Sunday, April 9, 2017

War Index (With Apologies To Harper's, Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Yemenis, et al.)

Source: National Priorities Project Costs of War counter 4/9/17 at 6am EDT

12,192
number of bombs the U.S. dropped on Syria in the final year of the Obama administration
7 number of Muslim majority countries bombed by Obama

59 number of Tomahawk missiles dropped on Syrian government airfield April 6, 2017
$1,590,000 cost of one Tomahawk cruise missile
$93,810,000 total cost of Tomahawk missiles used in April 6 airstrike

2.35% increase in the value of Tomahawk missile manufacturer Raytheon's shares on April 7, 2016
14.03% increase in the value of Dow Jones Aerospace and Defense [sic] index shares since Trump's election

18 number of opinion pieces in favor of the April 6 airstrike on Syria
in the NYT, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, USA Today and NY Daily News 
0 number of opinion pieces against the April 6 airstrike on Syria
in the NYT, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, USA Today and NY Daily News 


465,000+ number of Syrians killed by civil war since 2010
1,000,000+ number of Syrians injured by civil war since 2010
12,000,000+ number of Syrians driven from home by civil war since 2010
13,210 number of Syrian refugees accepted into the U.S. in 2016
50% share of Syrian population driven from their homes by civil war since 2010

1,000 estimated number of civilians killed by U.S. airstrikes in March, 2017
9 number of children shot and left to bleed out by U.S. Special Forces in Yemen January 29, 2017


$20,400,000 compensation package for Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy in 2015

$19,000,000 compensation package for General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic in 2015
$22,500,000,000 total cost of three Zumwalt destroyer battleships
built by General Dynamics at Bath Iron Work in Maine
$30,510,000 net worth of Maine's congressional delegation in 2014
#1 rank of General Dynamics among campaign donors for Maine's senators in their last election year

28% share of children in Maine whose families receive public assistance

12 number of civil disobedients arrested at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in 2016
9 number of civil disobedients arrested at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works to date in 2017

#Aegis9 about to be arrested on April 1, 2017 at christening [sic] of destroyer ship


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