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:4,675
icasualties.org/oif/
Number OfInternational Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,512
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$698,409,256,400
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$231,099,283,474
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US Owned by Its Army
By William Pfaf
It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a political crisis in which the issue has become an undeclared contest between Pentagon power and that of a newly elected president.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23916.htm
US Generals Flood Israel for Exercise against ‘Specific Threats’
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
An unprecedented number of American generals, along with 1,400 U.S. army soldiers, are participating with top IDF brass in the high-level Juniper Cobra military exercise that one U.S. Navy commander said is aimed at “specific threats.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23920.htm
Lies, War, and Empire
By Dr. Michael Parenti
Parenti speaks about lies, dissent, and how we arrive at the truth of our situation and still retain our sanity. He raises the question whether the Iraq war was not a failure but a success for some parts of the empire – and why.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23923.htm
Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%
By DAVID LEONHARDT
In all, more than one out of every six workers – 17.5 percent – were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23919.htm
The Coming U.S. Budget Attack
By Shamus Cooke
The United States is moving backwards…fast.State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make matters worse, all of this is occurring when the loss of jobs stands at a twenty-six year high with no end in sight.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23921.htm
Memo to Obama:
“For God Sakes, strap on a pair and get to it”
By Mike Whitney
This is bad. 10.2% unemployment. 16 million people out of work. Payrolls have been slashed 22 months in a row. The real jobless rate is now 17.5%. These are Great Depression numbers. Unemployment benefits have been extended, but policymakers still resist jobs programs. Why? Why no federal work programs? Why no WPA?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23917.htm
Congress Is Teeming With Millionaires
Apparently, times aren’t so tough all over.
By David Knowles
According to a new study compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, 237 members of the U.S. Congress, or 44 percent, are millionaires.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23918.htm
Why I Voted NO
By Dennis Kucinich
We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23922.htm
Pakistan: 20 “Taleban” killed in offensive:
The military provides the only regular information coming from the frontlines. None of the details can be verified because communication lines are down and journalists and aid workers barred from the area.
www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_451815.html
Suicide bombing kills 15 including mayor in Pakistani city:
Sources said that a suicide bomber, in his early 20s, blew himself up near the Mayor, adding it was “a targeted killing.
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17 “rebels” killed in ‘fierce’ Afghan battle: ministry:
Afghan troops and NATO war jets pounded “insurgents” during a “fierce battle” in southern Afghanistan, killing 17 rebels, the defence ministry said on Sunday.
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US Attack kills 20 including 12 civillians:
The district’s mayor, Abdul Shukor, put the death toll at 20 — six Afghan soldiers, two policemen and 12 civilians.
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Two British occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
Hours earlier, it had announced that a soldier with 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, had been killed on Saturday afternoon in a blast in the same area of Helmand, where most of Britain’s 9,000 troops are based.
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Afghan insurgents learn to destroy key U.S. armored vehicle:
Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forces the best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly large explosive charges and rocket-propelled grenades, according to U.S. soldiers and defense officials.
www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/78443.html
U.S. Gen. Casey says more troops needed for occupation of Afghanistan:
“I believe that we need to put additional forces into Afghanistan to give General McChrystal the ability to both dampen the successes of the Taliban while we train the Afghan civilian forces,” Gen. Casey said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2199215
Obama likely to send 34,000 new troops to Afghanistan:
Combat troops would be drawn from four Army brigades and one Marine brigade, and they would be joined by 7,000 support troops to man the command center in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan —so this would make it 40,000 (or 41,000, to be precise).
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Afghanistan: more troops may not be the answer, says Obama adviser:
“You can keep on putting troops in, and you could have 200,000 troops there and Afghanistan will swallow them up as it has done in the past,” he said, according to comments published by the magazine’s website in English and German.
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7 Killed in Saudi border battle:
Saudi forces battled Yemeni rebels for a fifth straight day on Saturday as medics said seven Saudis and an unknown number of rebels had been killed.
www.godubai.com/gulftoday/article.asp?AID=45&Section=Middle
Fighter jet down near Yemen border:
Yemen’s Al Houthi rebels, who are engaged in battles with government troops and Saudi forces, claimed that they had shot down the aircraft
gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia
/fighter-jet-down-near-yemen-border-1.524863
Saudis claim gains, Yemen rebels deny it:
The rebels yesterday denied they had lost control of Jabal Dukhan and said the kingdom’s offensive was continuing, with Yemeni villages the target of heavy bombing.
snipurl.com/t57if
Iraq approves 2010 election law: parliament: –
Iraqi MPs on Sunday approved a law to govern the country’s general election due in early 2010, paving the way to agree a date for the vote, said the parliament’s vice president.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091108/wl_mideast_afp/iraqpoliticsvote
Iran ‘proposes’ two-staged uranium exchange:
Diplomats closed to nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West say the country seeks a two-staged, simultaneous exchange of enriched uranium with potential suppliers.
presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110757§ionid=351020104
Medvedev Says Russia May Back Sanctions on Iran if Deal Falls Apart;
President Dmitri A. Medvedev said Russia might back sanctions against Iran if the Iranians did not take a “constructive position” on an international plan to temporarily diminish their stockpile of enriched uranium.
www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/world
/middleeast/08iran.html?_r=1&ref=world
Iran calls on Russia to keep word on missile defence system:
Russia should keep its word on selling a missile defence system to Iran, an influential parliamentarian was quoted by Iranian media as saying on Sunday.
www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=49659
Former US Embassy hostage handed Iran post:
The United States has appointed veteran diplomat John Limbert, who was held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, as its senior Iran official at the State Department.
presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110764§ionid=3510203
Hezbollah gears up for new war:
Hezbollah is rapidly rearming in preparation for a new conflict with Israel, fearing that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will attack Lebanon again prior to any assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/08/hezbollah-rearms-against-israel
Abbas admits failure of the peace process:
Mahmoud Abbas, the beleaguered head of the Palestinian Authority, has finally but belatedly admitted that the so-called Peace process with Israel has completely failed and that the Palestinian people will have to seek an alternative to it.
snipurl.com/t57it
Fatah considers reverting to popular warfare:
Following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ announcement that he would not run for another term, a senior Fatah official told Ynet that if serious progress was not made soon in peace talks, the organization would consider reverting to popular warfare.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3801496,00.html
PM heads to U.S. under threat of Palestinian statehood declaration:
Concerns are growing in Israel’s government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126594.html
Israeli lawmaker floats idea of talks with Hamas:
A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan Sunday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5A71N420091108?rpc=401&
Norway drops war crimes case against Israel:
Chief prosecutor Siri Frigaard said last Friday that she is dismissing the complaint because “there is no good reason” for Norwegian authorities to investigate further and Norway should be judicious in deciding when to investigate alleged war crimes by individuals with no connection to the country.
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US Senators Act to Force Recognition of Jerusalem as Capital:
Seven United States senators have sponsored a bill that would abolish the “security” waiver that American presidents have used to prevent implementing a 1995 law declaring that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134275
Germans press for removal of US nuclear weapons in Europe:
Pressure is growing within Nato for the removal of the remaining US nuclear weapons on European soil, and for a new doctrine for the alliance that would depend less on nuclear deterrence.
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Fiji expels Australian and New Zealand diplomats:
Tensions between Fiji and the two South West Pacific regional powers, Australia and New Zealand, intensified further this week after Suva expelled two top diplomats for interfering in the country’s internal affairs.
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/fiji-n07.shtml
Chavez tells troops to ready for war with Colombia:
President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela’s military on Sunday to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying the country’s soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-11-08-chavez-war-warning_N.htm
Killing of Venezuelan troops exacerbates Colombia-Venezuela tensions:
Venezuelan officials claimed that a plot involving Bogotá and Washington is under way to destabilize Venezuela by igniting violence on the border with Colombia and in major towns in Venezuela
english.eluniversal.com/2009/11/06/en_
ing_esp_killing-of-venezuela_06A3013731.shtml
Honduras’ attorney general escapes unharmed after gunmen open fire on his convoy:
After the June coup, it was Rubi who filed criminal charges against ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
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Fort Hood: Focus turns to internet link:
Computers belonging to army major examined as chief of staff warns against anti-Muslim backlash
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Army general warns of anti-Muslim ‘backlash’:
US army chief of staff George Casey has warned deadly shootings at Fort Hood could prompt a backlash against Muslim soldiers, undermining diversity needed to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26323455-5005361,00.html
Demonizing Muslims:
Fort Hood shooting:
Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists: Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.
snipurl.com/t57jm
Gold rallies on India buy, hits $1,100 mark:
Gold prices struck a series of record highs this week, eventually spiking above $1,100 for the first time, as Asian central banks snapped up the precious metal as an alternative to the dollar.
www.arabtimesonline.com/kuwait
news/pagesdetails.asp?nid=39032&ccid=12
Five more banks fail – 120 for the year:
Banks in California, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri were shuttered, costing the FDIC a total of $1.5 billion.
snipurl.com/t57jt
Fannie Mae to allow borrowers in foreclosure to lease back homes:
The mortgage giant’s move is part of an attempt by lenders to keep a wave of foreclosed properties from slamming a housing market that has shown some signs of recovery.
snipurl.com/t57ju