Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,311,696"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,246
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$598,887,168,977
See the cost in your community
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Cambodia’s Missing Criminals
By John Pilger
B-52s dropped more bombs on Cambodia’s populated heartland than were dropped on Japan during all of the Second World War: the equivalent of five Hiroshimas.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22057.htm
Dinner Footwear May Be Optional
By BILL KAUFMANN
While legal peril swirls around George W. Bush’s White House lawyers for their role in empowering torturers, Bush will cross an international border — possibly for the first time — as a free and private citizen.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22058.htm
Chomsky: Obama OKed Israel’s Gaza war
By Press TV
Renowned US intellectual Noam Chomsky says Barack Obama did not comment on Israel’s war on Gaza, as it was part of the “premeditated” plan. We have been informed by an Israeli source that the recent invasion of the Gaza Strip was completely premeditated, Chomsky said in an interview with the French Al-Ahram daily.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22066.htm
Israel is a Terrorist State by Definition: Chomsky
By Christiana Voniati
Is Israel a terrorist state? Well yes according to official definitions.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22067.htm
Binyamin Netanyahu Targets Iran After He Is Appointed Prime Minister
By David Byers and James Hider, in Jerusalem
Binyamin Netanyahu described Iran as the greatest threat that Israel has ever faced and failed to mention stalled talks with the Palestinians after he was asked to be the country’s new Prime Minister today.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22061.htm
The Real Israel-Palestine story is in the West Bank
By Ben White
It is quite likely that you have not heard of the most important developments this week in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the West Bank, while it has been “occupation as normal”, there have been some events that together should be overshadowing Gaza, Gilad Shalit and Avigdor Lieberman.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22060.htm
Do Americans Get “The Truth”?
By Timothy V. Gatto
The simple fact is that the truth is out there, but most Americans are just too lazy or too ignorant to find it.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22059.htm
Perle’s Deceptions
By Philip Weiss
Blaming the neocons for the Iraq war is a conspiracy theory, Perle said.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22065.htm
In Case You Missed It
Tony Benn’s Interview With Saddam Hussein
Historic Interview by British Politician Tony Benn with Saddam Hussein. In an attempt to avert the upcoming War Tony Benn asks the questions raised by the UK and the USA. Saddams answers to the questions are VERY intriguing and it is no surprise that this interview was all but buried as the rush to war gathered Momentum.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22055.htm
In Case You Missed It
Lies, Damn Lies And Colin Powell
The Speech that led to WAR in Iraq, What Powell himself regards as a “blot” on his Political career.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22056.htm
In Case You Missed It
“I Am A Zionist”
Video
Biden in 2007 interview: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. praises Israel In 2007 interview with ‘Shalom TV’ “Imagine our circumstance in the world were there no Israel. How many battleships would there be? How many troops would be stationed?” he asked.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20615.htm
Least We Forget
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot / Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and despair to the people of Cambodia while neighboring countries, including Australia, shamefully ignored the immense human suffering and unspeakable crimes that bloodied this once beautiful country.
A Documentary Film By John Pilger
Click to view
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13769.htm
We Are All Extremists Now
By Seumas Milne
The government is criminalising legitimate dissent under the guise of fighting ‘extremism’, a word for which it has no definition.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22063.htm
Soros Sees No Bottom For World Financial “Collapse”
By Reuters
Renowned investor George Soros said on Friday the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no prospect of a near-term resolution to the crisis.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22062.htm
Brzezinski Warns Of Riots in US
By Press TV
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security advisor, has warned that the US could witness riots if economy continues its downward spiral.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22064.htm
Troops kill 25 militants, Nato tanker bombed:
Pakistani security forces have killed 25 militants as a roadside bomb exploded next to a tanker carrying fuel for North Atlantic Treaty Organistion troops in Afghanistan, leaving one dead in Pakistan’s tribal region, officials said.
tinyurl.com/d4yrd2
Deal acceptable in Afghanistan, not in Pakistan: US:
The United States has rejected the truce in Swat but US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday that Washington could accept a similar agreement between the government and Taliban militants in Afghanistan.
tinyurl.com/afs4cn
Doubts cast over Swat ceasefire:
Taliban fighters in Pakistan have said they will review a 10-day truce in Pakistan’s Swat valley when it runs out next week, disputing a government claim that a permanent ceasefire had been agreed.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/2009221171947186904.html
Change? What change? :
Obama widens missile strikes inside Pakistan:
Raids aim at militants who play less-direct role in attacks on U.S. troops
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29310523/
CIA expands its covert war in Pakistan:
Over the past week, the Obama administration has expanded the covert war run by the CIA inside Pakistan, launching attacks against a militant network seeking to topple the Pakistani government.
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6273769.html
Roadside Bomb Kills 3 Occupation Force Troops in Afghanistan:
The bomb attack happened in Uruzgan province. The coalition did not release any other information, including the troops’ nationalities. U.S., Dutch and Australian troops operate in Uruzgan
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497807,00.html
Roadside bomb kills 2 Afghan soldiers, wounds 4:
Two soldiers of Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed and four others sustained injures when their vehicle hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province, an official said Saturday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/21/content_10861731.htm
US admits killing 13 Afghan civilians:
The military made the admission on Saturday, after originally saying that 15 opposition fighters had been killed in the strike in the Gozara district of Herat province.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/200922115299177143.html
Afghans protest civilian killing, arrests: police:
Hundreds of Afghans blocked a key road outside Kabul for several hours on Saturday to protest the alleged killing of a civilian in an international military operation, police said.
tinyurl.com/bgrm2e
Obama Nixed Full Surge After Quizzing Brass:
President Barack Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the CENTCOM commander, after McKiernan was unable to tell him how they would be used, according to a White House source.
ipsnews.net/wap/news.asp?idnews=45838
US occupation force soldier killed near Baghdad:
A US soldier was killed during a combat patrol near the Iraqi capital on Saturday in the first reported death in American ranks for almost a week, the US military said
tinyurl.com/coo58j
US occupation force soldier found guilty in Iraqi killings:
A military court on Friday found a US soldier guilty of premeditated murder in the killings of four blindfolded Iraqi prisoners in 2007, a US Army spokesman said.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=332762
U.S. calls for urgent address to Iran’s nuclear program:
“This is an urgent problem that has to be addressed and we can’t delay addressing,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, after a UN report claimed Tehran has been still carrying out its uranium enrichment activity.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/21/content_10859797.htm
Iran not producing weapon-grade uranium: IAEA:
Iran has not converted the low-grade uranium that it has produced into weapon-grade uranium, inspectors belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency have said.
www.hinduonnet.com/2009/02/22/stories/2009022253751300.htm
IAEA source: Iran far from point of no-return:
A UN nuclear watchdog official downplays a report by a Capitol Hill-based institute claiming Iran has a “break-out capacity” to build a bomb.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=86376§ionid=351020104
Israel: Iran, Syria secretly continuing nuclear projects:
”Iran and Syria are secretly working on nuclear technology in a manner which risks peace in the region and the world, while bluntly ignoring their international obligations,” a statement by the Foreign Ministry said Friday evening.
tinyurl.com/ctck2h
Lebanon rockets wound Israelis:
A rocket fired from Lebanon has landed in northern Israel, wounding three people and prompting Israel to respond with an artillery barrage, the Israeli army said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2009/02/200922171457323150.html
Netanyahu chosen to be Israeli PM:
Parties representing 65 legislators have backed Netanyahu to become prime minister, he said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2009/02/200922011509138513.html
‘EU Paying for Gaza Blockade’:
European Union aid has been given to an Israeli oil company which has reduced the supply of fuel to Gaza as part of an economic blockade internationally recognised as illegal, Brussels officials have admitted.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45836
Diplomats: U.S. backs Fatah-Hamas reconciliation talks:
President Barack Obama’s administration and the European Union, which has also backed the talks, have made clear that Western support was conditional on what, if any, unity agreement emerges from upcoming negotiations in Cairo.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065851.html
3 Killed as rioting rocks eastern Nigerian city:
Several churches and mosques were set on fire in the violence on Saturday and at least 28 people were injured, but it was not immediately clear what triggered the unrest.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/02/200922113238154544.html
Change? What change?
Obama Backs Bush On Bagram Detainees:
The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.
tinyurl.com/bjnke5
Surprise, Surprise:
Guantanamo ‘complies with law’:
A US military report on conditions at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba says the prison complies with the requirements of the Geneva conventions, according to US media.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas
/2009/02/2009220215716755893.html
Guantanamo Review to Be Headed by Bush Official: –
A Bush administration Justice Department official will lead a task force created by President Barack Obama to review the status of suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090220/pl_bloomberg/antqxbxdds
Threatened Mexico police boss quits:
The slayings were a sign that criminal gangs are determined to control the police force of the biggest Mexican border city, with a population of 1.3 million people south of El Paso, Texas.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2009/02/200922022404773139.html
Up to 120,000 protest in recession-hit Ireland:
Up to 120,000 protesters brought Dublin city centre to a standstill on Saturday over government austerity measures aimed at stabilising the once high-flying economy now wracked by recession.
tinyurl.com/bdjwhw
Obama wants to cut U.S. deficit in half by 2013:
President Barack Obama will use his first budget, due to be unveiled next week, to put the United States on track towards cutting its ballooning deficit in half by 2013, an administration official said on Saturday.
uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE51K1TQ20090221
Regulators Shut Silver Falls Bank, 14th Seized in 2009:
Oregon regulators seized Silver Falls Bank, the 14th U.S. bank shuttered this year, as the worst financial crisis in a more than half a century further tightens access to credit and pushes foreclosures higher.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601103&sid=atn.vbsIoB7Q&refer=us
Bank Shares Topple on Talk Of Possible U.S. Takeover:
White House Has Shunned Nationalization, but Falling Prices Could Force Issue
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
story/2009/02/21/ST2009022100187.html
Big Pharma Quietly Hikes Drug Prices 100 Percent or More:
“There’s no simple explanation,” said Stephen Schondelmeyer of the University of Minnesota. “Some companies seem to figure no one is watching so they can get away with it.”
www.naturalnews.com/025683.html