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
$568,049,667,054
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Borders Are For Sissies
By Ron Jacobs
The Bush administration has successfully linked the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan to their so-called “war on terror.” By doing so, they can do whatever they want.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21144.htm
No Currency Left to Buy the Big Lies
By John Cusack
No more money left to pay off the debt, the wreckage in the wake. The orgy of excess has drained every bottle, smashed the furniture and left the cupboards bare. All that’s left is derivative debts — bets between liars and lies. Trillions of dollars. It turned capitalism into a Ponzi scheme for trading worthless paper.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21142.htm
Obama’s Little Red Book
Is Redistribution Really All That Bad?
By Mike Whitney
Redistribution is never an issue when the money is flowing upwards. It’s only when working people are poised to get a few scraps that all hell breaks loose.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21140.htm
An Open Letter to Barack Obama
Between Hope and Reality
By Ralph Nader
Far more than Senator McCain, you have received enormous, unprecedented contributions from corporate interests, Wall Street interests and, most interestingly, big corporate law firm attorneys. Never before has a Democratic nominee for President achieved this supremacy over his Republican counterpart.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21143.htm
Nowhere Man
A Farewell to Dubya, All-Time Loser in Presidential History
By Simon Schama
Where, O where are you, Dubya? Are you sweating it out on the treadmill, hurt and confused as to why the man everyone wanted to have a beer (or Coke) with, who swept to re-election four years ago, has been downgraded to all-time loser in presidential history, stuck there in the bush leagues along with the likes of James Buchanan and Warren Harding?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21141.htm
Arabs Have To Rely On Britain And Israel For Their History
By Robert Fisk
ministry or the interior ministry or the defence ministry. There is no 30-year rule – for none is necessary. The rule is for ever. There is no Public Record Office in the Arab world, no scholars waiting outside the National Archives.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21139.htm
U.S. war aims in Afghanistan grow doubtful: –
U.S. war aims in Afghanistan that call for the defeat of the Taliban and a strong central government in Kabul have become increasingly unrealistic in the face of growing violence and corruption.
africa.reuters.com/energyandoil/news/usnN31353518.html
Taliban to US: There is nothing to talk about:
“There is nothing to talk about. This is not a political campaign for policy change or power sharing or Cabinet ministries. We are waging jihad to bring Islamic law back to Afghanistan,” Mullah Sabir told Newsweek.
tinyurl.com/5ob3ea
Pakistan to pressure next US leader to end missile strikes:
At the same time, in an unusually frank statement, a senior Foreign Ministry official in Islamabad warned that relations between the two nominally close allies in the war on terror were extremely strained “politically and diplomatically”.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
story/0,25197,24591179-2703,00.html
Voters vent their rage as bombers leave 250 dead:
MORE than 60 bomb blasts across 10 cities in the past six months means India is challenging Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as the world’s most terrorism-affected country.
tinyurl.com/6yerc7
Bombings kill 10, wound dozens in Baghdad, elsewhere:
Officials in Iraq say at least 10 people have died in a series of bombings, including a blast that narrowly missed an Oil Ministry official.
www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9285036&nav=Bsmh
Iraq plans to cut Sunni fighters’ salaries:
The Iraqi government plans to cut salaries for the estimated 100,000 members of the Awakening movement whose revolt against al Qaida in Iraq played a key role in bringing about the sharp fall in violence in Iraq.
tinyurl.com/6q35l6
Newspaper: Washington OKs most Iraq’s proposed changes over SOFA:
Iraqi officials said that Washington has agreed on most of Iraq’s proposed changes to a draft security agreement that would allow U.S. troops to stay in the country until 2011, an Iraqi newspaper reported on Monday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/03/content_10300656.htm
No US bases in northern Iraq without Baghdad nod: Talabani:
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has said that American troops can set up bases in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region only if the Shiite-led government in Baghdad gives its approval.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081103/wl
_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitarykurdstalabani
Syria response to US will be ‘painful’:
“Syria may resort to more painful measures if the United States does not give an official explanation for the attack,” al-Muallem said in an interview with the Lebanese ANB satellite station.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=74150§ionid=351020206
Iranian FM on Syria visit denounces US raid:
Mottaki met President Bashar al-Assad and also “expressed Iranian support” for Syria, the diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity, saying “Iran denounced the deadly American assault” on October 26 that Damascus says killed eight civilians.
tinyurl.com/5k5drt
FM: Israel rejects interim peace deal:
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni plans to tell an upcoming Quartet conference that the Jewish country will not sign any interim peace agreement with Palestinians, local news service Ynet reported Monday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/04/content_10301940.htm
Likud submits bill to block Olmert talks with Syria, Abbas:
The hardline opposition Likud party submitted a bill to parliament Monday, which if passed would make it illegal for any Israeli transitional government to conduct peace talks and give up territory.
tinyurl.com/6yny5v
‘Israel thirsty for new Mideast war’:
Israel strives to spark military conflict in the Middle East, according to a stark warning from former Lebanese president Emile Lahoud.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=74146§ionid=351020101
Israeli security chief warns of assassination:
Israeli security chief warns of assassination by hardline extremists 13 years after PM killing
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=439876
Settlers preparing for war, says Shin Bet chief:
A government decision to evacuate more territory may lead to a large-scale violent conflict with settlers, complete with live fire, Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin warned at yesterday’s cabinet meeting. The meeting ended with the ministers voting to end all government support, both direct and indirect, for illegal outposts.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1033535.html
Britain to crack down on exports from Israeli settlements:
Britain is taking the lead in pressing the EU to curb imports from Israeli producers in the occupied West Bank as a practical step towards halting the steady increase in the construction of Jewish settlements.
tinyurl.com/5jja44
Hamas leader in Beirut on rare visit:
Lebanon’s National News Agency says Mashaal arrived Monday and held talks with the country’s president and other leaders about the situation in Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps
tinyurl.com/54qts7
From Goma to Gaza, Mr Miliband:
While the foreign secretary is keen to be seen in Congo, another invisible humanitarian crisis receives none of his attention
tinyurl.com/5m5mhm
Nine Uganda rebels killed after attack on DRCongo village: :
Congolese soldiers killed nine fighters from Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) after the rebels attacked a village in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Sunday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081102/
wl_africa_afp/drcongounrestugandalra
Congo Rebels Warn Government Will Fall If No Talks : —
Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo threatened to topple the government unless it agrees to direct talks, as European officials warned that thousands of civilians displaced by conflict face a humanitarian crisis.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20
601087&sid=afwKMd_U2724&refer=home
Libya, Belarus Unite Against “Unipolar World”:
“Balance in the world has been destroyed and the world has become unipolar,” Gadhafi said during talks with Lukashenko, in an apparent reference to the rise of the U.S. after the Soviet Union collapsed. “The law of force has begun to work in place of the force of law.”
tinyurl.com/6q4hpl
Russia, Libya sign civil nuclear deal as Kadhafi visits: Tripoli:
Libya and Russia signed a civil nuclear cooperation deal Saturday, Tripoli’s foreign minister said, as Moamer Kadhafi visited Moscow for talks he said could help restore “geopolitical equilibrium”.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iP8B8z0rZn9fFoX6wOrd1iR180Kw
60 Migrant bodies wash up in Yemen:
Sixty corpses of migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia have been found on a beach in Yemen after smugglers forced many of them overboard on the weekend, an international aid agency said.
tinyurl.com/6rxqv3
Somalia stoning: A story that left me reeling in shock and sadness:
As the Guardian reports, the teenager’s father had actually tried to report that she had been raped, but instead she was accused of committing adultery – and was punished by being stoned to death, in front of hundreds of people in the stadium.
blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=2199
US “jury” convicts ‘Bin Laden aide’:
The 39-year-old Yemeni faces a possible life sentence. He refused to present a defence during the trial. The American military said any work Bahlul did for al-Qaeda was by definition a war crime because the group was a terrorist organisation
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7706539.stm
US War Vets Going Blind:
About 1.7 million American men and women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Military studies show that up to 340,000 of them suffer from mild traumatic brain injury (TBI).
www.wftv.com/health/17874549/detail.html#-
How Israel helps eavesdrop on US citizens:
AT&T and Verizon handed “the bugging of their entire networks — carrying billions of American communications every day” to two companies founded in Israel.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9930.shtml
Commentary: They’ve squandered lives, fortunes and our sacred honor:
High tide arrived with the unlikeliest occupant of the Oval Office in our history, the beady-eyed, smirking, tongue-tied, counterfeit cowboy George W. Bush, and a Congress that after 9-11 was run by runaway Republicans who were too busy enriching themselves and their friends to care what their president was doing to the country, the Constitution and even their own party
www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/55165.html
Eurozone edges towards recession:
The worst financial crisis for generations has driven the European economy to the brink of recession and economic growth will come close to a standstill in 2009, the European commission has warned.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008
/11/2008113141716299179.html
Spain Lets Jobless Postpone Half of Mortgage Payments :
Spain will allow unemployed workers to put off paying half their monthly mortgage payments for two years, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said today, part of a series of measures aimed at softening the impact of a shrinking economy.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601
087&sid=aMmMxLFw8D3Q&refer=home
The Fed as a central bank to the world:
While the French President dreams of global economic cooperation ahead of the G20 summit in Washington, the Fed is quietly becoming central bank to the world, backed by the full might of the U.S. Treasury and a teflon-coated greenback.
www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=927271
Effectiveness of AIG’s $143 Billion Rescue Questioned:
“What we see now are a lot of games by the government to keep these institutions going with a lot of cash,” she said. “This is to fill holes in companies’ balance sheets, and they’re trying to hold at bay the charges that our financial system is insolvent.”
tinyurl.com/6puhmp
Manufacturing activity at 26-year low:
Business research group says its index fell to recessionary level. – Employment in the manufacturing sector fell for the third month in a row
money.cnn.com/2008/11/03/news/economy/ISM_October/
Circuit City to shut 155 U.S. stores to preserve cash:
Struggling electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. said Monday that it’s shutting 155 U.S. underperforming stores, reducing future store openings and aggressively renegotiating certain leases to help preserve cash after its liquidity deteriorated and its vendors tightened the company’s payment terms.
tinyurl.com/6n27xt
Debt linked to huge buyouts is tightening the vise:
“There’s absolutely going to be a lot of pain to go around,” said Josh Lerner, a professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. “The big question is how apocalyptic it will be.”
tinyurl.com/6ex4gr