By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes Sunday, September 5, 2010 Washington Post Writing in [The Washington Post] in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration’s 2003 projections of a $50 billion to…
Category Archives: Iraq & Afghanistan
Pray: Their plowshares are beat into swords
Isaiah 2:4 They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. Their plowshares are beat into swords By Walter Brueggemann Appears in the book Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth And now their plowshares are…
Reaching the Muslim Community
How can we as Christians reach out to our Muslim brothers and sisters? What are your ideas? Pls. comment on this site and/or send to epfnational@ameritech.net * Watch the PSA’s developed by the Council on American-Muslim Relations: Send these out to your community:HERE *Distribute the EPF Commitment to your congregation and send to epfnational@ameritech.net *Place…
End of American Combat Mission in Iraq
Message from President Obama: “Tonight marks the end of the American combat mission in Iraq. As a candidate for this office, I pledged to end this war responsibly. And, as President, that is what I am doing. Since I became Commander-in-Chief, we’ve brought home nearly 100,000 U.S. troops. We’ve closed or turned over to Iraq…
EPF to Episcopalians in Congress: HOW MANY MORE?
The following letter from EPF Iraq/Afghanistan Action Group Co-Chairs The Very Rev. Hal Hayek (Cathedral of the Incarnation, MD) and The Rev. Madeleine Beard (MD) was delivered this past Monday by Rev. Beard and her 16 year old grandson. July 26, 2010 Dear Friend in Christ, We respectfully and sincerely write to you in the…
This Memorial Day: Military Families Speak OUT
Dear members and supporters of Military Families Speak Out, Memorial Day is upon us. We mourn the loss of the 5,523 soldiers, Marines, seamen and airmen who have lost their lives, the uncounted number who have taken their own lives as a result of the war, and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan…
In 1898, Satisfying A National Appetite For War
A Book Review from NPR.org Before writing his new book, The War Lovers, Evan Thomas, the assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine, spent three years researching an event a century removed from his day job: the 1898 Spanish-American War. But he did so, he says, because of similarities he perceived between the way America entered…
Collateral Murder in Iraq by Amy Goodman
Email Print Share x RSS Feed Digg Facebook TwitThis StumbleUpon Reddit YahooBuzz Email BlinkList del.icio.us Fark Furl Google LinkedIn Mixx MyShare NewsVine Propeller SphereIt Technorati YahooMyWeb // tweetmeme_style = ‘compact’; tweetmeme_service = ‘bit.ly’; tweetmeme_source = ‘truthdig’; // ]]> Share Posted on Apr 6, 2010 A United States military video was released this week showing the indiscriminate targeting…
The Cross – A Way of Peace
The following sermon was delivered by Linda Gaither, Chair of EPF, at Cornell University in February 2010. It was prefaced by a reading of the names of those who had been killed that week in Iraq & Afghanistan. This evening we are gathered together to focus on matters of the gravest importance to us as…
Video of Truth Commission Coming Soon!
Dear Truth Commission Testifiers, Commissioners, Co-sponsors and Supporters, COMING SOON: VIDEO OF THE MARCH 21 HEARING! Over the next 8 weeks, we will be creating separate segments of each testimony from the March 21 hearing and posting them online. Look for email notifications. We hope you will post these clips on your websites and blogs…
