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 : 1,453
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$690,918,774,753
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$229,064,535,850
The cost in your community
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$600 Billion And
10 More Years of War in Afghanistan : McCaffrey:
By Thomas R. Eddlem
The U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Barry McCaffrey told MSNBC's Meet the Press Sunday that the United States faces 10 more years of war in Afghanistan.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23706.htm
New York Times Columnist
Thomas Friedman Glorifies American Militarism
By Patrick Martin
In the Sunday edition of the New York Times, the newspaper's chief commentator on foreign affairs, Thomas L. Friedman, devotes his entire column to a grotesque celebration of the role of the American military, presenting its operations, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq, as humanitarian and liberating.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23712.htm
Humanitarian Law Applies to All
By Tammy Obeidallah
Sharing military technology with a nation that is known to use such technology against civilians is against international law; yet human rights take a back seat to the promise of job opportunities and economic growth at the expense of people half a world away.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23707.htm
“The UN Has Failed” D'Escoto:
By Real News
Outgoing General Assembly prez says most powerful are to blame for UN failure to address war and poverty.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23710.htm
Take America Back From the Banks
By Dean Baker
Reining in the financial industry's power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23717.htm
Student Loans are the New Indentured Servitude
By Mike Konczal
The prevalence of this debt, especially among the young and the poor/working classes, the transformation from a rounding error amount to a significant burden amount over the past 30 years, the length of term, the idea of mobility and “transport” to a job, debt secured not by property but by personhood, and limited legal recourse.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23711.htm
One Nation, Under Illusion
By Neal Gabler
We've been living in a fool's paradise. The result may be a government that is as good as the American people, which is something that should concern everyone.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23719.htm
We're Headed for Hooverville?
By Ted Rall
When Bush flew home to Texas, we thought we were getting an FDR to replace a Hoover. Instead, we got another Hoover.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23713.htm
Charge Of The Beckerheads…
By Sheila Samples
I didn't know Van Jones. I didn't know Van Jones was a friend of mine — at least not until the stench billowing from the Fox Hate Channel became so foul I was forced to take a closer look at this terrifying creature. No — not Jones, whom President Obama wisely had hired as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality — but the sobbing, lying, deliriously insane Glenn Beck.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23709.htm
Read It Here
Censored From the Independent's Website
Toxic Shame: Thousands injured in African city,
The PDF presents a copy of an article originally published in UK newspaper The Independent, but censored from the Independent's website. The copy has been taken from Google cache.The file is of special interest in light of a gag order obtained by Trafigura via their lawyers Carter-Ruck against the Guardian, and subsequent legal threats by Trafigura against a Norwegian newspaper for reporting on the issue.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23716.htm
Dirty Tricks and Toxic Waste in Ivory Coast
By Meirion Jones and Liz MacKean
It is the biggest toxic dumping scandal of the 21st century, the type of environmental vandalism that international treaties are supposed to prevent. Now Newsnight can reveal the truth about the waste that was illegally tipped on Ivory Coast's biggest city, Abidjan. A giant multinational is being sued in London's High Court by thousands of Africans who claim they were injured as a result.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23715.htm
Latin America's Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective
By James Petras
The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23708.htm
Indigenous People Across Latin America Protest Spanish 'Genocide'
By Agence France-Presse
Tens of thousands of indigenous people took to the streets across Latin America on Monday to protest the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's 1492 discovery of the Americas.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23718.htm
Where Is The Gold?
Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress
By Howard Zinn
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23714.htm
26 killed as Pak jets bomb “militants” near Afghanistan border:
Pakistani jets bombed militant targets in the main insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border Tuesday ahead of an expected ground offensive there, while the Army killed 26 insurgents elsewhere in the northwest, authorities said.
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Pakistan: 21 Taliban killed in Bajaur, Waziristan:
At least 15 Taliban were killed and 16 others injured after security forces launched 'Operation Sherdil' in Mamoond and Salarzai tehsils of Bajaur Agency on Monday, said sources, as jets bombed Taliban positions in South Waziristan – killing six Taliban
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page
=2009\10\13\story_13-10-2009_pg1_2
Taliban claim NW Pakistan blast that killed 45:
The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing carried out by a teenage boy in northwest Shangla district, which killed 45 people at a busy market.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091013/wl_
afp/pakistanunrestnorthwesttaliban
Unknown militants gun down nationalist leader in SW Pakistan:
As the tension in Pakistan's largest of the four provinces is increasing, a local nationalist leader was gunned down by unknown militants on Tuesday, said police.
snipurl.com/shzhr
Obama 'approved 13,000 more troops' to Afghanistan: –
President Barack Obama has approved the deployment of an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091013/pl_afp/usafghanistanmilitarytroops
Russia must prepare for NATO defeat in Afghanistan, ambassador says:
NATO is facing defeat in Afghanistan, and Russia and the states of Central Asia must be ready to pick up the pieces, Russia's ambassador to NATO said Tuesday.
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Afghan vote fraud 'significant': UN envoy:
The UN special representative to Afghanistan acknowledged Sunday for the first time that the country's presidential election had been tainted by “significant” and “widespread” fraud.
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Charge of widespread vote fraud 'totally fabricated': Karzai:
“But the election was good and fair and worthy of praise, not of scorn, which the election received from the international media.”
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40% of Afghan aid 'never arrives':
The United Nations was presiding over an unco-ordinated and unmanaged mess, said Dr Cordesman, who has advised the Obama Administration and the US military extensively on Afghanistan and Pakistan as they plan a new strategy to defeat the insurgency. ''This is a major problem,'' he said.
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Police: Suicide Bomber Kills 8 in Northern Baghdad:
A suicide bomber killed the leader of a U.S.-backed Sunni paramilitary group and seven others north of Baghdad Tuesday, the third attack in as many days in a heavily populated Sunni area, a police official said.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,565540,00.html
Suicide Bomber Kills Six in Iraq's Diyala Province:
A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 10 on Tuesday in a town just south of Baquba in Iraq's restive Diyala province, police said.
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8816530
Bombing in Kirkuk kills 2, wounds others:
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others were injured on Tuesday in an army patrol bomb explosion in Kirkuk, northern Iraq.
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Russia Resists U.S. Position on Sanctions for Iran:
Threatening Iran with harsh new sanctions to advance negotiations over its nuclear program would be “counterproductive,” Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday, throwing cold water on the Obama administration's hopes that Russia had been persuaded to cooperate with its effort to intensify the global pressure on Tehran.
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Fatah memo: We lost hope in Obama for caving to Zionist pressure:
Fatah has said that all hopes in the Obama administration have evaporated, accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120747.html
George Mitchell opposes Palestinian unity:
US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, told head of Egyptian Intelligence, Omar Suleiman on Saturday that the proposed plan to settle differences between Fatah and Hamas undermines Palestinian negotiations with Israel and must be stopped, reported Tuesday.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108542§ionid=351020202
UN rights body ready to debate Goldstone probe:
The United Nations Human Rights Council will reopen a debate about alleged war crimes in Gaza later this week, officials said Tuesday, after Palestinians succeeded in gathering enough support to call a special meeting.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120776.html
War crimes immunity for Gaza push: Israeli PM:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday never to allow his country's leaders or soldiers to stand trial for war crimes over their actions during last winter's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/12/israel-netanyahu012.html
Abbas says Hamas leaders fled to Sinai during Israeli war on Gaza:
'I will say it for the first time,' he said during a speech in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The leaders of Hamas escaped in ambulances to the Sinai and left our people to be slaughtered.'
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Hamas assails Egypt over Palestinian's jail death:
Hamas accused Egypt on Tuesday of torturing to death a member of the Palestinian Islamist faction who had been held in one of its jails, a charge that could sour Cairo's mediation of Middle East reconciliation deals.
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Honduran abuses rampant after coup: rights groups:
Suspicious deaths. Beatings. Random police shootings. Life under the de facto government of Honduras at times feels uncannily like Latin America's dark past of military rule.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091013/ts_nm/us_honduras_rights
UK: Guardian gagged from reporting parliament:
The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.
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UK: Airport passengers to have 'naked' photos taken by full-body X-ray machine:
The full body scanner, being trialled at Manchester Airport, will also show up any breast enlargements, false limbs, piercings, and a clear outline of passengers' private parts.
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Senate Finance Panel Passes Obama's $829 Billion Health Plan:
Just one Republican on the panel, Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, voted for the measure in an otherwise party-line 14-9 tally. That marked the first time a Republican in either the Democratic-controlled Senate or House has supported the revamp legislation, President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a5TNXkq.9qaA
Goldman Sachs 2009 bonuses to double 2008's; :
Yesterday, we brought you the insurance company that wouldn't insure a 17-pound infant because he was too heavy. Today, we bring you the investment bank that manages to double its bonuses during the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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Utah bankruptcies soar 62 percent over first nine months of 2009:
Bankruptcy filings nationally surged past the 1 million mark during the first nine months of 2009. It was the first time that seven-figure number has been hit in any nine-month period since the overhaul of the nation's bankruptcy laws in October 2005
www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13546100