Judge sides with war opponent

AWAKENING

By GEORGE BRYSON
gbryson@adn.com

Published: September 22nd, 2008 11:09 PM
Last Modified: September 22nd, 2008 09:54 AM

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Army to grant conscientious objector status and an honorable discharge to Pfc. Michael Barnes, a Fort Richardson-based paratrooper who said he experienced a ( Read more... )

by: Brandon Friedman
Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 03:27:35 AM EDT

Following the example of Governor Sarah Palin's idiotic reference to her son Track's impending deployment to Iraq "on September 11th," the AP has now really outdone itself in terms of ( Read more... )

07:33 PM CDT on Monday, August 25, 2008
Scott Satchfield / Eyewitness News
A wind-shredded American flag still hangs on the front of a home on 4th Street in Chalmette -- one Arnold Crabtree has struggled to rebuild.


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Monday, August 4, 2008
Truthdig on military sexual assault hearing

Activist and retired Army Colonel Ann Wright has been indispensable to the effort to prompt a renewed investigation of the death in Iraq of Pfc. LaVena Johnson. She has also fought to make known the wider issue of murder and sexual assault of women in the armed forces. Col. ( Read more... )

Sarkozy says he's working to free Shalit

Published: 07/14/2008

Nicolas Sarkozy said in a Bastille Day speech that he would take steps to free abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

"We're going to mobilize to get him out," the French president said Monday after honoring Ingrid Betancourt, a French Colombian who was rescued recently after being held ( Read more... )