So I woke up this morning to the news that we were at war with North Korea. Okay, I'm being hyperbolic, but not as much as you might think. It started with a Twitter message I received from Maui News reporter Ilima Loomis: "Oops! Lanai beach mistakenly evacuated over N. Korean missile threat!" The message … Continue reading War! Or something like that…
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‘What matters’
An astonishing 2,118 civilians died in Afghanistan last year as a result of the war, according to this AP story on a new United Nations report. Thirty-nine percent of those deaths–828 men, women and children–died because of direct American actions. Of those 828 people, 552 were killed by missile and bomb attacks. It's a cliche … Continue reading ‘What matters’
Lies, news and Afghanistan
Thanks to the always-uplifting Center for Media and Democracy, I just learned that at a time when President-elect Barack Obama is apparently planning all sorts of new and wild things for our relatively small but intensifying war in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, the commander of NATO forces there, is merging the military office in charge … Continue reading Lies, news and Afghanistan
Anthony Pignataro 