Egberto WilliesMar 7

Bombs Over Healthcare: Trump’s Iran Attack Highlights America’s War Spending Crisis

Trump’s Iran bombing highlights a harsh reality: trillions for war while Americans are told healthcare, childcare, and family leave are unaffordable.

#antiWarAnalysis #BeltAndRoadInitiative #CostsOfWarProject #defenseContractors #endlessWar #IranWar #MedicareForAll #militaryIndustrialComplex #opportunityCostWar #ProgressivePolitics #TrumpIranBombing #USForeignPolicy #USMilitaryBases #warEconomy https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oLa
kriykatJun 26, 2025
UK Labour’s Defence Review Doomed to Fail
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/25/uk-labours-defence-review-doomed-to-fail/
Keir Starmer’s defence plan avoids two fundamental issues, writes Paul Rogers: Britain’s actual recent experience of wars and the real game-changer, global climate breakdown. By Paul Rogers OpenDemocracy Labour’s new Strategic Defence Review was finally announced early this month after…
#Politics #Afghanistan #ClimateChange #Commentary #Gaza #Iraq #Israel #AlQaeda #BlattenGlacier #CampaignForNuclearDisarmament #CostsOfWarProject #DavidEdgerton #Isis #PaulRogers #RethinkingSecurity #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer
UK Labour’s Defence Review Doomed to Fail

Keir Starmer’s defence plan avoids two fundamental issues, writes Paul Rogers: Britain’s actual recent experience of wars and the real game-changer, global climate breakdown. By Paul Rogers OpenDemocracy Labour’s new Strategic Defence Review was finally announced early this month after nume

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kriykatMay 21, 2025
Regretting Western Intervention in the Middle East
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/20/regretting-western-intervention-in-the-middle-east/
“Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy” — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates. Here is a video of the entire debate; author’s segment 2:39 — 14:16. By Ann…
#Politics #Afghanistan #Commentary #Environment #Gaza #HumanRights #Iraq #Lebanon #Libya #Militarism #Pakistan #Palestine #Propaganda #Somalia #Syria #U.s. #WarCrimes #Yemen #9/11Attacks #AbuGhraib #AnnWright #BlackSites #C.i.a.Renditions #C.i.a.Torture #CambridgeUnionDebates #ChilcotReport #CostsOfWarProject #DonaldRumsfeld #Fallujah #GazaIsraelWar #GlobalWarOnTerror #GuantanamoBayPrison #Isis #Mosul #OccupiedPalestinianTerritory(opt) #PresidentGeorgeW.Bush #U.s.DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #WeaponsOfMassDestruction(wmd)
Regretting Western Intervention in the Middle East

"Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy" — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates. Here is a video of the entire debate; author's segment 2:39 — 14:16. By Ann Wright The motion of today’s debate, “This House Regrets

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stefania mauriziMay 8, 2025

this is the only test that matters when it comes to checking what if any changes in the U.S. government. And the answer is: NO change.

#Trump serves the military-industrial complex like all other presidents (HT #CostsOfWarProject)

Show threadBoudApr 2, 2025

@smaurizi

#CostsOfWar #CostsOfWarProject #GazaGenocide #Journalists

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2025/Journalists

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2025/Turse_Costs%20of%20War_The%20Reporting%20Graveyard.pdf

News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World | Costs of War

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

The Costs of War
Show threadstefania mauriziApr 2, 2025

232 #journos were killed in #Gaza from Oct. 7, 2023 to March 26, 2025.
According to #RSF, at least 35 (out of these 232 journalists killed) were directly targeted by Israel because of their work
I strongly recommend #NickTurse #CostsOfWarProject's report:

https://t.co/l8v6nEuCnO

stefania mauriziApr 2, 2025

the authoritative #CostsOfWarProject concluded that

from Oct. 7, 2023 to March 26, 2025, in #Gaza were killed more #journalists than these wars combined:

U.S. Civil War+ World War I + World War II + Korea + Vietnam+ Cambodia+ Laos+ Yugoslavia(1990s and 2000s+ Afghanistan+ #Ukraine

stefania mauriziApr 2, 2025
ieri l'autorevole #CostsOfWarProject ha rivelato che a #Gaza sono stati sterminati più giornalisti che in tutte queste guerre messe insieme:
Guerra Civile americana + Prima Guerra Mondiale + Seconda Guerra Mondiale + Corea + Vietnam + Cambogia + Yugoslavia + Afghanistan + Ucraina
stefania mauriziSep 26, 2023
Great thread on #MassSurveillance by #CostsOfWarProject
Show threadbs2Mar 13, 2022
'..let’s face it, the numbers are minuscule compared to the number of people that died, were displaced, were injured as a consequence of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the Brown University #CostsOfWarProject, the total number is somewhere in the vicinity of 900,000 deaths resulted from our invasion of #Afghanistan an d our invasion of #Iraq.' #USA #WeAreNoBetter