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 : 1,424
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$686,869,905,936
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$227,964,659,924
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Another War in the Works
America Is Led And Informed By Liars
By Paul Craig Roberts
The president of the United States and his European puppets are doing what they do best—lying through their teeth. The US “mainstream media” repeats the lies as if they were facts. The US “media” is again making itself an accomplice to wars based on fabrications.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23583.htm
Don’t Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Count?
Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state
By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Freedom of expression, we were given to understand, is one of the valves in Europe’s heart that must remain open to keep our continent alive and healthy. In good faith I exercise that freedom in this column. Let us see if readers and interest groups will support my right to write what follows even if they violently disagree with my observations.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23591.htm
Despite poll fraud claims
US accepts Hamid Karzai as Afghan President
By Giles Whittell in Washington
-The White House has ended weeks of hesitation over how to respond to the Afghan election by accepting President Karzai as the winner despite evidence that up to 20 per cent of ballots cast may have been fraudulent.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23590.htm
What Have We Done to Democracy?
By Arundhati Roy
Our amazing intelligence seems to have outstripped our instinct for survival. We plunder the earth hoping that accumulating material surplus will make up for the profound, unfathomable thing that we have lost.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23585.htm
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
Accountability for Torture
We write you, Mr. President, as former intelligence professionals to voice strong support for Attorney General Eric Holder’s authorization of a wider investigation into CIA interrogation. We respectfully disagree with the direct appeal to you by seven former CIA directors to quash that wider investigation.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23588.htm
The Case of the Missing Torture Documents
By Nick Baumann
Welcome to the Case of the Disappearing Torture Documents. This is more than just a bureaucratic whodunit. There’s a possibility that government officials purposely destroyed records pertaining to detainee abuse.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23592.htm
Israel Keeps Shooting the Messenger
By Haroon Siddiqui
In trying to discredit Richard Goldstone’s UN report on the Israeli attack on Gaza, Israel and its supporters are shooting the messenger, says another high-profile Jewish public intellectual critical of Israeli policies on Palestinians.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23589.htm
Netanyahu’s UN Speech
The Pathology of Evil
By Gilad Atzmon
Israelis love their Shoa, for the Shoa is no doubt their best selling Hasbara (propaganda) product. It somehow allows them to kill en masse and to do it indistinguishably while insisting that it is they who happen to be the victims.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23584.htm
The War on Language
By Chris Hedges
Those who seek to dominate our behavior first seek to dominate our speech. They seek to obscure meaning. They make war on language. Continue
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23593.htm
Casting Runes on the Floor of the NYSE
By Case Wagenvoord
Economists believe that the past never happened. The past is a dream lost in the mists of time and has no relevance to the present. Their vision is a pinprick of light that sees only the fleeting present they mistakenly believe can be captured and held in place by complex mathematical models.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23586.htm
A New White Jesus for Kansans?
By Michael Caddell
The isolationist libertarian anti-war crowd just had it’s ass kicked and many sympathetic conservative Kansans, again, went back to sleep at the wheel on the way to work for the empire.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23587.htm
At least 157 killed in Guinea protests:
At least 157 opposition supporters are now believed to have died after Guinea’s troops opened fire on a mass protest in the capital, Conakry, a human rights group has said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/09/200992981337765437.html
In pictures:
157 Killed in Guinea Unrest
online.wsj.com/article/SB125422622208349009.html#articleTabs%3Dslideshow
‘40 “Taliban” killed’ in western Afghanistan:
US occupation forces and Afghan soldiers have killed 40 Taliban fighters in a joint operation in Afghanistan’s west, the Afghan army says.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/29/2699031.htm?section=justin
30 Afghan civilians killed as packed bus hits bomb outside Kandahar:
The bus destroyed yesterday was travelling from the western city of Herat. It hit the roadside bomb in the Taleban-controlled district of Maiwand 25 miles west of Kandahar, where three civilians were killed in a similar explosion on Monday.
snipurl.com/s818z
Nato urges new Afghan strategy:
Nato’s new secretary general has acknowledged fading public support for the war in Afghanistan and called for a new approach.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/09/200992924858907966.html
U.S.: Fears of Blame for Defeat Shadow Afghan War Meetings:
In a remarkable parallel with a similar turning point in the Vietnam War 44 years ago, President Barack Obama will preside over a series of meetings in the coming weeks that will determine whether the United States will proceed with an escalation of the Afghanistan War or adjust the strategy to reduce the U.S. military commitment there.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48621
U.S. Bombs Kill 5 In Pakistan:
Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft Tuesday killed five “suspected Taliban” in a strike on a militant hideout in Pakistan’s northwest tribal belt, local officials said.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090929/wl_afp/pakistanusnorthwestunrestmissile
US will not be allowed to bomb Quetta: Malik:
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday said the US would not be allowed to carry out drone attacks in Balochistan at any cost. He rejected reports about the presence of Afghan Taliban chief Mulla Omar in Quetta as incorrect and baseless, saying that he was in Kandahar.
www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24740
PML-N says Kerry-Lugar Bill is ‘peanuts’:
Criticising the Kerry-Lugar Bill adopted in the US Senate, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday termed the US aid to Pakistan ‘peanuts’ and demanded the government present the conditions of the new aid package to the National Assembly and accept it only after parliamentary approval.
dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\29\story_29-9-2009_pg7_24
At least 18 killed in Iraq :
A tanker truck packed with explosives ripped through an Iraqi police outpost yesterday, killing at least seven people in a suicide attack at a former insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.
snipurl.com/s81a6
Relationship Between Ambassador, Top US Commander In Iraq Deteriorating Rapidly:
Old hands say the chill between the two brings to the bad old days of Sanchez vs. Bremer, when those two unfortunates barely would speak to each other as the American position fell apart in early 2004, along with Iraq itself.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/relationship-between-amba_n_302629.html
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Saudis Will Let Israel Bomb Iran Nuclear site:
The site is seen as a major threat by Tel Aviv and Riyadh. Details of the talks emerged after John Bolton, America’s former UN ambassador, told a meeting of intelligence analysts that “Riyadh certainly approves” of Israel’s use of Saudi airspace.
www.express.co.uk/posts/view/130251/Saudis-will-let-Israel-bomb-Iran-nuclear-site
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
Israel urges West to stand firm against Iran:
Benjamin Netanyahu telephoned Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and other senators and congressmen to urge tougher sanctions.
snipurl.com/s81ak
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
Fox News
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-eyuFBrWHs
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran :
Bill O’Reilly: “Obama Should Provoke A Military Incident With Iran”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzKNRgDc-dQ
Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
51% Say Obama Not Tough Enough on Iran:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only four percent (4%) think the president has been too aggressive in dealing with Iran, while 38% believe his response has been about right
news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20090929/pl_rasmussen/iran20090929_1
Iran: Nuclear site near base in case of attack:
Iran’s nuclear chief said Tuesday his country built its newly revealed uranium enrichment facility inside a mountain and next to a military site to ensure continuity of its nuclear activities in case of an attack.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-09-29-iran-nuclear-plant_N.htm
Fmr. UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Warns Against “Politically Motivated Hype” on Iran Nuke Program:
On Friday morning President Obama, along with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicholas Sarkozy accused Iran of building a secret nuclear fuel plant.
www.democracynow.org/2009/9/29/fmr_un_weapons_inspector_scott_ritter
Iran tells world powers not to repeat “mistakes”:
Raising the stakes ahead of Thursday’s rare meeting, 239 lawmakers signed a statement expressing support for negotiations based on proposals put forward by Iran, which do not mention Tehran’s own nuclear programme.
snipurl.com/s81bg
Iran MP: Tehran may quit NPT under Zionist pressure:
Iran said on Tuesday it would refuse to discuss a newly declared nuclear plant at forthcoming international talks and cautioned Western powers it could curb cooperation further if they repeated “past mistakes”.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1117554.html
Iran in deadly warning to Israel:
“If this (an Israeli attack) happens, which, of course, we do not foresee, its ultimate result would be to expedite the last breath of the Zionist regime,” Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on state television.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26143336-15084,00.html
Syria calls for Israel to join nuclear treaty:
Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moualem echoed calls by many Arab nations during the current U.N. General Assembly session for Israel to comply with the IAEA’s demand to submit its nuclear facilities to the agency’s safeguard regime and to adhere to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009958568_apununsyria.html
UN Report Calls for Investigation into Alleged War Crimes in Gaza:
“These attack amounted to reprisals and collective punishment and constitute war crimes.”
www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-29-voa45.cfm
UK court quashes Barak arrest bid:
A judge at a magistrate’s court in London, Britain’s capital, ruled on Tuesday that Barak enjoys diplomatic immunity from prosecution, because he is visiting the UK on official business.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/09/200992918045202184.html
2 Killed as troops take control of Somali town:
Clashes have erupted in Somalia after government troops moved to take control of the town of Balad Wayne, officials and residents said.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/09/200992811411963715.html
“Modern slave” migrants toil in Italy’s tomato fields: –
After crossing half of Africa and surviving a perilous boat trip from Libya in search of a better life in Italy, Boubacar Bailo is now contemplating suicide.
www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE58R1TW20090928
E.U. Report to Blame Georgia For Starting War:
After a lengthy inquiry, investigators commissioned by the European Union are expected to conclude that Georgia ignited last year’s war with Russia by attacking separatists in South Ossetia, rejecting the Georgian government’s explanation that the attack was defensive
snipurl.com/s81cm
Zelaya addresses UN debate via cell phone, urging help in restoring democracy in Honduras:
“I call on the United Nations to restore the rule of law and the freedom that Honduras deserves,” he said over a cell phone held by his Foreign Minister Patricia Isabel Rodas Baca during her address to the annual debate at the UN headquarters in New York.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/29/content_12124972.htm
Tests on skull fragment cast doubt on Adolf Hitler suicide story:
Bone with bullet hole found by Russians in 1946 came from an unknown woman, not the German leader
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/27/adolf-hitler-suicide-skull-fragment
World Bank Head Sees Dollar’s Role Diminishing:
The president of the World Bank said on Monday that America’s days as an unchallenged economic superpower might be numbered and that the dollar was likely to lose its favored position as the euro and the Chinese renminbi assume bigger roles.
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/business/economy/29dollar.html
Consumer confidence unexpectedly falls in Sept.:
Concerns that consumers won’t help drive a speedy and strong economic recovery only escalated Tuesday after a widely watched barometer of confidence fell unexpectedly in September.
snipurl.com/s81dg
U.S.: Homeless Shelters Fighting Push from Downtowns:
The largest homeless shelter in the southeast U.S., the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Atlanta claiming officials have undertaken a complex campaign to sabotage the shelter with the ultimate goal of driving homeless, mostly African American men off the streets of downtown.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48642
Wabash Valley woman didn’t realize second cold medicine purchase violated drug laws:
When Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs.
www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_246225916.html
Police State –
The Militarization of the Police Force in USA.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k5y3fBH9Og