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 : 1357
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$680,549,655,196
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$226,247,762,701
The cost in your community
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Ministry of Defence Blocked Warning that Britain Faces Afghan Defeat
By Stephen Grey
The decision to block publication of the critical academic paper in the army’s in-house journal coincides with a scathing attack by a senior US military officer on the “arrogance” of UK tactics in Iraq.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23438.htm
Myth v. Fact: Afghanistan
By Malou Innocent
The Taliban, the Haqqani network, and other guerilla-jihadi movements indigenous to this region have no shadowy global mission. In fact, what we are witnessing is a local and regional ethnic Pasthun population — divided arbitrarily by a porous 1,500-mile border — fighting against what they perceive to be a hostile occupation of their region.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23441.htm
US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World
By Paul Craig Roberts
The attitude of the “freedom and democracy” US government is that anyone who complains of illegality or immorality or inhumanity is a traitor.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23439.htm
FBI Whistleblower: Members of Congress ‘Bribed, Blackmailed’
By Brad Friedman
We’ll look at the answers given by Edmonds during her deposition in regard to bribery and blackmail of current and former members of the U.S. Congress, including Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased) and an unnamed, currently-serving, married Democratic Congresswoman said to have been video-taped in a Lesbian affair by Turkish agents for blackmail purposes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23442.htm
Words Matter
By Ralph Nader
Ever wonder what’s happening to words once they fall into the hands of corporate and government propagandists? Too often reporters and editors don’t wonder enough. They ditto the words even when the result is deception or doubletalk.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23446.htm
Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows
By Thom Shanker
The United States signed weapons agreements valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or 68.4 percent of all business in the global arms bazaar, up significantly from American sales of $25.4 billion the year before.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23443.htm
Israel Gets Tough on Intermarriage
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
September 07, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23440.htm
How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform
– and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It
By Matt Taibbi
Let’s start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It’s become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment – a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn’t be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23445.htm
Unhappy Labor Day
By Matthew Rothschild
It’s Labor Day and the American worker doesn’t have a lot to celebrate. Unemployment stands at 9.7 percent-that’s 15 million people out of work, officially, and millions more unofficially.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23444.htm
Afghan governor says over 130 killed in US attack:
A district governor in northern Afghanistan said Monday that more than 130 people were killed in a NATO airstrike last week that struck two Taliban-hijacked fuel trucks.
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Afghan Rights Group Says Mostly Civilians Killed in NATO Airstrike:
An independent Afghan rights group says most of those killed last week in a controversial NATO airstrike on two hijacked fuel trucks were “non-combatants.” The deadly attack is now the subject of a NATO investigation.
www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-07-voa24.cfm
3 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan Rocket Attack:
Police officials Monday said the rocket was fired overnight from outside Kabul and landed in the western part of the city.
www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-07-voa13.cfm
Canada confirms two occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
Five other Canadian troops were injured in the same explosion Sunday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090907/wl_canada
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Second Dutch occupation force soldier in two days killed in Afghanistan:
One Dutch soldier was killed and three others injured during operations in Afghanistan Monday, Peter van Uhm, chief of staff of the Dutch army confirmed Monday evening.
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US occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan:
Sgt. Randy M. Haney, 27, died Sunday in Nangarhar of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked with small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fires.
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Troops ransack Afghan hospital: Swedish charity:
A Swedish charity has claimed that foreign troops entered its hospital in Afghanistan, smashed doors and tied up staff and patients’ relatives, violating agreements between aid workers and the military.
www.thelocal.se/21936/20090907/
Karzai to talk with Taliban within 100 days: media:
He implicitly confirmed Saudi Arabia is involved in trying to broker talks between his government and the Islamist militia, who were driven from power in 2001 and are now fighting an insurgency against Afghan and NATO forces.
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Fake Afghan Poll Sites Favored Karzai, Officials Assert :
The fake sites, as many as 800, existed only on paper, said a senior Western diplomat in Afghanistan, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the political delicacy of the vote. Local workers reported that hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of votes for Mr. Karzai in the election last month came from each of those places. That pattern was confirmed by another Western official based in Afghanistan.
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Five soldiers among 20 killed in Pakistan violence – Summary:
Five soldiers and 15 “Islamist” militants were killed Monday in a bombing and two separate aerial attacks by Pakistani forces and US pilotless aircrafts in Pakistan’s north- western tribal region bordering Afghanistan, security officials said.
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US Attack Kills 4 In Pakistan :
A US missile hit a house and a religious school in Pakistan’s “lawless” tribal belt on the Afghan border Monday killing at least four people and wounding six others, security officials said.
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Pakistan: US Ambassador Forces Newspaper To Censor US Critic:
United States Ambassador Anne W. Patterson intervened with one of the largest newspaper groups in Pakistan to force it to block today a decade-old weekly column by a prominent academic and critic of US policies.
www.daily.pk/news-break-anne-
patterson-blocks-shireen-mazari-10053/
Nineteen killed in spate of Iraq bombings:
Nineteen people died across Iraq on Monday in a spate of bloody attacks, including a suicide car bombing that killed eight at a security checkpoint in the former Al-Qaeda stronghold of Ramadi.
uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090907/twl-nineteen
-killed-in-spate-of-iraq-bom-ba734b9.html
Will not surrender nuclear rights: Iran:
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced that Tehran’s “undeniable” nuclear rights are non-negotiable and nuclear talks with global powers in the future would be narrowed down to “cooperation on peaceful use of atomic energy” and “non-proliferation”.
www.hindu.com/2009/09/08/stories/2009090855381500.htm
Ahmadinejad: Iran ‘will never negotiate’ over nuclear ‘rights’:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday Iran will neither halt uranium enrichment nor negotiate over its nuclear rights but is ready to sit and talk with world powers over “global challenges.”
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n193563
IAEA boss complains of impasse on Iran:
The Egyptian diplomat, who has been accused by the West of being too soft on Tehran, also charged that Iran was continuing to defy the UN Security Council in refusing to suspend uranium enrichment.
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New Iran sanctions get rising support:
Plans to impose tough new sanctions on Iran in order to get it to halt its nuclear programme would receive strong public backing in the European Union and in the United States, according to a poll for the Financial Times.
www.gulfnews.com/region/Iran/10347136.html
Israeli Cabinet Rejects Full Illegal Settlement Freeze:
Brushing off a reprimand from Washington, Israeli Cabinet ministers lined up behind a plan to approve construction of hundreds of new housing units in illegal West Bank settlements.
www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-06-voa13.cfm
Palestinians: Israel vow to halt settlements is void:
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Monday that Israel’s decision to construct nearly 500 new housing units in the West Bank prior to declaration of a settlement freeze further undermined any belief that it is a credible partner for peace.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112924.html
New American Poll: Support Israel, Blame Hamas:
A majority of Americans support Israel and blame Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, according to a new poll commissioned by The Israel Project.
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133289
Stone film says U.S. demonises Chavez: –
Director Oliver Stone says the U.S. media and government have demonised Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leftist South American leaders, and argues in a new film that they were right to stand up to Washington.
uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5862O020090907
Traficant: Government “had to cheat to convict me” —
Traficant implied that witnesses in his 2002 trial were pressured by the government to testify against him. He claimed that, in one case, a potential witness was told his parents would be deported to Nigeria if he didn’t testify. The individual, whom Traficant did not name, refused to testify and was deported to Nigeria himself, according to Traficant.
rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/07/traficant-government-cheated/
Credit Rating Agencies Took “Bribes” for Higher Ratings:
The ratings agencies effectively took bribes for higher ratings, just like people who knowingly authenticate forged art so that they will earn a higher fee:
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Study: 2 out of 5 working-age Californians jobless:
A report released Sunday says two of five working-age Californians do not have a job, underscoring the challenges in one of the toughest job markets in decades. A new study has found that the last time employment levels among this group were this low was February 1977.
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