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Daily Show: Oliver – America’s Freedom Packages
John Oliver demonstrates how America’s freedom packages will turn any country’s civil war into a catastro-tunity.

More than 1,000 veterans in California under 35 died after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2008 – three times as many California service members who were killed in conflict overseas, according to a recently published Bay Citizen report.

Investigative journalist Aaron Glantz studied the cases of Reuben Paul Santos, Alex Lowenstein and Elijah Warren to shed light on a growing trend among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans who have died through high-risk behavior and suicide after being discharged. In particular, veterans who returned home to California died through motorcycle and motor vehicle accidents and unintentional poisoning; in addition, veterans were two and a half times as likely to commit suicide as Californians of the same age who had not served in the military. (more…)

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This weekend, Wikileaks released “The War Logs,” a huge archive of documents that prove the Afghanistan War is a brutal, costly disaster. In this crushing economic climate, Americans are fed up with a trillion-dollar war that’s not making us safer. But, that hasn’t stopped the Democratic or Republican Parties from supporting pro-war candidates or from voting for billions in new war spending.

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