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"Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world."  Lt. General William Odom - Director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan. http://is.gd/BRBnim


"The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practise it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies." - Terry Waite


'Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism."  - Noam Chomsky


"Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire."  - Pat Buchanan 


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Putin Warns West's Syria Policy could Backfire

By RIA

"Today some want to use militants from Al Qaeda or some other organizations with equally radical views to accomplish their goals in Syria," Putin said "This policy is very short-sighted and is fraught with dire consequences."  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32373.htm




Sleeping With the Devil
How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11

By WashingtonsBlog

Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world. Lt. General William Odom - Director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32374.htm



Russia Warns Against Attacking Iran

By Steve Gutterman

An attack on Iran "would set off deep shocks in the security and economic spheres that would reverberate far beyond the boundaries of the Middle East region.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32377.htm



Iran Says it Treats Israeli Military Threats as American

By Reuters

Iran makes no distinction between U.S. and Israeli interests and will retaliate against both countries if attacked, an Iranian military commander said .  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32378.htm



Rewriting History
Iraq: How the CIA Says It Blew It On Saddam's WMD

By Mark Thompson

Bottom line, from the CIA's point of view: Saddam used to lie about possessing WMD, so we believed he still was.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32369.htm



Why Desmond Tutu is Right About Bush & Blair
Inside the CIA Dossier on Iraq

By Vijay Prashad's

Amnesia over Iraq has already set in.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32371.htm



US Covering Up Torture
New Accounts of Waterboarding, Other Water Torture, Abuses in Secret Prisons

By Human Rights Watch

"Not only did the US deliver Gaddafi his enemies on a silver platter but it seems the CIA tortured many of them first," said Laura Pitter, counterterrorism advisor at Human Rights Watch.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32372.htm



Democratic Leaders Undermine Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Their Own Procedures

By Stephen Zunes

Outraged delegates in the majority started booing at the chair for his extraordinary abuse of power.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32375.htm



Will the GOP Steal America's 2012 Election?

By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

The Republican Party could steal the 2012 US Presidential election with relative ease. Six basic factors make this year's theft a possibility:  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32376.htm



The Party is Over:
How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.

By Bill Moyers and Mike Lofgren

"The mixture of politics and religion," he says, "debases both, and has turned the GOP into an apocalyptic sect." Both parties "are captives to corporate loot."  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32379.htm



Hard News  
   
Yemen: US Kills 29 People:  
Not even the slaying of 10 civilians over the weekend seems to have slowed the pace in the United States' secretive, undeclared war. 



Who is held to account for deaths by drone in Yemen?:  There is a history of Yemeni officials lying to protect the US, and the Pentagon and CIA greeting queries with obfuscation 



France giving aid to rebel-held Syrian cities:  France has started providing direct aid and money to five rebel-held Syrian cities as it intensifies efforts to weaken President Bashar Assad, in the first such move by a western power, a diplomatic source said Wednesday. 



Turkish jets hit Syria militant areas:  2,000 soldiers are involved in the operation: Turkish fighter planes and attack helicopters pounded suspected Kurdish militant positions near the southeastern border with Syria and Iraq late on Wednesday in a major air-and-ground operation, security sources said. 



US Senators Warn Iraq over Iran Shipments to Syria:  Senator Joe Lieberman, an Independent from Connecticut, said Iraq's failure to stop the flights could threaten the long-term relationship with the U.S. as well as aid Iraq could receive as part of a 2008 strategic pact between the two nations. 



Iraq: U.S. Must Show Proof of Iranian Arms Flights:  Iraq says it's waiting for the U.S. to provide evidence that its airspace is again being used by Iran to ship weapons to Syria. 



Blackmail?
If Obama comes through with promised assurances, 'Israel will not attack Iran' - TV report:  Israel will not attack Iran this year, provided that President Barack Obama sets out his "red lines" and offers certain other promised assurances to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting between the two tentatively scheduled for Thursday, September 27, Israeli TV reported Thursday. 



Senior security official killed in Iraq:  A local anti-terrorism security chief was killed Thursday in a bomb attack north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the police said, dpa reported. 



Palestinians slipping deeper into poverty -UN:  The United Nations UNCTAD agency issued a gloomy outlook for the Palestinian economy on Wednesday, arguing that tougher Israeli policies and settlement expansion were pushing the occupied territories and Gaza deeper into poverty. 



Democrats reinstate Jerusalem in party platform:  Democrats amend party platform to include language supporting J'lem as capital of Israel in wake of mounting criticism. 



Palestinians criticize Democrats' Jerusalem stance:  Nabil Abu Rdeneh, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said "a failure to recognize the Palestinian claim to east Jerusalem will "destroy the peace process" and lead to "endless war." 



Senate Hopeful Elizabeth Warren Blasts a 'Rigged' System:  "People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: They're right. The system is rigged," she said to a round of applause. 



US preparing case against WikiLeak's Assange: lawyer:  US prosecutors are secretly preparing a case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a cache of sensitive diplomatic cables, his lawyer Baltazar Garzon said Wednesday. 



Glenn Greenwald: Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions:  Excuse me if I don't join in Democrats' sycophantic cheerleading for an Obama presidency that has shredded laws and liberties 



CNN International's Response to the Guardian:  Here is CNN International's response to Glenn Greenwald's story in the Guardian about Amber Lyon's documentary, iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring. 



Prevalence of malnutrition in southern Afghanistan 'shocking':  Despite huge amounts of foreign aid, the levels of deprivation are similar to that found in famine zones, says UN-backed report 



US-backed opposition devises plots to destabilize Venezuela:  The document cited recent events such as the deadly blast at the Amuay refinery an example of the opposition's acts of sabotage. 



Venezuelan Opposition Prepares for Non-Recognition of Chavez Victory:  Venezuelans go to the polls on 7 October to elect their president. The main choice is between the incumbent Hugo Chavez and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a right-wing state governor with strong ties to the country's elite. 



US nukes will remain in Germany:  American nuclear weapons will not be removed from Germany, despite their departure being a long-term aim of the German government, it has emerged.  


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Cost Of War
 
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,883

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,171
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
      
 
 $1,370,115,659,572