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`The Deadly Connection: Endless War and Economic Crisis` - Bruce Gagnon speaks in Washington state

The Washington speaking engagements are part of Gagnon’s West Coast speaking tour that began in Los Angeles in April.

(POULSBO, WA) - “The Deadly Connection: Endless War and Economic Crisis” is the subject of Bruce Gagnon's six-city tour of Washington State.

Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and long-time member of Veterans For Peace.

Sgt Bales Hearing: A Kangaroo Court Inquisition by Officers from their Bar

It appears that the Army Doctors have already been selected and told CONVICT THIS MAN!

(MOLALLA, OR) - The Associated Press printed a short article about a SANITY BOARD HEARING for Sgt Robert Bales and that his civilian attorney John Henry Browne had advised him not to participate based on his Fifth Amendment rights.

This is appropriate in view of the Army’s motto “Rank is always right”.

Last Week: 84 US Afghan War Casualties

US media divert attention from the actual cost in American life and limb by reporting only those killed, but rarely mentioning those wounded in action.

(PORTLAND, OR) - US military occupation forces in Afghanistan and Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 84 casualties in the period ending April 17.

The total includes 79,493 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations "Iraqi Freedom" and "New Dawn"), and 33,574 since the US invaded Afghanistan in November, 2001.

The War After the War

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Our Returning Veterans.

(STAYTON, OR) - Did you know that 10 to 18% of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans may have post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD? Do you know the signs and symptoms and where to turn for help?

A team leader at the Salem Oregon Veterans Health Administration, will speak on these issues and answer questions at an informative lecture on our returning veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder on Thursday, in Stayton.

Afghanistan: Is Karzai Peace Plan a No-Go?

Taliban won't accept any deal Afghanistan’s political system, as a whole, can live with.

(SEATTLE) - Wave of coordinated attacks were unleashed by the Taliban militants in Afghanistan Sunday.

It brings the grim realization that Western backed Afghan President Mr. Karzai’s staked peace deal efforts with the Taliban aren’t working.

Leave Us Out of Another Middle East War

We have not yet been given the butcher’s bill for our misadventure in Afghanistan, but it will be finally delivered within a couple of years.

(WASHINGTON DC) - One of the most vivid memories I have of my service in the U.S. Senate was of an early Democratic caucus.

It was in January of 1973, not long after President Richard Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, had ordered the carpet bombing of Hanoi in an effort to strong arm the Vietnamese into surrendering.

Help the Family of a Rhode Island National Guard Hero

“Actions speak louder than words”

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - Here is the letter I just wrote to the two Senators and the Governor of Rhode Island. If you can send a similar letter in behalf of the family this young man left behind, I would personally appreciate it. Thanks.

Here are the addresses you would need if you can find it in your heart to dedicate the time it takes to write those letters.

The Jefferson Bible: A Rational Christianity and Earth Day 2012

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." - Christ

(CLERMONT, FLA) - The 2011, SMITHSONIAN EDITION of “THE JEFFERSON BIBLE: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French and English” also opens a window into the spirit of a revolutionary complex and contradictory man.

Jefferson understood himself to be a true Christian and he proved so by remaining mute to the brutal and unjust accusations against him of being a deist, an atheist, anti-religion and antichrist.

Why One of the World`s Leading Peace Advocates Threatened to Punch Me in the Face

Gareth Evans, a former attorney-general and foreign minister in Australia, threatened me because I raised the issue of his support for the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - I have rarely ever come face to face – only inches in fact – with such anger. Certainly not at an academic conference.

And certainly not from such a prominent figure: chancellor of Australian National University, former attorney-general and foreign minister, former head of the International Crisis Group, and one of the world’s most prominent global thinkers.

Dennis Weichel Reminds Us Who Americans Really Are

Dennis Weichel's heroic death brings us the other side of the story in Afghanistan.

(SALEM) - The story of Rhode Island soldier Dennis Weichel makes it easy to remember why I left Afghanistan in 2007 thinking that a lot of good Americans were engaged in that conflict.

They were there then and they are there now, as this father of three who gave his life to save an Afghan child, showed us.