May 2010

$5 Friday: No More Victims

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For today’s $5 Friday, I’ve given $5 to http://nomorevictims.org

No More Victims works to obtain medical sponsorships for war-injured Iraqi children and to forge ties between the children, their families and communities in the United States. We believe one of the most effective means of combating militarism is to focus on direct relief to its victims.

If you want to learn more about how your community can become involved, send an email to No More Victims.

 

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Machobama Man

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Bombing…wanna feel my bombing?
Bombing…such a thrill my bombing
Bombing…wanna touch my bombing?
Bombing…it’s too much my bombing
Check it out my bombing, bombing.
Don’t you doubt my bombing, bombing.
talkin’ bout my bombing, bombing,
check it out my bombing

Every man wants to be a machobama man
to have the kind of bombing, always in demand
Missiles in the mornings, go drones go
blasting people with a joystick, muscles glow
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Today Is the Day Obama Swore He'd Have Iraq Withdrawal Complete

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Candidate Obama said innumerable times that ending the war in Iraq would be the first thing he would do:

And he said many, many times that he would do so by beginning immediately to pull out one to two brigades per month and be done in 16 months, in other words: now:

When President Bush failed to pull out of Iraq, Senator Obama in 2007 said that Congress should read more

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Senator Coburn Will Filibuster War Bill Unless Paid For

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By David Swanson

Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, is committed to opposing a supplemental spending bill that includes $33.5 billion to escalate war in Afghanistan, unless the funds to pay for it are found.

On May 10th Senator Coburn wrote to his colleagues asking for their support for an amendment that would offset the new spending in this bill with cuts elsewhere. I spoke on Monday with Senator Coburn’s communications director John Hart who assured me that Coburn intends read more

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McChrystal: Beheadings of Our Allies Simply to Be Expected

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By David Swanson

How can we stand to live in a country where this exchange is shown live on tv and nobody comments?

REPORTER: [I]n Marja there are reports — credible reports — of intimidation and even beheading of local people who work with your forces. Is that your intelligence? And if so, does it worry you?

GEN. MCCHRYSTAL: Yeah. It absolutely is things that we see. But it’s absolutely predictable.

I’m sorry. If it is predictable that people who work with you are going read more

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