Greg Mitchell, Huffington Post. May 13, 2008. As a national crisis grows and Congress starts to pay attention, small town newspapers remain the only sources for information on veteran suicides
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. April 28, 2008. Drug company spin does not change the fact that Cymbalta has been linked to suicide -- even in otherwise mentally healthy people.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. January 2, 2008. A testimony at congressional hearings in response to increasingly ominous reports of soldier and veteran suicides.
Kathy Kastan, Huffington Post. December 19, 2007. Suicide rates are alarmingly high among middle-aged Americans, and the holiday season often amplifies the problem.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 26, 2007. The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat.
GottaLaff, Brave New Films AlterNet: War on Iraq. November 14, 2007. GottaLaff: 5,000 dead. Not shot, not grenaded, not killed. 5,000 suicides. Sleep well, BushCo.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 11, 2007. Americans have been effectively insulated from the human cost of our wars. That's not an accident; it's policy.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. August 28, 2007. The military says that there's no connection between the stress of combat and spiraling suicide rates. But the widow of a vet who took his own life knows differently.
Pam Spaulding, AlterNet: PEEK. August 16, 2007. Pam Spaulding: Mission accomplished. Support our troops. Those slogans ring hollow over and over -- and now this.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. August 1, 2007. The parents of an Iraq veteran who committed suicide are suing the Department of Veterans Affairs for wrongful death and medical malpractice.
Shelley Jofre, CorpWatch. August 1, 2007. GlaxoSmithKline provides research funding to doctors who write favorable opinions of depression drugs for children, despite evidence from clinical trials that the medication can cause anger and even suicide.
Robert Bryce, Texas Observer. March 16, 2007. Writing in his suicide note, "I am sullied -- no more," U.S. Colonel Ted Westhusing, father of three, chose death over a life of lies and corruption in occupied Iraq.