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Bank of America cubicles emptied of the 99% employees who used to do home loan modifications for the rest of the 99% Revolutions all over the world have been demonstrating just how critical the internet is to the modern world. It can be used to oppress and it can be used to free people [...] Foreign policy wonk and fellow podcaster Keith Boyea just posted his anti-war playlist. Even though I indulge in it, the COINdanista vs. COINtra debate always depresses me because it fights over HOW the war should be fought instead of asking the far more important question: “Why should we fight?” I wish we’d have spent a [...] … when 140 reservists from the 222nd Field Artillery Unit stationed in Iraq return home to Cedar City UT six months early, just in time for Christmas. The tiny airport here was jammed, with the mayor and police greeting them. But there deliberately was no welcome home ceremony at the airport because they wanted the [...] DoD photo by Cpl. Reece Lodder, U.S. Marine Corps. These are not the folks at the top, they are the men and women who serve in the US all-volunteer force and most of their fellow citizens don’t think about them very often. They’re definitely not getting rich, but they pay the real price for [...] Another man, Mundhar Kamel, 65, said the departure changed little. “This move is them exiting from one door and entering from another. In the embassy they still have 15,000 people and there is talk about 3,000 more [military] trainers. This is not a withdrawal, this is an act on a stage. Wa-hoo. Democrats can be just as warlike as Pepublicans now! Dem. Sen. Evan Bayh is positively foaming at the mouth at the possibility, saying “You’d have to bomb them for several weeks in a row. There’s only one country that has that kind of capability and that’s the United States”. Yet some persist in [...] David Swanson reports back from the Military Industrial Complex at 50 conference with quotes, links to videos, and more. Tony Bennett unloads on the Howard Stern show, with hugely anti-war statements. ‘They flew the plane in, but we caused it. Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.’ ‘But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right.’ Bennett also said [...] Via Another Green World in Britain. Britain is spending tens of billions waging the unjustified war in Afghanistan, with horrific costs in the deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians, and of soldiers sent to kill and be killed. This video, narrated by Tony Benn with music by Brian Eno, dramatically conveys the cost of [...] |  | ||||
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