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: 4,662
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1386
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$682,848,690,920
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$226,872,296,159
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Graham, Lieberman, McCain Call for More Troops in Afghanistan
By Tony Romm
“We have reached a seminal moment in our struggle against violent Islamist extremism, and we must commit the ‘decisive force’ that Gen. [Stanley] McChrystal tells us carries the least risk of failure.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23495.htm
“You Have to Learn Lessons from History”
By Cindy Sheehan
Somehow, Obama believes, he’s going to stain his hands darker with blood, but he’s not going to pay any political consequences.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23506.htm
Black Propaganda: Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward War
By BRET STEPHENS
President Obama can’t outsource matters of war and peace to another state.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23499.htm
IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged
By Gareth Porter
The IAEA has refused to acknowledge publicly significant evidence brought to its attention by Iran that the documents were fabricated, and has made little, if any, effort to test the authenticity of the intelligence documents or to question officials of the governments holding them.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23496.htm
Iraqi Shoe Thrower Released; Says He Was Tortured
By Hamza Hendawi
The reporter said Tuesday that he was abused immediately after his arrest and the following day. He said he was beaten with iron bars, whipped with cords and was subjected to electric shocks in the backyard of the building in the Green Zone where the news conference was held.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23497.htm
Why Propaganda Trumps Truth
By Paul Craig Roberts
Democracy is based on the assumption that people are rational beings who factually examine arguments and are not easily manipulated. Studies are not finding this to be the case.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23498.htm
Post Mortem for Lehman
Did Bernanke and Paulson Blackmail Congress?
By Mike Whitney
Lehman Bros. didn’t die of natural causes; it was drawn-and-quartered by high-ranking officials at the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Most of the rubbish presently appearing in the media, ignores this glaring fact. Lehman was a planned demolition (most likely) concocted by ex-Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson, who wanted to create a financial 9-11 to scare Congress into complying with his demands for $700 billion in emergency funding (TARP) for underwater US banking behemoths.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23500.htm
For All Obama’s Talk of Overhaul, the US Has Failed to Wind in Wall Street
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
With a blank cheque from taxpayers and no real reform the perverse incentives for risk-taking are bigger than ever.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23504.htm
Corporate Corruption Killing America
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Obama is no more of a real reformer than any Republican. That so many on the far right think he is a socialist is laughable. He is nothing more than a defender of the corporate-owned two-party plutocracy. To see anything else is pure delusion.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23502.htm
Dems Feel Michael Moore’s Wrath
By Alec MacGillis
In building his indictment against the ill-fated marriage of Wall Street and Washington, Moore zeroes in less on Phil Gramm or other GOP string-pullers than he does on White House economic adviser Larry Summers, Robert Rubin and Sen. Chris Dodd. Especially Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23505.htm
How US Tax Breaks Fund Israeli “Settlers”
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Israeli peace activists are planning to ratchet up their campaign against groups in the United States that raise money for settlers by highlighting how tax exemptions are helping to fund the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23501.htm
Under Attack
The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
By Cecilie Surasky
This story isn’t just about a film festival. This is about defending the right of people, no matter who they are, to express their views, to open up the conversation, and to use nonviolent means to end Israel’s occupation and bring justice for all people to the region.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23503.htm
27 killed in S Afghanistan:
Over two dozen “Taliban insurgents” have been killed in militants’ former stronghold Kandahar of southern Afghanistan, deputy to provincial police chief Mohammad Shah Khan said Tuesday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/15/content_12057837.htm
2 US occupation force soldiers among 4 killed in Afghanistan:
Also in the south, a British soldier was killed in an attack on a foot patrol, and another NATO service member died in a blast Sunday, NATO and British officials said yesterday.
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Recounts at 2,500 Afghan voting stations:
Ballots at 10 per cent of Afghanistan’s polling stations will be audited and recounted because of indications of fraud during controversial elections in August.
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UN deputy in Afghanistan leaves after vote row:
The senior American diplomat in the UN mission to Afghanistan has left the country after an argument with his European boss over how to deal with election fraud, officials said Tuesday.
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Karzai rival warns: Vote fraud would doom U.S. involvement:
“Five years of illegitimate rule cannot be sustained by more troops or more resources.”
www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/v-print/story/1233579.html
Extracting Uranium by British troops baseless:
Afghan Minister: Afghanistan Minister for Mines and Industries Mohammad Ibrahim Adil has rejected the claims that British forces in southern Helmand province illegally extracting uranium, a local news agency Pajhwok reported Tuesday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/15/content_12055573.htm
Cholera outbreaks in 10 Afghan provinces: govt:
Afghanistan has reported outbreaks of potentially lethal cholera in 10 provinces across the impoverished country, the health ministry said on Sunday
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Sanders’ call for Afghanistan exit strategy draws cheers:
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has joined Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold in declaring that the United States needs to start thinking about how to extract its military from Afghanistan.
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Pakistan: 9 killed in Bara:
One soldier and eight militants, including their local leader, were killed in an encounter in Pakistan’s northwestern Kamarkhel area of Bara in the Khyber tribal region.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3773002542
Pakistan: Five killed as jets pound militant positions in Bajaur:
Fighter jets pounded suspected militant hideouts Tuesday and killed five insurgents in a tribal region where the Pakistani military declared victory over insurgents six months ago following an offensive, an official said.
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Pakistan: Four children killed in Sabhiwal blast :
At least four children were killed when explosives blew up in Sabhiwal area on Tuesday.
www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=4320
Human rights advocates say Pakistani army seeking revenge in Swat Valley:
Two months after the Pakistani army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold, with scores, perhaps hundreds, of bodies dumped on the streets in what human rights advocates and local residents say is the work of the military.
www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2009
/09/human_rights_advocates_say_pak.html
British soldiers accused of raping Iraqi man:
The Royal Military police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations that British soldiers repeatedly raped and mutilated an Iraqi civilian, the Guardian has learned.
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/
14/iraq-rape-british-soldiers-accused
Mortars land near embassy as Biden visits:
MORTAR shells landed near the US Embassy in Baghdad just hours after American Vice President Joe Biden arrived in the Iraqi capital overnight, but he was unharmed, said a reporter travelling with him.
www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/
0,21598,26080706-5005361,00.html
IAEA puts Iran proposal for banning attacks on N-facilities on agenda :
“There were many discussions on the issue, off course a few western countries voiced disagreement with the proposal but it was finally approved by the general committee to be placed on the agenda,” Soltaniyeh said and added Iran had raised the same proposal 20 years ago.
www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1402682&Lang=E
In case you missed it: Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group:
The George W. Bush administration has long pushed the “laptop documents” –
1,000 pages of technical documents supposedly from a stolen Iranian laptop – as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Now charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has resolved all unanswered questions about its nuclear programme.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41416
In case you missed it:
Iran nuclear leaks ‘linked to Israel’:
New evidence that Israeli intelligence was the source of the collection of intelligence documents which have been used to accuse Iran of hiding nuclear weapons research
www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF05Ak01.html
Israel committed ‘war crimes’ in Gaza:
UN probe chief: Israeli forces committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity during their assault on the Gaza Strip eight months ago, the head of a UN fact-finding rights mission said Tuesday.
rawstory.com/news/afp/Israel_com
mitted_war_crimes_in_Gaza_09152009.html
UN presses for prosecutions in damning report :
The report called on the UN security council to require Israel to launch “appropriate investigations” into the violations detailed in the report within three months. If no investigation is launched within six months, it said the security council should pass the case to the prosecutor of the international criminal court
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep
/15/israel-blamed-for-gaza-war-crimes
Israel grants immunity to soldiers over misdeed:
The Israeli Knesset is working on a bill to grant more immunity to Israeli soldiers as the number of Palestinian lawsuits against the Israeli army hits a record high.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=106221§ionid=351020202
Poll: Most Americans support US aid to Israel if attacked:
Almost a third of those polled (29%) opposed any type of US aid to Israel’s defense, and 12% were undecided. It is unclear from the phrasing of the question whether it refers to military equipment or the deployment of soldiers in the region.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3776961,00.html
Shabab to avenge US raid in Somalia:
Somali witnesses to Monday’s raid said up to six helicopters flew over a village in Barawe district, an area about 250km south of the capital, Mogadishu, before two of them opened fire on the car carrying Nabhan.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/09/200991512323045221.html
Russia Strikes Military Treaties with Abkhazia, S.Ossetia:
Russian Defense Minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, and his counterparts from breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia signed treaties on military cooperation in Moscow on September 15, the Russian news agencies reported.
www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=21464
Russia to detain Georgian ships off Abkhazia:
Russian news agencies say the country’s coast guard is warning that it will detain Georgian ships entering the territorial waters of Abkhazia.
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Obama About-Face Goes to High Court :
“Photographs of human rights abuses have been used throughout history to bring attention to victims and advance the cause of human rights,” said Jameel Jaffer of the A.C.L.U. “It’s an awful idea to give violent extremists veto power over the Freedom of Information Act.”
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Change… What change?
Obama admin fights Bagram detainee court access:
The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country.
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The Despot Named Lincoln:
If Lincoln was so much opposed to slavery, why did he not endeavor to abolish it peacefully through a scheme of compensated emancipation?
mises.org/story/3704
UK: TUC fears risk of riots as jobless total rises:
Public spending cuts could plunge Britain into a double-dip recession, driving unemployment above 4m and threatening to provoke riots on the streets, the country’s most senior union leader has said.
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b3fd11c-a097-11
de-b9ef-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Ron Paul: Federal government ‘one giant toxic asset’:
The US economy has not really recovered from last year’s financial crisis, and the policies of the Federal Reserve, the US’s central bank, are ensuring that the suffering will continue much longer than necessary, US House Rep. Ron Paul
rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/14/ron-paul-no-recovery/
Need a laugh?
Bernanke: US recession “very likely” over:
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that the worst US recession in seven decades has ‘very likely’ come to an end, but warned the country’s economy will remain weak for some time.
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US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate prompting fears of double-dip recession:
Both bank credit and the M3 money supply in the United States have been contracting at rates comparable to the onset of the Great Depression since early summer, raising fears of a double-dip recession in 2010 and a slide into debt-deflation.
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How Sacramento Treats The Homeless:
The City of Sacramento has sent a cruel message to the world: They would rather criminalize their community’s homeless than sanction a designated area where they can safely and peacefully live.
homelessness.change.org/blog/view/
more_arrests_at_sacramentos_safe_ground