The Last Minute Blog

[by Andrew Sloat | on Vimeo | See also Backwards Bush]

“According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth. At the upper range of those estimates, the $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world’s poor for (…)

photo by tj scenes I love reading the New York Times on a lazy sunday. I thought the following op/ed was so bang on that I had to re-blog it. It was surreal how disconnected President Bush was the other night, both from Iraq’s horrifying reality and America’s anguish over this unnecessary, mismanaged and now (…)

photos of American service men and women who have died in Iraq Within hours of Saddam Hussein’s burial the death toll for Amerian soldiers in Iraq reached 3000. Not to mention the 50 000 – 60 000 dead Iraqi civilians. Also, nine bombs just went off in Bangkok. So we’ve got bombs, burials, and hangings (…)

The ICM poll ranks the US president with some of his bitterest enemies as a cause of global anxiety. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1938434,00.html Wow. All I can saw is wow.