Gulf War

Policy And Practice For Women At War: A Timeline

The Huffington Post | Molly O'Toole and Chris Spurlock | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Female Veterans, Department of Defense, Gulf War, Gary Patton, Rhonda Cornum, Veterans, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Army, Military, Vietnam War, Les Aspin, Tammy Duckworth, World News

A timeline of the history of women in the military highlights how official policy restrictions have lagged behind their service. Layer on the lives of...

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Rhode Island Rep. Lied About Military Service, Blamed Arrest On PTSD

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Rep. Daniel Gordon, Video, Gulf War, Military Service, U.S. Military, Daniel Gordon Military Service, Daniel Gordon, Police Chase, Rhode Island, Ptsd, Massachusetts, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Purple Heart, Arrest, Politics News

Rhode Island state Rep. Daniel Gordon (R) was arrested Sunday and charged with driving on a suspended license, according to the Providence Journal. Th...

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'Green News Report' - September 20 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Climategate, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Fracking, Australia, Epa, Tar Snds, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Canada, Green News Report, Pollution, Gulf War Syndrome, Veterans, Offshore Drilling, Rising Sea Level, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Exxonmobil, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Gulf War, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Bill Clinton, Siemens, Fukushima, Environmentalism, Japan, Barack Obama, Shell Oil, Gasland, Energy Efficiency, Nuclear Energy, BRAD BLOG, Arctic, Water Pollution, Protests, Green News, Sustainability, Heatwave, Oceans, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The Presi...

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Kuwaiti Netizens Protest Lawyers' Offer to Defend Mubarak

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Trial, Law, Lawyers, Gulf War, Twitter, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Iraq, Kuwait, Uae, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Using the hashtag, #MyQ8, Kuwaiti netizens are protesting against Kuwaiti lawyers who plan to join the defense team for Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

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HuffPost Review: The Devil's Double

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Lee Tamahori, Marshall Fine, The Devil's Double Movie Review, The Devil's Double, Saddam Hussein, Dominic Cooper, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine Movie Reviews, Gulf War, Movies, Movie Devils Double, The Devils Double, The Devils Double Movie, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Chilling, thrilling and hard to take at times, The Devil's Double offers one of the great performances of this or any year -- or is it two performances?

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A Look Inside Saddam Hussein's Lavish Places

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Baghdad, Victory Over Iran, Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Victory Base Complex, Kuwait, Saddam Hussein Palaces, World News

Nine stunning palaces with molded ceilings, crystal light fixtures and a plethora of other amenities will soon be back in the hands of the Iraqi gover...

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Iraq To Pay Millions To US 'Human Shields'

AP | By REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 06.30.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Saddam's Victims, Iraq Settlement, Iraq Payment, Human Shields, World News

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers approved a controversial $400 million settlement Saturday for Americans who claim they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regi...

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Lost Picasso Found?

Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: The Naked Woman, Gulf War, Middle East, Picasso, Painting, Kuwait Museum, Lost Picasso Painting, Bal?Kesir, Istanbul, Pablo Picasso, Naked, Art Controversy, Iraq, Kuwait, Stolen Art, Gendarmerie, Arts News

A painting rumored to be by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from the Kuwait Museum in 1990 or 1991 during the Gulf War has been found in Balıkesir, a w...

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The Million-Dollar Weapon

Center For Public Integrity | Sharon Weinberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Gulf War, Tomahawk, Center for Public Integrity, Raytheon, Operation Desert Fox, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Gaddafi, No-Fly-Zone, Iraq War, Tomahawk Missile, Libya, Saddam Hussein, Libya No Fly Zone, Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan Rebels, Kuwait, Tomahawk Block Iv, US Navy, Libya Protests, Business News

By Sharon Weinberger Center for Public Integrity In the opening days of the assault on Libya, the United States and the United Kingdom launched a ...

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Is Libya a Turning Point on Humanitarian Interventionism?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Samantha Powers, Gulf War, Kosovo, Joe Biden, James Clapper, Tony Blair, UN Security Council, Libya, Bob Gates, Tom Donilon, Barack Obama, Nato, Moammar Gaddafi, Bill Clinton, Iraq, Arab League, Al Jazeera, Kuwait, Hillary Clinton, World News
William Bradley

Muammar Gaddafi's bloodcurdling speech yesterday promising an imminent massacre of his opponents in rebel-held Benghazi may prove to be one of the classic political backfires.

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Journalism and the Dangers of Self-Censorship: The AOL-Huffington Post Deal

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf War, Journalism, Aol, Egypt, Self-Censorship, Dan Rather, Huffington Post, Huffpost Aol Merger, Huffington Post Aol Merger, Huffington Post Aol, Huffington Post Aol Deal, Huffpost Aol Deal, Media News
Vivian Norris

I have never felt the need to self-censor on The Huffington Post. We will see how things progress with the AOL/Huffington Post deal but I think it will be Arianna telling them a few things, not vice versa.

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Operation Desert Storm: 20 Years Later

Brandon Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Persian Gulf, Gulf War, Iraq, Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Desert Shield, Saddam Hussein, George HW Bush, Vietnam, Anniversary, Politics News
Brandon Friedman

Among the anniversaries of war, the transition from Operation Desert Shield to Operation Desert Storm is a small one. But what I know about war now is that this date is important.

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PHOTOS: CONFLICT ART: Art From The Front Lines In Warzones And The Middle East

Kisa Lala | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kris Kuksi, Aes, Zoom Art Fair, Jihad, Islam, Zena El Khalil, Theater of War, Kisa Lala, Halim Al-Karim, Art Basel Miami Beach, Spread ArtCulture, AES+F, Karin Sabine Krommes, Gulf War, War, Arts News
Kisa Lala

By Kisa Lala ©AES-F From the series - Action Half Life While a lot of contemporary art remains in a narcissistic bubble dedicated to its own self-...

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INTERNATIONAL ART: Iraqi Contemporary Art: The Effects of War and Exile

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meem Gallery, Photography, Iraqi Art, Gulf War, Dia Al Azzawi, Iraqi-Exiles, Contemporary Art, Iraqi War, Contemporary Artists, Painting, Art Galleries, Arts News

Source: Mutual Art Driven out of war-torn Iraq and dispersed around the globe, Iraqi contemporary artists - struggling to maintain a unique presenc...

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Dump All Those Paradigms: It's Nationalism, Stupid!

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Gulf War, Imf, European Union, Democracy, Francis Fukuyama, China, Capitalism, Japan, Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington, Indonesia, Apec, The-End-of-History, Nafta, Saudi Arabia, Liberalism, Group of 20, Russia, Cold War, Coming Anarchy, S., Paradigm Shift, U, World News
Leon T. Hadar

Scholars have long debated the direction that the "paradigm shift" in international relations would take. What would replace the obsolete bipolar international system and the strategic and ideological forces that had driven it?

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Gary Hart's New Memoir Shows the Continuity in Contemporary History

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Barry Goldwater, George Bush, Walter Mondale, Jerry Brown, John McCain, Gary Hart, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, George Mcgovern, Newt Gingrich, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, Vietnam War, Iraq War, Gulf War, Cold War, Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev, Condi Rice, Books News
William Bradley

Reading the book I'm struck by the threads of continuity running from 1970 to 2010. America was in a state of imperial overstretch, riven by a foolish war and roiled by divisive politics. And Hart has had a unique vantage point throughout.

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ReThink Review: Countdown to Zero -- How I Learned to Start Worrying

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Oppenheimer, Gulf War, Lawrence Bender, Highly Enriched Uranium, Lucy Walker, Terrorism, Gulf War Syndrome, Hiroshima, Rethink Reviews, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Cold War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Rogue States, Countdown to Zero, Terrorism. Countdown to Zero Movie, Nuclear Bomb, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

America's willingness to use nuclear weapons poses one of the globe's biggest threats. As Countdown to Zero illustrates, it's time we take that threat off the table.

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America's Iraqi Strategic Blunder

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Pentagon, United Kingdom, Wmd, Gulf War, Osam-Bin-Laden, Tony Blair, Baroness Manningham-Buller, War, George W. Bush, 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld, Iran, Unitary Executive, Osama, Al Qaeda, Iraq War, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Nuclear Weapons, Condoleezza Rice, Blair, United States, Iraq, Mi-5, Los Angeles News
Fernando Espuelas

Even in 2002, in the midst of the fear campaign unleashed by Bush's White House to create public support for an invasion of Iraq, credible voices in the American mainstream questioned the claims.

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Imagining a World Without Oil

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Technology, Persian Gulf, Bp, Wind Energy, Congress, Ixtoc, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf War Syndrome, Norman Bel Geddes, A Better Place, Scientific American, Gulf States, Environment, Israel, Ocean Wave Energy, Green Energy, Gulf of Mexico, President Bush, Gulf War, Pemex, Impact News
Alexia Parks

We have seen the deadly results and heartbreak in the Gulf of Mexico from every angle and are shocked and moved by what we see. But is it enough to get us to move from inertia into personal action and social change?

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Oh, Say Can You Sing? A National Anthem to Remember

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NBA All Star Game, Whitney Houston, Gulf War, Natalie Gilbert, Dallas Mavericks, Nba, Marvin Gaye, Trailblazers, Sports News
Robert J. Elisberg

For sheer emotional joy, it's hard to top what happened on April 27, 2003, before Game 4 of the NBA playoffs between the Portland Trailblazers and Dallas Mavericks.

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As Mangroves Die, U.S. Public Yawns

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manatee, Dugong, Lake Maracaibo, Gulf War, BP Oil Spill, Green News
Nikolas Kozloff

While oil spills are devastating for the environment in general, they are particularly damaging for mangroves. That's because oil persists far longer within such ecosystems.

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New Suspect In Gulf War Syndrome

Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Chronic Pain, Chronic Fatigue, Glia, Gulf War, The Other Brain, Gulf War Syndrome, Military Families, Healthy Living News
Dr. Douglas Fields

The Veterans Affairs Department announced that it will re-examine the disability claims of thousands of Persian Gulf War veterans suffering from the mysterious Gulf War illnesses decades after the war ended

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Gulf War Syndrome: VA Reopens Cases Involving Veteran Illness

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf War Syndrome, Gulf War Illness, Gulf War, Va, Veterans Affairs, Veterans, Eric Shinseki, Iraq, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Veterans Affairs Department says it will look again at the rejected claims of veterans who say their Gulf War service caused a ...

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Astoria Characters: The Humble Humanitarian

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philippines, Wayne Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, Astoria, Florida, Mount Sinai Hosptial of Queens, Texas, Asia, Haiti, California, Jeddah, Riyadh, National Hospital, Saudi Arabia, Port-Au-Prince, Manhattan Mount Sinai Medical Center, Amando De Guzman, Gulf War, New York News, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Amando De Guzman is gazing out the window. His eyes are restless. He's staring at the people walking on 23rd Avenue, but all he's seeing is the rubble of Port-Au-Prince.

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Hummer's Now History -- Here's How It Started

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saddle Peak Lodge, Paris Dakar Rally, American Motors, California, Gulf War, Indiana, Nascar, AM General, Robby Gordon, Cars, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles, Jim Armour, Rod Hall, Los Angeles Auto Show, Irs, Kindergarten Cop, General Motors, Baja California, Humvee, Jeep, Mishawaka, Oregon, Business News
Steve Parker

Somewhere, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has tears in his eyes. His favorite vehicle, Hummer, has left the building. Its sale was announce...

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