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Standing Up for Homeless Vets at Stand Downs
By Aaron Glantz*
PLEASANTON, California - More than 400 homeless veterans from across northern California relaxed in comfort at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.
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Families of Dead U.S. Vets Accuse Insurer of Massive Scam
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Prudential cheated the families of dead U.S. soldiers and Marines out of more than 100 million dollars in interest on their life-insurance policies, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in a Massachusetts federal court.
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New Face of U.S. Foreclosures – The Unemployed
By Aaron Glantz*
OAKLAND, California - Giselle Jiles could be the new face of foreclosure. The 52-year-old financial planner has owned her home in Oakland's Laurel District for 12 years. She did not buy an expensive home that was beyond her means and she did not sign up for a predatory adjustable rate mortgage that was reset at an unsustainably expensive rate.
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Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Now
Aaron Glantz interviews National Guardsman DAN CHOI
SAN FRANCISCO - In his State of the Union address to Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama promised to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which forbids gays and lesbians from serving openly in the Armed Forces. Three months later, efforts to repeal the policy continue to languish in Congress.
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Years Later, Family of Man Killed in Iraq Soldiers On
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - It's been seven years since Fernando Suarez del Solar buried his son, Jesus. Seven years since Mar. 27, 2003, when just one week into the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Lance Corporal Jesus Suarez del Solar stepped on a piece of unexploded ordnance and came home in a flag-draped coffin.
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Massacre Puts War Trauma Under the Spotlight
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. soldier shot five of his colleagues dead at a base in Baghdad, Iraq Monday. The Pentagon says at least two other people were hurt in the shootings and the gunman is in custody.
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Vets Health System in Need of Triage
Analysis by Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - Eighteen U.S. veterans kill themselves every day. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. One in every three homeless men in the United States has put on a uniform and served his country. On any given night, the U.S. government estimates 200,000 veterans sleep on the street.
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Vets See Hope for a Broken System
By Aaron Glantz*
OAKLAND, California - Thirty-three-year-old Walter Williams was among the thousands of revelers who flooded into the streets of Oakland on Nov. 4 to celebrate Barack Obama's election as the 44th president of the United States.
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A Liberal's Travels in "Flyover Country"
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - "What are they thinking?" is a question my mother screams at the television every election season. A union nurse in overwhelmingly liberal, Democratic San Francisco, she cannot believe that the presidential election is even close.
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Kurdish Jews Recall a Paradise Lost
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - It's become popular, when talking about ongoing violence in U.S.-occupied Iraq, for officials in Washington and the media to paint the Iraqi people as savages who can't help but keep killing each other.
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Revelations of an Abu Ghraib Interrogator
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - Few people have thought as much about the morality of the U.S. occupation of Iraq than Joshua Casteel, a former U.S. Army interrogator who served at Abu Ghraib prison in the wake of the detainee abuse scandal there.
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McCain's Plan to Privatise Veterans' Health Care
Analysis by Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - If John McCain is elected the next U.S. president, wounded veterans could be in for a world of hurt.
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Vets Mull Wins and Losses in Benefits Fight
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - You could hear the joy in Patrick Campbell's voice as he reflected on U.S. President George W. Bush's signing Monday of a new GI Bill of Rights for veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Aaron Glantz
Aaron Glantz is a reporter for Pacifica Radio and other media outlets. He has visited Iraq three times during the U.S. occupation: for a month immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein; from February to May 2004; and during the elections in January of 2005. His work from Iraq has also been syndicated to newspapers around the world by Inter Press News Service.

Aaron is a founding producer of Pacifica Radio's national newscast, Free Speech Radio News. In the course of his work he has also reported from Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, France, and Denmark.

Before becoming an international reporter, Aaron served as California State Capitol reporter for Pacifica's flag-ship station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, where he won the California Journalism Award for radio in 2000.

A native of San Francisco, he recently returned from a four month reporting trip to Hanoi.
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