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Cost Of War: New Report On The Suicide Rates Among Active Military Personnel And Veterans

by Steven Woskow | Jun 23, 2021 | Blog

Suicide rates among active military personnel and veterans of the post-9/11 wars are reaching new peaks. This report uses governmental data, secondary literature, and interviews to document a suicide epidemic that is emerging among post-9/11 fighters as part of a broader mental health crisis. The study finds that at least four times as many active duty personnel and war veterans of post-9/11 conflicts have died of suicide than in combat, as an estimated 30,177 have died by suicide as compared with the 7,057 killed in post-9/11 war operations. The report notes that the increasing rates of...

Reading Maps

by Steven Woskow | Jun 9, 2021 | Blog

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1402431544690569219

Julian Assange’s Family Begins US Tour To Demand His Freedom

by Steven Woskow | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog

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The Secret Is Out And it Can No Longer Be Denied

by Steven Woskow | May 19, 2021 | Blog

“I don’t think there has been a greater engine of inequality than the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States”. Stan Druckenmiller "Americans should increasingly question the role of the Fed and its impact on society. It’s not normal, nor should it be, that the economy keeps running from bust to bust to bust and requires ever more debt and intervention to “save it” from the fall out of the asset bubbles the Fed has propagated time and time again. And markets are again, as Druckenmiller has pointed out, in a massive asset bubble as the Fed arrogantly and fanatically insists on continuing...

In World’s View, Palestinians Are The Weaker Side’: Inside Israel’s PR War

by Steven Woskow | May 18, 2021 | Blog

Israel is losing the PR war. From The Times Of Israel A new ‘bridge’ Last Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry’s Public Diplomacy Division created an initiative called Gesher – Bridge in Hebrew – to bring the IDF Spokesperson, Israel Police, Prime Minister’s Office, Strategic Affairs Ministry, and Government Press Office together in the same room. Gesher is “creating the messages, coordinating the media appearances, coordinating digital activity, and giving answers to our embassies and consulates abroad,” Lior Hayat, Foreign Ministry spokesman, told The Times of Israel. PMO senior adviser Mark...

In Gaza, We Dread The Darkness And Wait For The Next Strike To Land

by Steven Woskow | May 17, 2021 | Blog

"When I speak to U.S. officials, I urge them to remember that the billions in unconditional military aid that they approve each year for Israel — aid that the Israeli military uses against my community and my people — means the United States is not a neutral bystander or an impartial peace broker, but effectively fueling the conflict. I tell them that it is long overdue for them to critically examine the root causes of violence and human rights abuses, and America’s own complicity in them." Laila Barhoum Oxfam policy officer in Gaza at The Washington Post

Eli Clifton Exposes WaPo Op-Ed Writer’s Defense Industry Ties

by Steven Woskow | Apr 22, 2021 | Blog

Washington Post - The propaganda arm for the Defense industry quietly let's us know who is behind the opposition to Biden's Afghanistan troop withdrawal. Of course she is a professor at Harvard. "Last week, the Washington Post ran an op-ed opposing President Joe Biden’s commitment to withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, by Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass and Meghan O’Sullivan, “professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the North American chair of the Trilateral Commission,” according to the Post. That bio, as originally published on...