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10 Suicides This Year at Ft. Hood -- War Stress Is Taking Soldiers to the Brink

Dahr Jamail, Asia Times. November 10, 2009.

The shooting tragedy at Fort Hood on Friday points to a much larger problem of combat stress and overdeployment in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Most Pervasive Combat Injury Among U.S. Soldiers is Invisible -- and the Pentagon Has Tried to Keep it That Way

Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. March 17, 2009.

The DoD finally admits that 360,000 Iraq and Afghanistan vets may have suffered serious brain injuries they previously dismissed as mild concussions.

"We're Going to Be Paying For This For a While": Soldiers Bring the War Home

Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor. July 16, 2008.

When veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan bring their troubles home, police and judges often are the first to deal with them.

The RAND Corporation: America's University of Imperialism

Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. April 30, 2008.

For decades these self-professed saviors of the Western world helped precipitate U.S. foreign policy disasters like the Vietnam War.