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Illustration by John Blackford. By Peter van Agtmael/Polaris (desert), Konstantin Inozemtsev/Alamy (money). “Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much of it belonging to the Iraqi people—was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects (…)

“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 nukeit1 I was in the streets four years ago with millions of others in opposition to this war of choice. Today, Iraq is in chaos and roughly 60000 – 65000 people are dead. Everyone knew this was going to be a giant mistake right from the beginning. Excerpt from my blog four years (…)