U.S. Navy Attempted-Suicide Rate Near 3 Percent
The Navy Times website reported on December 28 that a Defense Department survey of service members for 2008 showed a higher attempted-suicide rate...
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U.S. Troops Increasingly Unwelcome in Japan
As reported by TheNewAmerican.com several months ago, the United States is presently shifting tens of thousands of military personal and family members from...
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Veterans Group Calls for Refusal to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq
In what is sure to be a controversial call to action or inaction, the organization March Forward, a group of patriotic retired and...
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American UN Official Wanted Karzai Replaced
Kai Eide, the Norwegian diplomat who is the UN Special Representative to Afghanistan, has said his former deputy — Peter W. Galbraith, an...
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No Deadline for U.S. Exit From Afghanistan
Obama administration officials on December 6 made it perfectly clear that American military forces will remain in Afghanistan for a long time, playing...
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Obama’s Afghan Troop Surge for 100 al-Qaeda
President Barack Obama’s December 1 speech at West Point was meant to justify sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan at a cost...
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Marine Commander To President: Give Me More Afghanis, Not More Marines
The commanding general of the Marine Corps in southern Afghanistan has a message for President Obama: We need more troops on the ground,...
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Obama Afghan Strategy Taken from Bush’s Playbook
Before he had finished invoking the blessings of God upon the nation he was elected to lead, researchers and pundits had evaluated every...
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More Americans Think U.S. Should “Mind its Own Business”
A poll released on December 3 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press revealed that 49 percent of Americans believe...
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Obama Escalates War in Afghanistan
President Obama announced December 1 he would immediately begin deploying an additional 30,000 U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, an escalation that would be complete...
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President Obama’s ‘Nice Guy Act’ Wearing Thin?
Rodney Dangerfield made a very profitable career off his famous lament, “I can’t get no respect.” Seems these days that President Obama knows...
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Obama Sells Out to the Neocons
The Obama administration is close to announcing its decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Reuters reports that the "final number [of troops...
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High Army Suicide Rate & U.S. Foreign Policy
Reuters and other media organs have reported that the suicide rate in the United States Army is twice the national suicide rate and...
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Public Opinion Turns Against Afghan War
The tide of U.S. public opinion is turning against the war in Afghanistan according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted November 12-15....
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Blackwater (Xe) Criticized for Iraq Bribes
Executives at the private North Carolina-based U.S. security firm Blackwater approved secret payments of about one million dollars to Iraqi officials to "silence...
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