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: 4,661
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1373
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$681,115,830,380
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$226,401,564,289
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
A 9/11 Reality Check
By Robert Scheer
In blind and wrathful retaliation for 9/11 we wreaked havoc on Iraq, a nation that our then-president knew had not attacked us, and we continue to slaughter peasants in Afghanistan who aren’t able to find Manhattan on a map.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23456.htm
Europe’s Complicity in Evil
By Paul Craig Roberts
Europe must look beyond the empty American political rhetoric about “freedom and democracy” and recognize the emerging Brownshirt American State. Democracy is slipping away from America. Its place is being taken by an oligarchy of powerful interest groups, such as the financial sector, the military/security complex about which President Eisenhower warned, and AIPAC.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23454.htm
Report: Blackwater Guard Saw Iraqi Killings as 9/11 Revenge
By Stephen C. Webster
Guards “routinely acted in disregard of the use of force policies,” and one, known as “Raven 23,” allegedly bragged that disregard for Iraqi lives stemmed from a desire for revenge after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23451.htm
Israel’s Arab Citizens Call General Strike
Action against wave of ‘racist’ measures
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
The one-day stoppage is due to take place on October 1, a date heavy with symbolism because it marks the anniversary of another general strike, in 2000 at the start of the second intifada, when 13 Arab demonstrators were shot dead by Israeli police.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23453.htm
Latin America and the End of Social Liberalism
By James Petras
From the mid 1970's with the advent of pro U.S. military and authoritarian civilian regimes and under the tutelage of U.S. free market academics and U.S. educated economists, Latin America became a laboratory for the application of free market-free trade policies.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23455.htm
Pakistan says 15 militants killed in Swat:
The Pakistan military said troops killed 15 militants during operations Wednesday in the northwest district of Swat, where a massive summer offensive sought to flush out the Taliban.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090909/wl_
sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwest
Pakistan: At least five killed in bomb blast near Afghan border: .
The bomb exploded in the small town of Soorab, 250 kilometres south of Quetta, capital of the oil-rich province of Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3751800456
Stop blaming Pakistan for UK terrorism – top diplomat:
Senior Pakistani sources have accused Britain of failing to do enough to tackle home-grown terrorists and maintain they are falsely being blamed for harbouring extremists plotting to attack the UK.
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Four killed in Afghan raid to free journalist:
A British special forces commando is one of four people killed in an operation to free British journalist Steven Farrell, kidnapped in Afghanistan while investigating the aftermath of a Nato bombing.
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Release of Reporter in Afghanistan Raises Questions About British Raid:
Farrell’s Afghan translator Sultan Munadi and a woman and child were killed in the raid, raising questions about whether military force should have been used.
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,
8599,1921263,00.html?xid=rss-world
Anger over Afghan reporter’s death:
The killing of an Afghan journalist in a rescue operation to free him and a colleague from Taliban capture has sparked calls for an inquiry into his death.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/09/20099974850934601.html
Two civilians killed in Afghan suicide bombing:
Two civilians have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan.
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Karzai’s ‘victory’ in Afghan election in doubt over ‘convincing’ fraud claims
The Independent Election Commission, yesterday launched a fraud inquiry, and warned that the number of fraudulent votes could potentially top more than one million.
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Caught on camera: Cameron recorded calling Afghan election result a ‘naked’ fraud:
In private remarks picked up by a BBC camera crew, the Tory leader was heard to say that disparities between the number of votes cast and the number of people who voted ‘could not be right’.
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Marred Afghan Vote Leaves U.S. in a Delicate Spot:
The Obama administration has grown increasingly alarmed by the raft of allegations that ballot-stuffing and phantom polling stations generated lopsided margins in favor of Mr. Karzai.
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/world/asia/09policy.html?
15 killed, nine injured in attacks in Iraq:
At least 15 people, including three policemen, were killed and nine injured in separate bomb attacks in Iraq Wednesday, according to witnesses and security sources.
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US actually increasing personnel in Iraq:
More contractors, fewer troops: The Pentagon’s “quarterly report on contracting showed a 19 percent increase from the three previous months in the number of security guards in Iraq hired by the Defense Department.
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Big U.S. Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart:
The first people you encounter when driving up to an American base are not actually American. They are usually Ugandans, employed by a private security company, Triple Canopy, and those at Balad had enough authority to delay for five hours an American Air Force captain escorting an American reporter onto the base.
snipurl.com/rppya
Iran delivers nuclear proposals to world powers:
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Wednesday handed over Iran’s new package of proposals relating to its controversial nuclear programme to the envoys of six world powers, an AFP photographer said.
rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_delivers
_nuclear_proposals_to__09092009.html
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
U.S.: Iran nearing atom bomb ability, must negotiate:
“Iran is now either very near or in possession already of sufficient low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon if the decision were made to further enrich it to weapons-grade …
www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE58821S20090909
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
U.S. ‘very worried’ about Iran nuclear capability:
The United States said Wednesday it has serious concerns that Iran is deliberately trying to preserve a nuclear weapons option, urging Tehran to join in fresh talks with key allies about its disputed nuclear intentions.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113457.html
Putin denies secret meeting with Netanyahu:
Earlier Wednesday, a senior Jerusalem official had confirmed that Prime Minister Netanyahu visited Russia on Monday in order to discuss the Kremlin’s arms deals with Iran and Syria, and the transfer of Russian military hardware to Hezbollah.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113438.html
Demonizing Venezuela:
Are Venezuelan Banks aiding Iran’s nuclear aspirations?:
A new investigation has uncovered information showing that Iran is using Venezuelan banks as a means of evading obligatory international sanctions and obtaining materials needed for their nuclear program.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113441.html
Israeli Attack On Gaza Killed 773 Civilians :
An Israeli human rights group said 1,387 Palestinians were killed in the war – 773 civilians, 330 combatants, 248 \policemen and 36 people whom the group was unable to classify as combatants or non-combatants.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009
/09/09/2681353.htm?section=justin
Chavez accuses Israel of genocide against Palestinians:
“The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They’re doing it openly,” Chavez said in an interview with Le Figaro published on Wednesday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113458.html
Farc shows Colombia hostage footage:
Videos of 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held for more than a decade by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) have been released by Colombian authorities.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas
/2009/09/20099818163466984.html
Guatemala declares hunger crisis:
“There is food, what is lacking is the money for the affected people to buy food,” Mr Colom said. “We are not going to wait until we’ve reached starvation levels to act.”
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8246782.stm
Hijacked plane lands at Mexico City, passengers free:
An AeroMexico passenger plane was hijacked in the Mexican resort of Cancun on Wednesday and flown to Mexico City’s international airport, but all the more than 100 passengers on board got off the plane soon afterward, Mexican media said.
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5885K420090909
Spanish Judge Goes After John Yoo:
Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon has decided to go ahead with his investigation of Bush-era lawyers involved in the US torture program, including UC Berkeley law school professor John Yoo, according to the Spanish newspaper Publico.
www.eastbayexpress.com/blogs/spanish_
judge_goes_after_john_yoo/Content?oid=1189958
America: Arms dealer to the stars!:
Who’s the number one weapons broker in the world, again? Take a guess
www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
Fate of Democracy Now in Supreme Court’s Hands:
If the court rules to free corporations to make unlimited campaign expenditures from their treasuries, the election playing field will be tilted massively against candidates advancing the public interest.
www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2959
Senate must raise debt ceiling above $12 Trillion:
Obama is asking Congress to raise the debt ceiling, something lawmakers are almost certain to do despite misgivings about the federal debt. The ceiling already has been hiked three times in the past two years, and the House took action earlier this year to raise the ceiling to $13 trillion.
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Top 1 Percent of Americans Reaped Two-Thirds of Income Gains:
Two-thirds of the nation’s total income gains from 2002 to 2007 flowed to the top 1 percent of U.S. households, and that top 1 percent held a larger share of income in 2007 than at any time since 1928,
www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2908
Treasury Sees Millions More Foreclosures:
Only 12 percent of U.S. homeowners eligible for loan modifications under the Obama administration’s housing rescue plan have had their mortgages reworked, and millions more foreclosures are coming, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
www.abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=8525289
Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms:
The housing market faces the prospect of a new round of foreclosures as hundreds of thousands of risky home loans known as option adjustable-rate mortgages reset to significantly higher payments that could force borrowers to fall behind, according to a report released Tuesday by Fitch Ratings.
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Job openings down 50% from the peak in 2007:
6 unemployed people for every available position
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Another financial crisis inevitable: Greenspan:
Another global financial crisis is inevitable because human nature always reverts to “speculative excesses” during a period of sustained prosperity, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23452.htm
Greenspan and Buffett issue recovery warning – papers:
Two of America’s most noted financial commentators have argued the recovery of the US economy is not a given, despite the recent uptick in sentiment.
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