Dramatic new pictures taken overnight from across Cook Inlet show the explosive power of Redoubt volcano's latest eruption. The volcano erupted four times in eight hours starting late Friday afternoon, with the most recent explosion at 1:20 a.m. today. Ash is moving north and west, and isn't expected in Anchorage. Slide Show
For Chelsea Tanous, a sophomore social work major and member of the Army ROTC, Young's speech exemplified what she would like to do in the future.
"I've never talked to someone who's done social work in the military," said Tanous. "It's something I've only read about in books. This is what I could do potentially so it was great to hear it firsthand."
Martha Ortmann, professor of sociology at UNH, has made the social work issues of the military the forefront of her classes. She used "Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops" by Ilona Meagher to illustrate the need for social workers in and around the military. According to Ortmann, the need is stronger than ever.
Drawing upon years of practical organizational experiences, Kim Bobo is an engaging and informative speaker. Bobo is the founder of Interfaith Worker Justice. Her down-to-earth talk is enhanced visually by Labor Beat through tables and location footage. Edited to 28 minutes. For info: Labor Beat
Bryan Hannah, local Iraq Veteran and anti-war activist, and myself spoke to the county court today. The court was supposed to vote on offering a contract to KBR for preliminary work on a county road, FM110. We told the court about the many crimes committed by KBR and its subsidiaries around the globe, including:>>>>>more
All Things Considered, March 24, 2009 · The late photographer Eddie Adams took pictures of hundreds of celebrities and politicians — everyone from Fidel Castro to Mother Teresa to Arnold Schwarzenegger (whom he captured in a bathtub with a rubber duck) — but some of his most searing portraits come from his work during the Vietnam War.
“No war was ever photographed the way Vietnam was, and no war will ever be photographed again the way Vietnam was photographed ... Photographers had incredible access, which you don't get anymore.”
Hal Buell, former AP photo editor
Adams died of Lou Gehrig's disease in 2004. His war photographs were never published in a book during his lifetime — people who knew him say the photographer had an intense desire to be perfect, so book projects were always delayed. Now, four-and-a-half years after his death, Eddie Adams: Vietnam presents a collection of his photographs from the war.
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I first saw it in winter 1968, shortly after New Year's Day. As I recall, it was high on Page 1 of the Stars and Stripes newspaper, and I thought, "Just another horrific photo of the Vietnam War."
I was a smart-alecky senior at Augsburg American High School in Augsburg, Germany, and I shrugged off the Associated Press photo spread across the front pages of virtually all the world's major newspapers that January morning. Winning my next basketball game concerned me more than man's inhumanity to man or the U.S. military's unease after the Tet Offensive.
Later, watching a Woody Allen movie, "Stardust Memories" (1980), the famous actor-director included a scene in a New York City apartment -- and there this particularly heart-stopping photo was again, blown up billboard-size and papering the posh, white-walled living room of Allen's character. I laughed for a number of reasons, but one was "Street Execution of a Vietcong Prisoner," I learned the iconic photo was later called, at some level probably helped to end the Vietnam War and was being used to seriocomic effect in a film about the nature of fame and success. A classic piece of wartime photojournalism, one of the best-known images from the Vietnam War, it helped to persuade Americans about the futility of the United States' overlong involvement in the worn-down, war-ravaged Southeast Asian
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The other night, a group of hard-core journalist types gathered at the Umbrage gallery, in DUMBO, for an exhibition of black-and-white photographs by the late Eddie Adams. The centerpiece was Adams’s 1968 Pulitzer Prizewinning photograph, taken for the Associated Press, of Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief of South Vietnam, firing a bullet into the head of a Vietcong suspect. The exhibit, which coincides with the release of “Eddie Adams: Vietnam,” a book put together by Adams’s widow, Alyssa, features much work that has never been seen, printed from a cache of negatives that Adams’s first wife, Ann, discovered inside some plastic garbage bags in her garage. (A documentary about Adams, “An Unlikely Weapon,” comes out in New York in April.) Hal Buell, a former A.P. editor who knew Adams “for a hundred years,” and who wrote the text for the book, said it seemed fitting that the photographer’s work had been misplaced: “That’s a disease of daily picture journalism. We’re so busy doing today that sometimes history gets shunted aside and ends up in a bag somewhere.” >>>>>more
"After the whole history of Vietnam is written, it'll just be our photos." -Eddie Adams to Nick Ut (author of the 1973 Pulitzer Prizewinning photo of the napalmed girl running)
The first book by one of the world's legendary photojournalists, "Eddie Adams: Vietnam" is a long-awaited landmark. Adams' 1968 Pulitzer Prizewinning photograph cemented his reputation in the public eye and stands forever as an icon for the brutality of our last century: the image of Nguyen Ngoc Loan, police chief of Saigon, firing a bullet at the head of a Vietcong prisoner. Adams' image fueled antiwar sentiment that ultimately changed the course of history.
Adams' life in the headlines took him to the remotest corners of this troubled, beautiful planet compiling a historic record of the days of our lives. His forty-five-year career covered thirteen wars and amassed some five hundred photojournalism awards. He was a man to whom Clint Eastwood said, "Good shot;" Fidel Castro said, "Let's go duck hunting;" and the Pope said, "You've got three minutes." This is the man behind the Pulitzer Prizewinning picture that changed the world in 1968.
Through astonishing never-before-seen pictures, articles written by Adams, pages from journals, and other artifacts, one great journalist's experience of the war is told in gripping detail.
Edited by Alyssa Adams, with an essay by AP Bureau Chief Hal Buell, and contributions by Peter Arnett, Tom Brokaw, David Halberstam, George Esper, David Kennerly, Dirck Halstead, Tom Curley, Kerry Kennedy, and more, this is a classic of modern history and photography.
Greensboro, NC -- This is the story of a World War II veteran and his family who is desperately trying to get him home. We have come to know him as Uncle Charlie. He was lost in the system for years. Now his family wants to bring him back to North Carolina, but no one can seem to help, not the Veterans Administration or even a US Congressman.
British court documents claim U.S. asked man not to speak of ordeal
U.S. authorities asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture and agree not to speak publicly about his ordeal in exchange for his freedom, according to British court documents.
A ruling by two British High Court judges, issued in October but released only on Monday, said the U.S. offered former detainee Binyam Mohamed a plea bargain last year — six years after he was first detained as an enemy combatant.
Juan Cole: "Engaging the Muslim World" (Palgrave Macmillan)
In a video message to the Iranian people and government, President Obama said the U.S. seeks engagement based on mutual respect. Historian and blogger Juan Cole discusses what that might achieve and why he’s pushing for a broader campaign to engage the Muslim world.
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Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Michigan; his blog is "Informed Comment"
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NECN: Ted McEnroe) - The eruption of Mt. Redoubt, if there are good pictures, will be all over the web today, but you can get a look for yourself online straight from the source. The Alaska Volcano Observatory has webcams set up to monitor the volcano outside Anchorage - and as the sun comes up, we should see more of the effects of the eruption Monday morning, which has led to a reported ashfall on a number of communities downwind of the volcano. Rest Here
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Short excerpt of upcoming Labor Beat video. IVAW member Aaron Hughes talks about his speech at the recent March 13-14, 2009 International Labor Conference in Erbil, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Look for full show in the near future, with additional footage from Japan Peace TV/Sana TV. Video by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner. For info: Labor Beat.org. For other Labor Beat videos, visit Google Video or YouTube and search "Labor Beat".
Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the White House is moving to declassify—and publicly release—three internal memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the "enhanced" interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration for use against "high value" Qaeda detainees. The memos, written by Justice Department lawyers in May 2005, provide the legal rationale for waterboarding, head slapping and other rough tactics used by the CIA. One senior Obama official, who like others interviewed for this story requested anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity, said the memos were "ugly" and could embarrass the CIA. Other officials predicted they would fuel demands for a "truth commission" on torture.>>>>>>
Kate Hoit, a female soldier, comes home from Iraq, discovers that America has a distorted view of women in the military, and makes a documentary to tell the truth of what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s military.
With just one child psychiatrist working at a government hospital, Iraq’s healthcare system is unprepared for the treatment of its children — many of whom suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the long-running war. Middle East Times International correspondent César Chelala investigates this pressing issue.
The great number of Iraqi children affected by post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the saddest, and least known, legacies of the Iraq war.
That a new clinic for their treatment — opened last August in Baghdad — is the first of its kind says a lot about how this problem is being addressed.
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