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 4,188
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$566,325,795,010
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Interventionism, Not Muslims, Is the Problem
By Jacob G. Hornberger
If Muslims in general are at war with the United States, then why shouldn’t Americans be out killing Muslims here in the United States? After all, when a nation is at war, isn’t it permissible to kill the enemy? Isn’t that what war is all about?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21103.htm
American Hegemony Bites The Dust
The Defanging of America: Reality-Based Community Overthrows History’s Actors
By Paul Craig Roberts
The American neoconservatives are the heirs of Leon Trotsky. Their dream of American “Full Spectrum Dominance”—US military and economic superiority over any possible combination of states—is matched in ambition only by the early 20th century Trotskyite dream of world Communist revolution.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21108.htm
Let Us Speculate
By William Bowles
There’s an awful lot of speculation going on right now, from both the left and right about where the latest crisis of capital is headed, chief amongst them is the notion that this signals the end of the US Empire, that the so-called uni-polar world is over, that a new multi-polar world, headed by China, Russia, India and Brazil is emerging.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21112.htm
U.S. Should Enact $400 Billion Stimulus, Roubini Says
By John Brinsley
Roubini, who predicted the current financial crisis in 2006, said the economy risks falling into “a self-fulfilling animal spirit recession that is more severe than otherwise” because of the collapse of credit markets and weak consumer and corporate spending.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21107.htm
Our Choice
By Nouriel Roubini
If the private sector does not spend and/or cannot spend, old-fashioned traditional Keynesian spending by the government is necessary. It is true that we already have large and growing budget deficits; but $300 billion of public works is more effective and productive than spending $700 billion to buy toxic assets.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21106.htm
What Will YOU Do About The Worst Capitalist Crisis Since The 1930s?
Uniting & fighting back is no longer a choice; it’s a matter of survival
By Larry Holmes
Working and poor people, devastated by the depression, entered the 1930s destitute, broken and hopeless. Yet by the time the decade was over, the working class had won great battles, first by organizing itself into Unemployment Councils and tenants unions and later into giant labor unions.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21109.htm
Latin American’s ‘New Left’ In Crises
As the ‘Free Market’ Collapses
By James Petras
The uniformity of the collapse of Latin American economies raises important questions about the changes and claims of independence, decoupling and post-liberal models, which many regime leaders, ideologues and progressive US-European Latin American writers made over the past several years.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21104.htm
PM Putin Suggests Russia, China Ditch Dollar in Trade Deals
By RIA Novosti
“We should consider improving the payment system for bilateral trade, including by gradually adopting a broader use of national currencies,” Putin told a bilateral economic forum. He admitted the task would be tough, but said it was necessary amid the current problems with the dollar-based global economy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21111.htm
The Financial Woes Signal The Death Of The Dollar?
By Rev. Richard Skaff
Once the middle class is slowly and fully assassinated in the US, then, the globalization process becomes easier to implement and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (North America Union) will rush toward us like a knight in shining armor riding on a beautiful white horse to rescue us from our financial disasters that were deliberately created by our treasonous leaders.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21105.htm
Shots Heard Round the World
By David Glenn Cox
When 90-year-old Addie Polk put the gun to her chest and pulled the trigger she was seeking an escape from foreclosure. The first shot failed to do the job so the elderly widow pulled the trigger a second time as Sheriff’s deputies waited on the porch to serve her with an eviction notice. She was rescued by her neighbor, Robert Dillion, who grabbed a ladder and climbed in a back window. Sheriff’s deputies were kind enough to radio for paramedics.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21110.htm
Coalition kills 12 “Taliban” to secure downed chopper:
The helicopter was recovered and taken to a nearby ISAF base. The coalition helicopter was shot down in Said Abad district of Maidan Wardak province on Monday, the day when two American occupation force soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on northern Afghanistan.
tinyurl.com/6db4cf
Afghan asylum seekers sent home by Australia ‘killed by Taleban’:
The Australian government is investigating claims that up to 20 Afghan asylum seekers denied entry to Australia were killed by the Taleban after being sent home.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5025923.ece
Afghanistan: Increasing hardship for growing displaced population:
Around 185,000 people, internally displaced before and just after the 2002 fall of the Taleban government, continue to live in camp-like settlements in the south, west and south-west.
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LSGZ-7KUDZY?OpenDocument
Taliban rule returning to Kandahar province:
As Canadian Forces continue to fight and die throughout Kandahar province, the Taliban have quietly set up parallel governments only kilo-metres away from the provincial capital, local residents say.
tinyurl.com/6cgoy2
British general says NATO has ‘reached limits’ in Afghanistan: –
A top British general has warned that NATO occupation forces in Afghanistan have “reached their limit” and suggested that it was time to consider supporting the formation of local tribal militias to help stabilize the country.
tinyurl.com/6zhz9p
US general: Negative Afghan headlines overblown:
U.S. Gen. David McKiernan’s public relations push comes at a time when more U.S. and NATO occupation troops have died than in any other year since the 2001 U.S. invasion, in part because Taliban militants are launching increasingly complex and deadly attacks.
www.buffalonews.com/260/story/475221.html
In Afghanistan, the Loudest Sound Is the Clock Ticking:
Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “It is my professional opinion that no amount of troops, in no amount of time, can ever achieve all the objectives we seek in Afghanistan,” he said. “Frankly, we’re running out of time.”
www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/
television/28fron.html?ref=television
U.S. May Talk With Taliban to Quell Afghan Insurgency, WSJ Says:
The recommendation calls for the talks to be led by the Afghan government, with the participation of U.S. officials, according to the report.
tinyurl.com/67abp2
Pakistan: Unanimous Senate resolution “blasts” US attacks:
The Senate resolution against drone attacks said strikes inside Pakistan were unfortunate and a gross violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. The resolution underlined that continued incursions were harming the government’s efforts to seek a political solution through dialogue.
tinyurl.com/5vbxgu
World Bank Cancels $300 Million Loan To Pakistan:
The economic stabilization program was initially estimated at $500 million under which the World Bank had asked Pakistan to end all subsidies in the economy. The World Bank has also postponed disbursing another $300 million loan toward National Trade Corridor Project, which is estimated to cost $6 billion
tinyurl.com/62w6kr
World ‘has six days to save Pakistan’:
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, warned on Tuesday that the world had less than a week to prevent a full-blown financial crisis in Pakistan, as Islamabad said it expected to strike a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund in a day or two.
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d44428c-a4e2-11dd-b4f5-000077b07658.html
Iraq: At least 7 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
Four police officers were killed Tuesday in a drive-by shooting in the turbulent northern city of Mosul and three civilians were killed in a separate Baghdad bombing, police said.
www.twincities.com/national/ci_10835028?nclick_check=1
Turkey’s Warplanes Bomb Northern Iraq:
Turkey’s warplanes have successfully bombed several Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the country’s army said in a statement.
tinyurl.com/5r826d
Iran to US: Release kidnapped diplomats:
Iran has deplored the violation of the rights of three kidnapped Iranian diplomats by US forces in Iraq, calling for their release, PressTV reported.
www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=62627
Iran says snubbed by six powers on nuclear offer:
“The policy of few powers in insisting on suspension as a precondition for negotiations bears zero relation to realities and is an irrational and failed policy,” Khazaee said.
in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-36175720081027
US : We Can Kill Anyone, Anywhere At Anytime:
In justifying the attack, American officials said the Bush administration was determined to operate under an expansive definition of self-defense that provided a rationale for strikes on militant targets in sovereign nations without those countries’ consent.
tinyurl.com/5zmd9q
Syria warns US: an eye for an eye:
Syria has warned the United States of retaliatory measures if Washington launches another incursion into the country’s territories.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73444§ionid=351020206
Russia says U.S. fuelling tension with Syria attack:
“We believe attacks that are worthy of condemnation should not be launched on the territory of sovereign states under the slogan of the fight against terrorism.”
in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-36174820081027
Israeli forces kill three Palestinian youths near Ramallah:
IPS visited the area where two of the killings took place in the Palestinian refugee camp Jalazone, north of Ramallah. The families of the deceased gave a completely different version of events to that of the army, and accused the Israelis of premeditated murder.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9921.shtml
Israeli shooting wounds Palestinian schoolgirl in Gaza:
A Palestinian schoolgirl was injured on Monday when Israeli occupationj forces opened fire at her school and the surrounding farms in southeast Gaza Strip, witnesses and medical sources said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/27/content_10260980.htm
Britain urges Israel to halt illegal “settlements”:
“Continued settlement construction threatens the goal of a two-state solution to which the Israeli government itself is committed,” British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Bill Rammell told reporters in Amman.
tinyurl.com/5p793c
Israeli parliament agrees to hold elections in mid-February:
Elections have been penciled in for February 10, but could be moved to the 17th, a parliamentary spokeswoman said.
en.rian.ru/world/20081028/117997985.html
Hard-line Somali rebels rule out truce until Ethiopians leave:
Somalia’s hard-line insurgents vowed Monday to fight on despite Addis Ababa’s pledge to respect a UN-sponsored deal reached a day earlier that allows for a phased pullback of Ethiopian occupation troops.
www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition
_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=97156
Alexander Cockburn: Obama, the first-rate Republican:
Is there anything the front-runner will not say to become President? No progressive cause would have a chance with him in charge.
tinyurl.com/55lvwf
‘You hear them say Obama will be assassinated’:
As two Tennessee neo-Nazis face charges of plotting to kill 102 black children and Barack Obama, the Missouri leader of the National Socialist Movement tells James Ridgeway that others may be planning similar actions
www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/
oct/28/neo-nazi-obama-assassination
Al Qaeda will have to support McCain : The Endorsement From Hell:
“Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web site that is closely linked to Al Qaeda and often disseminates the group’s propaganda.
www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/opinion
/26kristof.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
Mass protests in Italy to stop cuts:
Cries of “Berlusconi, now you know what people think of you!” rang through the streets of Rome last Friday as half a million people demonstrated against the right wing government. Milan and Turin each saw marches of 50,000 too.
www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=16225
Warnings of deep recession as US layoffs spread coast-to-coast:
Unemployment is set to rapidly increase. “My view is that it will be near 8 or 8.5 percent by the end of next year,” Nigel Gault, chief domestic economist at Global Insight, told the New York Times.
www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/jobs-o27.shtml