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 4,176
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$558,782,703,480
See the cost in your community
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Not One Dime!
By Mike Whitney
The country has no time for this cynical scavenger-hunt. The system is listing badly and we have ONE chance to get this emergency bill right. There is no way an industry rep like Henry Paulson, who has spent his entire career feathering his own nest and handing out plums to his buddies, can operate in the best interests of the American people. Paulson has got to go!
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20915.htm
Lipstick on a Bailout
By Ron Paul
We do have tough economic times ahead, no doubt, no matter what we do, even if we do nothing. The question, is will we have the courage to take our medicine now and get it over with, or will we prolong the misery for many years to come? I’m less and less optimistic about the answer to that question.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20912.htm
Government Assistance
Bailing Out The Oil Market
By William Pentland
While everyone knows the U.S. government is looking to bail Wall Street banks, few people realize that it’s also bailing out speculative oil and commodities traders in the process, fueling a sharp rise in energy prices.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20910.htm
Bailout Lesson
Capital Crisis Will Wreck Both Parties
By Glen Ford
In their role as mercenaries in service of finance capital, three-fifths of Democrats joined one-third of Republicans in a (temporarily) failed heist of $700 billion of the people’s funds – a nest-egg the public needs to hold onto to weather the unfolding collapse of the Lords of Capital.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20917.htm
The Art of Politics
By Jim Kirwan
Overlooked in the dictator’s tirade was the fact that the negotiations in Washington are only between the White House, the congress and the Corporate Oligarchs that created this fiasco: Their ‘conversations’ and this legislation have shut-out the public; especially those that have everything to lose.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20916.htm
In case you missed it
The Century of the Self
A Must Watch Video
How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm
Congress approval rating just 10%
Bush Goes From ‘Lame To Dead Duck’
By Simon Tisdall in Washington
Eminent reputations lie in ruins; the august institutions of Congress, the treasury, the Federal Reserve tremble; the presidency itself is shaken. In America’s year of living dangerously, few will emerge unscathed.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20913.htm
The Ho Chi Minh trail leads to Baghdad
By Muhammad Cohen
McCain still believes that in Iraq and Vietnam the problem was the wrong strategy, not the wrong war. It may be the last thing in this campaign McCain says that’s true to his core beliefs and record, but he’s wrong. Dead wrong.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20911.htm
Mad Dog Palin
By Matt Taibbi
The scariest thing about John McCain’s running mate isn’t how unqualified she is — it’s what her candidacy says about America.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20914.htm
Pakistani Tribesmen Kill 13 Taliban Militants:
Pakistani tribesmen supporting a government assault on Islamist militants near the troubled Afghan frontier have killed 13 Taliban insurgents, officials said Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/4c9obt
US attack kills five in Pakistan :
A security official said the pilotless drone fired two missiles at a house in a village near the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan about midnight Tuesday.
tinyurl.com/4fnwkr
Prime Minister terms US attacks inside Paksitan terrorism:
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has termed the US attacks inside Pakistan’s territory as terrorism. Speaking to media persons at Prime Minister House here on Wednesday
www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/Oct08/01/02.htm
New head of ISI; Karzai calls for Taliban talks:
Eric Margolis: Political stability is unattainable in Afghanistan without dialog with the Taliban
tinyurl.com/4c55uy
Spanish report links Pakistan to Taliban:
A report marked confidential and bearing the official seal of Spain’s Defense Ministry charges that Pakistan’s spy service was helping arm Taliban insurgents in 2005 for assassination plots against the Afghan government.
www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/spanish
-report-links-pakistan-to-taliban-1/
Top Pakistan militant ‘not dead’:
A spokesman for the Taleban in Pakistan has denied media reports that leading militant Baitullah Mehsud has died of an illness.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7646244.stm
Pakistani Taliban leader Mehsud seriously ill: officials, militants:
Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud is seriously ill with diabetes and may even be in a coma, security officials and militant commanders close to the Al-Qaeda-linked warlord said Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/4ugklu
Landmine blast kills four Pakistani soldiers:
Authorities blame such attacks on Baloch nationalists, who are fighting security forces and are demanding more rights and share in the province’s natural resources
www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=607689
US losing war in Afghanistan, Pak tribal region: former army chief:
Former Pakistani Army chief General `Retd` Mirza Aslam Beg on Tuesday said that US has almost lost its war in Afghanistan and Pakistani tribal region and soon will leave with empty hands.
www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=607675
British envoy says mission in Afghanistan says the war is lost:
The US-led campaign in Afghanistan received a blow today with a leaked report that the British Ambassador in Kabul believes that US strategy is wrong and the war is as good as lost.
tinyurl.com/4aef77
General wants help in Afghanistan now:
The top American military commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that he needs more troops and other aid “as quickly as possible” in a counterinsurgency battle that could get worse before it gets better.
tinyurl.com/4luvpa
Sept sees 440 civilians, security staff killed in Iraq:
The number of Iraqi civilians and security personnel killed in insurgent and militia violence in September was 440, little changed from August, security officials said on Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/4at7pe
Maliki says Iraq ready to compromise on US security pact;
Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki said Monday that the government was ready to compromise to reach a security accord with the United States, saying the country still needs US troops despite the recent drop in violence.
tinyurl.com/3ejk5c
Czechs to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq:
The Czech government approved a Defense Ministry plan to withdraw 15 of its 20 troops from Iraq and increase the number of troops in Afghanistan by 230 next year, an official said Wednesday.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/01/europe
/EU-Czech-Iraq-Afghanistan.php
U.S. transfers Awakening fighters to Iraq:
The U.S. military Wednesday began transferring control of the roughly 100,000 fighters belonging to the Sunni “Awakenings” councils to the Iraqi government.
tinyurl.com/3f8jhr
Iraq government to pay Sunni groups:
The Awakening groups emerged in 2005 when Sunni tribesmen, who had previously fought the US military and Iraqi government forces, allied with US forces, accepting arms, money and training.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008
/10/200810151630737451.html
Rival Hamas, Fatah leaders pledge Palestinian unity bid:
Officials of the rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas movements celebrated the end of the holy month of Ramadan on Tuesday with pledges to seek unity at internal talks in Cairo in the coming weeks.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/30/content_10136961.htm
Diplomat: Iran asks IAEA not to take moves beyond Safeguards:
Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltanieh said here Wednesday that Iran will continue cooperation with the IAEA, expecting the Agency not to take any steps beyond its charter and comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.
www1.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0810010807180151.htm
Syria, Afghanistan battle for seat on IAEA board:
Despite opposition from the West and the United States in particular, Syria appears determined to pursue its bid for a seat on the UN atomic watchdog’s board, now that Iran is officially out of the running.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081001/wl_sthasia
_afp/iaeanuclearpoliticsiransyria
Iran backs Syria at nuclear body:
An Iranian envoy says Tehran has dropped its bid for a seat on the board of the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7646782.stm
Khamenei: Iran will never abandon Hamas, its holy warrior Haniyeh:
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday said his country will stand beside Gaza’s Hamas rulers and that Israel is weakening and on the path to eventual destruction.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025552.html
U.S. approves “sale” to Israel of 25 F-35 fighter jets:
The Israeli embassy in Washington bent over backwards to have the deal approved by the current Congress, and a critical development in the legislation was achieved this weekend.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025528.html
Russian ambassador: We are looking to boost Bolivia ties:
Golubev said he would like to see Russia’s ties with Bolivia one day “approach the level” of its growing partnership with Venezuela, which will host the Russian navy for military exercises in the Caribbean later this year.
tinyurl.com/3h5vq7
Chavez: Financial crisis ‘a failure of capitalism’:
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has called the US financial crisis a failure of free-market capitalism that could cause as much damage as “a hundred hurricanes”, driving down prices for oil and other commodities and harming economies worldwide.
www.breakingnews.ie/world/mhqlsnidmhcw/rss2/
US “Irresponsiblity” Caused Financial Crisis – Putin:
“This is not the irresponsibility of specific individuals but the irresponsibility of the system, which claimed leadership.”
tinyurl.com/4bhlt7
US ‘casino’ mentality blamed for planet’s meltdown:
Latin American leaders say the U.S. must quickly fix the financial crisis it created before the rest of the world’s hard-won economic gains are lost.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_meltdown_pointing_fingers
No “Bailout” for The World’s Poorest:
Addressing delegates last week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the current gloomy outlook threatens the well-being of billions of people, “none more so than the poorest of the poor.”
www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/30
Human costs of food crisis:
In Sri Lanka, dramatic increases in the price of food have caused malnutrition rates to soar
www.guardian.co.uk/alloutonpoverty/human.costs
Financial crisis: Ireland’s banks are rescued:
Ireland has launched a full-scale rescue of its financial system, issuing a state guarantee worth €400bn (£316bn) to cover the key liabilities of its biggest banks and mortgage lenders.
tinyurl.com/3rudmq
EU attacks Govt bail-out plans:
The Irish government’s decision to guarantee the debts and deposits of the country’s six largest banks drew a thinly-veiled attack from the Brussels Commission today.
www.thepost.ie/breakingnews/business/mhqlsnidsncw/
UBS to chop 1,900 jobs:
The cuts add to the 7,000 already announced by Zurich-based UBS, and would bring to more than 131,700 the total number of jobs eliminated at banks worldwide since July 2007.
www.financialpost.com/reports/credit-crunch/story.html?id=853088
McCain urges Bush to bypass Congress:
Senator John McCain has urged the Bush administration to bypass Congress and spend a whopping one trillion dollars on bad mortgages.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=71041§ionid=3510203
Banking Collapse Lands on America’s Schools:
One of the worst casualties of the Iraq war and the Wall Street failures is the U.S. public school system, which is central to the nation’s economic, intellectual and social health. With financial resources being consumed, education cuts are on the way.
tinyurl.com/4522a2
Ford sales drop 33.8%:
Ford Motor Co.’s U.S. vehicle sales plummeted a breathtaking 33.8% in September, as the nation spiraled into an economic crisis that has stifled consumer lending for cars, homes and other large purchases.
www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20081001/BUSINESS01/81001053
Nearly 1 in 5 car dealerships could fail: study:
As many as 3,800 U.S. car dealerships could fail this fall and into 2009 — nearly one in five — because of weak sales, increased operational costs and the credit crunch, according to a forecast released on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE49069R20081001
Manufacturing shrinks to lowest level since 2001:
A measure of U.S. manufacturing activity contracted more than expected last month, hitting the lowest level since the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, as new orders slowed dramatically.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/01/america/Economy.php
Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Declined 16.3% in July:
House prices in 20 U.S. cities declined in July at the fastest pace on record, signaling the worst housing recession in a generation had yet to trough even before this month’s credit crisis.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2060
1103&sid=aEyKpTpk90C0&refer=us
Alabama county to miss $83M payment on bond debt:
The president of the Jefferson County Commission, Betty Fine Collins, said the county lacks the cash to make the payment, due Tuesday afternoon. Lenders previously extended a deadline for the payment.
www.wtvm.com/global/story.asp?s=9099454
Chicago Midway in $2.5bn privatisation deal:
Chicago Midway on Tuesday became the first big US airline hub to be put up for privatisation in a $2.5bn deal with a consortium, including Canada’s Vancouver airport.
tinyurl.com/4x2v3h