Deaths in Theaters of War and More

I. Deaths in Selective Wars
Algerian War - 300,000 killed.

Biafran War - 500,000-2 million killed.

Angolan Civil War - 500,000 killed to 1991.

Mozambican Civil War - 500,000-1 million killed.

Ethiopian Civil War (and famine) - 1-2 million killed.

Lebanese Civil War - 150,000 killed.

Iran-Iraq War - 680,000 killed.

USSR-Afghan War - 1 million killed.

Bangladesh Liberation War - 300,000-1 million killed.

Cambodian Genocide - 1.67 million killed.

Indonesian Massacres - 500,000 killed.

Korean War - 3 million killed.

Chinese Civil War - 2-2.5 million killed.

French Indochina War - 290,000 killed.

US-Vietnam War - 3-4 million killed. (Source: The Nation, January 14/21, 2019.)

#In regard to the Iran-Iraq War, Physicians for Social Responsibility has put the total killed at over 1 million based on a lengthy study.

II. Facebook as Social Menace
According to a devastating investigation by the The New York Times this past December, Facebook is running "a defacto spy agency" -- not for the U.S. government,but for anyone willing to purchase its data. "Facebook spies on people who don't use Facebook." "The mere suspicion of anti-right-wing bias is used to ensure more right-wing programming, and each new win by the right ensures its increasingly ambitious demands. It's hard to imagine an easier ref for conservatives to work than Zuckerberg and Facebook." (Source: Eric Alterman, "The Social Menace," The Nation, January 28/February 4, 2019.)

III. The NAFTA Substitute: NAFTA 2.0
"The NAFTA 2.0 framework, like previous agreements, sets limits on domestic safeguards and grants protectionist monopoly rights to Big Pharma. However, unless the final deal includes strong labor and environmental standards that are subject to swift and certain enforcement -- which is not the case with the NAFTA 2.0 text -- US firms will continue to outsource jobs, pay Mexican workers poverty wages, and dump toxins in Mexico. Absent a remedy to this fundamental failing, NAFTA 2.0 will face broad opposition."

"The new labor chapter has one standout feature, [which is] clear: Specific rules that would eradicate the wage-suppressing 'protection contracts' that current Mexican law allows employers to impose     on workers ostensibly represented by a union." "One way in which NAFTA 2.0 is dramatically worse than the original is the addition of new monopoly rights for pharmaceutical corporations that would help them avoid competition from generic products and keep medicine prices high." (Source: Lori Wallach, "The Battle Over NAFTA," The Nation, January 14/21, 2019.)