Stories by Nora Eisenberg
Nora Eisenberg is the director of the City University of New York's fellowship program for emerging scholars. Her short stories, essays and reviews have appeared in such places as The Partisan Review, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times and Tikkun. When You Come Home, her new novel, which explores the the 1991 Gulf War and Gulf War illness, will be published this month by Curbstone Press.
Bribes, kickbacks, concealing gang rapes, and engaging in human trafficking are among the crimes listed in a new class action lawsuit.
Posted on May 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"Two months in, everyone was coughing up black stuff. Three months, in my black stuff started to include blood."
Posted on Apr 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Six years into the war, many U.S. bases in Iraq are still without incinerators, leaving open pits spewing toxic plumes over soldiers and civilians.
Posted on Mar 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The DoD finally admits that 360,000 Iraq and Afghanistan vets may have suffered serious brain injuries they previously dismissed as mild concussions.
Posted on Mar 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Americans, and our leaders, would do well to take a hard look at the war that we continue to love only because we never got to see it.
Posted on Feb 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
In a wide-ranging interview, veteran Paul Sullivan discusses Bush, Obama and the legacies of the Gulf War.
Posted on Jan 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are in danger from toxic chemicals, yet most don't know what they've been exposed to or where to get help.
Posted on Nov 11, 2008, Source: The Guardian
