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
$571,973,114,419
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A Pact With The Devil
By Pepe Escobar
Last month, Muqtada said, “If they tell you that the agreement ends the presence of the occupation, let me tell you that the occupier will retain its bases. And whoever tells you that it gives us sovereignty is a liar.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21249.htm
US’s Road to Recovery Runs Through Beijing
By Francesco Sisci and David P Goldman
For the past decade, poor people in the developing world have financed the consumption of rich people in America. America has borrowed nearly $1 trillion a year, mostly from the developing world, and used these funds to import consumer goods and buy homes at low interest rates. The result is a solvency crisis of the American household, which shows up as a solvency crisis for financial institutions.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21246.htm
The G-20 Washout
By Mike Whitney
The financial crisis is being used by Wall Street big-wigs to restructure the economy and create a permanent class of working poor.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21252.htm
The G-20 Economic Summit Won’t Change the “Financial Crime Scene”
By Richard C. Cook
I worked in the U.S. Treasury Department for 21 years and learned first-hand the history and operations of public finance in the U.S. I have seen the disastrous results of the debt-based financial system and how it has driven our nation, government, and people into bankruptcy. I have also seen how these simple measures of monetary reform would be easy to implement and would begin to turn the situation around within weeks or months.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21250.htm
Chronic Malnutrition in Gaza Blamed on Israel
By Donald Macintyre
Donald Macintyre reveals the contents of an explosive report by the Red Cross on a humanitarian tragedy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21248.htm
The Real Goal of Israel’s Blockade
By Jonathan Cook
The latest tightening of Israel’s chokehold on Gaza – ending all supplies into the Strip for more than a week – has produced immediate and shocking consequences for Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21253.htm
Is Israel Deliberately Strengthening Hamas?
By Amira Hass
The extraordinary conditions of the extreme siege and the disconnection between Gaza and the West Bank (another intentional Israeli policy) have made the possibility of holding new Palestinian general elections a very distant one. Hamas can thus bolster its rule with coercion, wages, charity and the consoling power of religion. And perhaps that is exactly what the Shin Bet, Israel Defense Forces and government want?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21247.htm
The Ballot Heard ‘Round The World
By David Michael Green
The America of 2012 or 2016 will be nearly unrecognizable from the swamp in which we’ve been mired since 2000, and all those changes will be for the better. And they will have hugely salutary effects well beyond our borders as well.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21251.htm
Fifty-seven dead in Afghan attacks:
The US military said its troops and Afghan security forces had killed 38 militants in Helmand yesterday.
www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24661955-38197,00.html
Taliban reject Karazi’s offer, rule out talks until foreign troops leave:
“The Taliban’s (leadership) decided they will not take part in any peace talks with Karzai or Karzai’s administration until such a day when foreign forces leave Afghanistan,” Mujahid told the Associated Press.
www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en
.do?pn=world&articleID=3039055
Taliban threaten Paris attacks, claim killings:
The Taliban threatened to launch attacks in Paris unless France withdraws from Afghanistan, in a video aired by Al Arabiya television on Monday.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27766761/
20 killed in Pakistan`s Bajaur operation:
At least 18 militants and two civilians were killed in the latest clashes between security forces and militants here on Sunday.
www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=611751
Pakistan The Next US Target :
Bill Kristol, a Fox Television commentator and arch American neoconservative revealed recently what many had long suspected was US thinking about the current international situation.
www.daily.pk/local/other-local/8161-
pakistan-the-next-us-target.html
Zardari government policy towards Undeclared US War on Pakistan:
The delegation then stated 4 clear courses of action that illustrated that Pakistan was not as impotent as the regime chooses to portray it.
tinyurl.com/6o9vy4
Major change in store for U.S. policy on Pakistan:
“Pakistan is the most dangerous country in today’s world,” according to Mr. Obama’s chief adviser on South Asia, former CIA officer Bruce Riedel.
tinyurl.com/6eh55s
Bomber Kills 15 In Iraq: –
A suicide car bomber yesterday killed 15 people, including seven policemen, and wounded 20 in Iraq’s volatile northern Diyala province.
tinyurl.com/6f9mnx
Dabbagh: Iraq gov’t endorsed two pacts:
The Iraqi government says the cabinet has approved two agreements with the United States not just one pact as many people presume.
www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=75622§ionid=351020201
Why Did the Iraqi Cabinet Approve SOFA Now? (Two Hints: Obama and Iran):
The election of Barack Obama changed Iran’s calculus, and so Iran decided, very subtly, to shift to neutral on the pact. As a result, many politicians in Iraq who are either influenced by Iran or who are outright Iranian agents now support the pact.
tinyurl.com/5vovrl
Iran accepts mediator for Obama talks:
Iran says it would not oppose an initiative by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to mediate between Tehran and an Obama White House.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=75713§ionid=351020101
Sadr MPs fail to block reading of Iraq-US pact:
Followers of anti-American Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr failed yesterday to halt the first reading of a controversial Iraq-US military pact in parliament that had been passed by the Iraqi cabinet.
tinyurl.com/6xdm7r
Syria says agreement rewards occupation:
Syria yesterday criticised the proposed military pact between Iraq and the US, saying it rewarded American occupation of its Arab neighbour. The US is “trying to impose its conditions on the Iraqis and to legalise the arbitrary and usurpatory presence of their (forces) on Iraqi territory with this accord,” said Information Minister Mohsen Bilal.
tinyurl.com/5snluw
IAEA chief confirms traces of uranium found at Syria site:
“It’s not highly enriched uranium. It could have come from so many different ways,” ElBaradei told reporters in Dubai. “That’s why we’re looking at so many different scenarios.” Uranium can be found naturally in low concentrations and must be enriched before it can be used in either power plants or nuclear weapons
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038177.html
Ex-IDF chief: Military option against Iran still exists:
Former IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon, widely rumored to be weighing a run for Knesset on Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud list, said Monday that the military option for an attack on Iran still exists.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038165.html
ElBaradei`s Iran report not to contain any new point: :
ElBaradei has in his reports repeatedly stressed that the IAEA has obtained no document proving Iran’s diversion from international regulations regarding nuclear activities.
www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=611753
Mofaz: Assassinate Hamas leaders now:
Transportation minister suggests return of ‘targeted killing’ method used during his terms as IDF chief of staff, defense minister
tinyurl.com/67wgth
Olmert orders plans drawn up for massive offensive against Gaza: :
Interim Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert accused Hamas on Sunday of “shattering” the Gaza truce after two rockets hit Israel, which the Jewish state followed with an air strike that killed four Palestinian resistance fighters. However, Olmert, who made the comments at a weekly Israeli Cabinet meeting, did not mention the initial Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip on November 5 that killed seven Hamas members.
www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition
_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=97756
Official: Israel prevents 15 medicine-laden trucks into Gaza:
Israel on Sunday prevented 15 trucks loaded with different kinds of medicines from passing through one of Gaza Strip crossings, a Palestinian health ministry official said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/17/content_10368375.htm
Dark days in Gaza: Residents worried about winter:
Offices, medical practices, private residences: All are darkened by power outages that may occur at any time of day.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1037857.html
Poll: Only 6% of Americans think U.S. should back Palestinians in peace talks:
Comparatively, 66 percent of those polled said the U.S. should support Israel in the peace process. Some 80 percent of GOP voters and 59 percent of Democratic were among those backing U.S. support for Israel.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1037840.html
Barack Obama links Israel peace plan to 1967 borders deal:
Barack Obama is to pursue an ambitious peace plan in the Middle East involving the recognition of Israel by the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, according to sources close to America’s president-elect.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/
middle_east/article5162537.ece
Peres to Obama: To help Israel, be a great president for the U.S.:
President Shimon Peres, relating a conversation he had with Barack Obama, said Monday that when Obama asked him what he could do for Israel, Peres replied, “Be a great president of the United States.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038121.html
UK: Every school to get Holocaust specialist under anti-racism initiative:
Every secondary school is to get a Holocaust specialist to ensure that the subject is taught comprehensively and sensitively.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5106164.ece
Holocaust’s unholy hold:
The deeper we are stuck in our Auschwitz past, the more difficult it becomes to be free of it.
fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0545.html
6 die as Islamist factions clash near Mogadishu:
Rival Islamist militia have fought in a town just outside Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, illustrating splits in the forces ranged against the government and its Ethiopian military backers.
tinyurl.com/5ejnvf
DR Congo rebels seize army base:
Government troops abandoned their position late on Sunday at Rwindi, 130km north of Goma in DR Congo’s Nord-Kivu province, after a battle with the rebels involving small arms and heavier weapons, the witnesses said on Monday.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008
/11/20081117171844112442.html
‘US shield vulnerable to Russian air attack’:
Russia may use precision-guided air-based weapons to respond to a planned US missile shield in Europe, a former Russian official says.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=75712§ionid=351020602
Pakistani woman called mentally unfit for U.S. trial:
Her lawyers have said she may be a victim of torture and believe she was kidnapped with her children in March 2003 in Karachi, Pakistan, and secretly held in custody for the past five years by either Pakistani or U.S. authorities.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081117/us_nm/us_usa_qaeda_siddiqui_1
U.S. admits it held 12 juveniles at Guantanamo:
The government has provided a corrected report to the U.N. committee on child rights, according to Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon. He said the U.S. did not intentionally misrepresent the number of detainees taken to the isolated Navy base in southeast Cuba before turning 18.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27754942/
Obama win prompts wave of hate crimes:
Far from heralding a new age of tolerance, Mr Obama’s victory in the November 4 poll has highlighted the stubborn racism that lingers within some elements of American society as opponents pour their frustration into vandalism, harassment, threats and even physical attacks.
tinyurl.com/5rhf29
States want their own federal financial bailout:
Led by California with a $28 billion hole in its budget, 41 states are in financial trouble, and many of their leaders are looking to Congress to bail them out.
www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/55932.html
White House rejects auto bailout:
Funds from the $700bn US government bailout package for the financial system should not be used to aid America’s troubled auto industry, the White House says.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2008/11/20081117165411236475.html
State of Denial: America in Recession:
Policymakers Fear ‘R-Word’: Over the past 72 hours, Japan and the Eurozone have owned up to what U.K. policymakers previously admitted: Those economies are in recession.
tinyurl.com/5mx8nh
US banking giant cuts 50,000 jobs:
Citigroup, one of America’s largest financial institutions, is to cut about 50,000 jobs as the bank struggles with heavy losses stemming from the current financial crisis.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2008/11/20081117151942539191.html
The Six Unknowns That Are Roiling the Stock Market:
The stock market’s behavior is downright strange lately. Professionals with decades of market experience scratch their heads as the market falls to its lowest point of the year, then surges almost 7% in an afternoon-all for no apparent reason.
tinyurl.com/66tdwl
Florida pension fund plummets:
The State Board of Administration, which manages many of Florida’s public investments, has seen its assets plummet by $62-billion, a third of their value, in the last 13 months.
www.tampabay.com/news/business/article905919.ece
Foreclosures up 25 percent: RealtyTrac:
That means one in every 452 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing in October, the firm said in its report released on Thursday.
www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE4AC10H20081113