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President Joe Biden signed into law the most expansive health care package for military veterans in recent history – despite initial GOP opposition.
As the coronavirus pandemic played out, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources found themselves in deeper trouble.
With the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources are now in deeper trouble.
With the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources are now in deeper trouble.
For more than half a century, service members who got hurt while on active duty but not in combat – like being hit by a jeep while on base – could never sue for damages. That’s now changed – a bit.
More than 500 Australians died in the Vietnam war and 3,000 were wounded, but the damage from Agent Orange was much more far-reaching, as Tim Fischer’s death last week reminded us.
The Vietnam War ended in 1975. But it’s still harming the health of Vietnamese people born after the conflict ended.
Oil spills, nuclear meltdowns and chemical poisonings should be taught in schools.
Comrade Cheetolino, Mango Mussolini, Agent Orange … just a few of Trump’s fake tan induced nicknames.
The use of Agent Orange in Vietnam had deep impacts, including a poisoned water supply, birth defects and cancer. Despite decades of attempted litigation, justice for spraying victims seems unlikely.
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Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Postdoctoral fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of economics, Fordham University
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Director UCL International Disability Research Centre, UCL
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Associate Fellow in History, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in History, Coventry University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities, Virginia Tech
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Senior Lecturer Biostatistics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Disaster Risk Management and Health, Queensland University of Technology
