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 4,201
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$571,856,158,608
See the cost in your community
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Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell
Pakistan and U.S. Have Tacit Deal On Airstrikes
By Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick
The United States and Pakistan reached tacit agreement in September on a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy that allows unmanned Predator aircraft to attack suspected terrorist targets in rugged western Pakistan, according to senior officials in both countries. In recent months, the U.S. drones have fired missiles at Pakistani soil at an average rate of once every four or five days.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21233.htm
India-Pakistan
Prospective Hotbed for Conflict?
By Rev. Richard Skaff
An extremist Pakistani government that will likely take over the country in the near future with the covert aid of the Anglo-American-Israeli axis, will force India into the aggressor’s position, and will compel it to invade Pakistan, which was part of India to begin with, in order to defend its own sovereignty and safety.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21237.htm
“The Dollar Standard Is Coming To An End”
5 Minute Video – Dr. Paul on the Global Financial Summitt
One Central Bank For The World to Replace The Dollar Standard.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21241.htm
The no-think nation
The Crisis Has Hardly Begun
By Paul Craig Roberts
The exchange value of the dollar will decline with the domestic inflation. Once inflation is off and running, the printing press dollars will only have goods made in America to chase after. The real crisis has not yet begun.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21243.htm
Lehman Administrators’ Task Will Dwarf Enron, Creditors Told
· European arm has more than $500bn of debt
· Collapsed bank’s creditors expect less than 10%
By Simon Bowers
Speaking after the first creditors’ meeting, a team from PricewaterhouseCoopers said they had identified more than $1tn (£670bn) in assets and liabilities that need to be accounted for.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21230.htm
Leading Economist Warns of Food Riots
By The London Banker and RGE Monitor
Everyone along the supply chain should worry about their jobs. Many will lose their jobs sooner rather than later.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21231.htm
Obama Vows to Exit Iraq and Rebuild US ‘Moral Stature’
By Jitendra Joshi
President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21232.htm
All the King’s Men
By John S. Hatch
For all the goodwill Mr. Obama now enjoys, it’s possible that if he tries to ignore the crimes of the last eight years, he will reap a whirlwind of outrage exacerbated by the befalling economic disaster, another Bush legacy. He risks becoming a one-term President, replaced in the ever more desperate hope of real change.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21244.htm
George W Bush Could Pardon Spies Involved in Torture
By Tim Shipman in Washington
A former CIA officer familiar with the backstage lobbying for pardons, said: “These are the people President Bush asked to fight the war on terror for him. He gave them the green light to fight tough. The view of many in the intelligence community is that he should not leave them vulnerable to legal censure when he leaves.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21234.htm
Torturing Demoracy
Full Video And Transcript
The documentary, “Torturing Democracy,” and the first stage of a comprehensive Torture Archive that aims to serve as the online institutional memory of the essential documentary evidence.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torturingdemocracy/program/
A My Lai a Month
By Nick Turse
To this day, Vietnamese civilians in the Mekong Delta recall the horrors of Operation Speedy Express and the countless civilians killed to drive up body count. Army records indicate that no Ninth Infantry Division troops, let alone commanders, were ever court-martialed for killing civilians during the operation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21242.htm
The Architects of Fear:
“Family Values” Up Close under the Roof of Domestic Terror
By Craig Chalquist, PhD
Are all conservatives abusers? No. But many who supported the prior administration’s psychopathic war on human and environmental rights demonstrate the red warning signs of the Authoritarian Personality. This makes them extremely dangerous, the more so when their rhetoric of patriotic fervor and Christian decency goes unchallenged.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21235.htm
Obama’s First Big Mistake on the Job
Rescuing Joe Lieberman
By DAVE LINDORFF
This is a terrible mistake. Joe Lieberman is a wretched example of a man without principle-a back-stabbing slimeball of a politician whose only allegience, apparently, besides to himself, is to Israel.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21236.htm
America the Illiterate
By Chris Hedges
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and clichés.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21239.htm
Nothing To Lose But Your Chains
By Mickey Z.
Today, the entire planet is enslaved…to profit-seeking corporations and the corrupt politicians they own (yes, including the Pope of Hope). Are this generation’s abolitionists ready to step up and create change? Not ask for change, create change.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21238.htm
White Rage:
Rednecks Out to Kill Obama
By Andrew Gumbel
When millions watched Barack Obama give his history-making victory speech in Grant Park on election night, one thing stood out starkly – the bulletproof screen surrounding him. But just how serious is the threat of assassination to the President-elect?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21240.htm
Iraq cabinet votes to approve US troops deal:
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said that 27 of 29 ministers present at the meeting voted for the pact, which has been debated since January. The text is due to be presented to the 275-member parliament, which is likely to vote before November 24th, when the assembly will break for the feast at the end of the Hajj pilgrimage.
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/
2008/1117/1226700658831.html
Pact sets end date for U.S. troops in Iraq:
“The total withdrawal will be completed by Dec. 31, 2011. This is not governed by circumstances on the ground. This date is specific and final,” cabinet spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.
www.thestar.com/news/world/article/537951
Govt. approval on pact “meaningless”, parliment. to reject it – Sadrists:
The government’s approval on the security pact between Iraq and the United States is “meaningless”, according to a spokesman for Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc said.
en.aswataliraq.info/?p=103148
Saturday: 14 Killed by Iraq car bombs :
A car bomb has killed 11 people and wounded 36 others in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, Iraqi police and the US military say.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2008/11/20081115132822486507.html
Iraqi cleric calls for peaceful mass protest against U.S. occupation:
In a letter, al-Sadr called for a pan-Muslim Friday prayer sermon in central Baghdad’s Firdous Square next week, instead of separate services in individual mosques.
tinyurl.com/5f2v7f
Lawmakers meet with top cleric on U.S.-Iraq pact: –
Two senior Iraqi lawmakers have been meeting with the country’s top Shiite cleric, hoping to win his support for a U.S.-Iraq security pact. – . An aide to al-Sistani has said he would “intervene” in the discussions if the agreement’s final draft infringed on sovereignty
www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=9355875
Iraq: Shi’ites call for Basra to be a mini-state:
Two Shi’ite lawmakers have called for a referendum on turning the southern oil-rich province of Basra into a mini-state.
tinyurl.com/58rsta
New Blackwater Iraq Scandal: Guns, Silencers and Dog Food:
Ex-employees Tell ABC News the Firm Used Dog Food Sacks to Smuggle Unauthorized Weapons to Iraq.
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6254508&page=1
U.S. Task Force Found Few Iranian Arms in Iraq:
Only 70 weapons believed to have been manufactured in Iran had been found in post-invasion weapons caches between mid-February and the second week in April.
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6254508&page=1
Iran switches reserves to gold – report:
One report suggesting as much as $75 billion had been withdrawn and converted into gold or placed in Asian banks, because of a threat of tightening sanctions.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8025778
U.S.: Afghan cell attacked, 10 “militants” killed:
A strike by coalition troops against a bomb-making cell in eastern Afghanistan killed 10 militants, the U.S. military said Saturday.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27729717/
Karzai offers Taleban safety deal:
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has offered to provide security for the Taleban’s reclusive leader, Mullah Omar, if he agrees to peace talks.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7732301.stm
Robert Fisk’s World: There is no end to the centuries of savagery in Afghanistan:
Geneva Conventions were supposed to end the mass destruction of human life
tinyurl.com/65ukc2
U.S., Pakistan Work Together in Afghan Border Operation:
The U.S. and Pakistan are waging a coordinated military campaign known as Operation Lionheart, which involves American strikes on insurgent targets in the Kunar region of Afghanistan and a full-scale Pakistani campaign in the tribal areas of Bajaur, a longtime extremist stronghold, according to senior American officials.
online.wsj.com/article/SB122655631330523919.html
Pakistan shuts NATO supply line:
PAKISTAN cut off the main NATO supply route into Afghanistan yesterday, citing Taliban and al-Qa’ida attacks on the Khyber Pass, the perilous mountain trail that carries most supplies into the war-torn country for the 35,000-strong coalition force.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,24660347-2703,00.html
Gaza blast kills 2 Palestinians:
The Popular Resistance Committees group said that the explosion in Beit Hanoun on Saturday had been caused by an Israeli air raid, but a military spokesman denied any attack had been carried out.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2008/11/2008111593227893226.html
UN closes Gaza aid centres as Israeli blockade hits food reserves:
Gazans seeking food aid walked away empty-handed from locked United Nations distribution centres Saturday after a strict Israeli border closure depleted UN food reserves.
www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en
.do?pn=world&articleID=3038064
What Is NorthCom Up To? :
NorthCom has been in the news lately, after the Pentagon designated to it a battle-tested fighting unit from the war on Iraq. This appears to be against the law, according to the ACLU, since the army isn’t supposed to be patrolling our own country.
www.progressive.org/mag/wx111208.html
Deaths as Colombians protest scams:
A second person is reported to have been shot dead in Colombia amid ongoing riots following the collapse of pyramid schemes that have cost investors hundreds of millions of dollars.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2008/11/2008111503848658257.html
Venezuela’s Chavez plans alternative financial crisis summit:
On Friday, Chavez accused the G20 of ignoring the world’s smaller countries. He also expressed doubt that its November 14-15 summit in Washington would be able to come up with measures to tackle the economic “hurricane” that he says the U.S. has caused.
en.rian.ru/world/20081115/118328889.html
Eurozone slips into recession:
The eurozone has officially slippped into recession after European Union (EU) statisticians estimated the economy of its 15-member states shrank by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter.
english.aljazeera.net/business/2008/11/20081114101036535353.html