Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military
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.
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.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other...
Steve Parker | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business
Somewhere, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has tears in his eyes. His favorite vehicle, Hummer, has left the building. Its sale was announce...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
More research needs to be done on the companies supplying the vaccines for the troops. They and their well-connected investors are subsidized by the government, which supplies troops for human testing.
Salam Al Marayati | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Implementing sanctions against Iran would play right into the hands of the theocracy. By imposing sanctions, the US will hand the Iranian government a card it does not have at this time--blaming the increase of prices on foreign powers.
guardian.co.uk | Posted 09.29.2009 | Technology
Professor Pieslak is a music theorist at the City College of New York. Over the past few years he has interviewed US soldiers about the music they lis...
Michaelmoore.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Saddam Hussein vs. George W. Bush on the Geneva Conventions FBI Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, March 13, 2004 [...] (S) Regarding limitations pla...
Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
The fireworks fired into the air and the pomp and circumstance of so-called Sovereignty Day cannot mask the grief felt by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones in the past six years.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
Lawrence Eagleburger mocked Dick Cheney on Tuesday, saying that the former vice president, whom he dubbed "benighted," has long exaggerated his positi...
Brandon Friedman | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Once upon a time, our adversaries knew they could hoist the white flag and expect to be treated humanely, making them more likely to give up sooner. It kept American soldiers out of countless bloody fights.
Jon Soltz | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media
Showing unidentified flag-draped coffins coming into Dover (or any other ports of entry) is an unfortunate part of war that the public has a right to see.
Warren Holstein | Posted 03.10.2009 | Comedy
Hold on to your hats folks or at least your iPod earbuds, Martha Washington was actually a babe! Also, she avidly consumed Gothic romance novels. Me-ow!
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
This country was saying and supposedly standing for one thing and then, via these CIA-backed activities, doing the opposite of what a democratic United States stands for.
NY Times | STEVEN LEE MYERS and JAMES GLANZ | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
George Charchalis says he has never really recovered from the ordeal he endured after Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990. He hid f...
Eric Margolis | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
While US casualties in Iraq appear relatively low -- 4,100 dead and 35,000 wounded -- the real health costs of Iraq will, as in the case of the First Gulf War, not be known for years.
AP | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home
Former POWs and civilians who were tortured or held hostage during the 1991 Gulf War could pursue lawsuits against Iraq under legislation the House ha...
Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.07.2008 | Living
"I Am Astro Place" I wrote in the 1980s as a screenplay, "Astro Place," about some cultural and political people living near Astor Place in the East Village in the fraught years 1984 to 2001.
Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
President Bush said lots of things about Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the Iraq War. But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an unscripte...
USA Today | Gregg Zoroya | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
For more than two years, the Pentagon delayed screening troops returning from Iraq for mild brain injuries because officials feared veterans would bla...
Politico | Mike Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the heavily decorated Gulf War commander, will endorse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Wednesday, a Republican source said. M...
R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living