Rachel talks with IAVA director Paul Rieckhoff about the need to push for adequate veterans’ benefits. Recent reports have highlighted the alarmingly high suicide statistics amongst active duty military personnel and I have reported in the past that one in four homeless once served their country.
The Oregonian covered the Winter Soldier event in Portland. There were three panels, soldiers and Marines, family members and clinicians and supporters of war resisters. The soldiers gave heart wrenching testimony such as that...
Read MoreTomorrow morning I will be interviewed on KBOO FM at 9:30 regarding the upcoming Winter Soldier event in Portland, October 18, 12:00PM to 5:00PM at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave (@ Main) in Portland. Panelists...
Read MoreMcCain has not scored well on veterans’ benefits at all. In fact, the entire GOP have scored very low on supporting the troops, much lower than the Democrats, in stark contrast to typical public perception of which party...
Read MoreJoseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and Linda J Bilmes have done an exhaustive study on the real cost of the Iraq war. The book goes into great detail the costs to other nations and the impact on the global...
Read MoreFor many military families, the release this month in a report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence determining that intelligence activities leading up to the occupation of Iraq were deliberately distorted, is not a...
Read MoreThankfully, the mainstream media do seem to be giving this growing problem some coverage. This report from Editor & Publisher discusses it in more detail. Many newspapers this weekend ran overall assessments of the problem,...
Read MoreBronze star recipient Sgt Nils Aron Andersson, combat veteran turned recruiter, originally from Oregon commits suicide. Married only 24 hours earlier, his new wife follows him and commits suicide a day later. “He was...
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports that an official urged staff to cut back on PTSD diagnoses. A psychologist who helps lead the post-traumatic stress disorder program at a medical facility for veterans in Texas told staff members to...
Read MoreHow do you support the troops? More than 120 veterans per week commit suicide but the VA and the Pentagon do not want you to know and took steps to deliberately hide this fact from the public. Meanwhile, GI benefits, severely...
Read MoreI 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,...
Read MoreTraumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder both characterized by severe physiological and irreparable damage to the brain are subject of a new study released by the RAND Corporation. “There is a major health...
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