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 4,189
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$566,908,032,939
See the cost in your community
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How We Fuel Africa’s Bloodiest War
By Johann Hari
The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again – and you are almost certainly carrying a blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21124.htm
Paulson’s Swindle Revealed
By William Greider
The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you look more closely at Paulson’s transaction, the taxpayers were taken for a ride—a very expensive ride.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21125.htm
The World Tires of Dollar Hegemony
By Paul Craig Roberts
What explains the paradox of the dollar’s sharp rise in value against other currencies (except the Japanese yen) despite disproportionate US exposure to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21122.htm
Who Has John McCain Been Palling Around With?
By William Blum
The John McCains of America, in and out of Congress, would much sooner pal around with Augusto Pinochet than Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro or Bill Ayers.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21121.htm
McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue
This Is The Lowest McCain Has Sunk Yet.
By Juan Cole
McCain’s and Palin’s attacks on Khalidi are frankly racist. He is a distinguished scholar, and the only objectionable thing about him from a rightwing point of view is that he is a Palestinian.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21119.htm
Don’t waste your vote
Vote Independent or Boycott the Elections
By Reza Fiyouzat
Let us recognize the necessity of building a truly oppositional party. The first step in that direction is to either vote for independent candidates or conduct a boycott of these elections with the declaration that voting is bunk until real political alternatives representing people’s needs are built.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21123.htm
Israel Bars Visit to Father’s Grave
By Jonathan Cook
Six decades on from his death, she has never been allowed to visit his grave in Galilee and lay a wreath for the father she never met. This month, after more than 10 years of requests to the Israeli authorities, she learnt that officials are unlikely ever to grant such a visit, even though Mrs Qupty is an Israeli citizen and lives only a few miles from the cemetery.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21120.htm
Serial blasts kill 61, injure 470 in India:
A series of 13 explosions in the space of about one hour shook the troubled western state on Thursday leaving scores of casualties, police officials said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/10/2008103064236341850.html
Suicide blasts kill at least 31 in Somalia:
Five suicide blasts rocked government and international targets in northern Somalia on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people, according to international security officials
www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/54963.html
Rebel advance empties DR Congo city:
Tens of thousands of residents, refugees and government troops have fled the town of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, despite rebel forces declaring a ceasefire to prevent panic.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/10/20081030630844158.html
Congo Rebels: UN force cannot prevent Goma’s collapse:
Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda downplays the UN force in Congo, saying it cannot stop the rebels from taking the capital of Nord-Kivu province.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=73739§ionid=351020506
5 Killed As Suicide Bomber Hits Afghan Ministry:
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said three fighters stormed the building by throwing hand grenades at the guards at the main gate.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/10/2008103065351144571.html
Four police officers were killed in a roadside blast:
Four Afghan police were killed and one was wounded Thursday when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb in the Dand district of the southern province of Kandaha
tinyurl.com/5elucb
Pakistan: Taliban to ‘lay down arms’ if Bajaur operation halted:
“They promised us to lay down their arms, give up militancy, remain loyal to the government and help restore the writ of the state in Bajaur, but demanded of the government to stop the air strikes and artillery shelling on tribal villages,” said a noted tribal elder.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=18073
Officials: 20,000 Afghan troops needed:
U.S. forces are struggling to deal with an intensified Taliban insurgency and need about 20,000 additional troops in Afghanistan to counter it, officials say.
tinyurl.com/6cwuxd
6 Killed In Iraq Bombing:
Iraqi police have raised the death toll from a bombing in eastern Baghdad to six, with another 17 people wounded.
www.startribune.com/world/33502354.html
Three children killed, 14 injured in al-Qaeda raid in Iraq :
The deceased were all the children of Abdel Karim, a leader of the Awakening Council movement, which is a collection of Sunni units that collaborate with US forces in fighting militants from the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Iraq.
tinyurl.com/5sev96
Blast near Baghdad market kills 1:
A car bomb exploded Thursday near a market in north Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five, police said.
tinyurl.com/69ghyc
Iraq opposes any clause letting US stay after 2011:
Baghdad wants to delete any reference in a security pact with Washington to the possibility of US troops staying in Iraq after 2011, an MP close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday.
tinyurl.com/677ols
US pact must guard Iraq sovereignty: top Shiite cleric:
Top Iraqi Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani insists that the security pact being negotiated with Washington must not harm Iraq’s sovereignty, his office said on Wednesday.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gw2cRozfL-fWuuihAcQxFiElbJTA
Senior Iraqi Leader Says Pact With U.S. Is Unlikely to Pass:
The Bush administration has repeatedly said that the current draft of the agreement is the furthest that the United States is willing to go. “The bar to any revisions is very high,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
mobile.washingtonpost.com/detail.jsp?key=306424&rc=po&p=1&all=1
Bush says he’s confident U.S.-Iraq pact will pass;
U.N. extension would shift issue to next president
www.cleveland.com/iraq/index.ssf/2008/
10/bush_says_hes_confident_usiraq.html
Syria says it could take further steps over US helicopter raid:
“Syria is awaiting official explanations from the US and Iraqi governments on this unacceptable violation of Syrian sovereignty before taking additional measures,” Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad said.
www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle
.aspx?ArticleID=426110&ChannelId=4
Syrians rally against US aggression:
Demonstrators waved Syrian flags and banners reading “No to American terrorism” and “American democracy: the killing of civilians at Abu Kamal,” the border area targeted in Sunday’s US raid.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=73741§ionid=351020206
Presstitute and war pimp alert:
Iran says it tested nuclear bomb:
An senior Iranian source has told Israel Insider that a weekend earthquake in Iran measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale was actually an underground nuclear bomb test.
israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?
id=2018399%3ABlogPost%3A11698
1 Million Gazans urge UN to help lift Israeli siege:
Leading Palestinian activists handed over on Thursday a petition signed by one million Gazans to the international agency, UNRWA, urging for lifting the siege on Gaza Strip.
tinyurl.com/5ran3p
Hamas to free Fatah prisoners:
The move was ordered by Ismail Haniya, Hamas’ political leader, on Thursday as a precursor to reconciliation talks with Fatah.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008
/10/20081030141046326720.html
Shimon Peres to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth:
Israeli media reported this week that the Israeli Embassy in London and Buckingham Palace are close to an agreement on having Queen Elizabeth confer honorary knighthood on Israeli President Shimon Peres when he visits the UK next month.
www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=17392
Palin Questions Obama’s Support Of Israel :
“We know some very derogatory things were said there about Israel and America’s support for that great nation,” Palin said. “And among other things, Israel was described there as the perpetrator of terrorism instead of the victim.”
www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/29/po
litics/fromtheroad/entry4556083.shtml
Bush’s booby traps for Obama:
The Bush administration is leaving behind foreign policy tripwires that could blow up on the next president.
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/
la-oe-brooks30-2008oct30,1,6321450.column
John McCain could still win – if everything broke his way:
It would take what one analyst calls a “perfect storm” of events breaking his way in the campaign’s final days, but he could come from behind, overtake Barack Obama and pull off the greatest upset in 60 years.
www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/54972.html
The patriotism litmus test:
Conservatives have long smeared their opponents as unpatriotic. Such divisive rhetoric brings out the worst in America
tinyurl.com/58wz7n
US General: US wants missile base in Poland by 2012:
General Henry Obering said the United States wants an anti-missile base in Poland by 2012, and would ratify the deal even this year, Polish local media reported on Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/6hy72s
Colombia: Civilians killed for body count:
“Innocent people in urban slums were apparently tricked, abducted, and killed” in “a gruesome trafficking in cadavers allowing officers to claim high body counts,” said Colombia analyst Adam Isacson of the Washington-based Center for International Policy.
www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1034780
Bolivia: Unprecedented alliance defeats right-wing assault:
After three months of intense class struggle, there can be no doubt that the US-backed right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales has suffered three important defeats.
links.org.au/node/710
Anti-government protests rock Peru:
Around 40 per cent of Peruvians live in poverty and have seen little relief despite seven years of economic growth.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008
/10/20081029221431742222.html
UN slams US sanctions on Cuba:
For the seventeenth year in a row, the UN has once again voted overwhelmingly against the commercial blockade against Cuba and is calling for its immediate removal. 185 countries voted in favour while only three voted against and two abstained.
www.sabcnews.com/world/north_america/0,2172,179008,00.html
CIA allowed concealing torture documents:
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review torture allegations from men held in the CIA’s prisons-because it could put the nation at risk of grave danger if allowed to be made public.
blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/cia-can-hide-to.html
DOD and CIA Can Decide Which Laws They Like:
The judge’s reasoning highlighted one of the more disturbing aspects of the recent revelations that the Defense Dept., with the aid of the Justice Dept., likely tortured prisoners in violation of U.S. and international law.
tinyurl.com/59pmwx
Europe’s looming crisis:
It all started with sub-prime loans in the United States. Or did it? As the IMF is called in to bail out failing economies, the scale of European exposure to toxic debt is becoming clear
www.newstatesman.com/economy/2008/10/european-banks-crisis-imf
AIG used billions from Fed but hasn’t said for what:
The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September could have developed such a big hole by October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/30/business/30aig.php
Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package… after its £6bn bail-out:
Each of the firm’s 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.
tinyurl.com/6cqew3
Taxpayers Could Cover Government Pension Shortfall:
Illinois taxpayers may soon be called on to bail out what is arguably the best-funded public pension plan in the state thanks to $3.6 billion in fund losses caused by the spiraling economy.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/
taxpayers-could-cover-gov_n_139036.html
Exxon Mobil posts biggest US quarterly profit ever:
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_exxon_mobil