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  • This year's U.S. death toll in Afghanistan the highest
    Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- In only eight months, 2010 has become the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to a CNN count of Pentagon and NATO figures. At least 321 troops have died so far in 2010, the highest yearly toll since the conflict began nearly nine years ago. The previous high was last year's 313 American deaths. The deaths […]
  • Aging vets' costs concern Obama's deficit co-chair
    RALEIGH, N.C. – The system that automatically awards disability benefits to some veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange  seems contrary to efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission said Tuesday.Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson's comments came a day after The Associated Pr […]
  • Iraq remains occupied says Syria
    DAMASCUS — Iraq, where US combat operations officially ended on Wednesday, will remain “occupied” until the last American soldier leaves, Syria’s official press said.“The American withdrawal from Iraq is an important step but incomplete on the road to the recovery of Iraqi sovereignty,” the Al-Baath newspaper of the ruling party said. “Iraq will remain an oc […]
  • For Gates the US war in Iraq is over but cloud remains
    CAMP RAMADI, Iraq — US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that America's war in Iraq is over but admitted that the outcome will remain "clouded" by the reason it was waged in the first place.Asked by reporters at Camp Ramadi, an American base about 100 kilometres (80 miles) west of Baghdad, whether the United States was still at war […]
  • VIDEO: Wichita soldier speaks about leaked Iraq video
    WICHITA, Kan. — It's a video Ethan McCord says he doesn't have to watch, he see it every time he closes his eyes. But since it was leaked in April, and posted on the website "wikileaks," millions have seen it, including everyone in the conference room at the Wichita library Tuesday night."It was pretty shocking to actually see it on […]
  • VIDEO: Soldier Appearing In Controversial Video Speaks Out
    As the president talks about ending the War in Iraq, a former soldier is speaking out about his role in the war. One Wichita man, who served in Iraq also appeared in a controversial video that went viral. The video captures an attack that happened more than three years ago. A website leaked it in April. It documents American soldiers shooting down a group of […]
  • The Street girds for Warren as consumer czar
    Wall Street is preparing for a hurricane starting with the letter E, but it's not Earl, it's Elizabeth, as in Warren. Bankers appear to be resigning themselves to a fate worse than tougher financial regulation: The hard-charging Harvard professor, who oversees TARP funding, seems a near-cinch to be named the nation's consumer watchdog. "A […]
  • Tony Blair: military intervention in rogue regimes 'more necessary than ever'
    Globalisation has made military intervention in rogue regimes overseas more necessary than ever, Tony Blair argues in his memoirs. Not toppling Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, is one regret voiced by the former prime minister.His belief that Iran needs to be confronted in its nuclear ambitions and as a last resort prevented by force shines through. […]
  • Extracts from Tony Blair's new memoir 'A Journey'
    LONDON — Highlights from "A Journey," by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair: _On Princess Diana: "She captured the essence of an era and held it in her hand. She defined it. ... She was extraordinarily captivating." _On the Catholic-Protestant divide in Northern Ireland: "Then there are attitudes which, to us, seem absurd, comi […]
  • Blair: Bush world view had 'immense simplicity'
    London, England (CNN) -- Former U.S. President George W. Bush was a "true idealist" who displayed "genuine integrity and political courage," former British prime minister Tony Blair reveals in his memoirs. Detailing the close professional and personal relationship which developed between the two leaders in the wake of the 2001 terror atta […]

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  • It’s Time We Take the “For Sale” Sign Off the Capitol Lawn September 2, 2010
    When candidates have to raise millions of dollars just to run a competitive campaign, they’re going to turn to wealthy donors, and the voice of the everyday American isn’t going to be heard. It’s time we take the “for sale” sign off the Capitol lawn. We can’t afford the price we’re paying for corporate-sponsored government. […]
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  • Five Reasons Why “Carly Fiorina No Es Mi Amiga” (Carly Fiorina Is Not My Friend) September 1, 2010
    Written by Robert Greenwald and Axel Caballero Carly Fiorina, the 2010 Republican nominee for the Senate representing California, has launched a strong campaign to lure Latinos under two main premises: 1) She has always been a friend of Latinos; and, 2) she holds the same values as Latinos. Her campaign has launched a website titled “Amigos de […]
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  • BP’s Next Disaster: Are You Going to Stop it Before it Starts? August 4, 2010
    Written by Robert Greenwald and Tanene Allison As you read this, BP is already working to create their next disaster. What they are presently creating is even more dangerous and devastating than what they did in the Gulf, and even less regulated. Join us in telling Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to stop BP’s dangerous […]
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  • Stand Up New York! July 28, 2010
    STAND UP NEW YORK Seems like everyone is singing the praises of Natural Gas, our newest greenest most homegrown and secure source of American Energy. NOT! “Clean Natural” Gas is neither. Gas extraction, made possible by hydraulic fracturing (or fracking for short) has to sit right beside Deep Sea Drilling, Mountain Top Removal, and Dirty […]
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  • Carly Fiorina: Runs to the Tea Party, Away From the Truth July 25, 2010
    Carly Fiorina doesn’t want all Californians to know how much she has courted and aligned herself with the Tea Party. Even before this video was released, the Fiorina Campaign was already on the defensive attack, trying to take the public’s attention away from her Tea Party/Palin support. They are distorting the truth, hiding from the facts […]
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  • Sick for Beauty: Protect the Health of Nail Salon Workers! July 20, 2010
    Imagine going to work every day and exposing yourself regularly to toxic chemicals that were eroding your health. Next time you get a mani/pedi, you should ask the same question. Nail salon workers throughout the country work under unnecessarily toxic and dangerous conditions. Under current federal regulations, cosmetics manufacturers can use unlimited amoun […]
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  • Movement to Rethink the Afghanistan War Gains Traction July 17, 2010
    This week’s Newsweek cover leads with the title, “Rethinking Afghanistan” and features an essay from Richard Haass at the Council on Foreign Relations, warning that the war isn’t worth the cost and the current policy isn’t working. It’s gratifying to see the message that Brave New Foundation’s Rethink Afghanistan campaign has pushed for a year […]
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  • It Takes a Socialist to Get a Bipartisan Bill in the Senate May 11, 2010
    The arrogance was astounding. U.S. taxpayers, terrorized by proclamations that “this sucker [the economy] could go down,” rode to the rescue of Big Gambling (read: derivative-drunk, too-big-to-fail banks) and shelled out trillions of dollars to bail them out. This is after they’d been using our deposits and investments to sit at the roulette table, mind you. […]
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  • Workers Memorial Day In Los Angeles April 28, 2010
    I’m a blogger fellow with Brave New Films on their 16 Deaths Per Day campaign for worker safety. Join us on Facebook. Today is Workers Memorial Day, the day we remember those who have died on the job. They come from all walks of life, merely trying to get ahead and create a better […]
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  • Video Blog: How Else to Spend Goldman’s $5.5 Billion in Bonuses April 27, 2010
    What else could we do with $5.5 billion in bonuses Goldman Sachs is giving its employees for the first three months of 2010? You’d think that after ruining our economy AND being indicted for fraud, Goldman would have the sense to give the American public the money to spend ourselves. Actually, on second thought, they did […]
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  • Obama's $30M Afghanistan Surge has Failed. Now what? May 11, 2010
    Congress claims no constituents bother to call them about H.R. 5015, a bill that would set up an Afghanistan exit strategy. In other words we are staying in this war because YOU WANT TO. added by: JonRaymond   0 comments […]
  • 18 Veterans Commit Suicide Each Day April 23, 2010
    This Army Times article has a lot of stats about saving vets, but it fails to mention one important one: 10,000 veterans have committed suicide since 9/11. That's twice the number killed in action. added by: JonRaymond   1 comment […]
  • Kandahar Favors Taliban Over War by 19 to 1 April 21, 2010
    So why are we there? added by: JonRaymond   0 comments […]
  • Legalized Rape April 20, 2010
    The ongoing proliferation of yellow journalism and propaganda by right wing media operatives has become a media war to fight for the truth. This is a story about a blogger who claims Afghan women want more war, while she cites only a handful of Bush cronies that "visited" the White House, and ignores the vast majority of Afghan women who continue t […]
  • Special Ops Kill Pregnant Women as Part of their Routine April 13, 2010
    U.S troops routinely kill innocent civilians including pregnant women. Caution, disturbing images of war at this link. added by: JonRaymond   4 comments […]
  • Stop Blackwater for Good March 5, 2010
    There's finally a bill to stop private, for-profit companies like Blackwater from waging war in our name with little regard for anything beyond their bottom line. More than 22,000 mercenaries are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, and these unaccountable hired guns have shot civilians and participated in torture at Abu Ghraib and other detention facilit […]
  • Money for War March 3, 2010
    Washington has money for war, trillions, but not education, not healthcare, not housing, not jobs. Only for war: Washington has a lot of money. It has trillions for war, but no money for housing. Money for war, but no money for health care. Money for war, but no money for education. Money for war - no money to rebuild our cities. No money to create jobs, but […]
  • Afghans told not to help Taliban (or else?) February 13, 2010
    The big problem here is that the U.S. forces can't tell the difference between the Taliban and civilians. So what this amounts to is a warning of imminent destruction. "Leaflets are being dropped over Marjah, containing the message 'Don't shelter the Taliban in your homes, don't allow the Taliban in your areas, the troops are coming […]
  • Blackwater Pimped on U.S. Dime February 12, 2010
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  • American coup d'etat: Military thinkers discuss the unthinkable February 10, 2010
    Eternal vigilance being the price of liberty, Americans—who spent decades war-gaming a Soviet invasion and have taken more recently to daydreaming about “ticking bomb” scenarios—should cast at least an occasional thought toward the only truly existential threat that American democracy might face today. We now live in a unipolar world, after all, in which con […]
  • U.S. soldier 'waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet' February 7, 2010
    A U.S. soldier has been accused of 'waterboarding' his four-year-old daughter because she couldn't recite the alphabet. Joshua Tabor admitted to police that he used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry. As his daughter 'squirmed' to get away, Tabor said he submerged her face - upwards - three or four times until the wate […]
  • Iraq War Vet: "....truly embarrassed of the man I became." February 6, 2010
    10,000 U.S. veterans of the Iraq war have committed suicide, more than twice the amount killed in combat. But their stories remain untold in a shroud of military secrecy. The U.S. government does not want you to know. My question here is about military honor. How can it be honorable to kill innocent people? How decent do our troops feel after having killed a […]
  • Robert Greenwald's Awesome Interview with Oliver Stone January 28, 2010
    Robert Greenwald interviews Oliver Stone on the new Wall Street, Stone's new 10 hour HBO series, W, Nixon, his Vietnam experience, his interview and doc on Castro, on Chavez, the economy, and Stone's prediction of the end of America, '....a disaster will happen [to America].' He compares the economic collapse of September 2008 to a heart […]
  • Get on the Bus to March on Washington; Don't Applaud Obama on War January 26, 2010
    http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=m20_transportation ANSWER organizers have scheduled bus rides from cities all over the Northeast to come to the March 20 anti-war march on Washington DC. There is also a call out today fro people to contact their Congressional representatives to tell them not to applaud Obama in his speech tonight anytime he me […]
  • Exit Strategy? What Exit Strategy? January 23, 2010
    "What we can't do is think that just a military approach in Afghanistan is going to solve our problems.... There's got to be an exit strategy." - President Obama. ReThink Afghanistan launches a new campaign to petition President Obama to specify an clear exit strategy from Afghanistan in his upcoming State of the Union Address, as he prom […]
  • U.S. Sending 10,000 Troops to our new War in Haiti January 18, 2010
    Where are the doctors? On a slow boat to China? The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm Mike Mullen, said a hospital ship and more helicopters would be sent in the coming days, carrying more troops and marines. added by: JonRaymond   63 comments […]
  • Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid January 18, 2010
    "I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send," Chavez said on his weekly television show. "They are occupying Haiti undercover." "On top of that, you don […]
  • Art Defines the Horror of War January 14, 2010
    Ten friends use a sort of art exhibit on the road to bring home the reality of war. added by: JonRaymond   1 comment […]
  • Army charges single mom who refused deployment January 13, 2010
    "SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Army filed charges Tuesday against a single-mom soldier who refused to deploy to Afghanistan last year, arguing she had no family able to care for her infant son. Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old Army cook, could face a prison sentence and a dishonorable discharge if she is convicted in a court-martial. But first, an officer wi […]
  • Jailed for Hip-Hop Song January 10, 2010
    The Army has jailed Army Soldier Marc Hall for singing a hip-hop song that exposes military stop loss. No date has been set for his trial or end of enlistment since he is retained under stop-loss. Will he remain in jail indefinitely? added by: JonRaymond   9 comments […]
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Civilian Deaths are Good for Business

By Jon Raymond, on July 27th, 2009

There is a strong correlation between civilian deaths in Iraq and now Afghanistan with the stock market prices of war related industry companies like Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop-Grumman, and Halliburton. As more civilians die, more survivors are motivated to become insurgents bent on retaliation against the U.S. military. That’s good for the war business. With the peaking of civilian deaths in Iraq around 2006-2007 we see a reactive jump in military stock prices for 2007-2008. As you can see from the charts, with the cut back of war in Iraq, we need to boost civilian deaths in Afghanistan to bring these stock prices back in line.

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Iraqi Civilian Deaths

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