Few share our privilege, power and freedom – hence responsibility
What we’re leaving behind today, at record pace, is whatever belief we might once have had in the value of unstructured time: in the privilege of contemplating our lives before they are gone, in the importance of uninterrupted conversation, in the beauty of play. In the thing in itself – unmediated, leading nowhere. In the present moment.
-Mark Slouka, on the virtues of idleness, in “Quitting the Paint Factory“
US military occupation forces in Afganistan and Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 52 casualties in the week ending April 24, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 113,119. The total includes 79,494 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,625… Continue reading April 24, 2012
US military occupation forces in Afganistan and Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 84 casualties in the period ending April 17, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 113,067. The total includes 79,493 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,574… Continue reading April 18, 2012
US military occupation forces in Afganistan and Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 300 casualties in the period ending April 10, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 112,983. The total includes 79,493 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,490… Continue reading April 10, 2012
So Iran is supporting rebels fighting a dictatorship in one country (Yemen) and supporting the dictatorship in another (Syria). In those two countries, the U.S. is doing exactly the reverse: propping up the Yemeni dictatorship while arming the Syrian rebels. Why is one better than the other or a greater sign of aggression and threats?
–Greenwald on the NYT and its propagandizing on the Iranian “menace”.
US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 52 casualties in the period ending April 3, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 112,683. The total includes 79,479 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,204 since the… Continue reading April 3, 2012