Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,222,013"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,101
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$529,688,889,692
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Ex-State Dept. official: Hundreds of Detainees Died in U.S. Custody, at Least 25 Murdered
 
By Think Progress
 
At yesterday’s House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Rights hearing on torture, Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, told Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) that over 100 detainees have died in U.S. custody, with up to 27 of these declared homicides.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20128.htm
 
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Maj. Gen. Taguba Accuses Bush Administration of War Crimes
 
 By Democracy Now!
 
 Retired Major General Antonio Taguba, the Army general who first investigated the abuse at Abu Ghraib, has accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes. “The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture,” Taguba said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20130.htm
 
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John Yoo, Totalitarian
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
He believes a president of the US can initiate war, even on false pretenses, and then use the war he starts as cover for depriving US citizens of habeas corpus protection.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20133.htm
 
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Techno-Fascism
 
Every Move You Make
 
By Chellis Glendinning
 
Surveillance of private calls and emails. Cameras documenting every move. No habeas corpus. Unimpeded entry into personal financial records. Voting machines changing election outcomes with the flick of a switch. Protest defined as terrorism. Many people hope that the loss of civil rights Americans have endured since the onslaughts mounted by Bush Administration II is a political reality that can be reversed through electoral will.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20136.htm
 
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Why Iraq Won’t be South Korea
 
By Pepe Escobar
 
Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Maliki that Iraqis have to “think of a solution to free” themselves from US power. Not surprisingly, Khamenei advised Maliki not to sign the deal. Maliki, for his part, reassured the Iranians in no uncertain terms Iraq is not an arena for a deadly US-Iran Armageddon.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20134.htm
 
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House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran
 
By Andrew W Cheetham
 
America’s powerful pro-Israel lobby pressures the US Congress
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20135.htm
 
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Israel Attacks America
 
Insiders and Angry Survivors Speak Out On The Deadly Assault On A U.S. Naval Vessel
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
The assault on the Liberty is well docu?mented. With no warning, the Liberty was attacked by successive waves of unmarked jets deploying cannons, rockets and napalm. The attacking jets jammed all of the U.S. communications frequencies, an indication they knew the Liberty was American.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20132.htm
 
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Barack Obama: Panderer-In-Chief
 
  Ralph Nader: “It is Quite Clear He is a Corporate Candidate from A to Z”
 
 By Democracy Now! – Audio and Transcript
 
 Who do you think would be more likely to bomb Iran, to attack Iran, or have a surrogate do it: John McCain or Barack Obama?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20129.htm
 
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In Case You Missed it
 
The Blue Pill People
 
By Hari Heath
 
“Like everyone else, you were born into bondage; born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch; a prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to experience it for yourself.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1543.htm
 
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Guns and Butter Wednesday: “The Global Food and Fuel Crisis”:
 
Michel Chossudovsky, on the unregulated financial speculation which is driving up the prices of food and fuel beyond the reach of people worldwide, and destabilizing an already unsustainable economic system.
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=26891
 
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Enough Already!
 
By Justin Raimondo
 
The eulogies for Tim Russert ignore his role as the War Party’s sounding board.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20131.htm
 
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Hundreds killed as occupation forces claim victory in Afghan battle:
 
By Thursday, all that remained was the mopping up of small scattered pockets of resistance, jubilant political leaders and Afghan and Canadian military commanders told reporters from a mountainside perch overlooking the entire battlefield in a wide river valley.
tinyurl.com/5bgsqm
 
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Afghan government claims retaking villages from the Taliban:
 
Governor of Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, Asadullah Khalid, told a news conference this morning that the militants were cleared from the villages they had captured three days back.
paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?202131
 
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Convoy attack kills seven in north-west Pakistan:
 
At least seven people were killed and 28 injured when a food supply convoy came under attack in Pakistan’s tribal district of Kurram, which has been in the grip of growing sectarian violence, officials said.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/372908/cs/1/
 
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Tribals’ onslaught: US warns Pakistan:
 
In a stern warning to Pakistan, the US has said that any deal with the militants from its restive tribal areas that allows them “save haven” or to act with impunity will “come back to haunt” Islamabad first.
ia.rediff.com/news/2008/jun/19nwfp.htm
 
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US to stop aid to Pak in 3 weeks if it doesn’t cooperate in global “war on terror” :
 
The US has reportedly given three-week time to the new government in Islamabad to decide whether it wants continue cooperation in the war on terror, or face suspension of the US aid which Islamabad has been receiving since 2001 after it committed its active role in the US-led war on terror.
tinyurl.com/6k9hss
 
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Report Slams U.S. Over Iraq Refugee Crisis: Survey:
 
500,000 Iraqis Fled Fighting In 2007: It said the United States accepted few, just over half the 3,000 it had promised to resettle by the end of September.
tinyurl.com/6ostqr
 
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Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back:
 
Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.
tinyurl.com/57fom3
 
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Congress to vote on USD 162 billion Iraq, Afghanistan war funding:
 
The bill would prohibit US money from being spent on Iraq reconstruction efforts unless the Iraqi government matched every dollar spent.
tinyurl.com/5hl9pv
 
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Highlights of war funding, new GI Bill:
 
Highlights of legislation scheduled for House action on Thursday to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, extend unemployment benefits, provide flood aid, boost GI Bill college benefits and provide flood aid to the Midwest.
tinyurl.com/6lzgxf
 
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Powers failed to press Iran to give up legitimate right:
 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that the bullying powers have failed to press Iran to give up its legitimate right to produce nuclear energy.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0806193741204930.htm
 
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President Bush will leave White House as a loser:
 
Iran’s Foreign Minister,: He said that the US president was responsible for the massacre of tens of thousand of innocent people in the three countries.
tinyurl.com/62z53a
 
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ElBaradei: If you attack Iran, I quit: .
 
“A military invasion against Iran would pose great danger to the Middle East and the world.”
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=60539&sectionid=351020104
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert: :
 
EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah Poised to Strike?:
 
Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada are warning of mounting signs that Hezbollah, backed by Iran, is poised to mount a terror attack against “Jewish targets” somewhere outside the Middle East.
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5203570&page=1
 
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Interpol says Syria “very cooperative” in combating terrorism;.
 
The Interpol chief said that owing to the help of countries like Syria and Iran, they were able to add many details and pictures to around 8,900 wanted people.
tinyurl.com/5ryacl
 
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Tense Israeli-Hamas truce holds:
 
The Egyptian-mediated truce started at dawn on Thursday but Israeli tanks remain on the Gazan border and leaders continue to express doubts about how long the deal can last.
tinyurl.com/55cerd
 
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Britain is the world’s biggest arms exporter:
 
UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) said that arms exporters had added £9.7 billion in new business last year, giving them a larger share of global arms exports than the United States.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4161341.ece
 
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Sweden adopts contentious eavesdropping plan:
 
Sweden’s Parliament narrowly approved a contentious law Wednesday that gives authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone traffic that crosses the Nordic nation’s borders.
tinyurl.com/6c5fdp
 
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Hawaiian group demands restoration of the monarchy:
 
Surrounded by royal guards and the occasional tourist, Her Majesty Mahealani Kahau and her government ministers hold court every day in a tent outside the palace of Hawaii’s last monarch, passing laws and discussing how to secure reparations for the Native Hawaiian people.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080619/ap_on_re_us/palace_takeover
 
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H.L. Mencken on Congressman:
 
This essay appeared in the book “Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans” By Harold Stearns published in 1922. This is a particularly scathing criticism of members of the House of Representatives. (just as bad if not worse today)
thenewliberty.com/?p=530#more-530
 
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Guns and Butter Wednesday: “The Global Food and Fuel Crisis”:
 
Michel Chossudovsky, on the unregulated financial speculation which is driving up the prices of
food and fuel beyond the reach of people worldwide, and destabilizing an already unsustainable economic system.
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=26891
 
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US fund managers charged with fraud:
 
The disintegration of the two Bear Stearns funds they oversaw helped fuel the crisis by stoking investment fears over the high-risk loans to people with poor credit histories.
tinyurl.com/5pg8bb