The Iraq-Pakistan border is not a problem
Honesty is the best policy.Posted on July 22, 2008 3:33 PM • 18 Comments •
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Iraq/Afghanistan:
KBR and DoD expose workers and soldiers to a carcinogen but it's not a big deal
Profiteering and cancer in Iraq. What a nice couple!Posted on July 15, 2008 7:28 AM • 13 Comments •
They have a pill for that
Military medical malpractice. And unethical.Posted on June 15, 2008 3:51 PM • 52 Comments •
Indonesia, bird flu viruses and the moral high ground
The US gander gets some of the sauce it serves up for the Indonesian goose.Posted on April 15, 2008 7:04 AM • 26 Comments •
4000
The bitter fruit of the first five years of a needless war.Posted on March 25, 2008 4:05 PM • 28 Comments •
Why do they hate us?
Let the BBC World Service count the waysPosted on March 24, 2008 3:47 PM • 56 Comments •
Water and reckless irresponsibility in Iraq
Cheney's company again. When will this nightmare end?Posted on March 10, 2008 7:01 AM • 22 Comments •
Iran and the US: recalling recent history
When you screw with a country, eventually they try to screw with you. As always, the ones who get screwed the most are innocent.Posted on February 14, 2008 3:27 PM • 6 Comments •
An expensive day in Iraq and America
This was an expensive day. So was yesterday. And tomorrow?Posted on February 8, 2008 4:03 PM • 13 Comments •
Afghanistan: back where it started
Our Taliban are still Taliban. Should we care?Posted on February 4, 2008 4:57 PM • 55 Comments •
Adenovirus serotype 14 and come what may
Preparing for whatever.Posted on December 12, 2007 7:19 AM • 4 Comments •
Cholera set to ravage Baghdad
Let them drink feces.Posted on December 2, 2007 4:03 PM • 5 Comments •
So what's the Big Deal about torture? (***sarcasm warning added)
The big deal is truly a Big Deal.Posted on November 26, 2007 4:01 PM • 23 Comments •
US sponsored Afghan hospital a hell hole
Abandoning the unborn in AfghanistanPosted on November 23, 2007 4:14 PM • 9 Comments •
The hollowness of Veterans Day (NB: outrage warning)
Homeless veterans.Posted on November 12, 2007 5:19 PM • 14 Comments •
The gift of cholera
Spreading cholera, one country at a time, the old fashioned way: through war.Posted on October 8, 2007 7:59 AM • 6 Comments •
Nigeria comes to Baghdad
Important message. Etc., etc.Posted on October 2, 2007 4:48 PM • 0 Comments •
Charting progress in Iraq
Any more progress like this and we ought to go home.Posted on September 28, 2007 4:00 PM • 37 Comments •
Cholera in Iraq. Heck of a job, George!
Whom else should we blame?Posted on September 23, 2007 4:17 PM • 6 Comments •
Bloody, stupid, criminal, insane. And indefensible.
Cholera in Iraq.Posted on September 17, 2007 7:29 AM • 35 Comments •
The MoveOn ad
We should all Move On. With them.Posted on September 16, 2007 4:16 PM • 21 Comments •
I Hear America Singing
They're singing, Bring Them HomePosted on September 14, 2007 3:49 PM • 28 Comments •
Iraqis claim their Second Amendment rights
Guns don't kill Americans, insurgents with guns kill Americans.Posted on August 9, 2007 4:10 PM • 21 Comments •
Slave labor building US Embassy in Iraq?
Shame piled upon shame.Posted on July 30, 2007 7:09 AM • 5 Comments •
Uncle Sam wants You
Chickenhawk convention.Posted on July 24, 2007 4:14 PM • 5 Comments •
Responsible investing
How to help prepare for a pandemic.Posted on July 8, 2007 3:34 PM • 34 Comments •
Afghanistan was wrong, II
We reiterate our position from 2005Posted on June 27, 2007 4:06 PM • 33 Comments •
Both ends of the rifle
Destroyers of civilization.Posted on March 19, 2007 7:29 AM • 14 Comments •
Peanut butter and war
Contaminated peanut butter and misplaced priorities.Posted on March 12, 2007 4:27 PM • 7 Comments •
"Dr." Winkenwerder leaves the Pentagon: good riddance
Lightning strikes in the right place, for once.Posted on March 5, 2007 4:04 PM • 11 Comments •
The Pentagon's chief medical bully
Trying to gag a lowly lecturer backfires. Now we've all heard about what they want to suppress.Posted on January 31, 2007 5:03 PM • 2 Comments •
Revenge killings
Iraqi civilians, the Tripoli 6 and Saddam Hussein.Posted on January 2, 2007 5:29 PM • 37 Comments •
When a soldier dies
A blog collegue alerts us to a worthy cause: the Honolulu Marathon -- run in Iraq.Posted on December 8, 2006 6:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Thanksgiving 2003
A turkey visits Iraq on Thanksgiving.Posted on November 23, 2006 4:05 PM • 3 Comments •
Afghanistan: Mission Not much accomplished
Taliban, the sequel.
Posted on July 26, 2006 6:45 AM • 3 Comments •
Wound infections in Iraq and here
The festering wound infections of Iraq and what isn't being done about them.Posted on June 24, 2006 7:15 AM • 4 Comments •
