A great piece on it in the Guardian today.
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The US Military Is One Of The World’s Top Green House Gas Emitters
The Cost of War Project has calculated that the US military has produced a total of 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gasses since the beginning of the global war on terror in 2001. Of that, 400 million metric tons are directly due to war related fuel consumption. Full report is here.
Today China is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, followed by the United States. In 2017 the Pentagon’s greenhouse gas emissions totaled over 59 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. If it were a country, it would have been the world’s 55th largest greenhouse gas emitter, with emissions larger than Portugal, Sweden or Denmark.
Egypt’s Ousted President Morsi Dies In Court During Trial
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in 2013 after a year in office, collapsed in court while on trial Monday and died, state TV and his family said.
Cop Murders Retarded Guy at the Grocery Store
He also shot the guy’s parents. They’re both in critical condition.
The guilty murderer was off-duty at the time, so the odds are only 99% that he won’t be charged with anything.
Happy Birthday Mr. President From Your Good Friends In Israel
Trump, Friedman said, celebrated his birthday two days ago, and “I can’t think of a more appropriate and a more beautiful birthday present to present to him than Ramat Trump, Trump Heights.”
The F-35
It must be fate. The F-35 is the perfect plane for the American
empire in the 2020s; the perfect expression of our “mixed” economy, of
our values, our system, our way of life; Corrupt, broken, ridiculous, doomed.
5,000 Interviews
Today on Antiwar Radio, I’ll be playing my interview of the Great Gareth Porter from Friday — interview #317 of Gareth, and number 5,000 overall since 2003 (including now my long-lost first interview from 1999.)
That’s 8:30 Pacific, KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A. http://kpfk.org/
‘He was shot to pieces.’
Don’t kneel, bow down before your state overlords and die, boy.
(Warning, graphic photos) … Willie’s family and lawyers brought out images of his estimated 25 gunshot wounds:
“You can see the damage that was done … he was shot to pieces” pic.twitter.com/CtTIyk6Ojl— Sam Levin (@SamTLevin) March 29, 2019
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