Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,339,771"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,336
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1345
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$677,657,047,819
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$225,461,985,398
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening
Cindy Sheehan’s Lonely Vigil in Obamaland
By JOHN V. WALSH
Obama is an enormous gift to the Empire. Just as he has silenced most of the single-payer movement, an effort characterized by its superb scholarship exceeded only by its timidity, Obama has shut down the antiwar movement, completely in thrall as it is to the Democrat Party and Identity Politics.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23379.htm
CIA Releases Its Instructions For Breaking a Detainee’s Will
By Joby Warrick, Peter Finn and Julie Tate
As the session begins, the detainee stands naked, except for a hood covering his head. Guards shackle his arms and legs, then slip a small collar around his neck. The collar will be used later; according to CIA guidelines for interrogations, it will serve as a handle for slamming the detainee’s head against a wall.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23387.htm
Closing In on the Torturers
By Ray McGovern
Do you think the wardens will let George Tenet wear his Presidential Medal of Freedom over the orange coverall?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23385.htm
Torturing Morality
By William Pfaff
Let us honor Eric H. Holder, Jr. – the only responsible official in two administration to say that torture is evil, criminal, and in a nation governed by law must be prosecuted, if the national integrity is to be vindicated.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23377.htm
Living In A Culture of Delusion Leads To Denial, Ignorance and Worse
By Danny Schechter
What do we have a right to know? In this web-based age, where we can Google almost everything, you’d think we would be better informed than we are.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23381.htm
Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency RAMA Is ‘To Destabilize Pakistan’
By Jeremy R. Hammond
Retired Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul responds to charges that he supports terrorism, discusses 9/11 and ulterior motives for the war on Afghanistan, claims that the U.S., Israel, and India are behind efforts to destabilize Pakistan, and charges the U.S. and its allies with responsibility for the lucrative Afghan drug trade.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23375.htm
US Army Chief: We’ll Always Stand by Israel’s Side
By Yitzhak Benhorin
The US will always stand by Israel’s side, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said overnight Thursday during a farewell party for Israel’s military attaché in Washington Major-General Benny Gantz, who will be retuning to Israel following his appointment as IDF deputy chief of staff.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23384.htm
Arabs Paying The Price Of The Holocaust: Tutu
By Akiva Eldar
He said the West was consumed with guilt and regret toward Israel because of the Holocaust, “as it should be.” “But who pays the penance? The penance is being paid by the Arabs, by the Palestinians. I once met a German ambassador who said Germany is guilty of two wrongs. One was what they did to the Jews. And now the suffering of the Palestinians.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23376.htm
Memo to Bernanke:
“No Wage Growth; No Recovery”
By Mike Whitney
It should be fairly obvious by now that US consumers are undergoing a generational shift and will not be able to lead the way out of the recession as they have in the past. Nor will they miraculously “bounce back” and provide demand for products made abroad.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23378.htm
Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage
Guns And Butter – Audio Interview
Dr. Michael Hudson on why the banks are returning the bailout money; bank fees and penalties; banks prefer default to foreclosure; debt as wealth; Obama’s Financial Regulatory Reform Proposal and its six major flaws; the deregulation-by centralization ploy; failure to reform the economy will lead to debt peonage.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23386.htm
The Spend-And-Borrow Economy
By Nouriel Roubini
Governments will have to manage perceptions. Today investors remain willing to bankroll federal spending without any clear or firm indication of how the fiscal crisis—and it is a crisis of extraordinary proportions—is going to be dealt with. That won’t last.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23383.htm
The Foreclosure Rescue Mirage
By Andy Kroll
How the government’s flagship homeowner relief program hangs borrowers out to dry.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23380.htm
One In Nine Americans Uses Food Stamps
By Tom Eley
In all, 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a federal program that provides assistance to low-income people, an increase of more than 2 percent from the previous month, and a staggering increase of 6 million over the past year.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23382.htm
Pakistan: 21 police killed:
The suicide attack took place in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border just as the policemen were gathering to break their Ramadan fast.
news.iafrica.com/content_feeds/telkom_world/1890146.htm
US kills 10 in Pakistan attack:
At least 10 people were killed and five others injured when a drone fired two missiles at a house in Kanigaram area of Laddha tehsil of South Waziristan Agency on Thursday.
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?
page=2009\08\28\story_28-8-2009_pg1_6
7 militants killed in NW Pakistan:
Seven militants were killed and four others arrested during ongoing search and clearance operations in northwest Pakistan in the last 24 hours, local official sources said Friday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/28/content_11959660.htm
12 “Taliban”, 1 US occupation force soldier killed in battle at Afghan clinic: :
12 “militants” were killed when US forces conducted an airstrike.
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Military: US occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan;
August deadliest month for US occupation forces
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“Militants”, including woman, killed in Afghan ambush :
Afghan and international occupation forces killed several militants, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan after they came under fire while travelling to search a militant compound, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Friday.
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Major Afghanistan city slips back under Taliban control:
Southern Afghanistan’s largest city, Kandahar, is slipping back under Taliban control as overstretched U.S. troops focus on clearing insurgents from the countryside – a potentially alarming setback for President Barack Obama’s war strategy.
www.chicoer.com/news/ci_13220778
Election official: Afghan election troubled:
The head of a U.S.-based organization that aided Afghanistan’s electoral commission lowered expectations Thursday for that country’s presidential vote, saying, “The outcome will not be something that we can all go out and celebrate.”
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Karzai in ‘explosive’ row with U.S special envoy over allegations of vote-rigging :
The accusations infuriated the one-time darling of Washington and led to ‘a dramatic bust up’ and a quick end to the meeting with Barack Obama’s key envoy to the region.
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Was the Afghan election rigged, and where’s the proof?:
“The standard line in this kind of cases is that there were irregularities, but that they didn’t affect the outcome of the elections. Reports from the provinces suggest otherwise. They suggest that these irregularities were actually designed to affect the outcome of the elections and that they probably did,” says Bijlert.
www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/74425.html
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Netanyahu calls for ‘crippling sanctions’ against Iran:
“There is not much time” to halt Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, he told reporters.
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U.S. eyes 12 giant “bunker buster” bombs: –
The U.S. military wants to speed production of 10 to 12 huge “bunker buster” bombs, the Air Force said on Thursday, amid concerns over suspected underground nuclear sites in Iran and North Korea.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090827/us_nm/us_usa_bomb
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran?
‘N Korean arms for Iran’ seized by UAE:
The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship secretly carrying embargoed North Korean arms to Iran, say diplomats.
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1cc52dcc-93f6-11de-9c57-00144feabdc0.html
Iran slows atom fuel drive, more cooperative: : –
Iran has slightly reduced the scale of its nuclear fuel production work and has fulfilled demands for more effective monitoring of its Natanz uranium enrichment site, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Friday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090828/ts_nm/us_nuclear_iaea_iran
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Israel kills Palestinian fisherman: medics:
Mohammed Attar, 25, was hit by shrapnel, according to Muawiha Hassanein, who heads the territory’s emergency medical services. He had apparently been in his boat just off northern Gaza’s shore when he was hit.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090827/
wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazatoll
U.S. drops demand for Israel building freeze in East Jerusalem:
The Obama administration has agreed to Israel’s request to remove East Jerusalem from negotiations on the impending settlement freeze.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1110507.html
Egypt: Israel must halt building in East Jerusalem before talks:
Egypt’s foreign minister says East Jerusalem must be included in a freeze of Israeli settlement activity before Middle East peace talks can restart.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1110803.html
Merkel pushes Israel on settlements:
Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, has urged Israel to stop settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories and resume the Middle East peace process
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/08/20098271348926792.html
Israel admitted at least one case of Organ harvesting.:
I did notice missing from the discussion the fact that Israeli authorities themselves have acknowledged at least one pathologist harvesting organs but that story from 2002
www.labournet.net/world/0908/israel1.html
Thousands flee Burma as army clashes with Kokang militias:
Refugees pour across border into China after 20-year-old ceasefire fails as ethnic groups resist threat to drug empires
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/28
/burma-shan-refugees-fighting-china
Saudi minister escapes bomber:
Prince Muhammed bin Nayef was meeting with well-wishers for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday evening when a man blew himself up with explosives, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Friday.
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Video: Ex-Guantanamo inmate to sue :
Jawad, who was released to members of his family on Monday, has said he was 12-years-old at the time of his arrest in Kabul, the Afghan capital, in December 2002.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/08/200982712630698372.html
Memos: CIA pushed limits on sleep deprivation:
CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee in late 2007, keeping him awake for six straight days with permission from government lawyers.
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Taxpayers will foot bill to defend CIA interrogators:
Who’s paying to defend CIA employees alleged to have tortured detainees abroad? You are.
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An Interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson:
Col. Wilkerson, provided some startling new insights into the conduct of the “war on terror.”
www.fff.org/comment/com0908m.asp
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet:
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html
Change…. What Change? Bush’s Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept:
The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search — without suspicion of wrongdoing — the contents of a traveler’s laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/08/27/AR2009082704065.html
Australia defends Aborigines policy:
Australia has defended a controversial policy that allows for official intervention in remote aboriginal communities, which a UN expert says is discriminatory.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/
2009/08/200982894149948123.html
Hummel: The US Will Default On Its Debt:
The flood of debt that the US is taking on in its efforts rescue to economy will combine with huge social insurance obligations—Medicare, MedicaidSocial Security—to create an unsustainable level of public indebtedness, economist Jeffrey Rogers Hummel argues in at length here.
www.businessinsider.com/hummel-
the-us-will-default-on-its-debt-2009-8
1,000 Banks to Fail In Next Two Years: Bank CEO:
The US banking system will lose some 1,000 institutions over the next two years, said John Kanas, whose private equity firm bought BankUnited of Florida in May.
www.cnbc.com/id/32581463
Lefrak: Commercial Real Estate Will Kill 500 Small Banks:
The Real Deal passes along this video of Harrison Lefrak predicting 500 bank failures resulting from commercial real estate problems.
snipurl.com/rgvbw
Bank collapse to cost Iceland $5bn:
Iceland’s parliament has approved a $5bn repayment plan to compensate Britain and the Netherlands for money lost after the collapse of an Icelandic internet bank last year.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/
2009/08/2009828133027288332.html
Stanford finance aide pleads guilty:
A former senior aide to Allen Stanford, a US financier who is accused of defrauding investors out of $7bn, has pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud and conspiracy.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2009/08/200982718278992455.html