US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 78 casualties in the week ending May 22, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 113,564. The total includes 79,374 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 34,190 since the… Continue reading May 22, 2012
Month: May 2012
You don’t end war by encouraging a parliament to pass a resolution, or by swapping politicians and governing forms, but by creating a culture that finds blowing innocent men, women and children to bits as abhorrent as pushing an old lady into oncoming traffic. Those in power can’t start wars if they don’t find anybody willing to fight them.
-Charles Davis on social revolution
May 15, 2012
US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 326 casualties in the week ending May 15, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose sharply to 113,582. The total includes 79,471 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 34,111 since… Continue reading May 15, 2012
“That’s a legal issue. In U.S. law, it’s a covert action when the president says it’s a covert action. I think if you’re on the receiving end of the covert action, it’s an act of war.”
-Richard Clarke on US actions against Iran.
May 8, 2012
US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 80 casualties in the week ending May 8, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 113,280. The total includes 79,494 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,786 since the… Continue reading May 8, 2012
“As Gandhi revealed, non-violent protest is effective above all because it reveals how power really operates: it lays bare the violence it is willing to unleash on even the most peaceful citizens when they dare to challenge its moral legitimacy.”
-David Graeber discusses how police are now sexually assaulting female protesters in an attempt to intimidate them.
May 1, 2012
US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 81 casualties in the week ending May Day, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 113,200. The total includes 79,494 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,706 since the… Continue reading May 1, 2012
“I think that one of the problems we have in New York City is that we have a vast amount of public space in which the public is not allowed to do what it wants. We have to liberate public spaces for these sorts of common political actions, and this is one of the arenas of struggle.”
-David Harvey and “the right to the city.”