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’s War On Iraq: 4,328
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1268
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$668,388,242,260
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$222,944,144,912
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Recalling the Downing Street Minutes
By Ray McGovern
Seven years ago this week, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair gathered his top national security advisers at 10 Downing St. to hear a report from U.K. intelligence chief Richard Dearlove, just back in London from face-to-face talks with then-CIA Director George Tenet in Washington.
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The Big Lie of Afghanistan
By Malalai Joya
You must understand that the government headed by Hamid Karzai is full of warlords and extremists who are brothers in creed of the Taliban. Many of these men committed terrible crimes against the Afghan people during the civil war of the 1990s.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23140.htm
Saving the Bankers With a Make-Believe War
By: Peter Chamberlin
Emergency measures, both economic and military, have been forced upon us, to carry on a war that is destroying both freedom and democracy, while maintaining the fiction that the war defends both.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23143.htm
The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High
By John Miller
Although you have to dig into the statistics to know it, unemployment in the United States is now worse than at any time since the end of the Great Depression.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23144.htm
Zelaya Supporters Claim Second Protester Killed
Video Report
Supporters of Manuel Zelaya, the ousted Honduran president, say that a second demonstrator has been killed as the country’s political crisis deepens, and have pointed the finger at security forces.
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Honduras and the Three-Ring Circus
By Al Giordano
Today Clinton proved, once and for all, that she is not competent to do the job of foreign minister. What an asshole. It is Clinton who demonstrated that she is reckless about democracy.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23136.htm
Spitzer: Federal Reserve is ‘a Ponzi Scheme, an Inside Job’
By Daniel Tencer
The Federal Reserve – The quasi-autonomous body that controls the US’s money supply – is a “Ponzi scheme” that created “bubble after bubble” in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23142.htm
Murdoch: A Cultural Chernobyl
By John Pilger
In 1995, Murdoch flew Tony and Cherie Blair first-class to Hayman Island, Australia, where the aspiring war criminal spoke about “the need for a new moral purpose in politics”, which included the lifting of government regulations on the media. Murdoch shook his hand warmly. The next day the Sun commented: “Mr Blair has vision, he has purpose and he speaks our language on morality and family life.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23145.htm
Health Care Hypocrisy
By Ralph Nader
His political opponents become bolder with each day as they see his party base in Congress weakening, his polls dropping, and a confused public being saturated with unrebutted propaganda by the insatiable profiteering, subsidized health care giants.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23138.htm
At least 42 killed in Nigeria attack: :
At least 70 Nigerians armed with guns and hand grenades attacked the police station in Bauchi, but they later retreated after heavy fighting with security forces, officials said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009726131716385625.html
16 killed as Colombia ‘bombs Farc camp’:
The aerial bombing, south of the capital Bogota, was part of a hunt for the military chief of the Farc rebels, Jorge Briceno – known as “Mono Jojoy”.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8169086.stm
Afghanistan : 22 killed in weekend attacks:
A wave of Taliban-linked violence across Afghanistan over the weekend killed 22 people including insurgents, a foreign soldier and two Afghan troops, authorities said Sunday.
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/444890/1/.html
US occupation force soldier killed in Afghan Battle:
July has been the deadliest month for U.S. and NATO forces in the Afghan war. Some 60,000 U.S. forces now operate in Afghanistan – a record number.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/26/world/main5189205.shtml
Pakistan arrests Swat leader:
Maulana Sufi Mohammed, who brokered a failed deal with Islamabad that would have seen a stricter interpretation of sharia – or Islamic law – in Swat was seized on Sunday in the city of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP)
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/07/2009726125624103107.html
Movement of US, Nato troops worries Waziristan tribes:
They said the Nato troops were armed with helicopter gunships, tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and had started establishing camps and checkpoints along the border.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=23487
Report: US commanders ‘incompetent’:
An unpublished report into one of the US Army’s darkest days, when nine soldiers were killed by the Taliban at a remote Afghan outpost, has branded their commanders incompetent.
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6 dead as suicide bomber hits Chechen capital:
Four police officers who tried to stop the suicide bomber were killed at the scene in Grozny, the Chechen capital, on Sunday and one other died on the way to hospital, the ITAR-TASS news agency quoted a senior security official as saying.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/07/2009726154633115645.html
Soldiers in Colorado slayings tell of Iraq horrors:
Soldiers from an Army unit that had 10 infantrymen accused of murder, attempted murder or manslaughter after returning to civilian life described a breakdown in discipline during their Iraq deployment in which troops murdered civilians, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Maliki says arrest of US troop was mistake:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said an Iraqi officer who ordered the detention of US soldiers last week after they killed three Iraqis had acted “out of line.”
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090726/pl_afp/usiraqmilitarymaliki
Why are U.S.-allied refugees still branded as ‘terrorists?’:
Almost every day for three years, prison guards at one of Saddam Hussein’s most notorious prisons tortured Sami Alkarim. Now, in a cruel twist of fate, the accomplished Iraqi artist is being treated like a terrorist by the U.S., the country where he sought refuge.
www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/72362.html
Iraq: opposition slate charges fraud in Kurdish elections:
On July 25, the day after the vote, an opposition party claimed there had been violations in the presidential and parliamentary elections in Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region
ww4report.com/node/7628
Iran will strike Israel nuclear sites if attacked:
Iran has the capability to strik Israel’s nuclear sites firmly and will do so if it comes under attack, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday.
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Clinton mum on Mideast defense umbrella:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Sunday she would not reveal any specifics of a possible defense umbrella to protect Mideast allies against Iran’s nuclear program while insisting Washington remained open to dialogue with Tehran.
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Clinton’s ‘defense umbrella’ has murky history: –
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton set off tremors in the Middle East this week when she said a nuclear Iran could be contained by a U.S. “defense umbrella” – an offhand remark that appears to have emerged from obscure Washington policy debates and her own presidential campaign rhetoric.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090725/ap_
on_go_ca_st_pe/us_clinton_iran_nuclear
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
US Sends Senior Officials to Israel:
Iran will top the agenda when American Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrives in Israel on Monday. Gates is expected to urge Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying the planned U.S. dialogue with the Islamic Republic deserves time to bear fruit.
www.globalsecurity.org/military/library
/news/2009/07/mil-090725-voa02.htm
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Hillary Clinton: Iran’s pursuit of nukes ‘futile’:
”What we want to do is to send a message to whoever is making these decisions, that if you’re pursuing nuclear weapons for the purpose of intimidating, of projecting your power, we’re not going to let that happen,” Clinton said.
www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25426.html
In case you missed it:
Director of National Intelligence: Iran Has Not “Re-Started” Its Nuclear Weapons Program :
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) asked Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair to address the “confusion” about what the intelligence says about Iran’s weapons capacity. Blair said the intelligence community has assessed that Iran does not possess any highly-enriched uranium
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UK MPs urge talks with Hamas:
The British parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee said in a report on Sunday it stood by a recommendation it first made two years ago that the government should engage politically with moderate elements within Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/07/2009725223738274557.html
Clinton: Israel to agree to temporary freeze of illegal settlements:
Israel will agree to temporarily freeze construction in settlements in the framework of new understandings that Jerusalem will reach with Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told European foreign ministers last week
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1102806.html
Laundered US cash may be from Israel’:
At least some of the millions of dollars allegedly laundered by five of the rabbis arrested last week in the US came from Israeli sources
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Rabbi Busts Stun World’s Largest Jewish Enclave:
Brooklyn In Awe As FBI Hauls Off 1 Prominent Figure After Another Allegedly Connected To N.J. Corruption Probe
wcbstv.com/local/bid.rig.nj.2.1098658.html
U.S. Professor: I told FBI about kidney trafficking 7 years ago:
The alleged crimes of the Brooklyn man arrested Thursday for dealing in black-market kidneys were first reported by an anthropologist from the University of California, Berkeley, who learned of the man’s suspected involvement through her research.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1102799.html
Honduran Military Backs Talks as Zelaya Vows to Camp at Border:
Honduras’s military said it will support negotiations to solve a monthlong political crisis as ousted President Manuel Zelaya vowed to camp out on the border after briefly crossing into the Central American nation.
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Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Sees U.S. Support Waning:
Disheartened supporters of Manuel Zelaya trickled home from the Nicaraguan border on Sunday and the ousted Honduran president complained that U.S. condemnation of his removal from power was waning.
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Chavez: US seeks to legitimize Honduran coup:
“What they (the US and its regional allies) are trying to do is freeze the battle until the election in November, when the coup (leaders) will wash their hands,” he was quoted as saying.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=101633§ionid=351020704
US outrage over “rigged” elections does not extend to Kyrgyzstan:
The brazen rigging of an election, the repression of the opposition and the use of police violence and live ammunition against demonstrators has been met with silence and indifference on the part of the Obama administration and the US media.
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/pers-j25.shtml
The CIA, licensed to kill:
The agency has been involved in planning assassinations since at least 1954.
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary
/la-oe-wise22-2009jul22,0,2126028.story
Report: Bush mulled sending troops into Buffalo:
The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090725/ap
_on_go_pr_wh/us_terror_domestic_raid
Bush Weighed Using Military in Arrests:
Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/25detain.html?_r=1
Government Might Allow U.S. Trial for Detainee:
The decision came after a federal judge said last week that the government’s case for continuing to detain the prisoner, Mohammed Jawad, was “riddled with holes” and that the Justice Department had been “dragging this out for no good reason.”
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/25gitmo.html
Obama administration bars torture investigators from Guantánamo Bay:
The Obama administration is now blocking efforts by human rights investigators from the United Nations to interview detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison.
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/guan-j25.shtml
Canadians happy with primary health care, study says:
A large-scale survey finds that most Canadians have high praise for their family doctor
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