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 4,278
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$663,299,541,255
See the cost in your community
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No Light In The Tunnel
A Housing Crash Update
By Mike Whitney
Why is the press misleading the public about housing? The housing market is crashing. There are no “green shoots” or “glimmers of hope”; the market is worn to a stump, it’s kaput.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22493.htm
Where’s My Change?
By Ralph Nader
The corporate chieftains have easy access to the White House and the new President, whether these bosses come on missions demanding power or missions of beggary for bailouts. When will he meet with the leading heads of consumer protection groups with millions of dues-paying members who could give him the base to hold accountable and regulate the democracy-denying, economy-wrecking corporate supremacists?
informationclearinghouse.info/article22496.htm
This Is A Must Listen
The Financial Barbarians at the Gate
Guns & Butter Interviews financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson.
The history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; – similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22490.htm
Straight to the Top
The torture trail starts and ends in the White House.
By Scott Horton
The big open question is whether we have an attorney general who enforces the law, or a Democratic version of Alberto Gonzales. That will become apparent soon enough.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22491.htm
Torture?
It Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11
By Patrick Cockburn
A US major reveals the inside story of military interrogation in Iraq.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22497.htm
Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters
by David Michael Green
What we’re seeing, is a political movement that is utterly bankrupt, literally and figuratively, and is desperately searching for any sort of remotely plausible line of attack, but only managing to make itself look absurd in the process, at least outside of Appalachia.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22492.htm
What is the Difference Between Zionism and Racism?
Video
BBC reporter for Newsnight, Jeremy Paxman grills the UK Ambassador.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22495.htm
Past is Present in Latin America
Video Report
At Summit Obama interested in looking forward, while many live the past every day.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22494.htm
Bomb Kills 12 Children in Pakistan:
Twelve children who mistook a bomb for a toy were killed Saturday when it exploded a restive region of Pakistan, the police said.
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7 Afghan police killed in suicide bombing:
Three suspected Taliban suicide bombers have killed at least seven policemen in the troubled regions of southern Afghanistan.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92536§ionid=351020403
Three policemen killed in violence in Iraq:
Three Iraqi policemen died and 15 others were wounded in seperate explosions in Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Saturday, police said.
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US occupation force soldier killed in Iraq: .
A US soldier was killed during an attack on a patrol in the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, the US military said, AFP reported.
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n178992
Manufacturing Consent For The Continued Occupation Of Iraq?
Clinton pledges to keep troops in Iraq if violence escalates:
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made a surprise visit to Baghdad yesterday to reassure Iraqi leaders that the Obama White House would refrain from withdrawing its troops from urban areas if renewed violence continued to worsen.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/
26/clinton-iraq-us-army-withdrawal
Khamenei blames US for blasts that killed Iranians:
Iran’s top authority blamed the US on Saturday for bombings in Iraq that have killed dozens of Iranian visitors this week, official media reported.
www.gulfnews.com/region/Iran/10307657.html
Lieberman: Israel will not attack Iran – even if sanctions fail:
“We are not talking about a military attack. Israel cannot resolve militarily the entire world’s problem. I propose that the United States, as the largest power in the world, take responsibility for resolving the Iranian question,” Lieberman told the paper.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1081024.html
2008 ‘deadliest’ year for Palestinians: rights group:
More than 1,000 Palestinians were killed in 2008 in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, making it the deadliest year since Israel was founded in 1948, a Palestinian rights group said on Saturday.
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Jordan’s King Abdullah: Israel must choose integration or isolation:
“Events are already testing U.S. credibility. These include the Israeli voice for turning back the clock on negotiations,” he added.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080913.html
Hamas leader to address British parliament:
Khaled Mashaal is set to address a meeting of MPs and peers in the British Parliament via a video link from Damascus on Wednesday.
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Hezbollah win in Lebanon poll would be big upset: –
With quiet campaigning and moderate talk, Hezbollah is building its strength for Lebanon’s June 7 parliamentary elections _ and the militant Shiite Muslim group and its allies stand a good chance of winning.
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Many killed as mortars fired at Somali parliament:
“I saw the dead bodies of four children who were killed by the mortar which destroyed one of the classrooms and four other children were also injured,” Hasan Moalim, a witness, said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/04/20094251322483577.html
Trapped Sri Lankans face starvation:
Tens of thousands of civilians in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone face starvation, Tamil Tiger separatists and government officials have said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/20094258521937693.html
Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh:
A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.
www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=7402099
Bolivia: Unraveling the Conspiracy:
The dismantling of a commando made up mainly of men described by the Bolivian government as foreign mercenaries could lead authorities to the people who organised around a dozen different attacks carried out since 2006 in the city of Santa Cruz.
ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=46627
The Irishman and the ‘plot’ to kill the Bolivian President:
Michael Dwyer was found dead in a Santa Cruz hotel room, wearing nothing but his underwear. How did he end up there?
snipurl.com/gq90e
Amnesty: NATO bombing of Serbian TV ‘war crime’:
An international human rights group demanded Thursday that NATO be held accountable for civilian casualties in the bombing of Serbia’s state television headquarters a decade ago, calling the attack a “war crime.”
snipurl.com/gq91z
Dozens of CIA “Ghost Prisoners” Missing: :
At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organisations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46629
UK High Court demands U.S. torture documents:
The chief justice of the British High Court on Wednesday gave the British government one week to obtain the U.S. release of classified information about the alleged torture of a British resident who’d been detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba .
news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090422/wl_mcclatchy/3218126
US Must Prosecute Bush Torture Memo Lawyers: UN Envoy:
The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects, the U.N.’s top anti-torture envoy said Friday.
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US lawmakers vow public probe into torture:
Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois on Friday announced a decision to lobby for an open inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92501§ionid=3510203
Attorney General Holder Says He Will “Follow The Law” And Investigate Torture:
Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Justice Department will “follow the law wherever it takes us” in investigating the U.S. officials behind the CIA torture policies under the Bush administration
www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39439prs20090422.html?s_src=RSS
Court Of Appeals Rules Detainees Are Not “Persons” :
Court Agrees with Obama Administration that Detainees Still Have No Constitutional Right Not to Be Tortured
rawstory.com/news/2008/Appeals_court
_rules_Gitmo_detainees_are_0424.html
Sweden spied on CIA ‘terror flights’: report:
“The assignment to carry out this operation came from the defence ministry to the defence forces,” according to an Expressen source who confirmed that the Swedish government harboured suspicions that the CIA was using so-called rendition flights to force people out of the USA against their will.
www.thelocal.se/19050/20090424/
U.S. Soldier Who Killed Herself—After Refusing to Take Part in Torture:
With each new revelation on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo, I am reminded of the chilling story of Alyssa Peterson.
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4 more banks fail, lifting this year’s tally to 29:
Regulators shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Idaho, California; 29 so far tops 2008 total
finance.yahoo.com/news/4-more-banks-
fail-lifting-apf-15031592.html?.v=10