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Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class

What is the war in Afghanistan about?

(NEW YORK) - The US government spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London.

Jobless Combat Veterans: Another Horrible Betrayal

There are very few military skills which are transferable to civilian life.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - An Associated Press article in The Oregonian June 30, 2011 prompts this article.

Several newspapers have published that homeless veterans in the U.S. number about 300,000.

Failures of Intelligence Is Why `America is Beautiful But She Has An Ugly Side`

“America has a leader, but he’s not in The House…America is beautiful but she has an ugly side. We’re lookin’ for a leader with the Great Spirit on his side.” -Neil Young

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - “The Crusade for a Christian Military: Jesus Killed Mohammed” by Jeff Sharlet in HARPER’S May 2009 edition was a chilling clarion call regarding the entrenchment of Christian fundamentalism in the US military that began during the Cold War.

This phenomena accelerated during the Vietnam era and has continued to wreak havoc on the very soul of our nation.

Women Soldiers: Battle Casualties and Death

I knew from my World War Two experience that American women were killed, most were usually nurses in hospitals being bombed with artillery. Things are different today.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I'm not just writing about Army soldiers, but the Infantry; whether from the Army or Marines, do most of the fighting, killing, wounding and dying. Very few rather than these are in similar situations.

I had read about it occasionally, but a recent New york Times brought to the fore, that women usually not packing sub-machine guns, were now being exposed to front line fire from all sorts of weapons.

PTSD Can be Managed!

PTSD is not new. Evidence of PTSD has been around for centuries, going back to the time of the Greek Poet Homer’s Iliad and PTSD does not heal with time if not properly treated.

(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) - The American military provides the finest training and has the most sophisticated weapons in the world, and the men and women who serve in our armed forces know that personal sacrifice is inherent in the job of service to country.

Sometimes the sacrifice is exposure to trauma that affects emotional and/or physical health. Sometimes the sacrifice is life itself.

Time to Remove Prohibitions on Women In Combat Jobs

It has been noted that the military is too male and too white.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Despite the prohibition on women in combat roles, sixty percent of female war deaths were due to hostile acts.

About 200,000 women have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Women make up 14.6 percent of active duty military.

Pilger`s Documentary The Wars You Don`t See

His latest documentary, "THE WARS YOU DON'T SEE." is meant perhaps for the western audience, revealing deeply disturbing truth that affects us all.

(NEW DELHI ) - "John Pilger is a world-renowned investigative journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s.

He has been a foreign correspondent and writes for The New Statesman and the U.K. Guardian. He has twice won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award...

Horrors of Israel`s Brutality Not Lost on Mideast Anchors

"Every time I hear that Israel is America's only friend in the Middle East, I remember that before Israel, America had no enemies in the Middle East." - Comment from a Jesuit

(SALEM, Ore.) - Perhaps we shouldn't all sit around crying about it, but the effects of Israel's murder of civilians during Operation Cast Lead; the murderous attack on Gaza two years ago that left almost 1500 dead and thousand upon thousand injured and maimed... it was like dropping a bomb on humanity.

One place where the sympathies weren't clouded by the influence of the pro-Israeli lobby, were the news desks of our brother and sister journalists in the Middle east.

Greek Officials Attempt to Block U.S. Boat to Gaza from Leaving Port

Passengers suspect Israel/U.S. economic pressure on beleaguered Greek government.

(ATHENS) - Passengers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, are asking if a political decision has been made by the Greek government in response to U.S. and Israeli government pressure.

Two days ago, the American passengers learned that a "private complaint" had been filed against the U.S. Boat to Gaza, which is part of an international flotilla scheduled to sail to Gaza in the next few days.

Sabrosky Responds: Palestine, Israel and America

Reprise on Palestine, Israel and America: A Strategic Void

(JACKSON, Miss.) - I’ve had a more diffuse and sometimes different reaction to the original article on this topic than I anticipated, although one I thought possible.

And while I don’t usually respond other than with brief replies to individual comments, I thought it useful at this point to address certain issues, both to encourage some to re-read the initial article, and to “clear the conceptual decks” before the second and third parts of the trilogy appear.