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• U.S. Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 559
  According to a soldiers’ advocacy group at  Fort Hood , the U.S. base where an army psychiatrist has been charged with killing 13 people and wounding 30 in a Nov. 5 rampage, the official suicide figures provided by the Army are “definitely” too low. Chuck Luther served 12 years in the military and is a ...
  1 week ago

• On PTSD, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq and Empire – Dahr Jamail

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 590
  An excellent and wide-ranging interview with Dahr Jamail on US foreign policy, interviewed by Cindy Piester. (The only quibble would be that claim that the occupation of Iraq is all about oil and the absence of the mention of the israel Lobby as a critical factor in the invasion.) Run-time 58 minutes. For feedreaders, ...
  1 week ago

• A Morally Bankrupt Military: When Soldiers and Their Families Become Expendable

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 559
  The military operates through indoctrination. Soldiers are programmed to develop a mindset that resists any acknowledgment of injury and sickness, be it physical or psychological. As a consequence, tens of thousands of soldiers continue to serve, even being deployed to combat zones like Iraq and/or Afghanistan, ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Morally Bankrupt Military: When Soldiers and Their Families Become Expendable

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 579
  A Morally Bankrupt Military: When Soldiers and Their Families Become Expendable Wednesday 11 November 2009 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed (Photo: The U.S. Army ; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t ) The military operates through indoctrination. Soldiers are programmed to develop a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dahr Jamail: Honoring The Vets Who Go Unnoticed

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 590
  Crossposted at Air America Radio.Dahr Jamail is an award-winning independent journalist whose work has appeared on National Public Radio, in The Guardian (UK), The Nation, The Progressive, and more. In his latest book, The Will to Resist: Soliders who refuse to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, Jamail brings us inside ...
  2 weeks ago

• MidEast Dispatches: Where Will They Get the Troops? Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 150
  After eight years of two major counterinsurgency wars (and various minor encounters in what used to be called the Global War on Terror), with many soldiers experiencing multiple tours of duty, with approximately 120,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq and almost 70,000 in Afghanistan, with the Afghan War clearly in an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fort Hood Shootings and the War Comes Home

  
  Civilianism News — Authority: 131
  Like everyone else, I was dismayed and horrified by the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas.  It was a tragic waste of life and terribly  sad.  However, I was not that surprised.  You take a group of people and train them to kill, and killing is often what happens, especially when you combine their training [...]
  2 weeks ago

• “War Comes Home” with Fort Hood Shootings

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 559
  While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident “brings the war home.” “Fort Hood is pretty much a ghost town right ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S.: “War Comes Home” with Ft. Hood Shootings By Dahr Jamail

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 150
  While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident “brings the war home”.
  2 weeks ago

• Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of Military

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 559
  At approximately 1:30 p.m. CST today, a soldier went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas , killing 11 people and wounding at least 31 others, according to base commander Lieutenant-General Bob Cone. Truthout spoke with an Army Specialist who is an active-duty Iraq war veteran currently stationed at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Friday Morning News and Views

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 621
  Good Morning, Conflucians. The big story of the day is the massacre at Fort Hood in Texas. Last night it was reported that the shooter, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, was dead. But he is still alive and in stable condition even though he was shot several times. It still isn’t clear what motivated Hasan, who was a both a ...
  3 weeks ago

• I Hate The War

  
  The Common Ills — Authority: 508
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  3 weeks ago

• Cyber Resistance By Dahr Jamail

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 150
  If technology has transformed warfare into a spectacle of shock and awe, its contribution to the cause of dissent has been no less remarkable. It has enabled solidarities across borders and facilitated networks and forums dedicated to impartial communication of ground realities beyond the sanitized projection of ...
  4 weeks ago

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