De fallout van de Irak-oorlog wordt steeds duidelijker:
Guardian: "Massive leak of military logs exposes serial abuse of detainees, 15,000 previously unknown deaths and full toll of Iraq's five years of carnage."
De Wikileaks documenten. (Deze site kan overbelast zijn.)
BNR: "De verslagen geven details van 109.032 oorlogsslachtoffers in Irak, waarvan 66.081 burgers. Dat komt uit op een gemiddelde van 31 burgerslachtoffers per dag gedurende zes jaar. Volgens Wikileaks is de oorlog in Irak daarmee vijf keer zo dodelijk als de strijd in Afghanistan."
Ayn Rand Conservatism at Work — Firefighters Let Family’s House Burn Down Because Owner Didn’t Pay $75 Fee
LosAngelesTimes: "A recent UCLA study found that most older Californians, those 65 or older, need at least twice the income calculated by the federal government to make ends meet — $21,763 a year on average for a single person renting a one-bedroom apartment, or $30,634 for a couple."
AlterNet: "Nearly a dozen major banks and hedge funds, anticipating quick profits from homeowners who fall behind on property taxes, are quietly plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into businesses that collect the debts, tack on escalating fees and threaten to foreclose on the homes of those who fail to pay."