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 4,205
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$574,210,414,464
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Afghanistan Demands ‘Timeline’ For End Of Military Intervention
By AFP
President Hamid Karzai demanded on Tuesday at a meeting with a UN Security Council team that the international community set a “timeline” for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21323.htm
U.S. Uses al-Qaeda To Justify Foreign Policy
Fidel Castro Ruz
Al-Qaeda, spawned by the empire itself, is a typical example of an enemy that the hegemonic power places where it needs to in order to then justify its actions, in the same way that, throughout history, it has manufactured enemies and attacks aimed at advancing its plans for domination.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21325.htm
A Funny Thing Happened to Me on My Way to the Way to Damascus
By Cynthia McKinney
“I was not allowed to exit the country”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21322.htm
Russian Analyst Predicts Decline and Breakup of U.S.
By RIA
Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21324.htm
Colossal Financial Collapse
The Truth behind the Citigroup Bank “Nationalization”
By F. William Engdahl
On Friday November 21, the world came within a hair’s breadth of the most colossal financial collapse in history according to bankers on the inside of events with whom we have contact. The trigger was the bank which only two years ago was America’s largest, Citigroup. The size of the US Government de facto nationalization of the $2 trillion banking institution is an indication of shocks yet to come in other major US and perhaps European banks thought to be ‘too big to fail.’
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21318.htm
Rebuilding the Nation on a Foundations of Sand
By Jim Kirwan
IF Obama were serious: Then he would condemn those who have led this nation to the brink of self-annihilation as a people. Those people responsible must be excoriated: literally purged.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21317.htm
Left Out of the Bailout: The Poor
By Mark Kukis
“Recent data show poverty is already rising quite substantially,” says Robert Greenstein, the executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “There is a strong potential for more hardship and destitution than we have seen in this country in a number of decades.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21319.htm
A Frenzy Over Free Food
By Allison Sherry
In a sign of bad economic times. An estimated 40,000 people came to a Weld County farm Saturday to collect free potatoes, carrots and leeks.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21326.htm
“A People’s History of Poverty in America”
By Democracy Now! – Audio
Census Bureau figures from 2007 show that 12.5% of the population, or over 37 million people, live below the poverty line. The Center warns hat number could increase to up to 47 million.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21320.htm
“What Next?
The Elections, the Economy, and the World”
By Noam Chomsky
Question is what is a democracy supposed to be? – The ignorant and meddlesome outsiders have a function and namely to watch what’s going on. And to push a lever every once in a while and then go home.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21321.htm
23 Taliban killed:
The US-led Coalition troops killed 23 Taliban in separate operations in central and southern Afghanistan, the military said on Tuesday. The first operation was conducted in Shah Wali Kot district of the country’s southern province of Kandahar, said a statement.
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Marine killed in Afghanistan bomb blast:
A British soldier was killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
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U.S. could OK Afghan “surge” before Obama takes office:
Obama’s repeated call for more U.S. forces for the war has led the Pentagon to expect little resistance from the incoming administration, officials said.
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Pakistan troops kill 20 militants:
Fifteen militants were killed and six others were injured in gun fights in different parts of north-western Swat valley, a security official said.
www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24703152-38197,00.html
Iraqi Sunnis unconvinced of U.S. pact on eve of vote:
The Iraqi parliament’s biggest Sunni bloc said it wanted guarantees of a public referendum on a U.S. security pact before it backed the contentious deal in a vote in parliament on Wednesday.
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Iraq’s Nouri Maliki may gain power with U.S. security agreement:
An increasingly bold Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has sanctioned politically charged arrests of prominent Sunnis, personally supervised military operations and moved to sideline rivals in recent months, actions that have evoked memories of the country’s authoritarian past.
fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0553.html
Iranian leaders speak on U.S.-Iraqi pact:
“The views of the Iraqi Parliament and senior clerics regarding the Iraq-U.S. security pact, which is based on maintaining sovereignty of Iraq and its national consensus, are confirmed by the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said in statements carried by the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
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IAEA chief ElBaradei: Let Syria have nuclear aid:
Syria’s bid for aid in planning a nuclear power plant poses no bomb-making risk and a Western move to block the project threatens to discredit the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA’s director said in remarks released on Tuesday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1040899.html
US Puts Pressure on Israel to Refrain from Attacks on Iran / Gaza: :
Washington’s concerns are not limited to the possibility of Israel attacking Iran, the sources say; U.S. officials have also cautioned Israelis against launching a ground assault inside the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1861524,00.html?imw=Y
US has never advised Israel against Iran strike: Olmert:
“There is a basic, deep understanding about the Iranian threat and the need to act in order to remove threat,” he told reporters.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081125/pl_afp/
israelusirannuclearpolitics_081125194411
US gathering intel on Iran defenses?:
The Pentagon is reportedly studying Russian-made surface-to-air S-300s amid reports that Iran may be equipped with the defense system.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=76464§ionid=351020101
Hungry Gazans Resort to Animal Feed as U.N. Blasts Israel:
Half of Gaza’s bakeries have closed down and the other half have resorted to animal feed to produce bread as Israel’s complete blockade of the coastal territory enters its 19th day.
tinyurl.com/5bro6z
Gaza power plant shuts down:
Gaza’s sole power plant has shut down because Israel will not allow the importation of replacement parts needed for urgent repairs, an official in the impoverished Palestinian territory’s energy authority said on Tuesday.
tinyurl.com/589mjs
Top UN official: Israel’s policies are like apartheid of bygone era:
United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann on Monday likened Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians to South Africa’s treatment of blacks under apartheid.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1040614.html
Israeli policeman headbutts woman in Palestinian demolition clashes:
Human rights group B’Tselem films violence at demonstrations as police move in to destroy ‘illegal’ homes.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/25/israelandthepalestinians
Five Convicted in Terrorism Financing Trial:
The group was accused of funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, an Islamist organization the government declared to be a terrorist group in 1995.
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/25charity.html?em
Rights group: 500 Congo opposition members killed:
A human rights group said Tuesday the Congolese government has killed an estimated 500 opposition members and alleged that Congo’s president himself gave orders to crush opponents.
www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/786766.html
Zimbabwe on brink of collapse as outbreak of cholera spreads:
The situation in Zimbabwe may soon “implode” as a cholera outbreak spreads and basic services collapse, South African leaders and a group of international statesmen warned yesterday.
tinyurl.com/5hej3y
Keep missile shield out of Poland, Czech Republic, Obama warned:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned the President-elect Barack Obama that Moscow will respond if he pushes on with plans for a missile defence system in Europe.
tinyurl.com/5ehhdp
U.S. missile-warning satellite fails:
Space News reported on Monday that the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer John Young has signed a memorandum asking Congress to provide $117 million in funding in fiscal 2009 for a new satellite to hedge against a potential gap in satellite coverage around 2014.
www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AN8FK20081124
Russian warships arrive in Venezuelan port city:
The deployment is the first of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War and was timed to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Caracas – the first ever by a Russian president.
www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Nov/20081125News022.asp
Chavez slams Obama’s ‘very bad signals’ to Iran:
“Iranian President “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent him a letter. The reply wasn’t good. It was disrespectful. Obama was unable to get away from the cliche. He spoke like (President George W.) Bush. They are very bad signs,” Chavez said in a late night news conference to foreign journalists.
www.dose.ca/news/story.html?id=992641
Bolivarian Candidates Win Majority of State Govt’s in Venezuelan Local Elections:
Before the elections, the opposition was hoping to win, at least, 14 state governments, a figure that progressively decreased as the electoral process reached its climax on Sunday.
www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=612363
Colombia: Stop false accusations against human rights groups:
President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia should stop making false and dangerous accusations against human rights groups that criticize his government, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today in a joint statement. Colombia should instead address the human rights concerns they raise.
tinyurl.com/65zqnd
Bin Laden Driver to Be Sent to Yemen:
Once considered a dangerous terrorist by the Bush administration, Mr. Hamdan was convicted only on lesser charges in August and given what amounted to a four-month sentence by a military jury. The verdict was a sharp setback for Pentagon officials, who had contended they could detain him indefinitely.
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/washing
ton/26gitmo.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin
Blair’s private life’, claims ex-US navy operator:
Faulk also said he heard “pillow talk” phone calls of Iraq’s first interim president, Ghazi al-Yawer, another key US ally, when he worked as a US Army Arab linguist assigned to a US National Security Agency (NSA) facility at Fort Gordon, Georgia, between 2003 and 2007.
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/
24/tony-blair-united-states-intelligence
Bush Labor Department misled Congress in effort to privatize jobs:
President George W. Bush’s Labor Department misled Congress in an effort to prove outsourcing jobs to private companies was more efficient than assigning the jobs to government employees, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.
rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_Labor_
Department_misled_Congress_in_1125.html
German Weimar Republic in the early 1920s and the U.S. – Troubling similarities
www.nowandfutures.com/us_weimar.html
US Fed announces $800bn “stimulus”:
About $600bn will be used to buy up mortgage-backed securities while $200bn is being targeted at unfreezing the consumer credit market.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7748362.stm
Data shows sharper US contraction:
The US Commerce Department said the downward revision was due to the biggest fall in US consumer spending in 28 years
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7748216.stm
Home prices in record plunge: –
Prices of single-family homes plunged a record 17.4 percent in September from a year earlier, according to a key S&P index released on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Economy/idUSTRE4AN45720081125