Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,339,771"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,331
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1328
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$675,317,525,306
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$224,826,453,697
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme
By Gareth Porter
Afghanistan’s presidential election has long been viewed by U.S. officials as a key to conferring legitimacy on the Afghan government, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his powerful warlord allies have planned to commit large-scale electoral fraud that could have the opposite effect.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23317.htm
Americans’ Mood Sours on Afghan War:
By Jennifer Agiesta and Jon Cohen
Majority in Post-ABC survey now say conflict not worth fighting.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23321.htm
Obama Still Trying to Define Victory in Afghanistan
By Ted Rall
When you can’t tell whether you’re winning or losing, you’re losing.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23319.htm
US Hires Death Squads
C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists
By Mark Mazzetti
The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23320.htm
GOP Senators Warn Holder Against CIA Abuse Inquiry
By Greg Miller
Such an investigation would distract the agency and ‘could leave us more vulnerable to attack,’ the lawmakers say in a letter.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23322.htm
Manufacturing Consent For The “War On Terror”
Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Service Game
By Julio Godoy
It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, enough to make 550 kg of explosives.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23318.htm
We Have the Moral High Ground
By Cindy Sheehan
While the so-called left is obsessed over supporting a very crappy Democratic health care plan, people in far away countries are being deprived of their health and very lives by the Obama Regime’s continuation of Bush’s ruinous foreign policy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23313.htm
Searching for the Depression-And Finding It!
Economic Stress Is Hidden, But It’s There in a Recovery That Isn’t.
By Danny Schechter
It’s all amazing, all devastating to our lives and futures, and yet you can’t necessarily see it if you don’t look, or know what to look for. No one is talking about our economic pain-not the right or the left, perhaps because it is not an “event” that you can cover live at a town hall.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23324.htm
A Film’s Travesty of Omissions
By John Pilger
A holocaust happened in East Timor, telling us more about rapacious Western power, its propaganda and true aims, than even current colonial adventures.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23314.htm
Land-Grabbing
The New Colonialism?
By Harry Underwood
It has been labeled a new form of colonialism by its detractors and it’s happening more and more. Land-grabbing – when a rich country or corporation buys up vast tracts of land in a poor country, often in Africa, to safeguard its supply of food or energy – has become increasingly common.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23315.htm
“Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster”
By Dr. Michael Hudson & Guns and Butter
Will Britain and the Netherlands accept Iceland’s condition? Trying to squeeze out more debt service than a country could pay requires an oppressive and extractive fiscal and financial regime, Keynes warned, which in turn would inspire a nationalistic political reaction to break free of creditor-nation demands. This is what happened in the 1920s when Germany’s economy was wrecked by the rigid ideology of the sanctity of debt.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23316.htm
Changing the Corporation
By Robert C. Hinkley
It makes no sense that government should provide the very wealthy with a tool that poses a continuous threat to the public interest. Government’s job is to protect the public interest, not sponsor those that destroy it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23323.htm
Over 50 killed in over 100 attacks on Afghan election day – Summary:
More than 50 people, about half of them Taliban, were killed in more than 130 attacks including dozens of rockets, suicide bombings throughout Afghanistan Thursday by the end of voting in presidential and provincial elections, officials said.
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Four US occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
Four US soldiers were killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military said Thursday, with security forces on alert for violence during voting in presidential and provincial elections.
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Complaint over Afghan poll ink:
One of the candidates in Afghanistan’s presidential election has called for polling to be halted after he was able to clean off the ink marking on his finger supposed to ensure against voter fraud.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/08/200982071544692829.html
Pakistan Taliban ‘picks new leader’:
The deputy chief of the Taliban in Pakistan says he has taken over as acting head of the group, but he denied that its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was dead.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/08/20098205342677175.html
Somalia fighting kills at least 45 -residents:
Fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops killed at least 45 people and wounded 30 others in separates battles in the south of the country on Thursday, witnesses said.
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Somalia fighters retake two towns:
Fighting started in Bula Burte, a town north of Mogadishu, the capital, on Thursday when government soldiers moved into the town which had been dominated by the opposition group.
english.aljazeera.net//news/africa/2009/08/2009820154933876871.html
Ethiopian troops back in central Somalia:
Ethiopian military forces on Thursday crossed the border into Somali central town of Beledweyne, some 206 miles (332 km) north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said. The heavily armed troops with armored vehicles got into the town early in the day and set up bases in the centre of the town.
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Kurdistan Democratic Party HQ attacked, four guards killed, injured:
Unknown gunmen attacked on Thursday the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, leaving several guards between dead and wounded.
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Two Iraqis killed, 10 wounded in Baghdad blast:
Two Iraqis were killed and 10 others were wounded on Thursday when a booby-trapped bike was detonated in Baghdad.
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Bodies and disbelief as security shattered in Baghdad:
Body parts, blood and the wreckage of cars littered downtown Baghdad on Wednesday after it was hit by massive attacks that shattered security and undermined the Iraqi people’s fragile hopes for peace.
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Iraq bombs are a warning to Maliki:
The bombings in Baghdad are more to do with Sunni disaffection than with the departure of American troops
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Diplomats: Iran gives way on increased monitoring of its nuclear facilities:
Diplomats say Iran has lifted a ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater monitoring rights at another atomic site.
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Poll: Only 12 percent of Israelis believe Obama supports Israel:
The poll also found that 64 per cent of Palestinians still feel Obama’s policy is more supportive of Israel, while 40 per cent of Israelis think it is more support of the Palestinians.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1108976.html
Sweden: Not party to envoy’s censure of IDF organ harvesting article:
The Swedish government on Thursday distanced itself from a statement by its ambassador to Israel, in which she criticized a newspaper article claiming Israel Defense Forces troops killed Palestinian youths and harvested their organs.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1108932.html
YEMEN: Thousands flee as fighting escalates in north: –
Some 10,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the northern governorate of Saada over the past two days as fighting between government troops and rebels continues to escalate, according to Sheikh Saleh Habra, a tribal leader from Saada.
www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85789
U.S. Counterinsurgency Unit to Stay in Philippines:
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has decided to keep an elite 600-soldier counterinsurgency operation deployed in the Philippines despite pressure to reassign its members to fulfill urgent needs elsewhere such as Afghanistan or Iraq, according to Pentagon officials.
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US defends deal to use Colombian bases:
In a direct response to Clinton’s statement, Venezuela’s firebrand leader Hugo Chavez — who has led regional outrage on the issue — claimed bluntly that the diplomats were lying. “They know what they are telling the world is not true,” Chavez told state television. “Nobody will believe” what Clinton and Bermudez are saying, he added.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090819/pl_afp/uscolombiamilitaryclinton
Guatemala: Impunity, Corruption Drive Wave of Kidnappings: –
Byron Ranulfo Rustrián was just 12 years old. He loved playing football and was a good student. On Jul. 23, a group of youngsters he didn’t know invited him to play a match and he agreed, but it was a trap: he was kidnapped and his body turned up five days later.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48141
More Deaths In US Immigrant Detention Facilities:
In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed Tuesday that the government had failed to disclose 11 more deaths in immigration detention facilities.
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Australia: No-warrant terrorism raids proposed:
The Federal Government has unveiled plans to toughen its counter-terrorism laws, including a change to allow police to break into a suspect’s home without getting approval from a judge.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/12/2653998.htm
Judge: US wrong to freeze Ohio charity’s assets:
The federal government must have probable cause to seize an organization’s assets even when it involves national security, a federal judge ruled in a case involving an Ohio-based charity accused of having ties to the militant Islamic group Hamas.
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FBI: Arm Boston Police With Assault Rifles:
Warren Bamford, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Boston, said Tuesday that he is baffled by opposition to a proposal to give some neighborhood police officers the semiautomatic weapons.
www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20451561/detail.html
UK ‘can’t find’ $13bn in military hardware:
Auditors have been unable to find 6.6 billion pounds ($13 billion) worth of British military equipment including vehicles, weapons and radios used by troops, a report said Thursday.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/20/2661663.htm?section=justin
Britons bottom of list for economic faith in government and banks:
Britons have less confidence in their government’s ability to weather the slump than people in every other major industrial nation except Japan, according to a global poll.
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Texas bank hit by California dreaming:
Guaranty Bank, an Austin-based savings institution with $13.5 billion in assets, is expected to be seized by the FDIC by the end of the week. According to multiple reports late Wednesday, Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (BBV) has won the bidding for Guaranty.
money.cnn.com/2009/08/19/news/comp
anies/texas.banks.fortune/index.htm
New jobless claims rise unexpectedly:
The Labor Department says the number of first-time jobless claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 576,000 last week, from a revised figure of 561,000. Wall Street economists expected a drop to 550,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
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Chicago shuts down to save money:
Public services in the US city of Chicago have been shut down for a day as the authorities face an expected budget shortfall of some $300m (£184m).
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8206433.stm