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: 4,693
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,618
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$956,206,411,676
www.costofwar.com/
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“Why We Should Get Out Of Afghanistan”
By George Galloway and Tony Benn
Video
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24561.htm
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran
By Daniel Pipes
Just as 9/11 caused voters to forget George W. Bush's meandering early months, a strike on Iranian facilities would dispatch Obama's feckless first year down the memory hole and transform the domestic political scene.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24574.htm
Strengthening US 'Defense' In Gulf A Step To War
By Stephen Sniegoski
Since there is about a zero chance that Iran would dare to launch a first strike on the US or its Arab allies, the US would only need to strengthen its missile defenses in order to deal with an Iranian counterattack after the US had first bombed Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24563.htm
Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power
By DAVID E. SANGER
In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24560.htm
Citizen's Arrest of War Criminals Tony Blair and George W. Bush
By Prof. Anthony J. Hall
All over the world, citizens are mobilizing to take action to demand accountability from those who have been committing with impunity the highest order of international crime.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24565.htm
The Arab International Forum for the Support of the Resistance
By Lasse Wilhelmson
The conference opened at the UNESCO Palace where the leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and Iraq's armed resistance, in that order, held introductions that set the tone for the conference. Prominent religious Muslim leaders and representatives of Syria's government also spoke. It was a powerful manifestation of unity against the politics of Israel and the US.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24571.htm
US Army Imprisons Iraq War Veteran Over Song
By Dahr Jamail
The military is claiming that he “communicated a threat” with his song. Hall mailed a copy of the song to the Pentagon after the Army unilaterally extended his contract for a second Iraq deployment.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24573.htm
Orphaned, Raped and Ignored
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake. Yet no humanitarian crisis generates so little attention per million corpses, or such a pathetic international response.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24562.htm
“Shock, Horror, Drama” That You Won't Read In The New York Times
By Yvonne Ridley in New York
Possibly the most wronged woman in the entire War on Terror had just revealed how she was held in secret prisons, with no legal representation, cut off from the outside world since 2003 where brutal interrogation techniques were used to break her down.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24566.htm
Baffle Them with Bull Feathers
By Commander Jeff Huber
Bull Feather Merchants discussed how fighting propaganda wars became the Pentagon's primary mission during young Mr. Bush's administration. This piece describes how the ubiquitous warmongery continues to manipulate American and the world into a constant state of armed conflict.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24570.htm
In Case You Missed It
The Power of Nightmares – The Shadows In The Cave
This is a must watch documentary
The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. The programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1040.htm
Why Are Americans Passive
As Millions Lose Their Homes, Jobs, Families and the American Dream?
By Harriet Fraad
Society-wide depression has struck America. Why it's happened and what we can do about it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24569.htm
“We Should Not Give Up the Game Before All the Cards Have Been Played”
By Howard Zinn
In this world of war and injustice, how does a person manage to stay socially engaged, committed to the struggle, and remain healthy without burning out or becoming resigned or cynical?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24568.htm
I Call It Murder
By Cynthia McKinney
They shot this Black man in his genitals and in his back. It sounds like a hate crime to me. How else could one describe it?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24564.htm
US Kills 17 In New Pakistan Attack:
“Seventeen people have been reported killed. However, there is mounting fear that the death toll could be at least over two dozen or even cross 30.” Locals were digging dead and wounded out of the debris.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/02/201022151350906994.html
Obama pays for rights to to kill Pakistani people in their homes:
Obama proposes $1.2 bln to aid Pakistani military:
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday proposed $1.2 billion in funding next year to help train and equip Pakistani security forces to fight Taliban militants.
www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=97643
Ten more killed as Karachi violence enters fourth day:
Intermittent firing continued in different parts of Karachi as unknown gunmen continued to wander around unchecked.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24572.htm
Afghan police repel Taliban attack, killed 7 insurgnets:
Seven Taliban militants were killed and 10 others injured as Afghan National Police repelled their attack in country's relatively peaceful Jawzjan province Monday night, deputy provincial police chief said on Tuesday
en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1631052.html
4 in NATO killed in Afghanistan:
Bomb attacks take U.S. service member, 2 Brits, a Spaniard
www.nwaonline.com/news/2010/feb/02/4-nato-killed-afghanistan-20100202/
Karzai's Brother Tied To Corrupt Afghan Land Deals:
The spoils of corruption can be seen several times a week at Kabul's tiny airport: bags of money heading out of the country.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123223248
Clare Short at Iraq inquiry:
Claire Short, the former International Development Secretary, certainly did not pull any punches. She told the Iraq Inquiry today that: Tony Blair lied in the build up to war – He deceived her about his commitment to UN involvement – The Cabinet never had meaningful debates about Iraq (or, indeed, anything else)
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7011925.ece
Iran says ready to send uranium abroad as UN wants:
Iran says it is ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the U.N. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the decision Tuesday in an interview with state Iranian television.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_nuclear
Iran left with no choice but master nuclear technology:
As thousands of Iranian cancer patients suffer, Iran's deputy chief nuclear negotiator says that upgrading the country's nuclear capability is not only the country's right but also an absolute necessity.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117675§ionid=351020104
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
U.S. report: Iran's nuclear program gaining ground:
Iran has made advances in enriching uranium and is keeping open the option of developing nuclear weapons, but it is unclear whether it has the political will to do so, the U.S. director of national intelligence said on Tuesday.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147031.html
Mahmoud Abbas: Israel's West Bank occupation leading to one-state solution: Exclusive interview:
Palestinian president hints at mediated talks to restart moribund peace process
snipurl.com/u98pd
China to establish military bases overseas:
China has signaled that it wants to establish military bases overseas, following US steps to portray India as a regional super power.
pakobserver.net/201001/30/news/topstories11.asp
Muscling Latin America:
In recent years, Washington has experienced a fast erosion of its influence in South America, driven by the rise of Brazil, the region's left turn, the growing influence of China and Venezuela's use of oil revenue to promote a multipolar diplomacy.
www.thenation.com/doc/20100208/grandin
Pentagon's Black Budget Tops $56 Billion:
Last year, that budget grew to more than $50 billion – “the largest-ever sum,” according to Aviation Week's Bill Sweetman, a longtime black-budget seer. A few more billion were added for wartime operations, for a total of $54 billion. This year'total would be $2 billion higher, a 3.7 percent increase.
snipurl.com/u98po
New Defence Strategy Envisions Multiple Conflicts:
A report and budget request from the U.S. Defence Department released Monday reveal both new and old priorities for President Barack Obama's Pentagon.
ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=2822
UK: Half of new jobs are created by the state:
NEARLY three-fifths of the growth in jobs under Labour during a decade in power was directly or indirectly created by the state, new research shows.
business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article7009695.ece
Roubini Sees 'Dismal' Growth as Summers Rues 'Human Recession':
Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who anticipated the financial crisis, said the U.S. growth outlook remains “very dismal” and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said the economy is still mired in a “human recession.”
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aqLMEUObhysc
Judicial Watch posts documents in 'Pelosi Air Force Scandal'; travel tops $2 million:
The Speaker's military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period – $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.
snipurl.com/u98q2