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:  4,662
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,403
icasualties.org/oef/

Cost of War in Iraq
$684,038,709,888
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$227,195,565,021
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.
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Everyone Seems to Be Agreeing with Bin Laden These Days
By Robert Fisk
Only Obama, it seems, fails to get the message that we’re losing Afghanistan.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23541.htm

In case you missed it
Bin Laden: Goal Is To Bankrupt U.S.
By Al-Jazeera
“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,” bin Laden said in the transcript. -”We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat,” bin Laden said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20896.htm

Those Dastardly Anti-Semites?
By Uri Avnery
Denial is the first refuge. There is no difference between the deniers of the Armenian genocide, the deniers of the annihilation of the Native Americans and the deniers of the atrocities of all wars.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23539.htm

What Did Ahmadinejad Really Say?
By Robert Parry
It is an important principle of journalism that when someone makes a statement, especially a controversial one with grave implications, the comment should be put in the fullest possible context so the reader can make an informed judgment. But that rule doesn’t seem to apply when the New York Times writes about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23540.htm

The Secret Government
By Christopher Hayes
In our age, secret government crimes and plots are almost a cliché. Polling shows trust in government has returned roughly to its mid-’70s nadir. The danger now isn’t naïveté but cynicism—that we just come to accept that the government will commit crimes in our name under the cover of secrecy and that such activities are more or less business as usual, about which nothing can be done. But something can be done. Something must be done. And Congress should do it.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23538.htm

In Case You Missed It
The Secret Government
By Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers, documents U.S. support of terrorist regimes and the brutality of Americas foreign policy.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3281.htm

21 Killed In Somalia :
The UN chief has condemned the two suicide car bombings at the African Union’s main base in Somalia, with the death toll rising to 21, including 17 peacekeepers.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/09/20099189579839812.html

Pakistan: Relatives bury bomb victims as toll hits 40:
The death toll from a suicide car bomb attack in a crowded Pakistani market rose to 40, police said yesterday as grieving families buried their dead.
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U.S. ambassador: Pakistan not backing U.S. goals on Taliban:
Despite growing U.S. military losses in Afghanistan, Pakistan still refuses to target the extremist groups on its soil that are the biggest threat to the American-led mission there, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan told McClatchy.
www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/75690.html

Seven killed in blast, firing in Afghanistan:
Seven Afghan civilians, including two children, were killed in separate incidents in northern and western Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, officials said.
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Danish occupation force soldier killed in Afghan sniper attack:
The death brings to 26 the number of Danish occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan – in proportional terms, Denmark’s 700 strong contingent has suffered the highest number of casualties of any of the allied nations.
www.euronews.net/2009/09/19/danish
-soldier-killed-in-afghan-sniper-attack/

Fallen soldier thought Afghan mission ‘useless’: family:
“That war, he thought it was a bit useless, that they were wasting their time there,” he was quoted telling Le Soleil.
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/18/
couturier-ramp-ceremony-jonathan.html

Canadian occupation force soldier charged in killing of Afghan:
The Canadian military says a Canadian soldier faces a military court martial over the death of a wounded and unarmed enemy fighter in Afghanistan’s Helmand province last year.
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Nato forces rely on illegal Afghan militias, report says:
Troops in Afghanistan said to use private armies for detention and interrogation
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/16/nato-forces-afghan-militias

CIA Adding Bases in Afghanistan:
The growing strength of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan prompted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to establish more bases there, the agency’s director said.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aea63RATz1lM

Taliban leader Omar says foreign troops face defeat:
“The more the enemy resorts to increasing forces, the more they will face an unequivocal defeat in Afghanistan,” the statement said.
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CIA director: Karzai appears to have won: –
CIA Director Leon Panetta says Afghan President Hamid Karzai appears to have won re-election despite charges of fraud and corruption in the vote.
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Iraq: At least four killed in Mosul attacks:
Four people were killed and two injured on Saturday in two separate attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police told the German Press Agency dpa.
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Israeli Air Force chief: We must stop S-300 delivery to any country we may want to attack: :
“We need to make every effort to stop this system from getting to places where the IAF needs to operate or may need to operate in the future,” he said.
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Report: Russia found no secret Iran-bound cargo on ‘hijacked’ ship:
Russian prosecutors found no suspicious materials on a ship that was reportedly hijacked, despite media reports it was carrying an air-defence system for Iran, Russian newswires said on Saturday.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115678.html

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Nato makes missile offer to Russia:
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nato’s secretary general, said on Friday the old foes must forget their lingering Cold War animosity and engage new threats from Asia and the Middle East.
english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/
2009/09/2009918134231514311.html

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
What a Revamped U.S. Missile Shield Might Look Like:
Details are now emerging on the Obama administration’s plans to revamp missile defense to better counter the emerging “Iranian missile threat.
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In case you missed it:
Obama Offered Deal to Russia in Secret Letter:
President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday.
www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/washington/03prexy.html?_r=3

Israel Assembles Advanced Missile Defense Systems:
The effort, partly financed by the United States and incorporating advanced American radar and other technology, has been progressing quietly for two decades.
www.mercurynews.com/movies/ci_13371252?source=rss

Gordon Prather :Why No Dancing in the Streets?:
The status of the Iranian alleged program to develop “a nuclear bomb” has not changed since their formal National Intelligence Estimate of 2007. That NIE stated – with “high confidence” – that Iran “halted”, in the fall of 2003, whatever program it was alleged to have had, and stated – with “moderate confidence” – that Iran had made no attempt to resurrect it. So, why isn’t there mucho dancing in the streets; here and around the world?
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Obama Plan Aims to Squeeze Iran, Reassure Israel:
Change in Obama approach to missile defense is part of broader strategy for squeezing Iran
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090919/ap_on
_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_missile_defense

Israel pressured on nuclear sites:
UN body calls on Israel to open up nuclear sites and sign non-proliferation treaty.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2009/09/2009918173136830771.html

UN urges Israel to allow nuclear inspection:
The United States, Israel’s closest ally, abstained from the vote but Ambassador Glyn Davies said Washington was committed to the goal of Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.
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Iran ready to pay for probe into Israeli nukes:
Iran is prepared to allocate a budget for a probe into Israel’s largely clandestine nuclear industry, Tehran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106590&sectionid=351020101

Iran eyewitness: protest videos:
Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets across Iran on Friday, defying government warnings against using the annual Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally to resume protests.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8263467.stm

Demonizing Ahmadinejad: New York hotel cancels Iranians’ banquet:
New York’s Helmsley Hotel said it had cancelled a banquet set for this week when it learned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was on the guest list, saying the man who called the Holocaust a lie was not welcome….
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Stranger Than Fiction:
U.S. calls UN report on Gaza war unfair to Israel:
The Obama administration on Friday sharply criticized a United Nations report alleging that Israel committed multiple war crimes in Gaza earlier this year. It said the United States objected to a recommendation that Israeli actions be referred to the International Criminal Court.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115659.html

Israel’s Gaza blockade crippling reconstruction:
Eight months after war, import restrictions are delaying aid and causing ‘de-development’, leaked UN report says
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/
18/israel-gaza-blockade-reconstruction

Look the other way: C.I.A. Chiefs Ask Obama to Stop Abuse Inquiry:
Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency asked President Obama on Friday to shut down the new Justice Department inquiry into past abuses during interrogations of terrorism suspects, arguing that it “will seriously damage” the nation’s ability to protect itself.
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/world/19intel.html?_r=2&hp

Al-Qaida Threatens Terror Attacks in Germany after Election:
In a new video message, the terrorist network al-Qaida has warned of attacks in Germany during the two weeks after the Sept. 27 election, if there are no signals of a withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan. Authorities are taking the threat seriously and have raised the level of security precaution
www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,649987,00.html

Johann Hari: We must stop the ‘vulture funds’ that feed on the world’s poor:
Would you ever march up to a destitute African who is shivering with Aids and demand he “pay back” tens of thousands of pounds he didn’t borrow – with interest? I only ask because this is in effect happening, here, in British and American courts, time after time.
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Fear and Loathing in Dublin:
Ireland has no reason to fear the consequences of a No vote on Lisbon.
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Terror Suspect’s Computer Said to Show Sports Stadiums, Fashion Sites:
A computer belonging to alleged al Qaeda suspect Najibullah Zazi showed he had researched baseball and football stadiums and sites used in the recent Fashion Week event in New York City, law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com.
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Court affirms use of chemical terrorism law against Lansdale woman:
Bond’s attorney, Robert E. Goldman, had argued that Bond’s messy personal situation did not justify federal charges under the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998.
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U.S. Authorities Probing $100 Billion of Bonds Seized in Italy:
The U.S. Secret Service is examining more than $100 billion of U.S. government bonds confiscated in northern Italy in August, just two months after $134 billion of allegedly fake securities were seized in a nearby town.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601208&sid=afX0BWHToC1g

Sen. Bernie Sanders: Is the Recession Over?:
Today we have about 17 percent of our workforce – 26 million Americans – who are either unemployed, have given up looking for work because they no longer think a job is possible, or they are working part time when they want to work full time. That’s 17 percent of our population.
www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders
/is-the-recession-over_b_291564.html

“Option” mortgages to explode, officials warn:
The federal government and states are girding themselves for the next foreclosure crisis in the country’s housing downturn: payment option adjustable rate mortgages that are beginning to reset.
www.reuters.com/article/wtUSIn
vestingNews/idUSTRE58G5U320090917

Soda Tax: It’s the Real Thing:
As calls mount for soda to be taxed because of its link to the nation’s obesity epidemic, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent tried this week to tar the tax as socialist, taking a page from the Republicans single-word playbook against health care reform, bailouts, and even President Obama’s back-to-school speeches.
www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/19-2