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Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In bad times, it can be hell. Now, throw domestic violence into the mix and the hardships grow exponentially

Turse: Breaking the Banks

Znet Article, March, 09 2009 Nick Turse
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Food banks in the US

Turse: Tough Times in Troubled Towns

Znet Article, February, 22 2009 Nick Turse
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Financial crisis in US municipalities

Turse: Meltdown Madness

Znet Article, January, 29 2009 Nick Turse
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The body count from months on end of bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs.

Turse: Future Shock at the Army Science Conference

Znet Article, January, 17 2009 Nick Turse
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Eco-Explosives, a Bleeding BEAR, and the Armani-Clad Super Soldier

Turse: A Recipe For Corporate Success in Tough Times?

Znet Article, December, 18 2008 Nick Turse
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SaladShooters, Adult Diapers, and Tactical Ammo

Turse: "We killed her... that will be with me the rest of my life"

Znet Article, November, 23 2008 Nick Turse
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Lawrence Wilkerson's Lessons of War and Truth, from Vietnam to Iraq

Turse: The Trillion Dollar Tag Sale

Znet Article, October, 26 2008 Nick Turse
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Why the best bailout strategy is ending US wars

Turse: The Rising Body Count on Main Street

Znet Article, October, 19 2008 Nick Turse
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The Human Fallout from the Financial Crisis

Turse: The Pentagon: Some-Things-Never-Change Department

Znet Article, August, 31 2008 Nick Turse
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An update on a 2004 assessment of far-out Pentagon weapons

Turse: The Pentagon and the Hunt for Black Gold

Znet Article, July, 17 2008 Nick Turse
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For years, "oil" and "Iraq" couldn't make it into the same sentence in mainstream coverage of the invasion and occupation of that country. Recently, that's begun to change, but "oil" and "the Pentagon" still seldom make the news together.

Turse: The Iraqi Oil Ministry's New Fave Five

Znet Article, July, 08 2008 Nick Turse
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News about Iraq's oil that should have been fit to print in the New York Times.

Turse: Billion-Dollar Babies

Znet Article, June, 25 2008 Nick Turse
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So, who are some of these mystery defense contractors you've probably never heard of? Here are snapshot portraits, culled largely from their own corporate documents, of five of the Pentagon's secret billion-dollar babies:

Turse: The Real Matrix

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Nick Turse
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How the Pentagon invades your life.

Turse: Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects

Znet Article, March, 30 2008 Nick Turse
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Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects. It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out of the wilder realms of science fiction, but it could be a reality, if a current Pentagon project comes to fruition.

Turse: The Golden Age of the Military-Entertainment Complex

Znet Article, March, 20 2008 Nick Turse
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Spread via the Internet (before becoming a board game and a book), Six Degrees has taken its place in America's pop culture pantheon among favorite late-night drunken pursuits. Here is a new variant of the game: The goal is to connect Kevin Bacon ...

Turse: Two Men, Two Legs, and Too Much Suffering

Znet Article, January, 26 2008 Nick Turse
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Forgotten victims from the U.S. war in Vietnam.

Turse: A Tomdispatch Holiday One-Stop Shop from Hell

Znet Article, December, 17 2007 Nick Turse
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It's that time of year, again. Time to wander the web searching for Holiday gifts for all those hard-to-buy-for folks, the usual cast of characters who make the holidays especially nerve-wracking. Well, have no fear and wander no more. This year T...

Turse: Slum Fights

Znet Article, October, 11 2007 Nick Turse
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Duane Schattle doesn't mince words. "The cities are the problem," he says. A retired Marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late 1990s, he now serves as director of the Joint Urban Operations O...

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