AltWeeklies Wire
Why Protest?new
Reporter Casey Fabris talks drone protesters who come to Hancock Field month after month to object to a technology they say makes the ugliness of war too tolerable.
Syracuse New Times |
Casey Fabris |
01-12-2015 |
War
Vermont Not Immune to Police Militarizationnew
The Pentagon is stocking Vermont with tools of war.
Seven Days |
Mark Davis |
11-26-2014 |
War
Toward what end? Obama's ISIS policynew
I don't like where this is headed. I don't like it at all. It's been 13 years since 9/11, and in spite of the blood spilled and the money spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, by this country and others, we have by no means wiped out the threat of terrorism.
City Newspaper |
Mary Anna Towler |
09-18-2014 |
War
'Transition has been Hell'new
On average, 22 veterans kill themselves in this country every day. On Jan. 18, one of them was my friend Chris. This is his story.
Considering the Syrian Crisis: Legacy of Warnew
We are responsible for every bomb ordered and ultimately dropped on an innocent in a foreign land.
Agencies Struggle to Help Returning Soldiersnew
For returning soldiers, the next battle is on the homefront.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
09-06-2013 |
War
Collateral Damage: Veterans Wrestle with the Aftermath of Warnew
Despite having no military base nearby, nearly 20,000 veterans call Buncombe County home — giving it the sixth-largest veteran population in North Carolina.
Mountain Xpress |
Caitlin Byrd |
08-21-2013 |
War
The Battles After Warnew
One woman's struggle for a PTSD diagnosis and how a now-suspended veterans program helped her.
Boulder Weekly |
Elizabeth Miller |
05-24-2013 |
War
One Officer's Struggle with the Texas Air National Guardnew
The Texas Air National Guard decides to step in the middle of an officer's private business, tossing him after he dates an about-to-be-divorced woman.
Houston Press |
Casey Michel |
05-22-2013 |
War
Texas Marine Corps Vet Still Awaiting Trialnew
The U.S. Marine Corps looked the other way when 27-year-old sniper Adan Castañeda attempted suicide while enlisted. Despite Castañeda's increasingly serious outbursts at home once discharged, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs routinely ignored his mental health issues, bouncing him from crisis to crisis.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-22-2013 |
War
Tags: Adan Castañeda, U.S. Marine Corps
We Are All Soviets Now
Sure, all rules are arbitrary. But once you start breaking your own rules, you undermine the basis of legitimacy for the system you’ve created and hope to perpetuate. If we go back to the basis of nationhood – you have a right to exist if you can carve out borders, defend them, and repel invaders – we unwind the world order that has been in place for nearly half a millennium.
If We Learn Geography, the Terrorists Have Won
Why do people blow up our embassies, bomb our ships, fly planes into our buildings, (try to) blow up their shoes and their underwear? They do it (partly) because we can't imagine why anyone would do such a thing.
The Chechen Connection
Why might a Chechen resent the United States?
10 years after the Iraq warnew
Too many funerals, too many families destroyed, too few happy homecomings.
The Quagmire Pattern
Ten Years into the Iraq War, the U.S. Repeats in Syria.
