Below are listed articles available at the original URL. Every article can be reached by a link. rkm -------------------------------------------------------- Original source URL: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War on Iraq - At Least 665,000 + + Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq 3,352 Cost of America's War in Iraq $422,190,986,749 To see more details, click here. Key Articles Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President The President's Real Goal In Iraq The Project for the New American Century. The Plan Is For The United States To Rule The World. America's War for Global Domination: Will Iran Be Next? Memo: Bush Made Intel Fit Iraq Policy Secret Downing Street Memo UK Ministers Knew WMD Was "Excuse" Leaked Cabinet Office paper Poll: U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006 Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map? - Does He Deny The Holocaust? The U.S.' War on Democracy Interview with John Pilger The United States has long waged a war on democracy behind a facade of propaganda designed to contort the intellect and morality of Americans and the rest of us. For many of your readers, this is known. However, for others in the West, the propaganda that has masked Washington's ambitions has been entrenched, with its roots in the incessant celebration of World War Two, the "good war", then "victory" in the cold war. Continue "Worthy and Unworthy Victims" By Stephen Lendman In a recent article, John Pilger quotes historian Mark Curtis' characterization of "unworthy victims" as "unpeople" while Herman and Chomsky explain the "propaganda system," played out in the dominant media, characterizes people abused and victimized by us or our client states as "unworthy." Continue Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes or Less By Robert Jensen We are told, over and over, that capitalism is not just the system we have, but the only system we can ever have. Yet for many, something nags at us about such a claim. Could this really be the only option? Continue Sweet Waters From a Bitter Fountain Monetary Reform for the United States By Richard C. Cook "This money power is not only the most governing and influential, but it is also the most unjust and deceitful of all earthly powers. It entails upon millions excessive toil, poverty and want, while it keeps them ignorant of the cause of their sufferings; for, with their tacit consent, it silently transfers a large share of their earnings into the hands of others, who have never lifted a finger to perform any productive labor. Continue Iraq: At Least 61 Killed In Another Bloody Day Of U.S. Occupation: The Iraqi army killed 25 "insurgents" and arrested 122 others during the last 48 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said. Some analysts see Iraq war eclipsing toll from Vietnam: As fighting in Iraq enters its fifth year, an increasing number of specialists in foreign policy and national strategy are contending that the biggest difference might be that the Iraq war will inflict greater damage to US interests than Vietnam did. Another 3,700 American occupation troops arrives in Baghdad : A statement Wednesday says the new brigade will help Iraqi security forces clear, control and retain key areas of Baghdad in order to reduce violence. Anger in Baghdad as Americans finish wall: American forces have completed construction of a concrete wall around the Baghdad district of Adhamiya despite protests from the Iraqi prime minister and local residents who claim that they are now at the mercy of militants. Iraq says U.S.-backed oil law sent to parliament: The Iraqi government has sent to parliament a landmark draft oil law, the oil minister said on Wednesday, a major step towards meeting one of the political benchmarks Washington has set for Baghdad. Digging In : If the U.S. government doesn't plan to occupy Iraq for any longer than necessary, why is it spending billions of dollars to build "enduring" bases? Iran calls on U.S. to leave Iraq on eve of Egypt meet; - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Wednesday on U.S. and other foreign forces to leave neighbouring Iraq, reiterating an Iranian demand on the eve of an international meeting to discuss the violence there. War pimp alert: Countdown has begun : US, Israel prepare for Iran strike in wake of new intelligence information "These People Frighten Me" The Candor of Mike Gravel: "Some of these people frighten me--they frighten me. When you have mainline candidates that turn around and say that there's nothing off the table with respect to Iran, that's code for using nukes, nuclear devices. Iran nuclear official 'detained' : Hossein Mousavian was deputy to Iran's chief negotiator in talks with Europe on the nuclear issue before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power. Afghanistan: 51 civilians killed by U.S. led occupatio forces: Regional officials said Wednesday that 51 villagers, some of them women and children, were killed in recent fighting in western Afghanistan. The U.S.-led occupation said it had no reports of civilian deaths. Karzai says Afghans lose patience over killing of civilians by occupation forces; : Nearly 60 civilians have been killed in raids by U.S.-led troops in the past week, Afghan officials say, sparking four days so far of anti-American, anti-Karzai protests Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian: A top Palestinian Health Ministry official, Muawiyah Hassanein, identified the man killed as a 34-year-old civilian. Israel's violations of the right to life: Report: The Israeli military employed violent, excessive and disproporti onate force against Palestinian civilians. This was evident in the bombardment of civilian houses and infrastructure; the extrajudicial killing of Palestinian activists resulting in the killing of civilian by-standers; and the opening of random gunfire leading to the deaths of children The Color of Olives: Video: From Mexican director Carolina Rivas and cinematographer Daoud Sarhandi comes this elegant and visually breathtaking new film about the Palestinian experience. The Amer family lives surrounded by the infamous West Bank Wall, where their daily lives are dominated by electrified fences, locked gates and a constant swarm of armed soldiers Israel FM calls on prime minister to resign: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign on Wednesday over a damning Lebanon war report, upping the pressure on the beleaguered premier to step down. Amnesty: Kenya denied Somali refugees : Kenya has turned away thousands of refugees at its border with Somalia and forcibly returned hundreds who had fled Somalia's rampant violence before the border was closed - leaving them susceptible to hunger, beatings and rape. African Union troops deployed in Mogadishu: African Union peacekeepers have been patrolling the streets of Mogadishu for the first time since the start of fighting that killed more than 1,300 civilians and caused tens of thousands of people to flee to Somali capital. Interview: With Longtime warlord, new Mogadishu mayor: Dheere, who has long cooperated with the CIA in grabbing al-Qaida operatives in the capital, promised that the ''time of terrorists is over,'' saying he would keep the city quiet by using 20 police vehicles to patrol the streets ''day and night.'' US, Montenegro sign pacts; THE United States signed a defence pact today with Montenegro that could open the way for the deployment of US forces to the young Balkan republic - a step likely to fuel tensions with Russia. Venezuela nationalisation goes on : Venezuela has continued its nationalisation drive by taking control of privately run crude oil installations in the Orinoco basin that together account for one-fifth of the country's production. Venezuela has not notified IMF of plans - Rato: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Rodrigo Rato said on Wednesday he had not yet received an official notice from Venezuela of its intention to withdraw from the institution. Venezuela's Bolivar Declines on Concern About IMF Withdrawal ; Venezuela's currency tumbled in unregulated trading on concern President Hugo Chavez's pledge to withdraw from the International Monetary Fund will trigger defaults on $21 billion of bonds Sharing the Wealth - Beyond the American Way: After the Bush administration's 2001, 2002 and 2003 tax cuts, the savings enjoyed by U.S. households above the $500,000 bracket alone amounted to $50 billion per year. Compare that to the total of $15 billion that the administration gave in foreign aid in 2004. Mike Gravel on CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer : 7Minute Video: Talks about iraq, iran, nukes, his presidential run, the other candidates and more. Gonzales' Safety Net: No matter how many members of Congress lose confidence in Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales, President Bush is unlikely to let him go. If Gonzales resigns, the vacancy must be filled by a new presidential nominee, and the last thing the White House wants is a confirmation hearing. Top aides say Bush can order warrantless wiretaps: Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January. Administration pushes to expand domestic surveillance: Claiming that federal investigators are missing key information on terrorists because of an outdated spying law, the top U.S. intelligence official called on lawmakers on Tuesday to revamp the foreign surveillance act and make it easier to eavesdrop on non-citizens in the U.S. with suspected links to terrorism. Secret court OKs all but one domestic spying request: A secret court approved all but one of the government's requests last year to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies, according to Justice Department data released today. Are You On the government's 'watch list'?: YOU MIGHT not realize it, but your government might be targeting you for an extra little dose of hell next time you try to board an airplane. States Wiretap Far More Often Than Feds: State investigators listened in on more than 3 million phone conversations last year as local prosecutors sought a record number of wiretaps, mostly to investigate drug crimes. Immigration rally disrupted by police: Video: It was a dramatic and chaotic end to what was otherwise a peaceful day here in Los Angeles. Š Police started to move and disperse the crowd and fired rubber bullets, dozens of rubber bullets, into the crowd. People went running and fleeing, trying to get out of their way Tape 'reveals order' to shoot Vietnam protesters: 37-year-old recording of Kent State killings found Arctic ice cap melting 30 years ahead of forecast : This means the ocean at the top of the world could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the global panel's gloomiest forecast of 2050. George Monbiot: How to Stop the Planet From Burning: All over Washington, you can hear the giant scraping sound of officials and legislators frantically back-tracking. After years of obfuscation, denial, and lies about climate change, all but the most hardened recidivists are rebranding themselves as friends of the earth. 05/01/07 Why There Was No Exit Plan By Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg For all the talk about timetables and benchmarks, one might think that the United States will end the military occupation of Iraq within the lifetimes of the readers of this opinion editorial. Think again. Continue In case you missed it The War Party Video Panorama investigates the "neo-conservatives", the small and unelected group of right-wingers, who critics claim have hijacked the White House. They brought us war against Iraq - what do the hawks in Washington have in store for us now? Continue Enter the Empire By Manuel Valenzuela The wealthiest nation-state the world has ever seen has for the last sixty years been standing atop the upper crust of humankind, basking in the splendor of unfathomable richness, enjoying unprecedented standards of living, accumulating power and control at tremendous speed and becoming, at the expense of the planet and its inhabitants, the latest incarnation of Rome. Continue Don't Steal, Don't Lie and Don't Be Lazy Evo Morales and the New Wave of Democracy in Latin America A Must Listen Audio Report Democratically elected with 54% of the vote, he is soft-spoken, honest, mature, humble and trying to balance a history of oligarchic elitism with the growing needs on his people. A new breed of government which has the Bush Administration perplexed and unable to put in their pocket. Click to listen H a r l a n C o u n t y USA: Video Least we think that America was built by the starched shirts and expensive suits featured on FOX News and CNN. This documentary will help to remind us that our freedoms and working conditions were not won by U.S. soldiers in foreign lands but through the suffering and sweat of our fathers and grand fathers in their struggle against commercial interests. Continue Post Mortem for the Stock Market By Mike Whitney The real estate market is crashing faster than anyone had anticipated. Housing prices have fallen in 17 of 20 of the nation's largest cities and the trend lines indicate that the worst is yet to come. Continue Millions Will Die By George Monbiot Rich nations seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie. You won't find this statement in the draft of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was leaked to the Guardian last week. But as soon as you understand the numbers, the words form before your eyes. The governments making genuine efforts to tackle global warming are using figures they know to be false. Continue At least 24 killed in another savage day of U.S. occupation: Gunmen attacked a minibus south of Baghdad late on Monday, killing 11 passengers including women and children, Iraqi police said on Tuesday. Al Qaeda denies reports top leader in Iraq killed: An Iraqi insurgent umbrella group denied Tuesday that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed, saying he was alive and safe, according to an Internet statement. U.S. Cites 91 Percent Rise In Terrorist Acts in Iraq: The number of terrorism incidents in Iraq -- and resulting deaths, injuries and kidnappings -- skyrocketed from 2005 to 2006, according to statistics released by U.S. counterterrorism officials yesterday. U.S. Military wife tells off neocon Kristol : 3 Minute Video: On a C-Span morning call-in show, a military wife took issue with William Kristol's disconnect from the personal strains of military families. Kristol was almost speechless Some straight talking: but is anyone in America listening?: According to a recent poll, one in four Iraqis has personally experienced or witnessed the murder of a family member as a result of violence since the US-led invasion. Baghdad up close and personal: Pepe Escobar, is back in Iraq and in the Red Zone - that is, outside "Fortress USA", the Green Zone. This is the first of his unembedded, non-Kevlar-protected, bodyguardless reports. Price tag for war in Iraq on track to top $500 billion: The bitter fight over the latest Iraq spending bill has all but obscured a sobering fact: The war will soon cost more than $500 billion. Everywoman - Iraqi women : Video explores the lives of 4 Iraqi women living under U.S. occupation. Few Iraqi refugees allowed into U.S.: The United States admitted 68 Iraqi refugees in the six months through March, a tiny percentage of those fleeing their homes because of the war, State Department figures show. Syria blames US, Israel for refugee influx: Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Shara yesterday blamed the "violent policies" of the US and Israel for the plight of millions of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. Andrew Cockburn: "Make Sure This Happens!!": How Rumsfeld Micromanaged Torture Ex-CIA Analyst Accuses Tenet of Hypocrisy : Six former CIA officials, including former top terrorism experts, are accusing Tenet of hypocrisy for not speaking out earlier. In a letter issued over the weekend, they call on Tenet to "dedicate a significant percentage of the royalties from [his] book to the U.S. soldiers and their families who have been killed and wounded in Iraq." Coalition statement in support of impeachment : A group of prominent Americans gathered at the U.S. Capitol to speak in support of beginning impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney. A Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key: Bush administration officials have been scratching their heads over steps taken by Prince Bandar's uncle, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, that have surprised them by going against the American playbook, after receiving assurances to the contrary from Prince Bandar during secret trips he made to Washington. 30 Civilians Killed By Occupation Forces In Afghanistan : At least 30 civilians were killed during recent fighting in the Afghan province of Herat, police and government officials say. They say that women and children were among the victims. Afghans protest over civilian deaths for third day: Burning an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush and chanting anti-U.S. slogans, hundreds of Afghans staged a third day of protests on Tuesday over the killing of civilians by U.S.-led coalition forces Taliban Behead Afghan Police Officer : The governor of the southern Afghan Kandahar Province says Taliban militants today beheaded an 18-year-old police officer. Iran says "evil approach" by U.S. prevents talks: Iran will not negotiate with the United States until it stops its "evil approach", the government spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday, two days before the two foes were due to attend a meeting on Iraq. 'They sold out the world for an F-16 sale' : The US and its allies allowed Pakistan to clandestinely acquire most of the technology for its nuclear program from abroad, unwittingly facilitating the spread of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya over the past several decades. Jordan censors story on dissolving Haniyya legislature: Jordanian censors halted printing of Monday's edition of the weekly Al-Majd over an article detailing a plan for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve Parliament, its editor said. Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience: Video: This documentary offers rare footage of Rachel talking to a camera and describing Israeli human rights violations against a Palestinian civilian population.The film opens with grim images of dinosaur-like Caterpillar bulldozers turning urban Rafah into a garbage pile of destroyed buildings FBI outsourced dirty work to secret Ethiopian prisons: While we have been awash in news stories about the firing of U.S. attorneys, Don Imus and the Virginia Tech horror, how many Americans know that the FBI and, to a lesser extent, the CIA have been interrogating suspected terrorists in secret prisons in Ethiopia? Background on Somalia: Somalia: Ogaden War 77/79 : 7 Minute Video: This documentary includes exclusive interviews with the former US president Jimmy Carter, the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro & former Russian officials in which they confess that the Ethiopians were dependent on military support & with out the USSR & allies Ethiopia would have been defeated by Somalia Russia sees moon plot in Nasa plans : Mankind's second race for the moon took on a distinctly Cold War feel yesterday when the Russian space agency accused its old rival Nasa of rejecting a proposal for joint lunar exploration. Venezuela Pulling Out of IMF, World Bank: President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move because the nation has already paid off its debts to the lending institutions. Britain damaged by dropping arms deal inquiry : Britain's reputation on the world stage suffered "severe damage" when ministers halted a corruption inquiry into an arms deal with Saudi Arabia, a Commons committee has said Mike Gravel, soon to be a household name: Mike Gravel made such an impression in the first Democratic debate last week that his name is the 15th most popular search in the blogosphere. Child Slavery: Video: Around 8.4 million children around the world are enslaved today. Now, in a remarkable journey across three continents, five of them tell their stories. This documentary is presented by reporter Rageh Omaar Cops Planted Pot on 92-Year Old Woman They Killed: According to federal documents released this week, these are the events that led to Kathryn Johnston's death and the steps the officers took to cover their tracks. 04/30/07 The accursed: widows of Iraq's torn-apart society By Hala Jaber "I shouted and beat my breast and yanked my hair in the street but no one could do anything. A few minutes later we heard shots. I knew they [Ali and Ahmad] were dead," she said. " Continue Something About "Liberation"... By Layla Anwar Never, at least not to my knowledge, has a "liberation" produced so much human filth... Never has a "liberation" managed to generate so many death mercenaries and contractors being paid up to 5'000 dollars a day with the sole aim of exterminating...and "pacifying". Continue Bush Has Destroyed Iraq and America By Paul Craig Roberts The violence and killing that Bush brought to Iraq has spread antagonism between Sunni and Shiite throughout the Middle East with potentially draconian consequences. Bush's war has turned Muslim hearts and minds against America and made terrorism an acceptable means to resist American hegemony. With his mindless war, Bush has created more terrorism than the world has ever seen. Continue Sorry They've Been So Mean To You, George By Ray McGovern The role that Tenet, McLaughlin and their small coterie of malleable managers played as willing accomplices in the corruption of intelligence has made a mockery of the verse chiseled into the marble at the entrance to CIA headquarters: "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Continue US Seeks To Bar Anti-Castro Extremist From Speaking of CIA Ties By AFP The US government is seeking to bar former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for the downing of an airliner, from talking about his links with the agency when he goes on trial in May. Continue Iraq: At least 80 killed in another bloody day of U.S. occupation: A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 32 people when he blew himself up among mourners at a Shi'ite funeral in the town of Khalis, north of Baghdad. U.S. April death toll in Iraq passes 100: Four U.S. occupation force soldiers were killed in separate attacks in the capital this weekend, including three in a single roadside bombing, the military said Monday, pushing the death toll past 100 in the deadliest month so far this year. Maliki's Office Is Seen Behind Purge in Forces: Some of whom had apparently worked too aggressively to combat violent Shiite militias, according to U.S. military officials in Baghdad. U.S. sees dispute between Iraq, Saudis: The refusal of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is a "dispute between the two nations", the White House said on Monday, urging the Saudis to back the Iraqi government. Kurds to 'block' Iraq oil law : Iraq's Kurdish region has said it will try to block a draft oil law in parliament, raising the stakes in a row with the central government. Accounting for Iraq's Oil Revenue: A May 2006 study of oil production and export figures by Platt's Oilgram News, an industry magazine, showed that up to $3 billion a year is unaccounted for. Bush Bailout Pal Drooling For Iraqi Oil: While blood is flowing freely in Iraq's streets, A. Robert Abboud, a man who helped bail George W. Bush out of his Harken Energy fiasco, is angling for a contract that will give his firm, Ivanhoe Energy Inc., access to a major oil field in north central Iraq. In case you missed it: War Is A Racket : A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC. Manufacturing Consent For War: U.S. report: Iran remains biggest gov't supporter of terrorism : Iran continues to be the biggest supporter of terrorism around the world, with elements of its government supporting extremist groups throughout the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, the United States State Department says. Iran Receives A Last Warning: The EU accused Iran of ignoring the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and called on the international community to apply the sanctions dictated by the UN. Russia's foreign ministry slams U.S. policy: Russia's Foreign Ministry criticized the United States for what it called over-reliance on force and warned Washington against military action against Iran. George Galloway: "What Happened To Iraq Is About To Happen To Iran: Video - Galloway speaks on Iraq and Iran Australia, U.S. behave tyrannically, says ex-PM: Australia's government and close ally the United States behaved in a tyrannical way and for "evil purpose" by jailing militants at Guantanamo Bay, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said on Monday. Thousands protest killing of more than 130 'Taliban fighters': US-led occupation troops killed more than 130 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan over the past several days, the coalition said on Monday, the heaviest reported rebel losses this year amid rising violence in the country. Afghans protest civilian deaths: Infuriated protesters carrying the bodies of five Afghans killed in a U.S.-led raid - including the shrouded corpses of a woman and teenage girl - blocked a highway in eastern Afghanistan with rocks and felled trees, denouncing their government and demanding an explanation Is Canada's Defence Minister a War Criminal?: Political and Military Leadership Has Been Playing Fast and Loose With Torture Lawyers taking Rumsfeld war crimes case to Spain: German lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck says that he will refile a war crimes complaint against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Spain with the help of Spanish counterparts after the German Federal Prosecutor's office Friday rejected a bid to prosecute the suit in Germany under that country's universal jurisdiction law Between the Mullahs and the Military:Video - It's a study of Pakistan's power struggle between the two dominant powers - Islamic religious leaders and the Military. Hamas chief issues intifada warning : Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas leader, has told Israel that it could face another Palestinian uprising unless conditions in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank improve. Lebanon war report slams Israeli PM : A commission probing Israel's war in Lebanon last summer has accused the country's wartime leaders of "very severe failures" in their handling of the conflict in an interim report. Legal Expert: Findings Mean Olmert Must Resign: Following the grave findings of the Winograd Commission on Monday afternoon, Atty. Yosef Fuchs of the Land of Israel Legal Forum issued a statement saying that Olmert has no choice but to resign. Fuchs says that this is the indicated conclusion based on the Kahn Commission precedent that investigated Sabra and Shatila in 1982 Clinton scores with Jewish Democrats: All seven major Democratic presidential candidates addressed the National Jewish Democratic Council this past week, but only one had two supporters introduce her. Hillary Clinton also received the most applause and ovations before, during and after her speech. Clinton and Obama Raiding Donors Who Backed Bush: In the first quarter of this year, more than 150 former Bush donors pitched in for Mrs. Clinton's campaign, while a similar number anted up for Mr. Obama, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data One million Turks take to the streets in mass rally: Turks take to the streets in mass rally: More than a million Turks rallied on Sunday in support of secular democracy amid an unprecedented stand-off between the Islamist-rooted government and the army over presidential elections. Refugees: 90 Somali migrants buried in mass graves in Yemen : Ninety of the 140 missing Somali migrants to Yemen have been buried in mass graves in the Bir Ali area of Shabwa after their bodies were found floating off the coast, members of the Somali community in the capital, Sana'a, said on Wednesday. "Renegade" Somali leaders vow deeper insurgency: "Renegade" Somali leaders on Monday vowed deeper insurgency against government-backed Ethiopian troops despite retreating in recent clashes in Mogadishu, some of the deadliest in the city's history. Justin Raimondo : Blueprint for Dictatorship : America is headed for a military dictatorship - and recent legislation makes this all but inevitable. A Few Good Men! Protest at Senate turns to Arrests : 2 Minute Video: April 26 2007 - 14 people werearrested in the HartSenate Office Building,for unlawful assemblywhile protesting to stopthe war in Iraq and calling for impeachment. Venezuela plans to sell off U.S. oil refineries, relocate in Latin America : President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela hopes to gradually sell off its refineries in the United States and build a new network of refineries in Latin America, part of a plan to offer his leftist allies in the region a stable oil supply. Wolfowitz Resignation Deal in the Works : Behind the scenes of the gladiatorial battle that will take place between Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank Board today are efforts by his lawyer, Robert Bennett, and the Bank staff to negotiate terms of Wolfowitz's departure. Credit card companies raising rates without notice : The credit squeeze is on. The credit card companies are raising their rates silently; rates go as high as 29.99% easily without any notice. The Fed is watching helplessly as these loan sharks make the economy collapse. An Alfred Hitchcock Documentary on The Nazi Holocaust : A film the British Government deemed too grisly for release after World War II - has received its public debut on British television. 04/29/07 U.S. Storm Troopers - Occupation Of Iraq - 101 3 Minute Video Proud moments in US. military history caught on tape. How are these action different than those of Nazi raids in occupied France? Continue Bush Has Gone AWOL By General William Odom "Most Americans suspect that something is fundamentally wrong with the President's management of the conflict in Iraq. And they are right. Continue Inside Africa's Guantánamo By Salim Lone The only way the US can prop up its client regime in Somalia is through lawlessness and slaughter. Continue A Hope not Lost By Uri Avnery ON THE MORROW of Independence Day, a newspaper reported that an Arab child had refused to stand up while the national anthem was sung. The paper was furious. I was not. In fact, it raised a childhood experience from the depths of my memory. Continue Sunday : At least 9 killed as U.S. occupation grinds on: Iraqi army killed two insurgents and arrested 112 others during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq British soldier killed in Basra: The soldier had dismounted from his vehicle during the patrol in the al-Ashar district of Basra. Support for Iraq War Timetable Hits 64% in U.S.: 64 per cent of respondents think the U.S. should set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq sometime in 2008 Iraq "I thought I would not stand the torture" : As result of the torture he endured, one of his legs sustained serious injuries and doctors said it might require amputation. Myth Making : Congressional investigators have discovered that at least one U.S. military official provided the media with details about Jessica Lynch's heroic acts-a tale that was later proven to be untrue. In case you missed it: How The Presstitutes Lie To America : Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday. In case you missed it: Iraqis Say Lynch Raid Faced No Resistance : Accounts of the U.S. military's dramatic rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch from Saddam Hospital here two weeks ago read like the stuff of a Hollywood script. For Iraqi doctors working in the hospital that night, it was exactly that -- Hollywood dazzle, with little need for real action. Saturday: Iraq: At least 152 killed in ongoing U.S. occupation: A suicide car bomber killed 60 people and wounded 170 near one of Iraq's most revered Shi'ite shrines in the holy city of Kerbala 9 U.S. occupation troops killed in Iraq: The U.S. military announced the deaths of nine American troops, including three killed Saturday in a single roadside bombing outside Baghdad. Sadr tells "anti-Christ Bush" to leave Iraq: The powerful Iraqi cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr called President George W. Bush the "anti-Christ" on Saturday and urged him to heed calls by the opposition Democrats to withdraw from the chaos of Iraq. War criminal washes blood from his hands: CIA Warned White House Before Iraq Invasion That Anarchy Could Ensue: Tenet cautions against concluding that the CIA predicted many of the difficulties that followed. 'Doing so would be disingenuous,' because the agency saw them as possible scenarios, not certainties, he writes. War criminal admits: Cheney had eye on Iraq long before 9/11: In his book, former CIA director says aides to Cheney and Rumsfeld inserted 'crap' into public justifications for war War criminal washes blood from his hands: Senator Durbin kept silent on prewar knowledge : The Senate's No. 2 Democrat says he knew that the American public was being misled into the Iraq war but remained silent because he was sworn to secrecy as a member of the intelligence committee. War criminal washes blood from her hands: Clinton promises to end Iraq war: - U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., kicked off the California Democratic Party convention Saturday, promising to end the Iraq war if she is elected president. World Wide Terror Attacks Up 30%: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her top aides earlier this week had considered postponing or downplaying the release of this year's edition of the terrorism report, officials in several agencies and on Capitol Hill said Maliki warns US senators Iraq will not accept foreign pressure : Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a delegation of visiting US lawmakers on Saturday that foreign powers should not try to influence the Iraqi political process. Saudi King Declines to Receive Iraqi "Leader": In a serious rebuff to U.S. diplomacy, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has refused to receive Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the eve of a critical regional summit on the future of the war-ravaged country, Iraqi and other Arab officials said yesterday. Retired gen.: Bush should sign Iraq bill: The general accused Bush of squandering U.S. lives and helping Iran and al-Qaida when he invaded Iraq. Hometown Baghdad : Video: An ongoing documentary web series following the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in Baghdad. 31 killed in occupied Afghanistan: Two occupation force soldiers died in separate incidents, officials said on Saturday. Sunday: Afghans protest after U.S. occupation forces kill 6: : Abdul Ghafur, Nangahar police spokesman, said the six dead, including three women, were all civilians. Unpopularity of Karzai government threatens Afghanistan war effort: NATO risks losing the war in Afghanistan because of a "tremendous deterioration" in the popularity of the government of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said Saturday Suicide bomber kills 26 in Pakistan, minister hurt: A suicide bomber killed at least 26 people in Pakistan on Saturday and wounded dozens more, including Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, a senior security official said. One Thousand Guns A Day: 7 Minute Video: The Gun Bazaar of Pakistan Four killed by Israeli occupation forces: GAZA CITY: Israeli troops shot dead three members of the Islamist Hamas' armed wing and wounded a fourth in the Gaza Strip yesterday, a Palestinian medical source said. Israel seizes West Bank land for illegal barrier : Israel is to confiscate 23 hectares (57 acres) of Palestinian farmland in the occupied West Bank for its controversial security barrier, according to a military order seen by AFP on Saturday. Sara Roy: A Jewish Plea: Why is it virtually mandatory among Jewish intellectuals to oppose racism, repression and injustice almost anywhere in the world and unacceptable -- indeed, for some, an act of heresy -- to oppose it when Israel is the oppressor, choosing concealment over exposure? Robert Fisk: We are now in the firing line, sadly : I add my voice to those demanding the release of Alan Johnston. His imprisonment is a disaster for the Palestinians and for all the Arabs of the Middle East. And as long as he is held, how can we cover the atrocities of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Gaza? Iran disabled 'with 1000 missiles': IRAN'S disputed nuclear program could be severely hit by firing 1000 cruise missiles in a 10-day attack, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said. Magazine pulls Olmert's Iran raid quotes : Focus Magazine said Saturday it removed Olmert's statements about blitzing Iran with thousands of cruise missiles due to translation problems. In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space: , Iranian Jews say they live in relative freedom in the Islamic Republic, remain loyal to the land of their birth, and are striving to separate politics from religion. Yemen accused of 'genocide' : He also blamed the government for recent battles that left hundreds dead on both sides, saying the army's attacks on rebel-held villages amounted to "genocide". "The Most Lawless War of Our Generation" - Fmr. UN Spokesperson on Somalia : Ethiopians are there without any international legitimacy. They're occupiers. They violated the UNCharter. Massacre in Mogadishu-war crime made in the USA: The brutal military siege against the Somali capital of Mogadishu constitutes a war crime for which the US government bears the principal responsibility. Government appoints war lords after Mogadishu fighting: Abdi Hassan Awale, popularly known as Qaybdiid, and Mohamed Dheere -- both former warlords -- take over as national police boss and mayor of the shell-scarred capital respectively. In case you missed it: O.N.L.F. Statement On Military Operation Against Illegal Oil Facility In Ogaden: The operation targeted 3 military units of the TPLF regime who were guarding an oil exploration field. Exploration activities at the field began recently following an agreement between the Ethiopian government and a Chinese company. Namibia - Genocide and the Second Reich : Video: A hundred years ago, three quarters of the Herero people of the German colony of Namibia were killed, many in concentration camps. Today, the descendants of the survivors are seeking reparations from the German government. This film tells for the first time this forgotten story and its links to German racial theories 82 Inmates Cleared but Still Held at Guantanamo: More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to line up places to send them CIA held suspect in secret prison for months: The CIA held a captured Al Qaeda leader in a secret prison since autumn and transferred him a week ago to the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Friday. Hicks's crimes were minor: US military prosecutors: "His case was a very ordinary case; there was nothing special about it in that clearly he was but a foot soldier, not a leader or a planner ... for people wanting to see the worst of the worst, this was not going to be it." Iranian tip-off may have led Americans to al-Qaeda leader: British diplomats are checking secret reports that elements within Iran, normally hostile to the West, helped the American secret services to capture Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, the Kurdish-born senior al-Qaeda militant who was revealed last week to have been arrested on the border between Iran and Iraq late last year. Chavez offers allies half-price oil : Hugo Chavez offered to sell oil to allies at a 50 per cent discount at a summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the People of the Americas in the Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto on Saturday. Chavez details arms build-up : Hugh Chavez, the president of Venezuela, has announced details of an arms build-up which he says will make the South American nation "invulnerable" to any attack. Peru Rejects US Military Base: Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde totally rejected any possibility that the government would accept a United States military base on Peruvian soil. Riz Khan Interviews Noam Chomsky : Riz Khan talks to one of the greatest and most controversial intellectuals of our time, Noam Chomsky. Connie Fogal On The North American Union: Video: Connie Fogal, the redoubtable leader of the Canadian Action Party, delivers a hard hitting and passionate warning against the North American Union Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed: Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. After debate, little-known Democrat draws a crowd: "What will make a difference in this campaign is not money, it's not celebrity, it is a person who is prepared to tell the American people the truth," he said. " Climate chaos: Bush's climate of fear : Video: A US government whistleblower tells Panorama how scientific reports about global warming have been systematically changed and suppressed. US mortgage crisis forces homeowners to take refuge in their cars: THEY are victims of the United States' growing mortgage crisis - low-paid workers whose homes have been repossessed amid rising interest rates, a stagnant property market and a lax lending regime. America's war on tourists: In a recent poll of international travellers, commissioned by Discover America Partnership, a coalition of US tourist organisations, 70 per cent of respondents said they feared US officials more than terrorists or criminals. 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