Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,307,319"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,229
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$590,184,044,929
See the cost in your community
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Gaza: ‘I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls’
By Donald Macintyre in Gaza City
Grieving Palestinian father says children were killed after family obeyed order from troops to leave Gaza home.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21801.htm
Embedded With Gaza Medics
Must see video:
WARNING – Video depicts the reality and horror of Israel’s attack on the people of Gaza – Viewer Discretion Advised.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21811.htm
Israel Wanted a Humanitarian Crisis
By Ben White
Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverise Gaza into chaos.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21802.htm
“Prima Facie Evidence of War Crimes” by Israel
5 Minute Video Report
Channel Four News journalist Johnathan Miller travelled to Gaza where he interviewed civilians sheltering in a UN run school attacked by Israel using white phosphorus munitions. The attack – described as “Outrageous” by the UN Secretary General – was filmed by a school worker on his mobile phone.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21803.htm
Israel Accused of War Crimes
Gaza offensive ‘a crime against humanity’: UN Special Rapporteur
By Chris Gelken
“Gaza is ablaze,” he told the UN General Assembly, “it has been turned into a burning hell.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21796.htm
Posturing and Laughter as Victims Rot
By Robert Fisk
Mahmoud Abbas stepped further into humiliation by saying the only option for Arabs is to make peace with Israel.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21795.htm
In Case You Missed It
Exposed: The Gaza Bombshell
By David Rose
With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21800.htm
Israel’s Doctrine of Destruction
Bombs to ‘send Gaza back decades’
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Diplomats point out that, even if western aid flows to the Palestinian Authority, it will make little effect if Israel maintains the blockade, curbing imports of steel, cement and money.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21804.htm
Now We’ve All Seen Through The Israeli Government’s Excuses
If the Hamas rockets are so lethal, why doesn’t Israel swap an F-16 for some?
By Mark Steel
The worrying part about whether the ceasefire in Gaza can hold together will be whether the international community can stop the flow of arms to the terrorists. Because Israel’s getting their planes and tanks and missiles from somewhere and until this supply is cut off there’s every chance it could start up again.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21799.htm
PM Gordon Brown, Here Is My Shopping List For Palestine
By Gilad Atzmon
In his desperate attempt to appease notorious Israeli war criminal leadership, Brown pleaded to redeploy the British Navy in the region. “We’ll send Royal Navy to help fight (weapon) smuggling,” said the British PM.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21797.htm
Iran Defends Right To Arms In Gaza
By Reuters
“Iran has said today resistance groups around the world like those in Gaza had the right to have access to weapons to fight against “colonialists”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21809.htm
Unanimous Consent
When Israel acts, Congress applauds. No debate required.
By Glenn Greenwald
In most of the world, the Israeli attack on Gaza is viewed as an intensely controversial act and, more commonly, an excessive, unjustifiable, and brutal assault on a trapped civilian population. But not in the United States-at least not among America’s political and opinion-making elite.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21805.htm
Zionism is an Incurable Disease of the Mind
By Zaid Nabulsi
To describe the colonial immigration to Palestine of a European people with no proven historical link to the ancient Israelites – and whose great, great recorded ancestors have never set foot there – as some kind of a “return” to that land is indicative of a perverted misunderstanding and misapplication of the verb to “return” and can only be a result of a disease of the mind.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21798.htm
The Single Greatest Fear
An Open Letter to President Obama
By People For Change
Our government still very much resembles a throw back to the days of frontier discovery, whereby land tycoons and development groups would groom, finance and place their selected “Yes Man” on the basis of a singular vote or lobbying movement. All these years later, and the best we can still seem to do is pave the way for rampant fraud, criminal corporate activities, deregulation for profiteering, and some of the largest wealth transfer schemes perpetuated in the history of our globe.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21807.htm
Jim Rogers: ‘Sell any sterling you might have. It’s finished’
Investment guru issues grim warning as sharp fall in inflation hits pound
By Sean O’Grady, Economics Editor
Fresh concerns about the British economy and fears for the stability of the UK’s financial system pushed sterling to new record lows against the dollar, euro and yen yesterday.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21810.htm
The Right To Food
By Cernig
By a vote of 180 in favour to 1 against (United States) and no abstentions, the Committee also approved a resolution on the right to food, by which the Assembly would “consider it intolerable” that more than 6 million children still died every year from hunger-related illness before their fifth birthday.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21806.htm
Israel ‘admits’ using white phosphorus munitions:
The Israeli military came close to acknowledging for the first time yesterday its use of white phosphorus munitions during the war in Gaza, but continued to insist that it did not breach international law.
tinyurl.com/89gg7x
Amid dust and death, a family’s story speaks for the terror of war:
48 members of the Samouni family were killed in one day when Israel’s battle with Hamas suddenly centred on their homes
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/gaza-israel-samouni-family
Gaza ‘looks like earthquake zone’: Video and Text:
The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool views the damage in one Gaza City neighbourhood
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7838618.stm
Report: Belgian court petitioned to arrest Livni upon arrival in Brussels:
European attorneys have reportedly petitioned a Belgian court to arrest Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni upon her arrival in Brussels later Wednesday
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057485.html
How to sell ‘ethical warfare’:
Claim moral superiority, intimidate enemies and crush dissent – Israel’s media management is not just impressive, it’s terrifying
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/16/gaza-middleeast1
IDF troops complete Gaza withdrawal:
The IDF on Wednesday morning completed its pullout from Gaza as the last troops left the Strip. Soldiers deployed along the border in order to provide a quick response should the need arise.
tinyurl.com/9mdnxl
In case you missed it:
The Gaza Bombshell:
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs.
tinyurl.com/3ck58n
Change? What Change?
Obama to focus on foreign policy:
Barack Obama, the US president, has pledged his support to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, as foreign policy took centre stage on his first full day in the White House.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2009/01/2009121152645112618.html
UN demands flow of goods to Gaza:
UN humanitarian chief John Holmes has urged Israel to fully open all crossings with Gaza to allow a free flow of goods. Mr Holmes said that unless Israel allowed building materials into Gaza, no reconstruction could begin there.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7841430.stm
Egypt keeping Iran aid ship from Gaza:
Ahmad Navvab, a provincial Red Crescent director, said Wednesday that although Egyptian authorities issued permits for the aid’s dispatch via the Al-Areesh port, they have so far prevented the ship to drop anchor.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=83186§ionid=351020202
Iran lays out plan for Gaza reconstruction:
Tehran’s Gaza Reconstruction Headquarters said on Wednesday that it is set to start building 1,000 residential homes, 10 schools, 5 mosques, and 500 trade centers in the coastal territory and help reconstruct the city’s devastated infrastructure and economy.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=83176§ionid=351020101
ADL: Venezuela and Bolivia sending message that they side with Hamas:
The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday lambasted Venezuela and Bolivia over their decision to sever diplomatic relations with Israel, calling the move “inflammatory and offensive.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057469.html
Supreme Court revokes ban on Arab parties from national elections:
Israel’s Supreme court overruled on Wednesday a parliamentary panel which had decided to bar Israeli Arab parties from running in next month’s parliamentary election.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057497.html
38 ‘Fighters killed’ in Pakistan raid:
Pakistani government and paramilitary officials say security forces backed by aircraft have killed 38 Taliban fighters in an offensive in the Mohmand region on the Afghan border.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/20091202111210895.html
Obama to triple aid if Pakistan counters terror:
US president Barack Obama has unveiled plans to triple non-military aid to Pakistan in exchange for its commitment to act against extremist activity.
tinyurl.com/8svq6l
India: Pakistan must be disciplined:
India’s foreign minister calls on the international community to discipline Islamabad over its alleged ‘terrorism sponsorship’ activities.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=83195§ionid=351020402
11 Taliban, two Afghan soldiers killed:
Heavy fighting between Taliban and security forces in Afghanistan’s remote northwest killed 11 militants as two soldiers died in a Taliban suicide attack on Wednesday, local authorities said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090121/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest
US investigates Afghan deaths:
The US military says it is investigating reports in the Afghan media that more than two dozen civilians were killed in a US-led attack.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/200912111129576971.html
Snubbed By Obama, Karzai Meets With Top US Military Commander:
On Tuesday, Karzai accused his Western allies of not doing enough to stop civilian deaths in battles against insurgents or cut opium production in areas patrolled by foreign troops, in a tough speech delivered to parliament.
quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_
content&task=view&id=2436&Itemid=48
Russia opens Afghanistan supply route for US:
The United States will be allowed to transport supplies to its troops in Afghanistan through Russian territory in the first sign of a thawing of relations.
tinyurl.com/8sxecq
At Least 12 Killed in Mogadishu Clashes:
Witnesses in Somalia’s capital say at least 12 people have been killed in the latest fighting between government forces and Islamist” insurgents.
www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-21-voa30.cfm
5 Killed as Iraq rocked by bomb blasts:
Three civilians were killed and eight others injured after a car bomb targeting a US patrol exploded in the central Baghdad district of Mansour.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast
/2009/01/2009120204931491300.html
Iraq backs early exit for U.S. troops:
Iraq is willing to have the United States withdraw all its troops and assume security for the country before the end of 2011, the departure date agreed to by former President George W. Bush, the spokesman of the Iraqi prime minister said.
www.columbiatribune.com/2009/Jan/20090121News017.asp
U.S. consulate in Dubai closes for security reasons:
The U.S. consulate in the Gulf Arab business hub of Dubai closed to the public for security reasons on Wednesday, it said without giving details of any threats.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE50K1IB20090121
Turley: Most people abroad will view Bush as a war criminal:
“The status of George Bush is not that different from Augusto Pinochet. They’ve both been accused of running a torture program. And outside this country, there’s not this ambiguity about what to do with a war crime. … “
rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_Trav
eling_abroad_Bush_could_be_0120.html
Tears and jeers in Tbilisi:
Even in Georgia’s capital, there were few people mourning the end of George Bush’s presidency
tinyurl.com/95pg4t
Obama calls for Gitmo trials freeze:
US President Barack Obama has called for a halt to the trial of five alleged plotters of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the country. On Wednesday, the Obama ordered that the military tribunal of the suspects be suspended until May.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=83182§ionid=3510203
White House stops pending Bush regulations for review:
President Barack Obama’s new administration ordered all federal agencies and departments on Tuesday to stop any pending regulations until they can be reviewed by incoming staff, halting last-minute Bush orders in their tracks.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090121/pl_nm/us_obama_regulations
Who’s who in the Obama cabinet:
National security and foreign policy is the area of the most obvious continuity between the Bush administration and the Obama administration.
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/cabi-j21.shtml
Ecuador to Cut $1.5 Billion in Imports to Defend Use of Dollar:
Ecuador has reached an agreement with business leaders to cut imports by $1.5 billion to help defend the South American country’s use of the dollar as legal tender, President Rafael Correa said.
tinyurl.com/8r7bhz
UK unemployment nears two million:
Public finances also deteriorated sharply in December, putting them on track for their worst year since records began after the second world war, the ONS said.
tinyurl.com/98e5pr
US markets plummet as banks falter and world slump deepens:
New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini yesterday estimated that US financial losses may total $3.6 trillion. “If that is true, it means the US banking system is effectively insolvent because it starts with capital of $1.4 trillion,” he said. “This is a systemic banking crisis.”
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/econ-j21.shtml
Are interest rates still too high?:
Even zero isn’t low enough to boost economy, Goldman Sachs study says
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28754016/
Federal Home Loan Banks may have to borrow from U.S.:
The mortgage crisis is seeping into one of the last dry corners of the mortgage business, the regional network of Federal Home Loan Banks, which provide U.S. banks with hundreds of billions of dollars in low-cost funding to support lending to home buyers.
www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fhlb20-2009jan20,0,3849156.story