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’s War On Iraq 4,316
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$682,581,590,163
See the cost in your community
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CIA Crucified Captive in Abu Ghraib Prison
By Sherwood Ross
“A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs,” the magazine’s Jane Mayer writes in the magazine’s June 22nd issue. “Military pathologists classified the case a homicide.”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22941.htm
I Want My Money Back! (Pres. Obama!)
By Marie Marchand
Betrayal is a part of life. After awhile, you just come to expect it. Yet, the initial shock always hits you as a surprise. Alas, the nature of betrayal. Humans are vulnerable to being betrayed because underneath our husky shells, our pain and hardened hearts, we are soft and trustful creatures. We want to believe in people.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22942.htm
Chavez Threatens to Invade as Honduran Army Stages Coup
By David Usborne
Venezuelan leader vows to ‘act militarily’ after leftist ally Manuel Zelaya is overthrown and exiled to Costa Rica.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22936.htm
Obama’s Real Message to Latin America?
The Coup in Honduras
By Nikolas Kozloff
If it were ever proven that Obama sanctioned the overthrow of a democratically elected government this could completely undermine the U.S. President’s carefully crafted image.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22934.htm
Honduras’ Dictator-for-a-Day
By Al Giordano
“Micheletti, who a few hours ago was the Speaker of the House, said that neither US President Barack Obama nor Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez would decide what should be done in Honduras…”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22935.htm
Obama Has the Power-and Responsibility- to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras
By Roberto Lovato
Viewed from a distance, the streets of Honduras look, smell and sound like those of Iran:
informationclearinghouse.info/article22937.htm
A Few Thoughts on the Coup in Honduras
By Jeremy Scahill
The US ties to the Honduran military and political establishment run far too deep for all of this to have gone down without at least tacit support or the turning of a blind eye by some US political or military official(s).
informationclearinghouse.info/article22944.htm
In Case You Missed It
Friendly Dictators
Written in 1995
They are democratic America’s undemocratic allies. They may rise to power through bloody ClA-backed coups and rule by terror and torture. Their troops may receive training or advice from the CIA and other US agencies. US military aid and weapons sales often strengthen their armies and guarantee their hold on power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2844.htm
Pakistan Plays Dangerous Double Game
From Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich in Islamabad
The killing last week of Mr Zainuddin, who had been staying in a compound provided by the country’s ISI security agency, has opened a window on a complicated, controversial and perilous element of the battle against militants inside Pakistan.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22939.htm
$2.775 Billion in US Aid Supports Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program
By Grant F. Smith
President Barak Obama’s fiscal year 2010 budget request for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel is proceeding smoothly through the Congress.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22938.htm
Does Israel Mistreat Palestinian Child Prisoners?
By Tim McGirk / Jerusalem
Khalid Quzman, a defense lawyer at the Israeli military courts, says, “We don’t complain any more because it’s a waste of time. “ Over 600 complaints of torture and ill treatment were filed between 2001 and 2008, he says, “and not a single criminal investigation was ever carried out.”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22940.htm
The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free
By Chris Hedges
The ability of the corporate state to pacify the country by extending credit and providing cheap manufactured goods to the masses is gone. The pernicious idea that democracy lies in the choice between competing brands and the freedom to accumulate vast sums of personal wealth at the expense of others has collapsed.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22945.htm
Is the Fed Juicing the Stock Market?
By Mike Whitney
Why has the stock market been on a 3-month tear when the economy is undergoing the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression? The S&P 500 has shot up 40% from its low on March 9 and the Dow Jones Industrials have followed close behind. Is this a typical bear market rally or is the invisible hand of the Fed goosing the markets?
informationclearinghouse.info/article22943.htm
70 killed in northwest Pakistan battles, attacks:
Pakistani jets bombed suspected Taliban hideouts after a stray mortar shell crashed into a mosque during prayers, part of a wave of violence that claimed nearly 70 lives in 24 hours along the northwest region bordering Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/29/
pakistan-northwest-violence062909.html
Pakistan: 22 soldiers killed in Waziristan:
Twenty-two soldiers were killed and thirty-five others injured in two separate attacks by militants in North and South Waziristan agencies on Sunday.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22986
15 militants killed in Pakistan:
“15 militants were killed during the bombardment in Ladha and Sam areas. Three persons were killed and seven hurt when a shell hit a house in Kari Khel area of Azam Warsik.”
www.deccanherald.com/content/10720/15-militants-killed-pakistan.html
Report: Pakistan’s Ideological Blowback:
If the bucolic Swat valley, tucked into the Himalayas less than 100 miles from the capital city of Islamabad, is a bellwether for Pakistan’s war against the Pakistani Taliban,1 the war is going badly.
www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6215
Afghan police chief among 10 killed in Kandahar: official:
The police chief of Afghanistan’s province of Kandahar was among 10 policemen killed in a shootout with local security guards employed by US forces on Monday, the head of the provincial council said.
snipurl.com/l4lna
Karzai: Afghan guards employed by US killed police:
President Hamid Karzai accused Afghan guards working for U.S. coalition forces of killing a provincial police chief and at least four other security officers during a gunbattle outside a government office Monday.
www.magicvalley.com/articles/2009/
06/29/ap/international/d994es081.txt
Four foreign occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan bombing:
Four foreign soldiers were killed Monday in a roadside bombing outside Kabul, said a spokesman for the government of Maidan Wardak province.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/
2411cd3571b4f088/id/513057/cs/1/
ISAF occupation force soldier killed E. Afghanistan:
An occupation force soldier of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the military said. A statement from ISAF headquarters said the soldier died in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device (IED). Without releasing name and nationality of the soldier or the exact location of the incident, the statement said:
www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/
ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2010878&Language=en
Car bomb kills 10 near Mosul in northern Iraq: –
A car bomb killed ten Iraqis including six policemen near the volatile northern city of Mosul Monday, police sources said, a day before U.S. combat troops withdraw from urban centers.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/06/29/AR2009062901988.html
Senior Sunni politician assassinated in Iraq:
A senior Iraqi leader of the Iraqi Islamic party was killed in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, security sources told the German Press Agency dpa on Monday.
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Iraq prepares massive party as US troops pull out:
Festivities to mark “a day of national sovereignty” will start at 6p.m. (1500 GMT) in Zawra Park, the biggest in the capital, with singers and poets kicking off proceedings before music groups take to the stage.
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/29/77323.html
Profits of war: Iraq to open up oil fields for first time in four decades:
Iraq will this week unveil which foreign firms have won contracts to develop its oil and gas fields, nearly four decades after Saddam Hussein nationalised the country’s energy infrastructure.
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Iran recount gives Ahmadinejad win:
Iran’s Guardian Council has confirmed the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country’s president, following a partial recount of votes from the disputed presidential election of June 12.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast
/2009/06/2009629151258105455.html
Denials of US interference in Iran not credible:
USA Today last week noted that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was handing out $20 million in grants this financial year to unnamed organisations “to promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in Iran”.
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/iran-j29.shtml
Secret camera leads to arrest of 9 in British embassy in Iran:
The government of Iran arrested 9 members of the British Embassy accusing them of taking part in anti-goverment demonstrations after they were filmed by a secret camera that had been placed, unbeknownst to embassy members, inside the British embassy,
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Five British embassy staff freed :
Iran said five of the nine detained local staff at the British embassy in Tehran had been released while the other four were being held for questioning.
tvnz.co.nz/world-news/five-british-embassy-staff-freed-2814140
Iran: “New Revelations” In Neda Shooting:
The network quoted the man who allegedly drove her to hospital as saying her death appeared to be “highly suspicious,” as there were no police, Basij militia, or any other Iranian security forces nearby.
www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/29/world
/worldwatch/entry5121532.shtml
CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution:
Former Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beig claims the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed 400 million dollars inside Iran to evoke a revolution.
snipurl.com/l4ly6
Netanyahu to Putin: Stop selling missiles to Iran:
Relations between Israel and Russia have grown tense over a significant change in Moscow’s attitude regarding the possible sale of S-300 air defense missiles to Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and asked him to prevent the arms deal from going through.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096332.html
Red Cross: Israel trapping 1.5m Gazans in despair:
The Red Cross released a damning report Monday on the effects of the Israel-led blockade on the Gaza Strip, describing the 2-year-old measure as having trapped the coastal territory’s 1.5 million residents “in despair.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096443.html
Checkpoint stops Palestinians with ‘too much food’:
A West Bank checkpoint managed by a private security company is not allowing Palestinians to pass through with large water bottles and some food items, Haaretz has learned.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096322.html
Pro-Palestinian activists sail for Gaza in defiance of Israeli blockade:
A group of 21 international activists left the Cypriot port of Larnaca Monday morning for Gaza on a small boat carrying medicine and other humanitarian supplies.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/29/content_11622330.htm
Cynthia McKinney & Human Rights Activists Leave Cyprus For Gaza:
Twenty-one human rights and solidarity workers representing eleven different countries were aboard including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
www.mathaba.net/news/?x=620985
Israel defies U.S. demands for settlement freeze, approves building of 50 illegal homes in the occupied West Bank:
Israel’s Defense Ministry said on Monday it had approved construction of 50 new homes at a West Bank settlement as part of a plan for 1,450 housing units, an expansion that defies a U.S. call for a settlement freeze.
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Hamas popularity falls among Palestinians -poll:
Discontent with Hamas over slow-moving Palestinian unity talks and Israel’s ban on Gaza reconstruction aid have led to a sharp decline in the Islamist group’s popularity, an opinion poll showed on Monday.
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Living testament to Somalia’s descent into hell:
Dadaab camp should not still be here, 18 years after it was built. It should not be home to 280,000 people who dream of a new life in America rather than returning across the border.
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0629/1224249724345.html
Claim: Leftist leader assassinated in Honduras:
Citing a report from Mexico’s Notimex news service, the blog reports that Cesar Ham, presidential candidate and leader of the Democratic Unification of Honduras party, was killed while resisting arrest in the early hours of Sunday morning, as the Honduran military fanned out to arrest leftist leaders throughout the country, including President Manuel Zelaya and the country’s chancellor, Patricia Rodas.
snipurl.com/l4mb2
“Declare that no government arising from this unconstitutional interruption will be recognized” :
Organization of American States: Demand the immediate, safe and unconditional return of President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales of their constitutional functions.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22937.htm
Curfew Imposed in Honduras:
The newly sworn-in acting president of Honduras has imposed a two-day nationwide curfew. Roberto Micheletti told a news conference that the curfew would run from 9pm to 6am on Sunday and Monday
hondurasnews.com/2009/06/28/curfew-imposed-in-honduras/
Five New Ministers Appointed:
Within a few hours of the placement of the new President of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, he began to remove the cabinet of Manuel Zelaya and appointed five new ministers.
hondurasnews.com/2009/06/29/five-new-ministers-appointed/
Zelaya in Nicaragua:
The vice-minister of security of Costa Rica, Jose Towers, confirmed that the government of Venezuela has sent an airplane that has landed in Costa Rica, to take Zelaya to Nicaragua this afternoon. There he will participate in an emergency meeting of ALBA in Managua.
hondurasnews.com/2009/06/28/zelaya-in-nicaragua/
Clinton urges condemnation of Honduran action:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the action taken against Honduras’ president should be condemned by everyone.
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Obama Tried To Stop Honduras Coup:
The Obama administration and members of the Organization of American States had worked for weeks to try to avert any moves to overthrow President Zelaya, said senior U.S. officials. Washington’s ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, sought to facilitate a dialogue between the president’s office, the Honduran parliament and the military.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/29/
obama-tried-to-stop-hondu_n_222140.html
Brazil’s Lula calls for Zelaya return in Honduras:
”We cannot accept or recognize any new government other than President Zelaya, because he was voted into office, complying with the rules of democracy,” Lula said in his weekly radio address.
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Argentina President’s Opinion:
She also said that Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana is now in touch with other foreign ministers to coordinate actions for the defense of democracy in Honduras.
hondurasnews.com/2009/06/28/argentina-presidents-opinion/
Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S.:
At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras on June 28 were apparently trained at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia infamous for producing graduates linked to torture, death squads and other human rights abuses.
snipurl.com/l4mnd
Swiss Banks Shun Americans as U.S. Compels Disclosure:
UBS AG and Credit Suisse Group AG, the country’s biggest banks, have told Americans to move their money into specially created units registered in the U.S., or lose their accounts. Smaller private banks such as Geneva-based Mirabaud & Cie. are closing all accounts held by U.S. taxpayers.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=newsarchive&sid=a_8VwpO5m0WQ
Struggling cities cancel Fourth of July fireworks:
Nearly 50 cash-strapped cities nationwide are forgoing fireworks festivities, choosing instead to retain jobs or, in the case of Montebello, Calif., give the money to food bank
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation
/la-na-fireworks29-2009jun29,0,2351470.story