Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,284,105"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,193
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$569,728,252,773
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Afghanistan: The Promise and the Reality
Reckless Soldiers, Slappers and Smack
By Yvonne Ridley in Afghanistan
The day after US war planes bombed an Afghan wedding party killing more than 30 women and children, I drove from Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas to the border crossing.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21183.htm
Bush’s Last Bullet:
Why the US Attacked Syria
By Ramzy Baroud
The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has been violated, its borders breached and its civilians killed. But when the country targeted is Syria, an Arab country, and the perpetrator is the US military, then, somehow things are not as appalling as they may seem.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21184.htm
President-elect’s Queries to Briefers
By Ray McGovern
The president-elect needs to start asking hard questions. Now. Here are some he might want to select for his next briefing:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21174.htm
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
Looking back on a surreal campaign season
By Bill Ayers
During the primary, the blogosphere was full of chatter about my relationship with President-elect Barack Obama. We had served together on the board of the Woods Foundation and knew one another as neighbors in Chicago’s Hyde Park. In 1996, at a coffee gathering that my wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and I held for him, I made a donation to his campaign for the Illinois State Senate.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21175.htm
Obama’s Historic Victory
By Howard Zinn
Those of us on the Left who have criticized Obama, as I have, for his failure to take bold positions on the war and on the economy, must join the exultation of those Americans, black and white, who shouted and wept Tuesday night as they were informed that Barack Obama had won the presidential election.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21182.htm
America Has Already Changed
By William John Cox
“It sent chills though my body.” She said, “There was a time when black people couldn’t even see inside the White House as a visitor, and now one of us is going to be living there.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21176.htm
My Michelle Moment:
America Does Itself Proud
By David Michael Green
For the first time in a very long time, I felt a little pride about what my country was doing. This election felt to me like nothing so much as a reclaiming of our country from some truly evil predators who had hijacked it, and a restoration of democracy – and, really, sanity – to our political sphere.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21178.htm
Conned Again
By Paul Craig Roberts
Obama’s selection of Rahm Israel Emanuel as White House chief of staff is a signal that change ended with Obama’s election. The only thing different about the new administration will be the faces.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21177.htm
Obama vs. Medvedev
Nuclear Smackdown in New Europe
By Mike Whitney
Most of what is written about Medvedev is nonsense. The same corporations that own the politicians own the media as well. Naturally, they want to demonize their rivals. In truth, most Americans would have a lot more in common with Medvedev than they would with Bush, Cheney or any of their “silver spoon” elitist cronies.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21181.htm
The Machine Grinds On
By Morton Skorodin
The machine grinds on relentlessly. Now it’s: give Obama a chance. This means: Public, go back to sleep. In the meantime Obama and the state machinery work at feverish pace.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21180.htm
What Would Lex Luthor Do?
By John S. Hatch
Pursuit of Bush’s illegal foreign policy violence will not be lesser war crimes for being Obama’s. Obamania could very quickly turn to Baracknophobia with disastrous results. After eight monstrous years, America simply can’t take much more. It’s time to wake up from the nightmare, or dream it all over again.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21185.htm
Tough Sledding Ahead
Surviving A Coming USD Collapse
By Christopher Laird
The Two insoluble problems that will lead to a depression and ultimately the final USD collapse.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21179.htm
Pakistan attacks kill 54:
Jets from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bombed hills in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal district, killing at least five people.
tinyurl.com/647vt6
U.S. Missile Attack Kills at Least 10 in Pakistan:
Missiles fired from a remotely piloted United States aircraft slammed into a village in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan along the Afghan border on Friday and killed 10 to 13 people, according to a local intelligence official, a Pakistani reporter and two Pakistani television channels.
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U.S. Admits Killing 37 Afghan Civilians :
The U.S. military Saturday admitted it while responding to an insurgent ambush has killed 37 civilians and wounded 35 others in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar, a Taliban heartland.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21173.htm
Two Spanish Occupation Force Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan :
Two Spanish soldiers were killed and another critically wounded by a suicide bomber in Herat, western Afghanistan, the Spanish Defense Ministry said Sunday.
tinyurl.com/5qetoh
Militants in Pakistan kill 2 alleged US spies:
Militants killed two people they claimed were spies for the United States and dumped their bodies with a warning in a Pakistani border region at the center of a campaign of suspected American missile strikes, an official said Saturday.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=447158
Four killed in Iraq market blast:
Four civilians were killed on Sunday when a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a market in the town of Khalis in the restless Diyala province, according to security officials and medics.
tinyurl.com/65gewa
Three killed, seven injured in Iraq’s Anbar suicide bombing: –
The death toll from a female suicide bomb attack in a town in Iraq’s western province of Anbar on Sunday rose to three killed and seven others injured, a local police source said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/09/content_10330962.htm
U.S. soldier killed in bomb attack in Baghdad: —
An American soldier died of wounds sustained from a roadside bomb explosion that left two others injured in the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said on Sunday
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/09/content_10330336.htm
US ‘snubs Iraq over jurisdiction clause’:
Citing informed government sources, the Iraqi daily al-Sabah reported on Saturday that Washington has turned down Baghdad’s request to change a SOFA provision which would grant US citizens immunity from legal prosecution in Iraq
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=74859§ionid=351020201
Iraq insurgents urge Obama to adopt neutrality:
Iraq insurgents tell Obama that US withdrawal would be in interest of both Iraqis and Americans.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=28696
Iraq’s top planner aims to cut 75 per cent of public jobs :
Iraq’s planning minister has ambitious plans to trim the fat from the government, reducing its workforce by 75 per cent in 10 years and rebalancing a fiscal budget almost entirely reliant on oil exports.
tinyurl.com/6pb4jz
Blackouts flicker through Gaza as power station runs out of fuel:
Gaza residents were experiencing sporadic electricity blackouts on Sunday night as Palestinian officials blamed Israel for cutting off fuel shipments to their power plant.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035714.html
Syria’s Assad Criticizes Proposed US-Iraqi Security Pact:
Syrian President Bashar Assad has criticized a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact, saying it will turn Iraq into a U.S. base for attacking neighboring states.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-11-09-voa17.cfm
Syria President: Israel is not genuine about peace:
The Syrian leader called on Israel to clarify its outlook on peace among nations, and accused its neighbor of professing to want peace as a series of tactical moves, rather than a strategy.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035651.html
Iran slams Obama’s tough talk on nuclear arms:
Iran has criticized U.S. president-elect Barack Obama for the first time Saturday, saying the world needs more than cosmetic changes in American foreign policy.
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Haniyeh: Hamas willing to accept Palestinian state with 1967 borders:
The Hamas leader spoke at a meeting with 11 European parliamentarians who sailed from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip to protest Israel’s naval blockade of the territory. Haniyeh told his guests Israel rejected his initiative.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035414.html
Hamas deputy blames Abbas for breakdown in Palestinian reconciliation talks:
Fatah had reneged on a pledge to release Hamas prisoners it holds ahead of the dialogue, prompting the boycott. He acknowledged that many issues had been settled but that “the prisoners issue was too important to disregard.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035383.html
European MPs reach blockaded Gaza by sea: –
A boat carrying pro-peace humanitarian activists and European politicians docked in Gaza on Saturday despite a strict Israeli blockade, in the third such voyage in less than three months.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=28686
7 people killed in Somalia:
Gunfights killed at least six people in Mogadishu on Sunday, and an aid worker was fatally shot in a separate attack in southern Somalia, officials and witnesses said.
tinyurl.com/5essy7
Fresh fighting in eastern DR Congo:
Fresh fighting has broken out between government troops and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesman has said.
tinyurl.com/5v25pf
U.K. monitors say Georgia attacked first – paper :
Before the Russian bombardment began, Georgian rockets and artillery were hitting civilian areas in the breakaway region of South Ossetia every 15 or 20 seconds.
en.rian.ru/world/20081109/118209944.html
U.S. concedes Georgia attack in South Ossetia was a mistake:
In its most specific comments on the subject to date, the State Department says Georgian leaders made a mistake when they attacked the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, in August.
tinyurl.com/5v9l4d
Poland hits out at Medvedev’s missile plans:
The Russian president’s remarks concerning the possible deployment of tactical missiles near Poland are an “unfriendly act,” the Polish foreign minister said on Thursday.
en.rian.ru/world/20081106/118164156.html
Interview: Howard Zinn on Barack Obama :Video –
In the closing days of the election race he endorsed Barack Obama, after initially urging voters to vote for third-party candidate Ralph Nader in states that were solidly Democratic.
tinyurl.com/56abpq
US halts aid amid Colombia scandal:
The US has halted aid to three Colombian army units after officers and soldiers were implicated in the killing of civilians, a senior US official has said.
tinyurl.com/6pc7an
Venezuela, Russia create $4b development bank: Caracas:
Venezuelan and Russian officials have agreed to create a $4 billion joint development bank to finance gas production, aluminium mining and other projects, Venezuela’s information ministry said on Saturday.
www.gulfnews.com/business/Development/10258210.html
OPEC to cut supply in Dec if market unchanged – Iran:
OPEC will cut oil output again if the trend towards lower prices and slowing demand growth are unchanged when the group meets in December, Iran’s OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi told Reuters on Sunday.
tinyurl.com/5arthr
China okays $586 bln spending plan to bolster growth:
By comparison, the United States sent out about $100 billion in tax rebate cheques this summer, while Germany last week agreed to a 50 billion euro pump-priming plan.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5114401.ece
Help out automakers, Capitol Hill leaders say:
Unless the government steps in, analysts warned, GM could face bankruptcy, endangering the livelihoods of about 100,000 North American autoworkers and hundreds of thousands of others whose jobs depend on the industry.
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6102838.html
Worst retail sales trend since 1974 expected:
“October will prove to be a disaster for retail sales, with only the discounters having anything to cheer about,” wrote Avery Shenfeld, an economist for CIBC World Markets.
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Dismal economic news – and it’s certain to get worse:
Friday’s dismal news that the unemployment rate rose to 6.5 percent and employers shed another 240,000 jobs in October made it clear that the U.S. economy is now in recession.
www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/55471.html
Just 3 ‘superbanks’ now dominate industry:
Sudden consolidation raises questions about regulation, consumer impact
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27441147
States face unemployment cash crisis:
Rising unemployment drains state trust funds, forcing them to borrow from Washington to continue paying claims.
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