September 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/us/looking-after-the-soldier-back-home-and-damaged.html?hp This article offers precious few facts or useful statistics. It might be helpful for Times readers to know how many soldiers have been seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan: Per the DoD in early 2009, Traumatic Brain Injury alone affected as many as 360,000 soldiers, with 45,000 to 90,000 who “warrant specialized care” (USA Today, 3/4/09). Times readers might… Read More »Responding to today’s New York Times’ article about soldiers’ broken lives…

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, and the 2002 recipient of Amnesty International’s Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.  A foreign correspondent for nearly two decades, reporting on many wars over his career, he has been employed by The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, in addition… Read More »Sage Words from Chris Hedges… And My Hope for 2012

“They hate us because we’re free,” said the American President in the wake of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 human beings on September 11, 2001. The “haters” despised us specifically for our open society, tolerance, and enlightened ways — at least that’s what our political leaders told us… and then they proceeded to dismantle our civil liberties, replacing… Read More »Ten Years of Terrorism…