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 4,236
icasualties.org/oif/
 
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$591,600,342,408
See the cost in your community
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In America, Speaking the Truth Is a Career-Ending Event
By Paul Craig Roberts
Truth cannot be spoken in America. It cannot be spoken in universities. It cannot be spoken in the media. It cannot be spoken in courts, which is why defendants and defense attorneys have given up on trials and cop pleas to lesser offenses that never occurred.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21847.htm

Obama: Regime Rotation
By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21848.htm

Banned By The BBC
Gaza Aid Appeal Video
Watch the Gaza aid appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee to be broadcast by ITV, Channel 4 and Five but rejected by the BBC and Sky.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21846.htm

The Mideast’s One-State Solution
By Muammar Qaddafi
Everywhere one looks, among the speeches and the desperate diplomacy, there is no real way forward. A just and lasting peace between Israel and t
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21845.htm

On The Wrong Side
By Uri Avnery
When Ehud Barak speaks about the future, he speaks the language of past centuries, in terms of brute force and brutal threats, with armies providing the solution to all problems. That was also the language of George W. Bush who last week slinked out of Washington, a language that already sounds to the Western ear like an echo from the distant past.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21842.htm

Legal Jeopardy For American Torturers Here and Abroad?
By By John W. Dean
One would think that people like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington, Gonzales, Yoo, Haynes and others, who claim to have done nothing wrong, would call for investigations to clear themselves if they really believed that to be the case.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21843.htm

The Torture Ban that Doesn’t Ban Torture:
By Allan Nairn
If you’re lying on the slab still breathing, with your torturer hanging over you, you don’t much care if he is an American or a mere United States – sponsored trainee. When President Obama declared flatly this week that “the United States will not torture” many people wrongly believed that he’d shut the practice down, when in fact he’d merely repositioned it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21844.htm

Us Army Field Manual (Still) Sanctions Torture
By Jeffrey S. Kaye
The new manual includes one restricted technique that will only be used on so-called unlawful combatants – such as Al Qaeda suspects — not traditional prisoners of war.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21841.htm

From Hospital, Afghans Rebut U.S. Account:
Hundreds of angry villagers demonstrated here in Mehtarlam, the capital of Laghman Province, on Sunday after an American raid on a village in the province on Friday night. The raid killed at least 16 villagers, including 2 women and 3 children, according to a statement from President Hamid Karzai.
tinyurl.com/amv9vh

Taliban Took Over a Border Area Between Two Provinces in the East :
According to Nuristan governor Jamaludin Badar, a group of 700 insurgents captured the area and declared Islamic Emirates there.
tinyurl.com/bhj3v7

Police: Bicycle bomb kills 5 in Pakistan:
A bomb rigged to a bicycle exploded in a northwest Pakistani city Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 20 others in the latest attack to rattle the volatile region, police said.
tinyurl.com/chxjjl

‘US will strike Pak if needed’:
The Obama administration has inherited “a real mess” in Afghanistan and an increase in US casualties is likely as troops try to reclaim territory, Vice-President Joe Biden said on Sunday. He said if there is an actionable target of high-level al Qaeda personnel, US will not hesitate attack inside Pakistan.
tinyurl.com/aa9mod

US cuts payment to Pakistan for fighting Taliban, al-Qaeda:
A financial advisor in the prime minister’s office, said the US had “changed the format” for money released under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) for Islamabad, resulting in a “massive” deduction.
tinyurl.com/c2wcty

US offer to Pakistan is a Hobson’s choice:
In the war on terror, Islamabad is at the receiving end of Washington and Taliban
www.gulfnews.com/opinion/editorial_opinion/world/10278838.html

Hamas offers year-long truce with Israel:
An official from the movement said on Monday that Hamas accepts a one-year truce “with guarantees that Israel shows commitment to lift the siege and completely reopen crossings”,
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83767&sectionid=351020202

Egypt to Hamas: Take Gaza truce before Netanyahu is voted PM :
The newspaper quoted the officials as telling Hamas that surveys in Israel show the opposition leader is likely to come to power in February’s general election, adding that he would form a coalition with “extremist parties.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058679.html

Israel happy with Egypt over gaza arms:
Egypt has won Israel’s praise for cooperating with the regime in its efforts to stop arms from reaching the Palestinian government in Gaza.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83738&sectionid=351020202

Hamas also responsible for Gaza destruction’:
European Union (EU) Aid Commissioner Louis Michel who is touring Gaza sharply criticised Israel Monday for the massive destruction he saw around him, but said Hamas also bore an “overwhelming” part of the blame.
tinyurl.com/ckmlyc

Hamas slams EU official over anti-Hamas statement:
Taher el-Noono, spokesman of Hamas government, said in a statement that “We condemn Michel’s rude statements, which contradicts with the international laws that give the right to occupied nations to defend itself.”
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/27/content_10723544.htm

Rabbi told Israeli troops ‘to show no mercy’ in Gaza:
An Israeli human rights group on Monday called for the immediate dismissal of the chief military rabbi, claiming he gave soldiers fighting in Gaza pamphlets urging them to show no mercy.
tinyurl.com/arzbf7

Saudi king donates $US1 billion for Gaza:
“On behalf of the Saudi people, I declare the donation of one billion dollars for programmes to rebuild Gaza,” the Saudi monarch said at the opening session of an Arab summit in Kuwait.
tinyurl.com/alqmoh

Hamas to provide cash to victims of Gaza attack:
The territory’s government was due to start giving out the money, expected to total about $45m, on Sunday – a day after a Hamas committee was established to oversee relief efforts.
tinyurl.com/ddhya2

Iran MPs plan Gaza visit to praise Hamas resistance against ‘Zionist offensive’:
Five Iranian parliament members intend to visit the Gaza Strip to congratulate the Palestinians on their resistance against the “Zionist offensive.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058835.html

Iranian MP terms Obama “soft face of U.S. imperialism:
“U.S. Democrat and Republican parties have proved in the country’s history that they are the administrators of the U.S. imperialistic policies,” Mir-Tajoddini said, adding that “the general attitude of the U.S. presidents is similar and the difference lies in their methods.”
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/27/content_10723549.htm

Ethiopians quit Somalia, Islamists seize parliament:
Hardline Islamist insurgents captured Somalia’s parliament on Monday after Ethiopian troops completed their pullout from the Horn of Africa nation.
tinyurl.com/cpg9n3

Morales hails Boliva referendum win:
“Here the colonial state ends, and internal and external colonialism end,” said Morales, “… excluded and marginalised people will have the same rights as everybody else .
tinyurl.com/brav27

Obama’s approval rating plunges 15 points:
 Barack Obama might have been in office for less than a week, but the euphoria is beginning to wane. The new President’s approval ratings have fallen from a stratospheric 83 per cent to a more modest – although still impressive – 68 per cent.
tinyurl.com/b2ajom

Bad news: we’re back to 1931. Good news: it’s not 1933 yet:
Barack Obama inherits an economy already contracting at an annual rate of 6pc, much like the mid-Depression year of 1931 (-6.4pc)
tinyurl.com/bn7o3k

Flood of foreclosures: It’s worse than you think:
Banks are moving slowly to list repossessed homes for sale, which could mean that housing inventory is even more bloated than current statistics indicate.
money.cnn.com/2009/01/21/real_estate/
ghost_inventory/index.htm?cnn=yes

Companies in U.S. to Slash More Jobs, Business Economists Say:
More U.S. companies project they’ll pare staff in the next six months as pessimism mounts the economy will contract this year, according to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics.
tinyurl.com/c8pl8e

Florida drowning in jobless claims:
Floridians who want state unemployment benefits may need to brush up on their computer skills. That’s because there’s no way to sign up in person, and those who apply by phone can expect either busy signals or waits of up to 90 minutes to speak with someone.
www.bradenton.com/news/local/story/1174632.html

‘Rescued” Citi Buying $50M Jet:
‘Beleaguered’ Citigroup is upgrading its mile-high club with a brand-new $50 million corporate jet – only this time, it’s the taxpayers who are getting screwed.
tinyurl.com/akraab