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For Blackwater It's Business as Usual
James Risen reports for The New York Times: "Last fall, Blackwater Worldwide was in deep peril. Guards for the security company were involved in a shooting in September that left at least 17 Iraqis dead... ...
Bulgarian soldiers hired for US security in Iraq
The US Company Defense Security Services (DSS) has been snapping up retired Bulgarian soldiers and policemen to work as guards in Iraq the company said. http://www.bulgaria -news.eu/articles/86122.ph p From... ...
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... ...
American and Iraqi Mothers Highlight Iraqi Refugee Crisis
CODEPINK http://www.common dreams.org/news2008/0508-1 2.htm http://freepage.t woday.net/search?q=refugee http://freepage.twoday.ne t/search?q=CodePink ...
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... ...
Neocons and the Truth: Bitter Enemies to the End
By Glenn Greenwald This isn't just a matter of documenting guilt with regard to what happened with Iraq. The Washington Post's David Ignatius today became just the latest establishment spokesman to warn... ...
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... ...
Blue Dogs Vow to Bite on Iraq Spending Bill
Mike Soraghan, of The Hill: "A small group of fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats is threatening to block the emergency war spending bill over a program for veterans' benefits not offset with tax... ...
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... ...