Russia has finally drawn the line.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20717.htm

American Socialism
US Is “More Communist than China”: Jim Rogers
By CNBC.com
“This is madness, this is insanity, they have more than doubled the American national debt in one weekend for a bunch of crooks and incompetents. I’m not quite sure why I or anybody else should be paying for this,” Rogers told “Squawk Box Europe.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20715.htm

Comrades Bush, Paulson and Bernanke Welcome You to the USSRA
(United Socialist State Republic of America)
By Nouriel Roubini
Socialism is indeed alive and well in America; but this is socialism for the rich, the well connected and Wall Street. A socialism where profits are privatized and losses are socialized with the US tax-payer being charged the bill of $300 billion.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20720.htm

Republicans Born Again
By Eric Margolis
Palin’s emergence simply confirms the final dumbing down and ruralization of the Republican Party, and its metamorphosis into a right wing politico-religious movement.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20718.htm

Storm Troopers at the RNC
By Ray McGovern
Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota – a storm far more dangerous, it turned out, but one by and large overlooked by the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM).
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20719.htm

US ‘In Need of Rebellion’
An Interview With Howard Zinn:
Al Jazeera speaks to Howard Zinn, the author, American historian, social critic and activist, about how the Iraq war damaged attitudes towards the US and why the US “empire” is close to collapse.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20721.htm

37 killed in fighting in Afghanistan:
At least 37 people, among them 31 Taliban militants and three coalition soldiers, were killed in fighting in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/404315/cs/1/

US redeploys troops to Afghanistan:
George Bush, the US president, has announced 8,000 troops will be pulled out of Iraq over the coming months and 4,500 sent to Afghanistan by January.
tinyurl.com/5fom6p

U.S. drones kill 23 in missile attack in Pakistan:
Those killed included one of the several wives of Haqqani, his sister-in-law, a sister, two nieces, eight grandchildren and a male relative. A son-in-law of Haqqani was wounded.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=335742

Pakistan reopens vital border for NATO:
Pakistan has reopened a vital supply route to NATO forces in Afghanistan after receiving a payment of $365 million from the US.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68730&sectionid=351020401

Russia deploying in Georgia regions:
Russia has said it will permanently station 7,600 troops in Georgia’s two breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/09/20089914111746130.html

Schroeder warns against encircling Russia: :
Georgia is to blame for initiating last month’s war with Russia, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Tuesday as he criticized Western
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/09/asia/AS-Kazakhstan-Georgia-Schroeder.php

The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can’t Have:
Ford’s Fiesta ECOnetic gets an astonishing 65 mpg, but the carmaker can’t afford to sell it in the U.S.
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b4099060491065.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5