1. 28 September 2006

    832 days ago

    What has happened that the Senate is willing to turn America from a bastion of freedom into a caldron of suspicion ruled by a Government of unchecked power?

    Sen. Patrick Leahy

  2. 16 July 2006

    906 days ago

    The Return of the Draft

    I’m scared as all hell at the draft being reinstated, no way am I going off anytime soon to fight. But I absolutely see the points made below, think about it.

    Without a draft, there’s really no antiwar movement, we’re willing to pay people to die for us. It doesn’t reflect very well on the character of our society. Charlie Moskos, professor of military sociology at Northwestern University

    It shouldn’t be just the poor and the working poor who find their way into harm’s way. If the kids and grandkids of the president and the Cabinet and the Pentagon were vulnerable to going to Iraq, we never would have gone—no question in my mind. The closer this thing comes home to Americans, the quicker we’ll be out of Iraq. Rep. Charlie Rangel, D, NY

    via Kjell Olsen906 days ago

  3. 07 May 2006

    Why we fight

    976 days ago

    Why we fight, a film on the military industrial complex and it’s buildup to the Iraq war (previously).

    It’s really stunning to see things lain out at my feet. I can’t say I didn’t already know about the things detailed in the film, but it’s scary to see what’s been happening all at once through the course of a film. I can’t say much as to the balance of the editing, but Bill Kristol and Richard Perle made counterpoint to any liburlz that would have been included.

    The most striking fact was that of 50 attacks on leadership in the first 6 months of the Iraq war, none found leadership. And in fact 42 of them killed civilians. The opening bombings killed no soldiers, only civilians.

    The soundtrack needs work. I don’t think that either Ben Lee or Belle and Sebastian songs have a place in a documentary on such a subject.

    And it’s up on google video, so watch away.

  4. 22 January 2006

    1081 days ago

    Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki

    On the military industrial complex. When war gets this profitable, we’re going to see lots more of it. Opening in a week or two around the country.

    via Kjell Olsen1081 days ago

  5. 20 January 2006

    1083 days ago

    Death and Taxes

    Ultrahot graphical breakdown of how the government spends money collected in the for of taxes. In short? 399 Billion dollars on the military, 383 Billion on everything else.

    via Kjell Olsen1083 days ago

  6. 27 November 2005

    1137 days ago

    Military-industrial complex

    We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Kjell Olsen1137 days ago

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