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: 4,333
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1330
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$675,612,817,995
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$224,906,670,008
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
US Official Tastes Pakistanis’ Anger at America
By Irish Sun
‘ ‘You should know that we hate all Americans’,’ McHale said Abbasi told her. ‘’From the bottom of our souls, we hate you’,’ she recalled Abbasi’s statement.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23339.htm
CIA Accused of Third Torture Prison in Europe
By Britta Sandberg
As Americans continue to debate the torture era of the Bush administration, a new report has emerged about the alleged existence of a third secret prison used by the CIA in Europe. According to ABC News, the CIA operated a “black site” prison in Lithuania until the end of 2005.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23335.htm
Blackwater’s Unwritten Death Contract
By Ray McGovern
Hats off to Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times for ferreting out what it was that sent CIA Director Leon Panetta scurrying over to Congress in late June.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23341.htm
The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization
The marriage of fundamentalist mullahs with Ivy League Zionists at the service of the US.
By James Petras
The US imperial conquest of Iraq is built on the destruction of a modern secular republic. The cultural desert that remains (a Biblical ‘howling wilderness’ soaked in the blood of Iraq’s precious scholars) is controlled by mega-swindlers, mercenary thugs posing as ‘Iraqi officers’, tribal and ethnic cultural illiterates and medieval religious figures. They operate under the guidance and direction of West Point graduates holding ‘blue-prints for empire’, formulated by graduates of Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale and Chicago, eager to serve the interests of American and European multi-national corporations.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23342.htm
US Funding Trips To Israel
“Where Does the Hatred Come From?”
By Eli Clifton and Daniel Luban
Most striking of all, the SSI Israel trip is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. DHS’s funding of this venture is a concrete illustration of the ways that Islamophobic fringe groups have exploited the “global war on terror” for their own purposes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23336.htm
Boycott Israel
By Neve Gordon
An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it’s the only way to save his country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23343.htm
The Politics Of Terrorism
Ridge Accuses Bush White House of Political Use of Terror Alert System
By Foon Rhee
In his new book, the first Homeland Security chief, Tom Ridge, accuses top aides to President George W. Bush of pressing him to raise the terror alert level to influence the 2004 presidential election.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23338.htm
Will ‘The Wall Street Journal’ Denounce Alvaro Uribe?
Alvaro Uribe, Hugo Chavez, and the Hypocrisy of the American Right
By Daniel Luban
An enemy of Hugo Chavez is a friend of ours, regardless of how he stays in power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23337.htm
Obama’s Deafening Silence on Honduras
By Mark Weisbrot
Seven weeks after the coup in Honduras, the US is hindering efforts to restore President Manuel Zelaya to power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23340.htm
Over 50 killed in over 100 attacks on Afghan election day :
Afghan security chiefs said in a press conference that 17 Afghan army soldiers and police, and nine civilians were killed when Taliban conducted attacks in all four regions of the country plus Kabul.
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US, British occupation force soldiers killed in attacks in Afghanistan:
One NATO-led US and two British soldiers were killed in separate roadside bomb blasts in southern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
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“Taliban” ambush Afghan ballot paper truck, one killed:
“A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) was fired into the truck, which set the truck ablaze and killed a worker in charge of the voting centre, Mir Ayamuddin,” added Taj.
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SAS escape as Chinook is shot down ‘by enemy fire’ in Afghanistan:
As the elite troops disembarked the enemy rocket slammed into the side of the helicopter. Nobody was injured.
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Afghan election body denies Karzai team’s victory claim:
IEC spokesman said preliminary results from all provinces will come within three days. Both Karzai and Abdullah, the top presidential candidates, are claiming victory.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/21/content_11922558.htm
US Kills 12 People In Pakistan:
Locals said that six children and two women were among those killed. Three others were also injured.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/21/content_11923371.htm
Security forces kill 12 militants in Mohmand:
Pakistani security forces killed at least 12 militants on Friday in a tribal region near the Afghan border, the Frontier Corps said.
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Pakistan: At least eight militants killed in Bannu:
At least eight militants have been killed in clashes with security forces in the FR Janikhel area of Bannu District, DawnNews reported.
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CIA Hired Blackwater to Arm Afghan Drones:
The New York Times reported Friday that the company that used to be known as Blackwater has taken over from the Central Intelligence Agency the job of arming the agency’s Predator drones that patrol over Afghanistan.
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Another day of blasts leaves 30 dead in Iraq:
A string of bombings yesterday south of Baghdad killed at least 30 people and wounded nearly 200, stoking fears that more violence will follow this week’s deadly strikes in the Iraqi capital.
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Car bomb kills two in Baghdad:
A car bomb has killed two people and wounded twenty others at a market in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/200908/2663417.htm?desktop
Somalia : Attacks kill 24 in Mogadishu: :
The bloodshed comes a day after fighting killed at least 40 people in central Somalia as both sides tried to gain control of strategic towns.
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/08/21/somalia-violence021.html
Somali insurgents regain control in the south:
The Al Shabaab rebels are reported to have reclaimed the town of Bulahawa in a come back hit against the pro-government and supported group after being chased out earlier this week.
www.afrol.com/articles/33985
Iran lifts ban on nuclear inspectors:
Iran has lifted a yearlong ban and allowed UN inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor and has granted greater monitoring rights at another atomic site, diplomats said yesterday.
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Iran still not fully cooperative on nukes – U.S.:
Iran is still not fulfilling its obligations related to its nuclear activities, despite allowing U.N. inspectors access to a reactor and allowing an upgrade to monitoring at a uranium enrichment plant, a senior Obama administration official said on Friday.
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Gaza cancer patients have only painkillers:
Palestinians dying as Israel prevents 500 tons of donations of medical equipment to enter Gaza.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33824
MPs ‘regret’ use of UK arms by Israel in Gaza:
In a report published on Wednesday, the arms export controls committee recommended that the government “continue to do everything possible to ensure that this does not happen in future”.
www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/mps-regret-use-uk-arms-israel-gaza
War crime suspects must think twice:
The international condemnation over Israel’s winter invasion of Gaza and allegations of war crimes has made it increasingly uncomfortable, if not difficult, for members of the Israeli military to travel abroad.
electronicintifada.net/v2/article10726.shtml
U.S. group invests tax-free millions in East Jerusalem land:
American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, a nonprofit organization that sends millions of shekels worth of donations to Israel every year for clearly political purposes, such as buying Arab properties in East Jerusalem, is registered in the United States as an organization that funds educational institutes in Israel.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107975.html
Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession:
Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge.
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Lockerbie bombing:Megrahi: ‘A convenient scapegoat?’ :
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has left Scotland to return to Libya. With his departure, a lengthy chapter in Scots legal history has closed. But many questions remain – and they will not disappear along with the flight to Tripoli.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8211596.stm
Was Freed Lockerbie Bomber a Patsy?:
An official Scottish review body has declared that a “miscarriage of justice may have occurred” in the conviction of the Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
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Ridge accuses Bush White House of political use of terror alert system:
In his new book, the first Homeland Security chief, Tom Ridge, accuses top aides to President George W. Bush of pressing him to raise the terror alert level to influence the 2004 presidential election.
www.boston.com/news/politics/politica
lintelligence/2009/08/ridge_accuses_b.html
Federal judge limits use of hearsay evidence in Guantanamo cases:
While in normal criminal and civil cases hearsay is not accepted as evidence unless it meets specific criteria, it has frequently been allowed in terrorism cases because there either was no other evidence or presenting alternative evidence would have been too burdensome.
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/08
/federal-judge-limits-use-of-hearsay.php
EU states ‘agree’ Guantanamo deal:
Nine European Union member states are negotiating with Washington to take prisoners held at the jail in Cuba, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing unnamed officials in US President Barack Obama’s administration.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2009/08/200982018122433128.html
Days Away From Economic Chaos?:
America is just a few days away from a possible day of reckoning. I again call attention to this day, August 25, when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issues its 2nd Quarter report for 2009 on the state of health of American banks.
www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi116.html
What rebound?
Foreclosures rise as jobs and income drop:
Delinquency and foreclosure rates for U.S. mortgages continued to rise in the second quarter, with loans to the most qualified borrowers going bust at an unnerving clip, especially in hard-hit states such as Florida and California.
www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/74106.html?storylink=omni_popular