Working Life

This is a sobering and shocking number: just shy of 1,000,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion began. This estimate was just published by Just Foreign Policy. While most of the focus in this country is on the U.S. casualties–every single one of them unnecessary and tragic–it’s important that we remember the devastation […]

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    I’m not the first to say it–but it bears repeating. Why are the Democrats caving on the Iraq funding resolution and backing away from demanding a timeline for withdrawal? Some Dems have some courage, as an article from today’s The Hill shows: Liberal Democrats who reluctantly have backed House leaders on the Iraq spending […]

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    Evidence the surge–escalation–is working… Roadside bombs killed eight American soldiers in separate attacks Sunday in Diyala province and Baghdad, and a car bomb claimed 30 more lives in a wholesale food market in a part of the Iraqi capital where sectarian tensions are on the rise. In all, at least 95 Iraqis were killed […]

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    This doesn’t need much comment:     http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1

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