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US/IRAQ: Soldier Refuses Tour, Citing "Stomach-Churning Horrors"
By Aaron Glantz
WASHINGTON - A U.S. Army soldier who served as a military journalist in Afghanistan, Japan, Europe and the Philippines announced Thursday his intent to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq.
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RIGHTS-US: Vets Await Verdict in Class Action Lawsuit
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - Arturo Gonzalez delivered his closing arguments inside a packed courtroom on the 17th floor of the Federal Building in downtown San Francisco.
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RIGHTS-US: Vets' Lawsuit Opens Door on Suicides, Poor Care
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - The United States government does such a bad job of caring for wounded war veterans, advocates told a federal judge here Monday, that 18 veterans commit suicide every week.
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POLITICS-US: Army "Rewards" Outspoken Antiwar Soldier
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the leading voices of dissent inside the U.S. Army has been promoted.
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POLITICS-US: Vets Press McCain to Back Greater Benefits
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - A leading political action committee founded by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans has launched a new internet video and petition demanding Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain throw his support behind a new G.I. Bill to provide improved education benefits for soldiers returning home from the two wars.
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POLITICS-US: Winter Soldiers Move Toward GI Resistance
By Aaron Glantz*
SILVER SPRING, Maryland - Hundreds of veterans who gathered outside Washington last weekend to testify about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan are returning to their communities across the country with the goal of stoking resistance to the Iraq war from inside the U.S. military.
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US/IRAQ: "I Saw the Interrogator Waterboarding Him"
By Aaron Glantz*
SILVER SPRING, Maryland - "I would like to share with you how one goes about becoming a concentration camp guard without having made many decisions," 24-year-old former Guantanamo prison guard Christopher Arent told a crowd of hundreds at last weekend's Winter Soldier gathering outside Washington, DC.
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POLITICS-US: Embattled Veterans Official Resigns Post
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - Another high-ranking George W. Bush administration official has resigned. The Department of Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Benefits Daniel Cooper quit Thursday amid mounting criticism over a backlog of disability claims for injured veterans that runs six months long and an appearance he made in a fundraising video for an evangelical Christian organisation where he said Bible study was more important than doing his job.
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POLITICS-US: Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries.
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POLITICS-US: Democrats Cagey on Immigration Reforms
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - As voters in 24 U.S. states go to the polls for the "Super Tuesday" caucuses and primaries that will help determine the formal presidential nominations for each party, Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been actively courting support from Latino voters across the country.
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POLITICS-US: Bush Signs Vets Bill, Won't Ban Permanent Bases
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - President George W. Bush signed a 696-billion-dollar Pentagon spending bill immediately before his State of the Union address Monday night, which funds all Defence Department programmes not directly tied to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, expands health care for injured veterans and gives U.S. soldiers a pay raise.
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Aaron Glantz
Aaron Glantz is a reporter for Pacifica Radio and other media outlets. He has visited Iraq three times during the U.S. occupation: for a month immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein; from February to May 2004; and during the elections in January of 2005. His work from Iraq has also been syndicated to newspapers around the world by Inter Press News Service.

Aaron is a founding producer of Pacifica Radio's national newscast, Free Speech Radio News. In the course of his work he has also reported from Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, France, and Denmark.

Before becoming an international reporter, Aaron served as California State Capitol reporter for Pacifica's flag-ship station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, where he won the California Journalism Award for radio in 2000.

A native of San Francisco, he recently returned from a four month reporting trip to Hanoi.
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