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
Thanks to KPFA's Rose Ketabchi, we've posted the
RACIAL NAME CALLING
PLEASE CHECK OUT THE WORD "HAJJI" AND THE CONTEXTS IT'S USED AS A RACIAL EPITAPH. REMEMBER THE MOVIE BACK IN 1954 CALLED THE 'ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA". IGNORANT BIGOTED PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS FINE A NAME OR WORD TO EXPLOIT THEIR VENOM ON ANOTHER
PERSONS OR CULTURES. HOWEVER, WHAT GOES AROUND USUALLY COMES
AROUND. I ONLY WISH MORE AMERICANS WOULD WATCH THE WINTER SOLDIER PROGRAM TO UPDATE THE THINKING AND SEE SOME OF THE TRUTH OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST.