Articles by Luis Carlos Montalván

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THE MYTH OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE: TRUTH, CONSEQUENCES AND A CHALLENGE TO ‘SAY IT PLAIN’
Luis Carlos Montalván, 30 Oct 2009

Maybe mainstream media’s penchant for superficial and divisive reporting, combined with the Department of Defense and State’s culture of secrecy, have created a popular vocabulary that reduces wide-scale human suffering to a necessary and insignificant cost, the equivalent of a few broken eggs. Maybe there are too many reporters telling the same story from a […]

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THE DEBRIS OF DUAL CONTAINMENT
Melody Moezzi and Luis Carlos Montalván, 15 May 2009

Most Americans know little, if anything, about the Iran-Iraq War, which is troubling given how deeply involved we were in it. Well over a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers, as well as civilians, perished during the war, with many more injured and wounded. Iranian public animosity toward the US in the 1980s had as much […]

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