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 : 1,407
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$684,531,187,470
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$227,329,346,642
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
IAEA Denies Report it is Sure Iran is Seeking Bomb
By AFP
The UN atomic watchdog said Thursday it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapons programme in Iran.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23544.htm
Obama Should Attack Israeli Jets if They Try to Attack Iran: Zbigniew Brzezinski:
By Jake Tapper
“We are not exactly impotent little babies,” Brzezinski said. “They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? … “
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23542.htm
McChrystal: More Forces or ‘Mission Failure’
By Bob Woodward
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict “will likely result in failure,” according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23546.htm
America Has Been Here Before
By Eric Margolis
American and NATO generals running the Afghan war amazingly warn they risk being beaten by Taliban tribesmen in spite of their 107,000 soldiers, B-1 heavy bombers, F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, Apache and AC-130 gunships, heavy artillery, tanks, radars, killer drones, cluster bombs, white phosphorus, rockets, and space surveillance.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23548.htm
Afghan Election Scam a Terrifying Tragedy
By Matt McCarten
I’ve been watching an immoral and farcical tragedy unfold in Afghanistan in the past fortnight, with a sense of despair. The world is pretending that, despite a few hiccups, the Afghan people have had the pleasure of electing a democratic government to govern them. – What delusional nonsense. We are part of a criminal con job and the sooner we admit it, the better.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23547.htm
Diffusing Yemen’s Ticking Time Bomb & the Iran-Saudi Proxy War
By Webster Brooks
Yemen is a ticking time bomb with a dangerously short fuse. President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s government is under siege; battling an al Houthi Shiia insurgency, attacks by Sunni extremists rebranded as “al Queda of the Peninsula” (AQP) and fending off a growing secessionist struggle led by the “Southern Movement.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23545.htm
CIA Torturers Running Scared
By Ray McGovern
For the CIA supervisors and operatives responsible for torture, the chickens are coming home to roost; that is, if President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder mean it when they say no one is above the law – and if they don’t fall victim to brazen intimidation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23543.htm
The Economy Is A Lie, Too
By Paul Craig Roberts
Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included. Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with one million school children now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announces that the recession is over.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23550.htm
Globalization Goes Bankrupt
By Chris Hedges
The rage of the disposed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream. Movements are building on the ends of the political spectrum that have lost faith in the mechanisms of democratic change. You can’t blame them. But unless we on the left move quickly this rage will be captured by a virulent and racist right wing, one that seeks a disturbing proto-fascism.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23549.htm
Yemen army ‘kills 140 Shiite rebels’ in north:
The Yemeni army killed more than 140 Shiite rebels during fierce fighting in the rugged mountainous city of Saada in northern Yemen on Sunday, a military official said, after the failure of a truce offered by the government
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Seven million people in Yemen poor, three million lack food: :
Many Yemeni find it difficult to obtain food, and around three million people cannot provide for their basic needs. About 50 percent of them live on less than two dollars a day.
yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1296&p=front&a=1
8 militants killed in NW Pakistan operation:
The security forces conducted a search operation in parts of the Swat valley and also killed militant commander Chamtu Khan, according to a military press release.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/20/content_12084997.htm
Several people killed in air strike in NW Pakistan:
Several people were killed as gunship helicopters bombed Taliban positions in northwest Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal agency Monday, a local TV channel reported.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/21/content_12092910.htm
Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits: former Pakistani army chief:
Pakistan’s former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company Blackwater was directly involved in the assassinations of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=203224
3 more U.S. occupation troops killed in Afghanistan:
This year has been the deadliest for American forces of the eight-year war. August was the deadliest month of the war, when 51 U.S. troops died. More than 60,000 U.S. troops are now in the country.
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Afghanistan could be lost within a year: US commander:
The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned President Barack Obama in a confidential report that the war against the Taliban could be lost within a year without more troops.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090921/pl_afp/
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Top U.S. commander in Afghanistan pleads for more troops in classified report:
Top U.S. commander in Afghanistan Stanley A. McChrystal said explicitly in a classified report that the Afghan war “will likely result in failure” without increasing U.S. troop levels in that country.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/21/content_12093024.htm
Europe to resist larger Afghan troops commitment:
The United States looks ready to ask allies for more troops for Afghanistan, but Europe won’t make any significant further contributions unless they are part of a clear plan for training Afghan security forces
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n194935
Failure looms in Afghanistan war:
AUSTRALIA is unlikely to send more troops to Afghanistan despite a blunt assessment by the top United States and NATO commander in the field, General Stanley McChrystal, that unless more forces are provided, the war will ‘’likely result in failure’
www.theage.com.au/national/failure-
looms-in-afghanistan-war-20090921-fym6.html
Meet the Afghan Army: Is It a Figment of Washington’s Imagination?:
The big Afghanistan debate in Washington is not over whether more troops are needed, but just who they should be: Americans or Afghans — Us or Them. Having just spent time in Afghanistan seeing how things stand, I wouldn’t bet on Them.
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Former Canadian soldier speaks out against ‘disgusting’ child rape in Afghanistan:
Every day, Travis Schouten lives with the image of the rape of an Afghan boy at a Canadian Forces base.
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Iraqi army officer killed in Diyala violence:
An Iraqi army officer was killed while 11 people wounded in a series of attacks in Iraq’s volatile province of Diyala northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, a provincial police source said.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/20/content_12085037.htm
UK army ‘rotten’, Iraq probe told:
British soldiers who abused an Iraqi detainee who died in their custody were not just “a few bad apples”, a public inquiry has been told.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8266699.stm
Abuse of Iraqi civilians by British army widespread:
The use of “coercive interrogation techniques” by the British army in Iraq was widespread and endemic, a public inquiry into the 2003 death of hotel receptionist Baha Mousa was told Monday.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23544.htm
Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets:
“We’re spending a lot of money on these rifles, millions of dollars — where do you think that money is going to?” [1] Ronald Boline, a former Triple Canopy manager, said in a lawsuit deposition videotaped [2] in June 2007. “Who are we supporting in doing that? We’re supporting people who are trying to kill Americans is the logical conclusion.”
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IDF kills two Palestinian resistance members in north Gaza:
One of the dead was a member of Gaza’s ruling Hamas Islamist movement and the other was from an allied group, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), representatives of the two groups said.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115690.html
Obama to hold joint meeting with Netanyahu, Abbas
The US leader will meet separately with the two men on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly, before hosting a trilateral summit, the White House announced in a surprise move late Saturday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090919/ts_nm/us_obama_palestinians_israel
Israel, U.S.: Summit won’t result in renewal of talks:
Sources at the Israeli PM’s bureau acknowledged that the meeting is expected to only be a photo opportunity, and will not lead to a resumption of the peace process.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115733.html
Israel not planning a strike on Iran: Medvedev:
Israeli President Shimon Peres has given Russia assurances it is not planning a strike against Iran, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with CNN released on Sunday.
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‘Military Option Against Iran Open’:
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon rejected comments attributed to Israeli President Shimon Peres last week and said that the military option against Iran was still on the table. In an interview with Reuters Monday, Ayalon said “It is certainly not a guarantee. I don’t think that, with all due respect, the Russian president is authorized to speak for Israel and certainly we have not taken any option off the table.”
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/171357
Demonizing Iran:
Report: IDF, U.S. military to simulate Iran missile strike on Israel:
The Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. military will soon hold a training exercise in which they will simulate missile attacks on Israel from Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Sunday.
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1115703.html
Jewish groups take lead on Iran sanctions:
A day of advocacy in Washington last week and a rally in New York next week mark major efforts by the American Jewish community to push the issue of Iran’s nuclear program to the forefront and increase the general sense of urgency to end it.
www.jstandard.com/content/item/
jewish_groups_take_lead_on_iran_sanctions
In case you missed it: :
ElBaradei Foes Leak Stories to Force His Hand on Iran:
The aim of the pressure for publication of the document appears to be to discredit the November 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the Iranian nuclear programme, which concluded that Iran had ended work on nuclear weapons in 2003.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23365.htm
Israeli troops ‘ill-treat kids’:
A former Israeli military commander has told the BBC that Palestinian youngsters are routinely ill-treated by Israeli soldiers while in custody, reports the BBC’ s Katya Adler from Jerusalem and the West Bank.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8186905.stm
How I’m Losing My Love For Israel:
I don’t mention Israel in certain conversations anymore, and no longer defend it when it’s lumped in with South Africa and China by my friends. This is wrong of me, I know, but I’ve been defending Israel for years, and it’s gotten harder and harder to do so.
www.forward.com/articles/114180/
Hollywood’s distortion of the truth alters history in the eyes of schoolchildren :
When information in the film directly contradicted the text, people often falsely recalled the misinformation portrayed in the film, sometimes as much as 50 per cent of the time.”
record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/14516.html
Dirty war rages on Russia’s doorstep:
WHEN Arsen Butayev was seized on a street in broad daylight last month and held captive with four other men, including his younger brother, he must have known a terrible fate awaited them. The witnesses to his abduction knew it too. Nobody intervened.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6841296.ece
Yeah…. Right!
Madeleine Albright: USA No Longer Intends To Be World’s No.1 State:
Albright said that Beijing, London and Delhi became a serious competition for Washington and New York.
english.pravda.ru/business/finance/109362-1/
Carter says US likely behind coup against Chavez:
“I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even have been directly involved,” Carter told Colombian paper, El Tiempo, on Sunday.
presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=106717§ionid=351020704
Active Terror Cell Prepared NYC Attack, Officials Say:
After overnight arrests this weekend in the alleged New York terror plot, FBI agents believe an active terror cell directed by al Qaeda was preparing an attack on New York City, and authorities say they have yet to identify everyone involved.
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Battle Looms Over the Patriot Act:
Both the House and the Senate are set to hold their first committee hearings this week on whether to reauthorize three sections of the Patriot Act that expire at the end of this year. The provisions expanded the power of the F.B.I. to seize records and to eavesdrop on phone calls in the course of a counterterrorism investigation.
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/us/politics/20patriot.html?ref=us
G20 braces for summit showdown:
Anti-war, environmental and anti-poverty groups plan to demonstrate in Pittsburgh, with one group marching from a working-class suburb in a “people’s uprising”. About 4,000 extra police have been drafted in.
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International Monetary Fund to sell over 403 tons of gold:
The International Monetary Fund said its executive board endorsed the sale of 403 tons of gold, worth an estimated 13 billion dollars, to boost its lending capacity to poor countries
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