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Leukemia: The New Army Camouflage

R. B. Stuart | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Hawaii, US Military, Casket, Andrew's Air Force Base, 14 Juliet, SPC Andrew Rounds, Burn Pits, Iraq, Ptsd, Kirkuk Iraq, Radioactive, Aml, Coma, Portland Oregon, Cancer, Du, Scholfield Army Barracks, Ohsu, Icbuw, World News

While the country is ravaged by a crippling economy, it is a lightweight problem compared to what's happening to a portion of military families. Their loved ones are coming home with cancer.

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MRFF Responds to Military's Denial That U.S. Troops Are Proselytizing Muslims

Chris Rodda | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion and the Military, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, US Military, Iraq, Al Jazeera, Afghanistan, Mikey Weinstein, Politics News

The video released by Al Jazeera is just one of countless pieces of evidence proving that our military is actively proselytizing Muslims in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

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National Guard Troops Could Be Sent To Mexico Border To Fight Drug War

Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan, Spencer S. Hsu and Steve Fainaru | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Homeland Security, Mexico Drug War, US Military, Mexico Drug Cartels, Obama Administration, Mexico, Obama, Us Mexico Drug Trafficking, Barack Obama, Mexico Drugs, US-Mexico Border, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, National Guard, World News

The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 m...

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The Gates Revolution

Adam Elkus | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Obama Defense Budget, Robert Gates, National Security, US Military, Department of Defense, Military, Army, Politics News

Gates is doing something far more radical than just canceling big-ticket weapons programs: he's finally fusing theory and policy.

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Bush Administration Ignored Military's Strong Opposition To Torture Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Torture, Torture Memos, U.S. Military, Torture, Politics News

On Tuesday, President Obama reassured CIA agents that if they interrogated prisoners within the "four corners" of the legal authority given by the Bus...

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Army Chief of Chaplains Promotes Ministry That Called Navy Secretary Satanic

Chris Rodda | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Religion and the Military, Religion, US Military, Douglas Carver, Evangelical Christians, Mikey Weinstein, Jon Kyl, Evangelicals, Politics News

According to past ADOF newsletters, the promotion of this ministry to the military chaplaincies has been a regular occurrence each spring by both the Air Force and the Army.

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US To Give Lebanon Unmanned Spy Drones

AP | SAM F. GHATTAS | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

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BEIRUT — The United States said Tuesday it is providing Lebanon with 12 unmanned military aircraft in the coming months, the latest effort to bo...

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Ignorant Army Chief of Chaplains Proclaimed Day of Fasting for First Day of Passover

Chris Rodda | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion and the Military, Religion, Douglas Carver, U.S. Military, Evangelical Christians, Passover, Politics News

Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver, the Army's Chief of Chaplains, has managed to piss off quite a few Jewish soldiers, as well as many other Jewish Americans. ...

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US Has Few Military Options To Deter Piracy

AP | ANNE GEARAN and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. sent warships speeding to the scene. But they were hours away when the brazen pirates attacked, and the world's greatest s...

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

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, US Military, President Obama, Harvard Divinity School, Rotc, Ivies and the Military, Columbia, Politics News

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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New Report Reveals Why We'll Be Paying for the Iraq Occupation for Years to Come, Withdrawal or Not

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Private Contractors, Afghanistan, President Obama, Ann Wright, Iraq Occupation, US Foreign Policy, Iraq War Funding, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Colonel Ann Wright, Iraq, Gao, Residual Force, Government Accountability Office, Iraq Bases, Afghanistan Surge, Us Afghanistan Surge, US Troops, US Military, US Military Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Afganistan Troop Increase, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Us Troops Afghanistan, US Afghanistan, Afghanistan Taliban, World News

With last week's announced escalation of the war in Afghanistan, Obama blew the lid off of any lingering perceptions that he represents a significant change in how the U.S. conducts its foreign policy.

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Welcome to "Obama's War"

Tom Andrews | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

As someone who was growing up as LBJ's war was tearing his administration down, I had a pit in my stomach as I watched President Obama announce his "Af-Pak" policy.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, US Military, Sco, World Cup, Afghanistan, Drug War, Ignoramus, Dalai Lama, Pakistan, North Korea, Mexico, Iran, Drugs, Tibet, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, War on Drugs, Taliban, South Africa, g20, Barack Obama, Pyongyang, Lisbon Treaty, Missile Launch, Chinese Military, American Journalists, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ali Larijani, China, Czech Republic, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: A Failed Mexican State? Facts: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Mexico and committed more ...

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Obama Got Afghanistan/Pakistan Right

Jon Soltz | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama Afghanistan, Warwire, Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, President Obama, Breaking Politics News, Obama Administration, Taliban, Afghan Taliban, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan Surge, Us Afghanistan Surge, US Troops, US Military, US Military Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, US Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Afganistan Troop Increase, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Taliban, Kabul-Afghanistan, Politics News

We've finally left fantasy-land, where America can simply go somewhere, topple a government, and western-style democracies will pop up and thrive. Afghanistan is a very different beast.

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As Obesity Rises, Our Military Shrinks

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Emergency Responders, Army, Obesity, Firefighters, U.S. Military, Obesity Epidemic, Emts, Living News

In what I think may be the most poignant picture of the obesity epidemic, it was reported today that 3 out of 4 military-age Americans are unfit for service.

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Iraqi Interior Minister: Iraqis Ready And Eager To Be Free Of US Control

AJC | Jawad al-Bolani | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

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When America launched "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in 2003, there was an explicit promise made to Iraqis that they would in fact one day be free. Free fr...

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US: Iraq Attacks At Lowest Levels Since 2003

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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CAMP STRIKER, Iraq — Attacks on Iraqi security forces have increased in an area south of Baghdad where the Iraqis are in control, even as violen...

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Past Time to Join the Landmine Treaty

Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.) | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Pentagon, Bill Clinton, US Military, Persian Gulf, Reputation, Department of Defense, President Obama, Retired-Military, Landmines, Retired General, International Treaty, Operation Desert Storm, China, Veterans, World News

While 156 countries have signed on, the United States has not yet agreed to join the ban on the production, use, sale, and stockpiling of anti-personnel landmines.

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Military Rapes Rise, Prosecutions Still Low

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — More people came forward to report sexual assaults in the military last year, but a significant percentage wouldn't give crucial de...

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US Eyes Iran As Possible Afghan Supply Route

Middle East Times | RICHARD SALE | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: US-Iran Relations, Obama Afghanistan, US Afghanistan, US Military, Middle East, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Us-Iran, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is mulling a plan that would use Iranian territory to rescue the deteriorating logistics network cur...

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Salt in the Wound: The Case for Compensation

Erica Gaston | Posted 04.05.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, US Military, Afghanistan Surge, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, Compensation, US Military Afghanistan, Humanitarian Aid, Afghanistan War, World News

While troops say they have an "open door" to Afghan civilians, Afghans find that door is barricaded by barbed wire and heavily armed, hostile men.

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Turkey, US Begin Talks On Iraq-Exit Strategy

Hurriyet Daily News | Zeynep Gurcanli | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

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Turkey and the U.S. have officially began preliminary talks on the use of Turkish soil for the transfer of American troops, arms and other logistic eq...

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AP: Even Military Split Over Iraq Pullout

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Military, Warwire, Iraq, Iraq Pullout, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama faces split opinions within the military on whether to make the speedy withdrawal from Iraq he championed as...

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Obama Nixed Full Surge After Quizzing Brass

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

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President Barack Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander of U.S. and NATO tro...

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Iraq: US Soldier Convicted Of 2007 Murder

BBC | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

Read More: Murder in Iraq, US Military, Military, US Soldiers, US Military Iraq, Michael Leahy, Iraq Murder, Baghdad, Iraq, US Soldiers Iraq, US Soldier Guilty, World News

A US soldier has been convicted of murder for his involvement in the killing of four Iraqis who were shot and dumped in a Baghdad canal in 2007. Sgt ...

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