Move America Forward has collected millions to send care packages to U.S. troops. But its appeals often rely on images and stories borrowed without permission, and its assets have been used to benefit political consulting firms and PACs. By Kim Barker ProPublica August 5, 2014 | This story was co-published with The Daily Beast In February More
Kathy: Our society barely recognizes the futility of imprisoning people for onerously long sentences. I think of Mukherjee and wonder whether U.S. people invested as much money in cancer research as they did in Super Bowl celebrations this year.
On November 7, 2014, while visiting Kabul, The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, noted that NATO will soon launch a new chapter, a new non-combat mission in Afghanistan. But it’s difficult to spot new methods as NATO commits itself to sustaining combat on the part of Afghan forces. At the gate of Emergency Hospital, Kabul More
Americans have a right to learn about people bearing the consequences of U.S. war, but there is scant incentive to exercise this right in a society where militarism is glorified and military spokespeople continually assure the U.S. public that U.S. militarism has improved the lives of women and children in Afghanistan. By Kathy Kelly HuffingtonPost.com More
Rather than solving a single underlying problem, the chaos is growing, threatening an ever-widening war. Is this the result of too many governments shooting first, and thinking after? By JEFFREY D. SACHS NationofChange.org PROJECT SYNDICATE / OP-ED Published: Tuesday 22 July 2014 Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the More
Don’t Walk Away from War It’s Not the American Way By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com June 10, 2014 The United States has been at war -- major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions -- nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began. That’s more More
The vast expenditures of the U.S. government and its client here simply can’t be designated as contributions toward “security.” These funds have contributed to insecurity and danger while failing to address basic human needs. By Kathy Kelly January 6, 2014 Direct to Rise Up Times Kabul — The fire in the Chaman e Babrak camp began in Nadiai’s More
Posted by CNN Political Unit December 30, 2013 Washington (CNN) – Support for the war in Afghanistan has dipped below 20%, according to a new national poll, making the country's longest military conflict arguably its most unpopular one as well. The CNN/ORC International survey released Monday also indicates that a majority of Americans would like to More
"Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history." — Noam Chomsky (2013) [youtube=http://youtu.be/PkTdMA0hmbo] Published on Dec 4, 2013 (Date: December 8, 2001) In response to US declarations of a "War on Terrorism" in 1981 and the re-declaration in 2001, Chomsky has argued that the major sources of international terrorism are the More
"Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history." — Noam Chomsky (2013) [youtube=http://youtu.be/PkTdMA0hmbo] Published on Dec 4, 2013 (Date: December 8, 2001) In response to US declarations of a "War on Terrorism" in 1981 and the re-declaration in 2001, Chomsky has argued that the major sources of international terrorism are the More
According to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, all the years of the American wars on Afghanistan and Iraq will end up costing $6 Trillion ($2 trillion of that has been borrowed from foreign investors); this amount is the equivalent of $75,000 for every American household per year. By Mary Beaudoin October 5, 2013 This speech was More
"The UN reported this year that civilian casualties have increased 16 percent this year. In two different UN reports this year they documented that the increase in fighting this year has overly affected women and children – there has been a 30 percent increase in injuries and deaths of children and a 60 percent jump in deaths More
