Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,267,401"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,168
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$555,440,831,109
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Vice President Dick Cheney’s Incredible and Deadly Lie
By John W. Dean
By Deceiving a Congressional Leader, Cheney Sent Us to War on False Pretenses and Violated the Separation of Powers – as Well as the Criminal Law.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20814.htm
Why Does the US Think it Can Win in Afghanistan?
By Robert Fisk
Back in 2001, we won the war in Afghanistan by overthrowing the Taliban. Then we marched off to win the war in Iraq. Now – with at least one suicide bombing a day and the nation carved up into mutually antagonistic sectarian enclaves – we have won the war in Iraq and are heading back to re-win the war in Afghanistan where the Taliban, so thoroughly trounced by our chaps seven years ago, have proved their moral and political bankruptcy by recapturing half the country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20818.htm
USA Has Bared Its Teeth
It is degrading to say that we cannot fight the Americans
By Asif Haroon Raja
To create fear and panic among the peaceful residents of Waziristan and also to target pro-government elements, missile attacks were intensified and each attack killed innocent men, women and children. The idea was to antagonise pro-government Waziris and also to force them to migrate as had happened in case of Bajaur.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20819.htm
Threat to Democracy in Latin America
By Harold Pinter, John Pilger, Tony Benn
We are appalled by the failure of much of the international media to provide accurate and proportionate coverage of these events. All democrats throughout should rally to defend democracy in Latin America.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20820.htm
Empire of Nothing
By Doug Bandow
Some Americans believe a more powerful EU would provide a more effective partner for the U.S. government. Perhaps, though a consolidated Europe implementing Brussels values might just as well oppose American initiatives.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20817.htm
The Politics of Tribulation
Sarah Palin and the Rapture
By RAYMOND J. LAWRENCE
Is this country ready for a president who is excited about and eagerly looking forward to the Rapture?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20821.htm
Whoa and Woe:
Living In Sarah Palin’s America
By David Michael Green
In January of 2003, John Le Carre wrote that, “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: Worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.” He was surely right then. Except that what once looked like a period now seems like an epoch.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20824.htm
Grasping at Straws
By Mike Whitney
If Paulson is not removed and his rescue plan scrapped altogether; the dollar will lose its position as the world’s reserve currency and the US government will face a historic funding crisis as foreign sources of capital dry up. That will thrust the country into a hyper-inflationary depression.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20828.htm
Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle
By William Greider
Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to the crisis: dump it all on the taxpayers.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20823.htm
What’s Really Bankrupt
The Wall Street Model: Unintelligent Design
By PAM MARTENS
There is no sincere plan by this administration to help America or Americans. There is only a plan to slow the financial collapse until after the November elections by throwing a politically palatable amount of money at it and a plan to continue to blame it on a housing bust.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20826.htm
Financial Bailout:
America’s Own Kleptocracy
The largest transformation of America’s Financial System since the Great Depression
By Michael Hudson
Nobody expected industrial capitalism to end up like this.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20822.htm
The Dog Days Of September
By Gary Corseri
We can no longer claim to live in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” There is nothing free here except the “free-market” our corporate bosses have foisteed on us and the rest of the world to open up foreign markets to our brand-name companies so that foreign workers can make products that “Americans” will buy at exorbitant prices. How did that happen? Hypnosis through the mass media that “Americans” were supposed to own-hypnosis through repetition, spectacle, diversion.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20825.htm
Popular Scams of the Rich and Famous
By: Richard Backus
The federal government has been playing footsie with fascism for quite a long time, supported only by the inability of the general public to recognize it. Ecclesiastic appointments, corporate management, charity, “brain trust” ,foundations, university appointments, and even scholarship awards are controlled by political elites, with the consequent assurances that these appointees will play ball with the politicians and their “sponsors”. The Pols now essentially control everything under the direction of the rich and famous.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20827.htm
In Hard Times, Tent Cities Rise Across the Country
By AP
Since foreclosure mess, homeless advocates report rise in encampments.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20810.htm
Pakistan: 80 Dead In Hotel Carnage:
Rescuers ferried a stream of bloodied bodies from the gutted structure, which was in danger of collapsing. Many others were believed to be trapped inside the building.
tinyurl.com/3wlzep
Senior CIA officers were target of Islamabad blast:
Well placed sources said that Marriott Hotel is usual hotel choice of the US officials and it seems that militants tipped off that certain high level US intelligence officers were currently staying at the hotel.
tinyurl.com/4r22nn
10 Pak security personnel killed in suicide attack in Waziristan :
At least 10 Pakistani security personnel have been killed and several others have been wounded when their convoy was targeted by a suicide bomber on Bannu Road in North Waziristan.
tinyurl.com/3vym7h
Pakistan pledges to fight terrorism:
Pakistan’s new president has vowed that the “cancer” of terrorism in the country would be eliminated after a bomb attack in Islamabad killed at least 55 people.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/09/200892014179932320.html
Zardari To Uphold Pakistan Sovereignty:
“I ask of the government that it should be firm in its resolve to not allow the use of its soil for carrying out terrorist activities against any foreign country”, Zardari said. We will not tolerate the violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism.
www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212173468.shtml
US drones continue flights over Pak tribal areas despite warning :
American drones are continuing their flights over various areas of North and South Waziristan, spreading panic and fear among locals despite a warning from Pakistan not to do so.
tinyurl.com/3qs2z4
Seminar on Missing Persons in Islamabad:
A seminar entitled “Do Countries Sell Their Own People: A Discussion on Civil Liberties in the Age of War on Terror” was held on 17 April, 2008, at Embassy Lodges in Islamabad. The event presented the plight of the families of the victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
missinginpakistan.wordpress.com/
Military kills 16 Taliban fighters in Bajaur:
The military killed at least 16 Al Qaeda linked fighters in fierce gunbattles in Bajaur Agency, officials said on Saturday.
tinyurl.com/4mjc4k
Six Afghan civilians, international occupation force soldier killed:
Six Afghan civilians and an occupation forcel soldier were killed in attacks in Afghanistan as President Hamid Karzai called Friday for all sides to respect “Peace Day” this weekend.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfvPTkgRrRfgmWJlg5YNzhzQdWxg
5 killed in Afghanistan:
A roadside blast Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan killed four U.S. occupation forcesoldiers and an Afghan, the coalition said.
military-world.net/Afghanistan/719.html
A Modernized Taliban Thrives in Afghanistan;
The new Taliban movement has created a parallel government structure that includes defense and finance councils and appoints judges and officials in some areas. It offers cash to recruits and presents letters of introduction to local leaders.
tinyurl.com/3ps8a7
Palin To Meet With Afghan President And Henry Kissinger:
As she seeks to bolster her foreign policy resume, Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin will meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in New York City early next week, according to a senior campaign aide.
tinyurl.com/5x2sb3
At least 6 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
Gunmen killed two policemen when they attacked their checkpoint in central Mosul, police said.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ANW021131.htm
Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq:
Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/iraq_lights_dc
S.Korea to withdraw all remaining troops from Iraq:
Since 2003, South Korea has stationed troops in Iraq for a reconstruction mission at the request of the United States, its key ally. Troops levels once reached 3,600, but Seoul gradually has pulled out soldiers amid opposition to the deployment at home.
www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1481271
Chalabi: U.S. wants secret bases in Iraq:
In an interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency, Chalabi, once a Washington favorite, said U.S. officials are trying to inject agreements for secret bases in Iraq as part of the long-term security contract slated to govern U.S.-Iraqi relations when the U.N. mandate there expires at the end of this year.
tinyurl.com/4tas37
How to Stay in Iraq for 1,000 Years:
Is there a way for U.S. negotiators to finagle permanent bases without permission from Congress? Yep. It’s called a SOFA.
www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/09/iraq-sofas.html
Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran?:
Iran Trains Shiite Iraqis To Launch Bombings In Iraq-Police:
Groups of Shiite extremists trained in Iran are returning to Iraq with plans to bomb high-profile targets, the chief of Dhi Qar province’s police said Saturday.
tinyurl.com/45xett
IAEA shows photos alleging Iran worked on nuclear missile:
The UN nuclear watchdog has shown its members documents and photographs suggesting that Iran secretly tried to modify a missile cone to carry a nuclear bomb, diplomats said.
tinyurl.com/52g65f
US officer warns Israel not to hit Iran:
An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear installations would destabilise the region and open a new battlefront which could have a damaging effect on Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior American army commander said yesterday.
tinyurl.com/4pcc7l
Russia opposes new UN sanctions on Iran for now:
Russia spoke out against a fourth round of UN sanctions against Tehran at a meeting of the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany in Washington on Friday, the Foreign Ministry said.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1022821.html
Palin Warns Of ‘Second Holocaust’:
Palin said. I will continue to call for sustained action to prevent Iranian President Ahmadinejad from getting these weapons that he wants for a second Holocaust.
www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212173448.shtml
Sarah Palin blames ‘Democrat partisans’ for withdrawn invitation to anti-Iran rally:
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told supporters Friday that Democrat partisans had pressured organizers of an anti-Iran rally in New York next week to withdraw an invitation for her to appear.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1022772.html
John Bolton: An Obama Win Means Nuclear Armageddon:
“I think we’ve exhausted the diplomatic option,” he repeated. “I think we’re left with unattractive alternatives because of Iran’s progress.”
tinyurl.com/3nfkyj
Diplomats: No evidence Syria site bombed by IAF was nuclear reactor:
Diplomats say partial results of samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel last September show nothing to back up U.S. assertions that the target was a secret nuclear reactor.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1022860.html
Report: Palestinian woman killed as IOF soldiers shove her to ground:
“She went outside in order to prevent them from arresting someone in her house,” one of the students, who would only be identified by his nickname, Abu Yaffa, told Reuters. “They knocked her down and there was blood on her head.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023047.html
Israel occupation troops kill 14yr boy near settlement:
Israeli occupation troops have shot a 14-year-old Palestinian dead near Nablus, saying he was holding a petrol bomb in an area of the West Bank where Arabs and Jewish settlers have clashed violently this month.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/21/2370009.htm?section=justin
Abbas: I won’t accept agreement that reduces Palestinian territory:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned on Friday that if Israel and the Palestinians fail to reach a peace accord soon, “the parameters of the debate are apt to shift dramatically.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1022868.html
Fatah armed wing slams Hamas-Israel ceasefire in Gaza:
“The lull in the Gaza Strip in fragile and only serves the security of the enemy,” a statement of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said. The ceasefire’s “final opportunity is in the end of this month.”
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/20/content_10084342.htm
Labor sources: Barak seeks early general elections:
Defense Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu met late Saturday night at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv to discuss political developments, following the election of Kadima’s new leader, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1022882.html
South Ossetia holds Independence Day parade; features captured military booty:
”For 18 years the people of South Ossetia, day after day, have been declaring and proving their right to an equal place among other nations of the world,” South Ossetia’s leader Eduard Kokoity said in remarks broadcast on state-run Russian television.
www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.
do?pn=world&articleID=2999568
Putin Says Georgian Regions to Decide Moscow Troop Presence:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says it is up to Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to decide how many Russian troops can stay in their territories.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-20-voa16.cfm
The West Hails Georgia As a Democracy.
But Is It One?: John McCain has called Georgia a “tiny little democracy” and declared “We are all Georgians now” after Russia moved in to South Ossetia, suggesting a threat to Georgia was a threat to all freedom. Joe Biden calls it a “young democracy,” and Barack Obama’s point man on Russia, Michael McFaul, also referred to it as a democracy in recent congressional testimony.
www.newsweek.com/id/160053
Gates warns next. U.S. president about Russia:
Gates’ remarks appeared to be a warning to politicians like Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, who have pushed for the United States to isolate Russia after its military confrontation with Georgia and back the small former Soviet republic at all costs.
www.twincities.com/national/ci_10512970?nclick_check=1
US Interrogator: You have THREE minutes to live: : Video –
The torturer is seen to strangle this man with a cable tie and then chillingly tell him, “You have 3 minutes to live”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocneQaBFvXg
UN warns of maternal mortality rate:
More than 500,000 women die unnecessarily during pregnancy and childbirth each year, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/
09/2008919235219582874.html
US takeovers dwarf my nationalisations:
Venezuela’s Chavez: Chavez said the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression was the crash of “neo-liberal” capitalism, and showed his “21st Century Socialism” was the way forward.
tinyurl.com/4hwpmd
Venezuelan President Starts 6-Nation ‘Strategic Interest’ Tour Sun:
-Leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday sets out on a tour he has said holds “great strategic interest,” with stops in China, Russia, Cuba, Belarus, Portugal and France.
tinyurl.com/5xmmq6
Suitcase full of cash adds to Chavez corruption claims:
A suitcase filled with $800,000 in cash has embroiled Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez in a scandal which has fuelled claims of corruption and cover-up at the heart of his self-styled socialist revolution.
tinyurl.com/4jwe57
Morales offers autonomy hope for eastern states:
Bolivian President Evo Morales has offered to include eastern provinces’ autonomy demands in his proposed new constitution, raising hopes for a solution to Bolivia’s bloody political crisis.
www.breakingnews.ie/world/mhqlideyojey/rss2/
Colombian trade unions fight on:
While walking to his clothes shop at 8 am on August 8 this year in the heavily militarised Colombian town of Saravena, two men shot him 17 times. – The murder of this 43-year-old was not an act of retribution over a business disagreement or over a family dispute. Prada was killed – by men believed to be a right-wing paramilitary – for being a trade union leader.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2008/09/2008919201016521775.html
Ecuador Has Budget Surplus in First Half, President Correa Says:
On Sept. 28, Ecuador will hold a referendum on a new constitution that calls for raising spending on health and education
tinyurl.com/3ujs8p
PERU: Military Wants to Keep Massacres Buried:
The Peruvian army continues to withhold information from the legal authorities who are investigating the murders committed by members of the military during the country’s 1980-2000 armed conflict.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43923
What our country desperately needs is a leader who loves us:
Americans have been treated with contempt for so long that we have become inured to our own society’s suffering
tinyurl.com/3kljsm
Bush pushes $700bn bail-out plan:
Bush justified the move on Saturday to use American taxpayer funds to buy out mortgage-related debt, describing it as “bold” but necessary.
english.aljazeera.net/business/2008/09/200892019449216337.html
Ron Paul warns of fall of dollar: “It’s more of the same.
More debt and more inflation and more pressure on the dollar. Ultimately, although the markets are responding very favorably at the moment, I think it is going to be devastating to the dollar and to our financial situation in this country,” US News quoted the Texas congressman as saying
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=70049§ionid=3510203
McCain Praised Banking Deregulation Earlier
This Month: In a magazine article published earlier this month, John McCain not only claimed credit for the banking deregulation, but he hailed it as a model for what should be done with health care
www.jedreport.com/2008/09/mccain-praised-banking-deregul.html
U.S. regulators close W. Va bank; 12th to fail:
Regulators closed on Friday Ameribank Inc, which became the 12th bank failure this year as the struggling economy and falling home prices take their toll on financial institutions.
www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN1939567120080919
15 Things You Need to Know About the Panic of 2008:
A crash course in why it happened, how it’s strangling the nation’s finances and how it might work itself out.
tinyurl.com/3uuqbd