US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 115 combat casualties in the 6 days ending July 26, as the official casualty total rose to 107,185. The total includes 78,704 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and… Continue reading July 26, 2011
Month: July 2011
July 20, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 194 combat casualties in the 8 days ending July 20, as the official casualty total rose to 107,070. The total includes 78,704 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and… Continue reading July 20, 2011
July 12, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 162 combat casualties in the 6 days ending July 12, as the official casualty total rose to 106, 876. The total includes 78,697 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”),… Continue reading July 12, 2011
July 6, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 172 combat casualties in the 8 days ending July 6, as the official casualty total jumped (monthly “non-combat” evacuations announced) to 106, 714. The total includes 78,687 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi… Continue reading July 6, 2011
June 28, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 184 combat casualties in the week ending June 28, as the official casualty total rose to 105,781. The total includes 78,368 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 27,413… Continue reading June 28, 2011
June 21, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 144 combat casualties in the week ending June 21, as the official casualty total rose to 105,596. The total includes 78,364 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 27,232… Continue reading June 21, 2011
Burning Pakistan
Bush Gifted
Obama Granted
-Pakistani protest sign
“The public, regardless of party, overwhelmingly opposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare. But elected officials of both parties are hell-bent on conspiring to bring the programs to an end. They seem to have come to grips with a fact that the public has not: their tenure in office depends on carrying out the wishes of oligarchical elites.”
-Jane Hamsher, on the death of the Democratic party, and democracy itself
“What we have in academia, in other words, is a microcosm of the American economy as a whole: a self-enriching aristocracy, a swelling and increasingly immiserated proletariat, and a shrinking middle class. The same devil’s bargain stabilizes the system: the middle, or at least the upper middle, the tenured professoriate, is allowed to retain its prerogatives – its comfortable compensation packages, its workplace autonomy and its job security – in return for acquiescing to the exploitation of the bottom by the top, and indirectly, the betrayal of the future of the entire enterprise.”
-William Deresiewicz, in The Nation