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
$559,078,346,243
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Iraq: They Make It a Desert and Call It Peace
By Eric Margolis
Senator McCain’s insistent claims that the US is winning the war in Iraq thanks to his “surge” strategy are the military-political equivalent of the junk securities that Wall Street’s shady financiers have been selling around the globe.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20918.htm
Iraq Facing New Civil War, Insurgency
By Robert Dreyfuss
What does the start of a new civil war in Iraq look like? It looks a lot like this.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20925.htm
“The Age of the Warrior”:
Robert Fisk on the U.S. Elections, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine
By Democracy Now!
As the US-led wars in the Middle East shows no sign of abating we turn now to a man who has chronicled eleven major wars in this part of the world.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20921.htm
America’s War, Not Ours
By by Ahmed Quraishi
For the growing chorus in the liberal sections of the Pakistani media that wants to ‘own’ this war, we must understand this: the occupation of Afghanistan and the elimination of Afghan resistance groups is not Pakistan’s war. Our war is limited to the insurgencies raging from Gwadar to the Chinese border with partial malicious support from the Afghan soil.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20919.htm
The New American Century: Cut Short By 92 Years
By Mike Whitney
There’s trouble ahead. The multi-polar world is about to collide head-on with the “faith-based” unipolar world and millions are bound to suffer. But there is no doubt about the final outcome. The geopolitical plates are shifting inexorably away from Washington. America’s ability to wage war will steadily erode as capital and resources dry up. Its only a matter of time before the war machine sputters to a halt and the troops return home. When the killing stops, a truly new world order will begin.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20926.htm
‘US Dominance is Over’ – Medvedev
By The BBC
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20924.htm
Bailout Focus On House as Crisis Spreads
By Eddie Evans and Ralph Boulton
U.S. factory orders fell 4 percent in August, on top of data on Wednesday that showed manufacturing activity in September at its weakest since the 2001 recession. U.S. jobless claims rose last week to their highest level in seven years, ahead of September payrolls data due out on Friday.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20922.htm
What’s in the Senate Financial Rescue Plan
By CNBC staff and wire reports
There’s help for film and TV producers, motorsports and the wool trust fund. There’s even a tax break for makers of wooden practice arrows for children.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20923.htm
No Debate:
How they Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
By Democracy Now!
The Obama and McCain campaigns jointly negotiated a detailed secret contract dictating the terms of all the 2008 debates. This includes who gets to participate, as well as the topics raised during the debates.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20920.htm
Iraq: Thursday: At least 38 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
In Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed 14 people and wounded 28 others at a mosque in Zaafaraniyah.
www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=13542
Iraq remains ‘locked in conflict’:
The number of Iraqi security forces killed in September rose by nearly a third to 159 compared with the same period last year
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7645295.stm
Justice Denied?
US soldier jailed for 8 months over shooting of Iraq prisoner:
Ribordy was present when four unarmed, handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi detainees were shot dead near a canal in Baghdad in March or April 2007, US military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported, citing court testimony.
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1002/breaking81.htm
Former Abu Ghraib guard says prisoners were treated even worse than was reported:
“The public was told the problem was resolved when a few people were prosecuted,” the decorated war veteran told a recent gathering of anti-war activists in Madison. “But the culture and the political reality that turned Abu Ghraib into a concentration camp was never addressed. Nothing in the camp really changed.”
www.madison.com/tct/news/307209
US seizes ‘$5bn of Saddam’s assets’:
The Bush administration used the past three years to trace Saddam’s assets in Europe and has thus been able to confiscate $5 billion, according to Ali al-Baghdadi.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=71141§ionid=351020201
Pakistan Troops Kill 25 Taliban In Border Area Clashes: –
Pakistani troops backed by artillery killed 25 Taliban militants in the latest clashes in the troubled tribal district of Bajaur on the Afghan border, officials said Thursday.
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Pakistani officials say U.S. attack killed six people:
A suspected U.S. missile strike on a Taliban commander’s home in Pakistan killed six people, officials said Wednesday, a possible indication that Washington was moving ahead with cross-border raids despite protests from the new government.
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5 killed as prominent Pakistani political leader survives assassination attempt:
A leader of the ruling party in Pakistan’s militancy-hit North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) escaped assassination attempt Thursday, in which five persons, including two policemen, were killed.
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US cannot fight terrorism without Pakistan’s support: Gilani:
The US cannot win its fight against terrorism without Pakistan’s support, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Thursday, a day after he condemned US aerial attacks inside the country as “acts of terrorism”.
tinyurl.com/42dmlr
Manufacturing Consent For An Attacks On Pakistan?:
Trio of warlords blamed for resistance to occupation in Afghanistan :
The three men, who sometimes cooperate with one another, work largely unhindered from bases in Pakistan. U.S. strikes against them have proved futile.
tinyurl.com/43oewc
Kabul and the coming chaos:
The Foreign Office can deny its Afghan ambassador’s reported remarks; in reality, it must know the truth of his bleak assessment
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/02/afghanistan.foreignpolicy
Kazakhstan concerned over situation in Afghanistan;
Tazhin said the Government of Kazakhastan has adopted a special plan on assistance to Afghanistan.
www.pajhwok.com/viewstory.asp?lng=eng&id=62936
Taliban Set Conditions before Serious Negotiations:
Mohammad Siddiq Tashakkuri, the former Afghan information minister, confirmed in a telephone interview with Asharq Al-Awsat that Afghan President Hamed Karzai did indeed send a letter to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Bin-Abdulaziz two months ago asking him to intervene to end the violence in Afghanistan.
www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=14266
India: US Atomic Pact Sign ‘World Needs India’:
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of overturning a three-decade ban on atomic trade with India, allowing American businesses to begin selling nuclear fuel, technology and reactors in exchange for safeguards and U.N. inspections of India’s civilian nuclear plants.
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5936990
Pakistan wants civil nuke deal with US:
Pakistan’s prime minister says his country wants a similar nuclear deal as its neighbour, following India’s landmark agreement with the United States.
www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2380971.htm?tab=latest
Without assured nuclear supply Iran will keep enriching: envoy: –
Iran will continue to enrich uranium while there is no legally-binding international assurance of a nuclear fuel supply, the country’s envoy to the UN’s nuclear energy watchdog said Thursday.
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Iran: We will not suspend enrichment:
Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA says there is no technical or legal justification for Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=71149§ionid=351020104
Report: Israel believes Syria renewing its nuclear activity:
Israel believes that Syria has renewed its nuclear activity with the intention of attaining weapons along the Iranian model, the Arabic-language A-Sharq al-Awsat reported on Thursday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1025851.html
Israeli commander says settler violence rising:
The Israeli military commander in the occupied West Bank said settler violence against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers was on the rise in what he called a “grave phenomenon.”
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/10/02/57583.html
How I became a target for Israel’s ‘Jewish terrorists’:
Peace campaigner attacked with a pipe bomb tells Donald Macintyre why right-wing extremism should be feared
tinyurl.com/44l6ac
Putin accuses Ukraine of sending military into Georgia:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is accusing Ukraine of sending military personnel to fight against Russia in Georgia.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-02-putin-georgia_N.htm
Ukraine sold arms to Georgia: Russian newspaper;
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko sold arms to Georgia to help it fight the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia and Russia, the Russian daily Izvestia reports in its Thursday edition.
tinyurl.com/535ukq
Tactical nuclear weapons can be allocated in Georgia and Ukraine:
If Ukraine and Georgia join NATO, tactical nuclear weapons can be allocated in those countries, declared Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council.
www.regnum.ru/english/1063182.html
Investigating ‘Africa’s Guantanamo’:
Salim Awadh is talking to me from inside a cell somewhere in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7644989.stm
Estimates show Palin assets top $1 million:
Add up the couple’s 2007 income and the estimated value of their property and investments and they appear to be worth at least $1.2 million. That would make the Palins, like Democratic vice presidential rival Joe Biden and his wife Jill, well-off but not nearly as wealthy as multimillionaire couples John and Cindy McCain and, to a lesser extent, Barack and Michelle Obama.
news.aol.com/article/estimates-show-palin-assets-top-1/197621?cid=12
France calls financial crisis summit:
UK prime minister Gordon Brown and the leaders of Germany and Italy are among those attending, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office said.
www.breakingnews.ie/world/mhidauauqlmh/rss2/
European Governments Should Look to Ireland’s Response on Credit Crisis:
This was the week the credit crisis swept Europe. The fireworks began on Monday as Glitnir bank in Iceland was nationalised; Hypo Real Estate in Germany was rescued by a consortium of other German banks; and Fortis, the largest private employer in Belgium, was propped up by governments in the Benelux countries.
tinyurl.com/4rl5r5
Bailout Passes U.S. Senate, House Foes Soften:
After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial industry bailout found a second life Wednesday, winning lopsided passage in the U.S. Senate and gaining ground in the House, where Republicans opposition softened.
www.citynews.ca/news/news_27503.aspx
Soros Says Paulson’s Financial-Rescue Plan Is `Ill-Conceived’:
Billionaire investor George Soros said the U.S. should inject equity into banks rather than buy their bad debts as proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in his financial-rescue package.
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Wall Street battered by economic fears, credit worry:
Stocks slid on Thursday as tight credit markets and bleak economic data forced investors to focus on the rocky road still ahead for the U.S. economy even if Congress passes a $700 billion rescue package.
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE48S24L20081002
Middle Americans unite against the great bank rescue:
“It’s goddamn un-American,” Mr Benway said as he leant against his pickup outside the Thrift Store in Richfield, Minnesota. “We don’t give money to companies. We’re not France – yet.” For Ms Valentine, sitting in a nearby mall: “Congress was right to vote the Bill down. It doesn’t tackle the root causes or help the people that need it.”
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