My Visit to the School of the America Watch By Rosie Platzer, CODEPINK Intern, Cal Poly State University The other weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to go to the School of the America Watch (SOAW) in Columbus, GA with Nancy Mancias. It was an absolutely amazing weekend, and if possible, I definitely plan to [...]
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Drones: Tragedy, Not Comedy! By Nancy Mancias U.S. drone warfare is the topic of an upcoming dark comedy for FX, focusing on drone pilots in Nevada who commute to war and “bomb the hell out of the Middle East”. Although the description doesn’t specifically name the air base, one can only assume the project is [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Drone Expansion in the U.S. by Nancy Mancias Headlines fill the news about U.S. expansion of secret drone bases in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia and beyond, but little is mentioned about the military land grab for expansion in southern Colorado, northern New Mexico. Labeled by the Not 1 More Acre campaign as the “largest [...]
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
President Obama’s speech announcing a drawdown of 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year was disappointing and incomplete in many ways. What he didn’t say is as important as what he did. He didn’t say that after nearly a decade in Afghanistan, there are more US troops there than ever. The “drawdown” [...]
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The House Appropriations Committee approved the annual military spending bill today, sending it to the full House for approval. They lamented having to shave $9 billion off of Obama’s request, but they still managed to find $17 billion more than last year’s budget for endless war. For those keeping track at home, the numbers publicized [...]
Friday, December 2, 2011
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