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 4,252
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$599,711,765,855
See the cost in your community
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How the US Economy Was Lost
By Paul Craig Roberts
If incompetence in Washington, the type of incompetence that produced the current economic crisis, destroys the dollar as reserve currency, the “unipower” will overnight become a third world country, unable to pay for its imports or to sustain its standard of living.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22087.htm
A Struggle For The “Soul” of Capitalism
A Revolution in Spirit
By Benjamin R. Barber
A silent but fateful struggle for the “soul” of capitalism is being waged. Can the market system finally be made to serve us? Or will we continue to serve it?
informationclearinghouse.info/article22088.htm
In Case You Missed It
Did Vladimir Lenin Predict The Banking Disaster Of 2008?
“Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism”
By V. I. Lenin
The epoch of imperialism opens when the expansion of colonialism has covered the globe and no new colonies can be acquired by the great powers except by taking them from each other, and the concentration of capital has grown to a point where finance capital becomes dominant over industrial capital. Lenin enumerated the following five features characteristic of the epoch of imperialism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20946.htm
CNBC Editor: The People Are Revolting!
By Ryan Chittum
This is an example of what’s wrong with a certain kind of financial journalism, the kind where people of like backgrounds spend all day staring at tickers and interviewing each other.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22089.htm
Beyond Scarcity: Re-Inventing Wealth in a Progressive World
By Joe Brewer
The current economic crisis is causing a massive redistribution of wealth across society. With a newfound capacity to shape our nation’s destiny, progressives can take this opportunity to redefine ourselves – especially our ideas about wealth and prosperity – as we seek to build a flourishing society.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22090.htm
Worse Than My Darkest Nightmare
By Binyam Mohamed
As I gain my freedom, I am determined that neither those who remain in detention, nor their abusers, are forgotten.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22085.htm
Hamas: Fatah Spied for Israel
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
The Islamist militant group has released an audio tape that it claims documents 10 Fatah security officials the coastal strip confessing to collaborating with Israel in exchange for money.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22083.htm
‘I Want to be a Full Israeli Citizen’
By Jonathan Cook
“The Knesset is always hostile to Arab Knesset members and we are well used to their racist language. Even the building shows us we are not welcome. Everywhere there are Jewish symbols – from the Star of David on the flag to the menorahs – that we as Palestinians cannot identify with.”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22084.htm
A Choice Between Peace and Peril
By Chris Hedges
Bibi Netanyahu’s assumption of power in Israel sets the stage for a huge campaign by the Israeli government, and its well-oiled lobby groups in Washington, to push us into a war with Iran.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22086.htm
At least 20 killed in Mogadishu fighting:
Witnesses said that fighting broke out on Tuesday after an armed group attacked police and African Union peacekeepers in the capital’s southern Taleh district.
tinyurl.com/d43wqe
Five US occupation force soldiers, two Iraqi translators killed in Iraq:
Five US soldiers, an Iraqi policeman, and two Iraqi interpreters were fatally shot in separate incidents in Iraq on Tuesday, Iraqi police sources and the US military said.
tinyurl.com/cz3htd
Iraqi Police Wound 4 U.S. Troops, Kill Interpreter:
Two policemen opened fire on U.S. troops visiting an Iraqi police station in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing an interpreter and wounding four American soldiers, officials said.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499448,00.html
Straw ‘will veto’ Iraq minutes:
The Government will exercise veto powers to block publication of key Cabinet minutes under freedom of information laws, it has been announced.
uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090224/tuk-
straw-will-veto-iraq-minutes-6323e80.html
Blast kills 4 U.S. occupation troops, Afghan civilian:
Four U.S. occupation force soldiers and an Afghan civilian working for them were killed in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the U.S. military said.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29367798/
Third child dies after blast at Afghan village:
Two boys, one 13 and another who appeared about 10 died Monday. The third boy was said to be four years old and died in hospital Tuesday. Two other children are being treated for blast wounds at Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar City.
www.dose.ca/news/story.html?id=1323758
Mullah Omar orders Taliban to stop attacking Pakistan forces:
The leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan has directed Pakistani militants to immediately halt attacks on Pakistani forces and divert their resources to defeat the US-led international forces in Afghanistan, a media report said on Tuesday.
tinyurl.com/dkfezc
Taliban calls ceasefire in order to concentrate on attacking Nato occupation forces:
The Pakistani Taliban has announced a unilateral ceasefire in one of its key tribal strongholds in what analysts suspect is a tactical move to increase attacks on troops in Afghanistan.
tinyurl.com/bs2t5h
Swat Taliban extends ceasefire:
Tuesday’s announcement came after the army said it was suspending operations in the troubled region.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/200922462642152460.html
Bomb kills two in North West Pakistan: Police:
At least two civilians were today killed in a bomb blast targeting police near a garrison town in Pakistan’s restive northwest, police said.
tinyurl.com/bl4aht
Kerry: Pakistan urgently needs 4-5 billion dollars:
The United States and Europe must give Pakistan 4-5 billion dollars in urgent aid or risk seeing the nuclear-armed country slip into chaos, two leading US foreign policy voices warned Tuesday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090224/pl_afp/
uspakistanaidcongress_20090224194355
Hamas slams amnesty for equating between criminal and victim:
Hamas Movement strongly denounced the organization of Amnesty International for demanding the UN to impose a ban on sending weapons to the Palestinian resistance factions, saying that this demand is unbalanced and unfair because it equates the criminal with the victim.
www.alqassam.ps/english/?action=showmimp&fid=1482
UK sued over arms sales to Israel:
A Palestinian human rights group has filed a lawsuit at the High Court in London over the United Kingdom’s continuation of trade with Israel following that country’s offensive in Gaza.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/02/200922418433313645.html
Hamas: Fatah helped Israel in war:
Hamas on Monday accused Fatah of spying for Israel during Israel’s three-week offensive against the Gaza Strip in December and January, and released videos of alleged confessions by men they claim were from Fatah
tinyurl.com/ct3hwv
Erdogan urges Israel to recognize Hamas:
The Turkish Prime Minister says if Israel is looking for a lasting peace in the Middle East it should recognize Palestine and Hamas.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=86637§ionid=351020202
Suspend military aid to Israel: Amnesty urges Obama after detailing US weapons used in Gaza:
“As the major supplier of weapons to Israel, the USA has a particular obligation to stop any supply that contributes to gross violations of the laws of war and of human rights,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa program director. “To a large extent, Israel’s military offensive in Gaza was carried out with weapons, munitions and military equipment supplied by the USA and paid for with US taxpayers’ money.”
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/23/military-aid-israel-amnesty
Interview with former Knesset Leader: ‘We Are Such an Angry People” :
As an Israeli I feel lost because so many of my fellow countrymen are in love with war — as the solution for everything. But the most existential loss is spiritual: For me, being a Jew is being a universalist, a humanist. I can’t understand any Jew who votes right-wing. I can’t understand how a Jew can speak a language of xenophobia. And yet so many of them just did.
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,609428,00.html
Change? What Change: Obama picks anti-Iran man for Iran post :
The White House names controversial Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross as its special foreign policy adviser for Persian Gulf affairs.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=86613§ionid=3510203
Seven Iranians Charged With Spying for Israel:
Last week, the Iranian state-run broadcaster Press TV reported that seven Iranian followers of the minority Bahai faith, who were arrested last year, will be tried in Tehran as soon as this week on charges of “espionage for Israel, desecrating religious sanctities and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.” If convicted, the five men and two women could be sentenced to death.
tinyurl.com/cfbh9s
‘Mumbai attacks partly hatched in US’:
Gunmen behind Mumbai raids used cell phones that were activated in the US and paid for with funds sent from Italy Corriere della Sera reported Tuesday.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=86668§ionid=351020401
China bars foreigners from Tibet:
Foreign tourists planning to visit Tibet have been told by travel agencies that the region has been closed to outsiders until the end of March.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7907303.stm
A depressing saga of secrets, lies and medieval horrors:
The US and UK pay others to do what Saddam used to do to his jailed adversaries
tinyurl.com/dfnbxu
“Clarify MI5 role in torture”:
Senior MPs on Tuesday launched a campaign to force the government to clarify MI5's role in the alleged abduction and torture of terror suspects after Binyam Mohammed a U.K. resident, who was detained at Guantanamo Bay, returned home amid claims that he was tortured with the full knowledge of British intelligence agents.
www.hindu.com/2009/02/25/stories/2009022555871600.htm
UK: Yes we are raging – against a Government that spies on its citizens while ignoring the crimes of greedy bankers:
Today one of Britain’s most senior police officers with responsibility for public order raises the spectre of a ‘summer of rage’, with victims of the increasingly bitter recession taking to the streets in possibly violent protest.
tinyurl.com/b45pwf
Huge protest over Irish economy:
Trade union organisers of the march said workers did not cause the economic crisis but were having to pay for it.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7903518.stm
Eastern European bailout proposed:
EUROPEAN leaders called for doubling the International Monetary Fund’s war chest for bailing out financially stricken nations, amid new signs that Europe’s former Communist East is sliding into a full-blown economic crisis with worrying implications for the continent as a whole.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/
story/0,28124,25093112-5017999,00.html
Home Prices Plunge 18.5%; Another New Low:
The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reports that the price of single family homes dropped 18.5% in December versus the same time the previous year.
www.chartingstocks.net/2009/02/home
-prices-plunge-185-another-new-low/
Home Depot swings to $54 million loss:
Home Depot Inc. said Tuesday that it swung to a loss in the fourth-quarter, hurt by restructuring costs and lower demand amid the malaise in the housing market and the onslaught of rising job losses.
tinyurl.com/ck6fw7
Angry citizen(s) spray paint Congressman’s car and home:
After the first round of bankster bailouts was passed by Congress against the will of the American people several representatives in Minnesota found their cars and homes spray painted by angry constituents.
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