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 4,181
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$561,697,601,944
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Berlusconi Says Leaders May Close World’s Markets
By Steve Scherer
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said political leaders are discussing the idea of closing the world’s financial markets while they “rewrite the rules of international finance.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20989.htm
Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
By Noam Chomsky
Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals – the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20992.htm
What will the US Foreign Policy be Tomorrow ?
By MICHEL COLLON
Five NATO generals prepare a world government ..?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20994.htm
The Sky is Falling on Mexico, Too
By JOHN ROSS
Like the Cassandras of Wall Street today, the bankers cried Armageddon and the president, Zedillo, much as George Bush in the current imbroglio, stampeded congress into a monumental bail-out. FOBAPROA (”Banking Fund for the Protection of Savings”) dumped $120 billion USD in bad debt on the backs of Mexican taxpayers, 20% of the nation’s gross domestic product – Bush’s monstrous bail-out only accounts for 7% of U.S. GDP.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20991.htm
Pentagon Wants Extra $450 Billion
By Josh Rogin
Pentagon officials have prepared a new estimate for defense spending that is $450 billion more over the next five years than previously announced figures.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20988.htm
“The Forgotten Crisis.”
With Spotlight on Pirates, Somalis Waste Away in the Shadows
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Little eyes close. Wizened 1-year-olds struggle to breathe. This is the place where help is supposed to be on its way. But the nurses in the filthy smocks are besieged. From the doorway, you can see the future of Somalia fading away.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20990.htm
Too Few Aware Of World Orphan Week.
By Brian McAfee
October 11 marked the end of World Orphan Week. With 133 million orphans in the world today, most in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and 15 million of them orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (according to SOS Children) we have a moral responsibility to ensure the basic needs orphans around the World.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20993.htm
24 killed, 45 injured in Iraq bombings:
A car bomb exploded in a market in southern Baghdad late Friday afternoon, killing at least 14 people and prompting an outburst of sectarian rioting, according to police and witnesses.
tinyurl.com/3hxmk7
Four people killed in violence in N Iraq:
Four people were killed and three others injured in two attacks on Saturday in the northern city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/11/content_10180860.htm
3,000 Christians Flee “Killing Campaign”
In Mosul: Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday.
tinyurl.com/4lqve5
US occupation force soldier killed in southern Iraq:
A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb that struck his vehicle in southern Iraq’s Maysan province on Saturday, the US military said.
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n155786
Turkish planes hit PKK targets in N Iraq:
Turkish warplanes and artillery attacked 31 Kurdish rebel bases on Friday as part of a week-long operation in northern Iraq after an attack that killed 17 Turkish soldiers, the military said.
www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=140530
Robert Fisk’s World: ‘Collateral damage’ or targeted killing, the effect is much the same:
When US troops massacre Iraqi civilians in Haditha because their buddy has been murdered, what is the difference between their revenge and that of Saddam?
tinyurl.com/4gjnng
12 killed in latest Afghan violence:
The United States-led occupation forces launched an airstrike overnight that killed seven Taliban in Andar district of southern Ghazni province, provincial spokesman Ismail Jahangir said
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\10\12\story_12-10-2008_pg7_30
Afghan president offers Taliban a role in governing country:
President Hamid Karzai has offered Taliban leaders the possibility of positions in his government if they agree to a peace deal which could bring fighting to an end.
tinyurl.com/4yeo5l
Fact or fiction?
Taliban leader killed by SAS was Pakistan officer:
British officials covered up evidence that a Taliban commander killed by special forces in Helmand last year was in fact a Pakistani military officer, according to highly placed Afghan officials.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4926401.ece
Pakistan: Another US attack kills 5 :
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed five tribesmen in a Pakistani town close to the Afghan border, the latest in a series of attacks in a region where top al-Qaida leaders are believed to be hiding, two intelligence officials said.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/12/asia/AS-Pakistan-Missile-Strike.php
Three militants, soldier killed in Swat clash:
Three militants and a soldier were killed while four security personnel were injured on Saturday in an encounter at Barri, in the troubled Swat district.
www.dawn.com/2008/10/12/top16.htm
Army says 15 killed in Darfur rebel ambush:
The Sudanese army said Friday that 15 people were killed when Darfur rebels attacked a local government convoy with military escort in the far west of the conflict-strewn region.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081010/wl_africa_afp/sudanconflictdarfur
Three Sudanese soldiers killed in Darfur ambush:
Three Sudanese soldiers were killed and five wounded when rebels ambushed a government convoy in West Darfur on Thursday, an army spokesman said on Friday.
africa.reuters.com/country/SD/news/usnLA149287.html
Somalia: AU Troops Shot Dead Street Child:
Ugandan troops who are based at the KM4 junction in Mogadishu shot dead a street child after they opened fire at him as they were passing by on Thursday night according to eyewitnesses.
allafrica.com/stories/200810101005.html
In case you missed it:
More blowback from the war on terror:
The U.S.-backed Ethiopian military has secreted away scores of “suspects” – including pregnant women and children – and fueled anti-American rancor in Africa.
www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/01/africa_renditions/
Five-year-old boy narrates how his father was tortured and killed in his presence:: .
For three days, he watched in horror as assailants tortured his beloved father before they shot him in the head.
www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200810113313985
South Africa central bank warns of poverty from financial crisis:
South Africa’s central bank governor Tito Mboweni warned Saturday that slowing economic growth linked to the financial crisis risked pushing tens of millions into poverty in Africa.
au.biz.yahoo.com/081011/33/1zsk4.html
Ahmadinejad warns of US plundering:
“Washington has long sought to extricate itself from its predicaments by stripping countries of their national resources,” he said on Saturday.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=71925§ionid=351020101
Warning signs of an Israeli strike on Iran
Some key decision makers in Israel fear that unless they attack Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities in the next few months, while George W Bush is still president, there will not be another period when they can rely on the United States as being anywhere near as supportive in the aftermath of a unilateral attack.
tinyurl.com/3rz2tm
Father, forgive me, I will not fight for your Israel:
Omer Goldman, daughter of a former Mossad chief, tells why she prefers jail to the military draft
tinyurl.com/3zgxck
They shot our son but they can’t kill his spirit:
Tom Hurndall, 21, was a young, compassionate man when he went to Gaza in 2003. Months later, while he was rescuing Palestinian children from gunfire, he was shot by an Israeli army sniper.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/12/israelandthepalestinians-channel4
Arab houses torched in Acre:
Police said the clashes broke out when an Arab resident drove through a conservative Jewish neighbourhood blaring music from his car stereo. A group of Jewish youths assaulted the driver, accusing him of deliberately making noise and disrupting the sanctity of Yom Kippur.
www.albawaba.com/en/news/236650
One day in Gaza:
30 per cent of the population suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, 80 per cent surviving on less than $2 per day, 40 per cent unemployment. The average wage earner here supports eight people
tinyurl.com/4kh6g6
U.S. removes N. Korea from terrorism blacklist:
The United States on Saturday crossed North Korea off its list of nations sponsoring terrorism in an effort to move forward the stalled six-party negotiations aimed at disbanding the reclusive state’s nuclear arsenal.
home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=403873
Peru army may have killed farmers – rights group:
Five people killed by the army during a raid in the Andean region of Vizcatan last month may have been farmers, not terrorists as the government claims, a top Peruvian human rights group said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n155584
Peru’s entire cabinet resigns over scandal: –
Peruvian President Alan Garcia accepted Friday the resignation of his entire 13-member cabinet, in a bid to avert an opposition censure resolution in Congress over a oil-industry kickback scandal.
tinyurl.com/4k2msp
Peru’s Garcia names leftist governor as new PM:
By picking Yehude Simon, governor of the northern province of Lambayeque who was jailed a decade ago for links to a guerrilla group, the increasingly unpopular Garcia may be trying to place greater emphasis on social programs, neutralize critics on the left and regain support in the provinces.
www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1142143020081012?rpc=401&
Iran to open 2 health clinics in Bolivia:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pledged US$1 billion in aid to Bolivia alone during a visit last year.
tinyurl.com/3vdrah
Bush vows not to lift embargo on “dungeon” Cuba:
U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday called Cuba a “dungeon” and vowed Washington would not lift its economic embargo until Havana released political prisoners and allowed free expression.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081010/ts_nm/us_bush_cuba
Bush Raises Money, Meets With Cuban-Americans In Florida:
President George W. Bush worked to allay fears about the financial crisis on Friday, then left the White House and headed south to raise nearly $2 million for the Republican Party in Florida and South Carolina.
www.news4jax.com/news/17693913/detail.html
Guantanamo release angers Bush:
After almost a decade of torture, sexual humiliation, and dehumanization of being, U.S. district judge Ricardo Urbina ordered the release of 17 innocent men held at the Guantanamo Bay American concentration camp
tinyurl.com/3r77l4
Appeals court blocks release of Guantanamo detainees:
A federal appeals court temporarily blocked the release of 17 Chinese-born Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a day after a landmark decision required them to be shipped to the U.S.
www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53677.html
Reagan Palled Around with Terrorists, Too:
Here’s how the Los Angeles Times described Reagan’s guest in a recent article:
www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=194
Alaska ethics probe says Palin abused her power:
An Alaska ethics inquiry found on Friday that U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin abused her power as the state’s governor, casting a cloud over John McCain’s controversial choice of running mate for the November 4 election.
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IMF: World on brink of financial collapse:
The global financial system is on the brink of a systemic meltdown despite interventions by the US and Europe to stabilize markets, the head of the International Monetary Fund says
www.stuff.co.nz/4724614a12.html
White House dismisses idea of market suspension:
The White House on Friday dismissed suggestions that U.S. markets would be suspended so international financial rules could be rewritten amid the turmoil that has gripped markets for weeks.
www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4996IJ20081010
Lehman Brothers demise triggers huge default:
Lehman Brothers, the bust investment bank, triggered one of the biggest corporate debt defaults in history yesterday as it emerged that the US Federal Reserve is harbouring grave concerns about whether Washington’s $700 billion (£413 billion) bailout fund will avert a financial meltdown.
tinyurl.com/5x86qo
GM, Ford, Chrysler Face Bankruptcy Risk:
General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC, the three biggest U.S. automakers, may be forced into bankruptcy as the global credit freeze damps U.S. sales, Standard & Poor’s analyst Robert Schulz said.
tinyurl.com/3wznbe
GM, Chrysler discussing merger, source says:
The Wall Street Journal, citing people it described as familiar with the discussions, reported that Cerberus, a private equity firm that also owns 51 percent of GMAC Financial Services, proposed trading Chrysler’s automotive operations to GM in exchange for GM’s remaining 49 percent stake in GMAC.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27125864/
Financial Warfare over future of global bank power:
What’s clear from the behavior of European financial markets over the past two weeks is that the dramatic stories of financial meltdown and panic are deliberately being used by certain influential factions in and outside the EU to shape the future face of global banking in the wake of the US sub-prime and Asset-Backed Security (ABS) debacle.
www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2008/1009.html
Fast and loose housing market is history:
When will the housing market come back? The answer should be apparent: It won’t.
tinyurl.com/4ms393