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American drug addiction, Soviet style
WendyMcElroy.Com by Wendy McElroy 08/30/10 A factor that drove the explosion of drug use in the last decades of the 20th century was the return of veterans from the Vietnam War — from the Golden Triangle... ...
States of Paralysis: America's Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "As the link between the media and corporate power becomes more integrated, the visual theater of terror mimics the politics of the 'official' war on terror. Echoing the discourse... ...
What's The War About?
The Lunatic's Manual By Bob Herbert The way to fight a war is to mobilize the country - not just the combat troops - behind an integrated wartime effort. To do that, leaders have to persuade the public... ...
'Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
Bacevich: Creating an "Iraq/Afghanistan Syndrome" Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008, Senator Barack Obama said, 'I don't want to just end the war,... ...
Afghanistan: Echoes of Vietnam
In These Times by Noam Chomsky 08/03/10 The War Logs — a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet by the organization WikiLeaks — documents... ...
Do disclosures of atrocities change anything?
CounterPunch by Alexander Cockburn 08/01/10 The hope of the brave soldier who sent 92,000 secret U.S. documents to Wikileaks was that their disclosure would prompt public revulsion and increasing political... ...
Army Suicides Reach One a Day; Epidemic Spreads to National Guard and Reserves
Thirty-two soldiers, including 11 in the Guard and Reserve, killed themselves last month, a rate of suicide not seen since the Vietnam War. Seven of the suicides took place in Iraq or Afghanistan. http://bit.l y/cAw0Lk From... ...
Wikileaks Afghanistan War Logs 'a very very big story'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a- world-news-mainmenu-35/984 2/ Wikileaks reveals civilian deaths caused and covered up by US military http://www.ufppc. org/us-a-world-news-mainme nu-35/9843/ -------- Hum an Rights... ...
Leaked documents present bleak view of Afghan war
Wall Street Journal 07/25/10 Thousan ds of secret military documents were released Sunday by a Web-based organization, a gigantic leak of classified information that appeared to present a bleak view of... ...
June was worst month for US Army suicides
CNN 07/15/10 More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend. The statistics... ...