An interview with Major Doug Rokke (originally published in May 2003) Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has…
signed by Ron Kovic, Jeff Patterson, among many others (originally published in May 2003) We are veterans of the United States armed forces. We stand with the majority of humanity, including millions in our own country, in opposition to the United States’ all out war on Iraq. We span many wars and eras, have many…
by Charlie Liteky in Baghdad, Congressional Medal of Honor Winner (originally published on Wednesday 07 May 2003) By way of introduction, my name is Charlie Liteky, a U.S. citizen, a Vietnam Veteran, and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. However, I renounced the Medal of Honor on July 29,1986 in opposition to U.S foreign policy…
By Eliot Weinberger This article, one of the best short analyses of the Bush administration’s policies, was first published by “Vorwarts,” Germany on June 8, 2003. In the Western democracies in the last fifty years, we have grown accustomed to governments whose policies on specific issues may be good or bad, but which essentially institute…
