Tag Archives: Gulf War

Aug 21, VCS in the News: Senator McCain’s Plan to Privatize Veterans’ Healthcare

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Team VCS

August 21, 2008 – If John McCain is elected the next U.S. president, wounded veterans could be in for a world of hurt. On the campaign trail, the Republican’s presumptive nominee has talked of a new mission for the Department … Continue reading →

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Aug 18: Editorial Column: Out Damned Blot – An Open Letter to Colin Powell

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Team VCS

Ray McGovern writes letter to Colin Powell August 15, 2008 Dear Colin, You have said you regret the “blot” on your record caused by your parroting spurious intelligence at the U.N. to justify war on Iraq.  On the chance you … Continue reading →

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Why Soldiers Rape

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Team VCS

August 13, 2008 – An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact has received a fair amount of attention lately from researchers and the press — and … Continue reading →

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Rushing Toward War

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Team VCS

August 12, 2008 – As the Bush Administration begins its final months in office, it has embarked upon two courses of action that will pre-empt the scope of the incoming Obama or McCain administration and will plague America for years … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: No More Vietnams

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Team VCS

August 9, 2008 – The conversation turned, briefly, to what happens when the wars end. Someday. Will industries that produce war materiel back off production, shutting down lines and laying off workers, or will we peddle our surplus to other … Continue reading →

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Embedded Reporters or Republican Activists?

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Team VCS

August 8, 2008 – On its face, it seems like an idea any enterprising editor could have come up with: Gather a group of veterans of the Iraq war who also have journalism experience, including some highly decorated soldiers. Then … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal to Dress Up Navy Seals as Iranians and Shoot At Them

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Team VCS

July 31, 2008 – Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh – a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker – revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss … Continue reading →

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Aug 3, Energy Policy Alert: If This Video Doesn’t Get Us Off Oil, Nothing Will

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Team VCS

August 1, 2008, If we’re addicted to oil, our twelve-step program should begin with admitting that we have a problem. As the price of oil creeps higher, finding new energy sources is more important than ever. But the search for … Continue reading →

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New Research Shows PTSD Leaves Physical Footprints on the Brain

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Team VCS

July 27, 2008 -At a recent conference for some of the area’s leading neurologists, San Francisco physicist Norbert Schuff captured his colleagues’ attention when he presented colorful brain images of U.S. soldiers who had returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and … Continue reading →

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A Soldier Shares His Life After Combat Deployment

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Team VCS

July 30, 2008 – It was a lost high-school class ring that eventually put me in touch with Mark Sewell, a 1980 graduate of Union High School in Tulsa, Okla. The ring had been stolen in a burglary more than … Continue reading →

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