Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Editorial Column: There’s Stress, and Then There’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Team VCS

August 28, 2008 – The news that 22,000 veterans called the military’s new suicide hotline in the past year was somewhat disturbing. Even more troubling was the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ estimate that 6,500 veterans actually commit suicide every … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: Senator McCain Sells Out Veterans

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Team VCS

May 15, 2008 – The way John McCain tells it, the injuries he suffered at the hands of his captors in Vietnam would have ended his career as a Navy pilot were it not for the help of physical therapist … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Team VCS

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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Editorial Column: Senator McCain Deserts Veterans on Voting Rights, Benefits

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Team VCS

August 29, 2008 – On its surface, John McCain’s silence on a bill that would ensure that hospitalized veterans can register to vote is curious. A recent report by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics that shows troops deployed overseas … Continue reading →

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Candidates’ Wives Bid for Military Votes

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Team VCS

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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Manufactured Famine

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Team VCS

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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Iraq Vets Against the War Lead Thousands in Denver March

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Team VCS

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 to Transfer Military Control of Anbar to Iraq

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Team VCS

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

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Team VCS

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

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Team VCS

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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