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 4,196
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$571,111,960,763
See the cost in your community
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The Worst Is Not Behind Us
Beware of those who say we’ve hit the bottom.
By Nouriel Roubini
The recession will continue until at least the end of 2009 for a cumulative gross domestic product drop of over 4%; the unemployment rate will likely reach 9%. The U.S. consumer is shopped-out, saving less and debt-burdened: This will be the worst consumer recession in decades.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21228.htm
The Election is Over; Time to Move On to the Recriminations
Let the Trials Begin!
By DOUGLAS VALENTINE
Amid the euphoria and angst of the Obama apotheosis, the unreality of a mismanaged, two trillion dollar, taxpayer funded bailout of freewheeling capitalists, and the wars of limbo in Iraq and Afghanistan, one little thing is being overlooked.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21225.htm
Wall Street’s Bailout is a Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene
Why Aren’t the Dems Doing Something About It?
By Naomi Klein
The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington’s handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely incompetent. It is borderline criminal.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21226.htm
With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick
By Scott Ritter
Barack Obama has until the 20th of January to get his policies in order, because at one minute past noon on that day, he becomes the most powerful man in a volatile world. While the problems he will face are many, I will focus on what I believe are the four most critical issues that will need to be addressed in the first weeks and months of the Obama administration: Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21223.htm
US Accuses Russia of Cold War Intimidation Over Missile “Threats”
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels and Henry Samuel in Paris
The American Defence Secretary has launched a furious attack on Russia accusing it of Cold War brinkmanship in its threats to position nuclear weapons on its European border.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21220.htm
Why Did the West Ignore the Truth About the War in Georgia?
By Mary Dejevsky
The US and UK left the impression that Russia was the guilty party.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21222.htm
How US Claims About Syria Became Media Facts
By Sharif Nashashibi
Unwary journalists who repeat US army claims about Syria and Iraq become tools in a propaganda war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21229.htm
A New Political Party Is Needed
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Set aside any Obama euphoria you feel. The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total with 1.5 million votes nationwide, compared to some 123 million votes for Barack Obama and John McCain.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21224.htm
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn on the Weather Underground
Democracy Now! Exclusive – Audio – Video
Throughout the entire presidential race, Bill Ayers did not once talk to the media. Today, he and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn-a fellow member of the Weather Underground-are speaking out in their first joint television interview since the controversy began.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21221.htm
Do Unto Others
By Karen Armstrong
The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world religions – but sometimes you would never know it. Instead, religion is associated with violence, intolerance and seems more preoccupied by dogmatic or sexual orthodoxy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21227.htm
Help Us Create a Charter for Compassion
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By recognizing that the Golden Rule is fundamental to all world religions, the Charter for Compassion can inspire people to think differently about religion. This Charter is being created in a collaborative project by people from all over the world. It will be completed in 2009. Use this site to offer language you’d like to see included. Or inspire others by sharing your own story of compassion.
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US Attack Kills 12 In Pakistan:
The attack came a day after the Pakistani foreign ministry said that the US has been violating international law by launching missile attacks on the region.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/11/2008111464649987774.html
Deadly bomb strike kills 11 in Afghanistan:
10 civilians and an American occupation force soldier were killeddied when a suicide bomber targeted US-led troops in Jalalabad.
tinyurl.com/5j9ol5
US-Led Forces in Afghanistan Kill 4 “Suspected Militants Linked to “Al-Qaida”:
The U.S. military says the suspected militants were killed during a raid Thursday in the Zurmat district of Paktia Province, near the border with Pakistan.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-11-14-voa9.cfm
Three Afghan builders gunned down as Taliban claim suicide attack:
Three Afghan construction workers were gunned down by militants while a suicide attack wounded three policemen Friday in new insurgency-linked violence, officials said.
tinyurl.com/5dg8oh
Two British occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ministry:
Britain has around 8,000 occupation troops in Afghanistan, largely based in Helmand, where they are battling Taliban “insurgents”.
tinyurl.com/582z3f
‘Extra UK occupation troops’ for Afghanistan:
Up to 2,000 extra British troops are likely to be sent to Afghanistan next year, the BBC has learned.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7728478.stm
Taleban vow to win Afghan fight:
The Taleban’s senior spokesman has used a rare radio interview to call for all foreign forces to leave Afghanistan. Speaking by telephone from a secret location in the region, Zabihullah Mujahid also derided US President-elect Barack Obama.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7728345.stm
Six killed in Iraq attacks:
SIX people were killed in attacks across Iraq today, including three when a suicide car bomber targeted police in the Anbar province west of Baghdad, security officials said.
www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24649644-38201,00.html
Iraq’s al-Sadr renews threats to attack US occupation forces:
Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday renewed threats to resume attacks on U.S. forces, and the country’s top Shiite cleric was quoted as saying he would intervene if a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact infringed on Iraqi sovereignty.
tinyurl.com/6g2s9m
U.S. May Buy 10,000 All-Terrain, Blast-Proof Trucks :
The U.S. military will seek to buy as many as 10,000 all-terrain, blast-proof trucks in an “urgent” competition to begin by Dec. 1. The trucks will be called MRAP All-Terrain Vehicles, or M-ATV.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206
01103&sid=a6mNMf.fVWhQ&refer=us
Britain out of Iraq by late 2009: Iraqi official:
All British troops will be out of Iraq by the end of next year, Iraq’s national security advisor said Friday, days before Baghdad was expected to vote on a controversial U.S. military pact.
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/11/14/60119.html
Gilad: We won’t let Iran go nuclear:
Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad, the head of the Defense Ministry’s Diplomatic-Security Bureau, has stressed to The Jerusalem Post in an unusually hard-hitting interview.
tinyurl.com/6jbeu3
‘Israel war on Iran on the radar’:
A senior European Union diplomat says the perfect time for Israel to strike Iranian nuclear installations ‘is between now and January 20'.
www.haber27.com/news_detail.php?id=15647
Israel must stop issuing military threats against Iran:
German MP: “It is Israel that is threatening Iran and not the other way around,” Norman Paech wrote in an op-ed piece for the Berlin-based daily Der Tagesspiegel.
www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=611592
Olmert warns of ‘end of Israel’:
“If the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then the State of Israel is finished” Ehud Olmert
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7118937.stm
In 2006 letter to Bush, Haniyeh offered compromise with Israel:
In the second paragraph, Haniyeh laid out the political platform he maintains to this day. “We are so concerned about stability and security in the area that we don’t mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders and offering a truce for many years,” he wrote. Haniyeh called on Bush to launch a dialogue with the Hamas government
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1037258.html
Gaza Power Plants totally off:
Al Khodary stated in a press conference in Gaza that since the Power Plant is not functioning, hospitals and medical centers would not be able to function. Other basic services, including drinking water wells, will also be out of order.
www.imemc.org/article/57658
UN to suspend food aid to 750,000 Gazans following border closure:
The U.N. agency assisting Palestinian refugees said Thursday it was forced to suspend food distributions to half of Gaza’s 1.5 million residents since Israeli border closures have prevented the delivery of vital supplies for over a week.
tinyurl.com/58lslx
‘Humanitarian disaster’ looming in blockaded Gaza Strip: –
Rights group Amnesty International on Friday urged Israel to allow the immediate passage of humanitarian aid, medical supplies and fuel to the blockaded Gaza Strip, whose 1.4 million people are facing cold and hunger
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2707151985
Rahm Emanuel apologizes for father’s disparaging remarks about Arabs:
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel apologized to an Arab-American group on Thursday for comments disparaging Arabs made by his father.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1037256.html
Nasrallah: Don’t pin your hopes on Obama:
Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has cautioned the Arab world against expecting a change in US foreign policy with Obama.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=75109§ionid=351020203
Obama and Bush are not so far apart says ambassador:
SWEEPING INTERNATIONAL policy changes from the new Barack Obama administration are unlikely, United States Ambassador to Portugal Thomas Stephenson has warned.
www.portugalresident.com/portugal
resident/showstory.asp?ID=30259
Medvedev: No missile deployment if Obama drops anti-missile shield:
Russia will not deploy missiles in its European enclave of Kaliningrad if US president-elect Barack Obama cancels the planned American anti-missile defence system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published Thursday in the French daily Le Figaro.
tinyurl.com/6d9p6o
US rejects Kremlin’s call to scrap missile shield:
The US defence secretary rejected calls by the Kremlin for Washington to throw out its European missile shield plans, saying the shield was vital to meet threats from rogue states such as Iran, which had made “active efforts” to develop nuclear weapons.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/14/
medvedev-nuclear-missiles-robert-gates
Russian leader Medvedev heading to Cuba, Venezuela:
The U.S. has objected to Russia’s greater links with the two countries that have antagonistic relations with Washington.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap
_on_re_eu/eu_russia_medvedev_cuba
Russia: US media finally got Georgia story right:
“It took three months for the U.S. media to start telling the truth about the August war in the Caucasus,” Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in a letter to the editor of The New York Times, excerpts of which were published Thursday
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=452685
In case you missed it:
Bush’s War in Georgia: –
11/08/08 “ICH” — – Washington’s bloody fingerprints are all over the invasion of South Ossetia. Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili would never dream of launching a massive military attack unless he got explicit orders from his bosses at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20478.htm
Vladimir Putin ‘wanted to hang Georgian President Saakashvili by the balls’:
The Russian Prime Minister had revealed his plans for disposing of Mr Saakashvili when Mr Sarkozy was in Moscow in August to broker a ceasefire in Georgia.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5147422.ece
Cluster Bomb ‘soon to be thing of the past’ :
On 3 December, more than 100 countries, including the UK, will sign a treaty banning cluster bombs. The world’s biggest users – Israel and the USA – will not sign this treaty.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7724738.stm
New report details shattered lives of released Guantanamo detainees: –
Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the war on terror, according to a new report by human rights experts at the University of California, Berkeley.
www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases
/2008/11/12_gitmoreport.shtml
Ecuador to miss $30.6 million foreign debt payment:
Ecuador will delay a $30.6 million interest payment on its foreign debt while it investigates signs of lawbreaking in the contracts, the finance minister said Friday, prompting a quick and negative reaction in bond markets.
tinyurl.com/6pwoza
British banks battered in wake of Paulson’s U-turn on US bail-out:
SHARES in Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and other banks were hit yesterday in the wake of the US government’s abandonment of the cornerstone of its $700 billion (£467bn) rescue effort for the financial system.
thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/
British-banks-battered-in-wake.4694079.jp
European Car Sales Fall 15% as Credit Crisis Deepens:
European car sales plunged almost 15 percent in October, the sixth consecutive monthly decline, as credit-market turmoil and an economic slowdown hurt demand.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601102&sid=aBO5PbbrqfE8&refer=uk
As factories close, Chinese workers suffer:
The slowdown in exports contributed to the closing of at least 67,000 factories across China in the first half of the year, according to government statistics. Labor disputes and protests over lost back wages have surged, igniting fear in local officials.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/14/asia/14china.php
October budget deficit hits record of $237.2B:
The Treasury Department said Thursday that the deficit for the first month in the new budget year was the highest monthly imbalance on record. It was far bigger than analysts expected, over four times larger than the October 2007 deficit of $56.8 billion, and more than half the total for all of last year.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/budget_deficit
U.S. Economy: Retail Sales Drop in October by Most on Record:
Retail sales and prices of goods imported to the U.S. dropped by the most on record, signaling the economy may be in its worst slump in decades.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20
601068&sid=anBkxRT0zTpY&refer=home
Sun to cut up to 6,000 workers, 18 pct of staff:
Sun’s shares have fallen so steeply they’ve crossed an ominous threshold, driving the company’s market value below its cash on hand.
biz.yahoo.com/ap/081114/sun_microsystems_layoffs.html
Freddie seeks gov’t aid after $25.3B loss:
Freddie Mac is asking for an initial injection of $13.8 billion in government aid after posting a massive quarterly loss.
biz.yahoo.com/ap/081114/earns_freddie_mac.html
US Senate to take up auto bailout on Monday-Reid:
The U.S. Senate plans to take up a $25 billion bill on Monday to bail out distressed domestic auto companies, but it is unclear if proponents can muster the necessary support.
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