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President Barack Obama discusses his oil and gas policies during a visit to a drilling site Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in Maljamar, N.M. (AP Photo/Odessa American, Mark Sterkel)

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Trayvon Martin: A national tragedy

Demonstrators chant Trayvon Martin's name during the Million Hoodie March in Union Square Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in New York. The march was in memory of Martin, a black teenager shot to death by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain in Florida. The teenager was unarmed and was wearing a hoodie. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (NEW YORK) […]

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Demonstrators chant Trayvon Martin's name during the Million Hoodie March in Union Square Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in New York. The march was in memory of Martin, a black teenager shot to death by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain in Florida. The teenager was unarmed and was wearing a hoodie. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — It was the shot that has been heard around the country. On February 26, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida opened fire on 17-year-old Trayvon Martin after he left a convenience store, killing the African-American teen with a bullet to his chest. 28-year-old George Zimmerman told police he was acting in

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Drugs used to Treat PTSD Creating Devastating Problems for Vets

A recent Iraq vet undergoes a medical assessment. (Photo by Multimedia Photography and Design-Newhouse School) (MintPress)— Powerful drugs used to treat veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are leading to a whole new host of problems, including suicide and substance abuse,  for struggling veterans, according to a government report released earlier this month. Morphine and […]

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A recent Iraq vet undergoes a medical assessment. (Photo by Multimedia Photography and Design-Newhouse School)

(MintPress)— Powerful drugs used to treat veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are leading to a whole new host of problems, including suicide and substance abuse,  for struggling veterans, according to a government report released earlier this month. Morphine and other powerful painkillers are currently being prescribed to

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Horrific anti-China protests become Tibet’s norm

FILE – In this Nov 11, 2011 file image made off video footage released by Students For A Free Tibet and made available via AP video, Buddhist nun Palden Choetso engulfed in flames in her self-immolation protest against Chinese rule on a street in Tawu, Tibetan Ganzi prefecture, in China's Sichuan Province. In Tibet, the […]

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FILE - In this Nov 11, 2011 file image made off video footage released by Students For A Free Tibet and made available via AP video, Buddhist nun Palden Choetso engulfed in flames in her self-immolation protest against Chinese rule on a street in Tawu, Tibetan Ganzi prefecture, in China's Sichuan Province. In Tibet, the horrific has become normal. More than two dozen Tibetans, many in their teens or 20s, have set themselves on fire since early 2011 in an unprecedented series of suicide-protests. (AP Photo/Students For A Free Tibet via AP video, File)

For more than a year the deadly protests have swept the Tibetan plateau, waves of people burning themselves alive in a widening challenge to Chinese rule. The prime minister of Tibet's government-in-exile calls them acts of desperation. The Dalai Lama says they give China an excuse for even harsher crackdowns. But to many Tibetans, they are

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Philippines using US smart bombs

Philippine National Police Special Action Forces and SOCO (Scene of the Crime Operatives) investigators examine the site on the island province of Jolo in southern Philippines where three most wanted leaders of the al_qaida-linked terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah were among those allegedly killed in a U.S.-backed dawn airstrike Thursday Feb. 2, 2012 […]

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Philippine National Police Special Action Forces and SOCO (Scene of the Crime Operatives) investigators examine the site on the island province of Jolo in southern Philippines where three most wanted leaders of the al_qaida-linked terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah were among those allegedly killed in a U.S.-backed dawn airstrike Thursday Feb. 2, 2012 in one of the most significant successes against terrorism in Southeast Asia in recent years. The military said, the three killed terrorist leaders are Filipino Abu Sayyaf leader Umbra Jumdail, Malaysian Zulkifli bin Hir and a Singaporean leader in Jemaah Islamiyah Leader Abdullah Ali.(AP Photo)

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Concealed by the night sky, the two aging Philippine air force planes unleashed a surprise high-tech weapon: U.S. satellite-guided bombs that whizzed down with deadly precision toward a long-elusive terrorist suspect and two other top radicals dozing with their men in Jolo Island's jungle. The use of smart bombs,

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Myanmar will allow US, EU monitors for April vote

Myanmar president U Thein Sein, center, walks upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. U Thein Sein on Wednesday arrived Phnom Penh during his pays two days state visit to Cambodia, on March 21-22, 2012. (Heng Sinith) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Myanmar’s president confirmed Wednesday […]

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Myanmar president U Thein Sein, center, walks upon his arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. U Thein Sein on Wednesday arrived Phnom Penh during his pays two days state visit to Cambodia, on March 21-22, 2012. (Heng Sinith)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Myanmar's president confirmed Wednesday that his country will allow some foreign election observers, including from the United States and Europe, to monitor next month's polls, considered a crucial test of reforms he has taken in the military-dominated country. Myanmar President Thein Sein, making an official visit to

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New adviser teams key to US exit from Afghanistan

In this Feb. 23, 2012, photo, Brig. Gen. K.K. Chinn, commander of Fort Polk and of the Joint Readiness Training Center speaks at Fort Polk, La. Fort Polk leaders said the soldiers are trained to watch for suspicious behavior among their Afghan counterparts so they can spot potential Afghan traitors. Another concern is the often […]

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In this Feb. 23, 2012, photo, Brig. Gen. K.K. Chinn, commander of Fort Polk and of the Joint Readiness Training Center speaks at Fort Polk, La. Fort Polk leaders said the soldiers are trained to watch for suspicious behavior among their Afghan counterparts so they can spot potential Afghan traitors. Another concern is the often spotty progress of the Afghan troops. U.S. military leaders acknowledged that most of the Afghan forces will not be able to operate independently when the teams leave at the end of the year. "It’s not going to happen this rotation, it’s going to take a while," said Chinn. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

FORT POLK, La. (AP) — Deep in the piney woods of western Louisiana, a mob of Afghans gathers at the gate of what looks like a typical government building in southern Afghanistan. The village is a Hollywood-like mockup called Dara Lam and the Afghans are role players, egged on by U.S. military trainers. Minute by minute, they clamor more, testing

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