Depleted Uranium

Saying No to Militarism

Robert Koehler | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Police, Military Spending, Militarism, Toxic Waste, Nuclear Fallout, Armored Vehicles, Defense Budget, Depleted Uranium, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The grotesque insult of "austerity" in the shadow of limitless military spending is destroying our national sanity.

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Iraq Syndrome

Robert Koehler | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Cost of War, War on Terror, Defeat, Iraq Death Toll, Depleted Uranium, Vietnam War, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The failure of the Iraq war is the failure of all wars, past and future: national policy grounded in the dehumanization of a people. Iraq Syndrome may be our best hope in thwarting the power of the war consensus.

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Insanity Dawn

Robert Koehler | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Libya, US Missile Strikes, Gadaffi, Just War Theory, Afghanistan, War, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The most serious crime implicit in the planning, waging and reporting of war -- especially the "just war" -- is the selective focus on consequences: We limit our curiosity to the success or failure of our strategic goals.

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Honoring Our Nations Veterans as Cancer Stricken Soldiers Go Ignored

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Burn Pits, The Guardian, Icbuw, Cnn, Veterans, Afp, Usmc, R. B. Stuart, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, SGT Cody Feeback, Camp Lejeune, Camp Pendleton, Kuwait, Fallujah, Kidney Cancer, Wilms-Tumor, World News
R. B. Stuart

Our military has already chosen to die for their country -- but does that include by the hand of Big Pharma too?

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The Nuclear Free Future Award

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Cooper Union, Nuclear Weapons, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Abraham Lincoln, Science, Depleted Uranium, Chief Oren Lyons, Nuclear-Free World, New York News
Conchita Sarnoff

On September 30, 2010, at The Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and Claus Biegert, co-founder of the N...

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The Suffering of Fallujah

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Language, Cancer, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Depleted Uranium, Hiroshima, Fallujah, War, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fallujah . . . And so it turns out that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, though not until we arrived and started ...

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Radiation, DU and Burn Pits -- Iraq's Cancer: "America's Gift That Keeps Giving"

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cancer, Burn Pits, Icbuw, Radiation, Va, R. B. Stuart, Iraq, Dod, Du, Carcinogen, Bradley G. Mayes, Burke PLLC, Motley Rice, Naomi Toyoda, Military, Veteran's, VA Compensation for Exposure, Depleted Uranium, Army SPC Travis Bromfield, World News
R. B. Stuart

Memorial Day makes us remember that no matter how many wars, generations and decades go by, we as a human race never seem to learn.

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"IRAQ: An Environmental Cesspool"

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baghdad, Iraq, Afghanistan, Dod, Burn-Pit Exposure Data, Warrior Transition Unit at Brooke Army Medical Center, Ft. Bragg, Burn Pits in Iraq, Volatile Organic Compounds, The Transational Genomics Research Institute, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Depleted Uranium, Veterans, Tricare, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Presidio of Monterey, Improvised Explosive Device, Jrotc, Chemotherapy, Camel Cigarettes, R. B. Stuart, Cancer, North Carolina, Benzene, Solider, Adrenalectomy, Army Human Intelligence Collector, The VA, Carcinogens, Cushing's Disease, Texas, Camp Rustamiyah, The Army Times, The Veterans Affairs Department, Disabled American Veterans, Stage IV Cancer, Army SGT. Amanda Older, 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, Dioxins, University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center, Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma, World News
R. B. Stuart

Burn pit tests in war zones have shown that the fires release dioxins, benzene and volatile organic compounds, including substances known to cause cancer.

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Nuclear Energy: Toxic, Expensive and Not Carbon Neutral

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toxic, Carbon Emissions, Toxics, Nuclear Power, Uranium Mining, Clean Water, Government Subsidies, Cancer, Depleted Uranium, Nukes, Carbon Neutral, Green News
John DeCock

People, corporations and even environmental groups want to ignore the carbon emitted from nuclear power because to do otherwise makes the challenge of reducing carbon harder.

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"Depleted Uranium From Sea To Shining Sea:" Cancer Kills US Soldiers And Iraqi Civilians

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Guardian UK, Burn Pits, ALL Leukemia, Va, Iraq, Cdc, Kosovo, Depleted Uranium, Antibiotic Vantin, Dod, Cancer in Military, Soldiers, MD Anderson Cancer Treatment Center, Carcinogenic Smoke From Burn Pits, Army, Lancet Oncology, Talil AFB, Radiological DU Dust, Kansas City VA, R. B. Stuart, Cancer, Oif, Veteran's, Un, Du, Army CSM James W. Hubbard Jr., Imodium, Soldiers With Cancer, Weapon-of-Mass-Destruction, Military Families, Healthy Living News
R. B. Stuart

I have tracked nearly 40 soldiers since 2006 who have been diagnosed with rare, aggressive forms of cancer post-tour. Half have already died.

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Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dead Iraqi and Afghani Babies Are No Joke

Dave Lindorff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Depleted Uranium, Afghanistan War, World News
Dave Lindorff

The deformed and dead babies in Iraq should make us demand a cleanup of Iraq and Afghanistan, medical aid for the victims, and a ban on all depleted uranium weapons.

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Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Operation Desert Fix, Operation Desert Storm, Tallil Air Force Base, Amarillo VA, Burn Pits, Camp Lejeune NC, Army SSG. Gregory Wilson, Va, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Operation Desert Shield, Ft. Bragg NC, Marine Corps, Ptsd, Veteran's Day, War Wound, Albuquerque VA, Male Breast Cancer, Pyridostigmine Bromide, 82nd Airborne, Soldiers With Cancer, Ft. Campbell Kentucky, Veteran's Hospital, Permethrin, Ft. Hood Texas, Gulf War, CNN. R. B. Stuart, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Cancerous Tumors, Dod, IED's, Healthy Living News
R. B. Stuart

The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.

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General Petraeus Joins Troops Diagnosed With Cancer

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 101st Airborne, Battalion, Troops, Burn Pits, Depleted Uranium, Iraq, 526 FSB, Baghdad, Cancer, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Mosul, Walter Reed, Al Jazeera News, Babil Cancer Centre, Christopher Busby, Operation Purple Heart, Sharif Al-Alwachi, General David Petraeus, Shock and Awe, Kbr, Charles Lewis, Fran E. Stuart, Kellogg Brown & Root, World News
R. B. Stuart

In 2003 General Petraeus led the troops into the massive battle of "shock and awe" in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 101st Airborne was the first to pav...

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Pentagon Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA

Dave Lindorff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Contamination, Depleted Uranium, Dirty Bomb Threats, Politics News
Dave Lindorff

While warning about the danger of terrorists acquiring the materials to make a "dirty" bomb, the US military has for years been doing exactly that, and continues to do so.

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Obama Must Live Up to Campaign Pledge on Vieques Cleanup

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead, Lisa Jackson, Napalm, Vieques Puerto Rico, Alan Grayson, Agent Orange, Camp Lejeune, Mercury Poisoning, Justice Department, Depleted Uranium, Eric Holder, Arsenic, Asbestos in Libby Montana, Bush Administration, Contamination, Sovereign Immunity, US Navy, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

President Obama should instruct all relevant federal agencies to live up to his stated commitment to address the health crisis in Vieques immediately, pursue an "environmentally acceptable" clean-up for Vieques, and work toward a fair and complete resolution to the ongoing litigation.

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The Weapon of Mass Destruction Is Cancer

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Warwire, Depleted Uranium, Iraq Veterans, Veterans and Cancer, Iraq Cancer, Va, Uranium, Cancer Soldiers, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

With the DoD's denial that cancer is a "war wound," many soldiers are left inflicted with the life threatening illness, uncertain of their military careers and fearful of their own mortality.

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Peace Rising

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Memorial Day, Vietnam War, Afghanistan, Birth Defects, Agent Orange, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Veterans, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Zak Wachtendonk, who died in March, a month after his 30th birthday, was the son of a Vietnam vet who had been exposed to Agent Orange.

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Iraq: Stories You May Have Missed

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Middle East, Iraq-Six-Year-Anniverary, Aig Bonuses, Arab Media, Aig, Media, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, World News
Jamal Dajani

After six years and more than 4,000 U.S. casualties, the Iraq War seems to have disappeared from the national conversation.

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Top Ten Alternate Punishments for the Iraqi Shoe Thrower

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nike, Martin Scorsese, George W. Bush, Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, Nobel Peace Prize, Facebook, Depleted Uranium, Anger Management, Man Throws Shoes at Bush, Politics, Bush Shoe, Middle East, Daniel Day-Lewis, Op-Ed, Muntazer Al-Zaidi Throws Shoes at Bush, Iraq, Leonardo Dicaprio, Sweatshops, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

5. Obliged to lend his tootsies, at will, to any charitable Foot Fetish Galas (expected to show up in formal leather choker, spiked armlets and chain-link leash).

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Leukemia: A Soldiers Souvenir From the Burn Pits of Iraq

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Journalists, Doctor, Troops, Colon Cancer, Lt. Col. James R. Elliott, Burn Pit, Cbs, Tb, Lt. Col. Darrin L. Curtis, Ed Bradley, Veterans, Dod, Embedded, Lung Cancer, Scholfield Barracks Hawaii, Leukemia, Military, Army, Peter Jennings, Chemotherapy, Cancer, Abc, Ted Kopple, Duke University Hospital, Depleted Uranium, Leroy Sievers, US Air Force, Soldiers, Balad Air Base Iraq, Fort Bragg NC, Aml, SSG. Steven G. Ochs, Baghdad, Afghanistan, Long Beach California, Dav, Carcinogen, Paratrooper, Anaconda, Health, Healthy Living News
R. B. Stuart

Although SSG. Steven Ochs seemed impenetrable, he could not sidestep the invisible weapon that would course through his bloodstream five months after his third tour ended.

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Fit For Duty: Proceed With Caution - Part II

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soldiers, Chemotherapy, Iraq, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Cancer, Chaplain, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Depleted Uranium, Health, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

My sister's cancer brought a roulette of abandonment and fears. The chemo compounded it by stripping away not only the cancer cells, but every living cell and organism that made up who she was.

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"Sister Soldier: A Chronicle of Life After Iraq" - Part I

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 101st Airborne, Germany, Soldiers, Military, Tumor, Chemotherapy, Iraq, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Depleted Uranium, Cancer, Chaplain, Mosul, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

My sister Fran's cancer appeared at the beginning of January. She felt tired, bloated, and had an unusual feeling of fullness, and immediately thought her term in Iraq was the culprit.

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The Disposable Military: "The Tumor of The Unknown Soldier"

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cancer, National Guard, SPC Gregory Anton, War Wound, Army, U. S., Camp Doha, Congress, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Soldier, Camp Shelby, Mississippi, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

Recently, the Chaplains at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC who houses 800 ill and recovering soldiers at a time, has begun weekly tributes at...

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The War Chest: "Skeletons from the Battlefield"

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American's, Doe, Iraq War, Soldiers, Depleted Uranium, Bush, Wramc, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

The apathetic tone towards returning soldiers seems to be the status quo of a majority of Americans who have forfeited their backbone for the comforts of ignorance.

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The Unspoken Casualties of the Iraq War

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Camp Spearhead, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Depleted Uranium, TSGLI Injury Benefits, Iraq, Soldiers, Nuclear Weapons, SS Frank Valentin, Health, Kuwait City, U. S. Army, Dept. Of Veterans Affairs, Arlington Cemetery, Cancer, Oaf, Oncology, Oif, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

A collage hangs on the wall of the 6th floor Oncology Ward 65 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Proudly amongst the staff photo's is the former P...

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