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War Criminal of the Week: Condoleezza Rice!

War Criminal of the Week: Condoleezza Rice! By Nancy Mancias Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein. ~Condoleezza Rice In her roles as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice [...]

War Criminal of the Week: Oh Johnny!

War Criminal of the Week: Oh Johnny! “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.” - Bolton on why he decided to avoid the draft Vietnam draft dodger and former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton is scheduled to speak [...]

May1st Booksigning for Karl Rove A quick summary of today’s citizen arrest

May1st Book signing for Karl Rove A quick summary of today’s citizen arrest by Josie Lenwell Hastings Book Store, Albuquerque, NM The store was filled with young, friendly employees, more than you could ever imagine. The smiling faces followed everyone as the undercover protesters and true admirers began to come in the door. Karl Rove [...]

CODEPINK: U.S. Out of Iraq, Out of Afghanistan and Pakistan

Last Friday, NPR prematurely declared that the 7th anniversary of the Iraq war passed without little notice. A few hundred tea party activists and the HCR reconciliation bill hogged the headlines. Yet, thousands of protesters turned out all across the country to protest the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, calling on the White [...]

With 1000 US soldiers dead in Afghanistan, Time to Revive the Anti-war Agenda

by Medea Benjamin U.S. Corporal Gregory S. Stultz, 22, of Brazil, Indiana, died on February 19, 2010 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. According to icasualties.org, Stultz’s death marks the grim milestone of 1,000 American soldiers killed in Operation Enduring Freedom. This week has also been a grim one for civilian casualties as [...]

Defense Budget passes Senate

Today, on the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, the Senate passed the 2010 Defense Budget with 93 yays to 7  nays.  The bill allocates $128 billion to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  This does not include any amounts allocated by additional war supplemental bills. To date, we have already spent over [...]