Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Excerpts from:
The Demise of Conscience
http://www.lewrockw ell.com/hornberg er/hornberger150 .html
by Jacob G. Hornberger / August 22, 2008
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Conscience and aggressive war
Everyone agrees that neither the Iraqi government nor the Iraqi
people ever attacked the United States. Everyone agrees that no Iraqi
participated in the 9/11 attacks. There is no question but that in
the Iraq War, ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
http://www.freegaza.org
FREE GAZA BOATS ARRIVE IN GAZA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date : 08-23-2008
GAZA (23 August 2008) - Two small boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, successfully landed in Gaza early this evening, breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The boats were crewed by a determined group of international human ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
The ChildTrauma Academy
www.ChildTrauma.org
The Real Crisis of Katrina
The real crisis from Katrina is coming. It is more relentless and more powerful than the flood
waters in New Orleans; more destructive than the 150 mile an hour winds of Katrina. It will
destroy a part of our country that is much more valuable than ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Why should we bother and give our time to try to inform the parents and students of the recruiters preying on their minor in the public schools?sons and daughters
"Because our sons adore their plastic missile launchers,
electronic space bazookas, neutron death-ray guns,
a decade down the pike it won't prove difficult
to trick ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Tomas lives in Austin, Texas. He is 62, and has been married for 37 years. He and his wife have three grown children and two new granddaughters. The San Francisco Bay Area was his first home, where he went to school, college, and in 1967 was drafted into the Army. ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
The Only Sermon
by Andrea Ayvazian
if we dug a huge grave miles wide, miles deep
and buried every rifle, pistol, knife, bullet, bomb, bayonet,
if we jumped upon fleets of tanks and fighter jets
with tool boxes, torches
unwelded them dismantled them turned them into scrap metal
if every light-skinned man in a silk tie said
to ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Group fights military recruiters on local high school campuses
http://www.easyread ernews.com/ story.php? StoryID=20033946
by Danny Brown
Published August 14, 2008
Paul Wicker of Manhattan Beach, with the support of local high school
students and civic activists, is protesting the United States
military's recruitment of high school students.
Nearly a year ago, Wicker approached the Manhattan Beach Unified
School ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Why Soldiers Rape
Culture of misogyny, illegal occupation, fuel sexual violence in military
http://www.intheset imes.com/ article/3848/
By Helen Benedict
Army Capt. Jennifer Machmer
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 ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Fighting the Bottle at Home
http://www.nytimes. com/2008/ 07/08/us/ 08vets.html? _r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Most nights when Anthony Klecker, a former marine, finally slept, he found himself back on the battlefields of Iraq. He would awake in a panic, and struggle futilely to return to sleep.
Days were scarcely better. Car alarms shattered his nerves. ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Drinking Problems Greater Among Returning Combat Veterans
http://www.forbes. com/forbeslife/ health/feeds/ hscout/2008/ 08/12/hscout6183 96.html
TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- A host of new studies confirm that the effects of war linger long after the conflict ends.The Aug. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is a special themed issue ...
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