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U.S. Soldiers Executed Iraqi Prisoners, According to Statements by Fellow U.S. Soldiers

August 26, 2008 – In March or April 2007, three noncommissioned United States Army officers, including a first sergeant, a platoon sergeant and a senior medic, killed four Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots to the head as the men stood … Continue reading

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Manufactured Famine

August 26, 2008 – In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a drought, caused by El Nino, killed the … Continue reading

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Candidates’ Wives Bid for Military Votes

August 27, 2008 – Michelle Obama, Jill Biden and Colorado First Lady Jeannie Ritter teamed up today trying to win military families and war veterans – including wounded Army Sgt. Ian Newland – away from Sen. John McCain. They made … Continue reading

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Iraq Vets Against the War Lead Thousands in Denver March

August 28, 2008 – It started as a modest sized march. From the Rage Against the Machine concert at the Denver Coliseum, about 150 soldiers in uniform began the four-mile march to the Pepsi Center in downtown Denver to protest … Continue reading

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US Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers’ ‘Suicides’?

August 26, 2008 – Since I posted on April 28 the article “Is There an Army Cover Up of the Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers,” the deaths of two more U.S. Army women in Iraq and Afghanistan have been … Continue reading

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US to Transfer Military Control of Anbar to Iraq

August 28, 2008, Washington, DC – For much of the first five years of the Iraq War, the U.S. struggle to pacify Anbar province seemed like a quixotic effort. The western province was where U.S. forces saw some of the … Continue reading

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Editorial Column: No One Should Have to Stand in Line for 10 Hours to Vote

August 25, 2008 – Everyone complains that young people don’t vote, but consider the experience of students at Kenyon College in Ohio in the 2004 election. Officials in Knox County, Ohio, provided just two voting machines for the school’s 1,300 … Continue reading

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Editorial Column: President Bush is Recklessly Pouring More Gas on Afghanistan’s Bonfire

August 27, 2008 – The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind forward with their terrible human toll, even as the press and many Americans play who gets thrown off the island with Barack Obama. Coalition forces carried out an  airstrike … Continue reading

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Iraq Veterans Bring Taste of War to Democratic Convention in Denver

August 27, 2008 – Two dozen Iraq war veterans brought Baghdad to Denver’s sidewalks Tuesday, repeatedly staging guerrilla-style theater before a confused yet generally supportive audience of pedestrians. For the veterans, who aggressively engaged with 50 volunteers acting as Iraqi … Continue reading

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Former Ranger Sharing His Story of Physical and Mental Injuries from Afghanistan War

August 26, 2008 – “I feel like I’m about to vomit,” Nate Self wrote. He and 13 men from a Quick Reaction Force were in a helicopter in March 2002, searching a snowy mountain, crawling with al-Qaida fighters, for a … Continue reading

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