Last Friday, NPR prematurely declared that the 7th anniversary of the Iraq war passed without little notice. A few hundred tea party activists and the HCR reconciliation bill hogged the headlines. Yet, thousands of protesters turned out all across the country to protest the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, calling on the White [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
by Medea Benjamin U.S. Corporal Gregory S. Stultz, 22, of Brazil, Indiana, died on February 19, 2010 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. According to icasualties.org, Stultz’s death marks the grim milestone of 1,000 American soldiers killed in Operation Enduring Freedom. This week has also been a grim one for civilian casualties as [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Today, on the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, the Senate passed the 2010 Defense Budget with 93 yays to 7 nays. The bill allocates $128 billion to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This does not include any amounts allocated by additional war supplemental bills. To date, we have already spent over [...]
Monday, April 20, 2009
From http://www.brusselstribunal.org/SouadAlAzzawi_Numbers.htm Six years into the occupation… - 72 months of destruction - $607 Billions spent on the war - 2 Million Barrels of oil being sold per day - 2 Million Displaced Iraqis inside of Iraq - 3 Million Iraqis forced to leave the country - 2615 professors, scientists, and doctors killed in cold blood [...]
Sunday, February 1, 2009
John Tirman, executive director of MIT’s Center for International Studies, posted this piece Friday on The Nation.com on the human cost of war. It’s incredibly sobering: about one million dead, 4.5 million displaced, one to two million widows, and five million orphans. Tirman writes: “By any sensible measure, it would be difficult to describe this [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
Let Obama Know Peace is a Priority. The Obama Transition Team has once again opened up for questions on their official site, Change.gov. Questions can be voted up or down by members of the community and the Obama Team will answer the most popular questions after the New Year. Let Obama know that peace, including [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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