Tag: America: Global War on Terror

NOVANEWS "This new body count signals that, far from diminishing, the war is only intensifying." by: Jessica Corbett A new study from Brown University's Costs of War Project found that the U.S. "War on Terror" has killed half a million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. (Photo: Spc. Phillip McTaggart/Flickr/cc)The United States' so-called War on Terror has killed about half a million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, according to a new estimate from the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute. "This update just scratches the surface of the human consequences of 17 years of war." —Neta C. Crawford, The Costs of War Project "This new body count signals that, far from diminishing, the war is only intensifying," Stephanie Savell, co-director ...