Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,320,110"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,261
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$609,241,332,067
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“Graveyard of Empires.”
Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President
By Ray McGovern
The chickens are coming home to roost after eight years of Cheney and Bush, but there is no sign that President Obama is listening to anyone capable of fresh thinking on Afghanistan. Obama has apparently decided to stay in the chicken coop. And that can be called, well, chicken.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22307.htm
Putting A New Coat on a Failed Strategy
By Ron Jacobs
Washington and its NATO cohorts will stay in Afghanistan until the world is safe from Al-Qaeda. Left unsaid by Obama, just like it was unsaid by George Bush, is the reality that foreign troops killing Afghans and Pakistanis has done very little to end the supposed threat from Al-Qaeda.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22315.htm
It’s a bird…It’s a plane…No, it’s Spitzer to the Rescue
By Mike Whitney
If Obama is serious about restoring confidence in the markets, he should replace current SEC chief Mary Schapiro with Eliot Spitzer. That would send a message to the world that the president is through messing around. Schapiro is another Wall Street toady who believes that the markets can regulate themselves.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22312.htm
Noam Chomsky on the Economy and Democracy
Video & Transcript
Chomsky: Plan is recycled Bush/Paulson. We need nationalization and steps towards democratization.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22316.htm
Obama’s Attack on the Middle Class
By Paul Craig Roberts
If the tax rate on a multi-million dollar annual income goes up by 5 percentage points, the cutbacks won’t really affect the lifestyle.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22313.htm
The Absurdity of Spending US Tax Dollars on Israel
By PAUL J. BALLES
Paul J. Balles argues that if enough ordinary Americans “feel the pinch and connect the dots between their own financial losses and America’s continued unbridled support of Israel’s devastating war machine, Israel could be forced to make peace with the Palestinians”.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22314.htm
Gaza War Crimes Investigation: Attacks on Medics
Video
Clancy Chassay asks why 16 medical workers were killed and more than half of Gaza’s hospitals hit during Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22310.htm
A Brave Man Who Stood Alone. If only the world had listened to him
By Robert Fisk
Tom Hurndall had stayed in Rafah. He was only 21 where – in his mother’s words – he lost his life through a single, selfless, human act. “Tom was shot in the head as he carried a single Palestinian child out of the range of an Israeli army sniper.”
informationclearinghouse.info/article22317.htm
The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq
283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries
By Jeremy Scahill
In the latest episode of Occupation Rebranded, it was revealed that the administration intends to reclassify some combat forces as “advisory and assistance brigades.” While Obama’s administration is officially shunning the use of the term “global war on terror,” the labels du jour, unfortunately, seem to be the biggest changes we will see for some time.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22318.htm
Chill the Champagne
‘Torture’ Could Haunt Bush Officials
By HILARY BROWN
Spanish Judge Who Went After Pinochet Considers Charges for Gonzales, Others.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22311.htm
The Sycophantic Culture
By Henry Pelifian
Any society and its military is as only as good as its ability to not only perceive the truth but also use it as its basis for action. A nation of sheep is bred by sycophants. The sycophants are more a danger to society by creating failure than critics who often point the way to human progress and understanding.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22308.htm
27 Killed as Lahore police academy retaken: :
Pakistani security forces Monday regained control of a police training centre near Lahore after an eight-hour battle with Islamist militants that left 27 security personnel dead in one of the most audacious terror attacks in the country.
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Seven security officials killed in car bomb attack in Bannu:
Seven people, including five security personnel were killed and twelve others sustained injuries when an security forces’ convoy was hit by a roadside car bomb on the Bannu-Miramshah road in Bannu on Monday morning
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Five killed in NW Pakistan:
Unidentified gunmen Sunday shot dead five people including a former district official in northwestern Pakistan, according to local TV reports.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/30/content_11096712.htm
US to consult Pakistan on strikes:
Obama ruled out deploying US ground troops inside Pakistan.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7970935.stm
UK backs Pakistan offensive:
Defence secretary insists Britain has to back American plans to hunt down al-Qaida leaders across the Afghan border
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Dissecting the Anti-Pakistan Psyop:
Another anomaly in the “war of [mistakes] terror” may have been solved. The unfolding story about the anti-Pakistan psyop revolves around Britain’s MI6 and the “Pakistani Taliban.”
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Policemen, soldiers among 17 killed in Afghan violence:
Four Afghan police were killed in a rebel ambush in western Afghanistan Sunday, while three army commandos and 10 rebels died in other violence, authorities said
www.brunei-online.com/bb/mon/mar30w9.htm
10 killed in Iraq attacks:
At least ten people were killed in bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital and around the country on Sunday, security officials said.
pakistantimes.net/2009/03/30/newswire5.htm
US soldier gets 35yrs for killing four Iraqis:
Sgt Joseph Mayo took part in the execution-style killings of the men, who were blindfolded, shot in the head and dumped in a Baghdad canal.
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Betrayed in Iraq: Leila Fadel:
Leaders of Awakening Councils are arrested, tortured and killed by Iraq government
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Must Watch Video –
Gaza war crimes investigation:
Civilians, medics and investigators talk to the Guardian about allegations of war crimes during Israel’s 23-day campaign in Gaza
informationclearinghouse.info/article22309.htm
EU warns Netanyahu over stalled peace process:
The European Union warned Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday that EU ties with Israel would suffer if he did not accept Palestinian calls for statehood.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074434.html
US: Freezing Out Hamas No Longer Viable, Say Policy Heavyweights:
The authors acknowledge what has become obvious to many in the U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian pro-peace crowd: that Hamas may be the last, best hope for saving the two-state solution.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46290
Propaganda?
Report: Israel used unmanned drones to attack Sudan convoys:
The unmanned aerial vehicles attacked two convoys, killing at least 50 smugglers and their Iranian escorts, the newspaper reported. All the trucks in the convoys were destroyed.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074654.html
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Iran nuke a ‘a couple of years’ away:
Petraeus: Iran is still “a couple of years” away from having enough highly enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon, the commander of US forces in the Middle East said on Sunday.
www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=169867
US envoy: Don’t expect warmer relations with Iran:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Iranian diplomats will be together at The Hague, in the Netherlands, for a U.N.-sponsored meeting Tuesday on Afghanistan.
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IDF ends Gaza probe, says misconduct claims are ‘rumors’:
In a press release issued Monday the army said that the preliminary Military Police investigation into the testimonies revealed that they “were based on hearsay and not first-hand experience.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074981.html
Gaza probe / Either troops are liars, or the IDF is pure as snow: .
The investigation is based solely on one side of the equation – the Israeli side. An Associated Press reporter who was in Gaza last week interviewed Palestinians about the incidents in question. Their recollections to some extent corroborate the descriptions of the alleged shootings as initially recalled by the soldiers.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1075001.html
British MP George Galloway, loses bid to enter Canada:
The Federal Court decision prevents Mr. Galloway from appearing in person at an event in Toronto this evening, the first of four scheduled events in Canada – but he will deliver comments by video. The federal government has told Mr. Galloway he could not enter Canada because he allegedly engaged in terrorist activities – a claim the British MP denies.
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They banned the wrong George:
IT SEEMS that the Canadian government, and the immigration ministry in particular, has gotten their Georges confused. Though how you could confuse a bumbling idiot with a Texas drawl for an erudite Scotsman with an oratory of the first degree, is hard to imagine.
socialistworker.org/2009/03/27/they-banned-the-wrong-george
Sentenced to life in the USA:
Spanish Court Weighing Indictments of Bush-era War Criminals:
“some American experts said that even if warrants were issued their significance could be more symbolic than practical, and that it was a near certainty that the warrants would not lead to arrests if the officials did not leave the United States.”
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