Maud Easter - Albany Times Union
Tomorrow, Saturday the 16th, I'll be out on the sidewalk by Colonie Center, joining other grandmothers – or in my case, grandmotherly aged women – to demand an end to the Afghan War. We'll be there because we know we and our families can't afford this war anymore. Instead of ...
Sara Jackson - Daily Collegian
On Oct. 7 the mayor and city council of Northampton passed a resolution called, "Bring the War Dollars Home," which calls on the Northampton's congressional representatives to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the grounds of economic cost to the city. Six council members voted for the resolution, ...
Chris Dunn - Collegiate Times
Free tuition at Virginia Tech? Free health care for low-income families? Drastically reduced taxes for all? Safer vacations abroad? These are but a few ways in which citizens of the 9th District could benefit from the absence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- The American Legion's Burn Pit
A multi-cultural military, for a multi-cultural country. Let's not let extremists frame the topic.
Georgeann King - Midtown Republican Club
According to a survey by the National Priorities Project, the South leads in military volunteers. The regional breakdown shows that active duty recruits per 1,000 youth is 1.81 in the South; 1.01 in the Northeast; 1.33 in the Midwest and the West has 1.44. That translates into 23% more recruits ...
Phyllis Bennis - YES! Magazine
His always-identifiable, once-in-a-generation voice booming across the sun-drenched National Mall, the legendary actor-activist Harry Belafonte evoked the words of his long-ago friend and colleague, Martin Luther King, Jr. As he spoke, a hundred thousand people rose to their feet in a roaring ovation. Whatever had come before, this was the ...
Spencer Ackerman - Wired "Danger Room" Blog
By the end of this month, the U.S. will have spent $1.05 trillion to fight the wars in Iraq ($747.3 billion) and Afghanistan ($299 billion), according to the Northampton-based National Priorities Project.It doesn't take a lot of imagination to come up with a long list of ways that money could ...
Normon Solomon - Marin Independent Journal
TODAY, the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan is beginning its 10th year, with 100,000 American troops in that country nearly a decade after the invasion started on Oct. 7, 2001.
Mike Ludwig - truthout
The war in Afghanistan officially began nine years ago today. At least 2,118 United States service men and women have been killed and 8,530 have been wounded in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, according to CNN. Thousands more civilians have died, and civilian and coalition body counts hit all time ...
