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: 4,666
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,429
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$687,752,003,520
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$228,204,281,888
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Obama Agrees to Keep Israel’s Nukes Secret
By Eli Lake
President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23614.htm
US Lawmakers Vote to Punish Iran’s Fuel Suppliers
By Tom Doggett
As Washington and Tehran began talks over Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. lawmakers approved legislation to bar foreign companies exporting gasoline to Iran from also delivering crude oil to America’s emergency petroleum stockpile.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23611.htm
Bitter Fruits of Mideast Wars
The sanctions road appears headed for dead end, or war.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
“Smart sanctions” that punish Iran’s leaders are not going to persuade them to give up a nuclear program for which they have already suffered and sacrificed greatly. And a cutoff of gasoline to Iran would hit hardest not the Revolutionary Guard but Iran’s middle class, which tends to be anti-regime and pro-Western.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23612.htm
A Third Intifada Coming, says Boyle
By The Canadian Charger
The only kind of Palestine Israel wants is a Bantustan with virtually no power, like an Indian reservation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23616.htm
A Fundamental Jewish Value.
Interview with Judge Richard Goldstone
By Rabbi Michael Lerner
I wasn’t prepared for the stories that were told by witnesses we considered to be credible. As to the way the Israeli Army treated them. I felt a great deal of shame and embarrassment particularly as a Jew, but also as a human being.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23619.htm
Demystifying Zionism
By Yakov M Rabkin
Zionism has been a rebellion against traditional Judaism and its cult of humility and appeasement. It has been a valiant attempt to transform the meek pious Jew relying on divine providence into an intrepid secular Hebrew relying on his own power. This transformation has been an impressive success.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23617.htm
Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl: 94 Days In Captivity:
Captured U.S. Soldier Forgotten By Main Stream Media
By Tony Evens
Family, friends await news about soldier. Army is tight-lipped about Bowe Bergdahl’s status.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23613.htm
Unemployment Rate is Highest in 26 Years
By Kevin G. Hall
The nation’s unemployment rate ticked up to 9.8 percent in September, its highest level in 26 years, as employers hastened their pace of layoffs, the government reported Friday in a worse-than-expected jobs report that was sure to quash any notion that the economic downturn is over.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23615.htm
The Truth About The Economy
Video Interview
Marc Faber and Nouriel Roubini.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23620.htm
If The Russians Did This To Us, We’d Kill ‘Em
By David Michael Green
This country is being looted, and everything in it that isn’t nailed down is being carted away and sold off.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23618.htm
Pakistan kills 27 militants: military:
Pakistani forces on Friday killed 27 alleged militants in the lawless northwest Khyber district, the paramilitary Frontier Corps said.
snipurl.com/sadkp
Explosions kill 26 people, wound over 20 in Pakistan:
Security forces were carrying out an operation against local militants in Bajaur tribal agency when a mortar shell hit a house in Sharif Khana area, said security sources. They said the explosion killed six people of the same family, including two women, and wounded four others.
snipurl.com/saef5
Video shows ‘Pakistan army abuse’:
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said in an August report it had received “credible reports of numerous extrajudicial killings and reprisals carried out by security forces” in the Swat Valley since the area was retaken from Taliban control in July.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/200910210157315238.html
Three US occupation troops killed in Afghanistan:
Three American occupation troops have died in two separate incidents in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107663§ionid=351020403
British Airman Killed During Afghan Patrol::
The serviceman, from 34 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment, died after the blast hit a patrol in central Helmand Province.
snipurl.com/saefr
McChrystal warns Taliban is growing:
Delivering what he called an honest assessment of the eight-year-old conflict, McChyrstal said the situation was serious and time was running out.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/10/2009101204326550773.html
Congressman: Generals may quit if Obama stays pat in Afghanistan:
A conservative congressman said on Thursday that top generals may resign or retire early if President Barack Obama does not make a significant changes to the military’s Afghan strategy.
snipurl.com/saega
US occupation force soldier killed in mortar attack in Iraq:
The military says the U.S. occupation force soldier was killed Thursday at the base on the western edge of the Iraqi capital.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091002/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_us_casualties
Relief worker from US charity killed in DR Congo:
Attackers killed a worker for an US relief group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and another was kidnapped, the United Nations said on Friday.
snipurl.com/saegs
Iran agrees to more nuclear checks:
Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, told reporters after the talks that Iran had agreed to “co-operate fully and immediately with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] on the new enrichment facility … and will invite the agency – the experts from the agency – to visit the facility soon”.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/10/2009101171646951553.html
PLO Sells Out :
Vote on UN report on Gaza deferred:
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has supported a decision to defer a vote on the UN-sanctioned report on the Gaza war until next March. The Palestinian delegation has also told Al Jazeera that there is a realisation that current attempts to renew negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians would held at this stage.be severely impacted by an insistence that the vote be deferred:
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/10/200910224162409.html
Israel trying to dodge overseas prosecution:
Stung by a damning U.N. report alleging war crimes in Gaza, Israel is taking extraordinary steps to fend off potential international prosecution of its political and military leaders, hiring high-powered attorneys, lobbying Western governments and launching a public relations blitz.
snipurl.com/saehg
Tape shows Shalit ‘safe and well’:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the road to Sgt Shalit’s release would be “long and difficult”, but “the knowledge that he is safe and well should encourage us all”.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8286206.stm
Gilad Shalit video /
Footage with full English transcript
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1118449.html
Pentagon sees U.S. “defense” in 2010 for Iran rockets: :
Pentagon officials cited a new intelligence estimate, completed in May, that deemed Tehran unlikely to have a long-range missile until between 2015 and 2020.
ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091001/us/politics_us_usa_shield_iran
Honduras de facto leader meets with U.S. lawmakers: –
Honduran de facto President Roberto Micheletti met on Friday with a delegation of U.S. lawmakers who have called on the Obama administration to stop supporting the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091002/ts_nm/us_honduras
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House votes against bringing Gitmo detainees to US:
The House went on record Thursday against allowing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to be transferred to the United States, even to face trial or to be jailed in maximum-security prisons.
snipurl.com/saei9
Prosecutor: Italy kidnapping too grave to cover up:
The kidnapping of a terror suspect is too grave a crime to be covered up just to protect government secrets, a prosecutor declared Wednesday in the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians charged in the abduction of an Egyptian cleric.
snipurl.com/saeih
Italian Prosecutor Urges Prison for Americans in CIA Case:
An Italian prosecutor has urged a court in Milan to convict and sentence 26 U.S. intelligence operatives to prison terms of up to 13 years for their suspected roles in the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric.
www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-30-voa50.cfm
Judge orders partial release of Cheney CIA leak interview:
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to release notes and summaries of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s 2004 interview with Special Prosecutor Pat Fitzgerald in the CIA leak case, but is allowing the deletion of what may be some of the most interesting details in the documents.
snipurl.com/saejd
Ron Paul Warns of Violence from Pending Dollar Crisis;
Says Israel Strike on Iran the Trigger
www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20091001105703.aspx
IMF warns that banks have yet to reveal half their likely losses:
BANKS AROUND the world still have to reveal about half their likely losses resulting from the financial and economic crisis, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday, warning there was still a “significant” risk of another downward lurch in the global recession.
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/1001/1224255613222.html
Banks With 20% Unpaid Loans at 18-Year High Amid Recovery Doubt:
The number of U.S. lenders that can’t collect on at least 20 percent of their loans hit an 18-year high, signaling that more bank failures and losses could slow an economic recovery
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXZinRhF5tlA
Michigan government shuts down, but does anyone notice?:
The state of Michigan officially is having a 22-hour workday today, and lawmakers there are pretty exhausted after spending all night trying to overcome their budget standoff.
snipurl.com/saekj
We’re broke … time for a new tax:
Given the country’s fiscal hole, former Fed chair Paul Volcker and many tax experts say there may be a need for a value-added tax.
money.cnn.com/2009/10/01/news/economy/new_tax_needed/index.htm
U.S. Factory Orders Plunge Unexpectedly in August:
New orders to U.S. factories fell in August by the largest amount in five months, as American manufacturers struggle to emerge from the recession.
www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/02/
factory-orders-plunge-unexpectedly-august/
U.S. loses 263,000 jobs in September:
The United States lost 263,000 jobs in the month of September and unemployment continued to trend upward to 9.8 percent, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics.
dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2009/09/28/daily48.html
InkStop Closes All Stores, Workers Stunned:
No paycheck, no health insurance and no job! That’s exactly what all InkStop employees are suddenly dealing with. The company has closed all InkStop stores nationwide, which includes 23 stores in Michigan.
snipurl.com/saels