Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,331,578"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,304
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$673,957,422,925
See the cost in your community
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In Pakistan, an Exodus that is Beyond Biblical
By Andrew Buncombe
Locals sell all they have to help millions displaced by battles with the Taliban.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22740.htm
Iran Secretly Helped U.S. Bomb Taliban Units, Find Al Qaeda
By Jeff Stein
Iran supplied U.S. diplomats with the location of Taliban military units in Afghanistan after the initial bombing campaign in the fall of 2001 failed to rout them, according to former officials in the George W. Bush administration.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22739.htm
“N. Korea Is Not Going To Start Bombing”
By Ron Paul
Most of the world overreacted to N. Korean bomb test.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22741.htm
UK Forces Taught Torture Methods
By David Leigh
British and US military intelligence soldiers were trained in these techniques, which were taught at the joint services interrogation centre in Ashford, Kent, now transferred to the former US base at Chicksands.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22742.htm
Gen. Petraeus : US Violated Geneva Convention
3 Minute Video and Transcript
“When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Convention, we rightly have been criticized”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22738.htm
Col. Peters – Kill All Gitmo Prisoners
Video
One you commit an “act of terror” , – you should be killed.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22743.htm
Homeland Security to Scan Fingerprints of Travellers Exiting the US
By Brett Winterford
From June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of international travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of international travellers exiting the United States from Atlanta.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22744.htm
Life in Vichy America
By William Buppert
We are all Vichy French in America today. Your decision is to choose Free American or Vichy French. Your choice is collaboration with a regime that seeks to control your every behavior and rob your children of their inheritance or to stand athwart history and say enough is enough.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22745.htm
Ireland Set To Go Bust, Claims Economic Historian
By The Belfast Telegraph
His chosen prime candidate to go bust is “Ireland, followed by Italy and Belgium, and UK is not too far behind”. Argentina is top of his list of shaky countries but “the argument that it can’t happen in major western economies is nonsense”.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22746.htm
Hundreds of insurgents killed in Afghan operations:
A series of Afghan army operations to clean up insurgent hotspots ahead of August elections has resulted in 248 militants being killed along with 17 soldiers, the defence ministry said yesterday.
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Afghan battles leave 12 insurgents, 6 police dead:
Separate battles between government troops and Taliban fighters in west Afghanistan left over two dozen people dead including 12 rebels, officials said Sunday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/31/content_11461246.htm
Two British occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan explosion:
Two British soldiers have been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday, taking the death toll of UK service personnel since the start of operations in October 2001 to 165.
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/31/military-afghanistan
Pakistan troops kill 50 Taliban; Mingora in ‘full control’:
Pakistani troops on Sunday tightened their grip on the just-recaptured main town of troubled Swat Valley, where the military said the operation could end within days, as at least 50 Taliban militants and nine soldiers were killed in fighting in the northwest and the tribal areas
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan-
troops-kill-50-Taliban/articleshow/4600879.cms
Pakistan troops say kill 40 Taliban near Afghan border:
Pakistani security forces killed at least 40 Taliban militants when they repelled an attack on a paramilitary camp in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border overnight, intelligence officials said on Sunday.
uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE54U08620090531?rpc=401&
Pakistan : Taliban’s arms coming from Afghanistan:
Military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas has said that “many of the Taliban’s arms are coming across the border from Afghanistan … the US should stop worrying about Pakistan’s nukes and start worrying about the weapons lost in Afghanistan”
dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\05\30\story_30-5-2009_pg1_2
Pakistan city centre ‘destroyed’: BBC Video:
The scale of the war damage to the main city in the Swat valley has become clear, as fears are expressed about the humanitarian situation in the region.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8076135.stm
Analysis: True Swat victory won’t be military:
Militant commanders are still at large, local governments and police forces have been decimated and millions of residents are displaced from their homes.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_analysis
Pak develops second-strike N-capability:
Pakistan may have developed a second-strike capability to again attain nuclear parity with India even as the United States has breathed new life into long-dormant talks in Geneva for a multi-nation treaty to cap production of bomb-making fissile material.
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Six killed as PA cracks down on Hamas in West Bank:
Three Palestinian policemen, two Hamas gunmen and a bystander were killed in in a Palestinian Authority crackdown on the rival Islamist movement in the West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian security officials said.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089224.html
Hamas: Abbas mustn’t relinquish our rights for a ‘U.S. illusion’:
The groups said they would reject any international agreement Abbas might strike “on behalf of our people that would target our people’s rights under the guise of peace.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089015.html
Were IDF close-range killings in Gazan justified? :
Salah saw a soldier emerge halfway from the tank’s turret. The tank was now between 50 and 100 meters from them. Salah heard shots. He saw his mother and sister fall. Their bodies would be collected from the spot two weeks later.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089223.html
Israel ‘will not bow’ to US settlement freeze :
Israel will not agree to US demands to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, a minister close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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Israel tests response to ‘doomsday’:
Israel has begun its largest-ever defence drill, testing the response of its emergency services to a “doomsday scenario” of missile attacks, bombings and natural disasters.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/05/200953165125459420.html
Egypt rejects Israeli view that Iran threat more urgent than peace:
Israel is looking to rally various Arab nations around the idea that Iran is the common danger to the whole region. The comments from presidential spokesman Suleiman Awwad, however, indicate that Egypt refuses to let Israel sidestep the issue of the peace process.
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Ayalon: Iranian Missiles Can Hit Eastern United States:
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said on Sunday that Iranian long-range missiles are capable of hitting the eastern coast of the United States.
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/165821
Bomb found on Iranian passenger plane:
The bomb was discovered late Saturday as the plane was en route to Tehran from Khuzestan province with 131 aboard, Iran’s Fars news agency reported.
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In case you missed it: :
The Secret War Against Iran:
A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html
Isreli spy gets fine:
The judge questioned why it took the government 23 years to charge the retiree and then only indicted him on one count of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of Israel
jta.org/news/article/2009/05/31/1005512/us-spy-for-israel-gets-fine
4 Killed as deadly protests rock Yemen’s south:
At least four Yemenis, including a policeman, have been killed in two days of clashes between police and anti-government protesters.
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Demonizing N. Korea:
Gates: North Korea “A Harbinger Of A Dark Future”:
North Korea’s progress on nuclear weapons and long-range missiles is “a harbinger of a dark future” and has created an urgent need for more pressure on the reclusive communist government to change its ways, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/30/
gates-north-korea-a-harbi_n_209391.html
Gates says US would respond quickly to threatening moves from North Korea:
“We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region – or on us,” Gates told an annual international meeting of defense and security officials from Asia and the Pacific Rim.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/nation/ap/46525307.html
North Korea threatens action if UN punishes it:
North Korea will take “self-defense measures” if the United Nations Security Council punishes Pyongyang for its nuclear test this week, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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Kim Jong Il’s “provocations” to the West may hide a rational purpose:
Whatever you think of Mr Kim, it is entirely understandable that he should want to protect himself as effectively as possible – and history suggests that nuclear weapons are a potent guarantee of being left alone.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6374870.ece
Change… What change?
Obama Administration Asserts Uighur Detainees Have No Right to Come to US:
The Obama administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to reject a request for a hearing from 17 Chinese Muslims currently being held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, arguing they have no right to come to America despite a district judge’s orders last Fall that they immediately be brought to the U.S. and released.
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Taguba denies he’s seen abuse photos suppressed by Obama:
The general told a U.K. paper about images he saw investigating Abu Ghraib — not photos Obama wants kept secret.
www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/30/taguba/
Canadian Jewish Congress to give Prime Minister Stephen Harper a human-rights award:
This is Harper’s third major award from a Jewish organization in less than a year. Last June, Harper was awarded the B’nai Brith International President’s Gold Medallion. B’nai Brith said it was in recognition of Canada’s efforts to fight discrimination and uphold human rights in Canada and around the world.
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Pay to Parlez? Obama Names Donors to Swank Ambassador Posts:
Fundraisers Headed for England, Japan; Critics Decry “Unchecked” System
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7698482&page=1
Chinese economists deem huge holding of US bonds “risky,” :
On the first day of U.S. treasury secretary Timothy Geithner’s visit to China, the Beijing-based Global Times published a survey of 23 famous Chinese economists on Sunday, saying that the majority of them deemed the vast holding of U.S. bonds “risky.”
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/31/content_11461910.htm
Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink:
Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover rising federal commitments made just in the past year for retirement benefits, the national debt and other government promises, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-28-debt_N.htm
Deep Cuts Threaten to Reshape California: .
The cuts Mr. Schwarzenegger has proposed, if enacted by the Legislature, would turn California into a place that in some ways would be unrecognizable in modern America: poor children would have no health insurance, prisoners would be released by the thousands and state parks would be closed.
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/us/31calif.html?ich
Hidden city under L.A. :
A raid in Los Angeles County, California, has uncovered a hidden world beneath a busy freeway..
snipurl.com/j5rmx
Ohio Food Stamp Participation Rates Soaring:
Figures show than one in seven people in Cuyahoga County, Ohio’s most populous county, received food stamps in February, an 8 percent increase from one year ago.
www.newsnet5.com/money/19612177/detail.html
U.S. mortgage rate rise threatens housing recovery:
A dizzying rise in U.S. mortgage rates this week has left homeowners worried about the government’s ability to revive the housing market as a means to economic recovery.
www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE54S60J20090529
Unemployment in U.S. Probably Surpassed 9% in May:
Unemployment in the U.S. probably surpassed 9 percent in May for the first time in more than 25 years, underscoring forecasts that the economy will be slow to pull out of the worst recession in half a century, economists said before a report this week.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20
601087&sid=aSc829RcWzSc&refer=home