Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,366,350"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,692
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,608
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$954,273,785,856
www.costofwar.com/
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Obama Ignores Key Afghan Warning
By Ray McGovern
Although Obama is not as dumb as his predecessor, he is no less willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for political gain.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24524.htm
CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding
A study in “enhanced reporting techniques.”
By Jeff Stein
He claims that the disinformation he helped spread was a CIA dirty trick: “In retrospect, it was a valuable lesson in how the CIA uses the fine arts of deception even among its own.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24525.htm
An Illegal War is State-Terrorism
By Yamin Zakaria
The war had no mandate from the UN Security Council; it was a unilateral and barbaric act of aggression by the Anglo-US regime. Without a legal backing – the invasion was state terrorism dispensed to the innocent civilians of Iraq.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24527.htm
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Senators Seek ‘Crippling’ Iran Sanctions
By Eric Zimmermann
We abhor the possibility that military action may be necessary to solve this problem. But we have no doubt that a nuclear-armed Iran will be catastrophic for our national security and the rule-based international order.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24526.htm
Does Israel Use The Holocaust As A Blackmail Weapon?
Video
Norman Finkelstein and Israel W. Charny discuss the issue in a heated debate.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24522.htm
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Remembering Howard Zinn
By Alison Flood
Howard Zinn, US historian and activist, dies aged 87.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24523.htm
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Up to 20 “insurgents” killed in Afghan clash: NATO:
Afghan and NATO occupation forces called in air support after coming under attack from a “large number” of militants in northern Afghanistan and killed up to 20 “insurgents”, officials said Thursday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100128/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest
US occupation troops shoot and kill Afghan cleric near Kabul:
A U.S. soldiers shot and killed an Afghan cleric as he drove Thursday with his young son near an American base on the eastern edge of occupied Kabul.
snipurl.com/u7r57
Bomb kills US occupation force soldier in Afghanistan:
A homemade bomb killed a US soldier in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, as Afghan leaders and Western backers met in London to map the future of the troubled nation.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100128/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestus
Karzai seeks Afghan reconciliation:
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its “disenchanted brothers” in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged nation.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/01/2010128103035686848.html
Four killed, 10 injured in bomb blast in SW Pakistan:
A bomb blast in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province killed at least four people and injured 10 others on Thursday, police said.
english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6882021.html
Filipino militant not killed in Waziristan strike: report:
The Philippine military doubts reports that a Filipino terror suspect was killed in a US missile attack in Pakistan, with one senior officer telling The Associated Press Thursday that the militant was sighted last week in the Philippines’ volatile south.
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At least four killed, 15 injured in north Iraq bombings:
At least four people were killed and 15 injured on Thursday in bomb attacks across northern Iraq, police told the German Press Agency dpa.
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UK: Met police ‘hamper’ planned protests against Tony Blair:
Anti-war campaigners planning to protest when Tony Blair appears before the Iraq inquiry on Friday said today they had been barred from going near the building where he is giving evidence
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/26/tony-blair-chilcot-inquiry-protest
Thousands will protest at Tony Blair’s Iraq inquiry appearance:
Lindsey German, co-ordinator of the Stop the War Coalition, said: “We are calling on everyone who opposes Britain’s foreign wars to do their best to be there.”
stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1715/27/
‘ Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Iran, Nazi Germany must be compared’:
Comparisons between contemporary Iran and Nazi Germany are not only appropriate, but pertinent and true, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said while on a visit to Hungary on the morning of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=166973
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Netanyahu at Auschwitz: World must unite to confront new threats:
In what was apparently a thinly veiled reference to Iran, Netanyahu called on the international community to come together to confront “impending dangers”.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1145541.html
Russian reports: No obstacles over Iran arms deals: –
Russian news agencies are quoting the head of Russia’s state arms export monopoly as saying there are no obstacles to military cooperation with Iran, despite international tensions over its nuclear program.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_iran_weapons_1
US businesses urge Obama to resist Iran sanctions bill:
US business groups warned the White House on Tuesday that congressional plans to expand US sanctions on Iran threaten to significantly undermine US economic and security interests.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3840202,00.html
Iran protesters unfairly convicted and unjustly killed, says Amnesty:
Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran’s disputed presidential election last year.
www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18595
Israeli vessels open heavy fire at Palestinian fishermen:
Israeli military boats opened heavy machinegun fire against Palestinian fishermen sailing off the coasts of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said.
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N Korea detains second US man:
North Korea says it has arrested an American man for trespassing on its border with China, the second to be detained in two months.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/01/201012854031726751.html
Chavez writes off Haiti’s oil debt to Venezuela:
President Hugo Chavez has announced that he will write off the undisclosed sum Haiti owes Venezuela for oil as part of a regional bloc’s plans to help the impoverished Caribbean nation after the devastating Jan 12 earthquake.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/593414/cs/1
Honduran Zelaya flies into exile:
Zelaya, ousted in a coup last June, boarded a plane that took off for the Dominican Republic shortly after opposition leader Porfirio Lobo, elected in November, was sworn in as president. Thousands of supporters at the airport cheered and shouted as the plane took off
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q16320100127
Howard Zinn (1922-2010):
A Tribute to the Legendary Historian with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove
www.democracynow.org/2010/1/28/howard_zinn_1922_2010_a_tribute
Record foreclosure filings threaten housing recovery:
The total of outstanding foreclosure auction notices on Orange County homes hit 10,513 at the end of December, the highest in this housing downturn, reports ForeclosureRadar.com.
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Record number of young Americans jobless:
The U.S. economic recession has taken a particularly heavy toll on young Americans, with a record one out five black men aged 20 to 24 neither working nor in school
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P0Z620100126