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Help Bring Justice to Timor-Leste: A Sample Letter

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In Timor-Leste, a Legacy of Violence

Authors: John M. Miller

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The failure to achieve justice and accountability for many recent and past crimes has fostered a climate of impunity in Timor-Leste.

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Indonesia's Arms Appetite

Authors: Frida Berrigan

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The checks on US military aid are gone, and now the floodgates have opened.

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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan

Silver Spring, MD, March 2008. Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan. PHOTO: © Diane Greene Lent 2008

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I was explicitly told by my chain of command that I could shoot anyone who came closer to me than I felt comfortable with.

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Mapping Political Violence: A Review of Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography

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Authors: Ashley Hinson

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Ink craters the pages.

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A New Vision of Security: Remembering Randall Forsberg

Randall Forsberg
Authors: Randy Kehler

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The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign was her brainchild.

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Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement

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We have come here to mourn and rage and defy the Pentagon.

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Looking for Resistance, Reconciliation, & Di An: a US Veteran in Vietnam

Authors: Steve Morse

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I was pleased to travel in a Viet Nam not under military attack by a foreign power.

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Bringing the War Home Justice for Vietnam's Agent Orange Victims

Authors: Merle Ratner

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The news was devastating. Two weeks after a successful speaking tour of the US in June 2007, two of the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims on the delegation were dead.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong and Mr. Nguyen Van Quy, suffering respectively from terminal breast and stomach cancer, had come to share their stories with the people of the US.

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"Credibility" Kills: Vietnam, Iraq, and Excuses for Prolonging War

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Government policymakers care about military "credibility,"not the people of Southeast Asia -- or Iraq.

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