The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat.
Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years. They heard back from 45 of the 50. From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the suicides of those Americans who had served in the armed forces. What they discovered is that in 2005 alone -- and remember, this is just in 45 states -- there were at least 6,256 veteran suicides, 120 every week for a year and an average of 17 every day.
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Thursday, 29 November 2007
120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Friday, 23 November 2007
Censored Images of War (part 1)
How the government-military-media complex suppressed the real story of the Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq
And the same is happening to this day.
A very important story to prove that what you see is systematically controlled. These are pictures that the authorities didn't want the public to see and the story behind why they have never been shown by the mainstream media.
Here is a link to the whole series
Here is a link to the whole series
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
Newspeak-Propaganda at Play in Iraq News Releases
The U.S. military in Iraq is engaged in a propaganda struggle with insurgents and sectarian militants that is as intense as the war with bullets and bombs.
The weapon is language, and the goal for each side is to portray the opposing side as evil. There are questions, though, about whom that language is supposed to influence: the American public, the Iraqi public or the insurgents themselves? There's also the issue of whether loaded language obscures the distinction between combatants and bystanders.
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
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