A Reality Report for Veterans Day

We have to support our veterans.  Check out this stunning report on the results of participation in the current traumatizing wars.

http://newamericamedia.org/2010/10/after-service-veteran-deaths-surge.php

 

The civil war that is happening RIGHT NOW: BURMA / MYANMAR.

Twenty years since its last national election--and with that election's winner under house arrest for nearly every day of that twenty-year span--the nation of Myanmar (mee-an-mar--formerly BURMA) has just held a national election. One of Burma's internationally respected critics says the election "merely aims to legitimize the horrible regime of General Than Shwe, who has ruled his country with an iron fist."

Here is a very good summary of a real, very jacked-up situation:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/11/07/opinion/Burmas-cynical-bid-for-approval-a-rigged-ballot-30141680.html

--For up-to-date reports on Myanmar/Burma and its election results, check out this Reuters blog-report page:

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Myanmar_elections

PEACE--CW