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1 week ago | 
revealnews.org | Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb |Jim Briggs
It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with troops who believed in serving and defending the country against terrorism. “Going to Fallujah was the most horrific experience of our lives,” said Mike Ergo, a team leader for the US Marines Alpha Company, 1st Battalion.
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3 weeks ago | 
revealnews.org | Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda |Nikki Frick |Zulema Cobb
When the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department in California wanted to purchase new firearms, it sold its used ones to help cover the cost. The old guns went to a distributor, which then turned around and sold them to the public. One of those guns—a Glock pistol—found its way to Indianapolis. That Glock was involved in the killing of Maria Leslie’s grandson, and the fact that it once belonged to law enforcement makes her loss sting even more. “My grandson was in his own apartment complex.
Isabela Dias, Noah Lanard, Najib Aminy, Nadia Hamdan, Michael Montgomery, Cynthia Rodriguez, Jenny Casas, Nikki Frick, Kate Howard, D. Victoria Baranetsky, Claire Mullen, Zulema Cobb, Steven Rascón, Jim Briggs, Taki Telonidis, Brett Myers, Al Letson, Auth
1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Isabela Dias |Najib Aminy |Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis
Expulsions based on tattoos and students targeted for supporting Gaza: Trump’s immigration actions are raising eyebrows and constitutional questions.
Isabela Dias, Noah Lanard, Najib Aminy, Nadia Hamdan, Michael Montgomery, Cynthia Rodriguez, Jenny Casas, Nikki Frick, Kate Howard, D. Victoria Baranetsky, Claire Mullen, Zulema Cobb, Steven Rascón, Jim Briggs, Taki Telonidis, Brett Myers, Al Letson, Auth
1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Isabela Dias |Najib Aminy |Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis
Expulsions based on tattoos and students targeted for supporting Gaza: Trump’s immigration actions are raising eyebrows and constitutional questions.
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1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Jenny Casas |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb
Adam Aurand spent nearly a decade of his life stuck in a loop. He cycled for years among emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, and the streets in and around Seattle. During that time, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder. He also used opioids and methamphetamine. Each time he entered an institution for care or incarceration, he was released back into homelessness. And the cycle started again.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Taki Telonidis |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb
Decades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed and continues to take lives today. But early on, research and public policy focused on AIDS as a gay men’s disease, overlooking other vulnerable groups—including communities of color and women. “We literally had to convince the federal government that there were women getting HIV,” says activist Maxine Wolfe.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Taki Telonidis |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb |Nikki Frick
In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes prosecutions in US history—but then it fell apart. Only one Marine went to trial for the killings, and all he received was a slap on the wrist. Even his own defense attorney found the outcome shocking. “It’s meaningless,” said attorney Haytham Faraj. “The government decided not to hold anybody accountable.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis |Champe Barton
Police talk a lot about getting guns off the street. But thousands of their own guns are ending up at crime scenes after police put them up for sale.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb
It’s been 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with troops who believed in serving and defending the country against terrorism. “Going to Fallujah was the most horrific experience of our lives,” said Mike Ergo, a team leader for the US Marines Alpha Company, 1st Battalion.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis |Jasper Craven |Brett Myers
Posted inVeterans Twenty years after the Battle of Fallujah, Marines still wrestle with what they were asked to do in Iraq.
