Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,225,898"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,113
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$531,931,857,222
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up
 
By Paul Rockwell
 
“Now listen. You won’t believe this. I got done and nobody said a word. No applause. Nothing. Then this skinny old fart shaped like a cold chisel gets up and says he’s a retired colonel, and he thinks we should keep on pounding those little yellow bastards until they do what we say or we kill ‘em all, and he tells me I can’t be a real veteran because a real veteran wouldn’t go around badmouthing the good old U.S. of A., and the whole place erupts in thunderous applause.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20191.htm
 
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The Sub-prime Trump Card
 
Standing Up To The Banks
 
By Ellen Brown: More than 1.5 million homeowners are expected to enter foreclosure this year, and about half of them are expected to have their homes repossessed. If the dire consequences Jefferson warned of 200 years ago have been slow in coming, it is because they have been concealed by what Jerome a Paris calls the Anglo Disease – “the highly unequal economy whereby the rich and the financial sector . . . capture most of the income but hide it by providing cheap debt to the middle classes so that they can continue to spend.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20190.htm
 
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Don’t Give Your Consent to Slavery
 
Fight Fascism!
 
By Peter Chamberlin
 
Americans can stop the overlords from carrying-out the final step for ending human freedom, expanding their global war into Iran, escalating it beyond the nuclear threshold.  Advancement of their geopolitical plan through the use of terrorism by our own government and through their proxies in foreign intelligence services remains the immoral center of their unholy schemes.  We stop this hypocrisy by making this common knowledge.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20184.htm
 
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“Chomsky: US Public Irrelevant,”
 
Aljazeera English Video
 
In the world of academia Noam Chomsky is the most cited author alive. He talks to Inside USA about politics in the United States and this Presidential election.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20185.htm
 
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Now Comes The Hard Part
 
By David Michael Green
 
I have contended for some time that Democrats are going to have a giant year (or, more precisely, Republicans are going to be fiercely spanked), all down the ballot, ranging from dogcatchers up to senators and governors. I expected that the presidential race might be a bit closer than those others, but even that may not be true.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20194.htm
 
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Guilty Of Doing Good
 
By Brkic Sulejman
 
Here in Tokyo, Japan, 3 peace activists, Toshiyuki Obora, Nobuhiro Onishi and Sachimi Takada were found guilty on April 11, 2008 by the Supreme Court of putting anti-war fliers into the mail boxes of the families of the Japanese soldiers who were dispatched to Irak on the orders of Uncle Sam.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20189.htm
 
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The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was
 
By Scott Ritter
 
David Albright has a history of being used by those who seek to gain media attention for their respective claims. In addition to the Hamza and Obeidi fiascos, Albright and his organization, ISIS, have served as the conduit for other agencies gaining publicity about the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program, the alleged Syrian nuclear reactor, and most recently the alleged Swiss computer containing sensitive nuclear design information.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20188.htm
 
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Zionism’s Dead End
 
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
 
Separation or ethnic cleansing? Israel’s encaging of Gaza aims to achieve both.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20193.htm
 
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Occupation by Bureaucracy
 
By Saree Makdisi
 
Separation will always require threats or actual violence; a genuine peace will come not with more separation, but with the right to return to a land in which all can live as equals. Only a single democratic, secular and multicultural state offers that hope to Israelis and Palestinians, to Muslims, Jews and Christians alike.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20183.htm
 
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You Don’t Mess With the Racism
 
By Remi Kanazi
 
You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, Sandler’s new flick, takes Hollywood chicanery and stereotypes that denigrate Arabs to an unprecedented level-surpassing hit flicks like the Kingdom, the Siege, and every Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris movie that came before it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20187.htm
 
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Humanity’s Meltdown
 
By By Mike Davis
 
Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20195.htm
 
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A Glimmer of Light in Television Wasteland
 
By Mike Whitney
 
Political junkies don’t have to wait for Bill Moyers Journal on Friday nights anymore to get their fix of thought-provoking analysis. GRIT TV runs Monday through Thursdays on Free Speech TV with a new panel every night covering everything from the environment, elections, race, gender, energy, to the economy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20192.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 5 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
A home-made bomb planted in the road killed two members of a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol and wounded three others in Shirqat city
uk.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUKANW63056920080627
 
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Iraqi military unable to hold Mosul:
 
Iraqi security forces are unable to maintain order following operations targeting al-Qaida fighters in the northern city of Mosul, officials said Thursday.
tinyurl.com/3we59t
 
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Cleric says crackdown in Amarah ‘fierce attack’ on al-Sadr movement in Iraq:
 
He says the operation is merely an attempt by al-Sadr’s Shiite rivals to suppress the movement before this fall’s provincial elections.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/27/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Sadrists.php
 
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30,000 troops heading to Iraq in 2009:
 
The Pentagon is preparing to send roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year. The move would replace troops in Iraq and allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in the country through 2009.
tinyurl.com/4yzhxk
 
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Congress passes Iraq war spending bill:
 
The Senate passed a $162 billion war spending plan Thursday, sending to President Bush legislation that will pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan until the next president takes office.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_go_co/congress_rdp
 
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US Congress agrees to keep troops in Iraq until end of Bush’s term:
 
The Democratic-controlled US Congress late yesterday agreed to keep the military in Iraq until George Bush leaves office while also giving $62bn in new education benefits to veterans of the war.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/27/usa.iraq?gusrc
 
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Top US military officer heads to Israel with Iran on the agenda:
 
US military chief Admiral Michael Mullen was expected in Israel this week for discussions including Iran, the Pentagon said Wednesday, amid speculation Israel is seeking Washington’s tacit approval to strike Tehran’s nuclear program.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jK87bRk4owt6NsANUMU-KNN7S6vw
 
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Israel gives UN watchdog secret briefing on Iran:
 
Foreign Ministry Director General Aaron Abramovich secretly visited the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna Wednesday and briefed a group of ambassadors from countries involved in the agency’s efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear project. Abramovich emphasized that the IAEA must act more quickly and efficiently to block Iranian nuclear ambitions.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/996713.html
 
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Israeli top brass split over plan to hit Iran:
 
In favour of an operation against Iran in the near future are a significant group of current and former senior defence officials and officers: three of the influential figures pushing for such an attack are Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, a former IDF chief of staff; MK Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, a former general and head of the IDF’s research and development; and Major-General Eliezer Shkedi, who commanded the Israeli Air Force until a month ago
tinyurl.com/3uxw8j
 
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U.S. and China Go Bump in the Middle East:
 
For China these days it seems that nothing — not rising energy prices; not sanctions aimed at its more unsavoury business partners, Burma and Sudan; not even the prospect of a nuclear Iran — can curb its thirst for oil.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42989
 
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UN: Israel violated truce 7 times in one week:
 
UN records 7 incidents of IDF soldiers attempting to drive Palestinian farmers away from border fence by shooting at them. Only one offence marked against Palestinians for firing on Sderot
tinyurl.com/3q74rp
 
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Gaza truce ‘violated repeatedly’:
 
Israel has blocked all other supplies including humanitarian and commercial goods.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7478293.stm
 
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 Fatah-allied militants fire rocket into Israel from southern Gaza:
 
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group tied to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, said it carried out the attack and also launched another rocket directed at the southern city of Ashkelon. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed a second rocket was fired but would not say whether it struck Israeli territory.
tinyurl.com/4jdz5y
 
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Haniyeh: Stop firing at Israel for sake of Palestinians:
 
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday appealed to Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip to honor the week-long truce with Israel, and stop firing at the Negev, for the good of the Palestinian civilian population.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/996694.html
 
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Citizenship law makes Israel an apatheid state:
 
The amendment to the Citizenship Law is exactly the kind of practice that leads to the use of such a term, and it is best that we not try to evade the truth: Its existence in the law books turns Israel into an apartheid state.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/996697.html
 
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‘Dutch Jimmy Carter’ accuses Israel of terrorism in new book:
 
The emotion in Andreas Van Agt’s voice as he lambastes Israel’s behavior seems puzzling for a man of his status. It is especially intriguing when one is reminded that this blue-eyed professed idealist is an astute statesman who presided as the Dutch prime minister for five years, until 1982.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/996909.html
 
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Another side to the Jewish story:
 
Many Jews left Arab countries because they wanted to live in Israel, not because their lives back home were miserable
tinyurl.com/5y7km5
 
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Secret papers reveal covert French-Zionist collaboration before Israel’s establishment:
 
60 years on, there’s still no complete account of regional, int’l circumstances surrounding founding of Israel.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/996684.html
 
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Four occupation firce troops killed, five injured in Afghanistan :-
 
Four US-led occupation troops were killed and five were wounded in two attacks in Afghanistan while a key local Taliban commander was also killed in fighting, officials said Friday.
tinyurl.com/5wketo
 
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Taliban slit throats of “U.S. spies” in Pakistan:
 
The two men, one of them a former Taliban fighter, were brought blindfolded before a crowd of several thousand people near the village of Damadola in the Bajaur region on the Afghan border before they were executed.
uk.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUKISL17083620080627
 
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Taliban attacks expected to rise: U.S.:
 
The Taliban has created a “resilient insurgency” in Afghanistan and will likely maintain or increase the pace of its attacks this year, the Pentagon said on Friday.
tinyurl.com/65fowa
 
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Peshawar slipping into Taliban hands:
 
The Taliban are no longer at the gates of Peshawar, they’re inside, throwing their weight around in Pakistan’s largest city in the north-west.
tinyurl.com/5bgr4t
 
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Pakistan Sends Troops Against Taliban in Peshawar After Attacks:
 
Pakistan deployed hundreds of paramilitary troops in the provincial capital of Peshawar yesterday to halt attacks by Islamic guerillas.
tinyurl.com/6mvxs5
 
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Key player in waterboarding policy ‘smug’ under questioning:
 
For years, congressional Democrats dreamed of getting a crack at a man they saw as a key player behind the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods against detainees in the war on terrorism — methods the critics say amount to torture. On Thursday, they finally got their wish:
tinyurl.com/5e3hky
 
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Lawyer: Khadr video to be released:
 
Whitling said though the video itself does not show Khadr being tortured, it does back up his client’s allegations.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=229122
 
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Evo Morales Approves Expulsion of US Agency from Bolivia:
 
Bolivian President Evo Morales gave his support Thursday to a call by coca leaf growers of the province of Chapare, Cochabamba to expel the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/0627evomorales.htm
 
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Colombia’s president calls for snap election as bribe flap grows:
 
President Alvaro Uribe called for a replay of his 2006 reelection on Friday, after the Supreme Court challenged its legality in a political standoff that has politicians scratching their heads over the country’s political future.
www.dose.ca/news/story.html?id=15beb688-6c66-4592-a6e1-9134310b7784
 
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Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela To Put $2 Billion Each In Bank Of South:
 
The three biggest South American countries behind the new Bank of the South multilateral development bank will each contribute $2 billion toward the total startup capital of $7 billion, an official at the Argentine Ministry of Economy said after a meeting of member countries here Friday.
tinyurl.com/6b97sv
 
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Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole:
 
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
tinyurl.com/4jyyy2
 
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Oil tops $142 a barrel :
 
Oil prices reached a record high of $142 a barrel on Friday as world stocks fell to a three-month low.
english.aljazeera.net/business/2008/06/20086277482707831.html
 
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OPEC chief sees oil at $150-170 in coming months
 
Crude oil prices could rise to as high as $170 per barrel in the coming months but are unlikely to hit $200 and should ease towards the end of the year, OPEC President Chakib Khelil said in an interview on Thursday.
tinyurl.com/5ggsed
 
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Consumer Sentiment Index Falls in June:
 
Confidence among U.S. consumers fell in June to the lowest level in 28 years as record-high gasoline and rising joblessness rattled Americans.
tinyurl.com/5rxbkt
 
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This Recession, It’s Just Beginning: .
 
Corporate bankruptcies, bond defaults, bank failures, hedge fund meltdowns and 6 percent unemployment. We’re caught in one of those vicious, downward spirals that, once it gets going, is very hard to pull out of.
tinyurl.com/6z6m8w
 
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City Pension Funds Lose Billions:
 
New York City officials are bracing for increased pressure on the budget as the city’s pension funds are reeling from the credit crisis and posting billions of dollars in losses.
www.nysun.com/new-york/city-pension-funds-lose-billions/80738/
 
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Credit crunch forcing US middle classes to live in their cars:
 
As mortgage foreclosures continue to rise, growing numbers of middle-class professionals are losing their homes and downsizing from four bedrooms to four wheels.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/26/usa.creditcrunch