“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘war costs’
No More “King-Washing” the Pentagon, Please
Posted: January 16, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Brave New Foundation, budget, debt, deficit, Derrick Crowe, Jr., Martin Luther King, Pentagon, Robert Greenwald, spending, video, war, war costs
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The War of Necessity Goes AWOL
Posted: December 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Defense Department, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan, war costs
Before moving past President Obama’s underwhelming speech explaining his misguided decision to send 30,000 more kids with guns to kill and die in Afghanistan, it’s worth pointing out one more big omission: The War of Necessity was nowhere to be found. The president said: I make this decision because I am convinced that our security [...]
Asculumistan
Posted: October 8, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Asculum, civilian deaths, Pyrrhic victory, Pyrrhus, Rethink Afghanistan, troop deaths, war costs
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. President Obama wants you to know he can be tough like Sarah Palin: President Barack Obama on Tuesday ruled out shrinking the Afghanistan [...]
Sign the act.ly Petition to End the War in Afghanistan
Posted: October 7, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: act.ly, Afghanistan, civilian casualties, Rethink Afghanistan, troop deaths, war costs
I’ve just launched an act.ly petition asking the White House to end the war in Afghanistan. Please sign it (you must have a Twitter account to do so) and forward it around to your networks. It includes an embedded section of the Rethink Afghanistan documentary and a link to Peace Action West’s Facebook vigil at [...]
