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
$575,055,988,115
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India’s Leaders Need to Look Closer to Home
The Assault on Mumbai
By Tariq Ali
Why should it be such a surprise if the perpetrators are themselves Indian Muslims? Its hardly a secret that there has been much anger within the poorest sections of the Muslim community against the systematic discrimination and acts of violence carried out against them.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21345.htm
US is Funding Terrorism
Deepak Chopra Blames Washington For Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Video and Text
Chopra: What we have seen in Mumbai has been brewing for a long time, and the war on terrorism and the attack on Iraq compounded the situation. What we call “collateral damage” and going after the wrong people actually turns moderates into extremists, and that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21341.htm
Iraqi Academics Assassinated During the US-Led Occupation
By Michel Chossudovsky
The objective of these targeted assassinations is to “kill a nation”, the destroy Iraq’s ability to educate its people, to undermine its research and scientific capabilities in literally all fields of endeavor, to transform a nation into a territory, and ultmately to destroy civilization.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21343.htm
Iranian Radio Says
Referendum Will Arm Iraqi Officials Against US ‘Pressures’
By Juan Cole
If this agreement really were a good thing for Bush, would Iran be this happy?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21346.htm
Kafka and Uighurs at Guantánamo
By Ray McGovern
I would add the suggestion that we as a country make an open apology and ask the rest of the world for forgiveness for our straying so far from the ideals upon which our country was founded. Then there can be true thanksgiving for real closure, and an end to a particularly disgraceful chapter in our country’s history.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21336.htm
The Custodians Of Empire
Obama’s “New” National Security Team Is Not Very New
By Tom Engelhardt
The next secretary of state looks to be Hillary Clinton, a hawk on the Middle East. During the campaign, she spoke of our ability to “totally obliterate” Iran, should that country carry out a nuclear strike against Israel. She will evidently be allowed to bring her own (hawkish) subordinates into the State Department with her. Her prospective appointment is now being praised by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Henry Kissinger.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21337.htm
Doves Keep The Faith as Obama Team Tilts Right
By Jonathan Martin
Leading opponents of the war have mostly been silent as president-elect Barack Obama, who first built his national image on the foundation of his early opposition to the Iraq war, assembles a group of national security hands that is anything but a team of doves.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21344.htm
Learning to Lead
By Dahr Jamail
We in the United States have grown acclimatized to a system that first dehumanizes us and then inevitably feeds on our dehumanization, sucking away at our resources, our rights, and our resistance while we scamper frantically around in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21348.htm
Now I’ve Seen Everything
A spy goes to work for a thinktank
By Justin Raimondo
Well, here’s one for the record books: the Middle East Forum has hired Steve Rosen, once the head of policy development for the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosen is accused of stealing highly classified information from the U.S. government and passing it on to Israeli government officials.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21338.htm
“This Hilltop and That Hilltop”
Israel’s Settlement on Capitol Hill
By Robert Weitzel
Unbeknownst to most Americans, Israel’s westernmost settlement is not located in Palestine-Israel, but is 6000 miles away on the high ground overlooking Foggy Bottom in Washington D.C.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21347.htm
Five Members of Congress Being Probed in Bribery Affair
By John Byrne
Five other members of Congress are being probed in association with the bribery scandal linked to former California Republican congressman “Duke” Cunningham, according to a little-noticed legal filing discovered Thursday.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21340.htm
New U.S. Mortgage Crisis Looms
By MATT APUZZO
The full scope of the U.S. housing meltdown isn’t clear and already there are ominous signs of a new crisis – one that could turn out the lights on malls, hotels and storefronts across the country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21335.htm
CEOs “Cashed Out” Prior To Economic Crisis
By Tom Eley
Balzac’s maxim that “behind every great fortune lies a great crime” may yet prove a fitting epitaph for American capitalism. A recent survey by the Wall Street Journal reveals that CEOs at major US financial and real estate firms converted tens of millions of dollars of overvalued stock into cash prior to the eruption of the current financial crisis, even as many of their corporations approached the precipice.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21335.htm
Peace:
The Blessing of Renewed Hope This Thanksgiving
By Joy Walker
Having been drawn into research of the politics of war by despair following our military’s attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, I became familiar with some methods of propaganda used to manipulate good people into supporting aggression against their neighbors.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21342.htm
Least We Forget
The War Prayer
Don’t Miss This – By Mark Twain
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17801.htm
BRITISH gunmen seized in commando raids as death toll hits more than 150:
As many as seven of the terrorists may have British connections and some could be from Leeds and Bradford where London’s July 7 bombers lived, one source said.
tinyurl.com/57m43u
Live TV from Mumbai, India:
ibnlive.in.com/videos/video_streaming.php
India blames Pakistan for Mumbai attacks, Islamabad rebuts charge:
‘According to preliminary information, some elements in Pakistan are responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks,’ Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee was quoted as saying by the PTI news agency.
tinyurl.com/6quhf9
Mumbai attacks: UK link played down:
UK authorities played down reports that the terrorists included Britons as violence in the city continued for a third day.
tinyurl.com/6gfseo
Five hostages killed in Jewish centre-Mumbai police:
“Five hostages have been killed and the place is yet to be fully secured, which we hope to do soon,” Hasan Gafoor, the Mumbai police commissioner, said by telephone.
tinyurl.com/6ra9ns
India blames Pakistan for Mumbai attacks, Islamabad rebuts charge:
‘According to preliminary information, some elements in Pakistan are responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks,’ Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee was quoted as saying by the PTI news agency.
tinyurl.com/6quhf9
Propaganda, News?
LeT terrorists trained to carry out marine terror ops:
Police on Thursday arrested a man named Ismail, an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist, in connection with a series of attacks across Mumbai’s busiest and most opulent areas over the last two days.
tinyurl.com/5chp48
‘Foreign militants entering Balochistan via Pak-Afghan border’:
‘Major chunk of Indian aid to Afghanistan being used to support anti-Pakistan quarters
dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008
\11\28\story_28-11-2008_pg7_14
13 killed in Pakistan attacks:
Seven people were killed, four of them policemen, in a suicide car-bomb attack on a police convoy in the northwestern town of Bannu, said district police chief Mohammad Alam Shinwari on Friday.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3630247,00.html
Coalition forces strike into heart of Zhari district – killing 21 Taliban:
A Canadian-led occupation force has completed a major operation in the heart of the Zhari district that has left 21 Taliban dead and several others in custody.
www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.e
n.do?pn=world&articleID=3045611
20 Killed As Taliban Ambush Afghan Troops:
Taliban insurgents killed 13 Afghan troops in an ambush of their convoy in northwestern Afghanistan, while NATO-led troops fired on insurgents inside Pakistan, officials said Friday.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/28/asia/AS-Afghanistan.php
Two UK occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
Insurgent attack in Helmand brings number of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan to 128
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/
27/afghanistan-british-soldiers-killed
Afghans riot in Kabul after civilian killed:
Dozens of angry Afghans pelted police with stones after a U.S. military vehicle struck a van and and one civilian was killed and three wounded in the Afghan capital on Friday, officials and witnesses said.
uk.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis
/idUKISL372420._CH_.2420?rpc=401&
Afghan anger over another civilian killed:
“This morning a convoy of British troops were passing here and they had a misunderstanding with a civilian vehicle. The troops opened fire and killed one civilian and wounded three more,” Mohammad Ayoub Salangi, Kabul’s police chief, told Reuters news agency.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/11/2008112810532994618.html
Karzai: Foreign troops have not made life better:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticised the seven-year Afghan war, complaining that the US and NATO troops have not made life better
tinyurl.com/6bdww9
Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border:
Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran’s borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.
en.rian.ru/russia/20070327/62697703.html
UK All-Party Commission Rejects US Policy of Isolating Iran:
The commission, co-chaired by former NATO secretary general Lord Robertson and former High Representative for Bosnia Lord Ashdown, also recommended bringing in Iran as well as Russia, Pakistan and China in a regional peace conference on Afghanistan.
paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?208479
Iran says would welcome Obama talks: report:
Iran would welcome talks between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, the country’s vice president said in an interview with Japan’s Kyodo news agency
tinyurl.com/5l3exs
U.S. accuses Syria of copying Iran nuclear cover-up tactics:
The United States accused Syria on Friday of adopting tactics “honed by Iran” to impede a U.N. watchdog probe into alleged covert nuclear activity.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1041926.html
IAEA chief baffled over lack of Syria nuclear info:
The chief U.N. nuclear inspector said Thursday that his agency’s Syria probe has been hampered because key satellite images of an alleged nuclear reactor bombed by Israel are inexplicably unavailable on the market.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081127/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nuclear_syria_iran
Israel to bomb Iran through Turkey?:
“The Israelis would not attack (Iran) over Iraq. The way to go is through Turkey…When Israel attacked the reactor in Syria, it went up the Mediterranean and through Turkish air space,” Hurriyet quoted Krauthammer as saying.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=76831§ionid=351020104
Two Palestinians killed as Israeli tanks invade Gaza:
Israeli troops backed by tanks mounted an attack into the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, shelling Palestinian areas, witnesses said.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=28992
Israel violating international law by Gaza blockade, says UK:
The British government has accused Israel of violating international law by its blockade of Gaza but stopped short of describing the siege as “collective punishment” of the Palestinians.
www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=15219
Iraqi suicide bomber kills 12 at mosque:
An Iraqi suicide bomber killed 12 people when he blew himself up outside a mosque for followers of “radical” cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
tinyurl.com/5gb96o
Thousands protest in Iraq against U.S. troops pact:
Followers of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched on Friday against a pact letting U.S. forces stay in Iraq until 2011, toppling an effigy of President George W. Bush where U.S. troops once tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein.
www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=980995
Sadr calls for three days of mourning:
Says “put up black flags” over US military pact:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/11/28/60987.html
The US-Iraq Deal Doesn’t Bode Well:
Although the vote is a victory for Maliki, it says little about the future stability and security of the Iraqi state. And it says even less about the future of US-Iraq relations.
news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20081127/cm_thenation/1096386744
US pact ‘could mean torture’:
A LANDMARK US military pact approved by Iraq’s parliament could lead to Iraqi detainees being tortured or executed at the hands of their own government, a London-based human rights group said.
www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story
/0,22049,24719285-5001028,00.html
Full Text The Agreement :
Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq – PDF File
graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world
/20081119_SOFA_FINAL_AGREED_TEXT.pdf
At least 3 killed in Somalia market blast:
At least three people have been killed and 15 others wounded in a grenade attack in the Somali town of Baidoa.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/
11/20081127153937134775.html
Ethiopia to pull troops out of Somalia:
Ethiopia said on Friday it would withdraw its troops from Somalia by the end of this year, piling pressure on Somalia’s feuding government and African nations that had promised to send peacekeepers.
uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20081128/twl
-uk-somalia-conflict-bd5ae06.html
U.S. war on drugs has failed, report says:
The United States’ war on drugs has failed and will continue to do so as long as it emphasizes law enforcement and neglects the problem of consumption, a Washington think tank says in a report co-chaired by a former president of Mexico.
tinyurl.com/5pcah2
China slashes interest rates as panic spreads:
The People’s Bank of China cut interest rates by more than 1pc point as the economy crumbles and millions of jobs are predicted to go ahead of Christmas.
tinyurl.com/68fjya
Financial Bailout Balloons to the Trillions:
The government’s financial bailout will be the most expensive single expenditure in American history, potentially costing around $7.5 trillion — or half the value of all the goods and services produced in the United States last year.
abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6332892