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Why It Can Take a Year to Get a Mammogram in the U.S.
(www.alternet.org)
Depending on where you live, the wait to get a routine breast screening could be as long as a year. And even if you're not facing delays today, if current trends continue, you might well be in the... More
Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
The US-Iraq Deal Doesn't Bode Well
(www.thenation.com)
Secular and nationalist opponents of the Baghdad regime of Nouri al-Maliki failed, and spectacularly so, to block the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), and their failure is not a surprise.... More
Submitted 6 days ago by cdoherty on Iraq | 0 Comments |
Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors (www.nytimes.com)
The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American... More
Submitted 16 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
U.S.-Afghan rift builds around Karzai's overture to Taliban (www.mcclatchydc.com)
Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents rejected an offer of talks from Kabul Monday and threatened for the first time to strike a target in the West, suggesting many years of violent conflict to... More
Submitted 16 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Gulf War illness is real, new federal report says (www.cnn.com)
An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness. That illness is a condition now... More
Submitted 16 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 1 Comments |
Mental health charity helping US war veterans gets boost (afp.google.com)
Major US mental health organizations pledged to offer volunteer help on Monday for a non-profit group that provides free counseling to US soldiers suffering from the psychological wounds of... More
Submitted 23 days ago by robertharding on PTSD | 0 Comments |
Iran warns U.S. against violating airspace (www.militarytimes.com)
Iran’s state radio says the country’s military has warned U.S. forces that their helicopters in Iraq fly too close to the Iranian border. A statement issued by...
Submitted 29 days ago by cdoherty on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Big Burmese Interest in Result of US Presidential Election (www.irrawaddy.org)
A crowd of about 600, most of them young people, packed the US Embassy’s American Center in Rangoon on Wednesday morning to watch Barack Obama sweep to victory in the US presidential election.
Submitted 29 days ago by backhandpath on Burma | 0 Comments |
US President-Elect Obama and Burma (www.mizzima.com)
It is easy in this age to be cynical about the power of people to bring about change. But ordinary people armed with courage and hope are not powerless; they are history's mightiest force, even before... More
Submitted 29 days ago by backhandpath on Burma | 1 Comments |
Chinese advice for the next U.S. president
(www.salon.com)
Hu Shuli, the editor of Caijing, China's premier business and finance magazine, has some advice for "the next U.S. president." Hu, who has been variously described as "feisty," "crusading" and "the... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by robertharding on Economy | 0 Comments |
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