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 : 1385
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$682,550,620,851
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$226,791,325,372
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
A Somber Warning on Afghanistan
By ALISON SMALE
Western powers now in Afghanistan run the risk of suffering the fate of the Soviet Union there if they cannot halt the growing insurgency and an Afghan perception that they are foreign invaders, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23489.htm
Victims’ Families Tell Their Stories Following Nato Airstrike in Afghanistan
‘I took some flesh home and called it my son.’
By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Kunduz
“The villagers were fighting over the corpses. People were saying this is my brother, this is my cousin, and no one could identify anyone.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23490.htm
Stop Begging Obama to Be Obama and Get Mad
By Chris Hedges
If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists. The goons will inherit power not because they are astute, but because we are weak and inept.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23492.htm
Health Care Deceit
By Paul Craig Roberts
It is absurd to mandate that people purchase what they cannot afford and to fine them for failing to do so. A person who cannot pay a health insurance premium cannot pay the fine.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23491.htm
Sick and Wrong
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/article23494.htm
Why Capitalism Fails
By Stephen Mihm
The man who saw the meltdown coming had another troubling insight: it will happen again.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23493.htm
Dozens of Taliban killed after U.S. deaths in Afghanistan:
About 50 “Taliban militants” killed in a battle in western Afghanistan after an insurgent ambush killed three U.S. troops, an Afghan official said Sunday.
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5 US occupation force soldiers among dozens killed in Afghanistan attacks:
Five Americans were killed yesterday amid a wave of bombings, ambushes and killings that swept across Afghanistan and seemed to emphasize the ability of the Taliban and other insurgents to carry out attacks in most parts of the country.
www.military-world.net/Afghanistan/2397.html
One Canadian occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan:
Canada now has 130 soldiers killed in Afghanistan after another soldier was killed Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion, the National Defense Department said in a press release Monday.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/15/content_12052391.htm
British occupation force soldier killed in Afghan ambush…
the 214th to die in eight-year war
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Obama blamed for Taliban impasse:
Peace talks with the Taliban were severely undermined by the US president Barack Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, an official involved in the discussions has warned
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‘I told the US to talk to the Taliban. They jailed me’:
The West must start negotiating with Afghanistan’s Islamists, the former foreign minister tells Kim Sengupta
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Election commission delays announcement of Afghan election results:
Afghan officials on Monday again postponed the announcement of the official results of the August 20 presidential polls, which had been marred by credible accusations of election fraud.
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Extrajudicial Killing:
US Attack Kills 4 In Pakistan:
The attack targeted a vehicle believed to be carrying Taliban fighters in the North Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border. “Four militants” were killed and at least five others were wounded, a local intelligence official said on condition of anonymity.
www.deccanherald.com/content/
25088/four-killed-us-missile-strike.html
Three Pakistani troops killed in bomb blast:
The bomb in the Mandiknas area of Khyber targeted a security convoy and was detonated by remote control, said Sadiq Khan, an official at the Khyber agency administrator office.
www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTM2MzMwODg0OQ==
Musharraf admits US aid diverted:
Former president Pervez Musharraf says the US military aid given to Pakistan during his tenure was used to strengthen defences against India.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8254360.stm
Ex-Intel officer discloses US plans for Pakistan:
The US seeks to establish new military bases in Pakistan to keep the country destabilized and control its nuclear weapons, says a former head of Pakistan’s intelligence service.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106141§ionid=351020401
Extrajudicial Killing:
2 killed as US Launches Attack in Somalia Against alledged al Qaeda Target:
A U.S. commando attack in Somalia has killed an alledged al Qaeda operative who is on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists, sources tell ABC News.
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2 Killed as ‘Foreign Troops’ Raid Somali Town:
At least two suspected al-Shabaab fighters have been killed by foreign troops in a helicopter raid in southern Somalia, witnesses have said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/09/20099141313144648.html
Prosecutors in Iraq Case See Pattern by US Mercenaries: :
Private security guards who worked for Blackwater repeatedly shot wildly into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians long before they were involved in a 2007 shooting episode that left at least 14 Iraqis dead, federal prosecutors charge in a new court document.
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Iran, world powers to hold nuclear talks on Oct 1:
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana spoke by telephone with Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and they agreed that talks would be held on October 1 between Iran and representatives of the six powers.
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Netanyahu urges tougher Iran sanctions, but EU wants to wait:
“The Iranian regime is weak, the Iranian people would not rally around the regime if they felt for the first time that there was a danger to their regime – and this would be a new situation,” Netanyahu said.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1114452.html
Israel: Won’t accept ‘complete freeze’ on illegal settlement building:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that there will not be a complete freeze on illegal settlement building and that building in Jerusalem will proceed as usual.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1114453.html
Brazilian Parliament Calls For The Freeze Of The Israel – Mercosur Free Trade Agreement:
The Brazilian Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Relations and National Defense has recommended that the parliament should not ratify the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Mercosur and the State of Israel until “Israel accepts the creation of the Palestinian state on the 1967 borders”.
www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1072
EU countries practice ‘secret’ diplomacy, Hamas says:
High-ranking officials from European countries hold talks with Hamas on a weekly basis despite an EU ban on diplomatic contact, a spokesman for the group has told EUobserver.
euobserver.com/9/28660
Zionism – A Rebellion Against God:
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss on Neturei Karta International, Jews United Against Zionism, explains the traditional Jewish opposition to the philosophy of Zionism, the State of Israel and all Israeli aggression against Palestine.
www.nkusa.org/activities/Conferences/20090429davis.cfm
India: Army alert on China:
Delhi may play down Beijing’s posturing in Arunachal Pradesh but a concerned Indian Army is raising two more divisions, or about 30,000 men, in the Northeast.
www.telegraphindia.com/1090912/jsp/nation/story_11484886.jsp
Osama bin Laden: in it for the long haul:
Al-Qaida leader vows to continue ‘war of attrition’ amid signs of crisis of recruitment and morale
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/14/osama-bin-laden-long-haul
In case you missed it:
Full text: bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ :
Sunday November 24, 2002
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6537.htm
Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years
Are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror?
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Religion is not the primary motivation of suicide bombers:
Though religion can play a vital role in the recruitment and motivation of potential future suicide bombers, their real driving-force is a cocktail of motivations including politics, humiliation, revenge, retaliation and altruism.
www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?
edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=106355
Russia lends Chavez $2bn for arms:
The deal, which was agreed on his trip to Moscow last week, includes orders for 92 tanks and the S-300 missile system, which is capable of shooting down fighter jets and cruise missiles.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas
/2009/09/200991493243497426.html
Money talks in U.S. policy toward Honduran putsch regime:
The U.S. government’s policy toward the de facto government that now rules Honduras can best be described as two-faced – expressing rhetorical outrage publicly while quietly continuing to prop up the putsch regime economically behind the scenes.
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New York Residences Raided in Terrorism Probe:
Law enforcement agents raided residences in New York City on Monday as part of a terrorism investigation, and began briefing Congress about the probe.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=8571555
Private health insurance lobbyist throws fundraiser for Nancy Pelosi: Report:
One day after House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi softened her stance on a public health option, a lobbyist for one of the country’s most prominent private health insurers announced a fundraiser for the California Democrat, a news report says.
rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/lobbyist-fundraiser-pelosi/
Poll: News media’s credibility plunges to new low:
Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. That marks the highest level of skepticism recorded since 1985, when this study of public perceptions of the media was first done.
money.canoe.ca/News/MediaHold/2009/09/14/10883766-ap.html
Russians plan global car empire after GM coup:
Sberbank, the Russian state-owned lender that took a quarter share in GM Europe last week, is to become the financing arm of a new Russian and Eastern European car manufacturing empire. It will be controlled by Oleg Deripaska, the Russian tycoon, and Magna International, the Canadian car parts company.
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U.K. Banks to Post $215 Billion Losses, Moody’s Says:
U.K. banks are less than half way through posting 240 billion pounds ($398 billion) of losses on loans and securities, a reflection of the country’s economic weakness, according to Moody’s Investors Service Ltd.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afu5IWbkX1ZY
Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman :
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYdgQkXu9eBg#
Majority of Canadian employees living paycheque to paycheque, survey shows:
The survey, released Monday, said 59 per cent of Canadians would have trouble making ends meet if they missed a paycheque.
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US snubs film on theory of evolution:
A BRITISH film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
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