Bomb blows away soldier's old life
Brain injury shatters him, shakes those closest to him By Crocker Stephenson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Troy Tuschel, a Wisconsin National Guard sergeant injured by a car bomb in Baghdad on Oct. 27, 2003, was flown from Germany to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. It was early ...
U.S. poverty: chronic ill, little hope for cure
By Bernd Debusmann / Reuters WASHINGTON, Oct 5 - Four decades after a U.S. president declared war on poverty, more than 37 million people in the world's richest country are officially classified as poor and their number has been on the rise for years. Last year, according to government statistics, ...
Bush Believes Those Who Protest Iraq War Don't Want U.S. to Win 'War on Terror,' Spokesman Says
By E&P Staff / Editor & Publisher NEW YORK Meeting briefly with reporters Monday aboard Air Force One, Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman subbing for Scott McClellan, said that President Bush believes that those who want the U.S. to begin to change course in Iraq do not want America ...
All July 21 Bomb Suspects in Custody
By Jill Lawless / Associated Press LONDON - Without firing a shot, police raiding apartments Friday in London and Rome rounded up the last of the four suspected attackers from the failed July 21 transit bombings in Britain. Two of the suspects were arrested in west London, near the trendy ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM A soldier in Iraq is arrested... for blogging. The mother of a soldier killed in Falluja last November announces her intention to run for the Maryland House of Delegates. Already the bloodiest year so far in the American invasion of Afghanistan, it is now also the ...
Pirates hijack tsunami aid ship
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4636695.stm A ship carrying United Nations' food aid to Somali victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami has been hijacked. The freighter, the MV Semlow, was sailing from the Kenyan port of Mombasa to Bossaso in north-eastern Somalia when it was attacked by armed pirates. Waters off the Somali coast are ...
Safer Vehicles for Soldiers: A Tale of Delays and Glitches
By Michael Moss / New York Times When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited Iraq last year to tour the Abu Ghraib prison camp, military officials did not rely on a government-issued Humvee to transport him safely on the ground. Instead, they turned to Halliburton, the oil services contractor, which ...
I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE, I STILL SEE A KORAN IN THE TOILET
Desperate to end the Koran in the toilet conversation, the US virulently defends Saddam's right to privacy. The photos of panty-clad Saddam might violate the Geneva Conventions, and George W. Bush wants a full probe--nothing could be more important. Except, of course, for the real issue here--the book in the ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM Self-Defense. This lack of institutional memory has slowed us down:Companies working in Iraq, auditors and the U.S. government office running the $18.4 billion U.S. rebuilding program all say contracting staff shortages in Baghdad are a problem as overworked employees struggle to oversee and award contracts in ...
By Michael O'Hanlon / Washington Post When the White House nominated Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace last week to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, many observers said they hoped he would be able to stand up to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They were implying, not so subtly, ...
Pentagon Releases Hundreds More War Casualty Homecoming Images
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT FORCES OPENING OF 360 NEW PHOTOS; CONFIRMS WAR CASUALTY HONOR CEREMONY IMAGES BELONG IN PUBLIC National Security Archive Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005 - In response to Freedom of Information Act requests and a lawsuit, the Pentagon this week released hundreds of previously secret images of ...
By Joseph Tanfani, Tom Infield, Carrie Budoff and Edward Colimore / Philadelphia Inquirer When roadside bombs began killing American soldiers in Iraq, the Pentagon promised to run factories around the clock until they had enough armored vehicles. But that didn't happen. And nearly two years and hundreds of dead and ...
Family of four struggles with homelessness
Michelle and Sean Christopher, along with sons Jacob and Mason, live at the Christian Aid Center. The family has been homeless for several months, and came to Walla Walla for medical treatment for Sean. Walla Walla Union-Bulletin When Sean Christopher left 11 years of military life in 1999, nothing in ...
Worry Spreads Over GI Drug Side Effects
By Seth Hettena / Associated Press SAN DIEGO -Some current or former troops sent to Iraq claim that Lariam, the commercial name for the anti-malarial drug mefloquine, has provoked disturbing and dangerous behavior. The families of some troops blame the drug for the suicides of their loved ones. Though the ...
White House tries to allay fears over Bush militarism
By Francis Harris in Washington / Telegraph The White House sought to defuse hostile reaction in Europe by insisting yesterday that President George W Bush's pledge to spread democracy around the globe will not be imposed primarily through the use of military force. Mr Bush's father, former president George Bush ...
Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain
By Barton Gellman / Washington Post The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA's historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations abroad, according to interviews with participants and documents obtained by The Washington Post. ...
Newsweek reported this week that the Bush administration's pervasive civilian mindset is one of the reasons the administration failed to construct a coherent post-war plan prior to the invasion. Before the war "military leaders offered a mixed assessment about an Iraq without Saddam. Civilian neocons predicted that Iraqis would happily ...
Asia Quakes' Tsunamis Kill Nearly 10,000
By Lely T. Djuhari / Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia - The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years struck deep under the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra on Sunday, triggering tidal waves up to 20 feet high that obliterated villages and seaside resorts in six countries across ...
"...I knew we were doing a good thing for the people of Iraq..."
From: Stephan Ward Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 Subject: From an Iraq War Vet Mike, I am a veteran of the war in Iraq, and I wanted to write to thank you for making a film that I believe has opened many eyes in this country to things they were ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'Dirty Wars' by Jeremy Scahill
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Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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