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  • Karzai's brother financed Dubai property purchases through embattled Kabul Bank
    DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai made nearly $1 million on a Dubai property deal financed with money from Kabul Bank, according to a person familiar with the transaction and a property sales registry.It was not previously known that the president's brother, Mahmoud Karzai, had benefited financially from Dubai re […]
  • Iraqi soldier kills 2 U.S. troops
    BAGHDAD - Two U.S. service members were killed and nine others were wounded when a Kurdish Iraqi soldier sprayed them with gunfire inside an Iraqi army commando base north of Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, Iraqi and U.S. military officials said.The two Americans, whose names were being withheld until relatives are notified, were the first U.S. service members […]
  • Iraqi soldier fires on US troops, kills 2
    BAGHDAD – An Iraqi soldier fired a barrage of bullets at American troops protecting one of their commanders during a visit to an Iraqi army base Tuesday and killed two of them, the first U.S. servicemen to die since President Barack Obama declared an end to combat operations in the country last week.Even after the U.S. dramatically reduced the number of troo […]
  • Iraqi soldier kills 2 U.S. soldiers
    Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- An Iraqi soldier opened fire Tuesday on a group of U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, killing two and wounding nine others, the U.S. military and the Iraqi military said. They are the first American deaths in Iraq since the U.S. combat mission officially ended last week. The attack occurred inside an Iraqi army commando compound when the […]
  • Reaction to proposed Koran burning doesn't faze Florida church
    The pastor of a tiny, fringe evangelical church in Florida on Tuesday rebuffed a plea for restraint from Gen. David H. Petraeus, who warned that a plan to burn the Muslim holy book could provoke violence against American troops and citizens overseas."Instead of possibly blaming us for what could happen, we put the blame where it belongs — on the people […]
  • Progressives Press Obama To Recess Appoint Elizabeth Warren Before Congress Returns
    There are only a few days left until Congress returns to session, and that means President Obama faces a deadline, of sorts, if he wants to quickly fill vacancies in his administration. Obama has until the beginning of next week to offer recess appointments to nominees or expected nominees to positions that typically require Senate confirmation.Highlighting […]
  • Australian Labor Party wins enough support to rule
    CANBERRA, Australia – Prime Minister Julia Gillard's  center-left Labor Party will form a minority government to rule Australia for a second three-year term, after two independent lawmakers joined her coalition Tuesday in the interest of stable government.The decision by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott gives Gillard's party control of 76 seats in th […]
  • Clad in riot gear, LAPD summoned to quell angry protest over fatal police shooting of day laborer
    [Updated at 10:30 p.m. A tense day in the immigrant Los Angeles neighborhood of Westlake, where police shot and killed a day laborer, ended without injuries or arrests, officials said Monday night.]Police in riot gear stood guard Monday as dozens of people gathered near a Westlake shopping center to protest the fatal shooting of a day laborer by police.Using […]
  • Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage
    SAVANNAH, Ga. – A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender.No one was hurt and no shots were fired in the short standoff at Winn Army Community Hospital on Fort Stewart, about 40 miles southwest of Savannah, said fort spokesm […]
  • US 'likely' to keep troops in Iraq after 2011
    WASHINGTON – The United States likely will need to keep thousands of troops in Iraq beyond 2011 to keep a lid on sectarian tensions and to bolster Baghdad's fledgling military, experts and former officers say.American officials privately acknowledge that the US military presence in Iraq will almost certainly be extended, even though a security agreement […]

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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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  • The Runaway General, Part II: General Conway August 28, 2010
    Written by Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe Another general is working to undercut the president’s prerogatives on Afghanistan. This time, it’s U.S. Marine Corps General James Conway working to frame the July 2011 deadline to start troop withdrawals as something that can be essentially ignored by him and his subordinates. President Obama must ask swiftly a […]
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  • Does What Happened in New Orleans Stay There? August 27, 2010
    On the 5th Anniversary of Katrina Land Of Opportunity a new film asks — Is your city the next New Orleans? The recent tragedies in Pakistan and Haiti and the unprecedented catastrophe of the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast reveal that the lessons of New Orleans have only become more relevant in the past […]
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  • Glenn Beck Is Not Martin Luther King Jr. August 26, 2010
    Aug. 28 is an important day in American history. On that day, 47 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial. His message gave voice to the voiceless and his vision promoted a just, equal, diverse and compassionate country. This Aug. 28, a very different sort […]
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  • Democrats Write Checks to Republicans….by Appearing on Fox August 23, 2010
    Written by Robert Greenwald and Tanene Allison Hey high profile Democrats, want to raise money for some Republican candidates? It’s easy, just make a cameo on one of Fox’s programs. We’ve long known that Fox News is anything but “fair and balanced.” We’ve known that they are overtly biased, conservative, racist, Republican and pro-Tea Party. But in case [... […]
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  • Ask Katie Couric to Challenge Petraeus on Afghanistan War ‘Progress’ August 18, 2010
    Sign our act.ly petition to push Katie Couric to challenge Petraeus’ claims of “progress” in their upcoming interview. While a stain of insecurity and violence spreads across Afghanistan, General Petraeus is on a media blitz, disingenuously trying to sell the idea of “oil spots” of “progress” in Afghanistan. Petraeus’ goal is clear: Despite overwhelming publ […]
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  • 1,200 Crosses Say No to Afghanistan War August 11, 2010
    The movement to rethink the Afghanistan War is picking up steam. In response to the waste of hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives on a disastrous policy, public opinion has turned decisively against the war. People are making their opposition heard in communities all over the country. We’re proud to see that […]
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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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RSS Stop War Project Feed

  • Report: U.S. Wasted Billions in Rebuilding Iraq August 29, 2010
    (AP) A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds of abandoned or incomp […]
  • 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
    Blackwater is accused of billing the U.S. government for prostitution services and expenses. added by: JonRaymond   1 comment […]
  • 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 […]

The Fallacy of Political Balance

By Jon Raymond, on December 25th, 2009

Progressives don’t balance with right extremists any more than right balances with wrong. You might think that right does balance with wrong, and if so then you exemplify my point. If right balances with wrong then we should allow just enough crime to balance with the good that people do. If a hero saves a life then it should be OK to murder someone for [...]

December 25th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Obama, politics, right wing | Leave a comment

The Ft. Hood Shock: Incredible Coincidence or Orchestrated Obama Photo Op?

By Jon Raymond, on November 11th, 2009

Obama's awesome pro war photo op at a great America tradgedy

It’s November 10th, 2009, the day before Veterans Day. President Obama visits Ft. Hood to mourn with those military families who lost friends and loved ones at the hands of a domestic “terrorist,” who just happens to be a Muslim and who committed this [...]

November 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Obama, Stop War, Uncategorized, politics | 2 comments

What do the CIA, John McCain, the Iran Uprising, the Afghanistan War, and your Lockheed-Martin Stocks have in Common?

By Jon Raymond, on June 21st, 2009

We committed an illegal international act in a preemptive war, a racist genocidal war with a military that dehumanizes all Muslims, calling the “hodgies” as a matter of policy to better help our troops deal with killing innocent people. So now McCain and others cry to Obama to stand up to Iran and tell them how to run a “democratic” election? What a [...]

June 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: CIA, Obama, dehumanization, democracy, genocide, images, iran, politics, right wing | 9 comments

Yo, America, The Jig is Up

By Jon Raymond, on June 14th, 2009

In the information age with instant communication around the world it becomes harder to cover up the dehumanization and mass killings of innocent people because of their race or nationality (which is, by definition, genocide) and the bigoted propaganda that is meant to cover it [...]

June 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Stop War, dehumanization, genocide, politics | One comment

Obama may be Cute and Cuddly, but he's not Housebroken

By Jon Raymond, on May 17th, 2009

A filmmaker’s take on Obama’s decision to censor torture photographs: I had kittens when I was young. When you first get a kitten they are so cute and cuddly. But they pee and crap all over the place until you house train them. How do you do that? There is one very fast and fool proof way. Rub their noses in their crap. All it takes is once and they never crap on that place [...]

May 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Obama, Stop War, genocide, images, politics | 2 comments