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 : 1271
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$669,019,654,940
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$223,115,636,106
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
When Killers Come Home: Part II
Warning Signs
By Dave Phillips
After coming home from Iraq, 21-year-old medic Bruce Bastien was driving with his Army buddy Louis Bressler, 24, when they spotted a woman walking to work on a Colorado Springs street. Bressler swerved and hit the woman with the car, according to police, then Bastien jumped out and stabbed her over and over.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23155.htm
“We Shall Remain”
From American Experience
By Jim Kirwan
“In the 1830's what we did to the Southeastern Indians was (and still is) ethnic cleansing.” These crimes that formed our national beginnings cry out to the universe for consequences-maybe that is why we are where we are today”
informationclearinghouse.info/article23156.htm
Iran : Riding The “Green Wave”
By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
Instead of U.S. citizens asking the question, What should we do about the current situation in the United States of America? (extended to those parts of the world that suffer beneath its myriad forms of violence and oppression), the Campaign for Peace and Democracy asks (#12): “What should we do about the current situation in Iran?”
informationclearinghouse.info/article23160.htm
A Chance for Real Democracy in Honduras
By Kevin Coleman
We are witnessing a democratic awakening of the Honduran people. This time, if democracy is restored, it will come from the bottom up, from university students camped out in stairways to protect journalists, from workers with cheap digital cameras, from campesinos hiking through mountains and flouting curfew to say to elites: “Hello! This is not how a democracy conducts itself.”
informationclearinghouse.info/article23159.htm
Israeli Soldiers’ War Crime Revelations from Gaza
Channel 4 Broadcast Video Report – By Alex Thomson
Israeli soldiers involved in the attacks on Gaza at the start of this year claim that they were ordered to fire, regardless of the risk to civilians.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23158.htm
Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups
By Amy Goodman
Anti-war activists in Olympia, Wash., have exposed U.S. Army spying and infiltration of their groups, as well as intelligence gathering by the U.S. Air Force, the federal Capitol Police and the Coast Guard.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23161.htm
Statistical Deceptions
By Paul Craig Roberts
Last week on NPR a professor in the Sloan School of Management at MIT explained that what is really at stake in the health care bill is the US government’s ability to borrow. In other words, the bill is about cutting health care costs, not about providing hard-pressed Americans with health care.
informationclearinghouse.info/article23157.htm
Another 30 killed as Nigeria hunts “Islamist” fighters:
Wednesday’s violence came after the army shelled a mosque and the home of Mohammed Yusuf, the group’s alleged leader, in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.
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Clash leaves 5 dead in SW Afghanistan:
Gun battle between Afghan police and Taliban insurgents claimed the lives of five including four militants in Ghor province southwest Afghanistan, provincial police chief Abdul Baqi said Wednesday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/29/content_11791945.htm
Afghan Blast Kills Two Civilians :
At least two Afghan civilians were killed as a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Kandahar on Wednesday
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The New War on Afghanistan and British Opinion:
More British lives have been lost in the last one month than any other month in the last seven years. But British government’s propaganda for war on Afghanistan continues
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Afghan presidential candidate quits:
An Afghan presidential hopeful Baz Mohammad Kufi on Wednesday quit in favor of sitting President Hamid Karzai and backed him to win reelection.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/29/content_11794623.htm
5 killed in bomb blast in NW Pakistan:
Five persons were killed and six others injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, local TV channel reported.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/29/content_11791718.htm
Taliban kill Pakistan militia leader: officials:
Taliban stormed the home of a pro-government Pakistani militia leader and killed him Wednesday as clashes between troops and Islamists flared in the Swat valley, officials said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090729/wl
_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwest
Musharraf snubs Pakistan Supreme Court:
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday ignored a summons from Pakistan’s top court to explain his decision to impose a state of emergency and controversially sack judges two years ago.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090729/wl
_sthasia_afp/pakistanjusticepoliticscourt
Motorcycle bomb kills eight people near Baghdad cinema:
The attack took place in the Shiite-dominated New Baghdad district in southeastern Baghdad around 7 p.m.
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n189177
4 killed in Iraq raid on Iranian camp:
A police official said that at least 300 people, including 25 women, had been injured
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2009/07/20097298342900607.html
As Many as 7 Killed in 2nd Day of Clashes at Iranian Exile Camp in Iraq :
Camp Ashraf, lies on a hot, flat plain 60 miles north of Baghdad and 60 miles west of the Iranian border. It is home to about 3,000 members of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahedeen, exiles committed to the overthrow of the Islamic revolutionary government in Tehran
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/world/
middleeast/30iraq.html?_r=1&ref=world
Defense Secretary Robert Gates:
U.S. may stay in Iraq past 2011: On a surprise visit to Baghdad, Gates said Iraqi officials have acknowledged that they might need American military support past 2011.
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Barzani re-elected as Iraqi Kurd president:
Massud Barzani was re-elected president of Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan and the two main Kurdish parties, which ran on a joint parliamentary list, won 57 percent of the vote in weekend elections, official results showed on Wednesday.
uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090729/twl-barzani
-re-elected-as-iraqi-kurd-pre-3cd7efd.html
Ahmadinejad warned to obey Iran leader:
“The people’s continued support for you depends on your unconditional obedience of the supreme leader and departing from this path will have consequences,” it said in a letter to Ahmadinejad published on Tuesday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090729/wl
_mideast_afp/iranpolitics_20090729065622
Iran frees vote protesters:
A lawmaker with parliament’s judicial committee also disclosed that about 30 people had been killed in the unrest that erupted after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, up from previous official figures of 20.
www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25851478-38201,00.html
Hypocrisy Alert:
Clinton “deplores” any abuse of prisoners in Iran:
“We believe that it is imperative for (Iran) … to release political prisoners and treat them appropriately and humanely.”
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090729/pl_nm/us_iran_usa_clinton
Russia-Iran Naval Maneuvers Begin in Caspian Sea:
Russia is joining up with Iran for joint naval exercises for the first time ever, according to the Iranian Mehr News Agency. The joint Russian-Iranian naval maneuvers, which were announced Wednesday, are taking place this week in the Caspian Sea.
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/168724
Iran: Israel must shed nuclear arms:
Iran’s foreign ministry has said the United States should concentrate on getting Israel to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, instead of criticising Tehran’s nuclear programme.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2009/07/2009727152242773625.html
Bolton: Israeli Attack Best Option on Iran:
The U.S. is seeking to dissuade Israeli from attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities – when such an act is likely the only way to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, says former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
www.newsmax.com/insidecover/bolton_
israel_iran_attack/2009/07/29/241402.html
Israeli tanks, bulldozers roll into Gaza:
The Israeli army has launched another cross border attack on the Gaza Strip, opening fire on villagers’ homes south of the impoverished sliver.
presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=101940§ionid=351020202
Israel to allow cement into Gaza:
The one-off consignment will also include some steel and is expected to be transferred “in the coming weeks,” he said.
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5g3tvzdVvHHjLrbHZGTk2oOijKUZQ
Israeli leader calls Obama ‘slave’:
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of Israel’s Shas Party, has called US President Barack Obama “a slave” who seeks to rule the world and control Tel Aviv’s affairs.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=101852§ionid=351020202
Kyrgyz police arrest up to 100 in election protests:
Foreign election observers have described the July 23 election in the former Soviet republic as flawed, with evidence of ballot box stuffing, inaccuracies in the voter lists and some evidence of multiple voting.
snipurl.com/o8q70
Chavez freezes ties with Colombia:
The announcement came a day after the Colombia government said weapons bought by Venezuela from Sweden had made their way to left-wing Farc guerrillas.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8173709.stm
US guns fuel Canada and Mexico crimes, UK gun crime remains rare:
Guns smuggled from the US arm criminals in Canada and Mexico, contributing to a higher murder rate in Canada and more intense drug crime conflict near the Mexican border, according to a study published today in a special issue of Criminology and Criminal Justice,
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/spu-ugf072709.php
70 feared dead as hope fades in Haiti wreck search:
At least 70 Haitian migrants are still thought to be missing two days after the boat in which they were travelling capsized off the Turks and Caicos Islands. Local police, who are being helped by the US coast guard, found another body on Wednesday morning, bringing the official death toll to 16.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas
/2009/07/2009729154712259171.html
Ireland to take 2 Guantanamo inmates:
Ireland has said it will accept two detainees from Guantanamo Bay, the latest European country to help Barack Obama, the US president, to fulfil his pledge to close the camp in Cuba.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/07/2009729132835827412.html