Category Anti-war

And his sacrifice was…?

Bush: War’s outcome ‘will merit the sacrifice’ 4,000 US troops are dead. That number doesn’t include US civilians in Iraq, members of private military corporations, or Iraqis who have been killed or the probable millions on all sides who have…

Freedom People. New (R)evolution

The Freedom People, who I know from antiwar demos in L.A., will be touring nationwide soon. Go see them if they play near you and until then, watch this excellent video, complete with footage of them playing at mass antiwar…

Another antiwar protest flops

“River to River: Join Hands for Peace” in NYC organized by UFJP needed 2500 people to stretch hands fingertip to fingertip across the width of Manhattan to make some pointless symbolic Cumbaya gesture, but got nowhere close to that. Those…

The Surge ebbs

The Guardian discloses how the thousands of Iraqis hired by the US to hunt al-Qaeda are on the verge of going on strike because they haven’t been paid. The incompetence and venality of the Bush Administration is quite extraordinary, isn’t…