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Listen: The Mental Impact of War Reporting

In this podcast produced by Sheeva Azma, Chalin Askew interviews former war journalist Andrew MacGregor Marshall about his coping mechanisms with dealing with PTSD acquired while working in Iraq. Marshall is a Scottish national who ran amiss of the Thai government for lèse-majesté among other things. Max Blumenthal from the

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By: Karol S Olesiak

Defund VA Police

Activist veteran organizations need to look at VA Police. More than half of minority vets are Black. This also means that the defunding of the police is just as important at the Veterans Administration than on the street. Not only are the majority of veterans harmless but the majority are

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By: Karol S Olesiak

Juneteenth, Warren Court & Trans Lives

On Monday, in a 6-3 decision, The Supreme Court extended equal opportunity employment protections to LGBTQ workers. Every action taken by the Trump Administration against LGBTQ community has been undermined by Neil Gorsuch. The ban on transgender in the military and exclusion from Title VII by Betsy Duvas can now

3 Min
By: Karol S Olesiak

Gallaghers

In an early interview in San Diego Andrea Gallagher and Sean Gallagher, the brother of a Chief that is now convicted of taking a selfie with a corpse, they both looked like they had been worn out by the other accusations of war crimes. Chief Gallagher had reached retirement age,

2 Min
By: Karol S Olesiak

Transition Soldier

As of Friday evening the Trump administration issued a memo instituting a specific ban on transgender veterans who do need or will need surgery. It seems that gender reassignment is being cited as the reason for the promised ban. There are currently 15,550 transgender people in the military today.

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By: Karol S Olesiak

War with Me

I’m built backwards.  I have legs for arms, hands for feet.  No, that’s not the right.  I was wise beyond my years, isn’t that the term your elders use when the first signs of intelligence spark in your eyes, and the grey mush inside your skull begins

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By: mattbaker

Best Practices for Helping our Homeless Veterans

They sleep under bridges and hide in vacant door ways We once armed them and told them to: Defend Us. Once home they became: Homeless and Defenseless Our Government’s Response: We’re waging new wars And you’re no longer needed. You can make our day by moving out

2 Min
By: jackdoxey

A Cry for Help that Never Came

Ester Contreras is an attractive young lady who was married to the late Cpl. Leonardo Contreras. In the year 2008 they were living on base at Camp Pendleton and were blessed with the recent arrival of a baby girl. Leonardo was, by nature, an outgoing, amiable young man and had

2 Min
By: jackdoxey

MLK: Race, Identity, & Image

In honor of yesterday’s Martin Luther King Day we present MLK’s appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press in 1965. School is in session as one lone preacher takes a mob of educated journalists and holds a clinic. Every one of the questions, including the questions of communist

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By: Karol S Olesiak

Happy Holidays from SFTC

We would like to take a moment to say Happy Holidays to our audience. Like many of you, the SFTC team will be spending time with their family and friends over the next week or so. During this time we expect to keep you informed via Facebook and Twitter and

1 Min
By: patrickgokey

Surviving PTSD

Forty-two years ago today, I arrived at Valley Forge Army hospital, my tour in Vietnam mercifully cut short by the timely affliction of pulmonary tuberculosis.  Having thus survived Vietnam, I have spent the years ever since contending with its aftermath in the form of a wound far more resistant to

3 Min
By: michaeluhl

Post Office Evicted

Did you know that the post office doesn’t run on tax dollars? It runs on stamps. The cost of stamps pays for the entirety of the USPS operations. The post office is guaranteed in the constitution. As of September’s cutbacks the USPS and analysts project a slow down

2 Min
By: Karol S Olesiak

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