Saturday, May 26, 2007

Memorial Day Events

Announcement from VFP Gainesville:

Gainesville Vets for Peace
Memorial Day 2007
NW 8th Avenue and 34th Street

Mile long Display of Tombstones
Commemorating the War Dead

Cost of War Posters and Banners

Dawn to Dusk on Memorial Day, Mnnday May 28th
Parking at Westside Park on 34th street and NW 8th Ave





Arlington - Liberty Bell

One of our fellow VFP chapters is also putting out tombstones to commemorate Memorial Day.

Monday, May 21, 2007

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Informed Comment

Informed Comment

Juan Cole shows a graph of attacks in Iraq. I copied it above as he shows it sideways on his blog.- (you can click on it and enlarge it to read better) the source is a GAO document on Iraq. You will see that attacks have exploded this Fall and winter. I don't see much difference so far from the "surge". Juan says it is down to the levels seen in july of 2006 but they appear much higher than that time period to me. It is pretty horrifying to look at.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Sunday, May 13, 2007

The Good American - CommonDreams.org - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

The Good American - CommonDreams.org - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community:

"I yearn for a time when “good Americans” will be able to stop and reverse equally evil policies of global hegemony achieved through pre-emptive war of aggression. I know all too well that in this case the “enemy” will only be emboldened by our silence, since at the end of the day the “enemy” is ourselves. I can see the Harvard professor shaking an accusatory finger at me for the above statement, chiding me for creating any moral equivalency between the war in Iraq and the Holocaust. You’re right, Mr. Dershowitz. There is no moral equivalency. In America today, we should have known better, since we ostensibly stand for so much more. That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans."

Friday, May 11, 2007

Iraqi Lawmakers Back Bill on U.S. Withdrawal - washingtonpost.com

Iraqi Lawmakers Back Bill on U.S. Withdrawal - washingtonpost.com:

"A majority of members of Iraq's parliament have signed a draft bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels. The development was a sign of a growing division between Iraq's legislators and prime minister that mirrors the widening gulf between the Bush administration and its critics in Congress."

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Hate from Within: America's Home-Grown Terrorism

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Hate from Within: America's Home-Grown Terrorism

Attacks and plots against immigrants uncovered. It takes a racist to occupy another country because the basic assumption that you are "better than them" and your life is 'more important' is necessary in order to carry it out. but that racism does not just exist in Iraq and Afganistan it is here too.

Big Brass Blog - Wacky Wocky Wonky

Big Brass Blog - Wacky Wocky Wonky:
Someone finally bothers to answer some ridiculous talking points on the war. whiy did it take so long?

"Here's a news flash -- there is no such thing as surprise withdrawal. You can't sneak 160,000 soldiers out of Iraq in the trunk of a Volvo. One day, America will leave Iraq, and when we do, we will catch no one -- no one -- by surprise. [...] When we start to leave, it will be broadcast on every station around the world for months in advance and there is not one damn thing anyone can do about that."

Saturday, May 5, 2007

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Klare and Constantino, Where is the USS Nimitz?

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Klare and Constantino, Where is the USS Nimitz?: "The Bush administration is, at this very moment, sending a third aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, to the Persian Gulf. Although the three carriers and their strike forces will add up to a staggering display of American military power off the Iranian coast, American journalists aren't much impressed. Evidently, it's not considered off the diplomatic page or particularly provocative to mass your carrier battle groups this way, despite the implicit threat to pulverize Iranian nuclear and other facilities. Journalistically speaking, this is both blindingly strange and the norm on our one-way planet. If Iranians send the materials to make some roadside bombs into Iraq (as the Bush administration, at least, continually claims is the case), it's a huge deal, if not an act of war; but put the most powerful fleet in history off the Iranian coast. No sweat."

Thursday, May 3, 2007

The Hippies Were Right! / Green homes? Organic food? Nature is good? Time to give the ol' tie-dyers some respect

Tired of being called a hippie on the street corner? Read this article! ;-)

The Hippies Were Right! / Green homes? Organic food? Nature is good? Time to give the ol' tie-dyers some respect:

"There is but one conclusion you can draw from the astonishing (albeit fitful, bittersweet) pro-environment sea change now happening in the culture and (reluctantly, nervously) in the halls of power in D.C., one thing we must all acknowledge in our wary, jaded, globally warmed universe: The hippies had it right all along. Oh yes they did."

Michael Leon: MAL Contends . . .

Vet Imprisoned for Seeking Benefits

Now they are sending vets to jail for trying to get help for PTSD. One of the US attourneys that is following Bush instructions did this!

Has analysis of neocon arguments for how to "combat fraud in the VA health care system" just like they are combating voter fraud!