Yearly Archives: 2007

In the summer of 1972, a 22-year-old Washington State University student named Patty Murray reported to the Seattle veterans hospital for an internship in physical rehabilitation. She was assigned to the psychiatric ward on the seventh floor of the orange … Continue reading →

FOCUS: VETERANS’ SUICIDESSuicides are the tragic consequences of warScarred by military trauma and with damaged pysches,four area soldiers took their own lives November 4, 2007 – Add these four local men to the military’s list of casualties. Matthew A. Proulx. … Continue reading →

November 4, 2007 – George Bush’s nominee to replace disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, retired Federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey, must be rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the same reason that Gonzales should have been rejected in … Continue reading →

November 5, 2007 – Taliban militants have taken control of a third district in western Afghanistan. Local officials say the militants captured the Khaki Safed district in the western Farah province late Sunday, with police and government officials fleeing without … Continue reading →

Legal Loopholes in Iraq  November 5, 2007 – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refers to the lack of legal accountability that allows mercenaries working for the American government to kill Iraqis without fear of prosecution as “a lacuna” in our … Continue reading →

November 5, 2007 – Do you know a soldier who just isn’t acting like himself these days? If so, he could be suffering from post traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury as a result of serving in Iraq or … Continue reading →

Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime As a JAG in the Nevada National Guard, I used to lecture the soldiers of the 72nd Military Police Company every year about their legal obligations when they guarded prisoners. I’d always conclude by … Continue reading →

It’s time to change of count of American war dead upward. The Associated Press has got hold of a preliminary government study on suicides by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. According to the VA, at least 283 combat veterans who … Continue reading →

November 1, 2007 – Amman, Jordan–It is said that Iraq is the world’s best-known conflict but the least well-known humanitarian crisis. In the United States, where public attention span is low but the capacity for denial high, Iraq’s daily carnage … Continue reading →

State to Blackwater: Nothing You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law October 30, 2007 – Apparently there is one set of rights for Blackwater mercenaries and another for the rest of us. Normally … Continue reading →