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 4,132
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$542,800,007,358
 
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
 
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New Book Claims Bush White House Used Forged Documents In Case For Iraq War
 
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
 
According to the book, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations was responsible for fabricating the documents. The book goes on to say that the British intelligence agency MI6 recruited Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief, Tahir Abd al-Jalil al-Tikriti, and questioned him in Amman two months before the war, and then handed him over to the CIA.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20433.htm
 
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Marching Off Into Tyranny
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
 
The Bush Regime’s assault on America has been much more successful than its assault on “terrorism.” Who remembers the promise of a “six weeks war”? Americans have been mired for 6 years in two wars without end which the neoconned Bush Regime, in alliance with Israeli zionists, seeks to expand to Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and Lebanon.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20435.htm
 
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An Interview with Laila al-Arian
 
“What Did My Father Do to Deserve Such Treatment?”
 
By NANCY WELCH
 
IN 2006, after a Florida jury refused to return a guilty verdict on any of the charges that the Bush Justice department had brought against him, your father signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors to secure his release from prison. Why wasn’t your father released and deported as agreed? What’s happened since?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20437.htm
 
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Prisoner 650
 
By Yvonne Ridley
 
The FBI has now moved into the realms of fantasy land with the news that Dr Aafia Siddique has “conveniently” been found outside a governor’s office in Afghanistan with her 12 year old son … FIVE years after her disappearance in Karachi.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20439.htm
 
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Slip-Sliding Away
 
By Charley Reese
 
The present administration has a bad habit of questioning the patriotism and loyalty of people who disagree with it. It spies on everybody without any judicial restraint. It has riddled the government with partisans who are incompetent. It is the most secretive administration in American history. It lies like a drunken fisherman. It puts people in jail and holds them incommunicado without charges. It tortures people. It is contemptuous of the Constitution and especially of the principle of checks and balances.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20434.htm
 
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Obama and the Empire
 
By William Blum
 
I’m afraid that if Barack Obama becomes president he’s going to break a lot of young hearts. And some older ones as well.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20438.htm
 
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The Horror Of Israeli Occupation
 
West Bank Checkpoints
 
5 Minute Video
 
 A video clip that dramatically portrays the meeting of Israeli solders and Palestinians at controversial West Bank security checkpoints. This clip is taken from “Land of the Settlers”, the acclaimed documentary developed by Chaim Yavin, Israel’s premier news anchor.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20436.htm
 
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NATO occupation forces kill 17 Taliban in south:
 
Four police were killed separately in a militant ambush in central Ghazni province, a provincial official said.
www.wtopnews.com/?sid=581050&nid=105
 
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Pakistan linked to Afghan bombing?:
 
Reports last night that the white SUV with more than 100kgs of military-grade explosives welded into its chassis was driven by Pakistani Hamza Shakoor seem likely to increase pressure on the embattled civilian Government in Islamabad over the ISI and allegations against it of double-dealing and dirty tricks.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24128195-2703,00.html
 
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Pakistan violence sees 136 dead:
 
Pakistan’s military says that 94 Taliban militants, 14 troops and 28 civilians have been killed in the past week in fighting in northwestern Swat Valley
www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=503106
 
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US accused of backing terrorism in Pakistan:
 
Quoting “impeccable official sources”, The News reported on Tuesday that “strong evidence and circumstantial evidence of American acquiescence to terrorism inside Pakistan” was outlined by President Pervez Musharraf, army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj in separate meetings with two senior US officials in Islamabad on July 12.
tinyurl.com/65rspv
 
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Fact or fiction?
 
Initial agreement reached on withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
 
 Iraqi and US teams negotiating a controversial security pact have reached an initial agreement that states that US troops will withdraw from Iraq between 2010 and 2011, the pro- government Iraqi Al-Sabah newspaper reported Monday.
tinyurl.com/5ea5ss
 
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Iraqi US-allied leader among 7 killed:
 
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a senior leader of an anti-Qaeda Iraqi tribal group and six of his bodyguards south of Baghdad.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65717&sectionid=351020201
 
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Iran’s response to West still to come:
 
“What was handed over to EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana was a written transcription of the discussions he had with Iran’s Top Nuclear Negotiator Saeed Jalili over the telephone yesterday, not a response to the (Group) 5+1 package of proposals,” an official at the Supreme National Security Council told IRNA on Tuesday.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65684&sectionid=351020104
 
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Iran to fingerprint Westerners:
 
Iran will start fingerprinting visitors from the United States, Britain and France, police said on Monday, listing three Western powers that are pressuring Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme.
dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\08\05\story_5-8-2008_pg7_60
 
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Hezbollah shattered illusion of mighty Israel:
 
“The resistance victory over Israel in the 33-day war revealed that the vision of a powerful Israel was an illusion created by the global arrogance (the US and its allies),” Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a statement to a film festival held in Tehran on Tuesday.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65706&sectionid=351020203
 
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Jumblatt backs all options over Shebaa:
 
“Lebanon has the right to use diplomatic and military means to liberate the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms,” said Jumblatt as he addressed his supporters during a Sunday tour of a number of villages in Mount Lebanon.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65582&sectionid=351020203
 
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Israeli food company: We won’t sell produce grown by Arabs:
 
Israeli produce marketing company Otzar Ha’aretz (treasure of the earth) announced on Monday that it will not market produce grown by Arab farmers, and will from now on only sell only Jewish-grown products.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1008424.html
 
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U.S. revokes visas of 3 Palestinian Fulbright scholars:
 
Palestinian students cannot apply for U.S. visas in Gaza because Washington does not recognize the territory’s Hamas government and has no diplomatic presence there. Israel bans all Gaza students from leaving for security reasons but has made exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1008699.html
 
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Silvio Berlusconi puts troops on Italian city streets:
 
Gun toting troops took to the streets across Italy to the stunned surprise of tourists as the government began a tough clampdown on street crime and illegal immigration.
tinyurl.com/5jf8fs
 
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They knew about Karadzic deals :
 
Former Bosnian foreign minister : Karadzic had been promised by Richard Holbrooke that he would not be arrested even though he was indicted and wanted by the war crimes tribunal if he did withdraw, and of course for the next two to three years, Karadzic, in fact, was quite free and was relatively at liberty and without any threat of arrest.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65372&sectionid=3510302
 
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Pakistani doctor faces US trial:
 
A Pakistani neurosurgeon, who the US says is linked to al-Qaeda and shot at US officials, has been extradited from Afghanistan to face trial in New York.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/08/20088574059161528.html
 
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Changing lug nuts not a war crime, jury told:
 
Osama bin Laden’s driver performed vital services that enabled “the world’s most dangerous terrorist” to launch attacks, a prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations on Monday in the first U.S. war crimes trial at Guantanamo.
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0449061920080804
 
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‘When You Have To Leave America To Be Free’:
 
“This all stems from AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee],” Gravel told IPS. Lawmakers are afraid of offending the powerful lobbying group — which supports a hard-line position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in line with Israel’s right-wing Likud Party
www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=43434
 
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Pentagon tells Congress of arms sale to Australia:
 
The Pentagon is proposing the sale to Australia of up to $1.5 billion in missiles, electronic warfare countermeasure equipment and other supplies to support that country’s F/A-18E/F fighter aircraft.
tinyurl.com/6nyxp3
 
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PERU: Secret Arms Deals – An Invitation to Corruption?:
 
The Peruvian government will devote at least 514 million dollars this year to modernising and upgrading its military equipment, a figure surpassed only by the Alberto Fujimori regime in the 1990s, when arms buying was the main wellspring of corruption.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43432
 
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Putin says Russia needs to go back to Cuba: media:
 
The Kremlin is angry at U.S. plans for a missile defence system in Eastern Europe, and last month a news report suggested Russia might use Cuba, a thorn in America’s side for half a century, as a refueling stop for nuclear-capable bombers.
tinyurl.com/59lhnf
 
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Chavez Warns U.S. Fourth Fleet As 24 Sukhoi Jets Arrive:
 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday warned the U.S. Fourth Fleet that his country is ready to defend itself with the arrival of 24 Russian Sukhoi fighter jets.
tinyurl.com/57lt7l
 
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Chavez decrees 26 new laws:
 
The new laws includes measures which would set up neighbourhood-based militias, move the country towards a socialist economy and increase state control over agriculture.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/08/2008854188370390.html
 
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Brazilian Supreme Court Warns Of Civil War In Part Of Amazon Region:
 
Deep in the northernmost reaches of the Amazon jungle, a land conflict between rice farmers and a handful of Indian tribes has turned so violent that the country’s Supreme Court warns it could escalate into civil war.
tinyurl.com/5as7zm
 
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Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals:
 
 Mr. Jiménez was deported – not by the federal government but by the hospital, Martin Memorial. After winning a state court order that would later be declared invalid, Martin Memorial leased an air ambulance for $30,000 and “forcibly returned him to his home country,” as one hospital administrator described it.
www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/mexico/5859.html
 
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Hundreds of banks will fail, Roubini tells Barron’s;
 
The United States is in the second inning of a recession that will last for at least 18 months and help kill off hundreds of banks, influential economist and New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini told Barron’s in Sunday’s edition.
www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0344130720080803?sp=true
 
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Marketers Admit to Buying Space On News Casts:
 
According to a survey of 252 U.S. chief marketing officers, nearly one in five “say their organizations have bought advertising in return for a news story.
www.prwatch.org/node/7626