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 : 1,403
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$683,709,335,677
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$227,106,090,458
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Why I Threw the Shoe
By Muntazer al-Zaidi
I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23535.htm
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran?
Iran capable of building nuclear bomb
Is working on missile to carry atomic warhead: IAEA report
By The Associated Press
ran experts at the U.N.’s nuclear monitoring agency believe that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and worked on developing a missile system that can carry an atomic warhead, according to a confidential report seen by The Associated Press.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23531.htm
Missiles in Turkey traded for shield, diplomat says
By Jon Ward and Barbara Slavin
The announcement Thursday that the Obama administration is canceling missile defense deployments in Europe may be part of a trade that includes sending other missiles to Turkey.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23536.htm
Is America Hooked on War?
By Tom Engelhardt
However much it might seem that most of us are peaceably watching our TV sets or computer screens or iPhones, we Americans are also — always — marching as to war. We may not all bother to attend the church of our new religion, but we all tithe. We all partake. In this sense, we live peaceably in a state of war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23528.htm
Israel/America
It’s not that you’re Israeli, it’s that you’re wrong
By Remi Kanazi
The Israeli left is about as alive as Ariel Sharon. I’m sick and tired of asking for permission to resist, From antiquated leftists and progressives, Who care more about keeping it Kosher than moving things forward.,
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23530.htm
Selective Deficit Disorder
By David Sirota
Watching the health care debate unfold these days is a little like watching scenes from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”-the ones showing a collage of strung-out, deranged or otherwise incapacitated patients rotting away in a squalid psychiatric ward.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23529.htm
Can America Be Salvaged?
By David Michael Green
I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which proposing a new and better version of corporate-plunder masquerading as national healthcare gets you burned in effigy for being a socialist stooge by gun-toting angry mobs.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23533.htm
How to Pay Off the National Debt
By Nikki Alexander
Paying off the national debt is a no brainer when you have a conscience.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23532.htm
America’s Failed Model for the World
By Steven Hill
Europeans keep asking me, has America lost its mind? From healthcare to its economy, the US is looking merely average.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23537.htm
Declare Your Independence From Government Tyranny!
Love It Or Leave It:
By Danny Schechter and Mikael Page
A form for patriots tired of living in conflict with their outspoken ideals of personal freedom.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23534.htm
33 killed in car bomb attack in Pakistan: Police:
A suicide car bomb tore through a Pakistan market, killing up to 14 people and trapping others under the debris on September 18 as families shopped for Ramadan.
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13 militants killed in Tirah valley :
According to FC media cell, four vehicles and two hideouts of the militants were also destroyed during security forces action in Dabori and Sandapal.
www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=4407
Pakistan: Forces’ firing kills two women in NWA:
Two women were killed and five others, including three minors, sustained injuries when a vehicle came under fire by the security forces for violating curfew on Thursday.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24606
Buying Pakistan:
US gives $3bn in aid to Pakistan:
Ms Patterson said that some of the anticipated non-military aid would be “directly transferred to the government” and the remainder sent through government institutions and non-governmental organisations.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8260292.stm
Pakistan: Army For Rent :
Pakistan puzzled over US envoy’s $3bn aid claim :
A senior functionary of the finance ministry requesting anonymity said Pakistan received $1bn during the last one-and-a half-year out of which a major chunk of $600m alone was actually in lieu of reimbursement of military bill.
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Army For Rent:
US team visits Islamabad to review aid spending:
In a written reply to Senate Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said the team was sent to review the Coalition Support Funds, which reimburses expense incurred during the anti-extremists operations.
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Buying Pakistan:
Gilani urges US to replenish ammunition, equipment used against militants :
The Ambassador also assured the Prime Minister that Kerry Lugar Bill will be passed by the US Congress in the coming weeks and most of the financial assistance included in it will be channeled through the established government institutions and mechanisms like Benazir Income Support Programme, Higher Education Commission, Basic Health Units and through government institutions assisting dislocated persons.
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US sold $4.5 bn worth arms to Pakistan in three years: Report:
An updated Congressional report released last month says Washington signed arms transfer agreements with Pakistan in excess of $3.5 billion in the year 2006 alone, “ranking Pakistan first among all arms clients of the United States during that calendar year”.
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Prohibited bore licences issued to US security firm:
The government has issued 86 licences for banned weapons to a security company, contracted by the US embassy in Islamabad, a private TV channel reported on Thursday.
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Bomb kills US occupation force soldier in Afghanistan:
NATO: A bomb attack killed a US soldier in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said Friday, capping another bloody week for foreign forces battling Taliban militants.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090918/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest
Canadian soldier killed, 11 injured in Afghanistan:
A Canadian soldier was killed Thursday in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device.
www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/09/17/afghanistan-soldier-killed.html
Germany must pull out of Afghanistan:
The policy of denying we were involved in the harsh reality of war was bound to fail – now we must help the nation find peace
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009
/sep/18/germany-now-afghanistan1
Exclusive: Army chief: ‘We must tackle Taliban grievances’:
Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Lamb told The Independent that many in the Taliban’s rank and file carry a sense of “anger and grievances which have not been addressed”.
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Berlusconi: Best to exit Afghanistan soon:
Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday it would be best for international troops to leave Afghanistan soon, after a bomb blast in Kabul killed six Italian soldiers in Italy’s deadliest day yet in the conflict.
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Seven killed in Iraqi marketplace blast:
A car bomb has exploded at a market south of Baghdad in a region that was once the scene of frequent attacks on Shiites, killing seven people and wounding 21 others, police and hospital officials said.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/world-news/
seven-killed-in-iraqi-marketplace-blast-1.920722
Five killed in Iraq violence:
FIVE people were killed and three policemen injured in violence in Iraq overnight, including a truck bombing near the northern city of Mosul, police said.
www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26090353-38201,00.html
UN General Assembly president “frustrated” in his attempts to end blockade of Gaza:
Outgoing United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockman says he was obstructed by leading UN members from trying to improve the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20090918
Iranians march in solidarity with Palestinians:
Millions of Iranians have taken to the streets across the country to mark the annual Quds Day march in solidarity with Palestinia
presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106510§ionid=351020101ns.
Hezbollah chief vows never to recognize Israel:
The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed on Friday that his Shi’ite militant organization would never recognize Israel and that no Arab state had the right to do so either.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115656.html
Netanyahu to world: Back Israeli self-defense:
The U.N. report also called Hamas’ firing of rockets at Israeli civilians a war crime.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_
on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
Goldstone: Holocaust shaped view on war crimes:
Judge Richard Goldstone, the head of a United Nations commission that this week charged Israel with committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip during its offensive there last winter, believes bringing war criminals to justice stems from the lessons of the Holocaust, according to a lecture he delivered in Israel in 2000.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115581.html
Demonizing Ahmadinejad:
German FM calls Ahmadinejad ‘a disgrace’ for denying Holocaust:
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s latest denial of the Holocaust on Friday, calling him a disgrace to his country.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115657.html
“If the Holocaust, as you claim, is true, why don’t you allow a probe into the issue?” Ahmadinejad:
The Iranian leader said Zionism seeks to build a global empire to dominate the whole world so it was in the national interests of any country to face up to the ‘fake regime’.
english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8806270861
Clinton warns Iran against continued nuclear “defiance”:
Iran risks more international isolation and economic pressure if it continues to defy the world community over its nuclear ambitions, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115654.html
UN body urges Israel to allow nuclear inspection:
Arab states in the United Nations nuclear assembly on Friday won narrow approval of a resolution urging Israel to put all its atomic sites under the world body’s inspection and join the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115650.html
U.S. judge orders Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo freed:
A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Obama administration to release another Kuwaiti detainee held at the controversial U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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42 states lose jobs in August, up from 29 in July:
The Labor Department also reported Friday that 27 states saw their unemployment rates increase in August, and 14 states and Washington D.C., reported unemployment rates of 10 percent or above.
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California’s unemployment rate rises to 12.2%:
The rate rose in August from 11.9% in July, setting a record
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Texas unemployment rate hits 22-year record high:
The Texas unemployment rate hit 8 percent for the first time in 22 years as the state lost another 62,200 nonagricultural jobs in August, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday.
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