posts tagged “war”
Jul 18
5:51 pm
(via The Pain - When Will It End?)

(via The Pain - When Will It End?)

Posted: July 18, 2011 at 5:51 pm.
May 10
6:09 pm
The hell of war comes home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled “Casualties of War”. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young American males. A seperate investiagtion into the high suicide rate among veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home. (via Dorothy | Casualties of War)

The hell of war comes home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled “Casualties of War”. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young American males. A seperate investiagtion into the high suicide rate among veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home.

(via Dorothy | Casualties of War)

Posted: May 10, 2011 at 6:09 pm.
Dec 16
5:32 pm
This tally of military suicides is outside the studio of Brooklyn artist Sebastian Errasuriz. Its power comes from its simplicity. via Engaged Public Space and Shameless Plugs » ThickCulture

This tally of military suicides is outside the studio of Brooklyn artist Sebastian Errasuriz. Its power comes from its simplicity.

via Engaged Public Space and Shameless Plugs » ThickCulture

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 5:32 pm.
Jul 30
10:02 pm

Sacrificing Women for Peace / What’s Shocking?: The Cover of TIME Magazine

Yes, of course, sacrifices will have to be made.  By whom?  Women’s rights = “some concessions”?  Being realistic means that we should we realistically get over the fact that women’s rights in Afghanistan are expendable if the issue of their rights gets in the way of us getting out of there?

Now, I am not advocating that we stay in Afghanistan forever.  I’m not even saying that we should stay in Afghanistan through the end of the year.  But I am advocating that whatever deal gets struck to bring this fucked up war to an end, I hope that women are part of that conversation and actually have a voice backed up by some sort of protection.  I doubt it, though.  I am (sadly) rather confident that they will be sacrificed, that “peace” will be trafficked through them instead of for them.  There’s a long history of that all over the world.

Posted: July 30, 2010 at 10:02 pm.
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