American Military Deaths in Afghanistan , and the Communities from Which They CameBlacks and Latinos are underrepresented. Working class whites and Native Americans overrepresented. There was little evidence of an "economic draft": casualty counties have no higher U or poverty rates (in some cases ...
And for those who believe that George Zimmerman just did what he had to do, well, Trayvon Martin’s blood has saturated your soul and your only salvation is to beg for forgiveness from the thousands upon thousands of children who die needless violent deaths each year. There is something defi...
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and one of the greatest Marine leaders of his era. Relentless, aggressive, fiercely loyal to his men, he is seen here in October 1942, just after arriving on Oahu from Guadalcanal. He was a man haunted by the deaths of the young pilots under his command, desperately uncomfortable with the...
on planet Earth. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, its leaders would confidently launch what they termed a Global War on Terror and begin waging wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, as in the previous century they had in Vietnam. (No learning curve there, it seems.) In the proces...
Your policies would have led to the deaths not only of millions of Southerners, but also hundreds of thousands or even millions of Northerners as well. "Comparing Ward Churchill to Charles Murray is spurious. Dr. Murray is a serious scholar who worked for a private think tank. Dr. ...
reports the total number of American military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan combined over twenty years as 7,074, of which 5,474 were killed in action. This twenty-year number was about the same as six months of American casualties during any one of the peak years of fighting in Vietnam....
deaths in that conflict, country soldier songs only rarely engage with the fraught domestic politics of the war. Across the corpus of tracts, the celebration of victory proves out of reach. This body of melodramatic and mournful meditations on an ongoing and difficult war presents individuals and...
The Bolsheviks are inside the gates and the near objective is the death of “capitalism”. In 2012 Occupy Wall Streeter’s (OWS) were chanting for the death of capitalism. (Heck, they were chanting for the deaths of CEO’s, cops, and tea partiers, with some of them advocating the retu...
“These tragic and horrific deaths are man-made, predictable and entirely preventable,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement. Malnutrition screenings conducted in the north by UNICEF and the World Food Program in January found that ...