On AlterNet: burn pits

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Is the Pentagon Poisoning Afghan Civilians?

J. Malcolm Garcia, Guernica Magazine. August 18, 2011.

In Afghanistan, the U.S. military disposes of garbage in open burn pits. Are toxic clouds from these sites making everyone sick?

Toxic Burn Pits Are Giving U.S. Soldiers Cancer: Will the Pentagon Do Something About It?

Beth Hawkins, Mother Jones. April 3, 2010.

Burning trash on bases is sickening soldiers, but the Army refuses to extinguish the burn pits.

What Nidal Hasan, Timothy McVeigh, and the Beltway Sniper Have in Common: All Were Scarred by Pointless U.S. Wars

Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. November 25, 2009.

Some of the most notorious massacres of the past 15 years have been committed by veterans whose brains have been severely damaged from trauma or exposure to toxic chemicals.

New Public Database Reveals First-Hand Accounts of How Toxic Burn Pits Are Making U.S. Troops Sick

Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. April 3, 2009.

"Two months in, everyone was coughing up black stuff. Three months, in my black stuff started to include blood."

Burning Toxic Waste is Making U.S. Soldiers and Iraqis Sick, But the Pentagon Refuses to Admit It

Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. March 18, 2009.

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.