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  • Suicides among veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan now likely exceed combat deaths, but the government is trying to keep the crisis quiet.

  • Returning to his home in Gaza from a trip to Britain, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was seized by Israel's security services and brutalized.

  • Does anyone believe John McCain just happened to be visiting Colombia when the U.S.-backed military pulled off a high-profile hostage rescue?

  • June was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the war began and the second straight month that the toll was higher than in Iraq.

  • A strike by 300 fire sprinkler installers has shut down construction at most large construction sites in Seattle and western Washington.

  • I was 12 years old when the Exxon Valdez tanker hit the Bligh Reef in 1989, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil in to Prince William Sound.

  • Military recruiters not only visit campuses and hover around malls; they also descend on the prison population, which is disproportionately poor.

  • Why are the real criminals free? | Privilege at the Columbia Secondary School | UTLA dues vote a good thing | Democrats’ record on Indonesia | Making sense of "voter apathy"

  • Corporate America is celebrating the Supreme Court decision in the Exxon Valdez case that shields the world's most profitable company against its victims.

  • Workers are enduring a sharp cut in living standards caused by rising food and gas prices--while a credit crunch, caused by the housing crisis, drags on.

  • "The Scream," one of the world's best-known and widely reproduced painted images--is back on display at a museum in Norway.

  • The Incredible Hulk captures the amoral and villainous nature of the military's hierarchal food chain, while providing plenty of thrills.

  • A rash of police-involved shootings that has left five people dead in Chicago in the past two weeks sparked a small, but resolute, protest.

  • The Houston immigrant rights community isn't allowing ICE to conduct raids on local workplaces without a response.

  • One major reason for Barack Obama's popularity is the belief that he's antiwar. But the men and women he's gathered around him as advisers are veteran war-makers.

  • The federal government's never-ending persecution of Sami Al-Arian reached a new low when Al-Arian was charged with two counts of criminal contempt.

  • An Argentine socialist explains the background to the conflict between big farmers and the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

  • Rank-and-filers in the Teachers Association of Long Beach scored a victory--only to have it taken away by the state union.

  • Western oil companies are putting the finishing touches on contracts that would allow them to operate in Iraq for the first time in more than three decades.

  • A dictator's bloody re-election farce in Zimbabwe may be prelude to a power-sharing deal--brokered with the blessing of the "international community."