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Women Soldiers: Battle Casualties and Death

I knew from my World War Two experience that American women were killed, most were usually nurses in hospitals being bombed with artillery. Things are different today.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I'm not just writing about Army soldiers, but the Infantry; whether from the Army or Marines, do most of the fighting, killing, wounding and dying. Very few rather than these are in similar situations.

I had read about it occasionally, but a recent New york Times brought to the fore, that women usually not packing sub-machine guns, were now being exposed to front line fire from all sorts of weapons.

PTSD Can be Managed!

PTSD is not new. Evidence of PTSD has been around for centuries, going back to the time of the Greek Poet Homer’s Iliad and PTSD does not heal with time if not properly treated.

(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) - The American military provides the finest training and has the most sophisticated weapons in the world, and the men and women who serve in our armed forces know that personal sacrifice is inherent in the job of service to country.

Sometimes the sacrifice is exposure to trauma that affects emotional and/or physical health. Sometimes the sacrifice is life itself.

Time to Remove Prohibitions on Women In Combat Jobs

It has been noted that the military is too male and too white.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Despite the prohibition on women in combat roles, sixty percent of female war deaths were due to hostile acts.

About 200,000 women have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Women make up 14.6 percent of active duty military.

Pilger`s Documentary The Wars You Don`t See

His latest documentary, "THE WARS YOU DON'T SEE." is meant perhaps for the western audience, revealing deeply disturbing truth that affects us all.

(NEW DELHI ) - "John Pilger is a world-renowned investigative journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s.

He has been a foreign correspondent and writes for The New Statesman and the U.K. Guardian. He has twice won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award...

Horrors of Israel`s Brutality Not Lost on Mideast Anchors

"Every time I hear that Israel is America's only friend in the Middle East, I remember that before Israel, America had no enemies in the Middle East." - Comment from a Jesuit

(SALEM, Ore.) - Perhaps we shouldn't all sit around crying about it, but the effects of Israel's murder of civilians during Operation Cast Lead; the murderous attack on Gaza two years ago that left almost 1500 dead and thousand upon thousand injured and maimed... it was like dropping a bomb on humanity.

One place where the sympathies weren't clouded by the influence of the pro-Israeli lobby, were the news desks of our brother and sister journalists in the Middle east.

Greek Officials Attempt to Block U.S. Boat to Gaza from Leaving Port

Passengers suspect Israel/U.S. economic pressure on beleaguered Greek government.

(ATHENS) - Passengers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, are asking if a political decision has been made by the Greek government in response to U.S. and Israeli government pressure.

Two days ago, the American passengers learned that a "private complaint" had been filed against the U.S. Boat to Gaza, which is part of an international flotilla scheduled to sail to Gaza in the next few days.

Sabrosky Responds: Palestine, Israel and America

Reprise on Palestine, Israel and America: A Strategic Void

(JACKSON, Miss.) - I’ve had a more diffuse and sometimes different reaction to the original article on this topic than I anticipated, although one I thought possible.

And while I don’t usually respond other than with brief replies to individual comments, I thought it useful at this point to address certain issues, both to encourage some to re-read the initial article, and to “clear the conceptual decks” before the second and third parts of the trilogy appear.

Instability in Israel sparks growing exodus from Promised Land

Every year more Jews leave Israel for Europe and the United States than the other way around. One in five Soviet Jews has already returned home.

(MOSCOW RT) - Israel was a state created for Jewish people from all over the world to call their home.

But due to security fears, growing numbers of Israelis want to leave, opting for EU or American citizenship to meet their expectations of a promised land.

Bomb` em Bolton and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Is this Government representing we the people of this republic; or are we being led by tools for and of Zionism?

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Last week Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen swooned, “I love John Bolton” after Bolton informed the Committee:

“I’ve argued for [military strikes against Iran] for about three and a half years. Absent military action against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Iran will have weapons much sooner rather than later. It’s a big mistake to conclude, as I believe the Administration has, that a nuclear Iran can be contained and deterred.”

New Slogan Makes Showing
Screw America, I Stand by Israel

How Does it Feel? Poor Dylan had it so hard as a young American, let me get out the Kleenex box so we can all cry about it for a while.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Dylan questioned, "How does it feel, to be on your own, like a complete unknown... like a rolling stone". I wonder how kids in Palestine would react to this song, would they even understand?

They don't have enough liberty or freedom to know what it is like to walk along without being shot at by Israeli rifles.