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 : 1,409
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$684,531,187,470
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$227,329,346,642
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Former CIA Inspector General Confirms BBC Torture Report
By Hilary Andersson
This is politically explosive, because the Bush administration has always claimed that it used harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding only after government lawyers had determined they did not amount to torture.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23556.htm
President Zelaya is Back in Honduras!
By BBC
The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has returned to his country after nearly three months in exile following a political coup. This is the transcript of an interview he gave to the BBC’s Latin American service from inside the Brazilian embassy in the capital Tegucigalpa.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23552.htm
Haniyeh to UN chief: Hamas accepts Palestinian state in ‘67 borders
By Yoav Segev, Haaretz Correspondent
The letter – written by Ismail Haniyeh on Tuesday to coincide with a UN conference currently underway in New York – stated that, “We would never thwart efforts to create an independent Palestinian state with borders [from] June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23555.htm
Exclusive: Hamas Leader Interview
In a world exclusive, Ken Livingstone discusses religion, violence and the chances for peace with the Hamas leader Khaled Meshal.
By Ken Livingston
KL: What should countries such as the US and Britain do to assist a peaceful settlement? KM: They should simply uphold international law – the occupation is illegal, the annexation of East Jerusalem is illegal, the settlements are illegal, the apartheid wall is illegal, and the siege of Gaza is illegal. Yet nothing is done
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23554.htm
Rabbis With Guns
The Rise of Israel’s Military Rabbis
Israeli General Warns of Dangers of Turning War Into ‘Jihad’
By BBC Newsnight
Israel’s army is changing. Once proudly secular, its combat units are now filling with those who believe Israel’s wars are “God’s wars”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23551.htm
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
By Sibel Edmonds and Philip Giraldi
We were very interested to learn of your four-hour deposition in the case involving allegations that Congresswoman Jean Schmidt accepted money from the Turkish government in return for political favors.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23553.htm
Landmark Decision Promises
Massive Relief For Homeowners And Trouble For Banks
By Ellen Brown
A landmark ruling in a recent Kansas Supreme Court case may have given millions of distressed homeowners the legal wedge they need to avoid foreclosure.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23557.htm
Pakistan: 79 killed in clashes in Waziristan:
At least 34 suspected militants have died in clashes in Pakistan’s South and North Waziristan while the Taliban claim to have killed 45 security personnel, media reports said on Tuesday.
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U.S. to shift from Afghanistan to Pakistan?:
White House could focus war on Pakistan and use drones, not more troops
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32952295/ns
/world_news-south_and_central_asia
U.S. Buys Pakistan:
U.S. approves $2.376 billion aid to Pakistan:
The U.S. government has also presented an aid bill for Pakistan for the fiscal year 2009-10 amounting to $2.282 billion in the American Congress, this assistance includes both military and non-military aid.
www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/Sept09/22/01.htm
3 Insurgents Killed by Own Bomb in Afghanistan:
Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry says a suicide bomber killed himself and two accomplices when his explosives-filled vest detonated prematurely.
www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-
22-voa28.cfm?rss=war%20and%20conflict
Two NATO occupation force solders killed in Afghanistan:
Two NATO occupation force soldiers, one of them from the United States, have been killed in southern Afghanistan, the military said Tuesday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090922/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanusunrest
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General Calls for More U.S. Troops to Avoid Afghan Failure:
The top military commander in Afghanistan warns in a confidential assessment of the war there that he needs additional troops within the next year or else the conflict “will likely result in failure.”
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Afghan police: More foreign troops not the answer:
Police officials from some of Afghanistan’s most violent regions questioned the need for more American troops, saying Monday it would increase the perception the U.S. is an occupying power and the money would be better spent on local forces.
www.afghannews.net/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=3572
Insurgent Success In Afghanistan Is Mystifying:
The insurgency in Afghanistan is getting stronger. According to a leaked assessment of the war, Taliban-led insurgents either control or are fighting in a “significant portion of the country.” It’s hard to understand why because insurgent fighters are vastly outnumbered by U.S., NATO and Afghan security forces, and their technology is inferior.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113052541&ft=1&f=3
Demonizing Pakistan and Iran:
U.S. says Pakistan, Iran helping Taliban:
The U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says he has evidence that factions of Pakistani and Iranian spy services are supporting insurgent groups that carry out attacks on coalition troops.
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Prisoner Abuse Continues at Bagram Prison in Afghanistan:
The facility makes Guantanamo look like a “nice hotel,” in the words of one military prosecutor.
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,650242,00.html
Afghans question what democracy has done for them:
Mubaruz Khan didn’t bother to vote when Afghans went to the polls in the country’s second-ever democratic election last month. He was too busy eking out a living selling cigarettes and soda for $3 a day, and didn’t think voting would make a difference in his life.
www.afghannews.net/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=3570
At least 79 killed in Sudan attacks:
Kuol Diem Kuol, a spokesman for the South’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), said a total of 51 villagers and 28 soldiers, police and national security officers had been killed.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/09/200992116256990295.html
17 Killed in west Somalia fighting:
“Many of their dead are strewn in the streets of the town and our forces pulled out this morning,” he said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/09/200992154417842143.html
Yemeni army ‘kills more than 140 in Saada:
“The army killed more than 140 rebels after thwarting an attempted attack on Saada,” the official said, describing the fighting as “the fiercest” since the start of the military offensive on August 11.
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N Yemen ‘humanitarian disaster’:
Families here could be forgiven for feeling unsafe. On September 16, over 80 people were killed during an air raid on a settlement for displaced civilians in Amran province a few hundred kilometres away.
english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/09/2009919114438300322.html
13 Hutu rebels killed:
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army killed 13 Rwandan Hutu rebels and took control of three of their strongholds in the east of the country, a colonel said on Monday.
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
US sees hand of elite Iranian unit in Afghanistan:
The United States believes Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are providing training and weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan to help them fight Western forces, U.S. counterterrorism officials said on Monday.
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN21522027
Iran says it shot down “unidentified shining objects” over the Gulf:
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards in the port of Bushehr said after Iranian radar detected three bright objects flying over the Gulf Islands of Khark and Khargou, the guards targeted and shot them down.
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US ships arrive in Israel ahead of joint drill:
The arrival of the ships began a day before Defense Minister Ehud Barak was scheduled to fly to Washington for talks with his American counterpart, Robert Gates. Defense officials said that their talks would focus on the “Iranian threat”, Israeli-US defense cooperation as well as the role Israel will play in the new American missile defense shield announced last week.
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Goldstone: IDF must punish officers for Gaza war crimes:
United Nations investigator Richard Goldstone, whose commission of inquiry found Israel guilty of war crimes in the Gaza Strip, said Monday that Israel Defense Forces soldier and officers must be held accountable for any violations to military standards.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115928.html
How Israel silenced its Gaza war protesters :
Here are some of the pearls in Adalah’s new report: “Prohibited protest – how the law enforcement authorities limit the freedom of expression of opponents
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116114.html
Hamas is not al-Qaida:
One immediate reaction to the collapse of the towers and the death of almost 3,000 Americans was the mobilisation of the Israeli propaganda machine which claimed that the fight it was engaged in on the streets of Palestinian towns and villages was the same as that which the US and its people had horrifically come face to face with.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/21/hamas-al-qaida
Report: Israel to freeze settlements in exchange for Arab ties:
These normalization steps reportedly include granting Israel flyover rights and ending a longtime travel ban against Israeli citizens.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116156.html
Police disperse pro-Zelaya protest:l
Honduran security forces have dispersed thousands of pro-Zelaya protesters outside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president, has taken refuge.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas
/2009/09/2009922143328780849.html
CIA Interrogations Likely Damaged Detainees’ Brains:
The methods could even have caused the suspects to create – and believe – false memories, contends the paper, which scrutinizes the techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration through the lens of neurobiology. It suggests the methods are actually counterproductive, no matter how much suspects might eventually say.
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U.S. Faces Doubts About Leadership on Human Rights:
The United States rejected a U.N. proposal to compel Israel and Hamas to conduct credible investigations into war crimes in the Gaza Strip. And the administration has pursued a low-profile approach to Sri Lanka, where a military offensive against rebels is believed to have killed thousands of civilians.
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U.S. Resident Held Without Bail in Terrorism Case:
A 24-year-old Afghan man at the center of an unfolding FBI investigation into a possible U.S. terrorism cell was ordered held without bond Monday as authorities raced to learn more about an alleged plot using hydrogen peroxide explosives and who else might have been helping to carry it out.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2009/09/21/AR2009092103502.html
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WMD Plot Uncovered In East Texas: :
At least one weapon of mass destruction – a sodium cyanide bomb capable of delivering a deadly gas cloud – has been seized in the Tyler area. Investigators have seized at least 100 other bombs, bomb components, machine guns, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and chemical agents. But the government also found some chilling personal documents indicating that unknown co-conspirators may still be free to carry out what appeared to be an advanced plot. And, authorities familiar with the case say more potentially deadly cyanide bombs may be in circulation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5350.htm
FBI says imam Ahmad Afzali worked both sides and tipped off suspects:
“I think the FBI is angry that they blew this case, and they want to blame poor Imam Afzali for blowing the investigation,” Kuby said.
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Terror Probe Puts U.S. Mass Transit Systems on Alert:
A 24-year-old Afghan man at the center of an unfolding FBI investigation into a possible U.S. terrorism cell was ordered held without bond in Colorado Monday as authorities raced to learn more about an alleged plot using hydrogen peroxide explosives and who else might have been helping to carry it out.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092201113.html
Battle Looms Over the Patriot Act:
Both the House and the Senate are set to hold their first committee hearings this week on whether to reauthorize three sections of the Patriot Act that expire at the end of this year. The provisions expanded the power of the F.B.I. to seize records and to eavesdrop on phone calls in the course of a counterterrorism investigation.
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/us/politics/20patriot.html?hpw
Obama the impotent
The disappointment with Barack Obama is tangible – on climate change and financial reform Europe leads while the US lags
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Big Dem Donor Indicted:
Federal prosecutors have accused a major Democratic fundraiser with ties to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that involved swindling several major banks out of hundreds of millions of dollars, and using some of the proceeds to fund political candidates and PACs.
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Obama: We Need To Bail Out Newspapers :
Obama yesterday expressed concern at the sorry state of the news industry and said that he will look at a news paper bailout, because otherwise, blogs will take over the world, and that would be a threat to democracy, The Hill reports.
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Federal Reserve rejects request for public review:
The Federal Reserve Bank will not submit to a voluntary public study of its internal structure and methods of governance, as it was requested to do so by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/fed-
rejects-geithner-request-for-public-review/
Gold climbs toward 18-month high; eyes on Fed:
Gold climbed 1.5 percent to trade within striking distance of recent 18-month highs on Tuesday, supported by a broadly weaker dollar, as investors focused on the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates.
www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE58K2XR20090922
10 Big Companies That Are Veering Toward Bankruptcy:
A new report by Audit Integrity identifies some high-profile names “that have the highest probability of declaring bankruptcy among publicly traded firms.”
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California Joblessness Reaches 70-Year High:
California’s unemployment rate in August hit its highest point in nearly 70 years, starkly underscoring how the nation’s incipient economic recovery continues to elude millions of Americans looking for work.
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/19calif.html?_r=2
IRS to Audit 6,000 Companies:
The Treasury Department in 2005 estimated, based on the 1984 IRS data, that companies underpay employer taxes by about $14 billion annually.
taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/
09/irs-to-audit-6000-companies.html