Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq  “1,251,944"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
 
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,128
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$542,260,499,291
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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Massive US Deficit Spells Austerity Policy For Next Administration
 
By Jerry White
 
Once again, both parties will use the lie that there is “no money” to meet social needs, while hundreds of billions are squandered on imperialist wars and channeled into the pockets of the wealthiest one percent of the population.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20413.htm
 
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Crisis Looms as Corporations Seize Control of Commodities
 
By Barbara L. Minton
 
The global food crisis won’t go away any time soon. Capitalism has the average consumer by the belly. Amid growing signs of famine and outrage, the entire chain of commodities and resources of the world are now being cornered by giant corporations. Farmland, water, fertilizer, seed, energy, and most of the basic necessities of life are falling under corporate control, providing increased wealth and power to the ruling elite while the rest of humanity struggles.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20418.htm
 
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Speculation Behind Global Commodity Price Rise
 
By Ramgopal Agarwala
 
Michael Masters, a hedge fund manager in his testimony before the US Congress, has said that gasoline prices could fall to $2 a gallon, half of today’s price with legislation barring commodity index funds. There are now more than 10 legislative proposals before the US Congress calling for better regulation of commodity index markets.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20415.htm
 
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The Politics of Rice
 
Video Report
 
A look at how the stories of politics, rice, and the United States are deeply interwoven. Twenty years ago, Haiti produced enough rice to feed its population. Importing rice from other countries like the US was unheard of. Today, the country of less than 10 million people is the third largest importer of US rice in the world – 75 per cent of the rice eaten in Haiti is shipped in from the US.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20414.htm
 
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US Vilifies Faithful Old Ally
 
By Eric Margolis
 
As Henry Kissinger cynically noted, being America’s ally is more dangerous than being its enemy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20417.htm
 
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South Korea Says U.S. Killed Hundreds of Civilians
 
By CHOE SANG-HUN
 
“When the napalm hit our village, many people were still sleeping in their homes,” said Lee Beom-ki, 76. “Those who survived the flames ran to the tidal flats. We were trying to show the American pilots that we were civilians. But they strafed us, women and children.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20412.htm
 
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Why is Habeas Corpus Such a Threat to those in Power?
 
By Maher Osseiran
 
Why is the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees so scary that Senator Lindsey Graham, with the support of McCain, will “explore the possibility, if necessary, of a constitutional amendment to blunt the effect of this decision”? What is so fundamentally wrong with the Supreme Court’s decision, whose members are conservative or Bush appointees, to warrant amending our constitution? Have Senators Graham and McCain lost their minds?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20416.htm
 
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56 Killed As No let-up in Pakistan fighting:
 
Pakistan’s military information office said on Saturday that the clashes had so far left 45 pro-Taliban fighters and 11 soldiers dead.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/08/2008829838313355.html
 
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Video Report: Civilians caught in the crossfire in Pakistan :
 
So far, 34 civilians have died and 70 others seriously wounded as shells and mortars hit houses, gardens and even a golf course. Zeina Awad has this report.
tinyurl.com/6morud
 
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10 Taliban militants killed in Pakistan:
 
At least 10 Taliban militants were killed Sunday in an operation by security forces in northwest Pakistan’s Swat Valley, a media report said.
tinyurl.com/6ccx2q
 
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Al-Qaida announces deaths of 4 commanders:
 
Al-Qaida confirmed in a Web statement Sunday the death of a senior commander known as a top explosives and poisons expert, who is believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week.
tinyurl.com/6kp6ej
 
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US occupation force soldier killed in Kabul bomb attack:
 
A roadside bomb has struck a US-led military convoy outside the Afghan capital killing one soldier and wounding another.
itn.co.uk/news/b9a28699bc412043efdecadf01fb5c1c.html
 
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20 Killed By Bomb In Occupied Somalia:
 
A bomb hidden under a pile of garbage killed at least 20 people, half of them women who were sweeping the street in Somalia’s capital, witnesses and doctors said Sunday.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jbUwjdryxzbQqVmKTyVhNn4XXiJAD92AUKJ00
 
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At least 12 killed In another bloody day of US occupation:
 
The death toll of a car bomb blast in the predominantly Sunni district of Azamiyah in northern Baghdad on Sunday rose to 12, police said.
tinyurl.com/6jtpfs
 
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Turkish Army: 8 Kurdish Rebels Killed In Southeast
 
Turkey: The militants, members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were killed in a mountainous area in Sirnak province near the Iraqi border on Saturday morning, a statement said.
tinyurl.com/6awdja
 
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Five village guards killed in southeastern Turkey:
 
Sources said the village guards had been deployed to take part in a counterterrorism operation in Sirnak’s Bestler Dereler district.
tinyurl.com/67t9gn
 
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9 Killed In Hamas / Fatha Confrontations .
 
Three Hamas policemen and six pro-Fatah gunmen were killed in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. The fighting erupted when Hamas gunmen surrounded the Shejaia suburb in Gaza City to arrest 11 suspects, who the Islamist group believes were behind bombings that killed five Hamas gunmen and a girl last Friday.
www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=698541
 
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Fatah fugitives flee Palestine:
 
More than 30 members of the Fatah movement, which is close to the Palestinian Authority chief, Mahmoud Abbas, took refuge at the Nahal Oz crossing with Israel, Israeli border commander Ron Ashrov said on Saturday.
www.presstv.com/Detail.aspx?id=65482&sectionid=351020202
 
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Israel sending back Fatah supporters: Israel has sent back to the Gaza Strip
 
30 Fatah supporters suspected of being involved in a series of explosions in the coastal region. The deadliest blast killed six Palestinians including an infant in a coffee shop near the Gaza city on July 25.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65515&sectionid=351020202
 
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Abbas denies asylum to supporters from Gaza:
 
Abbas ordered nearly 200 fighters back to Gaza from Israel, insisting a Fatah presence must be retained in the territory, which has been controlled by Hamas since a violent takeover in June 2007
tinyurl.com/67pl4r
 
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Senior officer found shot dead in Syria – reports:
 
Lebanon’s Future News television station identified the officer as Brigadier General Mohammad Suleiman whom it said was a military aide to President Bashar al-Assad. It said his body was found at a hotel in the northern port city of Tartous
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL383774
 
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Report: Syria’s liaison officer to Hizbullah assassinated :
 
Arab website reports Mohammed Suleiman, who served as Assad’s senior advisor, killed by sniper fire over weekend
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3576824,00.html
 
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Leader: Iran-Syria relations unbreakable:
 
Ayatollah Khamenei praised the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad for his efforts to establish strong ties with the Islamic Republic and added that Bashar al-Assad is continuing his father’s path regarding Iran.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65521&sectionid=351020101
 
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Assad: US, Israel are conspiring in Middle East :
 
Syrian President Bashar Assad said during his meeting Saturday with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that “Israel and the United States are conspiring a scheme in the region and one should stay on alert in this matter.”
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3576745,00.html
 
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Ahmadinejad: Iran aims to reinforce nuclear rights:
 
Iran will not give up “a single iota of its nuclear rights,” the country’s president said Saturday, rebuffing an informal deadline to stop expanding uranium enrichment or face more sanctions.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080803/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_syria
 
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Israel Foreign Min Urges New Sanctions Against Iran: –
 
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a contender to become prime minister, urged the international community Sunday to act quickly on new sanctions against Iran, saying that Tehran views any hesitation as weakness..
tinyurl.com/6sby39
 
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US Calls for increased sanctions on Iran:
 
The UN Security Council will have to increase sanctions on Iran for ignoring demands that it freeze sensitive nuclear activities, a spokesman for the US mission to the United Nations said today
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0803/breaking37.htm
 
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Where Are the World’s Nuclear Weapons?:
 
According to information compiled by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an organization devoted to monitoring the status of the nuclear threat worldwide, nine countries had nukes by April 2004. The nine countries are listed below. Each figure includes the approximate number of both tactical and strategic bombs (nuclear and thermonuclear, or “big” and “really humongous”).
tinyurl.com/62vhek
 
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Military’s Social Science Grants Raise Alarm:
 
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is calling on “eggheads” to help the military unravel questions about the recruitment of terrorists, the resurgence of the Taliban and messages delivered in militant Muslim religious schools.
tinyurl.com/5cha4a
 
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Karadzic protected by US until he broke ‘deal’:
 
Belgrade report: Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his “deal”, the Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.
tinyurl.com/5e82bz
 
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Respected Academic Denied Entry into U.S.:
 
Our government finds it necessary to protect Americans from academics who disagree with Bush.
tinyurl.com/6qnmrz
 
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Shining a Light on US Abuses:
 
While the Canadian government has supported many of George W. Bush’s shameful policies of torture, indefinite detention, illegal surveillance, etc., a young Canadian in New York has been standing up for the rule of law – American law and international law.
www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/471513
 
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Tasers a form of torture, says UN:
 
TASER electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in North America.
www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22814674-5001028,00.html
 
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Scientists Question FBI Probe On Anthrax:
 
Ivins Could Not Have Been Attacker, Some Say
tinyurl.com/6h36dd
 
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Doubts arise on FBI anthrax suspect:
 
Scientist Bruce Ivins became depressed under the strain of FBI scrutiny
www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/03/1217701855445.html
 
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Glenn Greenwald: Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News:
 
If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, then that means that the anthrax came from a U.S. Government lab, sent by a top U.S. Army scientist at Ft. Detrick. Without resort to any speculation or inferences at all, it is hard to overstate the significance of that fact
www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html
 
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Employers in U.S. Cutting Jobs, Hours, Signaling Slower Growth:
 
Employers in the U.S. fired workers in July for a seventh straight month and cut hours for remaining staff to a record low, signaling economic growth weakened at the start of the second half of the year.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&refer=us&sid=aikzb5JpxxvQ
 
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US job losses hit four-year high:
 
The unemployment rate in the US has climbed to a four-year high of 5.7 per cent in July after employers shed 51,000 jobs.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/08/200881161145207955.html