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
$565,494,576,652
See the cost in your community
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U.S.Will Determine When Troops Have Immunity
U.S. Officials: Time is Short for Troop Agreement in Iraq
By Fox News
The most controversial article in the draft agreement is on troop immunity. While the U.S. gives up immunity for U.S. troops who are “off duty and off base” if they commit major or intentional crimes, the U.S. retains the authority to determine whether they were off duty.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21086.htm

Final Text of Iraq Pact Reveals a U.S. Debacle
Analysis by Gareth Porter
The final draft of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces agreement on the U.S. military presence represents an even more crushing defeat for the policy of the George W. Bush administration than previously thought, the final text reveals.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21088.htm

Abu Nidal, Notorious Palestinian Mercenary, ‘Was A US Spy’
By Robert Fisk
Secret papers claim the feared assassin was hired to find links between Saddam and al-Qa’ida.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21091.htm

Down For The Count
“The whole system is contracting”
By Mike Whitney
The US Treasury and Federal Reserve are now underwriting the entire financial system. The free market has been abandoned altogether. Everything from commercial paper to money markets is now backed by the “full faith and credit of the United States”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21087.htm

Meet the World’s New Reserve Currency
The Chinese Yuan
By Mike Whitney
Things are getting worse. On Friday morning, futures trading was halted for the first time ever after futures plunged more than 5 percent. The sell-off came after another 500-plus down day on the Dow followed by steep declines in equities markets across Europe and Asia.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21090.htm

The Grand Merger!
By Rev. Richard Skaff
Lawlessness in government has become the rule of the land. Loyalty to the party superseded the loyalty to the country, which is a déjà vu phenomenon in the archives of fascism. The stench of our political sewage system has contaminated our nation and the world. Mendacity became truth, and manipulation became intelligence and virtue.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21084.htm

What “Incredibly Tough” Foreign Policy Actions is Obama Preparing?
By Patrick Martin
Behind closed doors, before select audiences of the financial and political elite, Biden has given a glimpse of the real perspective of the Democratic wing of American imperialism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21083.htm

Shame And The 2008 Election
By Angie Riedel
The very idea of the people having anything resembling a fair share of prosperity or having any true freedom has become officially undesirable. Such things would threaten the imperial rule of this globalist oligarchy. All that matters to them is themselves. The only other thing that matters is that we comply. And should we fail to comply the punishments are ever more swift in coming.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21089.htm

Keep Religion Away From the Ballot
By Larry Beinhart
The Constitution, Article VI, Section 3, states “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” Yet we have now instituted such tests.We line up the presidential candidates and cross-examine them about their faith. They respond with Sunday school sagas about how they met God and pander to us with stories about how prayer will help them lead. How did this come about?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21085.htm

Pakistani forces kill 14 militants in trial offensive:
The security officials said that troops pounded the suspected hideouts of militants and Taliban fighters in Nawagai areas of Charmang, Chinar, Kohi and Banda area, some 40 kilometers north-west of the agency headquarters Khar and inflicted heavy losses to them.
www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=609885

Suspected militants kidnap 9 policemen in Pakistan:
The kidnapping took place Saturday afternoon in a small village about 15 kilometers from Dera Ismail Khan district of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), police sources told KUNA.”The market is showing some signs that there are value buyers out there.”
tinyurl.com/677nmc

Pakistani soldiers take militant town as insurgents kill 3 in Kabul:
Pakistani soldiers are claiming success in the battle with militants along the Afghan border, as insurgents killed two Westerners and an Afghan in the country’s capital, Kabul.
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/10/25/pakistan-afghanistan.html

French missiles abandoned in clashes with Taliban:
The French army’s General Staff confirmed media reports claiming two anti-tank missiles were left behind by French troops on Saturday following clashes with Taliban insurgents in the Kapisa region east of Kabul.
tinyurl.com/6724rv

Iraq: At least 9 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded when a bomb exploded in Baghdad’s central Palestine Street district, police said.
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7KRMPV?OpenDocument

Iraq’s prime minister won’t sign U.S. troop deal:
Fearing political division in the parliament and in his country, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki won’t sign the just-completed agreement on the status of U.S. forces in Iraq, a leading lawmaker said Friday.
www.kansascity.com/451/story/857005.html

Fact or fiction?
Report: Bush to declare renewal of ties with Iran:
Several American media outlets reported on Saturday that President George Bush is likely to announce after next month’s presidential elections that he intends to restore the diplomatic relations with Iran, almost 30 years after they were suspended.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031246.html

McCain Surrogate -War With Iran Is Certain:
“Let me assure you of this,” Grayson said after the student presentation on foreign policy. “The next president, whether it is Senator Obama or John McCain, will go to war, and he will go to war with Iran.
www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/10/mccain-surrogat.html

Nasrallah: Rumors I was poisoned are ‘psychological warfare’:
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah dispelled as ‘psychological warfare’ reports that he had been poisoned last week and was saved by a team of Iranian doctors, during an interview he gave Friday night to Hezbollah television station Al-Manar.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031227.html

Cuba, EU re-establish cooperative ties:
The EU will also provide 25 million to 30 million euros (32.5 million and 39 million dollars) to Cuba from next year to rebuild schools and damaged houses.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/24/content_10243033.htm

US suspends Bolivia trade pact:
The United States – undoubtedly frustrated that Bolivia sent the US Ambassador packing, closed down US AID operations and told the DEA to bugger off – has inflated import duties on anything and everything Bolivia wants to try and sell in the United States.
tinyurl.com/5hqajw

Bolivian official accuses US of role in jungle clash that left Morales supporters dead:
Presidential Minister Juan Ramon Quintana said that Bolivia would “denounce before the entire world” that the U.S. had “participated in the massacare” on Sept. 11 in the remote Amazonian province of Pando.
tinyurl.com/5eyac3

Air Force Wants ‘Freedom to Attack’ Online:
Gone are the days when the Air Force pledged to “dominate” cyberspace. Now, the flyboys just want “freedom of action” online. Oh, and the ability to deceive foes, and cyberstrike enemies at will.
blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/in-new-doctrine.html

How to Stop the Rigging of Election ‘08:
Don’t be fooled by all the accusations about ACORN. The real voting scandal is the voter suppression methods that likely swayed election results in 2000 and 2004, and are in process again as you read this.
www.yesmagazine.org/svgblog/2008/10/how-you-can-protect-vote.html

Signs of slowdown spiral around the world:
$16.3 trillion in stock value lost since Sept. 1; some brokers fear more drops
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27370145/