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Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Paul Zimmerman - Nov. 21 (Opinion) - The United States insists that weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) pose no health hazards to exposed populations. This charade persists because an artful propaganda matrix has infiltrated and corrupted certain aspects of the radiation and biological sciences.

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Sri Lanka refugees 'to be freed'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 21 (News Report) - Sri Lanka says refugees living in camps after the fight against the Tamil Tigers will have freedom of movement from next month.

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Senators Press Holder to Declassify Key Facts about Patriot Act

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salem-News.com - Nov. 19 (News Report) - We believe that the information we referenced in those paragraphs – specifically about the use of section 215 – is essential to understanding the full scope of the PATRIOT Act, which is about to be debated in Congress. As we said in June, if you have concerns about declassifying the specific language contained in our letter, we ask that you work with us to find language that conveys enough information to allow for an informed public debate on the PATRIOT Act’s reauthorization

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Lowering the Bar: Kindergarten Recruitment

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - As a parent, how does one explain what killing "only bad ones" means when the child asks why a NATO airstrike obliterated dozens of civilians,

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Deficit hawks attacking the wrong prey

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By David Sirota - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - When the House considered a health care expansion proposal that the CBO says will reduce the deficit by $11 billion a year, tea-party protesters and Congress' self-described "fiscal conservatives" opposed it on cost grounds. At the same time, almost none of them objected when Congress passed a White House-backed bill to spend $636 billion on defense in 2010. The hypocrisy is stunning

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Army study: Mental health staff lacking in Afghanistan

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Nancy A. Youssef - Nov. 15 (News Report) - An Army task force has found that a growing number of soldiers serving in Afghanistan are suffering from some kind of mental stress and is urging the military to double the number of mental health professionals deployed there.

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U.S. soldiers' morale down in Afghanistan

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ann Scott Tyson - Nov. 15 (News Report) - Morale has fallen sharply among U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, with repeated combat deployments taking a toll on their psychological health and marriages, according to an Army mental health survey released Friday.

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TALIBAN = 9/11?? Afghanistan by Hypnosis

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Nov. 15 (Opinion) - On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And so, in response to the Saudis' attack, America invaded ... Afghanistan. Like, HUH? And here we go again. New York Times headline last Friday: "Pakistani Army, In Its Campaign In Taliban Stronghold, Finds A Hint Of 9/11."

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Israel's "Pathology"

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Ira Chermus - Nov. 14 (Opinion) - From the outside, it looks like Obama and his advisers are drifting without a rudder, unable to guide themselves, much less the Israelis and Palestinians, toward the peace the president says he's committed to. Pundits chalk it up to the administration's ineptitude or the power of the Israeli lobby or the chaotic state of Palestinian politics, or all of the above.

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Afghanistan and the "Other" Vietnam War

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Dallas Darling - Nov. 14 (Opinion) - . As the war dragged on, some personal aides claimed Johnson was never more ecstatic over Vietnam than when pledging to send billions of dollars to help toward construction and agricultural projects and the economic growth of Southeast Asia and the Mekong River region.(1)

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Wartime role weighs heavily on president

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Joel Achenbach - Nov. 14 (News Report) - War and tragedy are putting President Obama through the most wrenching period of his young administration. Visibly thinner, admittedly skipping meals, he is learning every day the challenges of being a wartime president. It's the hardest part of a very hard job.

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U.S. envoy in Kabul isn't sold on adding to forces

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Elisabeth Bumiller, Mark Landler - Nov. 14 (News Report) - The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, who once served as the top U.S. military commander there, has expressed in writing his reservations about deploying additional troops to the country, three senior U.S. officials said Wednesday.

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Yemen's fight with rebels a regional concern

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sudarsan Raghavan - Nov. 14 (Special Report) - Along the jagged, oatmeal-colored mountains of northern Yemen, civil war has transformed the windswept landscape into a canvas of human misery, bolstering al-Qaeda's efforts to create a haven in the Middle East's poorest nation.

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Feds move to seize 4 mosques, skyscraper

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Adam Goldman - Nov. 13 (News) - Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

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Just speaking of war can be a big battle

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Des Moines Register - By Marc Hansen - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - Howard Hall wouldn't have agreed to this on his own. He's 93. He can barely hear. World War II was no fun. He never liked talking about it anyway. What's the point?

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A Fiasco

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - Nov. 12 (Editorial) - It's time to stop the verbal pretense. In the Near East, there is no negotiation "process" underway. Furthermore, there is also no prospect for peace. ..... The United States bears the primary responsibility.

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S-300 missile deliveries to Iran under review — Russian

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

RIA Novosti - Nov. 12 (News Report) - Russia is still considering the possible deliveries of advance air defense systems to Iran and will not freeze the contract as a concession to the United States, a government official said. Russia signed a contract with Iran on the supply of S-300 air defense systems to the Islamic Republic in December 2005. However, there have been no official reports about the start of the contract's implementation since then.

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New Baboon

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

RadioLab - By John Horgan - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - John Horgan examines how Americans seem to have a completely different attitude toward war than we did thirty years ago. He takes us on a stroll through Hoboken, asking strangers one of the great unanswerable questions: "Will humans ever stop fighting wars?" Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer. Robert Sapolsky brings us farther afield - to eastern Africa, where a population of baboons defies his expectations of violent behavior. Robert is surprised to feel hopeful for a gentler future, but then primatologist Richard Wrangham asserts that their aggressive nature is innate, unchanging, and hanging over them like a guillotine.

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God, the Army, and PTSD