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		<title>Suicide Rates Surged Among U.S. Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Jan 13, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; 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. &#8220;Of the more than 30,000 suicides in this country each year, fully 20 percent of them are acts by veterans,&#8221; said VA Secretary Eric Shinseki at a VA-sponsored suicide prevention conference on Monday. &#8220;That means on average 18 veterans commit suicide each day. Five of those veterans are under our care at VA.&#8221; The spike in the suicide rate can most clearly be attributed to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the high number of veterans returning to the U.S. with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). &#8221;We have now nearly two million vets of Iraq and Afghanistan and we still haven&#8217;t seen the type of mobilisation of resources necessary to handle an epidemic of veteran suicides,&#8221; Aaron Glantz, an editor at New America Media editor and author of &#8220;The War Comes Home&#8221;, told IPS. &#8221;With [President Barack] Obama surging in Afghanistan coupled with his unwillingness to withdraw speedily from Iraq, it means we have more veterans who have served more and more tours and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Must Never Forget&#8230; History Will Judge Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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 Prosecutor for the United States at the Nuremberg Tribunals  We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity&#8217;s aspirations to do justice&#8230; Any resort to war &#8211; to any kind of war &#8211; is a resort to means that are inherently criminal. War inevitably is a course of killings, assualts, deprivations of liberty, and destruction of property&#8230; This trial is part of the great effort to make the peace more secure&#8230; and constitutes another step in the same direction: juridical action of a kind to ensure that those who start a war will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War Abroad, The War at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Catholic Social Teaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marie Dennis Pax Christi International, July 10, 2008  The War Abroad He&#8217;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 many hours I sat trying to get my head around what I might say to you about the &#8220;war abroad&#8221; &#8211; to you, who know the facts, the statistics, the costs of war, especially of the war in Iraq. Dorothy Soelle&#8217;s brief poem, &#8220;Peace: He&#8217;s leaning against a tree,&#8221; finally helped me focus. Its quiet truth bellows into a world engulfed in multiple wars &#8211; and positions in the crosshairs of war&#8217;s insanely destructive violence the One we follow who raised his arms on the Cross to overcome all evil. It is not finished. It is clearly not finished.  He&#8217;s leaning against a tree The wood has been sold &#8212; the rainforests depleted, no holds have been barred in pursuit of global markets The land leased &#8212; the oil and coal and gold and diamonds and coltan beneath it exploited The water poisoned &#8212; or stolen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Soldier Says No to the War in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 to a year in military prison and received a bad conduct discharge. Even before his sentence was issued, the 28-year-old Catholic soldier knew prison could be in his future. After six months of combat in the treacherous Sunni Triangle and five months AWOL, he held a press conference on March 15 and declared his refusal to fight, making him the first Iraq war veteran to publicly disobey an order to return to duty. His no-to-war declaration was immediately followed by his surrender to military authorities and a submission of his application for conscientious objector (CO) status. The 53-page document is a detailed indictment of military incompetence and war&#8217;s brutality. It is also the autobiography of a conscience that paradoxically came to life in a time of much killing. The soft-spoken young man with Jesuit schooling, Mejia comes from upper middle-class households in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn&#8217;t Teach Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. However, the very idea that the United States was an empire did not occur to me until after I finished my work as a bombardier with the Eighth Air Force in the Second World War, and came home. Even as I began to have second thoughts about the purity of the &#8220;Good War,&#8221; even after being horrified by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even after rethinking my own bombing of towns in Europe, I still did not put all that together in the context of an American &#8220;Empire.&#8221; I was conscious, like everyone, of the British Empire and the other imperial powers of Europe, but the United States was not seen in the same way. When, after the war, I went to college under the G.I. Bill of Rights and took courses in U.S. history, I usually found a chapter in the history texts called &#8220;The Age of [...]]]></description>
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