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 4,209
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$577,278,428,473
See the cost in your community
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“We Let The Crooks Take Over”
The plot to shift taxes from wealthy and on the wage earners.
Guns and Butter Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson
The United States Has become a pariah in the world financial economy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21395.htm
Whenever I’m in Tajikistan, My Mobile Phone Says I’m in Dubai
By Robert Fisk
Just look how we’ve forgotten the CIA’s secret prisons. In Afghanistan, a Fisk source who has never – ever – been wrong, tells me that there are at least 20 of these torture centres still active in the country, six in Zabol province alone. But we don’t care about Afghans.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21398.htm
Drawing the Future From the Past
By Channapha Khamvongsa
For nearly three decades, the U.S. secret war in Laos and the impact of the most massive bombing campaign in the world was nearly forgotten. For those who remembered, the events seemed surreal. They witnessed the reckless destruction of a people and their land, and careful efforts by the U.S. government to conceal it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21397.htm
The History Of The Spanish American War
And The Rise Of US Imperialism
By Michael Parenti – Audio
Michael Parenti uses the history of the Spanish American War to answer several very intriguing questions.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21393.htm
Empire Vs. Democracy
Video (2005)
Internationally renowned Political Scientist Michael Parenti to the UW Oshkosh campus, Parentis discussion focused on the topic: Empire Vs Democracy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21394.htm
The Functions of Fascism
Michael Parenti – Audio
Many of the measures enacted by fascists were frighteningly similar to those enacted today: They include the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes, defeat of unions, and the suspension of civil liberties.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21392.htm
“Contrary Notions”
Video – Michael Parenti
Scholar and Political Ideological Surgeon, Michael Parenti, lays the truth down on the intentionality of today’s ruling elite and its harmful consequences. Discussion on Michael’s latest book, “Contrary Notions”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21391.htm
The Radicalization Of An American Prisoner
By George Peter Jr.
My “radicalization” has been incubated and nurtured by this cesspool you call a penal system, and every day your brutality adds yet another name on the rolls. At what point will you sit up and take note?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21396.htm
14 Killed In Pakistan:
At least one soldier and 13 Taliban militants were killed on Saturday in clashes between security forces and Islamic militants in Pakistan’s north-western Swat valley, a military spokesman claimed.
tinyurl.com/56ls7k
US attack kills six in northwest Pakistan:
A suspected US pilotless aircraft Friday targeted a militant hideout in Pakistan’s restive tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, killing six people, Pakistani intelligence official said.
tinyurl.com/6gyj94
Death toll from Pakistan car bombing rises to 29:
The death toll from an overnight car bombing rose to 29 in northwest Pakistan, unnerving a region already dangerously on edge following the attacks on India’s commercial capital, police and doctors said Saturday.
tinyurl.com/6m462f
Unnamed Sources Demonizing Pakistan:
Ex-U.S. Official Cites Pakistani Training for India Attackers :
A former Defense Department official said 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.
www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/asia/04india.html?em
Rice tells Pakistan to act ‘or US will’:
The US Secretary of State, Dr Condoleezza Rice, is reported to have told Pakistan that there is ‘irrefutable evidence’ of involvement of elements in the country in the Mumbai attacks and that it needs to act urgently and effectively to avert a strong international response.
www.dawn.com/2008/12/06/top14.htm
Indian terror suspects linked to Mumbai plot:
One of them, Faheem Ahmed Ansari, was carrying a fake Pakistani passport and a list and maps of nine targets in southern Mumbai, including the Taj Mahal hotel and other sites attacked last week, the officer said.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5292508.ece
Muslims condemn terror, say India’s their motherland:
Indian Muslims are feeling that their patriotism is being questioned again following the Mumbai terror attacks by Pakistan-trained terrorists.
tinyurl.com/5mwodn
Seven including three Canadian soldiers killed in Afghan attacks:
Three Canadian soldiers with the NATO-led security forces in Afghanistan and four Taliban militants were killed in the country’s south, while Afghan authorities were investigating the deaths of eight prisoners in country’s largest prison, officials said Saturday.
tinyurl.com/6jlgj6
Two civilians killed in southern Afghanistan:
It was not immediately clear how the civilians were hurt, but local media said the casualties were the result of a foreign military air strike.
tinyurl.com/5hqagd
Eight killed, five wounded in attacks around Iraq – Summary:
Eight people were killed and five wounded on Saturday in separate attacks in the Baquba, Kirkuk and Babel regions.
tinyurl.com/5g8vxr
‘US in charge of Iraqi shores’ security’:
Iraq ‘has signed an agreement’ to put the US in charge of the security of its shores along the Persian Gulf without parliament’s approval.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=77683§ionid=351020201
Referendum seen as way to “correct” U.S.: Iraq pact:
A referendum next year on a newly minted U.S.-Iraqi security pact will give Iraqis the chance to “correct and reform” an agreement that has stirred controversy, a senior official in Baghdad said on Saturday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081206/ts_nm/us_iraq_pact
Bush: America will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon:
“For the safety of our people and the peace of the world, America will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon,” Bush said at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1044024.html
Head of nuclear watchdog calls efforts against Iran ‘a failure’:
Mohamed ElBaradei urges dialogue between the West and Tehran. He says Obama has given him ‘lots of hope.’
tinyurl.com/62cu9s
‘US condescension not to solve Iran issue’:
“To continue to pound the table and say, ‘I am not going to talk to you,’ and act in a sort of a very condescending way — that exaggerates problems,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief added.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=77663§ionid=351020104
13 dead as insurgents seize Somalia town:
The hardline Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab has taken control of a central Somali trading town after fighting that killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens of others, residents said on Saturday.
www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/
1066/499184/-/147j04uz/-/index.html
Jewish “settlers” shoot Palestinians:
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released graphic footage of a shooting incident that took place after yesterday’s forced evictions
tinyurl.com/6lqxfj
Video: PA police: Settlers set fire to Palestinian home in Hebron:
Jewish settlers torched a rooftop enclosure of a Palestinian man’s home in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, a Palestinian police spokesman said.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043992.html
UN condemns Israeli settler clashes:
The UN Security Council has condemned a rampage by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in Hebron, which came after they were evicted from a disputed building in the West Bank city.
tinyurl.com/59rh4p
IDF soldier assaults Haaretz photographer in Hebron:
An Israeli photographer on assignment for Haaretz was assaulted by an Israel Defense Forces soldier in Hebron on Saturday. The photographer, Tess Scheflan, suffered light head injuries and was taken by an ambulance to hospital.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1044039.html
Gaza banks on brink of collapse: World Bank:
The World Bank urged Israel on Saturday to allow cash into the Gaza Strip to pay the wages of civil servants, warning that the liquidity crisis could bring down the besieged territory’s banking system.
tinyurl.com/6q5wpp
Pentagon expanding number of foreigners recruited:
The Defense Department already draws from aliens living in the United States on green cards and seeking permanent residency. But under a trial program, it will now look to also recruit from pools of foreigners who’ve been living in the states on student and work visas, with refugee or political asylum status and other temporary visas.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/
a/2008/12/05/national/w114140S85.DTL
US auto aid plan wins support:
The amount is far less than the $34bn in loans requested this week by General Motors, Ford Motor, and Chrysler, but it would keep them going into next year.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2008/12/20081264451844648.html
Investment banks set to cut 30,000 jobs:
Up to 20,000 jobs look set to be lost as a result of the imminent merger of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, as a further 10,000 job losses were announced across the investment banking fraternity.
tinyurl.com/5kaya9
One in 10 American on food stamps:
With 3.2 million more Americans unemployed than 12 months ago, the need for food assistance has risen. Last month saw the evaporation of 533,000 jobs, the biggest one-month loss since 1974.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=77565§ionid=3510203
Record 10% of U.S. homeowners in arrears or foreclosure:
A record 10% of the nation’s mortgage-burdened homeowners fell behind on their loan payments or were in foreclosure during the third quarter, according to a survey released Friday by the Mortgage Bankers Assn., which said California and Florida were the biggest contributors to the worsening picture.
tinyurl.com/63rx5e
Retail Sales Are Weakest in 35 Years:
The nation’s retailers turned in the worst sales figures in at least a generation on Thursday, starting the holiday shopping season with double-digit declines across a broad spectrum of stores.
tinyurl.com/5gfalk