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The Soldiers Project: Mental Health Care Confidential
Sari Gelzer, of Truthout: "The significant numbers of returning service members and veterans who are in need of mental health care have recently been put into the spotlight by a RAND Corporation report,... ...
43,000 Unfit for Combat, Deployed
http://tinyurl.com/55clja -------- US Army's "Stop-Loss" Orders Up Dramatically Over Last Year Julian E. Barnes reports for The Los Angeles Times: "The number of soldiers forced to remain in the Army... ...
Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
In Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without charge. http://ipsnews.ne t/text/news.asp?idnews=422 80 "Torture... ...
Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains "Surge"
Jim Lobe, of Inter Press Service: "Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight... ...
Drowning in dollars
CounterPunch by Winslow Wheeler 05/07/08 It is now conventional wisdom to say that the Pentagon budget is higher in “real” dollars[1] than at any point since the end of World War II. The $635 billion... ...
An innocent man in Gitmo
Freedom In Our Time by William Grigg 05/04/08 Kurnaz, a Turkish national and legal resident of Germany, was sold into the hands of torturers for $3,000 by Pakistani bounty hunters in late 2001. He was... ...
Under U.S. Law Torture is Always Illegal
Why John Yoo and Other Top Administration Lawyers Should be Investigated for War Crimes. http://www.counte rpunch.org/cohn05062008.ht ml Report Confirms Psychologists Supported Illegal Interrogations... ...
When will we ever learn?
AntiWar.Com by Mary Ruwart 05/05/08 Our troops cannot effectively defend our shores by guarding the 38th Parallel, patrolling the Mediterranean, or flying sorties over Kurdistan. While we must naturally... ...
Top US Officer Warns Against Conflict With Iran
Reuters writes: "U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq would make it difficult to mount any attack on Iran, the Pentagon's top officer said in remarks broadcast on Monday, adding that he would... ...
Proteststreik der Hafenarbeiter gegen den Irakkrieg am 1.Mai 2008
Der Streik an der US-Westküste gegen den Krieg - Erste Bilanz „Am 1. Mai organisierte die International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU – Hafenarbeitergewerkschaft) eine Arbeitsniederlegung gegen... ...