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The Army has filed charges for a special court-martial against Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother of a one-year-old baby. Hutchinson missed…
Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail is the Baghdad correspondent for The NewStandard. Jamail, a political activist from Anchorage, Alaska, first traveled to Iraq in November 2003 to write about the effects of the US occupation on the Iraqi people. After nine weeks covering Iraq under occupation, he returned to the US and addressed audiences in Alaska and the Northeast about his experience. He has recently returned to Iraq in order to continue reporting on US occupation and privatization. You can view his dispatches and articles at http://newstandardnews.net/iraq.
There have been several recent oil spills and other environmental problems linked to the oil/gas production industry in Alaska. On December 23,…
VENTURA, California, Nov 13 (IPS) – U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if…
As families and friends mourn the thirteen individuals who were shot dead at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, questions continue…
As the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, an already overstretched military is increasingly…
PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov 6 (IPS) – While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base…
"We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide." – Ramsay MacDonald, British prime minister 1931-1935 Sergio Kochergin, back home…
Echo Platoon is part of the 82nd Replacement Detachment of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Soldiers in the…
[Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.] On May 1st at Fort Hood in…
Manifest Destiny In 1845, an American columnist, John O’Sullivan, writing about the proposed annexation of Texas, claimed that it was…