Archive for August, 2008

The Demise of Conscience

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 -- 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, ...

Free Gaza Boats Arrive in Gaza

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 ...

The Real Crisis of Katrina

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 ...

The First Noble Truth

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 ...

Tomas’s Bio

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. ...

The Only Sermon by Andrea Ayvazian

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 ...

Group Fights Military Recruiters on Local High School Campuses

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 ...

Why Soldiers Rape

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 ...

FIGHTING THE BOTTLE AT HOME

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. ...

Drinking Problems Greater Among Returning Combat Veterans

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 ...