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 4,207
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$574,758,807,265
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Afghan President Wishes He Could Shoot Down U.S. Planes
By Vancouver Sun
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he would bring down U.S. planes bombing villages if he could, in a sign of growing tension between Afghanistan and its Western backers as the Taliban insurgency grows in strength.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21327.htm
The Corruption That Makes Unpeople Of An Entire Nation
By John Pilger
During the 1960s and 1970s British governments, Labour and Tory, tricked and expelled the entire population of the Chagos Archipelago, more than 2,000 British citizens, so that Diego Garcia could be given to the United States as the site for a military base.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21328.htm
The Obama “Dream Team”:
Rubin-clones And Other Fakers
By Mike Whitney
Does Paulson think he can “turn off” the public’s pessimism like a light switch? Does Bernanke think he can get people to spend themselves further into debt by lowering interest rates? It can’t be done. And the Obama camp is going to run into the same brick wall. The nation’s confidence has been shaken and people are developing a bunker mentality.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21334.htm
An Administration in Search of a Progressive
The Team Obama Should Have Picked
By RAMZI KYSIA
There not a progressive among them. Not even one. If Obama was vague about his personal politics during the primaries and general election it was for a reason: he doesn’t have any.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21329.htm
Bones
By John S. Hatch
A new day needs to dawn in America, and that is what President elect Obama has promised. But that can’t occur if the past is not acknowledged and reconciled. A harmless skeleton or two left behind in a White House closet is one thing. But in this case the rattling of bones could drown out Mr. Obama’s eloquent voice and poison his Presidency.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21329.htm
Victory for Venezuela’s Socialists in Crucial Elections
By James Petras
The election results point to deepening polarization between the hard right and the socialist left. The centrist social-democratic ex-Chavista governors were practically wiped from the political map.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21332.htm
Immigration:
A Nation of Colonists – and Race Laws
By Juan Santos
The original Europeans in the Americas were not immigrants, but colonists. And the US is not a nation of immigrants – it is a white colonial settler state, like South Africa under Apartheid, the former Rhodesia, Australia and Israel.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21331.htm
Suppressed Speech Of Wamsutta (Frank B.) James, Wampanoag
The Wampanoag Indians reflect on the anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival, and the first Thanksgiving.
Three hundred fifty years after the Pilgrims began their invasion of the land of the Wampanoag, their “American” descendants planned an anniversary celebration. Still clinging to the white schoolbook myth of friendly relations between their forefathers and the Wampanoag, the anniversary planners thought it would be nice to have an Indian make an appreciative and complimentary speech at their state dinner.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21333.htm
Hostages still held, at least 125 dead in India terror attacks:
Indian military commandos continued to exchange fire with an unknown number of militants one day after coordinated groups of gunmen shot and blasted their way through tourist sites around Mumbai Wednesday night, apparently targeting American, Israelis and British citizens for use as hostages.
www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-mumbai28-2008nov28,0,689674.story
Singh: Mumbai attackers from outside India:
The toll from Wednesday’s series of coordinated terrorist attacks staged by masked gunman was set at 101 dead and 314 wounded. Teams of armed men launched simultaneous assaults on hotels and other “soft” targets in Mumbai’s southern financial district and a building housing members of an Orthodox Jewish group.
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Mumbai attackers may be Pakistani nationals:
“There are indications that the perpetrators of the crime, who arrived in Mumbai by boats, are Pakistani nationals,” authoritative sources said.
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Pakistan FM asks India not to point finger for Mumbai attacks:
The statement was a response to a televised speech by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in which he said that those behind coordinated attacks against Mumbai were based “outside the country” and warned “neighbours” who provide a haven to anti-India militants.
tinyurl.com/6h5ffd
Propaganda?
Possible Geopolitical Consequences of the Mumbai Attacks:
If the Nov. 26 attacks in Mumbai were carried out by Islamist militants as it appears, the Indian government will have little choice, politically speaking, but to blame them on Pakistan. That will in turn spark a crisis between the two nuclear rivals that will draw the United States into the fray.
www.stratfor.com/analysis/20081126_red_alert
Sophisticated attacks, but Qaeda link disputed:
Some global terrorism experts with experience in South Asia said that, based on the tactics used in the attacks, the group was probably not linked to Al Qaeda – although that assertion was challenged by other analysts.
www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/27/asia/27group-update.php
Coordinated nature of Mumbai shootings points to shadowy Islamist group:
The most obvious suspect will be a group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen, an offshoot of the banned SIMI (the Students Islamic Movement).
tinyurl.com/5t2cqh
Captive’s family: Hostages in Mumbai Chabad house are unconscious:
“Are you aware how many people have been killed in Kashmir? Are you aware how many of them have been killed in Kashmir this week?” he said.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1041535.html
Site-by-site breakdown of Mumbai attacks:
Folowing is a list of places where attacks have been reported in Mumbai.
tinyurl.com/66nbdc
US says troops kill 32 militants in Afghanistan:
U.S.-led coalition troops and Afghan security forces killed 32 militants in a series of raids against Taliban commanders in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=467573
Bombs kill four Afghans, one Australian occupation force soldier: –
A suicide car bomb claimed by Taliban insurgents blew up near the US embassy in Kabul Thursday and killed four Afghan civilians while another bomb in the south killed an Australian soldier, officials said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081127/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest
Afghanistan ‘worse than ever’:
Security in Afghanistan has deteriorated to a seven-year low, Canada admitted yesterday, as President Hamid Karzai continued to vent frustration at the slow pace of progress and accidental civilian deaths caused by Western forces.
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Robert Fisk: ‘Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate the government’:
As he leaves Afghanistan, our correspondent reflects on a failed state cursed by brutal fundamentalism and rampant corruption
tinyurl.com/567ogy
US Kills Five in Pakistan:
Security sources told KUNA that a US unmanned drone fired at least two missiles at a suspected militants’ vehicle near Wana headquarters in South Waziristan tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan.
tinyurl.com/5exbnz
3 killed in bomb blast in Pakistan’s tribal are:
A car was blown up when a remote-controlled bomb went off and three people were killed as a result in South Waziristan tribal region, said the report.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/27/content_10422766.htm
Iraqi police find 29 bodies in two mass graves:
Iraqi police found 23 rotting bodies dumped in a mass grave in Iraq’s volatile northern Diyala province on Wednesday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LQ626900.htm
2 killed, 25 wounded in 2nd suicide bombing in Mosul: :
Two civilians on Thursday were killed, and 25 persons were wounded, in a second suicide bombing in Mosul city today, said a security source from Ninewa province’s police.
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Iraq Lawmakers Approve Accord That Provides for U.S. Withdrawal:
The Status of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, was backed by 149 lawmakers in the 275-member assembly in Baghdad. Today’s vote was televised live by international broadcasters including al- Arabiya.
tinyurl.com/6fbozt
US welcomes Iraqi approval of security bill:
Under the security agreement, US troops would withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of June 2009 and from the rest of the country by the end of 2011.
tinyurl.com/6dfoev
Secret SOFA provisions exposed:
An Iraqi media outlet has exposed ‘secret’ provisions of the US-sought security pact amid ongoing parliamentary deliberations on the deal.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=76714§ionid=351020201
Supplies to Gaza not enough: UN:
Israel reopened its border crossings with Gaza to basic supplies yesterday but UN officials complained that the repeated closures of recent weeks were forcing the territory’s population to live from hand to mouth.
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Amira Hass: This is Gaza:
Just as Gaza is the emptying of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency storehouses and the farmers who sowed and watered, but cannot market, their tomatoes, guavas and strawberries out of the Gaza Strip because Israel forbids it, it is also the calmness with which people receive the sudden darkness and the jokes that there is not much food in the refrigerator to spoil anyway.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1041345.html
Top UN official slams ‘Apartheid’ by Israel:
United Nations General Assembly President says sanctions should be considered to pressure Israel.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=28966
In US defeat, UN agency approves Syria nuclear aid:
The U.N. nuclear agency on Wednesday overrode U.S. concerns and approved sensitive technical aid for Syria, despite allegations the country has a secret atomic program that could be used to make weapons.
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Medvedev set for Chavez talks:
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, is set to arrive in Caracas for talks with Hugo Chavez, his Venezuelan counterpart, as the two countries prepare to carry out joint naval exercises in the Caribbean.
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Injured veterans engaged in new combat:
In a little-noticed regulation change, the Pentagon’s definition of combat-related disabilities is narrowed, costing some wounded veterans thousands of dollars in lost benefits.
tinyurl.com/5nygc2
Government bailout hits $8.5 trillion:
The federal government committed an additional $800 billion to two new loan programs on Tuesday, bringing its cumulative commitment to financial rescue initiatives to a staggering $8.5 trillion, according to Bloomberg News.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=
/c/a/2008/11/26/MNVN14C8QR.DTL
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