The problem is not the population of Marja, or it’s strategic significance. As long as we continue using military force and propping up a corrupt, illegitimate government, we will continue to fail.
Posts under ‘Anti-war’
Birth defects in Fallujah
Birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq have risen to the point where doctors at the new American built hospital are recommending that the women who live there stop having children.
It is widely believed, and not without reason, that a whole range of new weapons, experimental weapons, were “tested” in Fallujah. Is there any truths to these [...]
Weather Underground, banksters, and the long haul
The Weather Underground carried out a series of illegal and symbolic attacks on property then, some 20 acts over its entire existence, and no one was killed or harmed; the goal was not to terrorize people, but to scream out the message that the US government and its military were committing acts of terrorism in [...]
Food Rescue Map
With a record 1 in 8 Americans now receiving food stamps I couldn’t help but share this ingenious little find on Google Maps: A Food Rescue Map! I’ve seen walking tours and other touristy maps on Google but this is a real gem. This Food Rescue Map shows 18 spots in New York City where [...]
War is Peace. Obama-style
From Lefti on the News
See if you can read this sentence without bursting out laughing (or crying):
“The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually [...]
National Tea Party Convention: Let’s go?
My first thought upon hearing about the National Tea Party Convention was, “Let’s go!” No, not to shell out $349 to $549 dollars to hear Sarah Palin do her best Tina Fey impersonation, but to see if we might able to build some serious left-right coalition based on issues we can agree about. We don’t [...]
The military-industrial complex is ruining the economy
Naked Capitalism has a must-read, well-documented piece on how our various wars are both bankrupting us and doing little to stop terrorism.
Everyone knows that the too big to fails and their dishonest and footsy-playing regulators and politicians are largely responsible for trashing the economy.
But the military-industrial complex shares much of the blame.
In many ways, the [...]
Yemen. Hey, let’s start a war there to head off possibility of future war there
“Ouch, that makes my brain hurt” said Butters on South Park in another context, but it applies here too.
Obama, Nobel peace prize in hand, bombs Yemen with cruise missiles
More of those “suspected al Qaeda training camps” were hit with cruise missiles by the US, with permission of their government, who doesn’t want this publicized else their populace becomes restive so, shh, don’t tell anyone. Especially since upwards of 120 may have already been killed in attacks with US involvement.
The US initially denied the [...]
Obama the conservative
Our current wars, while perhaps they might need to be fought now, were preventable, argues Asymptotic Life.
Similarly, if the brutality of Al Queda perhaps cannot be countered with nonviolence (and I am not completely convinced of this), it nevertheless could have been prevented. While we were playing chess against the Soviets with pawns in [...]
Gaza: One year later
Gaza One Year Later from Jonathan Shockley on Vimeo.
Norman Finkelstein on the significance of the Goldstone Report
If war continues for no reason, then someone benefits from it
If the Taliban pay $300 a month, there should be no problem with the coalition putting $350 or $400 a month together.
Why are we spending a multiple of Afghanistan’s total GDP on fighting a war in the country? Couldn’t more be done, for cheaper, with cash for bribes and development?
If wars and conflicts continue for [...]
The hidden cost of the Iraq War, from GOOD magazine
In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. So what’s behind the ballooning dollar signs? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustedly researched book, “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the [...]
Limits of empire. Afghanistan War and more
Marc Cooper
We can’t fight a couple of wars, not raise taxes AND deploy any meaningful domestic programs that will get 15% of the population back to steady work and 25% of our kids off of food stamps. We can’t keep reality show gate-crashers from getting into slashing proximity of the President of the United [...]
The Jones Report
We’re all familiar with the Dow Jones Report. What about a Jones Report? A report on the average American. Is she working? Does he have health care? Does the average American have basic access to the essentials of life?
