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 4,172
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$557,116,259,905
See the cost in your community
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Pakistani Troops Fire on US Helicopters at Border
By FISNIK ABRASHI
Two American OH-58 reconnaissance helicopters, known as Kiowas, were on a routine afternoon patrol in the eastern province of Khost when they received small arms fire from a Pakistani border post, said Tech Sgt. Kevin Wallace, a U.S. military spokesman.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20855.htm
Israel Asked US for Green Light to Bomb Nuclear Sites in Iran
By Jonathan Steele
US president told Israeli prime minister he would not back attack on Iran, senior European diplomatic sources tell Guardian.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20859.htm
When Ignorance Meets Arrogance
Palin on Iran’s Ahmadinejad: ‘He Must Be Stopped’
By Sarah Palin – (Full Text of Planned Remarks)
In a speech prepared for the Jewish sponsored Anti-Iran rally during Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN on September 22 2208, Palin promised that she would do everything possible to “stop” the danger of a nuclear Iran – even beyond sanctions.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20858.htm
Horrors of War Our Leaders Never Have to Confront
By Robert Fisk
Private James Owen was to describe how an enraged friend was trying to bayonet another German. “He lunged at the German again and again, who each time lowered his arms and stopped the point of the bayonet with his bare hands. He was screaming for mercy. Oh God it was brutal!”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20856.htm
The Blood of Dresden
By Kurt Vonnegut
The author Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner of war in Dresden during the allied bombing raids and was later forced to dig out bodies from the ruined city. In papers discovered by his son after his death last year, he provides a searing eyewitness account of the ‘obscene brutality’ that inspired his novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20857.htm
The New World War
The Silence Is A Lie
By John Pilger
It is a war of the world. In Latin America, the Bush administration is fomenting incipient military coups in Venezuela, Bolivia, and possibly Paraguay, democracies whose governments have opposed Washington’s historic rapacious intervention in its “backyard”. Washington’s “Plan Colombia” is the model for a mostly unreported assault on Mexico.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20864.htm
Morales Cites “Evidence” of U.S. Meddling
By Haider Rizvi
Bolivian President Evo Morales reiterated the charge Tuesday that the U.S. government was plotting to overthrow his government and that Washington had a hand in the recent episodes of violence in which a number of his supporters were killed and wounded by opposition gangs.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20860.htm
The Destabilization of Bolivia and the “Kosovo Option”
By Michel Chossudovsky
The death squads armed with automatic weapons responsible for killing supporters of Evo Morales in El Porvenir are supported covertly by the US. According to one report, “USAID has an “Office of Transition Initiatives” operating in Bolivia, funneling millions of dollars of training and support to right-wing opposition regional governments and movements.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20861.htm
The Future Is One Nation
The two-state approach in the Middle East has failed. There is a fairer, more durable solution
By Ghada Karmi
Imagine the scene: the United Nations general assembly meets to discuss a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Unlike previous resolutions, which have been based on a Jewish state in most of historic Palestine with Palestinians relegated to the remnants, this one calls for a new state, covering what is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, whose present and former inhabitants are equal under the law. Such a resolution has, in fact, already been drafted and discussions have begun to place it on the agenda at the UN.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20865.htm
The Creation of the Second Great Depression
By Ron Paul
Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike. The events of the past week are no exception.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20862.htm
Show Us the Money
By William Greider
Taxpayers should wake up the politicians and ask them to tell Wall Street: “We want the same deal Warren Buffett got.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20867.htm
Richest Americans See Their Income Share Grow
By Jesse Drucker
In a new sign of increasing inequality in the U.S., the richest 1% of Americans in 2006 garnered the highest share of the nation’s adjusted gross income for two decades, and possibly the highest since 1929, according to Internal Revenue Service data.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20863.htm
America’s Elephant In The Room
By David Michael Green
The scope of the destruction is breathtaking to gaze upon. The rapidity with which American affluence and power and respect and responsibility were converted into their opposite numbers is mind-boggling.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20868.htm
McCain’s Debate Ploy
By Michael Tomasky
A move so unserious, contemptible and cynical that it’s hard to imagine how they even thought of it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20866.htm
Death toll from N.Iraq ambush rises to 35 – police:
Gunmen killed policemen and members of U.S.-backed Sunni local patrol groups in the attack close to the city of Baquba in Diyala province, police said.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=373426
Eleven police killed as Taliban attack dam project:
Eleven Afghan policemen were killed in the attack and several others wounded, on a weekend when the majority of fighters promised to lay down their weapons as part of a UN Peace Day
tinyurl.com/4vje6v
Bomb attacks kill three in Afghanistan:
Officials say separate bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan have killed two policemen and a civilian.
www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Sep/20080925News015.asp
Afghanistan: British commander call for more time and troops::
The commander of British troops in Afghanistan has said troop levels need to be raised by at least 50 per cent to fight a resurgent Taliban in Helmand and an international presence would be required in the country for up to 15 years.
tinyurl.com/3sepgj
Gates Is Pessimistic On Pakistani Support:
Pakistan’s leaders and military cannot publicly support U.S. cross-border operations against militant groups in Pakistan’s western tribal areas, but such strikes are needed to protect American troops in Afghanistan and defend the United States against its gravest terrorist threat, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday.
tinyurl.com/3vhtj6
US, Pakistani troops trade gunfire at border:
A U.S. military official says American and Pakistani troops traded gunfire during a five-minute skirmish on the Afghan-Pakistan border.
tinyurl.com/4gx5fy
No intrusion into Pak territory will be tolerated: Minister :
Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Labour and Manpower Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that no intrusion into Pakistani territory by any foreign power would be tolerated, Pakistan military is capable of defending every inch of the country.
tinyurl.com/4nmlfk
Pakistan: Thursday: 14 militants killed in Pakistan, airports on alert:
Helicopter gunships Thursday pounded militant positions in northwest Pakistan along the Afghan border, leaving 14 Taliban rebels dead
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/
2411cd3571b4f088/id/411044/cs/1/
25 militants, seven troops killed in Bajaur:
Thirty-two people, including 25 suspected militants and seven Pakistan Army soldiers, were killed and several others injured in fierce fighting and bombing by jet fighters and gunship choppers in the restive Bajaur Agency on Wednesday.
paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?206099
950 militants killed in Fata: Mukhtar:
Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has said that more than 950 militants have been killed in the operation in tribal areas, adding that the operation will continue till the elimination of every militant carrying out acts of sabotage across the country
www.dawn.com/2008/09/25/top8.htm
US suspends visa services in Pakistan:
He said the embassy also warned the American citizens not to stay in big hotels in Lahore, capital of eastern Pakistan’s Punjab province, after receiving a warning Wednesday night.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/25/content_10108700.htm
Orwell would be proud of her:
Palin: Iraq, Afghanistan presence makes US secure:
“I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security for our nation. We can never again let them onto our soil,” she responded.
www.bostonherald.com/news/national/
politics/2008/view.bg?articleid=1121472
House approves $612B defense bill with military pay raise:
Facing a veto threat, lawmakers backed away from provisions that would have limited the use of private security contractors in war zones.
hamptonroads.com/2008/09/house-
approves-612b-defense-bill-military-pay-raise
EU warns Iran close to nuclear arms capacity: –
Iran is nearing the ability to arm a nuclear warhead even if it insists its atomic activities are peaceful, the European Union warned Wednesday.
www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1482585
Peres: U.S. has no choice but to save world from Ahmadinejad:
The United States has no choice but to save the world by stopping Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Shimon Peres told Israel Radio on Thursday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1024426.html
US, Russia still at odds over Iran:
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have failed to overcome disagreements at a meeting in New York. Following the meeting, US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said that no common ground had been found on the issue of Iran’s nuclear program.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=70501§ionid=351020104
Iran’s president: Nation must control nuclear fuel:
Iran’s president says his country will not accept Western proposals to abandon its program to create nuclear fuel and take enriched uranium from outside sources. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran could not guarantee that other nations would keep promises to supply Iran’s planned reactors.
www.620ktar.com/?nid=46&sid=964380
Iran tries to make nuclear arguments heard:
Amid a chorus of criticism from the United States and its allies over Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran is trying to make its case to the U.N. atomic watchdog that it is not seeking nuclear weapons, arguing that it’s being tried on evidence that it’s not allowed to see.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/25/
europe/EU-Nuclear-Irans-Argument.php
“Ahmadinejad wants peace”: “Ultra”Orthodox Jews: Rabbi Weiss:
‘We know he is not an enemy to the Jews, he has a Jewish community in his country that he honors, defends and supports’
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3602030,00.html
Israel ambassador to UN: General Assembly chief is an Israel hater:
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev on Thursday called the President of the UN General Assembly Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann an “Israel hater” for having hugged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a vocal enemy of Israel.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1024552.html
Quartet ‘failing’ in Middle East:
The 21 agencies issued their report on Thursday saying the EU, Russia, the US and the UN had not delivered on half of their goals, and that in some instances, the situation had become worse since the much-hyped Annapolis conference last year.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2008/09/2008925113056366413.html
Arab League gets UN hearing on illegal Israeli “settlements”:
The UN Security Council has agreed to hold a high-level open debate Friday on the ongoing Israeli settlement building in the West Bank.
tinyurl.com/3ghpnl
Lebanese President to Bush: Palestinian refugees’ future is in their homeland, not Lebanon:
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Thursday emphasized his country’s claim to territory held by Israel and told U.S. President George W. Bush the future of Palestinian refugees was in their homeland, not Lebanon.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1024555.html
Twenty killed in fighting in occupied Somalia:
Twenty civilians were killed and 33 wounded in heavy artillery exchange between insurgents and African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Somalia, witnesses and hospital sources said on Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/43lj7j
Putin calls for open border between Russia, S.Ossetia: Interfax: –
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for an open border with Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia on Thursday while Moscow’s mayor went further, saying it was already “de facto” in Russia, Interfax news agency reported.
tinyurl.com/48fufy
Russia Signals Its Intention to Step Up Its Influence in Latin America:
When the Bush administration dispatched two U.S. warships to the Black Sea to deliver humanitarian aid to war-stricken Georgia, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reacted with indignation and a warning. “There will be an answer,” Putin said during a visit to Uzbekistan. Asked to elaborate, Putin replied, “You’ll see.”
tinyurl.com/4kj9sp
Russia offers $1bn loan to Chavez:
Russia has announced a $1bn loan to Venezuela to buy arms during a visit by Hugo Chavez, the country’s president.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008
/09/2008925112447487826.html
Venezuela foils suspected Chavez assassination:
Venezuelan authorities have arrested two people suspected of plotting to kill Hugo Chavez by blowing up the president’s plane with an anti-tank weapon, the country’s top security official said.
www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article
.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10534230
New documentary on Pinochet’s dictatorship:
Some wounds should not heal: “The Judge and the General” tells the story of recent efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators of horrific acts of political repression committed three decades ago under Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet
www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/pino-s25.shtml
Pakistani Journalist Says US Destroyed His Life:
“I was tortured and jailed for 11 months and 20 days for doing nothing,” he added. “They have destroyed my future, my soul. I’ll fight until they apologize to me and give me back what I have lost,” he said.
poligazette.com/2008/09/24/pakistani-
journalist-says-us-destroyed-his-life/
US court: MonitoringMuslims was constitutional:
A federal appeals court says it was constitutional for the United States to require visitors from two dozen Arab and Muslim countries and North Korea to register with immigration authorities.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080924/ap_on_re_us/monitoring_muslims
Lawmakers: Wall Street rescue accord reached:
Dodd, Frank: Agreement in principle, expect passage of bill within days
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26884523
Bailout Could Deepen Crisis, CBO Chief Says:
Congress’s top bookkeeper — said the bailout could expose the way companies are stowing toxic assets on their books, leading to greater problems.
tinyurl.com/4mpzco
White House Admits It Drew Up Bailout Months Ago:
White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto insisted that the plan was not slapped together and had been drawn up as a contingency over previous months and weeks by administration officials. He acknowledged lawmakers were getting only days to peruse it, but he said this should be enough.
www.rollcall.com/news/28599-1.html?type=printer_friendly
Rumours spark Hong Kong bank run:
Hundreds of customers have descended on branches of Hong Kong’s Bank of East Asia (BEA) to demand their deposits back amid continuing nervousness over the state of global financial markets.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008
/09/20089254938144981.html
China banks told to halt lending to US banks-SCMP:
Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK16693720080925
Europe and Japan turn cold shoulder to U.S. plea for bank bailouts:
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, also took the opportunity to sharply criticize the United States and Britain for opposing German attempts to put greater regulation, or at least reviews, of the financial sector on the international agenda last year, when she was chairing the Group of 7 industrialized nations.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/22/business/euro.php
In case you missed it:
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending:
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
tinyurl.com/4ulb87
Hedge funds move $100bn into safe havens:
Citigroup estimates that hedge funds have now placed $600bn in cash, and that $100bn of this is held in money market funds, normally seen as some of the safest places to invest cash
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bb6ff882-8a68-11dd-a76a
-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1