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 : 12712
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$669,295,104,531
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$223,190,462,036
The cost in your community
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U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
During his recent appearance in Washington, Mr. Maliki appeared to be contemplating a possible role for American forces after the December 2011 deadline for the removal of all American troops under the Status of Forces Agreement.
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Text of Colonel Reese’s Memo
Col. Timothy R. Reese
The general lack of progress in essential services and good governance is now so broad that it ought to be clear that we no longer are moving the Iraqis “forward.” Below is an outline of the information on which I base this assessment.
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Obama’s Empire
An Unprecedented Network of Military Bases That is Still Expanding
By Catherine Lutz
Asked why the US has a vast network of military bases around the world, Pentagon officials give both utilitarian and humanitarian arguments. Utilitarian arguments include the claim that bases provide security for the US by deterring attack from hostile countries and preventing or remedying unrest or military challenges; that bases serve the national economic interests of the US, ensuring access to markets and commodities needed to maintain US standards of living.
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Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire
And Ten Steps to Take to Do So
By Chalmers Johnson
According to the 2008 official Pentagon inventory of our military bases around the world, our empire consists of 865 facilities in more than 40 countries and overseas U.S. territories. We deploy over 190,000 troops in 46 countries and territories.
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EXCLUSIVE:
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Speaks from Nicaraguan Border
By Democracy Now! – Audio and Transcript
Who’s Behind the Coup, His Attempts to Return Home, the Role of the United States and More.
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Judge Orders Young Gitmo Detainee’s Release
Mohammed Jawad Arrived At Guantanamo At About Age 12
By NEDRA PICKLER
A judge ruled today that one of the youngest detainees brought to Guantánamo Bay is being held illegally and must be released.
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Torture Report a ‘Security Risk’
By The Independent
Britain’s national security and the lives of its citizens will be put at risk if the High Court publishes its findings on what happened to former terror detainee Binyam Mohamed at the hands of the CIA. That was the effect of letters from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and CIA officials, two judges were told in London yesterday.
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How You Finance Goldman Sachs’ Profits
By Nomi Prins
This is perhaps the most important thing I learned over my years working on Wall Street, including as a managing director at Goldman Sachs: Numbers lie. In a normal time, the fact that the numbers generated by the nation’s biggest banks can’t be trusted might not matter very much to the rest of us. But since the record bank profits we’re now hearing about are essentially created by massive federal funding, perhaps it behooves us to dig beneath their data.
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Senior “Islamist” among 200 killed in Nigeria :
“People are concerned that this violence could lead to total chaos and a state of emergency in some of the northern states of Nigeria.”
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/200973074797836.html
Troops ‘killed’ in Algeria ambush:
At least 11 soldiers have been killed in an ambush by alleged Islamic fighters, local media has reported.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast
/2009/07/200973072317861505.html
Bombs kill 12 in north and west Iraq, say police:
Seven were in a building used by a Sunni-backed political group in Diyala
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32221926/ns/world_news-conflict_in_iraq/
UK hostages ‘killed in Iraq’:
Two more British hostages held in Iraq are “very likely” to have been killed by their captors, meaning four of a group of five Britons seized in May 2007 are now dead, the UK prime minister has said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeas
t/2009/07/2009729173646927865.html
Tony Blair to testify at Iraq war inquiry :
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will be called to testify to a panel investigating Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war, the head of the inquiry said on Friday, promising a thorough and independent probe.
tvnz.co.nz/content/2881262
Afghan bomb kills 11, including children:
A “Taliban bomb” attack killed 11 civilians, including children and toddlers, going to a shrine in Afghanistan on Friday, police said following a surge of attacks ahead of key elections.
www.canada.com/news/Afghan+bomb+
kills+including+children/1803447/story.html
Taliban says it will disrupt Afghan poll:
A U.S. service member was fatally injured in a rocket or mortar attack in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. command said. The death brought to 41 the number of U.S. service members to die in the Afghan war in July, the bloodiest month for U.S. forces in the eight-year war.
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Three militants killed in North Waziristan:
According to sources, militants attacked the Gerdai Rogha post, about 40km south of Miramshah. Frontier Corps personnel returned fire and killed three of the attackers.
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Two killed as rocket hits Pakistan’s tribal area:
Two persons were killed including a woman and many children were injured when a rocket landed on a house in Tehsil Baramira of Khyber tribal agency in Pakistan’s northwest, the private Geo News reported Thursday
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/30/content_11800156.htm
Holbrooke casts doubt on success of Pakistan’s Swat Valley offensive:
The US envoy said it was unclear if the military had defeated the Taliban in the region or simply driven them underground.
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0730/p99s01-duts.html
Deadly blast kills 2 on Spanish island:
The attack comes a day after a similar attack hit northern Spain, which authorities blamed on Eta, the Basque separatist group.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/
2009/07/2009730132423494765.html
Iran welcomes Iraqi raid on “exile” camp:
The United States has listed the PMOI as a terrorist group. Iran regards PMOI as a terrorist group after implicating it in the assassinations of several high-ranking Iranian officials, including the president and prime minister in 1980.
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Iraq to Close Iranian Exiles’ Camp :
Estimates of the number of U.S. citizens in Camp Ashraf range from 25 to 75, according to U.S. officials. Many would likely be ineligible to return to the U.S. since they have received training in explosives and insurgency tactics, these officials said.
online.wsj.com/article/SB124890356246591441.html
Police charge anti-government protesters in Tehran:
Iranian police fired teargas and wielded batons to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters attending a graveside memorial today for victims of a government crackdown in the wake of the disputed presidential election.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/
30/iranian-opposiition-attend-memorial
Israeli troops open fire on Palestinian homes in Khan Younes:
Israeli armory vehicles, stationed at the borders between Gaza Strip and Israel, opened fire randomly at Palestinian farmers and their houses in the district of Farheen.
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World Health Organization: Israel-led blockade limits medical supplies in Gaza:
Gazans have limited access to proper medical supplies because of an Israel-led blockade on the Hamas-controlled region, and equipment now in use is often broken or outdated, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1104153.html
Saudi Arabia: No Israel Recognition without Withdrawal:
Riyadh reiterated yesterday its firm stand on normalization with Israel which will not happen before full withdrawal from all the occupied Arab territories and Tel Aviv’s acceptance of the two Palestinian and Israeli states principle.
www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=17605
US threatens Eritrea with sanctions:
The administration of Barack Obama, the US president, is “deeply concerned and very frustrated” with Eritrea over its “arming, supporting, funding” of fighters who have launched attacks on Somali government targets
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/07/2009729173824992324.html
Micheletti Backs Arias’s Plan to End Honduras Crisis, NYT Says:
Honduras’s acting President Roberto Micheletti has agreed to back the San Jose accord that would allow for ousted President Manuel Zelaya to return to power, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed officials.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a7v4Z21SjaWk
Honduran rulers insist Zelaya cannot be president:
The de facto Honduran government insisted on Thursday it would not allow ousted President Manuel Zelaya to return to office, cooling hopes of a deal to end a political crisis following a coup last month.
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Honduran Coup Over?:
Bloomberg is reporting that Honduran coup leader, Roberto Micheletti has accepted the Arias plan, which means — if true — that Manuel Zelaya will be, with conditions, as president. Though Micheletti is still begging for time, saying he needs Arias’s help in convincing his co-coup leaders to agree.
www.counterpunch.org/grandin07302009.html
UK Government to be Sued For Involvement in CIA Kidnapping Program:
Former Gitmo Detainee Alleges Stopover on British Island Makes UK Complicit in Torture
www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8194127&page=1
Helping the victims of Guantánamo:
Within a day of his inauguration the new US president, Barack Obama, promised the world, in no uncertain terms, that the world’s most infamous prison’s days were numbered. As of today, that’s 190 days – and counting.
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As many as 70 dead as search ended for Haiti migrants:
Miami-based coast guards had helped local officials rescue at least 118 people from the Atlantic Ocean in the past two days, but on Thursday they said that the remaining missing were likely to be dead.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/07/200973045116233738.html
U.S. Rejects Call for Immigration Detention Rules:
The Obama administration has refused to make legally enforceable rules for immigration detention, rejecting a federal court petition by former detainees and their advocates and embracing a Bush-era inspection system that relies in part on private contractors.
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29detain.html
Napolitano Unveils New Antiterror Plans:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano outlined Wednesday the Obama administration’s domestic approach to preventing terrorist attacks — a strategy that will rely in large measure on refining and expanding initiatives launched under President George W. Bush.
online.wsj.com/article/SB124887586476590211.html