Few share our privilege, power and freedom – hence responsibility
“Unmarked NATO warplanes are arriving at Turkish military bases close to Iskenderum on the Syrian border, delivering weapons from the late Muammar Gaddafi’s arsenals as well as volunteers from the Libyan Transitional National Council who are experienced in pitting local volunteers against trained soldiers, a skill they acquired confronting Gaddafi’s army.”
-Philip Giraldi, formerly of the CIA, in the American Conservative
“The United States appears to be using a strategy in Syria that it has perfected over the years, having succeeded most recently in Libya: arming small paramilitary groups loyal to U.S. interests that claim to speak for the native population; these militants then attack the targeted government the U.S. would like to see overthrown —including terrorist bombings — and when the attacked government defends itself, the U.S. cries “genocide” or “mass murder,” while calling for foreign military intervention.
“This is the strategy that the U.S. is using to channel the Arab Spring into the bloody dead end of foreign military intervention.”
-Shamus Cooke in Truthout
US military occupation forces in Afganistan and Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 80 combat casualties in the week ending January 24, as the official casualty total for both Iraq and AfPak wars rose to 112,154 The total includes 79,557 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and… Continue reading January 24, 2012
The costs of a college education have continued to soar over the last twenty years, even as the average salaries for graduates stalled.
“–good luck to Obama as he tries to channel his economic populism at Bank of America Stadium.”
–Cole Stangler weighs in on the Ron Paul thing.
US military occupation forces in Afganistan and Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 35 combat casualties in the week ending January 17, as the official casualty total for both Iraq and AfPak wars rose to 112,108 The total includes 79,599 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and… Continue reading January 17, 2012
“We have a decision to make every day. Every hour of every day. And that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy Now!“
US military occupation forces in Afganistan and Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 35 combat casualties in the week ending January 10, as the official casualty total for both Iraq and AfPak wars rose to 112,044 The total includes 79,599 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and… Continue reading January 10, 2012
“From 2004 to 2010 members of Congress increased their median net worth by 15 percent while the average American saw it fall by 8 percent.”
–My Budget 360 on the “full-fledged plutocracy” that is America
US military occupation forces in Afganistan under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 23 combat casualties in the week ending January 3, as the official casualty total for both Iraq and AfPak wars rose to 111, 282 The total includes 79,390 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 31,892… Continue reading January 3, 2012