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Costs of War Statistics
$14 Trillion spent on Pentagon since Afghanistan
Surveillance and War Tech https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/rights/surveillance
- Executive Order 12333
- Section 215 and 702 of Patriot Act
- HSIN (DHS)
Big Tech and War https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/siliconvalley
Total Information Awareness https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/surveillance
7,057 dead military post-911 and 30,187 suicides
Which means deceased members of the US Armed Forces are more 3 times more likely to have killed themselves than to have been killed in action. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/killed
432,093 direct civilian deaths, 3.6-3.8 million related harmed, 7.6 million child malnutrition https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
40℅ (increase to over half in next decades) of vets with lifetime disability https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/veterans
Economics of War
Ralph Nader and Col. Larry Wilkerson https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ralph-nader-radio-hour/id874581610
"Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." https://eisenhowerfoundation.net/primary-source/item/chance-peace
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/videos/the-war-machineOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldOlympia and Evergreen State Activist Art
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https://lemmy.world/post/20549865Open linkView original on lemmy.worldActivist Art and Memes
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The "toilet paper" ass hat: junta regards citizens as what they "wipe their ass with"
The coward gunmen lost wars (every major conflict except WWII --> Vietnam, Middle East, only half of Korea, etc) where their opponents were allowed to fight and only here "win" because they auto jack defenseless brainwashed slave sheep.