The number of active-duty soldiers who kill themselves or attempt to is the highest it’s been since the Army began keeping records almost 30 years ago. Three hundred fifty soldiers attempted suicide or injured themselves in 2002, compared with 2,100 in 2007. Washington Post: The Army was unprepared for the high number of suicides and cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among its troops, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have continued far longer than anticipated. Many Army posts sti
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Just Foreign Policy News January 31, 2008 Just Foreign Policy on U.S. policy towards Iran and Gaza Just Foreign Policy talks with Andrew O’Baoill on A Critical Ear. Feedback welcome. https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/baoillo/www/Intl-2008-01-24.mp3 More info: http://funferal.org/blog/2008/01/25/a-critical-ear-24-january-2008/ Peace with Iran in 2008 Just Foreign Policy is working with author (”All the Shah’s Men”; “Overthrow: A Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq”) and former New Yor
Why Contract the Services of a Professional Pet Sitter for Your Dog? Why Contract the Services of a Professional Pet Sitter for Your Dog? by Julie Butts A Professional Pet Sitter provides in-home pet care while you?re away. Keeping your dog at home helps maintain his normal eating and exercising routines. It also helps minimize the stress suffered by both you and your dog. This article examines what may happen when your dog stays at a kennel and the benefits of contracting the services o
In the fight over who's a better conservative, antagonism is heating up between McCain and Romney, the Republican Party's leading presidential candidates. "I didn't come here to umpire a ballgame between these two," an irritated Huckabee said at one point, motioning to McCain and Romney. "I came here to get a chance to swing at a few myself." Hoping to take a few swings, Huckabee has kept himself in the race that increasingly appears to be a two-man race. The "Pink Gang" is bringing a new t
****A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine finds that one in six combat troops returning from Iraq has suffered at least one concussion, injuries that could heighten the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD.
Two stories out this week suggest that you have a lot more to worry about than just getting shot at by the enemy in today’s Army. Today, the Army reported that suicides for 2007 jumped 20% over the previous year, up to 121 soldiers. CNN has the story: Internal briefing papers prepared by the Army’s psychiatry consultant earlier this month show there were 89 confirmed suicides last year and 32 deaths that are suspected suicides and still under investigation. More than a quarter of the combin
International News ***The New York Times says in 2005, former president Bill Clinton and Canadian uranium financier Frank Giustra met president, Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. Within two days, Giustra's company signed agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom. Months later, Clinton’s charitable foundation received a $31 million donation from Giustra that had remained a secret until Giustra acknowl
by Turkana Two damning stories, today, encapsulate the devastation wrought on our military and our national security by the Bush Administration. The Associated Press just reported this: The U.S. military isn't ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don't have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report. Even fewer Army National Guard units are combat-ready today than were nearly a year ago when the Commission on the National Guar