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 4,127
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$541,746,129,976
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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When Extremists Attack
 
By Joe Klein
 
There is a small group of Jewish neoconservatives who unsuccessfully tried to get Benjamin Netanyahu to attack Saddam Hussein in the 1990s, and then successfully helped provide the intellectual rationale for George Bush to do it in 2003.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20397.htm
 
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To Provoke War
 
By Faiz
 
Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20398.htm
 
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“The Terrible Reality”

Bush Guilty Of Murder
 
Must Watch 6 Minute Video
 
Vincent Bugliosi’s opening statements during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional limits of executive power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20400.htm
 
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Presstitute and war pimp alert: Demonizing Pakistan
 
Pakistanis Aided Kabul Attack, U.S. Officials Say
 
By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT
 
American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government officials.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20399.htm
 
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70 killed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley clashes:
 
Security forces, backed by gunships and artillery, pounded several militant hideouts Friday as the death toll in three days of fighting in Pakistan’s north-western Swat Valley rose to 70, officials and media reports said.
tinyurl.com/6bgmpa
 
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13 Civilians Killed In Pakistan Clashes:
 
The dead include seven from the same family. They were killed during clashes between the military and Taliban forces, The Press Trust of India reported.
tinyurl.com/5e2pmm
 
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Pakistan Denies U.S. Report That ISI Helped Plan Indian Embassy Bombing In Afghanistan:
 
Pakistan’s government said Friday it needs to purge Taliban sympathizers from the country’s main intelligence agency but angrily denied a report that the agency helped plan a bombing that killed at least 41 in Afghanistan.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/01/terror/main4313732.shtml
 
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Attacks Kill Five NATO Occupation Force Soldiers in Afghanistan:
 
Two separate roadside bombs killed five NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan Friday, a bloody start to the month in an already deadly year for U.S. and NATO forces in the country.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396121,00.html
 
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9 blasts rock Bengaluru; 1 killed, 7 injured:
 
Low intensity blasts in a span of one hour in six different places rocked the IT capital of India on Friday afternoon in which one person died and seven were injured.
ia.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/25beng.htm
 
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US seeking to turn India into a military base: Brinda Karat:
 
The US wants India to be converted into a military base to facilitate refuelling for its planes and recreation for the soldiers engaged in the Iraq war, Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member and Rajya Sabha MP Brinda Karat said.
ia.rediff.com/news/2008/aug/01ndeal2.htm
 
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Iraq: At least 12 killed as US occupation grinds on:
 
A roadside bomb killed at least two Iraqi soldiers and wounded at least one other in Rashad, southwest of Kirkuk city, police said. Kirkuk is 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GCA-iraq/idUSANW12455720080801
 
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Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran:
 
Iran Heads Toward Nuclear `Breakthrough,’ Israel Says
 
Iran is on a path toward a ``major breakthrough’’ in its nuclear program that is ``unacceptable,’’ Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz told a Washington audience today.
tinyurl.com/6j32m6
 
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US Warns Iran Of New Sanctions If It Rejects Incentive:
 
“Negative consequences await if they don’t have a positive response to our very generous incentives package, and that would possibly come in the form of sanctions,” spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters here.
tinyurl.com/6c2ck6
 
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No mention about exact time for Iran’s response at Tehran talks – Mottaki:
 
Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs here Friday called on 5+1 countries to respect agreements reached in Tehran talks, reminding them there was no mention about any exact time for Iran’s response to their package of incentives.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-203/0808018677161558.htm
 
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Ahmadinejad: Iran Will Use Force To Defend Nuclear Program -TV:
 
“For them, subjects like the nuclear issue are pretexts. The key reason for the hostility of the enemies in the past 30 years against Iran is that they want us to pull back so that they can say we have given in,” Ahmadinejad said..
tinyurl.com/6c2ck6
 
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Iran accuses U.S. of having double standards on nuclear energy:
 
Soltanieh said in a press release that the United States, on the one hand, banned Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, while on the other hand, did nuclear trading with India, which did not sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/02/content_8903670.htm
 
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India-US deal ‘legitimizes’ Israel arsenal:
 
Iran has warned that the IAEA’s approval of a nuclear deal between the US and India legitimizes Israel’s nuclear weapons ambitions.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65358&sectionid=3510203
 
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Inside Obama’s meeting with Netanyahu.:
 
Obama agreed with Netanyahu that “the paramount and most urgent issue is Iran,” and that “a nuclear Iran is unacceptable not only to Israel but to the United States.
www.newsweek.com/id/149806?from=rss
 
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With hawks flying high in Israel, Iran builds bombs at its peril:
 
Has Israel just taken a step closer to bombing Iran? That will certainly be the main subject of discussion in Jerusalem this weekend as Israelis digest the surprise announcement by their prime minister, Ehud Olmert, that he is to stand down in September.
tinyurl.com/5s5bho
 
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Break the Siege of Gaza :
 
Around 60 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals from 15 countries will sail to the Gaza Strip to deliver medical equipment on August 5th 2008.
www.labournet.net/world/0808/gaza1.html
 
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Israel fears European ship may sail to Gaza to ‘break siege’:
 
The activists will reportedly include three members of the European Parliament. Israel fears that if the ship does sail, it will create a provocation that would at best cause public relations damage, and could even result in violence.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1006191.html
 
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Lebanese gov’t backs Hezbollah’s right to attack Israel:
 
Lebanon’s new national unity government agreed to a policy statement on Friday which political sources said recognized Hezbollah’s right to use all possible means to liberate land they say is occupied by Israel.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007771.html
 
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Report: Hezbollah planning to ‘force’ IAF to cease overflights:
 
Hezbollah is planning to take “practical measures” to counter Israel air force overflights of Lebanon, according to Thursday’s edition of the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007605.html
 
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Thousands homeless after Lebanon clashes:
 
Relief groups and officials have sounded the alarm over the fate of thousands of people made homeless by sectarian fighting in poverty-stricken areas of the north Lebanese port city.
nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/4843311/thousands-homeless-lebanon-clashes
 
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Israeli Army Vets train New York Jewish Paramilitaries:
 
Yonatan Stern, the “Sgan Mefaked Hakita” (deputy squad commander) of Kitat Konenut New York, insists his “paramilitary emergency armed response team” is no “group of vigilantes or a JDL [Jewish Defense League].”
tinyurl.com/5gzz9o
 
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Karadzic: “USA granted me immunity”: Video
 
He accused Richard Holbrooke, the US diplomat who brokered the Dayton accords which ended the war in Bosnia, of striking a deal with him on behalf of the US to guarantee him immunity if he disappeared.
tinyurl.com/66h3h9
 
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Karadzic fears for life because of deal with U.S.:
 
Karadzic, who appeared for the first time before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday, told the judge that he had a deal with the United States before withdrawing from the public life in 1996.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/01/content_8885539.htm
 
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Judge rules White House aides not immune from congressional subpoenas:
 
The ruling is a blow to the Bush administration’s efforts to bolster the power of the executive branch of the US government at the expense of the legislative branch. Disputes over congressional subpoenas are normally resolved through political compromise, not through the court system.
tinyurl.com/5ves84
 
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U.S. Agents Can Seize Your Laptop:
 
 U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday.
tinyurl.com/5sfdch
 
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Travelers’ laptops may be detained at border:
 
Under DHS policy, no suspicion of wrongdoing needed to search devices
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25960741/
 
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Oil Companies Escape Billions in Royalty Payments to US:
 
A bureaucratic oversight has allowed 24 oil companies to avoid more than $1.3 billion in royalties for the privilege of extracting oil and natural gas from U.S. territory in the Gulf of Mexico – with foreign companies responsible for 55 percent of that total
www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2711
 
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Schwarzenegger signs order to cut Californian workers’ pay:
 
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday signed an executive order temporarily slashing the pay of most full-time employees to the federal minimum wage of 6.55 dollars an hour.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/01/content_8886084.htm
 
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Jobless rate climbs as 51,000 jobs vanish:
 
Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate in four years and adding to the evidence an economic recovery remains far off.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy
 
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GM Posts $15.5 Billion Loss; More Job Cuts Possible:
 
General Motors Corp. on Friday reported a $15.5 billion loss for the second quarter of 2008, due in part to a labor strike at one of its suppliers and plummeting sales of trucks and SUVs.
tinyurl.com/5agny3
 
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Stressed banks borrow record amount from Fed:
 
Banks borrowed a record amount of funds from the Federal Reserve in the latest week as the year old credit crisis took a persistent toll, while the commercial paper market continued to contract, signaling tough conditions for short term borrowers.
biz.yahoo.com/rb/080731/markets_credit_banks.html?.v=1
 
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IndyMac Bancorp files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy:
 
According to the bankruptcy filing, the holding company has between $50 million and $100 million in assets, between $100 million and $500 million of liabilities and less than 50 creditors.
www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2008/07/28/daily47.html
 
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Deutsche Bank Writedowns Exceed $11 Billion:
 
Germany’s flagship financier had originally been seen as one of the few to emerge unscathed from the crisis, but as the problems on global markets continue Deutsche Bank is being sucked ever deeper into trouble.
moneynews.com/financenews/bank_writedowns/2008/07/31/117802.html