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US Poised to Commit War Crimes in Marjah

by: Robert Naiman, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis

War Crimes in Afghanistan.
(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: hansvandenberg30, The U.S. Army)

Editor's note: The US-led offensive in Marjah was launched Friday afternoon. Please see this report for an update. The United States and NATO are poised to launch a major assault in the Marjah District in southern Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians are in imminent peril. Will President Obama and Congress act to protect civilians in Marjah, in compliance with the obligations of the United States under the laws of war? Few civilians have managed to escape the Afghan town of Marjah ahead of a planned US/NATO assault, raising the risk of civilian casualties, McClatchy News reported. »

Threat Advisory: Elevated.

Fear, With Good Reason

by: Barry Eisler, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Last week, Dahlia Lithwick had a terrific piece in Slate in which she ponders America's "Terrorism Derangement Syndrome [TDS]."

America does seem to be in the grip of morbid fear, doesn't it? Khalid Shaikh Mohammed could irradiate Manhattan if he's given a trial there ... terrorists can melt the walls of supermax prisons ... the Underwear Bomber is so diabolically clever he would laugh off traditional interrogation methods. With all this terror, you might even think ... I don't know, that terrorism is working pretty well.

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Face of PTSD.

Healing the Mentally Wounded

by: Mary Susan Littlepage, t r u t h o u t | Report

When Barbara Van Dahlen, a clinical psychologist in the Washington, DC, area, was on vacation in summer 2005, she was reading "Nonprofit Kit for Dummies." Fast-forward to 2010 and she has almost 5,000 volunteers for Give an Hour, a nonprofit she launched in September 2005.

The group's mission is to develop national networks of volunteers capable of responding to both acute and chronic mental health conditions. Currently, the organization is especially dedicated to meeting the mental health needs of the troops and families affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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