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Last Week: US Iraq Casualties Rise to 73,758
International
Thursday, 04 February 2010 18:01
US military forces in Iraq suffered nine combat casualties in the week ending February 2, as the official total since the invasion rose past 73,700. The total includes 35,100 dead and wounded from "hostile" causes and more than 38,600 dead, injured and sick from "non-hostile" causes, requiring medical evacuation. The website Downing Street says the actual count is over 100,000 because the Pentagon doesn’t count the more than 30,000 veterans whose injuries--mainly brain trauma from explosions--were diagnosed only after they left Iraq. Downing Street says US media divert attention from the actual cost of US life and limb by reporting only the total killed-- 4,378 as of Feb 2nd--but rarely mentioning the 31,600 wounded. To further minimize public perception of the cost, mainstream media usually ignore the 37,700 military victims of accidents and illness serious enough to require medical air evacuation. The 4,378 deaths include at least 18 from faulty electrical work by KBR and 197 suicides.
Iraq’s finance ministry said Tuesday China has agreed to cancel 80 percent of the $8.5-billion it is owed by Iraq. The finance ministry added the two countries did $3.8 billion in trade in 2009. The State-owned Chinese oil firm CNPC has clinched some of the biggest deals in the Iraqi oil sector since the US-led invasion.China was the leading member of a successful consortium bidding for the Halfaya field in southern Iraq. In December the Chinese firm signed a deal, along with BP, to ramp up production at Iraq's biggest oil field, Rumaila. Those two deals are in addition to a contract signed in 2008 by CNPC to develop another oil field south of Baghdad, giving the company a major presence among foreign energy firms operating in Iraq.
Children lead way in record New York homelessness Hunger in America jumps ‘unprecedented’ 46 percent
Domestic
Wednesday, 03 February 2010 19:25
Homelessness in New York City has soared. Official figures for January showed a total of 37,400 homeless people in the city, including 8,800 families and 15,800 children. And a study by the nation's largest food bank operator shows the number of Americans in need of food aid has jumped 46 percent in three years, including a 50 percent jump in the number of children. It also found a 64 percent increase in hunger in senior citizens' homes. The study, Hunger in America 2010, found that 37 million people, or roughly one in eight US residents, received food aid in 2009--a 46 percent jump from 2006. Vicki Escarra, president and CEO of Feeding America, said: "It is morally reprehensible that we live in the wealthiest nation in the world where one in six people are struggling to make choices between food and other basic necessities."
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