Iraq War Logs from Wikileaks were made public yesterday and document 109,000 deaths, including 66,000 civilian deaths, of which 15,000 were previously unknown. The more than 390,000 field reports from US military reveal the truth about the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009, which Wikileaks’ Julian Assange hopes will correct attacks “on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war, and which [have] continued on since the war officially concluded.”

A quick synopsis on the Wikileaks dump…!

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What do you think will be in this next batch of documents expected to be released by Wikileaks this week??

The Nobel Peace prize has been awarded for many different people and for many different reasons, but there appears to be one area the committee is reluctant to go.

Cross posted from Pruning Shears.

The mid-term elections have shown a large enthusiasm gap among Democratic voters. If Obama thinks its bad now, wait until he sees 2012 and seeks re-election. If the wars continue, the peace movement will find somewhere else to go and the Democrats will be in electoral trouble. The Dems need to energize their base by changing course on weapons and war.

The American high command, and American civilians are only now beginning to appreciate what the resistance did to them. They are only now starting to realise that they are not the only ones who can inflict “collateral damage” and that there is more than one form of it.

Interview with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODE PINK and “fair trade” advocacy organization Global Exchange, at the “One Nation Working Together” rally at the Lincoln Memorial on October 2nd.

Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars, is full of the same insider tales of government gossip as his previous books. One reads Woodward to pick out the various gems strewn along the way, cognizant that even those are the products of spin manufactured by the various principals involved. A particularly interesting nugget concerns the way the intelligence agencies passed on information about their torture program to the incoming Obama administration. But did Mike Hayden really have to slap David Shedd in the face?

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