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: 4,667
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,446
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$689,451,723,581
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$228,666,011,141
The cost in your community
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Genocide Forgotten:
Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey
By Robert Fisk
A new trade deal is set to gloss over the murder of 1.5 million people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23675.htm
War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity And Genocide In Iraq
Legal Case Filed Against 4 U.S. Presidents and 4 UK Prime Ministers
By The Brussels Tribunal
Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain’s laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, ahead of the change of law, a legal case was filed at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and four United Kingdom prime ministers for commissioning, condoning and/or perpetuating multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Iraq.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23671.htm
Tortured Law
10 Minute Video Documentary
Tortured Law, examines the role lawyers played in authorizing torture, and calls upon Attorney General Holder to conduct a full investigation of not only the CIA operatives, but of the torture memo authors.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23666.htm
FBI Tries to Deport Muslim Man for Refusing to be an Informant
By Trevor Aaronson
After Imam Foad Farahi declined to become a federal informant, the government tried to destroy him.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23670.htm
Gore Vidal’s United States of Fury
By Johann Hari
He says, it is clear the American experiment has been “a failure”. It was all for nothing. Soon the country will be ranked “somewhere between Brazil and Argentina, where it belongs.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23668.htm
Health Care Reform
Saving American Lives
Keith Olbermann Special Comment
Death is the issue! How can we not be unified against death? I want my government helping my father to fight death! I want my government to spend taxpayer money to help my father fight to live and I want my government to spend taxpayer money to help your father fight to live! I want it to spend my money first on fighting death. Not on war! Not on banks! Not on high speed rail!
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23672.htm
What’s Changed in Washington?
By Laura Flanders
Think things have changed in Washington? You might be surprised by a quick review of today’s headlines.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23673.htm
Falk: The PA Betrayed Its People
By The Palestinian Information Center
Richard Falk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that that the Palestinian authority (PA) in Ramallah betrayed its own people at a moment when the international community was so close to endorse Goldstone’s report accusing Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23674.htm
Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages
By Rachel Weiner
Lo and behold, the Bible has gotten too liberal, according to a group of conservatives. And it needs a little editing. That’s the inspiration behind the Conservative Bible Project, which seeks to take the text back to its supposed right-wing roots.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23669.htm
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Sand Animation
Video.
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27 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan:
Afghan and NATO-led forces killed at least 27 Taliban militants in separate clashes in the south of the country without loss, the Afghan defence ministry said Thursday in a statement.
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17 killed in blast outside Indian Embassy in Afghanistan:
A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the bustling center of the Afghan capital Thursday, killing 17 people in the second major attack in the city in less than a month. The Afghan Foreign Ministry hinted at Pakistani involvement – a charge Pakistan denied.
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Al-Qaida showing smaller presence in Afghanistan:
The group is left with fewer than 100 core fighters, according to the Obama administration, likely operating small-scale bomb-making and tactics classes conducted by trainers who travel to and from Pakistan.
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Taliban Claim to Raise a Flag Over Nuristan:
The propaganda battle continues four days after a deadly attack on two American military bases in the Afghan province of Nuristan left eight American and four Afghan soldiers dead.
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American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplains:
American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taleban.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6865359.ece
Opposition says US aid package will enslave Pakistan:
Pakistan’s opposition has expressed concerns about a US aid package that would provide the country with 7.5 billion US dollars over the next five years.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108118§ionid=351020401
Five killed in Iraq bombings:
Five people were killed, including two policemen, and 13 others wounded in two attacks in Iraq on Thursday, police officials said.
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Iraqi security forces strain budget, PM says:
Iraq’s government payroll has become so heavy with soldiers and police that it’s now hindering reconstruction, Iraq’s prime minister warned Wednesday, raising the possibility of security force cutbacks just as U.S. combat troops are pulling out.
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CIA: Israel helped expose “covert” Iran nuclear facility:
Israeli intelligence was involved in editing and creating the sanitized version of information about Iran’s recently revealed secret uranium enrichment facility near Qom.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1119615.html
Arabs Seek International Court Action on Israel’s Gaza War Crimes:
Arab nations will press the United Nations Security Council to refer allegations of Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip to the International Criminal Court
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Libya war report request denied:
At a closed door session, the UN Security Council decided against an emergency session, but voted to bring forward its monthly meeting on the Middle East by six days, to October 14.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/10/200910854824709578.html
Abbas backs down on Gaza report:
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has reversed a decision not to endorse a United Nations report highly critical of Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war.
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Informed sources: Abbas advised not to return to Ramallah:
According to Quds Press, the sources said that political and security advisors to Abbas asked him not to return to Ramallah and continue with his regional and European trip through setting a long program of visits until the popular fury is absorbed.
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Avigdor Lieberman: No Chance For Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal:
President Barack Obama’s Mideast envoy finds himself increasingly hamstrung, with Israel’s foreign minister on Thursday all but ruling out a peace deal for years to come and the Palestinian leader weakened by his decision not to push for a Gaza war crimes tribunal against Israel.
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Settler leader: Obama, keep your hands off Israel:
Some 3,000 members of Likud, as well as thousands of right-wing supporters gathered on Wednesday in the Samaria National Park in the northern West Bank, to voice their support for further construction in the settlements.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1119470.html
Israeli’s bid to buy Al-Jazeera from Qatar:
The Egyptian newspaper al-Mesryoon reported Wednesday that the Israeli billionaire is currently engaged in negotiations with Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, over the partial purchase of the media outlet. The talks are said to be conducted through an Egyptian mediator.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108169§ionid=351020202
Report: EU to sign partnership deal with Syria:
A senior Israeli source later voiced displeasure with the report, saying: “Israel does not like this, and we have sent messages opposing it to the Europeans.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1119774.html
Houthis capture town in northern Yemen:
The Shia Houthi combatants have taken control over a district bordering Saudi Arabia, as the military confrontation between Yemeni government and the northern fighters rages on.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108177§ionid=351020206
Japan threatens to kick out US troops:
Japan is threatening to ask US troops based on the island of Okinawa to leave the country amid growing resentment over crime.
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Egyptian imam seeks $10 million in CIA renditions trial:
Twenty-six Americans, all but one believed to be CIA agents, face between 10 and 13 years in jail for kidnapping, but are being tried in absentia. The United States has ruled out extraditing them, so any conviction would be purely symbolic.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5964FC20091007
Posada Carriles: When Is A Terrorist Not A Terrorist? When He Is Our “Freedom Fighter”:
On the 33rd anniversary of the bombing of Cubana flight 455, the National Security Archive today posted recently obtained CIA records on Luis Posada Carriles, his ties to “the Company” and role as an informant on other violent exile groupsPosada Carriles:
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB288/index.htm
Asian Central Banks Intervene as Dollar Tumbles:
The U.S. dollar continued to tumble against most Asian currencies Thursday, prompting a wave of foreign-exchange intervention by central banks in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand seeking to limit damage to their export industries.
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Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009:
The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, congressional analysts said Wednesday.
www.nbc26.com/Global/story.asp?S=11276306
Treasuries Fall After Weaker-Than-Forecast Demand at Bond Sale:
Treasuries declined after the government’s $12 billion auction of 30-year bonds drew weaker- than-forecast demand.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aoRzFRtXIRdA
34 banks don’t pay their quarterly TARP dividends:
In a sign that more banks are under great pressure from the recession, 34 financial institutions did not pay their quarterly dividends in August to the Treasury on funds obtained under the Troubled Asset Relief Fund (TARP). The number almost doubled from 19 in May when payments were last made, and also raised questions about Treasury’s judgment in approving these banks as “healthy,”
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Fed Ratchets Up Warnings on Commercial Real Estate Debt:
Two officials from the U.S. Federal Reserve issued strong signals this week that the central bank is very concerned over the banking industry’s exposure to commercial real estate loans and considers it to be a major stumbling block to the road to economic recovery.
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Bankruptcy Filings Spiking: Chapter 7 Booming :
It is interesting what passes for good news in today’s market. For example, Alcoa announced a profit for the third quarter. Good news right? Well if you look into the details the company has cut 18,000 jobs in the 12 months ending on June 30th and also planned on cutting an additional $2.4 billion in costs. In this economic crisis people need to look at the details before assuming something is just good news.
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