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
$567,150,310,739
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Ecuador ‘Clear’ Signs of CIA Infiltration
By AP
An Ecuadorean presidential commission has concluded that U.S. intelligence services infiltrated the Andean nation’s military and police and supported a cross-border incursion by Colombian troops that killed a top rebel commander.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21127.htm
Brace Yourselves
George Bush Will Soon Be Free To Do Just What He Wants
By Jonathan Freedland
The raid on Syria is a dark portent. The current president has three long, unaccountable months to cement his legacy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21126.htm
Call This a Crisis? Just Wait
By David M. Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General
Staring into the abyss always focuses the mind, which can help you avoid falling in. So let’s take a look at the potential catastrophe that awaits us once we survive our current crisis.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21130.htm
U.S Gap Between Rich and Poor Widening!
By Bob Kendall
Now that the U.S.A. has discovered that only Mexico and Turkey had poverty rates higher than the 30-country study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, what if anything will be done to help the U.S. poor obtain health care?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21129.htm
Message Of Massacre Lives On For Palestinians
By Jonathan Cook
In a conflict that has produced more than its share of suffering and tragedy, the name of Kafr Qassem lives on in infamy more than half a century after Israeli police gunned down 47 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in the village.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21128.htm
‘US strike’ kills 15 in Pakistan:
At least 15 people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan, security officials said.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702679.stm
Eight killed in Pakistan suicide blast: officials:
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the house of a senior police official in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding 25, officials said.
tinyurl.com/5gjo5o
Pakistani Troops Capture Suspected Taliban Commander, Kill 5:
Authorities say the security forces captured a suspected explosives expert and Pakistani Taliban commander, known as Imran or Mansoor, during the clash today.
tinyurl.com/62phkn
Four killed as suicide attack targets Pakistan police convoy –
At least three police officers and one civilian were killed Friday in an explosion that targeted a security convoy in Pakistan’s restive North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said.
tinyurl.com/689tkl
Coalition Says Occupation Force Soldier Killed In Eastern Afghanistan:
A soldier with the US-led international occupation in Afghanistan was shot dead Friday in the east of the country, a coalition statement said.
tinyurl.com/5mkgq4
US to drop Mullah Omar from blacklist:
The US agrees to drop the name of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar from the terror list ahead of talks with the insurgents, an official says.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73563§ionid=351020403
Iraq gov’t wants all US troops gone by end of 2011:
Those demands, which were presented to U.S. officials this week, could derail the deal – delivering a diplomatic blow to Washington in the final weeks of the Bush administration.
www.tribtoday.com/page/content.de
tail/id/63628.html?isap=1&nav=5030
US’s Syrian raid sets Iraq on fire:
It came as such a surprise to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that he was completely dumbfounded at commenting. Here was the prime minister of Iraq, an ally of Iran and a former resident of Syria, watching Syria being attacked from his own territory – without his knowledge.
www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JK01Ak05.html
Iraq holding thousands in secret prisons: lawmaker:
Sunni legislator Mohammed al-Daini claimed the government and paramilitary groups control 420 unofficial detention centers to hold people without legal justification.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=437393
General in Iraq: Deal letting U.S. troops stay may break down:
In a blunt assessment, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, said Thursday that there is a 20 percent to 30 percent chance that the United States and Iraq won’t reach a deal to allow U.S. troops to operate in Iraq past Dec. 31.
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/
oct/31/general-holds-doubts-on-iraq-deal/
Chalabi’s Star Rises Again with Iranian Intrigues in Baghdad:
Ahmed Chalabi, the erstwhile Iraqi exile who intrigued with Pentagon officials and the media to create a casus belli for toppling Saddam Hussein, is up to his old tricks.
blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2008/10/
ahmed-chalabi-the-erstwhile-ir.html
IAEA member: Iran holding secret tests to advance nuclear program :
Experts question the conclusion by those providing the intelligence that Tehran, too, is trying to reprocess the fuel to make a nuclear weapon.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1033002.html
Death toll in India’s bombing attack rises to at least 77:
The level of sophistication in the bombings that killed at least 77 people in northeastern India indicate that local militants had help from other terrorist groups to carry out the attacks, officials said Friday.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-
31-india-explosions_N.htm?csp=34
CIA officers could face trial in Britain over torture allegations:
Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay was brutally tortured
tinyurl.com/5bvutj
Italy helped “save” Gaddafi by warning of US air raid: –
Italy ‘probably helped save’ Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi’s life when it warned Libya of a 1986 US air strike, Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Shalgam said Thursday
tinyurl.com/5b6fj5
Internet filter to cause World Wide Wait for Aussies:
Within days, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will ask internet service providers such as BigPond and iiNet to participate in a live pilot trial to test internet filters.
www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24567413-952,00.html
Does Google Know Too Much?:
Google gathers so much detailed information about its users that one critic says some state intelligence bureaus look “like child protection services” in comparison
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587546,00.html
McKinney-Clemente Campaign Welcomes Noam Chomsky’s Support:
Cynthia McKinney today expressed her appreciation for the support of Professor Noam Chomsky, noted linguist tenured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In private emails with campaign supporters this week, the respected social critic noted that he had voted Green in 2004, and would be voting for the party ticket next Tuesday, as well.
legacy.runcynthiarun.org/Endorsements/
Chomsky_SupportWelcomedByCampaign
Wall Street Bonus Madness:
Wall St. has created such an “obscene” standard of compensation that the big shots really believe “it’s hard to live on just a half million dollars a year.” This does not appear to be much of an exaggeration. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported securities-industry employees averaged $400,000 a year in salary alone last year.”
www.counterpunch.org/heller10302008.html
Broken Securities Industry Still Has $20 Billion to Pay Bonuses: –
Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven’t stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2
0601109&sid=aVann0.cv9Tw&refer=home
Medicare drug plan spending drops $6B in 2008:
In a rare bit of good news for taxpayers, the cost of the Medicare prescription drug program fell $6 billion this year – savings driven by the widespread use of low-cost generic drugs.
www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-10-30-medicare_N.htm?csp=34