Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,320,110"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,259
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$607,843,596,874
See the cost in your community
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Change… What Change?
Despite Obama’s Vow, Combat Brigades Will Stay in Iraq
By Gareth Porter
Despite President Barack Obama’s statement at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina Feb. 27 that he had “chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months,” a number of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs), which have been the basic U.S. Army combat unit in Iraq for six years, will remain in Iraq after that date under a new non-combat label.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22293.htm
Liquid War
Welcome to Pipelineistan
By Pepe Escobar
Our good ol’ friend the nonsensical “global war on terror”, which the Pentagon has slyly rebranded “the Long War”, sports a far more important, if half-hidden, twin – a global energy war. I like to think of it as the Liquid War, because its bloodstream is the pipelines that crisscross the potential imperial battlefields of the planet.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22292.htm
Iran Responds to Obama
By Real News
Obama’s unprecedented greeting to Iran is met with an unprecedented response by Grand Ayatollah Khamenei.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22291.htm
An Army of Extremists
How some military rabbis are trying to radicalize Israeli soldiers.
By Christopher Hitchens
Recent reports of atrocities committed by Israeli soldiers in the course of the intervention in Gaza have described the incitement of conscripts and reservists by military rabbis who characterized the battle as a holy war for the expulsion of non-Jews from Jewish land.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22290.htm
FBI and American Muslims at Odds:
By Alexandra Marks
The situation worsened in February, when it became public that the FBI had planted an informant at a California mosque who, a coalition of more than a dozen Muslim American groups charges, actively tried to recruit terrorists.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22294.htm
One Small Problem With Geithner’s Plan: It Will Bankrupt The Banks
By Henry Blodget
When a bank says an asset is worth 60 cents and the market says it’s worth 30 cents, someone has to cover that spread. The genius of Geithner’s plan is that it pawns most of the cost (and most of the risk) off on the taxpayer without the taxpayer noticing.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22295.htm
Is the Bailout Plan Breeding a Greater Crisis?
By Paul Craig Roberts
The US finances its trade deficit by turning over to foreigners ownership of existing US assets and their future income streams, which, of course, increases the flow of income away from Americans.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22297.htm
“We’re All In This Together”
No we are not, that’s the point.
By Cindy Sheehan
President Obama basically said that we can’t demonize every investor who earns a profit, because “we are all in this together.” Sorry, but I am going to have to call a big fat “bull-shit” on this one.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22296.htm
Is the U.S.A. the World’s Greatest Nation Now?
By Bob Kendall
According to the Los Angeles Homelessness Services Coalition, 3.5 million people in a given year will experience homelessness with 1.5 million of them children. The current national jobless figure stands at over 8 percent and is rising while there are 37 million Americans on food stamps.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22298.htm
10 civilians killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan:
A roadside bomb killed 10 civilians Wednesday in a van along a route used by foreign troops in eastern Afghanistan while another wounded three Australian troops – highlighting a tactic increasingly favored by Taliban militants.
www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/25/mideast/afghan.php
Two Afghan farmers killed by NATO-led troops :”
NATO-led troops shot dead two Afghan farmers who were watering their land in east Afghanistan, a police chief said.
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U.S. attack kills 8 in Pakistan:
A suspected U.S. missile attack killed eight” militants” including several foreigners on Wednesday in the stronghold of Pakistan’s top Taliban commander, officials said.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-25-pakistan_N.htm
One Iraqi civilian killed, seven injured in two Mosul blasts:
Twin blasts in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed one Iraqi civilian and injured seven others on Wednesday morning, police said.
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‘Billions wasted’ in Iraq:
BETWEEN $US3 billion and $US5 billion have been wasted in the US-effort to rebuild Iraq since 2003, the US official assigned to oversee reconstruction efforts in that country said today. Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, warned politicians on Capitol Hill that mistakes made in trying to rebuild Iraq were being repeated in Afghanistan.
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,2524
4033-1702,00.html?from=public_rss
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran?
Military Intelligence chief :
Iran has crossed nuclear bomb threshold: He told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the Islamic Republic has developed surface-to-surface missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073816.html
Israel ups anti-Iran rants as Bibi era nears:
Israel claims Iran can build a nuclear weapon within a year as the hawkish Likud leader moves closer to assembling his government.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=89607§ionid=351020104
Israel accused of indiscriminate phosphorus use in Gaza:
Human Rights Watch report claims Israel committed war crimes in its use of air-burst white phosphorus artillery shells
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/25/israel-white-phosphorus-gaza
Israel’s world standing falls:
Israeli newspapers published soldiers’ testimonies, including evidence that troops shot at unarmed civilians and vandalised homes. Some said they were issued with lax rules of engagement that placed little value on the safety of Gazan civilians.
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Rights group: Hamas tortured Gaza inmate to death:
In its annual report last Thursday, the ICHR said Hamas-run security forces in the Gaza Strip and those loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction in the West Bank have tortured prisoners.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073830.html
Need a laugh?
Netanyahu to be ‘partner for peace’:
Benyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister-designate, has said his government will be a “partner for peace” with the Palestinians and take action to shore up their economy.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2009/03/200932592555405524.html
Netanyahu, Lieberman ‘struck secret deal for West Bank construction’:
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a secret deal with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman for highly contentious construction on West Bank land known as E1, Army Radio reported Wednesday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073771.html
Top Likud officials: Netanyahu sold us out for half of Labor:
“Bibi paid Labor a corrupt price. He simply sold everything in exchange for half a faction,” the officials said, using Netanyahu’s nickname. The officials were incensed by the fact that the Trade, Labor and Industry portfolio, which was originally slated to be given to a Likud member, was promised to Labor under the coalition deal.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073652.html
More extra-judicial killings –
Khartoum: US attack killed 39 people in Sudan:
The report also noted that the convoy, consisting of 17 trucks, carried 39 passengers — none of which survived the attack.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89591§ionid=351020504
U.S. stages deadly air strike against arms smugglers inside Sudan:
He said that the air strike caused an “embarrassment” to Khartoum which viewed it as a “violation to its sovereignty” and discussed the matter with Cairo in an effort to gather more information to formulate a response.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/25/content_11070700.htm
Sudanese president returns home from second visit abroad:
This was the second visit abroad for the Sudanese president since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against him earlier this month on charges of so-called war crimes and crimes of anti-humanity.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/26/content_11073210.htm
Al Qaeda issues warning to Sudanese president:
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri Tuesday demanded Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir ‘repent’ for kicking the terrorist group’s leaders out of Sudan and called on the Sudanese people to ‘prepare for a guerrilla war against the West’.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/481676/cs/1/
South Sudan clashes leave 750 dead: –
Fighting in south Sudan’s Jonglei state has left some 750 people dead, with growing insecurity in the wider region hampering aid efforts, United Nations officials said on Wednesday.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=31180
North Korea positions missile on launch pad: report:
North Korea has said it would launch a satellite between April 4 and April 8. Regional powers see the launch as a disguised test of its longest-range missile and a violation of U.N. sanctions forbidding the reclusive state from firing ballistic missiles.
www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE52O4OC20090325
Russia seeks to weaken US, West: NATO general: –
Russia seems intent on weakening Western institutions and its relations with NATO will likely be more strained in the coming years than at any time since the Cold War ended, NATO’s top commander said on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Russia/idUSTRE52N7L520090324
UK: 60,000 civilian spies to get three-hour lesson in how to spot terrorists:
The Home Office plans are likely to raise questions over the effectiveness of an army of amateur ‘terrorist-watchers’.
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Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List :
The following list is the culmination of a three-year project to record the stories of all the prisoners held at the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
www.andyworthington.co.uk/guantanamo
-the-definitive-prisoner-list-part-1/
Harvard economist: Prohibition creates violence, legalize all drugs:
Miron’s proposed solution to ending the cartel war along the US-Mexico border is both simple and enormously complex.
rawstory.com/news/2008/Harvard_econ
omist_Legalize_all_drugs_to_0324.html
E.U. President Calls U.S. Stimulus the ‘Way to Hell’:
Transatlantic tension over the handling of the global economic crisis intensified Wednesday when the prime minister of the Czech Republic, which holds the European Union presidency, described the President Obama’s stimulus measures as the “way to hell.”
www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/world/europe/
26czech.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
Should USA still be AAA?:
Despite soaring budget deficits, investors are still buying U.S. Treasurys. Still, some critics say the government debt isn’t nearly as safe as widely assumed.
money.cnn.com/2009/03/23/news/economy/us_aaa/index.htm