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 4,251
icasualties.org/oif/

The War in Iraq Costs
$599,967,652,604
See the cost in your community
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Where Is The Outrage?
Disappeared in the Name of US National Security
By Mohamed Farag Bashmilah
The American public needs to face what has happened to those of us who were disappeared and mistreated in the name of their national security.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22092.htm

The Oscar for Denial
And the winner is – The American People
By James McEnteer
“We know, deep inside us we know—[just] as the Germans who kept their heads down and tried to lead ‘normal’ lives as genocide exploded all around them, in their name, by their own government knew—that our government has committed terrible atrocities at home and abroad. If we do nothing to bring these crimes to light and their perpetrators to justice, then we are as guilty and worthy of moral condemnation as the war generation of silent Germans …”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22095.htm

A Practical Proposal for Real Change
Open Letter to President Obama
By Carmen Yarrusso
Thoreau wrote, “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” Mr. President, real change won’t happen unless we the American people strike at the root-our intellectually dishonest political system.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22096.htm

Freeing Up Resources… For More War
By Norman Solomon
In his first speech to Congress, the new president threw down a 90-month-old gauntlet, reaffirming the notion that committing to war halfway around the world — in Afghanistan and now in Pakistan too — will make Americans safer. With drumrolls like that, the mission could outlive all of us.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22098.htm

Cut the Military Budget
By Barney Frank
Those organizations, editorial boards and individuals who talk about the need for fiscal responsibility should be challenged to begin with the area where our spending has been the most irresponsible and has produced the least good for the dollars expended—our military budget.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22099.htm

I.O.U.S.A.
Wake up, America!
Video
Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22100.htm

It’s Time to Break up the Big Banks
By Mike Whitney
Timothy Geithner is putting the finishing touches on a plan that will dump $1 trillion of toxic assets onto the US taxpayer.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22093.htm

Nationalization: It’s Not Scary, It’s All Around You
By David Sirota
Amidst the punditocracy’s handwringing about the supposedly unprecedented possibility of nationalization in America, Paul Krugman this week reminded his New York Times readers that nationalization is “as American as apple pie.”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22097.htm

A Planet at the Brink
Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?
By Michael T. Klare
The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions unemployed across the planet. But another perilous consequence of the crash of 2008 has only recently made its appearance: increased civil unrest and ethnic strife. Someday, perhaps, war may follow.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22091.htm

How Can U.S. Recover Without Manufacturing Capacity?
By Glen Ford
“You can’t put people to work in American factories that don’t exist.”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22101.htm

Robert Fisk on Gaza and the Media
By Stefan Christoff
“The international press allowed for their own humiliation: Israel told the press that they couldn’t go into Gaza and they didn’t really try to, so the press sat outside Gaza and pontificated from two miles away.”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22094.htm

69 killed in Somalia fighting:
Islamist rebels battled African Union (AU) peacekeepers and Somali police for a second day, taking the death toll in the worst fighting for weeks to at least 69, witnesses and a rights group said.
tinyurl.com/djy7pr

Clashes, motorbike bomb kill 32 in Afghanistan:
The authorities announced separately that the US-led coalition and Afghan troops had killed 10 militants in the southern province of Uruzgan Tuesday after coming under attack while on patrol.
tinyurl.com/c96ys4

Afghanistan bomb kills 4 U.S. occupation troops:
A roadside bomb killed four U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan yesterday, inflicting the year’s deadliest single attack on international forces a week after Washington set plans to send reinforcements.
tinyurl.com/c3tcw4

Three British occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ministry:
Three British soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan as a result of an “enemy explosion” on Wednesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090225/wl_
sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestbritainmilitary

Pak Paid $6Mn To Taliban For Swat Ceasefire?:
The Taliban in Pakistan’s restive Swat valley was paid $6 million in compensation by the government as part of the deal for a ceasefire with security forces for an indefinite period, media reports said Tuesday.
tinyurl.com/d3gb5c

Pakistani Taliban unite against U.S:
The top Pakistani Taliban commander, Baitullah Mehsud, and two rival Taliban chiefs, Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Maulvi Nazeer, met at an undisclosed location recently and settled their differences to unite against U.S. and Pakistani government operations in the region.
onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=141408

UK: This is a recipe for creating terrorists:
New Labour’s sins in the war on terror are catching up with it, but ministers want to shift blame on to the Muslim community
tinyurl.com/av4hug

PA official: Peace process dead:
“Given the government that is going to lead Israel, it’s clear that there won’t be any serious process and that, at the most, it will be a process for appearances’ sake only that is intended to quiet the international community and primarily to let the Palestinians know that the option of peace still exists,” he said.
tinyurl.com/agxbg7

Clinton warns Israel over delays in Gaza aid:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has relayed messages to Israel in the past week expressing anger at obstacles Israel is placing to the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1066821.html