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IRAQ EATING UP DOLLARS: A new report by the Joint Economic Committee estimates that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the average American family of four more than $20,000. The government is spending $2 billion per week to wage war in Iraq, and a Congressional Budget Office report estimated that the total cost of the war in Iraq could equal $2.4 trillion. Though the White House has asserted that it is "not worried" about the cost of war, it should be. The war is draining finite resources away from needed programs at home and abroad. Approximately $2.4 trillion is enough to "provide every college freshman in the country with a free, four year education at a private college or university; provide health care coverage to every American for one year; [or] pay off 26% of our current national debt." www.americanprogressaction.org

Suddenly, Impeachment Hearings Are Looking Like a Strong Possibility By Dave Lindorff

You wouldn't know it if you just watch TV news or read the corporate press, but this past Tuesday, something remarkable happened. Despite the pig-headed opposition of the Democratic Party's top congressional leadership, a majority of the House, including three Republicans, voted to send Dennis Kucinich's long sidelined Cheney impeachment bill (H Res 333) to the Judiciary Committee for hearings. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18697.htm

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Effort to Impeach Vice President Cheney Still Alive By Democracy Now! - Audio and Transcript

Despite the best efforts of the Democratic leadership, impeachment was indeed on the table this week in Washington. - Twenty-one House Democrats have supported the bill, but it's met fierce opposition from the Democratic leadership. Congressmember Dennis Kucinich of Ohio introduced the measure. He joins me now from Washington.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18695.htm

PAKISTAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XauhgHNgPw0&eurl
VOICES of The PEOPLE OF IRAQ

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/default.htm

The Political Insanity of the Washington Caesar Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:59:22
by Ralph Nader

Mired in the disastrous Iraq quagmire, opposed by a majority of Americans, George W. Bush has reached new depths of reckless, belligerent bellowing.

See Godzilla at peacesource.net/blog.html

RENDITION

Humanitarian aid stopped to Iran because of US sanctions.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/04/africa/04sanctions.php?WT.mc_id=rssfrontpage 

State of the Planet

www.commondreams.org

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=newsHighlights&newsId=18

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Bunker Busters Ready for Iran

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18614.htm

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

John Hopkins Public heath Centre

"Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq". http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partID=4 

http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases/2006/burnham_iraq_2006.html

US trained Jihadist terrorists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1566917,00.htmlIran says documents show U.S. backing "terrorists"
Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:57pm ET

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-10-28T195707Z_01_DAH860384_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAN-USA-TURKEY.xmlSend in news links:The world of private 'security': Unleashed: the fat cats of war The US is finally facing up to its failures to supervise the private armies operating on its behalf in Iraq. But the problem may be worse than it admits. Kim Sengupta reports on a booming industry

Published: 26 October 2007

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article3098892.ece 

In February of 2007, Brzezinski, “the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration’s policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in the Middle East and internationally,” and Brzezinski was quoted as saying about the Iraq war, “Undertaken under false assumptions, it is undermining America’s global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America’s moral credentials. Driven by Manichean principles and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability,” and he continued, describing what he termed a “plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran”, of which he said would involve, “Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.” [Emphasis added].⁴⁷

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Climate conflicts

1.5 billion white roofs reflect the same amount of heat as the Arctic ice. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/04/climatechange.scienceofclimatechangeNew Disaster Movie

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/04/energy.fossilfuels 

Culture of Peace

http://www.nuclearfreenz.org.nz/culturepeace.htm

The Times
October 26, 2007
The scale of the challenge is huge. We’ve got to act now
Land, sea, air and rivers have all deteriorated so much in the past 20 years that scientists fear humanity’s very survival is now at risk
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2741666.ece

http://current.com/items/BBC-New-UN-Report-Says-World-At-Risk-As-Never-Before/85925311

Slipping in Afghanistan
As the violence worsens, NATO struggles to raise troops.
 
THE UNITED STATES and its NATO allies are engaged in a regular ritual: blaming each other for the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. This week, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates forcefully criticized European governments for failing to meet commitments to supply troops and equipment for Afghan operations; he even threatened that the United States might withdraw its troops from Kosovo -- a European preoccupation -- if Afghanistan were not better supplied. At a meeting of defense ministers, the Netherlands again complained that it -- along with the United States, Britain and Canada -- bears the brunt of the fighting against the Taliban, while Germany, Italy, Spain and most other NATO members restrict their soldiers to the safer parts of Afghanistan or ban them from combat. In reply the German defense minister suggested that NATO's aggressive military strategy in the south does more harm than good.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102601955.html?wpisrc=newsletter
 
'War on terror' is now war on Iran
 
This new round of sanctions is just one side of the demonization of Iran campaign - as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was once again spinning the other side of the same old scratched vinyl, that of preventing "one of the world's worst regimes from acquiring the world's most dangerous weapons". The International Atomic Energy Agency still has not found any evidence Iran is developing a nuclear program for military use, and has called for the further engagement of Iran, rather than its isolation.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ27Ak03.html

Iraqis: A 'Bitter Truth' Beneath Misleading US Optimism
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/12/5178/

Who's the Enemy? In Iraq, It's Getting Harder to Find Any Bad Guys By Robert Dreyfuss    Sunday 11 November 2007 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111207H.shtml

The problem with this is how does he know so much Riverbend and others see New Your Review of Books have  written that reporters hardly get out to find out. 

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