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The Next US Invasion -- at a Campus Near You

Michael Schwartz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Training, US Military, Pentagon Spending, Rotc, Stony Brook University, ROTC Scholarships, Military Budget, Politics News
Michael Schwartz

People in universities are committed to establishing a "veteran friendly" campus, and some believe that bringing ROTC onto campus is a way to make veterans feels more comfortable. This is simply not true.

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Military Sexual Trauma - Seeking Justice

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact

Read More: Veterans for Peace, Department of Veterans Affairs, Kira Mountjoy-Pepka, Rape, Military Sexual Trauma, Veteran's Administration, Ann Wright, Grace After Fire, Service Women;s Action Network, Coalition Against Sexual Assault in the Military Services, Rotc, Code Pink, Pack Parachute Charity, Ptsd, Afghanistan War, Pascale Bourgaux, Veteran's Day, Military, Mercedes Gallego, Eve Ensler, Iraq War, Tina Priest, Rape in the Ranks, Fort Bragg, Disable Amercian Veterans, Staff Sergeant Sandra Lee, Military Rape Awareness Wekk, U.S. Army, Vva, Vetwow, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

While embedded with Marines during the invasion of Iraq, journalist Mercedes Gallego was cautioned that it was not safe to be alone. The reason, the servicewomen explained, was fear of being raped.

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Soldier Suicides: The War Condolences Obama Won't Send

Amy Goodman | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dover Air Force Base, Maj. Gen. Mark Graham, Vfw, Afghanistan, Keesling, Soldier Suicides, Rotc, Iraq, Barack Obama, Politics News
Amy Goodman

Gregg Keesling said that when he and his wife went to Dover Air Force Base to greet their son's coffin, a master sergeant said: "I'm greeting a suicide body almost every day. There's something going on."

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Ivies and the Military -- Toward Reconciliation (Harvard Administration Blows an Opportunity)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

It is past time for our elite universities to reconsider their sometime anti-military bias that is most clearly expressed in their continuing (often bitter) opposition to restoring ROTC to campus.

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Don't Let an Ambush Happen Again, Mr. President

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Congress, Amy Brian, Colin Powell, Samm Nunn, President Obama, Admiral Mike Mullen, Iraq, Rotc, Kansas National Guard, House Armed Services Committee, Dadt, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Todd Belok, Rep. Ellen Tauscher, President Clinton, US Navy, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

If President Obama plans to keep his campaign promise, the White House and the Pentagon had better get on the same page now, and be ready to face the tough questioning sure to come.

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Can Progressives Grow Up? (President Obama Needs the Left to Change Its Ways)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

First President Obama wasn't "black enough" for the black left. Then he was "too centrist" in his appointments for the white left. Then he wasn't gay friendly enough. Now he is President.

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If Molly Ivins Could Only See Us Now

Deanie Mills | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Tom Delay, Lou Dubose, Youth Vote, Burnt Orange Report Our Eyes Are Upon Texas Politics, Texas Obama, Howard Dean, Molly Ivins, ROTC, Obama Young People, Barack Obama, Texas Bus Tours, John Cornyn, Texas, Shub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Rahm Emanuel, Obama Texas, Texas Republicans, Texas Democrats, Iraq War, University of Texas at Austin, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Molly Ivins Texas, Home News
Deanie Mills

Texas politics are on the move, and for the first time in years, it's exciting to be a Democrat in this very red state. And the Obama campaign is treating us red-staters like our votes count, too.

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