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War Zone Pregnancy Punishments Dropped

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 12.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Discipline, United States Military, Military-Law, Military, U.S. Military, u.s. Toops, War Zone Pregnant, War Zone Pregnancy, Military-Pregnancy-Policy, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A recent military policy that added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier could be disciplined in a war zone will be rescinded...

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Veterans Still Waiting For GI Bill Payments, Colleges Unpaid

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Affairs, Va, Afghanistan, Navy, Barack Obama, Eric Shinseki, Veterans, University, Education, Army, Military, Veterans Benefits, College, Air Force, GI Bill, Iraq, Higher Education, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school...

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Save Social Security: 10 Questions for the Deficit Commission

Dave Johnson | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Defense, Budget, Taxes, Deficit, Social Security, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Medicare, Medicaid, Politics News
Dave Johnson

It is possible that there is going to be a "deficit commission" to reduce our country's budget deficits. I have some questions for them to ask to help get things started in the right direction.

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Army General Backs Off: No Court Martial For Pregnancy

ABC News | LUIS MARTINEZ and SARAH NETTER | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Cucolo, Armed Forces, Armed Forces Pregnancy, Pregnancy Court Martial, Military Pregnancy Policy, Pregnancy, Army Pregnancy, Military Pregnancy, Politics News

An Army general in Iraq backed away from his threat today to court martial female soldiers who get pregnant. "I see absolutely no circumstance where...

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Closing Guantanamo: An Assessment

Balakrishnan Rajagopal | Posted 12.15.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Military, Guantanamo Detainees, World News
Balakrishnan Rajagopal

As regressive policies connected to Guantanamo have continued and as the president defends the right to wage 'just war', worries are growing that he may not be a transformational president in human rights terms after all.

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NATO and Climate Change

Anders Fogh Rasmussen | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Nato, Military, Copenhagen 2009, Copenhagen, Anders Fogh Rasmussen Nato, Global Warming, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Green News
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Climate change presents security challenges of a magnitude and a complexity we have never seen before. Preparing for it is not a choice -- it is an urgent necessity.

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Pentagon In Contempt: Judge Finds Fault In Gitmo Case Involving Mohammed Al-Adahi

AP | Posted 12.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Pentagon, Judge Finds Pentagon in Contempt, Pentagon in Contempt, Military, Gitmo Case, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Us Government, Home News

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday ruled the Defense Department in contempt of court for failing to videotape the testimony of a Guantanam...

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Loot For Troops: More Pay Means More Afghan Enlistment

Washington Post | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Soldier Pay, Troop Pay, Recruiting, Military, Police, Police Pay, Afghanistan, Soldiers, Afghan Troops, World News

A recent pay increase for Afghan troops and police appears to have resulted in a surge of applicants, said the top U.S. military official for Afghan s...

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Too Few Troops, Too Much Spin

Tony Blankley | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Military, General Mcchrystal, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Obama Afghanistan Surge, Obama Surge, Politics News
Tony Blankley

The level of sacrifice necessary to gain safety from the still-gathering threat of radical Islam is beyond current American sensibilities.

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Postage and Other Economic Outrages Against Soldiers

Don McNay | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

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Don McNay

America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.

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Afghan Policy Remains in the Dark Ages

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 12.07.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, US Military, Military, War on Terror, National Security, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghan War, President Obama, US Foreign Policy, Counterinsurgency, Barack Obama, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan War, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

For our part, it is time to shift America's focus away from a power that peddles so many deadly weapons to one that fosters economic growth, entrepreneurial ventures and positive creativity.

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Take It, We Need It: Army Donates Millions in Gear To Iraq That Could Be Used in Afghanistan

washingtonpost.com | Ernesto LondoñO | Posted 12.06.2009 | World

Read More: Army Afghanistan, Military, Military Equipment, U.S. Military, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Army Iraq, Iraq, Military Funding, War in Iraq, World News

Even as the U.S. military scrambles to support a troop surge in Afghanistan, it is donating passenger vehicles, generators and other equipment worth t...

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Was U.S. Soldier Who Killed Two Army Buddies Shattered by Iraq Tragedy?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Soldier Murders, Iraq, Ptsd, Fort Drum, Joshua Hunter Killing, Joshua Hunter, Joshua Hunter Murders, Fort Drum Murders, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

Joshua Hunter has been arrested in the killing of two servicemen near the army base at Fort Drum, N.Y. It's not known what sparked the murders, but he had returned from 15 months in Iraq.

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Issue the Order: Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Ryan McDermott | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Military, Army, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Veterans, President Obama, Politics News
Ryan McDermott

Ordering the drafting of an implementation plan would be a tangible step forward in the right direction -- the President could make such an order today.

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Obama, Progressives and Afghanistan

Robert Creamer | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Islam, Military, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Breaking News, Obama, Progressive Movement, Al Queda, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Progressives must not lose sight of the fact that, although we may disagree with President Obama's decision on Afghanistan, he shares a progressive vision of American foreign policy.

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Soldiers On Acid: 1963 British VIDEO Shows Troops Under The Influence Of LSD

Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mlitary Experiments Video, Military Experiments, Military, Lsd, Military Acid Video, Military Lsd VIDEO, British Troops Lsd, Politics News

This is a must watch. Environmental Graffiti has a post up on the decades of experiments western armies undertook in an attempt to develop chemical w...

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The Eisenhower-Obama Doctrine? Ending the Military's "Blank Check"

Peter M. Shane | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Military, Change We Can Believe In, Afghanistan, Military Spending, Progressives, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Peter M. Shane

When it comes to national defense, there appears to be no ambition too excessive, no cost too burdensome, and no deficit too large.

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9/11? Yes, 9/11.

Oliver Willis | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Iraq, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Obama Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Obama West Point Speech, December 7 1941, Politics News
Oliver Willis

If you don't support increasing the amount of troops, that is a fine and patriotic position to have, but folks on the Left have got to quit rewriting history by pretending Obama is somehow suddenly a hawk on Afghanistan.

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It's Time to Come Home

Cheryle Jackson | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Iraq War, Redeployment, President Obama, Troops, Economy, Military, Thanksgiving, Afghanistan, United States, Chicago News
Cheryle Jackson

It's time for America to bring our troops and money home. This should be the last holiday season our troops are separated from their families.

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Senate Report: Bin Laden Was 'Within Our Grasp' In 2001

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Bush, Rumsfeld, US Military, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Pakistan, 9/11, Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghan War, John Kerry, Military, George W. Bush, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld, Tora Bora, World News

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made th...

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Military Divorces Edge Up Again In 9th Year Of War

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marriage, United States Military, Military Divorce, Military, Divorce, U.S. Troops, War in Afghanistan War in Iraq, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The toll for a nation long at war is evident in military homes: The divorce rate in the armed forces edged up again in the past yea...

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Grateful For America

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Sales Training, Founding Fathers, Military, America, Grant Cardone, Freedom of Religion, Selling, Thanksgiving, Living News
Grant Cardone

While the world spends so much time complaining about what is wrong I am reminded at this time to focus on what I have to be grateful for: All those ...

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CNN's Shamelessly Biased Report On 3 American Soldiers' Murders In Iraq

Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Nidal Malik Hasan, Anderson Cooper, Abu Gharib, Military, Iraq, Cnn, Media News
Sam Sedaei

How independent can we really expect any mainstream media reports to be on any story that relates to the military if it has already decided who is good and who is evil?

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Build, Don't Destroy in Afghanistan: An Open Letter to President Obama

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Strike, President Obama, Civil, International, Indigenous, Washington, Pakistan, War, United Nations, Campaign, Muslim Countries, Collateral Damage, Surge, Prayer, America, Muslim, Conflict, Un, Terror, Technology, Security, Development, History, Afghan Government, Democracy, Fear, Terrorist, Ngos, Unmanned Drones, Religious Leaders, Engagement, Death, Foreign Policy, Moral Values, Occupier, Extremists, Moral Issues, Deaths, Women, Escalation, Faith Community, Economic Support, Taliban, Military, Afghanistan, General Assembly, Terrorism, Humanitarian Assistance, D.C., Casualties, Faith-Based, World News
Jim Wallis

Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.

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The Conventional Arms Control Challenge

Frida Berrigan | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, World News
Frida Berrigan

The Obama administration's work to reduce nuclear weapons and reduce nuclear dangers has not been complemented by similar diligent work in the area of conventional weapons exports.

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