Blog Crawl 1-24-07

PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within

DoD Mental Health Task Force Update
Posted: 24 Jan 2007 01:07 AM CST

Today's News-Tribune devotes 20 full column inches of real estate to the just-concluded two day DoD Mental Health Task Force meeting held in Tacoma, Wash. I'll update with a link to the full article when it's available. In the meantime, columnist Mike Gilbert's blog offers a few.............

The Search is On for Objective, Biological Test for PTSD
Posted: 23 Jan 2007 11:01 PM CST

From Marine Times: Rather than argue over whether a 15-minute survey can determine if service members suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers are trying to find biological ways to make the diagnosis. “We’re looking for an objective, independent, biological...............

Reporting on Today's Changing Journalism
Posted: 23 Jan 2007 05:49 PM CST

Some quick links to share my coverage of the Journalism That Matters and National Conference for Media Reform gatherings in Memphis earlier this month. Most recent report at the top, filed just a few hours ago with ePluribus Media: War on Press -- Press on War Looking Back on.............

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Jan Barry
Children of War

For Americans to break our addiction to war, it will take families working together to live year-round the peace and joy to the world that we sing in Christmas and New Year’s greetings.

One of the tragedies of the war in Iraq is that our soldiers, many of whom are sons and daughters of Vietnam veterans, marched off to a war that bore all the warning signs of the disaster in Vietnam. Like their parents, they eagerly went off to fight in a foreign land they knew nothing about, for a cause that collapsed in the light of the actual facts. What does it take to break such a cycle of excitement and disaster?

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Mojo Blog:
Mother Jones
Our take on the news of the moment, updated hourly.

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An Arab Woman Blues
A Picture is worth a 1000 words.

My dear Friend K. sent me a photo of her country. A beautiful scenic view of a sunset, wishing that one day I will be able to visit this beauty spot where she lives.
I wanted to return in kind. So I checked not less than 100 pages on the Web.
I googled "Pictures of Iraq " "Photos from Iraq" and all that I could find were the following Pictures :

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NAM GUARDIAN ANGEL
Blair rejects call for Iraq withdrawal

Tony Blair has rejected a call for an October pull-out of UK troops from Iraq - but ducked discussing the issue with MPs at a Commons debate on the conflict.
In a deliberate breach of parliamentary etiquette, the leaders of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties appeared in the chamber - despite Mr Blair's decision to attend a CBI conference of business leaders in London instead.

Kathie also has some great Video Productions she has put together on her Long Activism on PTSD, at the top of the site

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Mike Ferner

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Eric Blumrich - BushFlash