From March 14th to 16th 2008, Pacifica Radio provided coverage of the historic Winter Soldier 2008 gathering in Washington, DC.
National broadcast (April 22nd) on the first class action lawsuit brought by Iraq war veterans against the Department of Veterans Affairs. US vets suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are alleging a system-wide breakdown in the way the government treats injured soldiers.
When young American men and women sign up to serve in the US military, our government makes a basic promise to them: that if they are wounded in the line of duty they will get the care they need. Unfortunately, for tens of thousands of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, that's a promise that only exists on paper.
Corporal Phillipe Louis Jean: When I Got Back from Iraq, They Tried to Deport Me
Specialist Joshua Casteel: Abu Ghraib Interrogator Meets With the Pope
Lance Corporal Jeff Key: Gay Marine Comes Out on CNN
Sergeant Todd Bowers: While I Was in Iraq, My Student Loans Were Sent to Collection
Sergeant James Dean: Afghan Vet Shot by Maryland State Troopers
excellent piece
Thanks for bringing the voices of those from the front lines into my consciousness. Hearing it from the soldiers themselves exposes the abstraction of news pundits and corporate media for what it is: complicit in this tragic war.
Fantastic job
You guys have done a fantastic job. How this website is not flooded with comments and praise seems a little shocking. There is a little part in all of us that hopes to do something with our lives that truly makes a difference and you guys have definitely achieved this. Congratulations to you and all the veterans that have gone from inadvertently being economic drains and pawns in the ideologies of fools to real heroes.