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[Photojournalism Links] Updates: Sakamaki, a Japanese photographer living in New York, has forged a reputation as a documentarian of conflict and suffering. His new book, “Tompkins Square Park,” returns to his early days in New York, when he was still adjusting to a new home and a new avocation ”” photography ”” after giving up a job at an advertising agency in Osaka.”
[Sarah Palin - Sharpy News] John Mccain, Barack Obama Square Off In Often-tense First Debate ...: Saying it is well-known that he has not been voted “Miss Congeniality in the Senate,” McCain described how he was opposed to a number of Bush administration policies ”” from the torture of prisoners to the way the war in Iraq was .
[iVoryTowerz] Presidential Debate Highlights, Round One: The main themes of the debate included the economic crisis, the Iraq War, the Afghan War and international relations with Pakistan, Iran, and Russia. Other topics of national security and budget issues also crept into the debate.
[The Political Housewyf] The First Presidential Debate: O: “The first question is whether we should have gone into the war in the first place. Six years ago, I took a potentially unpopular position to oppose [the Iraq War].” Six years ago, Sen. Obama was a member of the Illinois state senate. Given that Chicago, like all big cities, is strongly Democratic in the central city, this was not really a gamble. Plus, who the heck cares what a state senator thinks about national policy?
[Coalition for Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans » Home] YOUNG SURVIVORS CONNECT WITH LOST LOVED ONES, THANKS TO GRANT: “When we held our first Good Grief Camp, now almost fifteen years ago, we relied on advice from bereavement professionals, who indicated it would be beneficial for child survivors to have a connection point with the people they’ve lost through a balloon release.”
[Cafe Talk] From a Marine Mom: THE ONE QUESTION THEY NEVER ASK THE WAR-MONGERS: The troop escalation ordered by Bush last year damn near broke the military, with National Guard and Reserve troops being called into action--leaving our nation undefended if another major crises were to have erupted worldwide--and those troops already deployed having their deployments extended, and those scheduled to ship out being sent early, before their training was complete.
[americasnewstoday.Com /.Org - Industry's First Blog-Format News and Editorial Site] 'Virtual Iraq' Combats Horrors of War for Troops with PTSD: A study released in April found that nearly 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans report PTSD symptoms, which cover a range of emotional and behavioral changes aimed at blunting the effects of trauma. Now some medical experts believe troops can learn to release the grip of their demons by confronting them face-to-face through this cutting-edge form of exposure therapy.
[Sarah Palin - Sharpy News] What’s At Stake For Obama And Mccain In Debate Over Foreign Policy ...: McCain has to offer a clear vision of how he’s going to extricate the US from Iraq and Afghanistan and restore the bruised American image on the international front. He also needs to explain his reversal on attending the debate.
[Daimnation!] War in Iraq and in Afghanistan/Pakistan: DÉJÀ VU: The Vice and Virtue brigade has taken control of a large swath of Khyber agency near the Afghanistan border. At the commander’s compound in Takya, the author and photographer encountered a group of armed men and boys sitting in a Toyota pickup truck, reminding them of Kabul in the 1990s...
[Wired: Danger Room] New Twist in Downed Drone Mystery: How To: Wage a Tribal War in Pakistan; More US Troops, Gear to Pakistan; Taking Iraq's 'Tribal Playbook' to Pakistan; Musharraf Blames US for Afghan, Pak Problems; Musharraf: "We Are Not Looking" for Bin Laden; Bhutto Killed by Laser ...
[Politics - Sharpy News] Live-blogging John Mccain And Barack Obama’s First Debate: Was It ...: When asked about the threat of Iran, McCain gets hawkish again. He says Iran is a huge threat to Israel, and casts Obama as naive for once saying that he would meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without any preconditions.
[Danger Room] Army Anthropologist's Controversial Culture Clash: It worries me not that such programs happen, supposedly there are regime changes in Iraq and Afghanistan to embed, but that militarily enforced regime changes are made and little or no active preparation for the following "peace" beggars belief. These two countries were deemed to have regimes that were insufficiently compliant to and cognisant of US interests - if using muscle to effect a regime change is acceptable, then using anthropology (or psychology, sociology or other social sciences) no matter how dodgy to maintain that regime change is also acceptable.
[Purple State Blog] Live-Blogging: 1st Presidential Debate: 9:45pm -- They seem to be keeping pace with one another on Iraq, at least in terms of presentation. Does that go in Obama's favor since this is considered McCain's "home turf?"
[Peace Like A River] Cables, dispatches and memoranda: In the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 24 September, Non-resident Fellow Lydia Khalil shared her recent experiences traveling and working in each conflict zone and discussed how commonalities can be applied to successful stability operations in both Iraq, Afghanistan, and any other potential conflict zone
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