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: 4,336
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1355
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$680,231,692,218
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$226,161,388,002
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Afghanistan Isn’t Worth one More American Life
By Joseph L. Galloway
For God’s sake, don’t ratchet up slowly, buying time with the bodies of dead and wounded American soldiers, while you try to sell the wrong war in the wrong place against the wrong enemy to the American people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23431.htm
Sanitizing War and Occupation
Photo of Dying Marine Draws Fire from Pentagon
By Matthew Shaer
Warning : Article contains photographs depicting the reality and horror war
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the Associated Press decision to release a photograph of a US Marine wounded during a battle in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. The Marine, Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. He later died of his wounds.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23430.htm
Palestinians ‘Seriously Considering’ One-state:
The Elders’ View Of the Middle East
By Jimmy Carter
A majority of the Palestinian leaders with whom we met are seriously considering acceptance of one state, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23433.htm
The Missing Link In Palestinian Organ Theft?
By Jonathan Cook
The doctor behind the plunder of body parts, Prof Yehuda Hiss, appointed director of the Abu Kabir institute in the late 1980s, has never been jailed despite admitting to the organ theft and he continues to be the state’s chief pathologist at the institute.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23434.htm
World War II:
An Unspeakable Horror Now Encrusted in Myths
By Robert Higgs
The United States actually began to participate in the war almost immediately, but its participation remained for the most part covert until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23432.htm
Tell Me Why, Does It Have To Be Like This
Video and Text
Tell me why(why, why do we pass the blame)
Tell me why (why, why does it never end)
Can someone tell us why we cannot just be friends?
Why, why?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22710.htm
In Case You Missed It
Exposed: The Carlyle Group
Video
I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.htm
Ninth Circuit Rules: “Ashcroft Is Not Above The Law”
By Mike Whitney
In a critical case which could determine the future of “preventive detention” in the U.S., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ex-Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued for arresting Muslims as material witnesses as a pretext for investigating their possible links to terrorism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23435.htm
After Obama
By David Michael Green
Human beings, by and large, like to be led. They like their leaders to inspire their confidence – even when doing so takes the form of the most fantastically shallow dress-up kind of blowhard buffonery, à la George W. Bush – so that they don’t have to think too much about how little personal confidence they themselves actually possess.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23436.htm
Anatomy of American Ignorance
By Bill Noxid
In the brief six month or so since his election, this president hasn’t missed a single opportunity to sacrifice the desires of the electorate on the altar of the Corporation, and certainly this embarrassing healthcare reform debacle is yet another prime example.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23437.htm
123 militants killed in Pak tribal belt clashes:
Paramilitary troops killed 43 militants yesterday in the Khyber tribal region, where a crackdown on the banned Lashkar-e-Islam and other militant groups was launched six days ago, reports said today.
snipurl.com/rn7qg
US killed Zia with Pak internal power help:
Ex-spymaster: US and “internal powers” were behind the 1988 plane crash that killed General Zia-ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1978 till his death, a former Pakistani spymaster has claimed.
snipurl.com/rn7qz
Pakistan to address Chinese concerns over US Marines:
Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Luo Zhaohui, on Friday expressed concern over the expansion of the US embassy in Islamabad. “
www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/
ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2023821&Language=en
Troops kill 3 Taliban insurgents in W Afghanistan:
Gun battle between Afghan forces and Taliban fighters left three insurgents dead in Farah province west of Afghanistan, an official said Sunday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/06/content_12005898.htm
French occupation force soldier killed in Afghan attack:
A French soldier injured in an attack in Afghanistan died of his injuries in an army hospital in Germany on Sunday, the French defence ministry announced.
snipurl.com/rn7u6
U.S. Occupation Force Soldier Killed in Eastern Afghanistan :
At least 302 occupation force soldiers have been killed so far this year, compared with the death toll of 294 for the whole of 2008
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=avNEUDjhSjQg
Polish occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan:
Poland’s Defense Ministry says a Polish soldier has been killed and five others wounded by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3772359,00.html
McChrystal tries to calm Afghans after air strike:
In an unprecedented televised address to the Afghan people, the general said his forces had launched the air strike against what they thought was a Taliban target. He promised to make the outcome of an investigation public.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL12983720090905
U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan:
Despite a troop increase, no progress has been reported on President Obama’s goal of destroying al-Qaeda’s sanctuary along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
snipurl.com/rn7vh
New Afghan ‘poll frauds’ emerge:
Further evidence has come to light of widespread fraud during the recent Afghan presidential election.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8239500.stm
At some Afghan polling places, Karzai got every vote:
Detailed polling records released by an Afghanistan election commission reveal numerous polling places in Kandahar Province where all the votes were delivered to a single candidate – incumbent President Hamid Karzai .
news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090905/wl_mcclatchy/3306343
Votes Thrown Out In Afghanistan Elections:
In Afghanistan, election officials have thrown out votes from 447 polling stations because of fraud allegations. How many votes were actually voided by the Afghan Independent Election Commission is unclear.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112604214
Hamas makes case for reconciliation:
The leader of Hamas has called for Palestinian reconciliation before elections, saying unless his movement is accepted by its rival Fatah, democracy will not lead to unity.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2009/09/200996141450326551.html
Not all Jews appreciate Israel’s new anti-assimilation campaign:
A day after mounting a scare-tactic campaign to prevent the assimilation of Diaspora Jews, the Prime Minister’s Office and Jewish Agency received some 200 calls, most of them reporting names of Jews living abroad. However, many callers also blasted the campaign – which describes assimilation as a “strategic national threat.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112400.html
Fact or fiction? ‘Times’:
Mossad staged Russian ship hijacking:
The ship, called The Arctic Sea and flying a Maltese flag of convenience, was officially carrying a cargo of timber worth £1.3 million and vanished along the route from Finland to Algeria on July 24. It was recovered west of Africa on August 17 when eight alleged pirates were arrested on suspicion of hijacking the vessel.
snipurl.com/rn7wn
Iran claims it developed stealth missile interceptor system:
”Today, the military is able to both detect stealth cruise missiles and destroy them,” the television quoted Miqani as saying. He gave no further details.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112698.html
Chavez backs Iran nuclear strategy:
Chavez, who was visiting the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday, said that Iran had the right to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast
/2009/09/200995144738919572.html
North Korea drops a uranium bombshell:
Suddenly, North Korea’s peace offensive has exploded in a mushroom cloud with word from Pyongyang that the North’s nuclear wizards are about to enter “the completion stage” of their program to develop nuclear warheads with highly enriched uranium.
www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/KI05Dg01.html
Confronting Russia? U.S. Marines In The Caucasus:
On August 21 the chief of the U.S. Marine Corps, General James Conway, arrived in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi to begin the training of his host country’s military for deployment to the Afghan war theater under the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
www.worldproutassembly.org/arch
ives/2009/09/confronting_rus.html
The Pentagon and Oil:
The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of energy in the world. The American GI is the most energy-consuming soldier ever seen on the field of war. In 2005, The U.S. Navy was the largest diesel fuel user in the world.
indexresearch.blogspot.com/2008/07
/index-research-pentagon-and-oil.html
US unemployment continues to rise:
The US unemployment rate has risen to 9.7 per cent, the highest level for 26 years, government data for August has shown.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/
2009/09/200994164640451919.html