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
$554,301,939,724
See the cost in your community
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Pakistan Says U.S. Copters Repulsed
By REUTERS
Firing by Pakistani troops forced two U.S. military helicopters to turn back to Afghanistan after they crossed into Pakistani territory early on Monday, Pakistani security officials said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20762.htm
Zardari is the New Musharraf
By Eric S. Margolis
The US has been in a bizarre state of semi-war against its ‘ally’ Pakistan for months, launching covert ground and air raids into its territory while claiming to be a close ally of Islamabad in the so-called war on terror. This week, it was revealed that President George Bush has given the Pentagon the green light to launch major ground attacks inside Pakistan’s tribal territory.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20761.htm
Iraq: Violence is Down – but not Because of America’s ‘Surge’
By Patrick Cockburn
If fewer US troops and Iraqis are being killed, it is only because the Shia community and Iran now dominate.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20758.htm
Bolivia and the Echoes of Allende
Morales Confronts the Insurrection
By ROGER BURBACH
Morales faces a powerful economic and political elite aligned with the United States that is bent on reversing the limited reforms he has been able to implement during his nearly three years in power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20763.htm
Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink
By Barton Gellman
Cheney had kept her out of the loop, but it was hard to hide a warrantless domestic surveillance program completely from the president’s chief terrorism adviser.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20759.htm
Capital Punishment: Lehman on its way to the Gallows?
By Mike Whitney
The funny thing about capitalism is that you need capital to play. When the bank-vault is full of nothing but worthless mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and overvalued junk bonds; the whole thing goes belly-up fast.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20765.htm
`Tectonic’ Shift on Wall Street as Lehman Fails, Merrill Sold
By Christine Harper
In the biggest reshaping of the financial industry since the Great Depression, two of Wall Street’s most storied firms, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., headed toward extinction.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20760.htm
Financial Russian Roulette
By PAUL KRUGMAN
2008 could be 1931 revisited.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20766.htm
The Crash of Western Capitalist Civilization?
By Richard_C_Cook
“Train-wreck” doesn’t even begin to describe what is starting to happen to the U.S. today with the financial crisis, an onrushing depression, and the failure of George W. Bush’s war policy as he is faced down by Iran and the Russian bear. But in an even broader sense, the West, as a civilization, after a century of world war and the utter failure of global finance capitalism, may have reached its limits.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20764.htm
This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20767.htm
64 Taliban militants killed near Afghan border:
Pakistani security forces claimed to have killed 64 Taliban [Images] militants in an intensified operation in various parts of the troubled Bajaur tribal region near Afghan border, as the locals continued shifting to safer places.
ia.rediff.com/news/2008/sep/15pak.htm
Fighting in Pakistan kills 15:
Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships and fighter jets killed 15 suspected militants Monday as security forces advanced on Taliban strongholds near the Afghan border, an official said.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-15-Pakistan_N.htm
Pakistani troops fire on US soldiers near Afghan border, reports say:
According to reports, US helicopters landed on the Afghan side of the border at about midnight. As the US troops disembarked and tried to cross into Pakistan, Pakistani soldiers at a checkpoint fired into the air, forcing them to turn back.
tinyurl.com/5u8g5h
US Attacking Al-Qaida In Pakistan:
NPR’s Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman talks with host Scott Simon about how CIA officers are being pulled from around the world for this campaign.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94591136
Pakistani President, PM discuss US forces border violations:
“Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani called the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari on telephone last night in Dubai and discussed with him frequent violation of country’s air space and incursions by the US forces,” an official statement said.
www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=606116
No foreign force allowed to fight terrorism in Pakistan: Fehmida:
Acting President Dr Fehmida Mirza on Sunday reiterated the government’s policy that no foreign force would be allowed to fight the war against terrorism on Pakistani soil.
www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/Sep08/15/12.htm
Pakistan’s tribes threaten to join Taliban :
AMERICA’S cross-border raids into Pakistan have drawn fresh hostility from Pakistani tribesmen, who vowed to form an army to launch attacks on US troops in Afghanistan.
quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_
content&task=view&id=1606&Itemid=49
US faces the F-16s it supplied Pakistan:
The United States is suddenly faced with the uncomfortable scenario of confronting the very same weapons and military hardware, including F-16 fighter jets, it has armed Pakistan with for decades.
tinyurl.com/6c8d5l
F-16 flights are just for public consumption:
Much has been made of the recent statement by General Kiyani about stopping US attacks on Pakistani territory. Yesterday it was reported PAF jets have started flights over North Waziristan suggesting Pakistan was ready to strike back at US forces. But is it really the case? If we look back at the recent F-16 deal, it appears there is no such possibility and these F-16 flights are just for public consumption.
pkpolitics.com/2008/09/15/general-kiyanis-handicap/
US Army general warns Pakistan of new war:
A new war could begin if Pakistan does not step up its fight against terrorists, Maj Gen Jeffrey J Schloesser of the US Army said in a report published in an American weekly on Sunday.
dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\09\15\story_15-9-2008_pg7_29
Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan: .
In 1970, the problem was the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia. Today it is Taliban and al-Qaida bases inside Pakistan, which the United States has been attacking from the air for some time, with controversial “collateral damage.”
tinyurl.com/6b6vk7
Raids into Pakistan: What U.S. authority?:
The evolution of operations in Pakistan from covert to overt actions is reminiscent of a trajectory followed in some aspects by the Vietnam War, some analysts note.
www.csmonitor.com/2008/0915/p02s01-uspo.html
Patrick Cockburn: The US strategy for Afghanistan won’t work:
Covert operations only succeed when they have strong local allies who want outside support
tinyurl.com/68pnmt
Six children, three UN staffers die in another bloody day of US occupation:
Six children were killed in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan Sunday while a suicide car bomb blew up a marked United Nations vehicle and killed two Afghan doctors and a driver, officials said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080914/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrest
Suicide car bombing kills 3 in W Afghanistan:
A suicide car bombing targeting one district chief in western Afghan province of Herat Monday morning killed three people, said an official.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/15/content_10008974.htm
No tears in west for 60 Afghan children:
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), as this force is properly known, is responsible for thousands of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. August 22, the US troops in ISAF killed 95 civilians, including 60 children and 19 women, adding to the ever increasing number of civilian deaths.
tinyurl.com/6j96tc
Afghanistan Is in Its Worst Shape Since 2001, European Diplomat Says;
One of the most experienced Western envoys in Afghanistan said Sunday that conditions there had become the worst since 2001. He urged a concerted American and foreign response, even before a new American administration took office, to avoid “a very hot winter for all of us.”
tinyurl.com/5pwrpv
Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran?:
Iran ‘sending weapons to Taleban’:
Elements in the Iranian state are sending weapons across the border to the Taleban in Afghanistan, a BBC investigation has uncovered.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7616429.stm
Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran?:
IAEA: Iran stalling probe into alleged atom bomb research:
Monday, the IAEA released a report indicating that Iran has produced approximately one quarter of the amount of enriched uranium required to build its first nuclear bomb.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1021301.html
White House warns of fresh sanctions on Tehran over IAEA’s latest report:
Monday, the White House threatened to impose another round of sanctions on Iran, after the UN atomic watchdog reported it had failed to make meaningful progress in assessing Tehran’s past nuclear activities.
tinyurl.com/5bvl2b
IAEA confirms nuclear Iran on right track:
“The agency has been able to continue to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran,” read the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear activities.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=69493§ionid=351020104
US plans to sell Israel 1,000 bunker-buster bombs:
In announcing the proposed $77 million deal, which still needs Congressional approval, the U.S. Defense Department said the sale of the Boeing GBU-39 smart bombs would be consistent with the U.S. interest of assisting Israel “to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability.”
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008
/09/15/international/i083222D72.DTL&tsp=1
Israeli Shelling Of Beit Hanoun Possibly War Crime -UN Report:
Israel’s shelling of the Gaza village of Beit Hanoun in November 2006 that killed 19 Palestinian civilians may constitute a war crime and the victims should receive compensation, a U.N. report said Monday.
tinyurl.com/6pp8hx
Olmert: There’s no such thing as ‘Greater Israel’ anymore:
“I thought that land from the Jordan River through to the sea was all ours, but ultimately, after a long and tortured process, I arrived at the conclusion that we must share with those we live with, if we don’t want to be a bi-national state.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020929.html
Hamas to appoint president as Abbas’ term ends: –
Islamic Hamas movement Sunday announced that it will appoint the speaker of the parliament as Palestinian president when the term of current President Mahmoud Abbas ends in January.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/14/content_9996827.htm
Lebanon deny Israeli report on Syria’s deployment in north Lebanon:
Lebanese military and security sources denied Israeli report that two Syrian commando Battalions have crossed into north Lebanon and took positions in seven Alawite controlled villages, local An-Nahar daily reported Monday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/15/content_10010610.htm
Iraq: At least 16 killed as US occupation grinds on:
Two parked car bombs killed 12 people and wounded 37 others, including 22 Iraqi soldiers, when they exploded in quick succession in central Baghdad’s Karrada district
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANW519364.htm
Iraq: Al-Qaida intensifies its stranglehold in the world’s most dangerous city:
Insurgents turn de facto northern capital into war zone by exploiting divisions between Arabs and Kurds
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/15/iraq.alqaida
FT: Nato fury over Russia’s Georgia deal with EU: .
The deal brokered by the European Union for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia has been slammed by Nato’s top official as “difficult to swallow” and “not acceptable” because it cedes too much ground to Moscow.
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n152809
Six killed in Mogadishu violence:
At least six people, including an African Union (AU) peacekeeper, were killed Sunday in two separate incidents in the Somali capital, witnesses and officials said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080914/wl_africa_afp/somaliaunrest
The World Bank Takes the Money and Runs from Chad:
The World Bank got involved in a major financing project in Chad a decade ago. Sadly, instead of supporting a population that’s largely illiterate and dependent on agriculture for its survival, the Bank had decided to take on a project that would bring oil wealth – and little in the way of jobs, schooling or health care – to this desperately poor and highly corrupt country.
www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5533
30 killed in Bolivia violence:
Army took control of Cobija, the capital of the northern Bolivian state of Pando, after at least 30 people died in clashes between rival groups, EFE reported Monday quoting state television.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/
cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/406492/cs/1/
Bolivia: Soldiers hunt rebel governor:
SOLDIERS were hunting a rebel governor in Bolivia today as President Evo Morales struggled to assert his authority over opposition regions amid worsening unrest.
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/
0,21985,24346652-5005961,00.html
Bolivia talks resume after US ambassador expelled:
Goldberg told reporters in La Paz that President Evo Morales had “not correctly evaluated” the retaliation Washington would give to a decision declaring him persona non grata.
nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5015230/
ambassador-warns-consequences-bolivia/
Nicaragua’s Ortega says he won’t meet with Bush in solidarity with Bolivia:
During his announcement Saturday, Ortega also accused Washington of trying to foment a coup against Morales.
www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire
/sns-ap-nicaragua-us,0,7576228.story
Brazil plans to build 50 more nuclear power plants: –
Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao announced Friday Brazil plans to build 50 to 60 nuclear power plants in half a century, with each having capacity of 1,000 megawatts.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/13/content_9965092.htm
Bin Laden Statements, 1994-2004:
A U.S. government compilation of interviews and other public statements issued by Usama bin Laden between 1994 and 2004 is now publicly available
www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/09/bin_ladin_statements.html
Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan:
Officer also claims British UN official was killed by order of Uzbek president Karimov
tinyurl.com/5sh7qe
US army is breaking rules to make terrorists talk:
THE US military is training psychiatrists to interrogate terrorism suspects, in defiance of internationally agreed codes of conduct which bar doctors from involvement in interrogation.
www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19926733.700
U.S. Arms Sales Jump:
From tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to missiles, remotely piloted aircraft and even warships, the Department of Defense has agreed so far this fiscal year to sell or transfer more than $32 billion in weapons and other military equipment to foreign governments, compared with $12 billion in 2005.
www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/washington/14arms.html?ref=world
Lehman Workers Clear Desks, Weep After Bankruptcy:
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s employees worldwide are clearing their desks, waiting to hear if they’ll be paid, and starting to look for work after the investment bank filed for the biggest bankruptcy in history.
tinyurl.com/69anwy
Wake-Up Call: Lehman’s Mortgage Marks:
Anyone else holding large amounts of tainted mortgages has to worry. Lehman’s potential unwinding, along with any aggressive actions by Merrill and AIG to offload mortgage assets, could mean widespread losses as other banks mark down their own holdings.
online.wsj.com/article/SB122144512332634941.html
10 Banks Form $70B Fund to Stave Off Crash:
Ten of the world’s largest banks have formed a massive liquidity fund to mitigate the effects of the Lehman Brothers meltdown, reports the Financial Times. All the investment banks will be able to borrow up to a third of the $70 billion fund in order to reduce volatility and stay in business while Lehman is being wound down. They will also be able to borrow from the Fed under newly relaxed terms
www.newser.com/story/37467/10-banks-
form-70b-fund-to-stave-off-crash.html
S&P cuts BofA rating, may cut again, Moody’s may cut:
Moody’s Investors Service also placed the bank on review for downgrade after it said it will purchase Merrill Lynch (MER.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) for $50 billion.
www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServices
AndRealEstateNews/idUSN1551490520080915
China Cuts Rates as U.S. Turmoil Adds to Global Risks:
China cut interest rates for the first time in six years and allowed most banks to set aside smaller reserves as worsening credit-market turmoil and weakening export demand dimmed the outlook for economic growth.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206
01068&sid=aPOjpkRwklGQ&refer=home
The next big bang is private equity:
Wall Street is in crisis, undoubtedly the worst in history, as one tarnished giant after another topples. The real problem, though, is no one can tell where it will end.
business.smh.com.au/business/the-next-
big-bang-is-private-equity-20080915-4h1g.html
Wilbur Ross: Possibly a Thousand Banks Will Close:
In an exclusive interview with CNBC.com, Wilbur Ross, chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co., says he sees possibly as many as a thousand bank closures in the coming months.
www.cnbc.com/id/26710362
Industrial Production in U.S. Fell More Than Forecast:
Industrial production in the U.S. fell in August by the most in almost three years as the slowdown in consumer spending prompted automakers to cut back.
tinyurl.com/6ex97d