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: 4,667
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,446
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$689,794,745,678
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$228,759,193,154
The cost in your community
www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Peace of the Action
By Cindy Sheehan
I had just walked back into my hotel room yesterday after chaining myself to the White House fence and being arrested, when I saw White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, say that removing troops from Afghanistan was “not an option.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23685.htm
Warmonger Wins Peace Prize
By Paul Craig Roberts
The non-cynical can say that the Nobel committee is seizing on Obama’s rhetoric to lock him into the pursuit of peace instead of war. We can all hope that it works. But the more likely result is that the award has made “War is Peace” the reality.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23681.htm
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
By Thomas DiLorenzo
I’m still surprised, though, that he won the prize after killing so few people.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23676.htm
Good War vs. Great Society
By JOHN FEFFER
Can Obama have his guns and eat his butter too?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23684.htm
Barry In The Bush With Smiles
By David Michael Green
Obama doesn’t actually appear to be doing anything that requires any particular toughness. He’s not trying to sell a bullshit war or dismantle Social Security, like Bush. He’s not trying to end legal and institutional racism in a country where it was as pervasive as bibles in ‘Bama, like Lyndon Johnson did. He’s not attempting to bring the country kicking and screaming into the twentieth century, even after it was already one-third over, like FDR was.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23687.htm
Blair and Brown Listen
As Archbishop of Canterbury Condemns Iraq War Decisions
By Ruth Gledhill
“The invisible enemy may be hiding in the temptation to look for short cuts in the search for justice – letting ends justify means, letting others rather than oneself carry the cost, denying the difficulties or the failures so as to present a good public face,” he said.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23678.htm
Blair Snubbed After Memorial for Iraq Dead
By AFP
Former British prime minister Tony Blair was told he had “blood on his hands” by the father of a dead soldier Friday, after a memorial for the fallen of the Iraq war in London.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23677.htm
War, What Is it Good For?
Iraq to Deal Oil in Euros
By Digby
You may remember that among the million and one reasons why we may have “really” gone into Iraq was this one, embraced mostly by alleged conspiracy theorists and silly leftists who thought that the invasion might have something to do with oil and the dollar:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23679.htm
What Not Being Able To Buy Oil In Dollars Means
By Ian Welsh
The US can’t live on weapon sales alone. In most other fields, including telecom, the internet, large chunks of biotech, renewable energy, ground transportation and so on the US now lags other modern economies.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23680.htm
The Securitization Boondoggle
By Mike Whitney
The relentless financialization of the economy has resulted in a hybrid-system of credit expansion which depends on pools of loans sliced-and-diced into tranches and sold into the secondary market to yield-seeking investors. The process is called securitization and it lies at the heart of the current financial crisis.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23682.htm
The Uneducated American
By Paul Krugman
If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be “education.” In the 19th century, America led the way in universal basic education. Then, as other nations followed suit, the “high school revolution” of the early 20th century took us to a whole new level. And in the years after World War II, America established a commanding position in higher education.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23686.htm
9/11 And The New American Century
Video
The film exposes how every major war in US history was based on fraud .
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23683.htm
50 killed, over 100 wounded in Peshawar suicide blast :
An eyewitness, Raja Asghar, who was working in his office at the time of the explosion said the site was a scene of scattered human body-parts, wounded and crying people and that blood could be seen everywhere. “People were running here and there, crying for help,” he said.
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17 “militants” killed, 13 others arrested in NW Pakistan:
Pakistani security forces continued operations in various areas of Swat and Malakand, North West Frontier Province. Twelve militants were killed in Tilligram, Benjot, Seer, Mangaltan and five were killed at Kasona, according to the Inter Services Public Relations.
english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6778721.html
13 killed in W Afghanistan:
“The operation supported by NATO’s helicopter gunships launched in Gazara district at 10:00 p.m. local time Thursday and continued until 02:00 a.m. Friday as a result Taliban commander Ghual Yahya Akbari along with his 12 armed men were killed,” General Jalandar Shah Behnam told Xinhua.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/09/content_12199291.htm
Two Polish occupation Force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
“When the two soldiers encountered a bridge, they left their vehicle to see if it was mined. When they returned to the vehicle, there was a strong explosion. The MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) armoured vehicle (right) was completely destroyed,” says Major Miroslaw Ochyra.
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n196803
US, Afghan Forces Kill Afghan Child in Raid:
The U.S. military says American and Afghan forces accidentally killed a child during a raid on a Taliban compound in eastern Afghanistan.
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British occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan :
The soldier from the 1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards died in a blast near the large Camp Bastion base in the southern Helmand Province on Thursday
tvnz.co.nz/world-news/british-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan-3065390
U.S. troops abandon remote Afghan base where 8 were killed:
The Taliban says it drove out the soldiers.
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US: Taliban has grown fourfold:
Taliban-led forces fighting US and Nato troops in Afghanistan have increased nearly fourfold since 2006, according to a US intelligence estimate presented to the US president.
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/10/20091091814483962.html
Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000:
Commander Prefers 40,000 for Afghanistan, but His Report Gives Obama 3 Options
online.wsj.com/article/SB125504448324674693.html
Taliban condemns Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize:
“He reinforces the war in Afghanistan, he sent more troops to Afghanistan and is considering sending yet more. He has shed Afghan blood and he continues to bleed Afghans and to boost the war here,” he said.
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Five killed in Iraq bombings:
FIVE people have been killed, including two policemen, and 13 others have been wounded in two attacks in Iraq, police officials say.
www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26185843-38201,00.html
U.S. forces in Israel for missile drill:
Amid smoldering tension with Iran, U.S. forces are deploying in Israel for a strategically important ballistic missile defense exercise, considered one of the most complex ever conducted by the two allies.
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Iran tells UN Israel’s threats inexplicable:
Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Khazaee, sent a letter of protest to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonin which he wrote that “there is no explanation for Israel’s continuing threats against Tehran”.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3787711,00.html
Palestinians want urgent UN debate on Goldstone Gaza report:
Palestinian diplomats in Geneva said Friday they are pushing to bring forward a United Nations Human Rights Council debate on alleged war crimes committed by Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in Gaza earlier this year.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120012.html
EU backs UN Gaza report, disappointing Israel: –
The European Union backed on Thursday a contentious UN report blasting Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, praising its chief author and saying the document is “worthy of consideration.”
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091008/wl_
mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazaisraeluneu
Palestinians barred from Old City:
Israeli police stop Palestinian worshippers as protests at al-Aqsa continue.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast
/2009/10/2009109123144556846.html
New Crisis Developing in Palestine:
Palestinians are undergoing ever increasing levels of persecution and mistreatment from a rightwing Israeli regime that is being enabled and emboldened by the Obama administration’s abject failure to exert any real pressure.
www.counterpunch.org/christison10092009.html
GE: 10,000 applications for 90 factory jobs:
Job seekers filed 10,000 applications over three days with General Electric for 90 openings paying about $27,000 a year building washing machines, General Electric spokeswoman Kim Freeman said Thursday.
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Michael Moore: Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize —
Now Please Earn it!
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Watchdog: Obama’s Mortgage Relief Efforts Aren’t Good Enough:
The Obama administration’s efforts to force the modifications of distressed mortgages, while laudable, is likely to fall far short because the foreclosure crisis has grown and threatens to dwarf government efforts to relieve it, a special congressional watchdog panel warned in a report released Friday.
www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/76829.html
F.H.A. Problems Raising Concern of Policy Makers:
A year after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac teetered, industry executives and Washington policy makers are worrying that another government mortgage giant could be the next housing domino.
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/business/09fha.html?_r=1
400,000 jobless out of luck:
A move in Congress to extend benefits for the unemployed has been slowed as lawmakers debate who should qualify.
money.cnn.com/2009/10/08/news/economy/extending
_unemployment_benefits/?postversion=2009100819