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 4,156
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$553,870,277,546
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Cheney Scales New Heights of Hypocrisy
By ROBERT FANTINA
If anyone doubted the vice president’s disdain for those who elected him and kept him in power, this speech should have been an eye-opener.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20756.htm
The End of the Myths
By Bill Noxid
Eight years of stealing your children’s futures to pay for killing someone else’s children while you allow your own ability to produce anything to be shuttled off to the next generation corporate slave countries, does not make for a healthy economy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20755.htm
Democrats Do Poland (Again)
By David Michael Green
As I survey the wreckage of American democracy. It’s not that I care so much about Obama winning. Whatever tenuous enthusiasm I once had for him has waned to near nothing. It has much more to do with the fact that a public that is demonstrably sick of the status quo could yet once again be fooled by the same old practitioners of the dark arts, employing the same old insulting techniques, into willfully voting for another four years of precisely the same folks who’ve made them miserable.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20752.htm
The Syria-Israel Peace Gambit
By Ramzy Baroud
Israel wishes to woo Syria to break with Hamas and other Palestinian groups, break with Iran and, at least, twist Hizbullah’s arm in Lebanon. Syria, on the other hand, knows well that indirect talks with Israel are an unmatched act of political validation in the West, enough to lessen US threats, win France’s friendship, and appear in a positive light internationally.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20757.htm
Record Corporate Bailout Reveals the Bankruptcy of American Capitalism
By Barry Grey
The US government takeover of the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has dealt a shattering blow to the ideology of market capitalism, which has been used for decades to justify a relentless assault on the working class and a vast transfer of wealth to the American ruling elite.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20754.htm
There Is an Alternative to Corporate Rule
By Mark Engler
One of the remarkable features of modern political life is how consistently global elites deny that viable alternatives to the current global order exist, even as the terrain of international politics rapidly shifts. The “imperial globalists” that rose to power in the Bush years contend that without U.S. military strength decisively projected abroad, the forces of evil will sweep the globe. Meanwhile, “corporate globalists” of Wall Street persist in their belief that, in the post-Cold War world, we have no choice but to embrace the continual advance of the “free” market.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20753.htm
35 Years After Original 9/11
New Transcripts of Kissinger’s Role in Chilean Coup
By Peter Kornbluh
When Henry Kissinger began secretly taping all of his phone conversations in 1969, little did he know that he was giving history the gift that keeps on giving. Now, on the 35th anniversary of the September 11, 1973, CIA-backed military coup in Chile, phone transcripts that Kissinger made of his talks with President Nixon and the CIA chief among other top government officials reveal in the most candid of language the imperial mindset of the Nixon administration as it began plotting to overthrow President Salvador Allende, the world’s first democratically elected Socialist.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20751.htm
At least 45 killed in another bloody day of US occupation;
A roadside bomb killed four members of a Kurdish security patrol and wounded two others south of Khanaqin, 140 km (100 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANW325833.htm
Bomb Kills 8 Kurdish Soldiers, Inflaming an Iraqi Regional Dispute:
Eight Kurdish pesh merga soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in a disputed part of eastern Diyala Province on Saturday, adding to tensions with the Iraqi government and local Arabs over the Kurds’ presence in the area.
www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/world/
middleeast/14iraq.html?ref=world
Iraqi FM: SOFA draft text ready:
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari has said that Iraq and the US have prepared a final draft of a controversial security pact.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=69343§ionid=351020201
About 30 militants killed in fresh clashes in Pakistan:
Pakistani troops Saturday killed up to 30 Islamic militants in fresh clashes with Taliban extremists along the Afghan border, a security official said.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/
2411cd3571b4f088/id/406060/cs/1/
Tribesmen say they are with [the Pakistan] army, warn US:
Tribal elders in North Waziristan on Saturday vowed to defend the country’s frontiers by fighting alongside security forces against any ‘possible American attack’.
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=
2008\09\14\story_14-9-2008_pg1_11
Pak jets ‘sent to confront US drones’:
Pakistan has ordered its jet fighters to confront any attack by the US-led coalition forces on the tribal belt near the Afghan border.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=69330§ionid=351020401
Pakistan sends fighter jets to tribal region: –
Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Saturday sent its fighter aircraft to the northwestern tribal region as the U.S.-led coalition forces are increasing cross-border raids, local media reported.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/13/content_9975026.htm
Bush secret order to send special forces into Pakistan:
The unprecedented executive order, signed by Bush in July after an intense internal administration debate, comes amid western concern that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and its al-Qaida backers based in “safe havens” in western Pakistan’s tribal belt is being lost.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/12/usforeignpolicy.usa
Taliban go on the attack in tribal Pakistan: –
Dozens of Taliban militants took control of a government office in Pakistan’s tribal region near the Afghan border Saturday, raising concerns about an advance on the nearby city of Peshawar, a police chief said.
tinyurl.com/5fqyjv
US firm ambushed in Afghanistan, 23 killed:
At least 23 people were killed when Taliban ambushed a United States security firm convoy in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday. Provincial officials said it was the second attack on the firm in recent days. Provincial Police Chief Khalilullah Rahmani said 15 of the dead were Taliban killed in the fighting that broke out following the ambush.
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page
=2008\09\13\story_13-9-2008_pg7_67
Afghan Governor Among 4 Killed In Blast Outside Kabul:
The top police official in Afghanistan’s Logar Province says a remote controlled bomb planted by the Taliban has killed the province’s governor and three other people.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-13-voa4.cfm?rss=topstories
British occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan:
A British soldier was killed in a gun-battle with the Taliban in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on Friday, the ministry of defence (MoD) has confirmed.
www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/british-
soldier-killed-in-afghanistan-18778546.html
As many as 20 killed as bombs rock Indian capital:
A group calling itself the Indian Mujahedeen has claimed responsibility for a series of bomb blasts that have rocked India’s capital, New Delhi, leaving up to 20 people dead and 40 injured.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/09/200891314524580165.html
Russian forces pulled out of Georgia:
Russia’s Foreign ministry has confirmed all peacekeepers have been withdrawn from two positions in the security zone outside the Georgian port city of Poti, two days ahead of schedule. The withdrawal has also been confirmed by the Georgian Interior Ministry.
www.russiatoday.com/news/news/30387
‘Who the f*** are you to lecture me?’:
Russian minister’s extraordinary rant at David Miliband
tinyurl.com/5az7cd
Syrian port to be used by Russia:
Russia announced on Friday it was renovating a Syrian port for use by the Russian fleet in what signals an effort for a better foothold in the Mediterranean amid the rift with the United States over Georgia.
www.gulfnews.com/region/Syria/10244870.html
US to invade Iran any day now?:
A few weeks ago the Russian newspaper Izvestia, a well-known and authoritive daily published nationwide and abroad, came forward with something that would have been looked upon as a conspiracy theory if published by a tabloid.
www.russiatoday.com/news/news/30312
U.S. to sell Israel Air Force new bunker-buster bombs:
Despite reservations in Washington regarding a possible Israeli strike on Iran, the American administration will supply Israel with sophisticated weapons for heavily fortified targets, the U.S. administration announced.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020702.html
Medvedev to Haaretz: Attack on Iran will endanger entire world:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday, “We know that certain players are planning an attack against Iran. But we oppose any unilateral step and military solution to the nuclear crisis,” he added. Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club, an annual forum of opinion-makers in Moscow, Medvedev also said, “The world does not need to tighten its sanctions on Iran at this time.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020706.html
Russia: Moscow-Tehran ties don’t harm Israel:
The Russian foreign minister didn’t answer the question directly, but did say that Russia’s decisions on the issue of Iran are not meant to harm Israel. We have good historic ties with the Iranians. “We send them weapons, but only for defensive purposes ? no weapons that would cause regional instability.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020628.html
US stonewalling Ahmadinejad visa process:
The US has failed to issue a visa to allow Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the UN General Assembly in New York.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=69308§ionid=351020101
Ahmadinejad: Iran will support Hamas until collapse of Israel:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday to keep supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas until the “collapse of Israel.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020630.html
Israeli troops kill a 17-year old Palestinian boy: .
The sources added that Israeli soldiers opened fire at stone-throwing children in the village after they invaded the village. One soldier from the border police shot at the group of young boys and killed al-Abed on the spot.
www.imemc.org/article/56955
Tzipi Livni is preparing to end talks with Syria if she becomes Israel’s new prime minister:
The woman who is on course to become Israel’s next prime minister is preparing to end fledgling peace talks with Syria unless it cuts its ties with Iran and the militant Hizbollah group.
tinyurl.com/4pwfps
Scottish activist films Israeli navy shooting at Gaza fishermen:
A SCOTTISH human rights activist has filmed the Israeli navy firing machine guns at unarmed Palestinian fishing boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
tinyurl.com/6fayv2
Saudi scholar issues TV death fatwa:
A Saudi scholar has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of television networks broadcasting “depravation and debauchery”
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2008/09/2008913181844832341.html
Death toll in Bolivia unrest reaches 18: –
President Evo Morales on Saturday accused an opposition governor of using foreign thugs against government supporters in violence that has claimed at least 18 lives and prompted him to declare martial law in a breakaway province.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap
_on_re_la_am_ca/bolivia_protests
Bolivian president decries ‘massacre’ of peasants:
The “massacre” of peasants in the rebellious province of Pando justified the imposition of martial law, Bolivian President Evo Morales said Saturday.
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/13/bolivia-meeting.html
Bolivia says will arrest governor after killings;
Bolivia’s government said on Saturday that it would arrest the governor of a restive northern province in the wake of deadly clashes they accuse him of instigating, amid a deep political crisis.
africa.reuters.com/energyandoil/
news/usnN13400579.html?rpc=401&
Socialist reforms or ‘death’, Bolivian president says:
Speaking amid a crisis which has seen five rebel provinces reject his authority, Morales told indigenous union leaders his “democratic revolution” redefining land holdings and redistributing national wealth had to be seen through, or they should “die for the country” in the attempt.
tinyurl.com/6xgana
S American leaders to hold emergency meeting on Bolivia:
The Argentine government said Saturday that leaders of the Union of South American Nations will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to help solve the political crisis in Bolivia.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/14/content_9982944.htm
Bolivia: as the reactionary coup unfolds, action is needed! :
The situation in Bolivia remains one of confrontation between the oligarchy, backed by U.S. imperialism on the one side, and the masses who support the Evo Morales government on the other.
tinyurl.com/6krdvx
Venezuelan military holds anti-invasion exercises:
Saturday’s maneuvers in southern Bolivar state featured Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets, ground troops, patrol boats and helicopters that fired rockets at targets.
tinyurl.com/6dadf8
Two Chevron Lawyers Indicted in Ecuador:
Ecuadorean government accuses in-house lawyer and outside counsel of helping to fraudulently certify predecessor company’s environmental cleanup
www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202424507581
China may cut its dollar holdings – CICC:
China, which holds a fifth of its currency reserves in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt, may cut the portion held in US dollars, according to China International Capital Corp (CICC), one of the nation’s biggest investment banks.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/12/content_7020656.htm
US economy: Retail sales slump as consumers tighten their belts:
Analysts had expected sales to rise by 0.3% last month but data from the Commerce Department today showed a fall of 0.3%. This is the second month in a row that sales have declined, and the figure for July was also sharply revised, to a drop of 0.5%. It had previously been reported as a 0.1% fall.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/12/useconomy.usa
Warning: 30 airlines will go bust this year:
Up to 30 more airlines will go bankrupt before Christmas, the chief executive of British Airways warned yesterday, as the biggest rescue of stranded passengers in travel industry history began.
tinyurl.com/4xdnoy