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Brain Scans Reveals Invisible Damage Of PTSD

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living


WASHINGTON — Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-...

To Give Is To Gain: Bobby Sager's Philosophy Of Philanthropy

Michael Macher | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living


Michael Macher

Bobby Sager is on a mission to change our understanding of what it means to give. Rather than teach an ethics of guilt, he shows how we might use philanthropy as a strategy for leading a fuller life.

A Muslim Soldier's View from Fort Hood

Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.06.2009 | World


Kamran Pasha

I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He and Hasan prayed side-by-side at the mosque the morning of the massacre. He agreed to share his story with me if I granted him anonymity.

US Contractor, John Christopher, Claims To Have Fought Off UN Hostel Attack With AK-47

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


KABUL — Armed with an AK-47, an American contract worker said Wednesday he held off militants attacking a guest house in Kabul, allowing about t...

Phony Veteran Activist In Colorado Springs Issued Arrest Warrant

The Denver Post | Nancy Lofholm | Posted 10.03.2009 | Denver


Rick Glen Strandlof, a former mental patient who posed as a wounded Marine captain to found a statewide veterans group and campaign for political cand...

The Beatles, Obama and Real Change...

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics


Stephen Gyllenhaal

For real change to hit us, it would have had to come like the Beatles first songs hit us. It would have had to have been brash and maybe a bit humorous, but with a working class toughness.

Bush/Cheney: Dinosaurs of the Old Economy

Michelle Kraus | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics


Michelle Kraus

The legacy of Bush and Cheney are inextricably tied to the survival of the old fossil fuel economy. Their assignment was clear: defend and protect at ...

The Significance of Obama's Foreign Trip

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics


Robert Creamer

It isn't just the American people who want us to leave Iraq. Now it's the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of Iraq. That leaves Bush, McCain and the neo cons as the only people still committed to this war.