1 trillion dollars, 1 million lives, 1 fraud
What Does Iraq Cost? Even More Than You Think. by Tyler Cowen cites sources putting the direct financial cost to the U.S. government at over $1 trillion, though Cowen’s point is that taking into...
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Bond prices on historical and contemporary civil war outcomes
Did Johnny Reb have a Fighting Chance? A Probabilistic Assessment from European Financial Markets (PDF) by Kim Oosterlinck and Marc D. Weidenmier looks at Confederate gold bonds traded in Amsterdam...
View ArticleMemorial Day (U.S.)
Another year, another fine day to honor draft dodgers, deserters, and anyone with enough sense to not join the murderous gangs sponsored by any jurisdiction. Some say it is a fine day to criticize...
View ArticleAnother trillion dollar fraud
Glenn Greenwald’s September 20 piece on the decision processes leading to the Iraq invasion and the current bailout is right on: I don’t pretend to know anywhere near enough — in terms of either raw...
View ArticleOccupation ethics
Philippe Legrain: British troops are dying in Afghanistan because the government deems the Taliban such a terrible threat. Yet those who flee the Taliban and the war are denied asylum in this country....
View ArticleInternational law should mandate much higher standards for military personnel
The U.S. army says it will reduce personnel from 570k at the peak of the Iraq occupation and 558k as of March to 490k in 2017 in part by lowering the number of personnel with “moral, medical and...
View Article10 years
2003-03-19 you did not stop the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Don’t feel bad about not going to protests if you didn’t. Those are bullshit spectacle. Stopping war takes years of good politics; I don’t mean...
View ArticleSuppose they gave a war on terror and a few exposed it as terror
I do not recommend anyone join the murderous institutions of the U.S. security state (and the minimum age for making such a grave error needs to be raised, worldwide). Those who do not are everyday...
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The Killing of Abu Sayyaf (according to unreliable, one-sided, and conflicted...
Read The Killing of Osama bin Laden or a summary on the English Wikipedia entry for Seymour Hersh. Then read Abu Sayyaf, an ISIS Leader, Killed in Syria by Special Forces, U.S. Says. The part after the...
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A day to remember our fallen predators
Last year I decried sad and tacky memorials for gang members and advised to take the advice of lower status memorials (street gang rather than military gang) and “stop violence” before robots take it...
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