Nick Turse, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead.
Julio Godoy, IPS News. October 21, 2009. The new European labor paradigm, which is marked by cruelty to the individual, may be responsible for a growing number of self-inflicted deaths.
Chris Green, Independent UK. May 7, 2009. The doctor promoted his DIY suicide kit, which included an "exit bag" to use as a suffocation device and a selection of powerful drugs from Mexico.
A.C. Thompson, ProPublica. February 19, 2009. The author of the first national study on prisoner suicides by juveniles is outraged at the DOJ. "There are youth dying"
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. February 6, 2009. Our readers respond to a recent story about the increase in suicides as more Americans face economic desperation.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 11, 2008. Obviously, the most immediate and reliable way to prevent soldier suicides is to get troops out of harm's way -- bring them home.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. September 11, 2008. Vets are killing themselves in growing numbers, but the government sees suicides as a way to lower the official average processing time of claims.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. July 29, 2008. In a culture where credit rating is the key measure of self-worth, the increasing response to huge debts is "Just shoot me!"
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 28, 2008. Lavena Johnson died a horrific death at the hands of her fellow soldiers -- and then the Army called it a suicide.
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.
