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Vets of recent wars have stress disorder
By Sara A. Carter About 300,000 service members who returned home from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq now suffer from post traumatic stress disorder or depression, according to an unprecedented national study released today
Read More »Israeli Troops Kill Reuters Cameraman
Democracy Now! Among the dead was twenty-three-year-old Fadel Shana, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency. He was killed when an Israeli tank shell struck his clearly marked jeep. Shana was filming at the
Read More »Bush Replaced REX84 With New Martial Law EO
Ted Twietmeyer In May 2007, Bush signed executive new orders NSDP51 and HSDP20 to replace REX84. The older order REX84 was an older directive to establish martial law in the event of a national
Read More »Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient ‘Toxic’
By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare as toxic a chemical widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings
Read More »FDA Accused of Intentionally Creating Drug Monopolies
By David Gutierrez The outgoing chief executive officer of pharmaceutical giant Wyeth has accused the FDA of “establishing monopolies” by requiring new drugs to prove that they work better than products currently on the
Read More »How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
By Onnesha Roychoudhuri Author Charles Barber discusses Americans’ unrealistic notions about happiness. We’ve medicalized a lot of life issues that aren’t mental illnesses. While we’ve now become accustomed to the barrage of prescription drug
Read More »Pentagon records prisoner abuse by US military
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, AP WASHINGTON (AP) — Military interrogators assaulted Afghan detainees in 2003, using investigation methods they learned during self-defense training, Pentagon documents released Wednesday show. Detainees at the Gardez Detention Facility
Read More »McCain’s Rightwing Economics
By Matthew Rothschild | The Progressive So John McCain, who admitted a while back that he didn’t know jack about economics, proved it again on Tuesday when he unveiled his economic plans. He said,
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