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 4,204
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$573,923,068,066
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The Slow Death of Gaza
By Andrea Becker
The collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population is illegal. But international law was tossed aside long ago.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21309.htm
Moving Beyond Political Activism
Deprivation and Desperation in Gaza
By Joe Mowrey
As conditions in the Gaza strip approach a catastrophic level of deprivation, the worldedia, and in particular the U.S. media, remain largely silent. The United Nations, whose truckloads of food and medical supplies continue to be denied entry into Gaza by Israel, appears to be one of the few international voices of dissent concerning the collective punishment of 1.5 million human beings. This, despite the fact that more than 50% of the population in Gaza is comprised of children under the age of 15.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21308.htm
“Nobody Is Watching “
America’s Hidden War in Somalia
By Paul Salopek
It is a standoff war in which the Pentagon lobs million-dollar cruise missiles into a famine-haunted African wasteland the size of Texas, hoping to kill lone terror suspects who might be dozing in candlelit huts.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21310.htm
War Of The Worlds
By Yvonne Ridley
Far from re-building Afghanistan the military forces, especially the Americans, are now viewed with a deep hatred and revulsion.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21312.htm
7.7 Trillion Dollars And Counting
The Cost Of “Rescuing” The US Financial System
By Hamilton Nolan
US government has pledged more than $7.7 trillion of our tax dollars to “rescue” the financial system. How much is 7.7 trillion?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21311.htm
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
“The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them” Albert Einstein
By Mike Whitney
It is vital to realize that markets are never under some obligation to stop falling merely because they have already fallen by an ungodly amount. It also is vital to explore how bad the worst-case scenario can get and to think about how you would respond if it comes to pass.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21313.htm
Citibank Flips The Bird To American Taxpayers
By The New York Crank
Last week, while Congress was engineering a bailout package of the taxpayers’ money to rescue Citibank and save the economy, Citibank was sending out notices to its cardholders of a new and usurious policy – a policy that could drown consumers and help sink the economy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21316.htm
Citizens’ Economic Stimulus Plan
Stop Paying Credit Card Debt
By Richard C. Cook
Almost nothing has been done to help the consumers within the producing economy who have lost trillions of dollars in the stock market crash, seen the value of their homes fall in many cases below what they owe on their mortgages, and lost jobs or health benefits through the escalating recession.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21315.htm
What To Do When Your Party Sucks
By David Michael Green
What does it say when a buffoon like Sarah Palin, a would-be Il Duce in a skirt – only even more comical – can say and do and be anything idiotic and cringe-worthy, and column after column of the loyal troops will still adore her, perhaps even more so, marching off to war in her name? What it says to me is that this party is going nowhere ideologically.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21314.htm
29 killed in occupied Afghanistan:
US-led forces in Afghanistan said Sunday they had killed an Afghan civilian in a battle that also left two militants dead, as 26 other Taliban-linked rebels were reported killed in separate clashes.
paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?208274
Pakistan: PPP leader, 27 others killed in clashes:
Twenty-eight people, including a leader of the ruling PPP, a woman councillor and 25 militants, were killed in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan’s troubled North West Frontier Province and nearby tribal belt.
paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?208274
Are India and Afghanistan colluding to destroy Pakistan?:
An article in The New York Times says that there is an “increasing belief” among Pakistanis, including members of the armed forces, that what the US really wants is the breakup of Pakistan, the only Muslim country with nuclear arms.
www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=2808&sec=1
Deadly day of bombings kills 23 in occupied Iraq:
A FEMALE suicide bomber blew herself up near an entrance to the United States-protected Green Zone and a bomb tore through a minibus carrying Iraqi government employees in separate attacks yesterday that killed at least 20 people, Iraqi officials said.
www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=381966&type=World
Iraqi parliament biggest bloc rallies behind US agreement:
Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said Sunday the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) was fully behind the US-Iraq security agreement, and disclosed that special teams would be formed to convince parliamentary blocs to approve the deal.
tinyurl.com/5q529c
‘Kill Ahmadinejad, halt Iran’s N-drive’:
A former Israeli commander says the West must consider assassinating Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to halt Tehran’s nuclear program.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=76352§ionid=351020104
Israeli retracts calls to kill Ahmadinejad:
The associate of former Israeli chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon said the recent remarks by the military commander-turned-politician on the necessity of killing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been taken out of context.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=76386§ionid=351020104
Iran: We uncovered Mossad espionage ring :
According to reports in the Iranian news agency Fars, “the spies were trying to gather intelligence about the Iranian nuclear program, about the working of the Revolutionary Guard and about various people.”
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3627805,00.html
Israel eases Gaza blockade temporarily:
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said the deliveries were insufficient for long-term needs.
tinyurl.com/5e68ag
Cash crunch leaves Gazans using tattered notes:
Desperate Gazans crowded into banks on Monday, jostling to get to the front of lines as they raced to withdraw money from accounts that have become largely inaccessible due to Israeli sanctions.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27890651/
Gaza Catholics without Sunday mass:
Pope’s diplomatic envoy barred from Strip
www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=33461
Hamas chief slams Arab states over ‘Gaza tragedy’:
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip is a tragedy. Shame on those who stay silent on the criminal blockade that has been imposed on Gaza. Shame on Arab and Islamic regimes and on the international community,” Khaled Meshaal told a meeting in Syria on the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
tinyurl.com/5sywg9
URGENT STATEMENT BY ANTI-ZIONIST ORTHODOX JEWS WORLDWIDE:
How long will Jewish and non-Jewish leaders who claim the mantle of civilization and morality remain silent in the face of the ongoing state terrorism practiced by the Zionist state against the Palestinian People. PDF
www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/Urgent%20State
ment%20From%20Neturei%20Karta%20Palestine.pdf
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Abbas says not one issue resolved in Mideast peace talks:
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas hit out at US-backed Middle East peace talks on Sunday on the eve of a White House meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President George W. Bush, saying that not one issue has been resolved.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081123/
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Rice: Israeli politics preventing peace:
The fact that Israel and the Palestinians have not reached a peace agreement and will likely fail to do so by the end of 2008 is “largely due to” political turmoil in Israel, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday night.
tinyurl.com/6nnwsb
VIDEO / Policeman filmed head-butting Palestinian residents:
The Justice Ministry’s Police Investigation Department (PID) recently launched an investigation in efforts to locate a patrol police officer who was documented head-butting two Arab residents of East Jerusalem, a man and a woman, while evacuating homes slated for demolition.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1040584.html
Russia: World victim of missile shield:
Russia warns that US plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe are bound to harm the entire world, promising ‘to respond to it appropriately’.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=76409§ionid=351020602
In show of power, Russian warships head to Venezuela:
The voyage of the cruiser Peter the Great, scheduled to arrive in Venezuela this week with a squadron of other Russian warships, was meant to showcase the Kremlin’s ability to project naval power abroad and reassert its claim to great power status.
tinyurl.com/6bkkek
Chavez Allies Win Majority in Venezuela Local Elections:
Mr. Chavez’s socialist party won control of 17 of the country’s 22 states. Authorities say the opposition won the other five, including the country’s two most populous — Miranda and oil-rich Zulia
www.voanews.com/english/2008-11-23-voa6.cfm?rss=topstories
US drug enforcement agency complicit in drug trade, says Morales:
Morales says evidence will be presented to President Obama: Bolivian leader Evo Morales on Thursday accused the US government of encouraging drug-trafficking as he explained his decision to banish the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
rawstory.com/news/2008/DEA_encou
raged_drug_trade_says_Morales_1106.html
Britain set to slash tax on goods and services:
Britain was Monday expected to announce a cut in value added tax (VAT) to 15 percent from 17.5 percent to stimulate spending on goods and services as the nation faces recession.
tinyurl.com/63wvjw
Obama may delay tax-cut rollback for wealthy: –
President-elect Barack Obama may consider delaying a campaign promise – to roll back tax cuts on high-income Americans – as part of his economic recovery strategy, two aides said on Sunday.
www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE4AM1F120081123
Citigroup Gets U.S. Rescue From Losses, Cash Infusion :
The $20 billion of new cash comes on top of a $25 billion infusion the bank received last month under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, passed by Congress to shore up the financial industry.
tinyurl.com/5qk9t2
All US Financials Will be Nationalized in a Year: Manager:
It’s not preferable, but all major U.S. financial companies will eventually be under government control because the alternative is so much worse, Hugh Hendry, chief investment officer at hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management, said Friday.
www.cnbc.com/id/27835645
US October home price drop is new record:
Today’s figures compare with the 4.86 million level reached in June, the lowest in a decade and 33 percent below the record reached in September 2005. Resales have fluctuated around a 4.96 million rate this year.
tinyurl.com/6mycc6