Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,245,538"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,124
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$539,476,397,376
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Why Bush Impeachment Is Necessary
 
By Ed Ciaccio
 
Conyers, Pelosi, and all members of Congress who oppose the impeachment of George W. Bush are betraying the oath they all swore when they took office and should be condemned for this betrayal. Following are the reasons why the impeachment of George W. Bush is necessary.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20350.htm
 
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Sanctions as Warfare
 
By Daniel M Pourkesali
 
Sanctions are nothing short economic warfare that infringe on the most basic human rights and the very rule of universally accepted laws and must be abandoned as the last sanctuary of futility in foreign policy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20355.htm
 
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Obama, The Prince Of Bait-And-Switch
 
By John Pilger
 
John Pilger describes the denigration of the of civilian casualties in colonial wars, and the anointing of Barack Obama, as he tours the battlefields, sounding more and more like George W. Bush.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20347.htm
 
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Obama’s trip to Yad Vashem:
 
What about Wounded Knee?
 
By Mike Whitney
 
Obama knows exactly what is going on in the occupied territories; the boycott, the sanctions, the check-points, the targeted assassinations, the military incursions, the arrests, the torture, the daily humiliations. He knows it all, but he’s also shrewd enough to know what it takes to get elected in the United States.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20352.htm
 
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Obama (and Big Media) Turn Blind Eye to Israeli Apartheid
 
By Bruce Dixon
 
US public opinion, like that in the rest of the world, persistently calls for a more just and even-handed US policy toward Israel-Palestine. But corporate media and the US political elite, including Barack Obama continue to ignore them. On this issue, as Salon’s Glen Greenwald writes, public opinion is pretty well irrelevant.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20351.htm
 
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The Greatest Threat America Has Ever Faced
 
The Mother of All Messes
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
The neoconned Republican Party is the greatest threat America has ever faced. Let me tell you why.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20349.htm
 
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Crystal Ball Gazing: Visualize the Dow at 6,000
 
By Mike Whitney
 
Last Wednesday, at an improvised press conference, George Bush gave what may have been the most comical performance of his eight year presidency. Looking like the skipper on the flight-deck of the Hindenburg, Bush tried his best to reassure the public that “all’s well” with the economy and that everyone’s deposits were perfectly safe in the rapidly disintegrating US banking system.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20353.htm
 
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“The Mother of All Bailouts”
 
7 Minute Video – By Ron Paul
 
Ron Paul talks about the bailout out of the housing industry and how it really just destroys the dollar and adds enormously to the debt. Also, slipped into the bill, was the stipulation that ALL credit card transactions must now be reported to the IRS.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20356.htm
 
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Attack of the Global Pirate Bankers
 
By James S. Henry
 
In the last thirty years, fueled by the globalization of financial services, lousy lending, capital flight and mind-boggling corruption, a relatively small number of major banks, law firms, accounting firms, asset managers, insurance companies and hedge funds have come to launder and conceal at least $10 trillion to $15 trillion of private untaxed anonymous cross-border wealth.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20348.htm
 
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Torture, and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association
 
By Stephen Soldz, Brad Olson, Steven Reisner, Jean Maria Arrigo, Bryant Welch
Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
 
One prisoner was repeatedly locked in a fetal position; in a cage too tiny for him to do anything, other than to lie still in a fetal position. The cage was evidently designed not only to restrict movement, but also to make breathing difficult.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20354.htm
 
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Afghanistan : At least 93 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
The interior ministry said 70 militants were killed in the fighting in Shah Joy, which is about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the southern city of Kandahar. Among the dead were two Arabs and four Chechens, it said.
tinyurl.com/5nbkgv
 
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Majority of Afghan insurgents not Taliban:
 
The vast majority of Afghan insurgents are not necessarily the Taliban, but those who feel spurred to fighting by broken promises, lack of a stable government, blood feuds and economic considerations
tinyurl.com/6rumto
 
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Eric Margolis: Obama falls victim to propaganda:
 
It is distressing to see Obama succumb to the blitz of war propaganda over Afghanistan and adopt George W. Bush’s faux terminology of terrorism. Before Obama urges widening America’s war there, he should consider:
tinyurl.com/5fglvz
 
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Ex-US Official Charges Afghan Leader Protecting Drug Trade:
 
A former U.S. State Department official charges Afghanistan’s drug trade is being protected by the country’s top officials.Thomas Schweich wrote in an article posted on The New York Times website Thursday, that U.S. efforts to eliminate Afghanistan’s poppy crops have been repeatedly thwarted by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
tinyurl.com/5whbct
 
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Pro-Taliban Militants Kill Two “U.S. Spies” In Pakistan:
 
A note left on the bodies, said that the two men were spying for U.S. forces. “All those spying for the U.S. will suffer the same fate,” it said.
tinyurl.com/62xdg5
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Pakistan::
 
Don’t mention the Afghan-Pakistan war:
 
Few want to accept that the war is widening; that it now involves Pakistan, a country with an unstable government and nuclear weapons.
tinyurl.com/5fb6do
 
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Iraq: At least 16 killed in another bloody day of US occupation:
 
Iraqi police found the bodies of two civilians and a policeman in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles), north of Baghdad, police said. The bodies bore gunshot wounds.
uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKANS43983820080724
 
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US talks with Iraq could stretch years:
 
It appears increasingly likely that the final detailed agreement – spelling out everything from troop levels to taxes on the military – still could be years away, two senior U.S. officials familiar with the talks said this week.
wiredispatch.com/news/?id=264751
 
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Iraq president promises to veto election law:
 
The announcement was a setback for both the Bush administration and the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which hailed a preliminary election law passed earlier this year as evidence of political progress.
tinyurl.com/5uzkxy
 
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15 Killed as Iranian military convoy rocked by mystery explosion:
 
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have launched an urgent inquiry after a mysterious explosion wrecked a military convoy in Tehran, killing at least fifteen people and injuring scores
tinyurl.com/69r6ga
 
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Iran ends cooperation with nuclear agency probe:
 
Iran will no longer cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency in its investigation of allegations that its government has tried to make nuclear arms, Iran’s vice president said today.
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5905115.html
 
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Russia says opposes deadlines for Iran response:
 
Russia said on Thursday it opposed any artificial deadlines being issued to Iran to force it to respond to incentives from world powers on suspending its nuclear activities.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080724/wl_nm/iran_nuclear_russia_dc
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
Israel: Iran will make A-bomb by 2010:
 
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert claims that Iran has gathered all the necessary equipment and technical knowledge to build an atomic bomb.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=64649&sectionid=351020104
 
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Ashkenazi in U.S.: All options are on the table regarding Iran:
 
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, on his first official visit to Washington, warned Thursday that Israel would not rule out any course of action regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israel Radio reported.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005122.html
 
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Israel plans new illegal West Bank “settlement”:
 
Controversial plans for the first new “settlement” to be built in the occupied West Bank in almost a decade have been revived by Israel’s defence ministry, despite calls by the international community for a freeze on construction, which is illegal under international law.
tinyurl.com/6mnrsw
 
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MKs okay new West Bank homes, despite vow to freeze illegal settlements:
 
A key panel of lawmakers on Thursday approved 20 new housing units at Maskiot in the West Bank, Israel Radio reported, despite a 2007 pledge to the United States to halt construction at the site.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005127.html
 
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Israeli settlers attacked village:
 
More than 20 Jewish settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Thursday, smashing cars and windows and cutting electricity wires, Palestinian police said.
tinyurl.com/59keqx
 
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“Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!”
 
Heckler interrupts Obamas’s Western Wall visit: He arrived at 5 a.m., as a clear moon lit a still-dark sky. Wearing a white skull cap, Obama walked to the Western Wall with the Rabbi of the Wall, Shmuel Rabinovich, and was surrounded by many others when he reached the wall.
tinyurl.com/6ctedw
 
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Russian bombers could haunt US borders:
 
Airbases in Latin American countries ensure the ‘permanent presence’ of Russia’s strategic bombers near the US borders, says a Russian general.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=64668&sectionid=351020602
 
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Venezuela Denies Report of Russian Base:
 
Venezuela’s government denied on Wednesday that President Hugo Chavez invited Russia to open a military base in his country, disputing a report by Russia’s Interfax saying that Russian troops were welcome in the South American nation.
tinyurl.com/5aojvh
 
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ACLU: Memos authorized CIA torture:
 
As long as CIA agents could convince themselves they were not deliberately inflicting severe pain or suffering on detainees, they were free to do virtually anything in their questioning of suspected terrorists, including waterboarding. Furthermore, the agents’ belief they weren’t in fact torturing their captives didn’t even need to be “reasonable.”
tinyurl.com/5ctbop
 
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Ethiopian occupation forces kill nine civilians in Somalia:
 
The troops, who had been attacked as they were entering their camp in Beledewyne town, 350km north of the capital, Mogadishu, responded by opening fire on civilians, they said.
tinyurl.com/69fc8o
 
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Army may go unpaid as sanctions dry up supply of paper for Zimbabwe banknotes:
 
Paper money is already in short supply because the state-run Fidelity Printers & Refiners in the capital, Harare, cannot keep up with demand created by the hyperinflation and rapid devaluation that causes notes to lose almost their entire value within weeks of being issued.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/24/zimbabwe
 
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Nigeria oil giant ‘paid rebels’:
 
The head of Nigeria’s national oil company has said it paid millions of dollars to militants to protect the country’s oil infrastructure.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7521194.stm
 
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The Real Power Behind the Throne-to-Be:
 
As the United States election race enters the final stretch, Barack Obama as the candidate promising change is revealing his true colors, much to the despair of anyone actually expecting any change.
www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/the-real-power-behind-the-throne-to-be/
 
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Evidence of the US Banking System Teetering on the Brink of Collapse:
 
The entire US banking system is insolvent.
www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5594.html
 
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Ford Posts Loss of $8.7 Billion on Asset Woes:
 
The Ford Motor Company, stunned by abysmal sales of its most profitable vehicles and a sudden shift in consumers’ tastes, said Thursday that it lost $8.7 billion in the quarter, its worst ever, and would overhaul its North American plants to focus on small cars.
tinyurl.com/6pcesl