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Current Confirmed U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq


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2006 Lancet Study estimates 655,000 civilians killed during U.S./Coalition Occupation of Iraq

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 "There are people who say you shouldn't mix music and politics or sport and politics or whatever.  But I think that's kind of bullshit."  -Adam Clayton, bassist for U2

FIST & FOREMOST

7/03/2009  Alexis Arguello is dead at 57

As US Troops withdraw, Patrick Cockburn describes the kleptomaniac state of Iraq

Jim Hightower reminds us of what's worth celebrating every Fourth of July: Agitators

Uri Avnery on Netanyahu's Oratory Legerdemain

6/18/2009  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

AAPRP condemns Klitschko-Chagaev, and hopes to cancel it

KOFantasyBoxing Funny of the Week

Down with Oil, Hemp can save the earth, baby

Greg Palast: Oil & Indians Don't Mix

Militarism loves bipartisanship, 6 Dems join Repubs to keep F22 program alive

Mob Rules in the Palin-Letterman War on Jokes

 

6/15/2009 IBHOF Induction Weekend 2009 Pix from Canastota pg 2

6/14/2009  Mayweather-Marquez bout Postponed; PBFM injures rib

Chad Dawson vs. Glen Johnson Rematch Set for Fall

6/11/2009  IBHOF Induction Weekend Begins

5/23/2009  Dan Rafael reports: Mayweather-Marquez 24/7 A Go for June 27

Pedro Fernandez marks the departure for Europe of one Don Only in America King

Ward bests Miranda in step-up bout; Molina marches on

Siki and McTigue: Forever Linked in History by George Kimball

Joe Winters and Lou DiBella teamed up for a June 5 fight card

Andre Berto faces Juan Urango and Kermit Cintron battles Alfredo Angulo in an HBO BAD DBL HDR

Dan Rafael watches the PacMan bout with the PacMan

Pacquiao Crushes Hatton in 2

Dave Zirin says there's a little bit of something for everyone in Mine That Bird's Derby Victory

Dick Cheney breaks it down, Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism

Mancow gets Manhandled: Radio Talk Show Host gets waterboarded voluntarily, now feels it's torture

Becoming what we seek to destroy by Chris Hedges

Ellen Goodman is In Praise of Empathy

Noam Chomsky on the release of the Torture Memos

 

4/29/09  Tim Bradley relinquishes WBC Belt in letter to Jose Sulaiman

ShoBox has Undefeated Welters & Lightweights on Friday Night

Carl Froch crunches Jermain Taylor in come from behind KO Win

Cory Spinks returns with close win over Deandre Latimore

Chris Hedges asks Where is Rev. Jeremiah Wright when we need him?!

Jeremy Scahill gazes into the Portrait of Dorian Gray that is Obama's Iraq Policy

 

4/24/09  Cory Spinks takes on Deandre Latimore on ShoBox

Hatton spoke with the boxing media this week

Star Boxing adds a loaded undercard to VIP Boxing 

New PacMan-Hitman website was launched

 Experts make their predictions for Froch-Taylor

Hatton-Pacquiao Art unveiled at MGM

Robert Guerrero added to EA Sports' FightNight Round 4

Paul Williams' trainer George Peterson has turned the Punisher into a fight machine

KOFantasyBoxing's Funny of the week

 

4/17/09  Marty Mulcahey’s weekend bout cheat sheet

KOFantasyBoxing This Week

Oscar De La Hoya calls it quits

 The Golden Boy’s Retirement Announcement Transcript

ShoBox Fighters Weigh-In

Manny Pacquiao preps for the Hitman-PacMan training report from FightNews

Dan Rafael’s Boxing Notebook, Cotto, Donaire and More

Doug Fischer on Nonito Donaire’s must-win future

The Ring’s rumors, news & notes

Hurts So Good: John Mellencamp’s son wins Indiana Golden Gloves

Thomas Hauser’s commemorative on Arthur Curry

Ron Borges looks back at the life of Arthur Curry

Steve Kim looks at Brian Viloria’s Last Chance

Paul Williams punishes Winky Wright; Areola crumples McCline

If Texas doesn’t like the direction the country’s going Tom Delay has offered a solution: secession

DHS Report names Right Wing groups a danger but Rep. Peter King thinks it’s all the mosques that are the real danger

Robert Parry looks at the danger posed to the Republic by our corporate controlled media

Are Predator Drone Attacks Creating a New Wave of Blowback?

Chris Hedges looks at Israel’s Racist-in-Chief

Allison Kilkenny looks at America’s Blowback Amnesia

Study finds that Crabs can suffer and remember pain

 

4/9/09  Wright vs. Williams Undercard loaded with young prospects!

KOFantasyBoxing Monthly Winners & KQBL Winner

KOFB This Week, New Fighters Added

Miguel Cotto & Uncle/Trainer Evangelista Cotto exchange blows in squabble

Paul Williams is weight-division jumping versus Winky Wright

Chris Arreola may be the Shape of Heavyweight Things to Come

Colin Hart shares his thoughts on Iron Mike Tyson and the upcoming documentary

Patrick Cockburn on what it would take to mend fences with Muslims

Shitheel Glenn Beck fans the flames of a new Cold War

"A Ponzi State" Democracy Now! talks with Prof. Gary Mormino about the state of Florida's economy when all the pensions have dried up

Utah Student who disrupted Oil & Gas Industry Land Grab speaks with Amy Goodman

Noam Chomsky speaks with Democracy Now! about NATO, Israel & Afghanistan

Jeremy Scahill asks how many Democrats will have the spine to block Obama's massive military budget

 

4/3/09  Photo Gallery from Bradley-Holt & Andrade-Tsypko Media Workout

Guerrero opens his own boxing gym TODAY  

Experts favor Bradley over Holt in Showtime Main Event

Jermain Taylor and Carl Froch spoke of their April 25th bout 

 Here's six questions answered by Librado Andrade

Lightweight Lightning up on Saturday night featuring Edwin Valero, Chavez-Katsidis, Diaz-Reyes and Hernandez-Escobedo 

KOFantasyBoxing’s Funny of the Week

 

3/27/09    SHOCKER!: Mayweather Jr. close to ring-return

Eddie Chambers faces tough test in Samuel Peter

Gabriel Montoya looks at Pacquiao-Antillon gym wars

MaxBoxing reports on Margarito's plaster of Paris hands

Roy Jones Jr returns with stoppage victory over Omar Sheika

Miguel Espino kayos Alejandro Garcia at Playboy Mansion

Don King protests Khan's win over Barrera

Oscar Larios, a tragedy waiting-to-happen

Kirkland-Julio Gallery

Check out the Trailer to this Spring's Sure-To-Be-Smash "TYSON" (video below)

The Big Takeover: Matt Taibi's piece on how Wall Street insiders are using the Bail Out to stage a Revolution

Chris Hedges: America Needs a Moral Bailout

Foreign Policy Focus looks at how Obama will address the issue of American Empire

 

3/11/09  Fightnews Gallery of Kirkland-Julio card from San Jose, CA

Lucian Bute goes back into the Lion's Den by Graham Houston

Don King visits with FrankWarren.TV, talks about Amir Khan, promoter Frank Warren and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (video below)

FistThingsFirst from Ringside at Mohegan Sun

Remains Unearthed of Suspected Vampire in Venice!

Zoo Chimpanzee "plotted" stone-throwing attacks

 China plundering Africa's Forests Says Jane Goodall

A million migratory birds killed over the past year for "delicacies" in Cyprus

Seven Million Pounds of Garbage Found in World's Waterways

Sea Levels to surge "at least a meter" by century's end

 

3/09/09  <-ESPN2 FNF from Mohegan Sun Mega-Photo Gallery by Brendon Pierpaoli

3/07/09  Delvin Rodriguez defeats Shamone Alvarez to retain USBA Welter Strap at Mohegan Sun

David Sirota goes into the proverbial belly o' the beast on Fox & Friends with Bill PNAC Kristol (video below)

 

2/28/09  Tomasz Adamek kayos Johnathon Banks in eight rounds to defend cruiserweight title

Dan Rafael’s Boxing Notebook

Glen Johnson pounds on Daniel Judah in rematch

2/26/09  Ringside Report from Foxwoods MGM Grand: Troy Ross beats Ehinomen Ehikamenor for The Contender Championship

Tomasz Adamek & Johnathon Banks Weigh-in

Adamek-Banks & Miranda-Lorenzo ShoBox Final Presser Quotes

Dennis Andrade added to Mohegan Sun ESPN2 Fight Card

 

Fist & Foremost Page Two

Upcoming Fights (full schedule here)

June 27th, 2009

Fernando Montiel vs. Eric Morel

Juan Manuel Lopez vs. Olivier Lontchi

Andriy Kotelink vs. Amir Khan

Victor Ortiz vs. Marcos Maidana

Chris John vs. Rocky Juarez 2

Jorge Linares vs. Josafat Perez

July 4th, 2009

Alexander Dimitrenko vs. Eddie Chambers

Anselmo Moreno vs. Mahyar Monshipour

July 10th, 2009

Tomasz Adamek vs. Matt Godfrey Showtime

July 11th, 2009

Vic Darchinyan vs. Joseph Agbeko  Showtime

Yuri Romanov vs. Fernando Angulo

Antonio Demarco vs.

Devon Alexander vs. Junior Witter

Felix Sturm vs. Koren Ghevor

July 14th, 2009

Hozumi Hasegawa vs. Nestor Rocha

Roman Gonzalez vs. Katsunari Takayama

July 18th, 2009

PPD--Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Zab Judah vs. Matthew Hatton

July 25th, 2009

Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Guty Espadas Jr.

August 1st, 2009

Tim Bradley vs. Nate Campbell

August 22nd, 2009

Jeff Lacy vs. Roy Jones Jr

Nonito Donaire vs. Jose lopez

Donnie Nietes vs. Manuel Vargas

Brian Viloria vs. TBA

Karoly Balzsay vs. Robert Stieglitz

 

 

 

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Public Enemy & The Roots perform Bring the Noise on Jimmy Fallon Show...video below

Kanye West rocks out on David Letterman Show in Nov. of 2008...video below

Olberman Special Comment: President Obama you must prosecute Bush & Co. over Torture...video below

An especially acerbic edition of BUSHED, Olberman's coverage of the numerous Bush Admin scandals.  This one's got recession re-enlistment rates, torture and Michael Mukasey on indefinite incarceration...video below

What is it to you? Olberman's heartfelt special comment on Prop 8, the CA anti-gay marriage vote...video below

  

FightHype's YouTube coverage of Williams & Arreola post fight interviews...video below

 

Rachel Maddow talks to Salon.com's Dahlia Lithwick about Obama transition team's de-emphasis on investigating and prosecuting Bush admin war crimes...video below

No way, no how, no McCain...In quite possibly her finest hour, Hillary Rodham-Clinton addresses the DNC and endorses Barack Obama for the nomination...video below

See how Scott McClellan's scathing tell-all book was received by Bushies and their coordinated talking points, comically arranged and edited here in ths SO FUNNY IT'S SAD Video Clip...video below

Bush Administration meetings on torture signify further evidence of criminal wrongdoing...video below

 Mark Larsen, conservative radio host, goes off after being laughed at by smug authoritarian prick, Mitt Romney.  Larsen flips over Romney's arrogant and dismissive attitude towards Ron Paul and the concept of blowback--audio/video below

Below is the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery's address at Coretta Soctt King's funeral...video below

David Rovics performs Who Would Jesus Bomb?...video below

 

Below is a speech from Dr. Martin Luther King on the subject of Vietnam.  Listen and each time he says Vietnam, replace it with Iraq, and ask yourself if Dr. King's message isn't just as shockingly valid in today's America.-audio/video below

FTF Audio/Video

Interview w/ Ava Knight after her draw with Elena "Baby Doll" Reid at Mohegan Sun 6/13/08 (4:48 minutes)  Reid stops in to say hello to Knight at the  mark, lots of background noise at times

 

Interview w/ 175 pound king Chad Dawson 12/2/07 (2:38 minutes) Dawson talks about Antonio Tarver after watching him kayo Danny Santiago

 

Interview w/ undefeated featherweight prospect Dat Nguyen 6/16/07 (2:04 minutes) After his kayo win over Yamin Mohammad, Dat Nguyen talks about his performance and what's next for him.

 

Ringsidereport.com's The Boxing Show of June 2007(below!)

Interview with former Jr. Middleweight Titlist Jose Antonio Rivera 5/27/07 (14:40 minutes)  Rivera talks about his plans to enter the world of boxing promotion, his own recent promotional issues and his thoughts on the landscape at one hundred fifty-four pounds. 

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