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More Damaging Pictures of US Troops in Afghanistan
In today's LA Times, US soldiers pose with corpses of Afghans who apparently blew themselves up. Also, will Spain sink the Euro? Could LA become a city of walkers?
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenToday's Los Angeles Times made news from LA to Washington to Kabul with pictures of American soldiers posing with the body parts of dead Afghans who apparently blew themselves up. Is such behavior understandable? Is it forgivable? Also, As Spain becomes the latest target of demands for austerity, such measures in Greece, Ireland and Italy appear to have increased suicide rates, sex traffic and HIV. Plus, LA is the archetypical home of the automobile. Could it be turned into a city of walkers?
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3 storiesUS Troops Pose with Afghan Corpses
Today's Los Angeles Times made news world wide by publishing photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghans who apparently blew themselves up trying to manufacture explosives. The front page shows a soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division with what appears to be the hand of a dead bomb-maker on his shoulder.
Read the story22 minWill Spain Sink the Euro?
Just back from Botswana, King Carlos of Spain has apologized for his African hunting trip at a time when Spain has become the latest European economy to be in " full crisis mode ." Spain is the latest Eurozone country facing austerity. What have Greece, Italy and Ireland showed about the human cost of such measures?
Read the story21 minCan LA Be Turned into a City of Walkers?
To call somebody "pedestrian" is condescending, but walking is the means of locomotion that human beings were designed for. Why do Americans walk less than people anywhere else in the world? Because they drive more.
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