Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,273,378"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,177
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$561,289,619,341
See the cost in your community
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Black Friday?
By Mike Whitney
Panic has spread to stock markets around the world. A massive sell-off, which began when Henry Paulson announced a $700 billion bailout for the banking system, has turned into a global stampede.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20986.htm
A Solution?
By Paul Craig Roberts
Does the US have the leadership to realize the problem and to deal with it?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20985.htm
How to Save the U.S. Economy
By Richard C. Cook
Everything being suggested by the Obama/McCain campaigns is based on the failed Keynesian formula.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20987.htm
America As Superpower: Shaken, Not Deposed
By Howard LaFranchi
“The declinists predicting America’s demise as the preeminent global power are in overdrive with the financial crisis, and the declinists are wrong once again,” says Robert Lieber, professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington and author of “The American Era.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20978.htm
The Surge That Failed
Afghanistan Under the Bombs
By Anand Gopal
As he rounded the corner, he saw a crowd of people, villagers and factory workers, gathered around his destroyed house. An American bomb had flattened it into a pancake of cement blocks and pulverized bricks. He ran toward the scene. It was only when he shoved his way through the crowd and up to the wreckage that he actually saw it — his mother’s severed head lying amid mangled furniture.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20983.htm
Obama Threatens Dire Consequences if Iran Doesn’t Change its Ways
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told an audience at the second U.S. presidential debate on Tuesday that he would deliver a tough and direct message to Iran that if they did not change their behavior there would be dire consequences.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20981.htm
Unrepentant and Unbreakable
The Time for Mordechai Vanunu is Now
By Rannie AmiriI
The pressure exerted by Israel in goading the United States to attack Iran has been relentless, and thankfully, resisted up to now. In this context, is there any better person to receive the Peace Prize than the man who initially exposed the Middle East’s first-and only-nuclear power over two decades ago?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20982.htm
Many Approved Torture
Editorial
When it comes to the Bush administration’s disgraceful decision to torture terrorism suspects, there are plenty of officials to share the shame.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20980.htm
Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy
Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 Election
By Democracy Now!
Robert F. Kennedy. “A lot of Europeans wonder, why are Americans so crazy? They keep reelecting this guy. Well, the answer is, we don’t. You know, they keep stealing these elections. And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004, and they’re all set up to steal it again.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20984.htm
Senator Leahy Concerned about NorthCom’s New Army Unit
By Matthew Rothschild
While it states that such support “does not include military support to local law enforcement,” there is a provision in the directive for the military to take over functions of the civilian government.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20979.htm
Afghanistan: 48 Killed in another brutal day of US occupation: :
A suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan killed two Afghan officials and wounded three others, while 46 militants were killed in clashes with Afghan and foreign troops in the country’s south, officials said Friday
tinyurl.com/495yms
Pentagon source: strike killed 30 Afghan civilians:
The probe found that the strikes against a “suspected Taliban compound” in the western province of Herat killed about 30 civilians – not the five to seven the U.S. originally acknowledged, according to a Pentagon official
tinyurl.com/447om8
U.S. plans to train Afghanistan tribal militias:
The plan is controversial because it could extend the influence of warlords while undermining the government of President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, the capital.
tinyurl.com/4zr668
A strategy destined to fail?
A major new intelligence estimate by US defence establishment casts doubt on military strategy in Afghanistan
tinyurl.com/4hnnjf
Afghanistan military situation will worsen next year, Mullen says:
Last week, Gen. David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, also said the situation would likely worsen. McKiernan has asked for three more combat brigades.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/719487.html
French army chief agrees Afghanistan ‘cannot be won’:
France’s military chief, General Jean-Louis Georgelin, has echoed suggestions by a senior British military officer that the war in Afghanistan cannot be won.
tinyurl.com/4ts7t4
US should talk with its enemies: Petraeus:
General David Petraeus said Wednesday that attempts are being made to open talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan and that the United States should be prepared to engage with its enemies.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081008/pl_afp/usafghanistanmilitarypetraeus
Fighting talk is self-defeating:
As the generals say there is no military solution, Obama and McCain should cut the rhetoric and get real about Afghanistan
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/09/afghanistan.johnmccain
Afghanistan: The mystery of the missing opium:
It’s a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads. Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world’s demand for years has simply disappeared.
tinyurl.com/4w24gb
Suicide blast kills 32 in Pakistan: officials:
The toll from a suicide blast at an anti-Taliban tribal meeting in a restive Pakistani region near the Afghan border Friday has more than doubled to 32, a local government said.
tinyurl.com/4j475u
‘US attack’ kills nine in Pakistan;
Two missiles fired by a suspected US drone hit a residential compound in Tapai area of North Waziristan on Thursday, killing at least nine people.
www.dawn.com/2008/10/10/top6.htm
Pakistan condemn US strikes in border regions:
U.S. missile attacks on suspected militants in Pakistan’s northwest near Afghanistan are destabilizing the country and “helping the terrorists,” the Muslim nation’s Foreign Ministry said Friday.
www.njbiz.com/daily.asp?eDate=10/10/2008#76226
Pakistan seeks $10bn bailout from US, UK to avoid bankruptcy:
Facing imminent bankruptcy, terror-stricken Pakistan has dispatched its top finance officials to Washington, London and other friendly world capitals seeking a lifeline of over USD 10 billion in emergency aid.
tinyurl.com/4sqbma
Iraq: Friday: At Least 20 Iraqis Killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
At least 20 Iraqis were killed and 38 more were wounded in today’s attacks.
tinyurl.com/44ufxg
Iraqi Christian families flee Mosul death threats:
Some forty Christian families have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, bringing the number of Christian families who fled the city over the past three days to 295, a press spokesman for a political party with links to the Iraqi Christian community in Nineveh province has said.
tinyurl.com/3juy88
Iraq: Thursday at least 12 killed as US occupaion grinds on:
Saleh al-Ugaili, a member of the al-Sadr bloc in parliament, was killed in a bomb blast. Police confirmed the attack, adding that two of his bodyguards were killed and three wounded.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM923760.htm
US blamed for assassinating Iraqi MP: .
“The occupation forces sent us a message by staging this attack because of our stance against the agreement,” said Ahmed al-Massoudi, a Sadrist spokesman.
tinyurl.com/45h3rd
Anger against US mounts as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP:
Mourners shouted anti-US slogans, torched American and Israeli flags and called for a work stoppage in Baghdad’s Shiite bastion as a slain radical lawmaker was laid to rest on Friday.
tinyurl.com/4jhmx7
Presence of foreign forces in Iraq biggest problem – Iraqi parliament Speaker :
Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said in Tehran that the presence of foreign forces in the country is the biggest problem facing Iraq, while Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani reiterated his country’s support to Iraq.
tinyurl.com/3po6nk
Maliki says immunity still a problem despite US concessions:
Among sticking points is a demand that neither foreign troops nor civilian Americans should enjoy legal immunity while in Iraq, Maliki said.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZbRCB9fSmc00ayGwsnByOBDREfQ
Iraqi PM discusses US pact with Shiite cleric:
Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric indicated Friday he would not stand in the way of a long-term U.S. security deal if it’s approved by the country’s democratic institutions, the prime minister said.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD93NN40G0
‘US using debts to blackmail Iraq’:
Iraqi MPs say the US is using the country’s debts as leverage to force Baghdad into signing the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).
www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=71676§ionid=351020201
Turkey’s military attacks rebels in northern Iraq:
Turkey’s military says its warplanes and artillery units have bombed and killed a large group of Kurdish rebels as they tried to infiltrate Turkey from northern Iraq.
tinyurl.com/5xea8w
US: Pentagon rejects claims of 1991 nuclear explosion in Iraq:
Ryder was responding to claims made by a US veteran, and aired on Italian television, that a small five-kilotonne nuclear bomb was dropped in a deserted area outside the southern city of Basra, on the border of Iran.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2566841050
Iran bombs cross-border areas in Iraq:
Iran has bombed Kurdish rebel positions in villages along the Iraq-Iran border on Thursday, a senior Iraqi official has said.
tinyurl.com/4hue22
Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Tehran could make 60 nuclear bombs in two years, says US expert:
In an interview with AKI, Sokolski raised the alarm about Iran’s intentions, claiming that it would have sufficient plutonium after the opening of the Bushehr plant to construct from 30 to 60 bombs.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2568914430
Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
Russian scientist ‘helped Iran with nuclear weapons programme’:
A Russian scientist may have helped Iran to design advanced detonators whose only possible use would be in a nuclear weapon, according to United Nations inspectors.
tinyurl.com/54oza8
Evidence grows that Israel is preparing to attack Iran:
Several recent developments leave the strong suggestion that Israel is preparing to attack Iran — with significant help from the United States.
www.sacbee.com/110/story/1302631.html
Russia hints it won’t sell advanced missiles to Iran:
A Russian Foreign Ministry official is suggesting Moscow won’t sell advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Iran.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027637.html
Syria troops kill three in clashes at refugee camp:
Syrian security forces have killed three suspected “terrorists” in clashes at the Palestinian refugee camp in Yarmuk, south of Damascus, private Dunia television reported on Thursday.
tinyurl.com/4bc7dm
Jordan: New US base to train Iraqis and Palestinians, says report:
The United States military has recently built a new military base in Jordan where Iraqi and Palestinian Authority security personnel will be trained, according to pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2567039394
Hamas threatens deeper split if Abbas doesn’t call election:
A parliamentary resolution adopted yesterday by the government of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who serves as a de-facto Gaza prime minister, states that it will withdraw even that support if Mr. Abbas does not submit to elections when his four-year term expires.
tinyurl.com/4lafqp
Fresh clashes between Arabs, Jews erupt in Acre:
The riots, some of the worst the city has seen in years, began around midnight on Wednesday after an Arab resident of the Old City of Acre drove his car into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in eastern Acre, where he said he lived.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027942.html
Showdown ahead over 17 Guantánamo detainees:
The Justice Department says the judiciary does not have the power to release Guantánamo detainees into the US.
www.csmonitor.com/2008/1010/p02s01-usju.html
Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans:
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1
Homeland Security’s Space-Based Spying Goes Live:
While America’s attention has shifted to the economic meltdown and the presidential race between corporate favorites John McCain and Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Applications Office (NAO) “will proceed with the first phase of a controversial satellite-surveillance program,
www.inteldaily.com/?c=126&a=8374
States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal :
Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law
tinyurl.com/4f6yrg
John McCain’s Rage is a National Security Concern:
His belligerence is legendary. Even conservative Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi has said, “He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”
mx.youtube.com/watch?v=fAyK-enrF1g
Who owns the IMF?:
The International Monetary Fund could be a vital institution in the global economy – but only if reformed to reflect new realities
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/08/interestrates.banking
Indonesian stock exchange halted indefinitely:
The president of the Indonesian stock exchange says trading will be suspended indefinitely “to prevent deeper panic” after another huge drop on Wall Street.
tinyurl.com/4y3vxu
Russia’s Crash `Pretty Much the Same’ as 1929, Micex Chief Says:
The 67 percent decline in Russian equities this year resembles the U.S. stock market crash of 1929 because of the damaging effect of highly leveraged investors, the head of Russia’s Micex Stock Exchange said.
tinyurl.com/4kq53b
Russian President Endorses Emergency G8 Summit;
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Friday endorsed the idea of an emergency Group of Eight summit on the global financial crisis but insisted on major developing countries such as China and India being included.
tinyurl.com/3epmy4
Putin: US image damaged forever over economy woes: –
The financial crisis has irreparably damaged the image of the U.S. as the leader of the free world and the global economy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_putin
Financial Crisis: Gordon Brown demands £20 bn ‘British money’ from Iceland:
The Prime Minister said Britain would seize the assets of Icelandic companies and take “further action against the authorities” over the collapse of the island’s banks.
tinyurl.com/4vmgws
Selling frenzy persists as global stocks dive:
Global stocks dove head first to five-year lows on Friday at the end of a brutal week as even the traditional safe-havens of gold and government bonds suffered as fear-stricken investors sought refuge in cash.
uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE4990AL20081010
U.S. Weighs Backing Bank Debt:
Removing Deposit Insurance Limits Also on the Table
tinyurl.com/3pz94a
General Motors’ market cap plunges to 1929 level;
Stocks fall in Europe and US: General Motors shares have fallen 13% and the market capitalisation is down to the level it was at in March 1929 – at about $4 billion. It had a market cap of $52 billion in 2000. The stock has fallen 45% in the last month.
www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1014946.shtml
The current financial crisis is only the beginning:
One could argue that the banking crisis is just the cold sweat, not the flu that follows it.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/09/business/col10.php