Ukraine has already lost much of its population since 1990, War casualties and flight would further obstruct the country's future prospects. It was against this backdrop that Gen. Mark Milley and Anthony Blinken, stressed that "recapture of the territories taken by Russia is unrealistic."
Bombing Strengthens the Islamic State (tags)
The attempts to stop Islamic terror through military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq have brought about the opposite. These attempts destabilized societies in those countries, promoted terror and triggered great streams of refugees. So the policy of the West bears a joint responsibility.
US Airstrikes Kill Hundreds of Civilians in Syria and Iraq (tags)
anti-war
The Khojalu “Genocide” Fabrication by Baku (tags)
Azerbaijan is waging a propaganda war to spread misinformation.
AFGHANS MEMORIALIZED IN ART (tags)
A national tour of mural art memorializing Afghan civilian casualties will be displayed in Los Angeles on Feb. 19. Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan opens at the Social and Public Art Resource Center in Venice, CA.
Time could running out for the imperial mission in Afghanistan? (tags)
"Six U.S. service members were among nine people killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest casualties in a bloody summer for coalition soldiers."
• 15 internationals killed as Israel attacks and hijacks Gaza Flotilla in International Wa (tags)
Up to 15 international human rights activists have been killed and over 30 others injured after Israeli commandos attacked the unarmed Gaza Freedom Flotilla early this morning in international waters, according to reports from the flotilla organisers, while Israeli military sources confirmed 10 dead. This attack is a clear breach of international law.
Marriages and Funerals in Afghanistan and Pakistan (tags)
A discussion of the great propensity of American bombers and drones to hit weddings and funeral ceremonies in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Socialists strongly criticize McCain’s Iraq War timetable (tags)
On March 19, 2008, the U.S. occupation of Iraq entered into the sixth year; now Republican presidential contender, Senator John McCain is saying that “he believes the Iraq War can be won by 2013,” according to the Associated Press. Socialists, nationwide are sharply critical of John McCain’s irresponsible statement to suggest that U.S. forces will remain in Iraq and Afghanistan for another five years.
Vigil For Peace Pershing Square (tags)
Vigil for Peace in Iraq Tuesday January 9, 2007 5 PM to 6:45 PM at Pershing Square, 5th & Hill (across from subway entrance). Downtown Los Angeles.
Censorship of News out of Lebanon (tags)
Stop Terror at Its Source (tags)
Iraq: A Rush for the Exits (tags)
With the pressure building for the US to start retreating from Iraq, and our coalition “allies” abandoning ship, what’s a soldier in Iraq to think? Déjà vu. It’s 1970 Vietnam.
U.S. deaths in Iraq near 2,000 (tags)
U.S. deaths in Iraq near 2,000, showing human cost of conflict; Californians constitute greatest share (10.6 percent) of casualties ALMOST UNNOTICED ARE THE 15,220 WOUNDED, INCLUDING 404 AMPUTEES
The Neo-Con Assault on Art (tags)
When the neo-cons attack civil rights, the poor, immigrants, gays - and wages war around the world, the "left" has a lot to say. But when the right attacks the arts, there is a deadening silence. Artist and blogger Mark Vallen hits the nail on the head. As Emma Goldman once said, "If I can't dance in your revolution, I want no part of it."
Fri. 4/29: CodePink-LA Mourns Loss of Friend Marla Ruzicka (tags)
CodePink LA is honoring 28-year-old Marla Ruzicka and her Iraqi colleague Faiz Ali Salim with a vigil and memorial commemorating their lives and work on behalf of civilian casualties of war the war in Iraq and Afghanistan on Friday, April 29.
US HAS EVACUATED 50,000 KIA , WIA AND NON BATTLE CASUALTIES FROM IRAQ (tags)
We’ll soon have 150,000 U.S. troops stuck in the ever-expanding Iraqi quagmire, a number that will probably grow even larger before Iraq holds elections presently scheduled for the end of January ’05.
Iraqi Insurgents Responsible for Fewer "Collateral" Casualties than American For (tags)
In a much publicized article in The Atlantic Monthly, William Langewiesche wrote: "For the most part, . . . the insurgents' attacks are less nihilistic than they are logical and precisely focused, whether against the American coalition and its camp followers or their Iraqi agents and collaborators. The truth is that however vicious or even sadistic the insurgents may be, they are acutely aware of their popular base, and are responsible for fewer unintentional 'collateral' casualties than are the clumsy and overarmed American forces" ("Letter from Baghdad," January/February 2005).
Statistics Don't Lie, But Don't Tell the Truth in Fallujah Either (tags)
U.S. dead are a consequence of a Bush campaign deception, while the number of “enemy” killed in Fallujah is certain to include many civilian victims.
Fallujah, the Hue of Iraq (tags)
US troops are following Gen. Westmoreland’s playbook, while the Iraqi insurgents seem to be following the playbook of Ho Chi Minh. We know the ending of both books.
The lessons learned by the US military in Vietnam and their relationship to US casualty figures in Iraq.
The Bush Campaign's Dirtiest Election Dirty Trick (tags)
Bush and the Pentagon have effectively hidden the Iraq War from the voters by surrendering central and eastern Iraq to the insurgency, but should he win, Americans should be prepared for massive casualties as the military inevitably will have to fight to regain the control it gave up last spring.
WAR MACHINE: U.S. Casualties in Iraq Top 200 For April & May (tags)
American troops in Iraq died in May at a rate of more than two per day, pushing the combined death count for April and May beyond 200, according to Pentagon figures.
Big Money wants Iraq nonsense to End (tags)
"US military behaviour often seems to be choosing the worst aspects of several bad options and combining them."
Civilian casualties mounting in Falluja (tags)
As the U.S. occupation forces pound civilian targets in Falluja with tank fire and a U.S. "Apache" heliocopter fires missiles at a Mosque (killing 40 gathered for prayer), the Aljazeera news agency are the only ones to have a crew in the city under seige. Cameramen Layf Muftaq and Hasan Walid, sound engineer Sayf al-Din and correspondent Hamid Hadid, are risking their lives to report on events as they occur. Some of their photos have now been published on the Aljazeera website (see link). The photo on this page by the Aljazeera crew shows one of the "insurgents" killed by U.S. occupation forces in the most recent fighting in Falluja.
Guess they were baby killers (tags)
Nearly a year ago, Ali Kadem Hashem watched his wife burn to death and his three children die after an American missile hit his house.
The World a Safer Place? Yeah Right! (tags)
U.S. mortuary sees no let-up from Iraq war dead (tags)
Nearly a month after Saddam Hussein's capture, American war dead from Iraq continue to arrive with somber regularity at the wind-swept Air Force base in Delaware that is home to the world's largest mortuary.... There, at the U.S. military's only stateside mortuary, the remains are identified, autopsied, embalmed, clothed in dress uniforms, placed in coffins and shipped to grieving relatives in the company of military escorts.
The Campaign of Hate and Fear (tags)
Am I saying that critics of the war aren't patriotic? Not at all--I'm a critic of some aspects of the war. What I'm saying is that those who try to paint the bleakest, most anti-American, and most anti-Bush picture of the war, whose purpose is not criticism but deception in order to gain temporary political advantage, those people are indeed not patriotic. They have placed their own or their party's political gain ahead of the national struggle to destroy the power base of the terrorists who attacked Americans abroad and on American soil.
Bush renames Body Bags, Transfer Tubes (tags)
As the saying goes, if you can't convince them, confuse them. With more lies told each day by President George Bush, here is yet another one. The US Department of Defense changed the name from "Body Bag" to "Transfer Tube" to describe how the bodies of our young warriors are returned home in the dark of night, with no official count of their growing numbers, and no solemn public ceremony to honor their proud service
Fake letters, fake numbers and other facts (tags)
Again and again lucky soldiers write home about their nice experiences in Iraq
There was no question the filmmaker had dug himself a deep hole. The only question was, how was he going to get out of it? Would he say nothing, and pretend the whole thing hadn't happened, hoping that, after a time, everyone would forget? Would he say, I've learned when you make a bone-headed move, the best thing to do is fess-up? Or would he simply dig himself a bigger hole?
10-15 attacks on US troops daily (tags)
What the hell are we fighting for? Oil corporations think it is worth the price. While our young american soldiers die daily Today 10 die and 20 are wounded. Is it worth it?
Washington Post: U.S. battlefield casualties in Iraq are increasing (by Latuff) (tags)
Article by The Washington Post. Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.
Support for Bush Declines As Casualties Mount in Iraq (tags)
Public support for President Bush has dropped sharply amid growing concerns about U.S. military casualties and doubts whether the war with Iraq was worth fighting, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Civilian Dead in Iraq now past 6,000 (tags)
Feeling proud, America? Enjoying being an occupying power? Hey George... where ARE those weapons of mass destruction?! (Photo - A demonstrator holds a poster of a dead Iraqi child, outside the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, during a protest against Rresident George W. Bush's visit to Africa, July 9, 2003 - REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya)
'Bring them on' - Bush on Iraqi militants - Hours later more Casualties (tags)
President George W. Bush on Wednesday defiantly challenged militants planning strikes on US forces in Iraq to "bring them on!" even as mounting casualties eroded US public support for the occupation.
Pentagon admits Iraq guerrilla war (tags)
Despite the casualties, Mr Rumsfeld said he believed the US public felt the effort was “worthwhile” and that people “recognise the difficulty of the task”.
Iraq War May Have Killed 10,000 Iraq Civilians (tags)
At least 5,000 civilians may have been killed during the invasion of Iraq, an independent research group has claimed. As more evidence is collated, it says, the figure could reach 10,000.
U.S. Cluster Bombs continue to kill in Iraq (tags)
Though there are no reliable figures on post-war casualties from unexploded ordnance in Iraq, humanitarian groups say anecdotal reports suggest hundreds of civilians may have been killed or injured in recent weeks. Photo - An Iraqi man stands near an unexploded cluster bomb (AFP/File/Karim Sahib).
War in Iraq takes horrifying toll (tags)
As the war in Iraq entered its third week, reports of casualties show the mounting physical and psychological toll on the Iraqi people and on U.S. soldiers as well.
Brave Administration Willing to "Pay A High Price" In US Lives (tags)
It is comforting to know that our brave administration is willing to pay a "high price" in the lives of our sons and daughters to have their war.Referring to nights in World War II "when we'd lose 1000 people", he added: "There will come a time maybe when things are going to be much more shocking."
The Delayed Toll of Modern Wars (tags)
The misleading nature of casualty reports which concentrate on battlefield casualties rather than the much greater total after the war is over.
Iraqi Death Toll Rising Fast! (tags)
Thousands killed - including many children.
The Great Propaganda Spectacle (tags)
War as a television spectacle filled with lying, distortions and fabrications
Thousands Of U.S. fatalities expected in Iraq (tags)
Military experts are quietly warning that the impending war against Iraq will likely yield a high U.S. death toll.
US Military turned Buccaneers for Oil Endangers Common Defense (tags)
President Bush violates original intent of the US Military and Endangers Common Defense with Nuclear Threat
Arrests at Federal Building (tags)
from knbc4 website
Suspicions emerge about Afghan bombing cover-up (tags)
Originally published by the People's Weekly World Newspaper, Aug 3, 2002, the story exposes the U.S. cover-up on Afghan civilian casualties.
electronica song with reports of Afghani casualties
Nepalese maoists have staged a a daring attack on Nepalese authorities and continue to build people's war
Truth, The First Casualty: Panama City Editor Nixes Reports of War Casualties (tags)
Panama City (FL) News Herald chief copy editor Ray Glenn's memo re war coverage
Total Media Domination Hinders One World Government (tags)
'Infinitely more shameful - and unethical - were the disgraceful words of Walter Isaacson, the chairman of CNN, to his staff. Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of promoting enemy propaganda, he said.
CNN Says Focus on Civilian Casualties Would Be "Perverse" (FAIR) (tags)
According to the Washington Post (10/31/01), CNN Chair Walter Isaacson "has ordered his staff to balance images of civilian devastation in Afghan cities with reminders that the Taliban harbors murderous terrorists, saying it 'seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan.'"
Casualties Reported in Kabul (tags)
Several people died in the bomb raids on Kabul, witnesses told Reuters news agency. "People have seen some bodies from the attacks. There are several deaths," the agency quoted a witness as saying - but it wasn't clear if the casualties were civilian.
A comment on the media hype and inaccuracies coming from the media.