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Blogs
May 26, 2012
Memorial Day 2012: 3,000th Military Casualty in Afghanistan--and 7 More from Washington
Lt. David Johnson had a bachelor of science degree and 2nd Lt. Travis Morgado had a civil engineering degree. But both wanted to be soldiers and officers. As Morgado's mother, Andrea Velasquez Kessler of Edmonds said of her son, a UW grad, "We told him to join the Peace Corps. But he wanted to enlis ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2012
Sgt. Robert Bales, Accused Massacre Shooter, Finally Meets His Media-Savy Seattle Attorney
Having riled military officials with his media tactics even before he's seen his client, Seattle attorney John Henry Browne flew off to Kansas yesterday where today he tells us he'll finally meet Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of Joint Base Lewis McChord, arrested for murdering 16 villagers in Afghanistan. ... More >>
News
March 14, 2012
Lewis-McChord and the Afghan Massacre
Why the base's "troubles" aren't as unique as some would have you think.
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Do Those 'Troubles' of Lewis McChord Tell Us Anything About Why Sergeant Killed Villagers?
As if to explain the massacre of villagers in Afghanistan, local and national news media have been telling us - again - that Joint Base Lewis McChord is a "troubled" post, perhaps the worst of U.S. Army bases. But does that tell us anything about why the world-changing mass murder of 16 civilians wa ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
A One-Man Kill Team: Lewis-McChord Sergeant Massacres at Least 16 Civilians in Afghan Village
While it is still dealing with a sergeant who slaughtered his fellow troops in Iraq, and only months after completing the prosecution of a sergeant who led his "kill team" on missions to murder Afghan civilians, Joint Base Lewis McChord is now preparing to handle its most tragic case of a sergeant o ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Seattle Marine Sgt. William Stacey Becomes the 1,189th American Fighter to Die in Afghanistan
StaceyThe Catch 22 of the war in Afghanistan is the longer we stay, the longer we have to stay. The daily cost in lives and treasury makes it ever more necessary to leave, yet creates an investment that's increasingly difficult to forsake. The generals think the solution is the ongoing Iraq- ... More >>
News
February 8, 2012
Updated: The War Dead Since Sept. 21, 2011
StaceyThe Catch 22 of the war in Afghanistan is the longer we stay, the longer we have to stay. The daily cost in lives and treasury makes it ever more necessary to leave, yet creates an investment that's increasingly difficult to forsake. The generals think the solution is the ongoing Iraq- ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
Veterans For Peace Seek Recruits at Auburn Parade, Aided by Weekly Stories of the Dead
If you are going to honor military veterans one day a year and forget about them the other 364, then the day should be like this one, sunny and warm and with Main Street U.S.A. packed by cheering throngs. And though the 46th annual Auburn Veteran's Day parade route was less than a mile long ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
New Gulf War Illness Findings Reflect Difficulty Troops Have Proving Injuries Aren't Imaginary
As this week's 393-obituaries-long print edition underscores, death is one of the ways of keeping score in America's wars. But as we reported in 2004 and detailed in a book, Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers, it's the lesser-noticed post-war toll that truly determines the country' ... More >>
News
September 21, 2011
War Isn't Over: Remembering Washington's War Dead
An issue-long dedication to those who've made the ultimate sacrifice in the Middle East.
News
September 21, 2011
Afghanistan 2001-2011
An issue-long dedication to those who've made the ultimate sacrifice in the Middle East.
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Just One Story, 33 Pages and 393 Obits Long, Runs in Today's Seattle Weekly Print Edition
Unlike the online version of Seattle Weekly, today's print edition contains just one story, 33 pages long. It is the result of an idea back in 2002 to write a few obituaries about local soldiers dying in Afghanistan. Our President told us it would be a quick war, and we figured on doing perha ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Patty Murray's Afghan Question to Robert Gates: What About the Human Cost of War?
BarrettMost of the testimony on defense spending yesterday at the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing in D.C. focused on Barack Obama's planned 2012 Afghanistan war drawdown, particularly the timing and politics of ending a war we can't win. For some, withdrawal can't come too ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2011
The Hipster Headdress Schtick Isn't New, But It's Gone Mainstream, and Is Just as Offensive
As I reported last year ("An Incomplete History of Hipster Headdresses"), I was pretty stunned by the abundance of headdresses, warpaint, and makeshift totem poles at Sasquatch! 2010. I spoke to a couple tribal members, and they were as excited about the trend as you might expect them to be. ... More >>
News
April 13, 2011
Brandon Barrett's War
The Army didn't tell anyone about a disturbed AWOL soldier until it was too late.
Blogs
March 28, 2011
Rolling Stone Publishes New Gruesome Afghan "Kill Team" Photos and Video, Links Other Soldiers to Murders
Early last week, when the German magazine Der Spiegel published three graphic photographs of dead Afghan civilians killed for sport by drug-addled soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord's 5th Stryker Brigade, there was a sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop. It was only three photograp ... More >>
Blogs
December 24, 2010
Cpl. Sean Collins, Sgt. Jason Peto, Bring State's SW Asia War Toll to More Than 30 This Year
CollinsChristmas is just something you have to get through for the friends and families of Army Cpl. Sean M. Collins, 25, of Yelm, and Marine Sgt. Jason D. Peto, 31, of Vancouver, who were just added to SW's Facing Our Losses pages, the only full accounting of Washington's Southwest Asia war ... More >>
Film
August 25, 2010
Centurion: Don't Make the Picts Angry
CollinsChristmas is just something you have to get through for the friends and families of Army Cpl. Sean M. Collins, 25, of Yelm, and Marine Sgt. Jason D. Peto, 31, of Vancouver, who were just added to SW's Facing Our Losses pages, the only full accounting of Washington's Southwest Asia war ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2010
WikiWar: Web Site Unloads U.S. Secrets to Make Afghanistan Policy More Transparent
The Guardian's coverageWikileaks, the online government-secrets site whose document cache includes a 1,500-page outline of the public-private operations of the clandestine Washington Fusion Center in downtown Seattle, has scored its biggest leak yet with a Pentagon Papers-like archives of the ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2010
What War? State Body Count Hits 300 in Iraq
O'BryanIraq is now the forgotten war, where the 300th soldier with Washington state connections just died, although the country is trying not to think of Afghanistan much, either, where two more from this state were recently killed. War far away is not a war that hits home even if it costs ... More >>
Calendar
June 30, 2010
Our World at War
O'BryanIraq is now the forgotten war, where the 300th soldier with Washington state connections just died, although the country is trying not to think of Afghanistan much, either, where two more from this state were recently killed. War far away is not a war that hits home even if it costs ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
2 Fort Lewis Explosive Experts Killed in Longest U.S. War - That's Afghanistan
Army Staff Sgt. Shane S. Barnard is one of two Fort Lewis bomb disposal specialists to recently die in Afghanistan, in what this week became America's longest war. Memorial services were held for Barnard Wednesday at Fort Lewis, and he has just been added to SW's War Dead pages, now grown t ... More >>
Film
June 9, 2010
A Sit-Down With the Directors of Restrepo
Army Staff Sgt. Shane S. Barnard is one of two Fort Lewis bomb disposal specialists to recently die in Afghanistan, in what this week became America's longest war. Memorial services were held for Barnard Wednesday at Fort Lewis, and he has just been added to SW's War Dead pages, now grown t ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2010
Military to Boot Fast Food from Afghan Bases, Return Soldiers to 21st Century
There's been a lot of reporting over the past few days on U.S. and NATO efforts to boot various fast food restaurants from the big military bases in Afghanistan. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "[Kandahar Air Base] in southern Afghanistan is NATO's largest in the country and the m ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
Settlement Looming in Blackwater 61 Crash, Death of Army Spc. Harley Miller
It has been almost six years since the crash of Blackwater 61 in the mountains of Afghanistan and three years since Seattle Weekly first detailed the negligence surrounding the deaths of three U.S. service members. Army Spc. Harley Miller of Spokane, along with Chief Warrant Officer Travis Groga ... More >>
Calendar
January 13, 2010
Jaguar Love
It has been almost six years since the crash of Blackwater 61 in the mountains of Afghanistan and three years since Seattle Weekly first detailed the negligence surrounding the deaths of three U.S. service members. Army Spc. Harley Miller of Spokane, along with Chief Warrant Officer Travis Groga ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2009
War Obits: 5 More Faces of Fallen Added to SW Pages
Gwaltney, a war within?The forgotten war, Afghanistan, is now the remembered war, and Iraq vice-versa. But U.S. troops - including five with Washington state connections - continue to die on both battlegrounds where the enemy is usually a bomb buried in the sand. The five were just added to ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2009
Duff McKagan: Surely There Is a Better Way in the Middle East. Even a Rocker Like Me Knows That
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. Check back on Monday when he writes about what's playing on his iPod.Many may scoff when they see I am writing a pseudo-political piece. Many, too, will likely proclaim that I have no right to take up a pen on a topic as lofty and complex a ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2009
King County's Taliban: Sloth and Disinterest
Just a note to the approximately 750,000 King County registered voters who couldn't be bothered to make their ways to the polls - stroll through the sunshine to the corner mailbox - by Tuesday night: Millions went to the polls in Afghanistan Thursday even while the Taliban upped its efforts ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2009
Making Movies in Afghanistan
Opening Friday at the Varsity, the new documentary Afghan Star (review) might sound like a knock-off of American Idol. The documentary follows the made-in-Afghanistan TV hit Afghan Star, which is based on the British TV original, Pop Idol, created by none other than Simon Cowell. But as direc ... More >>
Film
August 19, 2009
Pick Afghan Star: Compelling Reality TV, Without Simon Cowell in Sight
Opening Friday at the Varsity, the new documentary Afghan Star (review) might sound like a knock-off of American Idol. The documentary follows the made-in-Afghanistan TV hit Afghan Star, which is based on the British TV original, Pop Idol, created by none other than Simon Cowell. But as direc ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2009
The War Milestone No One Noticed
The 5,000th death of a U.S. service member in Iraq and Afghanistan was barely noticed two weeks ago. Military Families Speak Out dispatched a press release on the June 2 milestone but it got little play. Today, the U.S. body count is up to 5,024 for Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan and relate ... More >>
Calendar
June 10, 2009
Afghan Star
The 5,000th death of a U.S. service member in Iraq and Afghanistan was barely noticed two weeks ago. Military Families Speak Out dispatched a press release on the June 2 milestone but it got little play. Today, the U.S. body count is up to 5,024 for Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan and relate ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2008
Burial and a Birthday
The 5,000th death of a U.S. service member in Iraq and Afghanistan was barely noticed two weeks ago. Military Families Speak Out dispatched a press release on the June 2 milestone but it got little play. Today, the U.S. body count is up to 5,024 for Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan and relate ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2008
Afghanistan's 500th
The 5,000th death of a U.S. service member in Iraq and Afghanistan was barely noticed two weeks ago. Military Families Speak Out dispatched a press release on the June 2 milestone but it got little play. Today, the U.S. body count is up to 5,024 for Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan and relate ... More >>
Calendar
April 16, 2008
Sir! No Sir!
The 5,000th death of a U.S. service member in Iraq and Afghanistan was barely noticed two weeks ago. Military Families Speak Out dispatched a press release on the June 2 milestone but it got little play. Today, the U.S. body count is up to 5,024 for Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan and relate ... More >>
News
November 14, 2007
Welcome Aboard Blackwater Airlines
After a deadly crash, one Washington family tries to bring the notorious military contractor to account.
Blogs
May 30, 2007
The War Math
After a deadly crash, one Washington family tries to bring the notorious military contractor to account.
Film
March 21, 2007
Shooter
Marky Mark meets Red Dawn.
Blogs
February 23, 2007
Unnoticed Milestone: 3,500
Marky Mark meets Red Dawn.
News
April 20, 2005
Our Toll Reaches 100
That's the total of soldiers with Washington state connections killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
News
April 13, 2005
Santiago v. Rumsfeld
That's the total of soldiers with Washington state connections killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
News
December 15, 2004
Facing Our Losses: Update
Washington's death toll in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere is now 73.
News
March 24, 2004
Buzz
Washington's death toll in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere is now 73.
News
March 20, 2002
Who Said It?
Washington's death toll in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere is now 73.
News
December 19, 2001
Foreign correspondence
Washington's death toll in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere is now 73.
Arts
December 12, 2001
The Rest of the Stories
Web sources for what's missing from network news.
News
October 10, 2001
Religious war?
Scholars debate the role of religion in bin Laden's campaign against the West.
News
September 26, 2001
War stories
Scholars debate the role of religion in bin Laden's campaign against the West.
News
September 19, 2001
What comes next?
Scholars debate the role of religion in bin Laden's campaign against the West.
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