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: 4,668
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,463
icasualties.org/oef/
Cost of War in Iraq
$692,620,930,222
Cost of War in Afghanistan
$229,526,926,682
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Iranian Nuclear Threat Hyped: ElBaradei:
By Jerusalem Post Staff
The greatest danger in the region, according to ElBaradei, comes from the possibility of an Israeli air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23751.htm
Manipulating Public Perceptions
Game Plan: If Israel Strikes Iran First
By Dan Raviv
Retired General Says Israeli Attack to Take Out Iran's Nuclear Facilities Not Only Possible, the U.S. Should Join In.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23750.htm
Obama joins Netanyahu in Shielding Israel from War Crimes Charges
By Jean Shaoul
With help from the White House, Netanyahu mounted an international campaign of bullying and intimidation to oppose the report, get the vote deferred until March and ensure that the Security Council-dominated by the US and the European powers that hold the power of veto-does not refer the case to the ICC.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23754.htm
Taking Stock of the Republicans
By Mike Whitney
The Republicans have become deficit hawks. It's more phoniness from a party of phonies. They've decided to stake their political future on opposition to Obama's agenda. It doesn't matter what it is; they're against it. Stimulus is bad because extends unemployment benefits and keeps the states on life support. The Republicans have a better idea; let's build more bombs and slash taxes.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23753.htm
Embrace the Dollar's Downfall
By Dean Baker
Banks might suffer if China stopped buying US debt, but the US economy as a whole would be much better off.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23756.htm
The Dollar Will Not Crash
By Mike Whitney
What difference does it make if China and Russia are unhappy? Who gives a hoot? Toppling the dollar is going to take a concerted effort by people who truly despise the system, not the blather of malcontents who are simply envious of US power.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23757.htm
The Two Americas
By Andre Damon and Joe Kishore
The big banks have used government money to return to profitability and the stock market has risen more than 50 percent since last March. The market has been pushed up by investors awash in cash who have no productive outlet for their money. But its extraordinary rise is also a vote of confidence in the Obama administration by bankers and big investors who have been reassured that it is fully committed to protecting their interests.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23752.htm
A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction
By Chris Hedges
Those who run our corporate state have fought environmental regulation as tenaciously as they have fought financial regulation. They are responsible for our personal impoverishment as well as the impoverishment of our ecosystem.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23755.htm
78 militants, nine Pakistan soldiers,killed: army:
“The last 24 hours, reportedly 18 “terrorists” have been killed in various incidents and security forces losses are two soldiers and 12 injured,” Major General Athar Abbas told the first news conference on the operation.
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US playing double game on Taliban: Report:
US-led NATO forces vacated more than half a dozen security check posts on the Afghan side of the border just ahead of the major ground offensive launched by the Pakistani military against the Taliban in the volatile South Waziristan region, a media report said Monday.
snipurl.com/slp18
2 Texas National Guardsmen killed in Afghanistan:
The Pentagon says two Texas National Guard soldiers died after a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Afghanistan.
www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=11338509&nav=menu193_2
Fact or fiction?
Taliban's Afghan allies tell Barack Obama:
'Cut us a deal and we'll ditch al-Qaeda': President Barack Obama's review of strategy in Afghanistan means America will end up making a deal with the Taliban, and tolerating warlords, to end the fighting.
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U.N. Investigators Say Afghanistan Runoff Needed:
U.N.-backed fraud investigators on Monday threw out nearly a third of President Hamid Karzai's votes from the country's disputed August election. The findings set the stage for a runoff between him and his top challenger.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.
php?storyId=113925474&ft=1&f=1004
Five die in Baghdad bombing:
The blast in Baghdad's Azamiyah district also injured 16 civilians, an officer at the al-Risafa police station said. Officials at two hospitals that received the wounded said most of the injured were young men.
www.northjersey.com/news/Five_die_in_Baghdad_bombing.html
'They gave me $100 and told me to fend for myself in Baghdad':
Asylum-seeker deported from UK explains why he fears for his life
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Iraqis claim abuse and assault after failed deportation:
Allegations of assault, racist taunts and operational chaos have emerged from Iraqi asylum seekers the Home Office attempted to deport to Baghdad.
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Yemeni govt. claims: 44 Houthi fighters killed:
The Houthi fighters, however, claimed that the Yemeni army has killed civilians and not the fighters during Sunday's attacks
en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1561565.html
Saudi forces accused of firing across Yemen border
Zaidi rebels accuse Saudi forces of targeting crowded market of Hassama with heavy machine-guns.
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=35083
Yemen president: Iran government not supporting rebels
“We don't accuse the Iranian government,” the Yemeni leader stated. The president denied that the Saada war is a regional war .
www.albawaba.com/en/news/255614
Iran blames Pakistan for attack:
The Fars news agency on Monday quoted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying that he knew “some security agents in Pakistan are co-operating with the main elements of this terrorist incident” in Sistan-Baluchestan province.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast
/2009/10/2009101955217972717.html
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Vows to Retaliate against Recent Terrorist Attack in Iran:”
Jafari noted, “(Iran's) Intelligence apparatus has presented evidence and documents which prove that the evil group of Rigi is backed up and protected by the US, British and, unfortunately, the Pakistani intelligence agencies and that it (the Rigi group) carries out its plans at their orders.”
english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8807271686
IRGC promises Jundallah 'crushing response':
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has vowed to give a severe response to the Pishin attack that killed 42 people, including commanders and tribal figures.
presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109046§ionid=351020101
France removed from Iran uranium suppliers:
Mohamed ElBaradei opened the meeting earlier on Monday in which delegations from Moscow, Paris, Tehran and Washington and the IAEA experts are present to discuss a deal to supply highly-enriched uranium for an Iranian research reactor.
presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109070§ionid=351020104
Russians deal Lieberman 'slap' by endorsing Goldstone report:
Israel relayed a sharply worded protest to the Russian government following Russia's vote in favor of adopting the Goldstone report at the Human Rights Council in Geneva Friday, according to senior Foreign Ministry officials in Jerusalem.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122067.html
Dovish Jews? They love Israel? Excommunicate them:
The opening shot was fired this month by the former chairman of the Governing Board of the World Jewish Congress, Isi Liebler, who declared it “our obligation to confront the enemy within – renegade Jews – including Israelis who stand at the vanguard of global efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state.”
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122104.html
Israel may have planted spy gear in Lebanon: U.N.:
A U.N. investigation into explosions in south Lebanon indicated on Sunday that Israel had planted spy devices on Lebanese land in what a senior U.N. official said would be a violation of a ceasefire agreement.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091018/wl_nm/us_lebanon_israel
India forces US jet to land:
Indian authorities have forced a US plane with more than 200 US marines on board to land in Mumbai for allegedly violating its airspace.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/200910192134221459.html
Federal Deficit Hits All-Time High of $1.42 Trillion:
What is $1.42 trillion? It's more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada's, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in the United States.
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/16
/business/AP-US-Deficit-Danger.html?_r=2&hp
Foreclosures: 'Worst three months of all time':
During that time, 937,840 homes received a foreclosure letter — whether a default notice, auction notice or bank repossession, the RealtyTrac report said. That means one in every 136 U.S. homes were in foreclosure, which is a 5% increase from the second quarter and a 23% jump over the third quarter of 2008.
money.cnn.com/2009/10/15/real_estate/foreclosure_crisis_deepens/
U.S. launches aid for state, local housing agencies:
The Obama administration on Monday launched a new program to help state and local housing finance agencies provide hundreds of thousands of affordable mortgages and further stabilize the depressed U.S. housing market.
www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE59I47Y20091019