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The Health of Male Veterans and Nonveterans Aged 25 - 64: United States, 2007 - 2010

Today, over 12 million men aged 25–64 in the United States are veterans, representing 15% of the total U.S. male population at those ages.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The well-being of military personnel and their families is a topic of growing concern in public health.

The effects of military service on physical and psychological health, especially after extended overseas deployments, are complex.

Military Suicides Continued: Critique of the Time Article: One Suicide a Day

The military wrongly claims that marital relationship issues cause suicides. What causes the issues? PTSD = Marital Discord.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I wrote, Military Suicides: Are they Killing the Best Fighters? about 2 weeks before the TIME issue came out. I have some real issues with TIME.

TIMES author, Mark Thompson and Nancy Gibbs got it mostly correct with some serious errors or near errors. I will try to correct the worst.

Blowing the Lid off the `Humanitarian Intervention` Fraud...

The Illegal War on Libya - edited by Cynthia McKinney

(WASHINGTON DC) - In 2011, former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney, took a delegation of observers to Libya to monitor NATO’s purported humanitarian intervention. They were in Libya during the 2011 NATO bombardment of Libyan cities, and were among the few independent voices to report on the tragedy.

This collection of essays includes personal accounts by witnesses to the NATO assault on a helpless civilian population it had a UN mandate to protect, as well as analysis of the massive media propaganda campaign and manipulation of international institutions and human rights NGOs that made it possible.

Open letter to the OC Watchdog Media

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - TET (Team El Toro) is a small working group of Marines who served @ MCAS El Toro and have been unable to get any of you to dig as deep as we have.

Secretary of Defense: Create a Central National Registry for Military Sex Offenders

Ask the Department of Defense to create a national database for sex offenders.

(COLBY, WI) - I joined the military because I wanted to serve my country. I served as a Lance Corporal in the Marines for over three years.

In that time I was raped twice and sexually assaulted another two times.

Ray `Bubba` Sorenson & `The Freedom Rock`

Veterans and their families have a friend in Iowa.

(CINCINNATI) - Desecration of the American flag is always a 'hot' news story, particularly when flames are used to ignite a symbol of national pride... for which so many have died. But what happens when the exact opposite takes place? Without question, media attention is scarce.

Pakistan Reopens NATO Supplies Route

Pakistan has been cooperating with the international community on the principles of mutual respect‚ trust and interest. The Prime Minister said we had paid a high price for this cooperation.

(FAISALABAD, Pakistan) - Information Minister Qamar Zaman Karia says that the Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) had made a decision to reopen the NATO supply route.

Kaira said it was in Pakistan’s interest to facilitate US, NATO and ISAF forces in the transition process and in view of the larger interest of peace in Afghanistan and the region.

Transparency or Transparent Lies

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency. --Peter Fenn

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Do you remember when President Obama called for an unprecedented level of openness in Government?

"We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration," promised the president.

Jamie Leigh Jones, Assaulted Twice?

Two smiling faces were taken away, and the government and its courts add insult to injury.

(CLEVELAND) - The court order against rape victim Jamie Leigh Jones is another example of our societal regression. It is a stunning example of what has become of something once adequately titled: 'the American justice system'.

Today it is a mindless program that still allows women who serve their country to be treated like objects and raped and killed without consequence.

I`m Sick of the Gary & Sara Harvey Case - Time to Move On

In September 2011 (or there about), when someone called the police and said that Gary Harvey’s life was in danger. His wife is blocked from visiting him because of it.

(RAPID CITY, S.D. Dakota Voice) - Sara Harvey apparently submitted a report alleging neglect (regarding a visible wound/sore on her husband) sometime around May 31, 2012.

She was immediately accused of breaking the visitation and privacy rules (whistle-blowing?).