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
“If there is no rolling back of the NDAA law [aka the Homeland Battlefield Bill] we cease to be a constitutional democracy.”
-Chris Hedges lays it out.
March 29, 2012
US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 32 casualties in the period ending March 28, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 112, 631. The total includes 79,479 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,152 since… Continue reading March 29, 2012
March 22, 2012
US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 31 casualties in the period ending March 22, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 112, 599. The total includes 79,479 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,120 since… Continue reading March 22, 2012
“‘Freedom’ for [American conservatives] isn’t about everyone in this country having the opportunity to live life as they see fit. It’s about making sure that the most powerful private individuals, be they CEOs or church leaders, get to make the rest of us live the lives they see fit.”
-David Atkins on the Republicans love of liberty – for themselves
“For the truth is that we’re already having a hydrocarbon boom, with US oil and gas production rising and US fuel imports dropping. If there were any truth to drill-here-drill-now, this boom should have yielded substantially lower gasoline prices and lots of new jobs. Predictably, however, it has done neither.”
-Krugman injects some truth into the drilling debate.
March 13, 2012
US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 25 casualties in the week ending March 13, as the official casualty total for the Iraq and AfPak wars* rose to 112, 567. The total includes 79,479 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 33,089 since… Continue reading March 13, 2012
Despite that important journalism — or, more accurately, because of it — Shaye is now in prison, thanks largely to President Obama himself. For the past two years, Shaye has been arrested, beaten, and held in solitary confinement by the security forces of Saleh, America’s obedient tyrant.
-Greenwald on the case of Abdulelah Haider Shaye, who is being held in Yemen for the crime of reporting and printing the truth about American drone attacks in the country, and Obama’s role in his detention.
“Little of that [bad news] is expected to be mentioned publicly at the Chicago meeting [of NATO]. Mr. Obama and the NATO allies, European and American officials said, must instead present a picture of success that includes the possibility of reconciliation talks with the Taliban and a NATO withdrawal that is coming only after a job well done.”
-The New York Times explains how the Afghan disaster will be “presented” at the upcoming NATO summit. A European official added, “The most important thing now is the messaging.”
“There is no moral distinction between a drone strike and the explosion of the improvised explosive device, between a suicide bombing and a targeted assassination.”
-Chris Hedges in another lucid explanation of how war works.