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Veterans confront a system that ignores them
By MITCH USMC05-09, Deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006 Originally posted at Socialist Action. Veterans are tired. They are tired of a system that no longer listens to them, tired of longer deployments, tired of a medical system that takes days … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Human War Toll, War Economy
Tagged afghanistan, iraq, obama, PTSD, socialism, TBI, trump, VA, veterans, VFP
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FCNL: Q&A on Nonmilitary Options against the Self-Proclaimed Islamic State
http://fcnl.org/issues/iraq/islamic_state_faq/ In this short piece, FCNL* asks all the right questions. The answers appear a bit simplistic at first glance, but imagine the possibilities if the world community had started with this approach and then aggressively fleshed out the necessary … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy
Tagged FCNL, iraq, islamic state, syria, US Labor Against War
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A local veteran’s story of healing
Injured Iraq veteran finding recovery through farming. A very active member of our Corvallis peace community and stalwart organizer with Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), Adele Kubein, agreed to share this story of her daughter’s immense challenges she has faced since returning … Continue reading
Posted in Human War Toll
Tagged adele kubein, Corvallis, disabled veterans, farming, healing, iraq, mickey clayton, OSU, peace, veterans, WFVN, women's farmer veteran network
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America at War: A Record of Unparalleled Failure
How we rationalize military failures… The following article was originally posted at TomDispatch. In it, Tom Engelhardt thoroughly lays out and debunks the myths embedded in the popular support for US militarism. Today, as Mosul smoulders, its residents flee and the scariest … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Human War Toll, Peace Activism
Tagged iraq, ISIS, mosul, peace, tom engelhardt, tomdispatch, VFP, World Beyond War
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Andrew Bacevich: A Decade of War
Andrew Bacevich spoke at U of O on May 15. It was a powerful talk with some Q&A following. Here’s a link to view the archived video of the talk, which runs 87 minutes–time well spent, for us at least. … Continue reading
Posted in Peace News
Tagged afghanistan, andrew bacevich, iraq, peace, U of O, US Foreign Policy, wars
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