Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,307,319"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,229
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$590,489,092,414
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Gaza Father Finds Out Child Survived
Must Watch 3 Minute Video
The BBC’s Christian Fraser went in search of the father of an injured child he saw in an Egyptian hospital during hostilities and tracked him down in Northern Gaza.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21812.htm
Israel Accused of Executing Parents in Front of Children in Gaza
Palestinian children described how their parents had been “executed” by Israeli troops.
By Murray Wardrop
Rawya Borno, a Jordanian doctor, said civilians, including children, were rounded up and killed by Israeli troops.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21818.htm
Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons
By Erin Cunningham
Eighteen-year-old Mona Al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in once she realised it was gone – completely severed by the weapon that hit her.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21817.htm
UN Special Rapporteur Likens Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto
By Press TV
There is more than enough evidence that Israel committed war crimes in its three week-long offensive into Gaza, says a UN investigator. Falk said Israel’s actions against the besieged Gazans are reminiscent of “the worst kind of international memories of the Warsaw Ghetto” which included the starvation and murder of Polish Jews by Nazi Germany in World War Two.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21819.htm
So Far, Obama’s Missed The Point on Gaza
By Robert Fisk
There was the phone call yesterday to Mahmoud Abbas. Maybe Obama thinks he’s the leader of the Palestinians, but as every Arab knows, except perhaps Mr Abbas, he is the leader of a ghost government, a near-corpse only kept alive with the blood transfusion of international support and the “full partnership”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21821.htm
NSA Spied on Journalists? Whistleblower Reveals Surveillance Target
By Keith Olbermann – Video and Text
In an exclusive interview tonight on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” former NSA analyst Russell Tice says that the agency under the Bush administration secretly collected communications data on civilians, including journalists.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21820.htm
Obama Revokes Bush Executive Order on Presidential Archives
Forces Release of Bush Records!
By Hal Turner
This would be the first logical step for his Administration to take if they were/are considering going after Bush for criminal prosecution over. . . . . the fraud he perpetrated against the nation by lying to take us to war in Iraq.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21816.htm
Come On Down For Your Freedom Medals
By John Pilger
On 13 January, George W. Bush presented “presidential freedom medals”, said to be America’s highest recognition of devotion to freedom and peace. Among the recipients were Tony Blair, who, with Bush, bears responsibility for the physical, social and cultural destruction of an entire nation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21814.htm
Another Real Estate Crisis Is About To Hit
By Paul Craig Roberts
The growth of debt has outpaced the growth of real output. Yet, the solution offered by Obama’s economic team is to expand debt further. This is not surprising as Obama’s economic team consists of the very people who brought on the debt crisis. Now they are going to make it worse.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21813.htm
Political Interference Seen in Bank Bailout Decisions:
By DAMIAN PALETTA and DAVID ENRICH
Barney Frank Goes to Bat for Lender, and It Gets an Infusion.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21815.htm
Afghanistan: At least 34 killed as US occupation grins on: :
Afghan and NATO-led soldiers killed 22 militants in Afghanistan in a clash near the border with Pakistan, while the US-led international coalition forces killed six suspected militants in the southern region, officials said Thursday.
story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/457253/cs/1/
US accused of killing 25 Afghan civilians in raid on militants:
The US military is investigating claims that more than two dozen Afghan civilians were killed during an attack on militants. The issue has badly undermined support for the international coalition and President Hamid Karzai.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/22/us-military-afghanistan
11 militants killed in Swat valley:
Pakistani security forces today killed 11 militants and injured nine others in the restive northwestern Swat valley, most of which has been taken over by the local Taliban.
tinyurl.com/cykttt
Iraq: At least 10 killed in another bloody of US occupation:
A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed five policemen and wounded three in Dour, near the city of Tikrit, about 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, police Captain Anwar Mohammed said.
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7NJ2PM?OpenDocument
Israel breaks ceasefire as Israeli gunboat targets Gaza civilians:
A Palestinian medical official says an Israeli gunboat off the shores of Gaza City has opened fire on Gaza, wounding at least five people.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=83300§ionid=351020202
‘Police State’ Celebrates:
The Israeli government is stepping up efforts to suppress dissent and crush resistance in the streets. Police have been videotaping the demonstrations and subsequently arresting protesters in large numbers.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45462
Heartbreaking Poem of Palestinian Girl –
English Subs
mx.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf7P2zKu-Yk
Mitchell named U.S. Mideast envoy:
In a flurry of diplomatic activity in his first week in office, Obama also tapped former ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke as a special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and related issues.
www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=1206971
Israeli officials: Obama a true friend:
Following historic day in Washington, officials in Jerusalem say they are not concerned about incoming US president, expect Israel to remain America’s “strategic, intimate partner’ during Obama era.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3659548,00.html
Rights activists issue ‘arrest warrants’ for Olmert, Livni and Barak:
The Web site, www.wanted.org.il, includes “arrest orders,” complete with pictures and personal details, for Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, along with others. It also explains how to inform the International Criminal Court in The Hague of when the “suspects” are outside Israel, and hence vulnerable to arrest
www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do
?load=detay&link=164767&bolum=104
In case you missed it:
The Second Intifada – an Israeli Strategy:
“This is what we have been saying all along that this is not about Israeli security but rather about Israel’s terrorising the Palestinian people for the purpose of arrogating their land and rights. Israel is now admitting that”
www.infoimagination.org/islamnm/second_intifada.html
Deutschland Uber Alles: Pictures prove:
THE GRANDCHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FROM WORLD WAR II ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS EXACTLY WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM BY NAZI GERMANY.
www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2510
Finkelstein to face more US teaching restrictions?
Outspoken academic Norman Finkelstein has stepped up his criticism of Israel in spite of being banned by the US freedom of speech system.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=83350§ionid=3510203
BBC scuppers TV fundraising appeal for Gaza victims:
The BBC and other major broadcasters have broken a 45 year-old agreement with overseas aid charities by refusing to broadcast their fundraising appeal for Gaza.
tinyurl.com/b9ehdo
Gideon Levy / Gaza war ended in utter failure for Israel:
This goes beyond the profound moral failure, which is a grave matter in itself, but pertains to its inability to reach its stated goals. In other words, the grief is not complemented by failure.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21819.htm
How AIPAC Makes Friends:
Sellers is beginning his second term as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives this month, and he credits AIPAC with helping him acquire some of the skills and contacts that assisted him in his successful bid to become a state lawmaker.
tinyurl.com/amxkzz
Report: US searched Iranian ship suspected of smuggling arms to Hamas resistance groups:
The US military intercepted and searched an Iranian-owned ship that officials feared was carrying arms to the militant group Hamas, but two officials said it was unclear Thursday whether those suspicions were justified.
tinyurl.com/az8g3y
Obama ‘will talk to Iran’:
Barack Obama, the new US president, will engage in “tough and direct” diplomacy with Iran “without preconditions”, the White House has said.
english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/
2009/01/200912201646422357.html
Guantanamo Bay to remain open for one year:
President Barack Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison within a year and banned the use of torture in terror interrogations in a dramatic repudiation of his predecessor George W. Bush.
paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?210401
White House ‘can’t imagine’ returning Uighurs to China:
President Barack Obama’s administration said Thursday it could not imagine returning Muslim Uighurs held in Guantanamo Bay to China and said no inmate would be sent to a nation where they may face persecution.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090122/wl_asia
_afp/usattacksguantanamojusticechina
Ireland says may accept some Guantanamo inmates:
The Irish government signalled on Wednesday it would be open to taking in detainees from the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LL68636.htm
In Final Legal Act, Bush Appeals Spy Ruling: “
We filed this lawsuit to establish a judicial precedent that the president cannot disregard Congress in the name of national security,” said Jon Eisenberg, the lawyer for Belew and Ghafoo. “Plaintiffs have a right to litigate the legality of the surveillance.”
blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/in-final-legal.html
First 100 Days: Manufacturing a dream and a recovery:
Nearly one in four manufacturing jobs has vanished since 2000, and 40,000 factories have closed since 1998. Last year, manufacturing accounted for nearly a third of all lost jobs in the U.S., while factory orders plummeted to record lows.
tinyurl.com/c5dwsu
Jobless claims surge and housing starts tumble:
The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s is forcing companies to slash jobs, creating a vicious cycle for an economy mired in a year-long recession.
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2252816420090122
Despite billions, banks still teeter on the brink:
Wall Street is losing faith in Washington’s efforts to fix the financial crisis. As bank losses pile up and bank stocks plunge, investors have an urgent question for the new Obama administration: What’s the plan?
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28779788/
House Rejects Obama’s Request For Rest Of TARP:
President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan, including proposals to award a $500 tax credit to most workers and to help the laid-off hang onto their health insurance, met Republican resistance Thursday as it began moving through the House.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/22/hou
se-rejects-obamas-requ_n_160081.html