Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,236,604"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,123
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$539,735,773,498
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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You Need Uncle Sam, Iraq Told
 
By Gareth Porter
 
Instead of moving toward accommodating the demand of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a timetable for United States military withdrawal, the George W Bush administration and the US military leadership are continuing to pressure their erstwhile client regime to bow to the US demand for a long-term military presence in the country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20357.htm
 
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Time To Exit The Empire Game
 
By Patrick J. Buchanan
 
As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, Lee’s retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur’s retreat from the Yalu come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India in 1947 – and a Muslim-Hindu bloodbath ensued.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20358.htm
 
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If Iran is Attacking It Might Really be Israel
 
By Philip Giraldi
 
There are a number of possible “false flag” scenarios in which the Israelis could insert a commando team in the Persian Gulf or use some of their people inside Iraq to stage an incident that they will make to look Iranian, either by employing Iranian weapons or by leaving a communications footprint that points to Tehran’s involvement.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20364.htm
 
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Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel?
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
I had given up on finding an American with a moral conscience and the courage to go with it and was on the verge of retiring my keyboard when I met the Rev. Thomas L. Are.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20359.htm
 
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Obama Dazzles Old Europe while McCain cries “No Mas”!
 
By Mike Whitney
 
Barak Obama proved yesterday why November’s presidential election will end in a 50-state sweep. John McCain has no chance. It’s like George Bush climbing into the ring with Mike Tyson; one thundering left hook and the Crawford Caligula would be sprawled across the canvas in a pool of his own blood. “No mas”! The same fate awaits the crabby senator from Arizona.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20363.htm
 
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Today’s Impeachment Hearings
 
Parade of ‘Shrill” Unserious Extremists’ on Display
 
By Glenn Greenwald
 
Serious, responsible Beltway establishment leaders know that courtrooms and prosecutions are only for the common people and – for our own good – our leaders cannot, must not and should not be exposed to any of that, and must continue to be able to shield what they do from public scrutiny.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20360.htm
 
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Guarantee Healthcare for All
 
By Malinda Markowitz
 
The United States spends more than twice as much per person on healthcare as most other industrialized countries – but it has plunged to last among those nations in preventing deaths through timely and effective medical care.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20361.htm
 
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We’re a Nation of Lemmings
 
Screw The Climate! We Want Our Cheap Gas!
 
By Dave Lindorff
 
What the hell happened to any sense of shared responsibility, not just for society, but for our own offspring?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20362.htm
 
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Who Are We?
 
One World, One Humanity, One Family
 
Must Watch Video
 
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
 
Click to view
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
 
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As “Surge” Ends, How Many US Troops Will Remain in Iraq?:
 
Barack Obama, says he wants U.S. troops out of Iraq in 2010, but he is careful to specify that he’s talking about combat troops
www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-24-voa10.cfm
 
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Former Iraqi PM Says Surge Not So Great:
 
Allawi describes security gains from the U.S military surge as fragile and possibly not sustainable. Calls fo “a time frame for reduction of U.S. forces”.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-24-voa1.cfm
 
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The 25 Most Vicious Iraq War Profiteers:
 
The Iraq war is many things to different people. It is called a strategic blunder and a monstrous injustice and sometimes even a patriotic mission, much to the chagrin of rational human beings. For many big companies, however, the war is something far different: a lucrative cash-cow.
www.businesspundit.com/the-25-most-vicious-iraq-war-profiteers/
 
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The killing of 78 Afghan civilian by US occupation forces probed:
 
More than half of those killed in the three recent U.S.-led airstrikes — which occurred in a three-week span in three provinces in eastern and western Afghanistan — were women and children, according to Afghan and Western officials. 78 have died in three separate incidents this month alone, officials say
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25844505/
 
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2 NATO occupation force soldiers killed, 9 wounded in Afghanistan:
 
A British army dog handler was fatally shot by insurgents in southern Afghanistan, where a Danish soldier died in a separate roadside bomb attack, officials said Friday.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-25-Afghanistan_N.htm
 
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Brzezinski: Surge In Afghanistan Risky, Some McCain Backers Want World War IV:
 
Brzezinski now doubts the that the answer to what ails Afghanistan is more troops. “I think we’re literally running the risk of unintentionally doing what the Russians did.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/25/brzezinski-warns-against_n_114999.html
 
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Gilani, Bush to discuss rise of Taliban in Pak:
 
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will discuss with US President George W. Bush at the White House on Monday the rising Taliban-led militancy in areas bordering Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.
tinyurl.com/6g4sh3
 
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‘Iran will keep cooperating with IAEA’:
 
“I categorically reject the misleading information by western media. We are not reducing our cooperation with the IAEA,” Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh told Press TV on Friday.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=64729&sectionid=351020104
 
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Bolton: U.S. should help Israel hit Iran:
 
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton said the United States should assist Israel in any strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The ex-U.S. envoy in an op-ed in the July 15 Wall Street Journal said the United States must consider what assistance to extend to Israel before and after an airstrike.
www.jewishledger.com/articles/2008/07/23/news/news11.txt
 
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Report: Ex-Mossad chief says strike on Iran could ‘affect us for 100 years’:
 
Halevy, who currently heads the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, added that an Iranian attack on Israel would probably have little impact, because Iranian missiles would largely be intercepted by Israel’s advanced anti-missile defense system.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005579.html
 
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Obama puts new presure on Iran:
 
Obama said that he and Sarkozy agreed that Iran poses “an extraordinarily grave situation.” He said the world must send “a clear message to Iran to end its illicit nuclear program.”
tinyurl.com/5jompb
 
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Two die in Gaza bomb blast:
 
The attack was the third of its kind on Friday, making for one of the biggest flare-ups in internal violence since Hamas routed the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s secular Fatah faction to seize control of Gaza a year ago.
uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL525244820080725?rpc=401&
 
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Obama: Jerusalem will not be capital of Palestinian state:
 
Recent years have seen Obama’s position on Israel/Palestine shift dramatically towards the Israeli side. He previously stated that the issue of Jerusalem should be on the table of any peace negotiation, but after criticism of his ‘naïve’ stance, Obama dropped this position.
www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=30771
 
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Poll: Israelis favor Barack Obama:
 
A new poll shows that US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has more Israeli supporters than his Republican rival John McCain.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=64738&sectionid=3510203
 
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Iran: US seeks to keep public in dark:
 
Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) said the US has rashly proposed a resolution that would blacklist Iranian satellite networks, Al-Alam and Press TV, since Washington dreads their role in informing the world of global developments.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=64725&sectionid=351020101
 
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‘North Lebanon battle kills five, wounds 40:
 
At least five people were killed on Friday in heavy clashes between rival sectarian factions in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, medical sources said.
tinyurl.com/6o66n9
 
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Suicide’ bomb attack in Yemen:
 
One policeman has been killed and up to 20 other people wounded in an explosion outside police headquarters in the east Yemen town of Sayun.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/07/2008725707320287.html
 
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Secret memo shows harsh CIA tactics approved:
 
The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed “in good faith” that harsh techniques used to break prisoners’ will would not cause “prolonged mental harm.”
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25837803/
 
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NZ students offer cash for Condoleezza Rice’s “arrest”:
 
The Auckland University Students’ Association has offered NZ$5,000 ($3,700) for any student making a citizen’s arrest of Rice during her 36-hour stay that starts later on Friday.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSWEL32578720080725
 
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Chávez widens cheap oil finance network:
 
Venezuela is broadening its network of regional alliances into Central America with its cheap oil financing initiative Petrocaribe, as countries find it increasingly hard to turn down President Hugo Chávez’s largesse amid soaring oil prices.
tinyurl.com/65o3jh
 
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Ecuador assembly backs draft constitution :
 
A special assembly on Thursday approved a new draft constitution granting Ecuador’s “leftist” president broad powers, including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and freeing him to run for office through 2017.
tinyurl.com/6kaz3h
 
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US markets drop after triple blow:
 
US markets have dropped by more than two per cent after yet another fall in US home sales, a rise in jobless claims and record losses posted by the second-biggest car maker in the country.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/07/20087250350969814.html
 
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US home foreclosures jump 14% in 2nd quarter: survey:
 
On an annual basis, home foreclosure filings soared 121 percent from the same period in 2007, RealtyTrac said in releasing a survey of the country’s 100 largest metropolitan areas.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080725/bs_afp/uspropertyfinanceforeclosure