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
$683,136,126,107
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$226,950,377,978
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Death Squads, Disappearances and Torture in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken
As the Obama administration prepares a major escalation of the so-called AfPak war, reports from Pakistan’s Swat Valley, near Afghanistan’s eastern border, provide a gruesome indication of the kind of war that the Pentagon and its local allies are waging.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23515.htm
Torture: The Fault Is Not in Our Stars
By Ray McGovern
Unlike many of my progressive friends, for me the current administration’s behavior on torture is a glass half full. In my view, the real scandal is how very few have taken a sip.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23514.htm
Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore
By Amy Goodman
On Oct. 7, the U.S. enters its ninth year of occupation of Afghanistan-equal to the time the United States was involved in World War I, World War II and the Korean War combined.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23516.htm
Manipulating Public Perception
Obama Urged to Ready Tougher Iran Sanctions, Military Strike
By Janine Zacharia
The U.S. should begin preparing crippling sanctions on Iran and publicly make clear that a military strike is possible should the Iranian government press ahead with its nuclear effort, a bipartisan policy group said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23507.htm
The News Media Scam
By Ken Bowers
Do you like the idea of being “manipulated,” having someone “pull the wires [to] control the public mind?” Or do you think that they can’t manipulate us?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23508.htm
The Century of the Self
This is a must watch documentary
How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm
Robert Fisk Lashes Out at West in Middle East:
Video
Interview with Robert Fisk.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23519.htm
The Israel lobby’s Global Propaganda Manual
By Paul J. Balles
In a document published by The Israel Project entitled “The Israel Project’s 2009 Global Language Dictionary”, Dr Frank Luntz unmasks a modern-day propaganda campaign that would have made Napoleon and Machiavelli proud. He writes:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23510.htm
How Low Will Israel Stoop in Its Propaganda War?
By Stuart Littlewood
‘The Israel Project’, a US media advocacy group, has produced a revised training manual to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war, keep their ill-gotten territorial gains and persuade international audiences to accept that their crimes are necessary and conform to ‘shared values’ between Israel and the civilized West.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23511.htm
To Trigger a Single-Payer Public Option
By Ted Rall
A poll says that 67 percent of Americans don’t understand President Barack Obama’s health-care plan. I’m one of them. It’s not because I don’t pay attention. I’m a news junkie. Could it be that I’m an idiot? If my insurer offered psychiatric coverage, I could afford to find out.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23518.htm
How Corporate PR Works to Kill Healthcare Reform
By Wendell Potter
Health insurers have become expert at using P.R. to get what they want. I got out before the latest round.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23517.htm
Good Billions After Bad
By DONALD L. BARLETT and JAMES B. STEELE
As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system-without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what was needed.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23513.htm
Democrats Now Comprise Majority of ‘Most Corrupt in Congress’ List
BY JOHN BYRNE
On Tuesday, the Washington watchdog group released its list of what it called the “most corrupt members of Congress” – and Democrats, who now control both chambers of Congress, comprise the majority.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23512.htm
CIA Secret Experiments
4 Minute Video
Mind Control Research Goes too Far?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23509.htm
9 “Taliban insurgents” killed in N Afghanistan:
Nine Taliban insurgents have been killed as they came in contact with police force in the Kunduz province north of Afghanistan, provincial police chief Abdul Razaq Qaqubi said Wednesday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/16/content_12062611.htm
3 U.S. Occupation Troops Killed In Afghanistan:
Three US servicemen have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, a Nato spokesman has said.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8259164.stm
Afghanistan: two British occupation force soldiers killed in separate bomb attacks:
Two British soldiers have died after they were wounded in separate explosions in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.
snipurl.com/rwyh4
US ‘needs larger Afghanistan force’:
The most senior military officer in the United States has said that more American troops will probably be needed to bring security to Afghanistan, during an address in Washington.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/2009915172044125822.html
Obama sets Afghan, Pakistan goals, waits on troops:
The White House delivered its long-awaited objectives to lawmakers ahead of an expected request by Army General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, for additional forces to counter a resurgent Taliban insurgency.
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58F4EH20090916
Evaluating Progress in Afghanistan-Pakistan:
The goal of the United States is to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qa’ida in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future.
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/09/16
/evaluating_progress_in_afghanistan_pakistan
Karzai leading Afghan vote with 54 percent:
Afghan officials issued full preliminary results Wednesday showing President Hamid Karzai got 54.6 percent of the vote in last month’s election, a result that could be annulled by mounting fraud allegations. European Union election monitors say fraud is indicated in more than a quarter of the 5.6 million votes counted.
snipurl.com/rwyjk
EU: 1.5m Afghan ballots suspicious:
The European Union presidential election monitoring team casts doubt on final results.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/09/20099161046635656.html
Iraq: Car bomb kills three:
THREE people, including a child, were killed and five wounded overnight when a car bomb exploded at a market in Iraq’s disputed Diyala province, police and medical officials said.
www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26085394-5005361,00.html
Mortars on Baghdad Green Zone kill 2, wound 5:
Mortar rounds which struck Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone government district on Tuesday killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded five, Iraqi police said.
snipurl.com/rwyk6
US occupation troops kill Fallujah ‘shoe-thrower’:
An Iraqi man who witnesses said shouted abuse before throwing a shoe at a US army vehicle was shot dead on Wednesday in what the American military said was a suspected grenade attack.
rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/16/us-troops-kill-fallujah-shoe-thrower/
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Sarkozy says France certain Iran working on nuclear bomb:
French President Sarkozy said on Tuesday that his country’s intelligence agencies are certain that Iran is pursuing a nuclear bomb.
snipurl.com/rwyke
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Clinton Lays Out Iran Requirements:
She said the meeting, to be held Oct. 1, would fulfill President Obama’s pledge to engage with Iran. But she insisted that the United States would not be drawn into a lengthy and fruitless diplomatic dance with Iran, as some analysts have warned.
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/world/middleeast/16diplo.html
Pro-Israel US group urges military action against Iran:
It is worthy to note that Charles Robb and Daniel Coats, were both well known recipients of financial support from powerful Israeli lobby groups when they served in congress
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106243§ionid=3510203
Powerful Iranian cleric barred from delivering Quds Day prayers:
Ayatollah Rafsanjani, who supports the opposition movement, will be replaced by Ahmadinejad and an ally on the day of solidarity with Palestinians, reports say.
snipurl.com/rwyl3
UN: Israel terrorised Gazans in attack:
Israel “punished and terrorised” civilians in Gaza in a disproportionate attack in its three-week war on the territory earlier this year, a United Nations report has found.
www.democracynow.org/2009/9/16/un_inquiry_finds_israel_punished_and
Netanyahu, Mitchell fail to strike deal on illegal settlements:
Israel and the United States on Tuesday remain locked in a stalemate over continued construction in West Bank illegal settlements after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. peace envoy George Mitchell failed to come to an understanding on the matter.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115016.html
Israeli guards ‘humiliated inmates’:
A group of female former Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have accused prison guards of carrying out “humiliating” internal body searches in violation of Israel’s prison code.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/09/20099168617357967.html
Suicide bomber strikes in Chechnya:
A suicide bomber has blown herself up beside a police car in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, wounding six people.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/09/20099168252028855.html
Change…. What change?
Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions:
The Obama administration wants to extend three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year.
www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/sep/15/
obama-supports-extending-patriot-act-provisions/
$75 billion a year: Secretive spending on US intelligence disclosed:
Intelligence activities across the U.S. government and military cost a total of $75 billion a year, the nation’s top intelligence official said on Tuesday, disclosing an overall number long shrouded in secrecy.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15278272.htm
Colo. man denies link to terror plot after NY trip:
A Colorado airport shuttle driver said he’s worried about his future after law enforcement authorities confirmed he was put under surveillance for suspected links to al-Qaida.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090916/ap_on_re_us/us_nyc_terror
UK jobless rate hits 13-year high:
The number of jobless increased by 210,000 in the three months leading up to July, figures showed on Wednesday, taking the unemployment rate up to 7.9 per cent, Britain’s highest since November 1996.
english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/09/200991613329580530.html
U.S. credit card defaults up, signal consumer stress :
Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc customers defaulted on their credit card debts in August at the highest rates since the onset of the recession, a sign that the banks’ consumer lending woes are far from over.
www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE58E6LH20090915
Peter Schiff: Americans must prepare for deepening unemployment, inflation and possible breadlines:
Economist Peter Schiff tells RT’s Marina Portnaya that Lehman Brothers failure was a success not a failure. He says Americans will face increasing unemployment, inflation, and possible bread-lines if government backed bail-outs continue.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhPpzWZDyx0