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DAHR JAMAIL He is author of the book Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Jamail’s work has been featured on National Public Radio, the Guardian, The Nation, and The Progressive. He has received many awards for his reportage, including the prestigous Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. His recent work, The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan is a comprehensive study of today's military resisters, that sheds new light on the contours of dissent within the ranks of the world's most powerful military.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
U.S. Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group
(1 comments) The suicide rate for the Army for 2008 was calculated roughly at 20.2 per 100,000 soldiers, which for the ﬁrst time since the Vietnam War is higher than the adjusted civilian rate. Thus far, 2009 is on pace to set another record for the number of suicides in the Army.

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan
(3 comments) Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas. Hutchinson is confined at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia. Her son was placed into a county foster care system.

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Award-winning Journalist Dahr Jamail Analyzes Military Shooting, Interviews Soldiers Inside Ft. Hood
(11 comments) spoke with an Army Specialist who is an active-duty Iraq war veteran currently stationed at the base. The ...soldier spoke on condition of anonymity since the base is now on “lockdown,” and all “non-authorized” military personnel on the base have been ordered not to speak to the pres

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