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U.S.-IRAQ: Massacre Puts War Trauma Under the Spotlight
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. soldier shot five of his colleagues dead at a base in Baghdad, Iraq Monday. The Pentagon says at least two other people were hurt in the shootings and the gunman is in custody.
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POLITICS-US: Vets Health System in Need of Triage
Analysis by Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - Eighteen U.S. veterans kill themselves every day. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. One in every three homeless men in the United States has put on a uniform and served his country. On any given night, the U.S. government estimates 200,000 veterans sleep on the street.
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POLITICS-US: Vets See Hope for a Broken System
By Aaron Glantz*
OAKLAND, California - Thirty-three-year-old Walter Williams was among the thousands of revelers who flooded into the streets of Oakland on Nov. 4 to celebrate Barack Obama's election as the 44th president of the United States.
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BOOKS-US: A Liberal's Travels in "Flyover Country"
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - "What are they thinking?" is a question my mother screams at the television every election season. A union nurse in overwhelmingly liberal, Democratic San Francisco, she cannot believe that the presidential election is even close.
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BOOKS-IRAQ: Kurdish Jews Recall a Paradise Lost
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - It's become popular, when talking about ongoing violence in U.S.-occupied Iraq, for officials in Washington and the media to paint the Iraqi people as savages who can't help but keep killing each other.
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BOOKS-US: Revelations of an Abu Ghraib Interrogator
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - Few people have thought as much about the morality of the U.S. occupation of Iraq than Joshua Casteel, a former U.S. Army interrogator who served at Abu Ghraib prison in the wake of the detainee abuse scandal there.
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POLITICS-US: McCain's Plan to Privatise Veterans' Health Care
Analysis by Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - If John McCain is elected the next U.S. president, wounded veterans could be in for a world of hurt.
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POLITICS-US: Vets Mull Wins and Losses in Benefits Fight
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - You could hear the joy in Patrick Campbell's voice as he reflected on U.S. President George W. Bush's signing Monday of a new GI Bill of Rights for veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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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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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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