Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered
In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,236,604"
Number
of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed
(Officially
acknowledged) In U.S. War And
Occupation Of Iraq 4,113
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Marching Toward Hell
By Jim Miles
The shackles of oil and Israel, the elitist
ignorance of the American government, the
antagonism of the Muslim world supported by the
predictions and indictments of bin Laden have
created a losing position for the Americans no
matter what they attempt to do. Continue
Bringing
Ireland to Baghdad
How the Resistance Will Eventually
Kick the Americans Out
By Gary Brecher
One thing the United States doesn't get about
guerrilla warfare: It's not over until the
guerrillas win. Continue
Towards a Second American
Revolution
A Re-Declaration of
Independence
By the People of the United States of America
By Ben Tanosborn
That existing government by engaging in criminal
wars, embargoes, blockades and other
black-listing of foreign nations has made the
United States not just an international bully but
a piranha, worlds leading perpetrator of
genocide and dislocation of people. Continue
Who Owns You?
George Carlin - 3 Minute Video
The
game is rigged! Nobody seems to notice, nobody
seems to care. Continue
Why Im Not Patriotic
By Matthew Rothschild
(In memory of George Carlin.)
Its July 4th again, a day of
near-compulsory flag-waving and
nation-worshipping. Count me out.
Continue
Bush-Led 'Disaster Capitalism'
Exploits Worldwide Misery to Make a Buck
By Naomi Klein
These cases of disaster capitalism are amateurish
compared with what is unfolding at Iraqs
oil ministry. It started with no-bid service
contracts announced for ExxonMobil, Chevron,
Shell, BP and Total (they have yet to be signed
but are still on course). Continue
The Ashes Have Been Passed To A
New Generation
By David Michael Green
Imagine if there was a meteor headed toward our
one and only planet, with the potential to do
devastating and possibly lethal damage to the
planet. Imagine that we had the technological
capability to divert the course of this weapon of
the massiest mass destruction, and all we needed
was the will to do so. And imagine that we chose
to focus our societys energies instead on
gay marriage. Or illegal immigration. Or
premarital sex. Continue
US occupation forces kill 16
civilians: Afghan governor :
: An Afghan provincial governor said Saturday 16
civilians including women, children and doctors
were killed in US-led occupation forces air
strikes but the force insisted the dead were
militants.
Occupation
force kills at Least 12 Afghan Freedom Fighters:
NATO occupation troops killed more than a dozen
Afghan militants Saturday in a confrontation in
country's Nuristan province, military officials
say.
10
Taliban Killed While Planting Bomb in
Afghanistan: Militants planting a
roadside bomb detonated the device prematurely,
killing 10 Taliban, said police chief Mohammad
Hussein Andiwal.
Gunmen
shoot dead Afghan member of parliament:
Habibullah Sanzenai, a member of the lower house
of parliament for Kandahar and a tribal leader,
was shot returning home overnight in the Zhari
district of the province, a hotbed of Taliban
militant activity.
Iraq:
At least 14 killed in another bloody day of US
occupation: Gunmen killed Salim
al-Daraji, an official of the Supreme Islamic
Iraqi Council (SIIC) in northern Basra, 420 km
(260 miles) southeast of Baghdad
Iraqi
Shiites denounce security pact with US:
Large crowds of Shiites on Friday denounced the
security pact Baghdad is negotiating with
Washington for a long-term US military presence
in violence-wracked Iraq.
Shiite
clergy want referendum over US troop presence:
Iraq's Shiite leadership indicated Friday that it
will press the Baghdad government to hold a
national referendum on the issue of a further
stationing of US forces in the country.
Journalist
Charges Censorship by U.S. Military in Fallujah:
U.S. journalist Zoriah Miller says he was
censored by the U.S. military in the Iraqi city
of Fallujah after photographing Marines who died
in a suicide bombing.
Military
action 'would destabilise Iraq':
Iraq will be plunged into a new war if Israel or
the US launches an attack on Iran, Iraqi leaders
have warned. Iranian retaliation would take place
in Iraq, said Dr Mahmoud Othman, the influential
Iraqi MP.
Iran's
Uranium Program Remains Unchanged:
Gov't Spokesman Says Enrichment Efforts Will
Continue Despite Western Entreaties, But Tehran
Will "Negotiate"
Ron Paul: I hear members of
Congress saying "if we could only nuke
Iran": Congressman warns
of imminent confrontation
Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran: US Pentagon doubts Israeli
intelligence over Iran's nuclear programme:
Pentagon chiefs fear that Israeli plans for an
attack on Iran's nuclear programme will fail to
destroy the facilities because neither the CIA
nor Mossad knows where every base is located
Propaganda and Presstitute alert: Syria
'would break links with Iran' if America steps in
to help it: Syria is ready to break
off its close links with Iran if America gives it
financial and military backing, a former Israeli
diplomat involved in unofficial peace talks has
revealed to The Sunday Telegraph.
McCain
wants much larger US military: The
Bush administration has begun expanding the US
Army and Marine Corps to create a combined
strength of around 750,000 active duty troops - a
process backed by McCain's Democratic rival, Sen.
Barack Obama of Illinois. But McCain believes an
Army and Marine Corps with a combined strength of
up to 900,000 troops is necessar
Israel
reclosure of crossings dampens Gazans' hopes:
The Israeli army's killing of a top militant
commander in the occupied West Bank, sporadic
rocket attacks and periodic Israeli closures of
Gaza's crossings have strained the truce.
Haniyeh:
Israel must lift Gaza siege, open crossings:
Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of Hamas-ruled
Gaza, accused Israel of not living up to its part
of the truce.
Israeli
Arabs find barriers insurmountable:
Asma Nasar is afraid to leave her home. Like many
other Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs, the
21-year-old from the West Bank city of Hebron is
living illegally in Israel with her husband and
two young daughters.
71
Somali resistance fighters killed in clashes with
occupation troops: Allied
Ethiopian-Somali occupation troops in Somalia
have killed 71 "insurgents" in an
operation launched in central regions late last
week, Ethiopia's state television reported.
Explosion
in occupied Somalia kills official, five others:
An explosion killed a Somali official, his
wife and four others Saturday in the capital
Saturday, witnesses and officials said.
The
main problem in Somalia is not Islamists, it is
Ethiopia: Somalia has been stateless
for close to two decades now, and efforts by
neighbouring countries, particularly Djibouti, to
bring it back to the world map is frustrated, if
not made impossible, by Ethiopia.
Mugabe
meets opposition faction: Thabo
Mbeki, the South African president, has met
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, and
representatives from a breakaway faction of the
opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
West
condemns Mugabe, ignores other Africa despots:
Leaders of other "autocratic" states in
Africa have largely been able to avoid sanctions
and isolation. Many have friends in Western
capitals. Or play a strategic role in the war
against terrorist groups. Or sit on oil.
Tensions
surround Abyei withdrawal: Troops
from northern and southern Sudan are pulling out
from the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei.
Russia
warns of Abkhazia war: Russia's
defence ministry has warned that a "new
war" could break out in Georgia's breakaway
region of Abkhazia if Tbilisi uses forces to
attempt to resolve the conflict.
US
denies ransom payout for hostage release:
ambassador:: Ambassador William
Brownfield issued the denial in response to a
radio report that the daring rescue of the
hostages, including high-profile French Colombian
politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans,
was obtained with a 20 million dollar ransom
payout.
Bolivia's
rebel governors agree to recall vote:
Regional governors pushing for greater autonomy
from Bolivia's central government said Friday
they will not boycott an August recall vote that
could force them out of office despite initially
resisting the ballot.
04/07/08
Slaughter
of the innocent: U.S.attack kills 22 Afghan
civilians:
Twenty-two civilians, including women and
children, were killed in an air strike by
U.S.-led forces on Friday. "The civilians
were evacuating the district as they were told by
the U.S.-led troops to do so because they wanted
to launch an operation against the Taliban,"
he said.
Attacks, bombs kill 14 in
occupied Afghanistan: Bomb blasts and attacks killed 11
policemen and three civilians in separate
incidents in insurgency-hit Afghanistan,
officials said Friday.
Ten
Afghan police officers killed, weapons smugglers
nabbed: At least 10 Afghan police
officers were killed and five injured in a
Taliban insurgent attack on a checkpoint in
Kandahar and a roadside bomb explosion in Ghazni
province, while a coalition service member died
and three rebels were arrested
Pakistan's
Musharraf says army still backs him:
President Pervez Musharraf insisted on Friday
that Pakistan's powerful army still supports him,
but he said he would step down if he thought it
would solve all of the country's problems.
Scientist
says Pakistan army supervised North Korean
nuclear shipment: Pakistan's army
under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a
shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in
2000, the architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons
program said Friday.
Occupied
Iraq: Car bomb kills four near hospital:
The explosion took place in front of the morgue
of Baghdad's Al-Yarmukh hospital, one of the main
medical facilities in the capital, at around 9pm
(4am AEST) today, an official at the defence
ministry said.
Condoleezza
Rice: I'm "Proud" Of The Decision To
Invade Iraq: Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said she's ``proud'' of the U.S.
decision to wage the Iraq war and insisted that
the world is not more dangerous than it was when
George W. Bush took office.
Manufacturing Consent For An Attack On Iran: U.S.
admiral: Iran strike on Israel 'likely':
Iran is likely to launch ballistic missiles
against Israel and the United States and the NATO
alliance should prepare for it, was the warning
issued earlier this week by Admiral James
Winnefeld, commander of the Sixth Fleet in the
Mediterranean.
Iran
responds to big powers' nuclear offer:
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili,
told Solana by telephone that Tehran had prepared
its response by concentrating on common ground
between the two sides and with a
"constructive and creative outlook."
Hamas
freezes talks over 'non-respect' of Gaza truce:
Hamas said on Friday it had suspended
negotiations on the release of a captured Israeli
soldier because the Jewish state was not
respecting the terms of a truce with the Islamist
movement.
Collective Punishment: Israel
to destroy attacker's home: Israeli
Defence Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the army
to prepare to demolish the home of the
Palestinian who killed three Israelis in
Jerusalem. Reports say about 20 people live in
the home of the attacker Hussam Dwayat in the Sur
Bahir area of East Jerusalem.
Congress Delivers Promised
Israel Aid Bump Despite Budget Deadlock:
While almost all federally financed programs were
denied any funding increase for the coming year,
aid to Israel from the United States will
increase thanks to a legislative loophole and
some deft maneuvering by pro-Israel lobbyists.
FARC
leaders were paid millions to free hostages:
Swiss radio: The 15 hostages
released on Wednesday by the Colombian army 'were
in reality ransomed for a high price, and the
whole operation afterwards was a set-up,' the
radio's French-language channel said.
Panama
says no to U.S. military base:
Panama has ruled out hosting a U.S. military base
to replace one in Ecuador which is being
reclaimed by the Quito government, a senior
Panamanian official said on Friday.
US
may empty Guantanamo - report: THE
US government is developing a "long-range
plan" to empty its "war-on-terror"
prison at its naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and
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