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 4,186
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$564,400,617,579
See the cost in your community
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Licensed Kleptocracy for Years to Come
The ABCs of Paulson’s Bailout
By Michael Hudson
Wall Street is in control, but its policies are so shortsighted that they are eroding the underlying economy – which is passing from democracy to oligarchy, and indeed it seems to a bipartisan financial kleptocracy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21066.htm
What Went Wrong in the Capitalist Casino?
By Tony Benn
What we are watching is nothing less than the steady transfer of real political power from the polling station to the market and from the ballot to the wallet – reversing the democratic gains we have made over the last century when we were able, increasingly, to use our votes to shape our economic future.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21062.htm
A Philosophical Dead-end
By Conor Clarke
In 2000 George Bush ran for president as something called a compassionate conservative, which Bush described obscurely as “first and foremost springing from the heart”. But the heart, Bush was quick to insist, must be set free. The word “regulations” or its variants crops up 28 times in the 2000 platform, and Bush wasn’t asking for more of them. Instead, he was fond of mocking Al Gore for presiding over a regulatory bureaucracy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21061.htm
The Idiots Who Rule America
By Chris Hedges
Our oligarchic class is incompetent at governing, managing the economy, coping with natural disasters, educating our young, handling foreign affairs, providing basic services like health care and safeguarding individual rights. That it is still in power, and will remain in power after this election, is a testament to our inability to separate illusion from reality.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21064.htm
Why Wont The Bail Out Work?
This is a MUST SEE 7 Minute Video
Voters are rightly furious at the proposal to spend $700,000,000,000 that the government doesn’t have to bail out Wall Street bankers who created the current economic crisis in the first place. But why then aren’t we concerned about the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is pumping into the system? Or the trillions missing from the Pentagon? Or the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21071.htm
Crisis Allows Us to Reconsider Left-wing Ideas
By P Gillespie
The argument is about re-regulation rather than redistribution, the public rather than the private interest, transnational against national sovereignty.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21065.htm
Chomsky: The Bewildered Herd
8 Minute Video
Noam Chomsky: People should vote against McCain and for Obama – but without illusions
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21067.htm
How Should You Vote?
Defining a new framework for electoral strategy in America.
By Jeremy R. Hammond
The “we have to ensure the greater evil doesn’t gain power” mindset wins out over “we have to ensure the best candidate wins”. But, of course, strict adherence to this electoral strategy can only result in the self-perpetuation of the same political process they they are so disillusioned with in the first place.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21070.htm
Cynthia McKinney – Vote Your Values – Not Your Fears
One Minute Video
Vote Your Values and you can get the leadership that reflects those values.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21063.htm
The Grand Illusion of American Power
By H.D.S. Greeway
“We have a choice,” said Donald Rumsfeld in September, 2001. Either we change the way we live, “which is unacceptable,” or we “change the way they live, and we chose the latter. “
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21069.htm
Tractatus Logico Palestinicus
By Gilad Atzmon
1.1 Humanism and ethics are ends worth fighting for. 1.2 Western politics and political discourse (on the other hand) are concerned with power and hegemony. 1.3 Hence, humanism and ethics are foreign to the Western political discourse and vice versa. 2 The Palestinian liberation struggle is grounded on humanist and ethical arguments since it is based on moral rights, namely ‘the right of return’ and ‘liberation’.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21068.htm
19 killed in violence in northwest Pakistan: :
At least 19 people, including three soldiers and 14 militants, were killed Tuesday in fresh clashes in northwest Pakistan, security officials said.
tinyurl.com/66twoc
Talks only way to root out terrorism, Nawaz tells Boucher
Former prime minister and PML-N Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that use of force was not the solution to root out the menace of terrorism, adding, the US should respect Pakistan’s territorial sanctity.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17929
Ten “Taliban militants” killed, over 50 wounded in Afghanistan:
Ten “Taliban militants” have been killed and over 50 wounded in an airstrike in central Afghanistan’s province of Vardak, a spokesman for the province’s governor said on Tuesday.
en.rian.ru/world/20081021/117861217.html
Aid worker, Afghani children killed:
A BRITISH aid worker, two German soldiers and five Afghan children were killed in Afghanistan in a day of bloodshed that highlights worsening security seven years after the ouster of the Taliban.
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24528765-38197,00.html
Soldiers retreat from Taleban stronghold:
The government-backed Afghan National Army (ANA) is lacking so many troops in the Taleban stronghold of Helmand province that both the ANA and the international forces have retreated and focused their efforts on the large cities in the area.
jp.dk/uknews/article1491201.ece
15 killed as “insurgents” clash with Iraq Sunni tribes:
At least 15 men were killed and 14 wounded on Tuesday in fierce early morning clashes between “insurgents” and Sunni tribes in the central Iraqi province of Babil, police and a medic said.
tinyurl.com/5afwno
Two killed and seven hurt in Baghdad roadside blast:
Iraqi police and hospital officials said the bus was carrying employees of Iraq’s Housing Ministry through the Shia-dominated neighbourhood of Mashtal when the blast occurred.
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page
=2008\10\21\story_21-10-2008_pg7_54
Iraqi MPs demand changes to US troop withdrawal agreement:
The Iraqi Cabinet dealt a blow today to a draft agreement to allow US forces to stay in Iraq beyond the end of the year, demanding changes to the document to make it more acceptable.
tinyurl.com/5739mv
Iraqi-U.S. pact dishonors Iraq – Jaafari: :
Former Iraqi Premier Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Monday said from Iran that the Iraqi-U.S. long-term proposed security agreement is both detrimental to and dishonors Iraq, calling on the Iraqi people to reject it, according to Fars News Agency.
en.aswataliraq.info/?p=101554
Mullen Says Iraq ‘Running Out of Time’ on Forces Accord:
In his most serious comments to date on the complicated negotiations over a status of forces agreement, Admiral Mullen said he was “increasingly concerned” about the sharp public criticisms within Iraq of the proposed text.
tinyurl.com/6zfm79
Abbas hints he might not leave office when his term ends:
Palestinian Authority Preisdent Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he was not intending to step down from office when his term ends in January 2009, hinting also that he would run again for PA president in 2010.
tinyurl.com/5hhykh
Israel “brand” will magically smell sweeter:
Stuart Littlewood considers the impossible mission of a British public relations firm hired by Israel to boost the image of the Middle East’s most notorious land-grabber, ethnic cleanser and all-round threat to world peace.
www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20081018
Somalia: Power-Sharing Now On the Cards:
Sheikh Ahmed has always been seen as a moderate within the UIC, which was driven out of Mogadishu in early 2007 following the intervention of Ethiopian troops with the support of the US.
allafrica.com/stories/200810201461.html
Argentina Nationalizes $30 Billion in Private Pensions:
Argentine stocks plunged 13 percent Tuesday after the government announced plans to nationalize nearly $30 billion in private pension funds.
tinyurl.com/6qk2xn
Constitution vote a victory for Morales:
Bolivia’s Congress ratified President Evo Morales’ draft constitution on Tuesday and sent it to a nationwide vote on Jan. 25, granting the leftist leader a hard-fought victory in his push to remake South America’s poorest country.
tinyurl.com/5a9rk6
The world’s next oil superpower? Brazil: –
Four miles under the ocean’s surface off Brazil’s lush coast lie billions of barrels of recently discovered light crude — a treasure that could transform the country into an oil superpower.
tinyurl.com/6lb9yt
UK: Big Brother database threatens to ‘break the back of freedom’:
Government plans to build a giant database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit were last night dealt a major blow after the man in charge of prosecuting terrorism in England and Wales warned of the dangers posed by a “Big Brother” security state.
tinyurl.com/5z2vo5
The torture time bomb:
The Bush administration’s approval of the abuse of detainees is a toxic legacy for the next US president
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/
oct/18/renditon-usa-georgebush
BOB HERBERT: The Real Scandal:
Can a rancid Congressional committee be far behind? Leave it to a right-wing Republican to long for those sunny, bygone days of political witch-hunting.
www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/opinion/21
herbert.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Bill Moyers: Will Your Vote Be Counted?
Video – Bill Moyers sits down with Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU, who has been following voter fraud allegations in his blog News from the Underground. An expert on propaganda and media, Miller’s book LOSER TAKES ALL is an anthology of writings covering election fraud.
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10172008/watch3.html
Naomi Wolf, The End of America:
“My sense of alarm comes from the clear lessons from history that, once certain checks and balances are destroyed, and once certain institutions have been intimidated, the pressures that can turn an open society into a closed one turn into direct assaults; at that point events tend to occur very rapidly, and a point comes at which there is no easy turning back to the way it used to be.”
www.myamericaproject.org/
Islamic banking escapes fallout:
ISLAMIC banking has largely escaped the fallout from the global financial crisis, thanks to rules that forbid the sort of risky business that is felling mainstream institutions.
www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+
News/Money/Story/STIStory_292658.html
Layoffs spreading across corporate America:
Shock waves from the global financial crisis are now being felt in almost every corner of working America as companies press the eject button on increasing numbers of employees.
www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49G5N420081017
Homeless numbers ‘alarming’:
More families with children are becoming homeless as they face mounting economic pressures, including mortgage foreclosures, according to a USA TODAY survey of a dozen of the largest cities in the nation.
www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-21-homeless_N.htm