Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,331,578"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,302
icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$673,021,554,727
See the cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos ‘Show Rape’
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent and Paul Cruickshank
At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22727.htm
Was Rape an Enhanced Interrogation Technique?
By Jacob G. Hornberger
Should U.S. officials who authorized enhanced interrogation techniques be let off the hook for rapes committed by U.S. officials as part of enhanced interrogations of detainees?
informationclearinghouse.info/article22728.htm
Do Americans Have a Moral Conscience?
By Paul Craig Roberts
If the Obama regime does not hold the Bush regime accountable for violating US and international law, then the Obama regime is complicit in the Bush regime’s crimes. If the American people permit Obama to look the other way in order “to move on,” the American people are also complicit in the crimes.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22730.htm
Defining Moments in US History and their Relevance Today
By Charles Sullivan
It is beyond absurd to think of President Obama as anything but a political conservative dressed in the garments of liberalism and masquerading as a man of the people. Obama’s voting record, his political appointments, the money trail, and his policy decisions reveal his true colors. So much for change we can believe in.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22725.htm
Who will Stand Up To America and Israel?
By Paul Craig Roberts
The military/security complex that rules America, together with the Israel Lobby and the financial banksters, needs a long list of dangerous enemies to keep the taxpayers’ money flowing into its coffers.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22726.htm
Britain: The Depth Of Corruption
By John Pilger
The theft of public money by members of parliament, including government ministers, has given Britons a rare glimpse inside the tent of power and privilege. It is rare because not one political reporter or commentator, those who fill tombstones of column inches and dominate broadcast journalism, revealed a shred of this scandal. It was left to a public relations man to sell the “leak”. Why?
informationclearinghouse.info/article22724.htm
Abuse Survivor Of Irish Catholic Institution Pleads
“Give Us Some Peace”
Video and transcript
Michael O’Brien, former councillor and Mayor of Clonmel attended the RTÉ programme Questions and Answers on 25 May 2009 and, after Minister Noel Dempsey, the sponsoring minister of the Ryan Commission report in to Child Abuse allegations spoke, Mr O’Brien spoke to the minister and to the panel.
informationclearinghouse.info/article22729.htm
29 Afghan militants ‘killed in raid’:
The US military statement says six militants detonated suicide vests during what it calls a “fierce fire fight” at the camp.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8071947.stm
Insurgents kill 7 civilians, injure 8 in Asadabad: –
Seven Afghan civilians were killed and eight were wounded when insurgents fired seven mortar rounds in the vicinity of Asadabad, Konar province, on 27 May.
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/PSLG-7SGGUS?OpenDocument
Suicide bombing kills 2 civilians, wounds 2 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan:
A suicide attack against international forces in Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni province killed two civilians and wounded two foreign soldiers on Wednesday, provincial police chief Khyal Baz Shirzai said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/28/content_11447463.htm
Two British occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
Two British servicemen died within hours of each other after being wounded in separate incidents in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today.
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7 more militants killed in NW Pakistan operation:
Four security forces personnel were killed in the incident
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/28/content_11449962.htm
Six killed in Pakistan bombs:
Two bombs exploded today in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killing six people and gunmen on rooftops ambushed police as they arrived at the scene, officials and witnesses said.
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0528/breaking51.htm
Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for Lahore attack :
A militant commander loyal to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud said the Lahore attack was to avenge the offensive in Swat.
uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090528/tpl-uk-pakistan-violence-81f3b62.html
Pakistan sends bounty hunters after militants:
Pakistan has offered a bounty worth of PKR 5 million (USD 62,250) for the arrest of Swat valley militant leader Maulana Fazlullah.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96280§ionid=351020401
US to spend $1 billion on embassy expansions in Pakistan, Afghanistan:
The White House has asked Congress for – and seems likely to receive – $736 million to build a new US embassy in Islamabad, along with permanent housing for US government civilians and new office space in the Pakistani capital.
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p90s01-wosc.html
Sri Lanka army kills 11 Tamil rebels in east:
Sri Lankan troops on a mission to flush out the remnants of the Tamil Tiger rebels killed 11 suspected guerrillas in eastern jungles Wednesday, the military said, in the largest clash since declaring it had won its 25-year war against the insurgents.
www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1067419.html
Thousands of soldiers perished in Sri Lankan war:
For the first time last week, Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse revealed the staggering level of casualties suffered by government soldiers in the last phase of the war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/slwa-m28.shtml
U.S. troop deaths at 20 so far in May:
The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq so far in May rose to 20 when the military reported a solder was killed by a roadside bomb.
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Iraq prison photos show rape by US troops: report:
The details had come from Major General Antonio Taguba, an ex-army officer who published a 2004 report into Abu Ghraib.
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U.K. Finishes Withdrawal of Its Last Combat Troops in Iraq:
The last of Britain’s combat troops finished military operations in Iraq today, ending a six-year deployment at their base near Basra in the south of the country.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aslB2LAf_hWs
Turkish air offensive on PKK after six soldiers killed :
Air force jets bombed several targets along the border with northern Iraq, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Israel assassinates Hamas man in West Bank:
Israeli forces have attacked and killed a senior member of the democratically elected Palestinian government, Hamas, in the West Bank.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96302§ionid=351020202
Hamas vows to avenge killing of militant in West Bank:
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida told Xinhua by phone that “the crime of assassinating one of al-Qassam Brigades leaders will deserve a response.”
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/28/content_11450889.htm
‘Israel guilty for collapse of truce’:
In its 2009 annual report, formally released on Thursday, Amnesty International places sole blame on Israel for the breakdown in the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that led to Operation Cast Lead.
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Amnesty: Israel repeatedly breached laws of war in Gaza offensive:
‘Israeli forces repeatedly breached the laws of war, including by carrying out direct attacks on civilians and civilian buildings and attacks targeting Palestinian militants that caused a disproportionate toll among civilians,’
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Israel debates ‘loyalty’ law:
Bill to mandate jail for anyone who calls for end of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/05/200952716164623556.html
Muslim charity member gets 65 years in prison:
A founding member of what was once the nation’s largest Muslim charity today was sentenced to 65 years in prison for funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=10431150&nav=menu193_2
Sotomayor’s Jewish ties:
It doesn’t hurt that Sotomayor, 54, is a poster child for strong Jewish-Hispanic relations. In 1986, when she was in private legal practice, she joined one of the first young leadership tours of Israel sponsored by Project Interchange, which is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee.
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US, Koreas prepare for peninsula war:
South Korean and US troops go on higher alert amid Pyongyang’s threats of ‘a powerful strike’ and growing fears of a full-scale war in the peninsula.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96247§ionid=351020405
Maybe We Should Take the North Koreans at Their Word:
“The republic has conducted another underground nuclear testing successfully in order to strengthen our defensive nuclear deterrence.” – Washington must understand just how adroitly nuclear arms do appear to serve North Korea’s national security. In other words, perhaps we should recognize that they mean what they say.
www.huffingtonpost.com/tad-daley/maybe-we-should-take-the_b_207984.html
Grim forecasts for British economy:
It forecast that the UK economy would shrink by 4.1 percent this year, the biggest peace time contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and 0.4 percent in 2010.
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/brit-m28.shtml
GM reaches swap deal, but bankruptcy still lies ahead:
General Motors Corp. said Thursday that it reached a new debt-swap deal with bondholders that likely won’t save the automaker from imminent bankruptcy but should help speed the process.
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Change… What change ?
Delinquent Mortgages, Foreclosures Hit Record High:
About 12.07 percent of mortgage loans were delinquent or in the foreclosure process during the quarter, according to the survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association, an industry group. That is the highest ever recorded by the survey, which dates back to 1972. The figure reflects an 8 percent increase compared to the first quarter of 2008.
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Americans’ credit scores fall as they struggle to pay bills:
From the third quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2009 – the latest data available – the average TransUnion credit score dropped 6 points to 651, the credit bureau says. Scores fell more dramatically in states hardest hit by the housing bust: California saw a 10-point drop, for example, and Arizona, 11.
www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/credit/2009-05-26-credit-scores-recession_N.htm