By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Jan 13, 2010 (IPS) – Suicides among United States military veterans ballooned by 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to new statistics released by the Veterans Affairs (VA) department. “Of the more than 30,000 suicides in this country each year, fully 20 percent of them are acts by...
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If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others we would not be willing to have invoked against us. - Chief Justice Robert Jackson Chief...
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By Marie Dennis Pax Christi International, July 10, 2008 The War Abroad He’s leaning against a tree The wood has been sold The land leased The water poisoned The rain kills the birds Somebody takes aim at him He raises his arms against the black wood It is not finished (Dorothy Soelle) For...
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By Claire Schaeffer-Duffy This article was reprinted from the Fall 2004 issue of The Albany Catholic Worker. Claire Schaeffer-Duffy also writes for The National Catholic Reporter. After twenty minutes of deliberation, a military jury found staff sergeant Camilo Mejia guilty of deserting his unit. On May 21, 2004, he was sentenced...
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By Howard Zinn With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a boastful, unashamed embrace of the idea....
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