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One-Hundred Thousand Casualties a Year
Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 U.S. Casualties a YearBy Alexander Cockburn / May 11, 2008 A friend of mine who’s a librarian was recently reviewing job applicants. Asked his qualifications in library skills, one man put “machine-gunner.” He was a vet … Continue reading
Made in the USA?
Let’s remember that the USA is the biggest arms manufacturer in the world. Using nothing but Las Vegas odds, the likelihood that all those “Iranian” arms being found in Iraq actually came from the USA is rather high. “[T]he US … Continue reading
Signs of a Sick Society, Episode XXIX
Hundreds of civilians die each month in the failed state of Iraq, they have no potable water, no power on a regular basis, inflation runs rampant, and crime has become a way of life for many. But our military planners, … Continue reading
This Should Not Be Happening
U.S. soldiers at a base in Kabul, Afghanistan. The number of medically unfit troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan was 10,854 in 2003. That figure slid to 5,397 in 2003, but jumped back up to 9,140 in 2007. Photo: Musadeq … Continue reading
Remain Silent to the Crime and You Are Complicit
The ‘Surge’ of Iraqi Prisonersby Ciara Gilmartin / May 7, 2008 Amid all the talk about the U.S. military “surge” in Iraq, little has been said about the accompanying “surge” of Iraqi prisoners, whose numbers rose to nearly 51,000 at … Continue reading
Iraq War Moratorium Number 9, Number 9, Num …
The Raging Grannies, backed by San Mateo Peace Action, demonstrated at the San Mateo, CA post office on “tax day,” as part of Iraq Moratorium 8.The Iraq Moratorium is a national, grassroots effort uniting individuals and groups who want to … Continue reading
Bomb Bomb Iran, Surgical Strike Dept.
United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency campBy Michael Smith / May 4, 2008 The US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue … Continue reading
Winning Hearts and Minds, Yankee Style
Hospital In Baghdad Casualty of US Air StrikeMay 3, 2009 A hospital in the Iraqi capital’s Sadr City, a Shiite militia stronghold, was damaged in a US air strike on Saturday, wounding around 20 people, medics and witnesses said. A … Continue reading
More Lies May Still Take Us to War with Iran
Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops: Secret Bush “Finding” Widens War on IranBy Andrew Cockburn / May 2, 2008 Six weeks ago President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those … Continue reading
Stop Fighting and Start Talking, Junior
The UK Times Online assesses the success of the Iraq surge‘US military achievement in Iraq has reached peak’May 2, 2008 NEW YORK — An international think tank has called for fundamental political changes in Iraq, stressing that the US military … Continue reading
Debating the Sunni-Shia Rift
Bad rap? Imam Sayyed Hassan al-Qazwini says the Western media focuses only on radicals. Photo courtesy of Adrian HaddadIs the Sunni-Shiite rift mostly politics and media hype?By Nicholas Blanford / May 1, 2008 A panel discussion Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, … Continue reading
Juan Cole Reviews Junior’s Lies of 5 Years Ago
5 Years after Mission Accomplished:April US Troop Toll 50 Killed;1,073 Iraqis Killed this MonthBy Juan Cole / May 1, 2008 5 Years after George W. Bush’s infamous speech aboard the USS Lincoln, the mission seems incomplete. Bush imagined that he … Continue reading
