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Dahr Jamail reports on Exit Wounds

The superbly done photo essay, montage now showing at the New American Art Union in Portland, Exit Wounds: Combat Trauma and the trials of homecoming, is earning rave reviews. Jim Lommasson’s photographic work surrounded by photos taken from the veterans themselves tells a story that we will not see in mainstream media. Dahr Jamail who has reported from Iraq and is author of ‘Beyond the Green Zone’, writes for IPS News

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Fattening the coffers in Iraq

Instead of losing 15lbs in Iraq, now the average soldier in Baghdad is gaining ten. Hidden in the bloat is a segue into the outrageous profits reaped by KBR, Burger King and Pizza Hut. In the end it is the warrior who pays the...

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High veteran suicide rate confirmed

I have written about this before but the VA has acknowledged that on average 126 veterans, 18 per day are committing suicide. Brig. Gen. Michael J. Kussman, the undersecretary for health at the VA, sent the email, dated Dec. 15,...

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4,000 Gis killed in Iraq

We have met yet another grim milestone as the 4000th soldier has been killed in Iraq. As I have written before, nothing is more demoralizing to the troops than public complacency and the Iraq war has faded from view in the news....

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Winter Soldier 2008 ongoing

From the Washington Post Former Marine Jon Turner began his presentation by ripping his service medals off his shirt and tossing them into the first row. He then narrated a series of graphic photographs showing bloody victims...

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