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’s War On Iraq 4,209
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$576,979,678,929
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Afghanistan: Another Untold Story
By Michael Parenti
The war against Afghanistan, a battered impoverished country, continues to be portrayed in US official circles as a gallant crusade against terrorism. If it ever was that, it also has been a means to other things: destroying a leftist revolutionary social order, gaining profitable control of one of the last vast untapped reserves of the earth’s dwindling fossil fuel supply, and planting US bases and US military power into still another region of the world.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21387.htm
Washington Arrogance has Fomented a Muslim Revolution
By Paul Craig Roberts
Is Pakistan responsible for the Mumbai attack in India? No. Is India’s repression of its Muslim minority responsible? No. Is the United States government responsible? Yes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21381.htm
The Mumbai Attacks
More Than Meets the Eye
By Jeremy R. Hammond
As details emerge about who was responsible for the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week, the evidence points to a militant group and network of associates that can be linked to a number of intelligence agencies, including the ISI, the CIA, and MI6.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21380.htm
Iraq’s US Security Charade
By Ramzy Baroud
It’s also bewildering how some important details are so conveniently overlooked; for example, the fact that the Iraqi government can sign a separate agreement with the US to extend the deadline for withdrawal should the security situation deem such an agreement necessary.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21390.htm
Campaign Promises on Ending the War in Iraq Now Muted
By THOM SHANKER
“I said that I would remove our combat troops from Iraq in 16 months, with the understanding that it might be necessary – likely to be necessary – to maintain a residual force to provide potential training, logistical support, to protect our civilians in Iraq,” Mr. Obama said this week as he introduced his national security team.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21379.htm
I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
By Matthew Alexander
What I saw in Iraq still rattles me — both because it betrays our traditions and because it just doesn’t work.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21384.htm
The Last US Enemy Combatant
The Shocking Story of Ali al-Marri
By Andy Worthington
In brighter times, before a fog of fear descended on the United States, and the discourse of decent men and women was coarsened by an acceptance of the use of torture as a “no-brainer,” it would have been inconceivable that an American could have been held for seven years without charge or trial on the US mainland, in a state of solitary confinement so debilitating that he is said to be suffering from “severe damage to his mental and emotional well-being.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21383.htm
Neo-cons Still Preparing for Iran Attack
By Robert Dreyfuss
What, exactly, does president-elect Barack Obama’s mild-mannered choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, former senator Tom Daschle, have to do with neo-conservatives who want to bomb Iran?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21385.htm
Hebron “settlers” take their fight into Israel
Far-right plans march into Arab town
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Extremist settler groups currently involved in violent confrontations with Palestinians in the centre of Hebron have chosen their next battleground, this time outside the West Bank.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21386.htm
Harper’s Coup; Power grab in Ottawa
By Mike Whitney
The Prime Minister has been a staunch supporter of George Bush and the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many of his critics accuse him of being a neoconservative allied to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Bilderburger Group. He is alleged to be a proponent of plans for a North American Union, which is an elitist scheme to end US sovereignty by merging the three countries— Canada, the US, and Mexico—into one superstate.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21389.htm
Stefan Molyneux On The Illusion Of Freedom
Video – 05/12/08
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www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21388.htm
Dead Babies Can Take Care of Themselves
By David Glenn Cox
Your Food and Drug administration with a budget of two billion dollars would certainly never tolerate the intentional adding of toxic industrial chemicals for the purpose of fooling quality control tests in infant formula would they?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21382.htm
20 Killed as bomb rips through Peshawar market:
At least 20 people have been killed and dozens more injured by a bomb placed near a Shia mosque in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
tinyurl.com/59zkdm
Six killed in Pakistan suicide bombing: –
A suicide car bomb killed at least six people Friday at a police checkpoint in northern Pakistan, an intelligence agency official said.
tinyurl.com/6j5nt5
Suspected U.S. drone fires missile in NW Pakistan:
“It hit a house and there are some casualties but we don’t know how many,” an intelligence official in the region told Reuters by telephone.
in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/
idINISL26392420081205?rpc=401&
30 militants killed in Mohmand Agency:
The security forces backed by gunship helicopters Wednesday killed at least 30 militatns and injured several others in a successful air strikes at troubled Tehsil Lakaro in Mohmand Agency.
pakistantimes.net/2008/12/04/top5.htm
India names Pakistani masterminds of Mumbai terrorist attacks:
“A terrorist of this sort is never co-operative. We have to extract information,” said Deven Bharti, the head of the Mumbai crime branch.
www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.
do?pn=world&articleID=3048494
India uses ‘truth serum’ on Mumbai gunman:
The method was widely used by Western intelligence agencies during the Cold War, before it emerged that the drugs used – typically the barbiturate sodium pentothal – may induce hallucinations, delusions and psychotic manifestations.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/
0,25197,24749300-2703,00.html
FBI assisting Mumbai terror probe; US has jurisdiction:
The FBI is assisting Indian investigative agencies in collecting evidence in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, the US attorney general has said as he insisted that his country has the jurisdiction to prosecute the terrorist captured during the deadly strikes.
tinyurl.com/5pz2do
War pimp alert:
Former Pakistan army officials trained Mumbai attackers:
NYT: “A former Defense Department official said on Wednesday that American intelligence agencies had determined that former officers from Pakistan’s Army and its powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency helped train the Mumbai attackers,” The New York Times said in its news report from Washington.
tinyurl.com/5gquwa
India names Pakistani masterminds, date plot to 07:
A Pakistani militant group apparently used an Indian operative as far back as 2007 to scout targets for the elaborate plot against India’s financial capital, authorities said Thursday, a blow to Indian officials who have blamed the deadly attacks entirely on Pakistani extremists.
tinyurl.com/5tj6za
India reserves right to strike Pakistan in response to Mumbai attack:
Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee has declined to rule out the use of military force against Pakistan in response to the terrorist attack on Mumbai.
www.janes.com/news/defence/triservice/jdw/jdw081205_1_n.shtml
Details emerge on CIA terror plot warnings:
Indian intelligence sources have confirmed to The Hindu that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered two warnings of an impending terror attack on Mumbai in September. The first one was delivered through the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) on September 18. The sources said the information was of a general nature, suggesting that the Lashkar-e-Taiba was planning to attack Mumbai.
www.hindu.com/2008/12/05/stories/2008120561081200.htm
Pakistan refuses to hand over terror suspects to India:
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari refused to extradite 20 suspects identified in India’s list of wanted criminals, saying they would be tried in Pakistan if New Delhi provided hard evidence, media reports said Wednesday.
tinyurl.com/5b4qxp
Report: US in bid to declare former Pakistani spies terrorists:
The US authorities are seeking to have four former officers of Pakistan’s premier spy agency, including its former chief, declared as international terrorists, a media report claimed on Thursday.
tinyurl.com/5h3ytx
Pakistan mulls downing U.S. drones:
Pakistani officials are urging the incoming Obama administration to stop air attacks on Pakistani territory and even are hinting that they might shoot down U.S. drones that have hit al Qaeda militants and civilian bystanders.
tinyurl.com/6orcb7
Afghan jail operation kills 8 prisoners in Kabul:
Eight prisoners were killed and 15 others were wounded after Afghan security forces clashed with inmates during a search operation in an Afghan prison near Kabul, an official said.
tinyurl.com/6ac6f6
3 Canadian occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
The soldiers were killed at 9 a.m. local time Friday when their armoured vehicle was struck with an improvised explosive device in the Arghandab District of Kandahar province
tinyurl.com/66plp4
Two Danes And Brit Killed In Afghanistan:
Two Danish occupation force soldiers serving with NATO’s force in Afghanistan were killed Thursday in the southern part of the country, the Danish military said in a statement.
tinyurl.com/6y4lda
Double suicide attacks kills five in Afghanistan: official:
Two suicide attacks against a counter narcotics office and the intelligence agency Thursday killed at least five people and wounded ten others in eastern Afghanistan, an official said.
www.asiaplus.tj/en/news/53/43328.html
U.S. military preparing for troop buildup in Afghanistan: –
The U.S. military is beginning a big building effort in Afghanistan to house the roughly 20,000 additional troops who are expected to begin pouring in early next year, a top officer said Friday.
tinyurl.com/6xubmz
16 killed as ‘Ethiopian occupation troops shell’ Mogadishu:
At least 16 people have been killed and dozens injured from suspected shelling by Ethiopian troops in the north of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, witnesses say.
tinyurl.com/5l9wxk
Suicide blasts kill 20 in Iraq:
At least 20 people, including women and kids were killed in two suicide car bombings targeting police in Fallujah on Thursday, a defence ministry official said.
pakistantimes.net/2008/12/05/newswire5.htm
U.S. 4 insurgents killed, 32 detained in Iraq:
The U.S. military says four suspected insurgents have been killed and 32 detained in operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq. The largest raid occurred in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk.
tinyurl.com/6ex39n
Two U.S. occupation force soldiers killed in Iraq suicide attack:
The U.S. military says two American soldiers have been killed in a suicide attack in Mosul.
tinyurl.com/5d2cpu
Iraqi army finds 80 bodies in four mass graves:
The bodies were found over the last three days, and may have been buried there about a year ago, the security source said.
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL4572468.html
Iranian militants killed 16 kidnapped police:
Iranian state radio says police are confirming that a militant group active in Iran has killed all 16 police officers it abducted in June.
tinyurl.com/5ovfft
Israel ‘prepared to attack’ Iran nuclear plants:
Israel is drawing up plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and is prepared to launch a strike without backing from the US, it has been reported.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
world/middle_east/article5284173.ece
Bush says Iran’s nuclear plan still a threat: –
U.S. President George W. Bush said Friday that Iran’s nuclear plan is still a threat to the world, and the United States will not allow Iran to have a nuclearweapon.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/05/content_10463425.htm
Gaza reduced to bare survival:
The Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip is having ever more serious consequences on its population. In the past month the supply of humanitarian aid and basic necessities to Gaza has been reduced from a trickle to an intermittent drip.
tinyurl.com/6kt4n5
Russia calls on Israel to lift blockade:
American officials sided with the Israelis at an emergency Security Council session where the protests of Libya, one of 10 rotating members of the Security Council, fell on deaf ears. The Russians used more explicit language in calling for an end to the blockade than they have at past gatherings.
jta.org/news/article/2008/12/04/1001352/
russia-calls-on-israel-to-lift-blockade
Arab states slam Israel’s human rights record at UN forum:
Western countries, including Australia, Britain, Canada, France and Germany, urged Israel to lift its blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip which they said had led to a worsening humanitarian situation.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043999.html
Israel ‘has faith in team Obama’:
“Obama is surrounding himself with people who we know – from Hillary Clinton, to Rahm Emanuel, to James Jones. There is no reason to panic,” the Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=77528§ionid=351020101
Short of cash, banks shut down in Gaza:
Bank branches across the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip shut their doors on Thursday, saying they did not have enough bank notes in their vaults to operate normally because of an Israeli-led blockade.
tinyurl.com/5lemyo
Jewish settlers in Hebron shoot Palestinian men:
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released graphic video footage showing settlers fighting with Palestinians in Hebron and shooting two men at close range in the hours after a settler house was evacuated by police yesterday.
tinyurl.com/5qyhas
Standing up to Jewish terrorism:
For a long time now, settlers in Hebron and other areas of Judea and Samaria (and East Jerusalem) have engaged in unruly behavior whose only goal is to violently threaten the Palestinians while undermining Israel’s sovereignty.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043413.html
Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to ‘regulate the internet’:
Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would use his country’s imminent presidency of the G8 group to push for an international agreement to “regulate the internet”.
www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/berlusconi_g8_internet/
Bank of England mulls “nuclear option” of cash injection:
The Bank of England is working on radical plans to inject cash directly into the economy – the nuclear option to be used only when interest rates approach zero.
tinyurl.com/5zarl6
World stability hangs by a thread as economies continue to unravel:
The political bubble is bursting. Spreads on geo-strategic risk are now widening as dramatically as the spreads on financial risk at the onset of the credit crunch.
tinyurl.com/6kouov
China Urges U.S. to Counter Crisis, Prepares for ‘Worst Case’:
”We hope that the U.S. can take all necessary measures to stabilize its financial markets and economy as soon as possible and ensure the safety of China’s assets and investments in the U.S.,” Wang said. “To work together to tackle the financial crisis is the most pressing task that we are facing.”
tinyurl.com/5w4e7p
Some bailout holdings down $9 billion:
Stock intended to eventually earn taxpayers a profit as part of the Bush administration’s massive bank bailout has lost a third of its value – about $9 billion – in barely one month, according to an Associated Press analysis. Shares in virtually every bank that received federal money have remained below the prices the government negotiated.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081205/ap_on_bi_ge/bailout_returns
Job Losses: 533,000 in November:
Recession winds are blowing with gale force as U.S. employers shed 533,000 jobs in November, pushing the unemployment rate to 6.7%.
tinyurl.com/5shj6c
AT&T to cut 12,000 jobs, 4 percent of staff:
These layoffs come on top of 4,600 jobs the company said in April it would eliminate.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_bi_ge/at_t_jobs
Record number of Americans using food stamps: report:
More than 31.5 million Americans used the program — up 17 percent from a year ago, according to government data.
tinyurl.com/5tnp5w