Category Anti-war

Why enemies sometimes need each other

Donald Rumsfeld says another terrorist attack could restore the neo-con agenda. Reader DJ Mitchell often blogs about this at Asymptotic Life, about how if participants in a supposed peace process never somehow manage to achieve peace, then quite probably they…

IVAW member refuses to deploy to Iraq

Sgt. Matthis Chiroux, who served in the Army until being honorably discharged last summer after over four years of service in Afghanistan, Japan, Europe and the Phillipines, today publicly announced his intention to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq. He…

On the pot-holed highway to Hell

If anyone doubts the problems of US infrastructure, I suggest he or she take a flight to John F. Kennedy airport (braving the landing delay), ride a taxi on the pot-holed and congested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and try to make a…

More on the true costs of the Iraq War

From a new study by Oil Change International on the greenhouse gas emissions and opportunity costs of the Iraq War. Projected total US spending on the Iraq war could cover all of the global investments in renewable power generation that…

Misplaced priorities

The US will spend $5 billion in 2008-2009 for world food aid or about about $210 million per month. The Iraq War costs $12 billion per month.