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12 Noon: David Brodwin co founder of American Sustainability Business Council Campaign Finance Reform Is Needed for Government Contractors 12:30pm: Suicide is the biggest foe for US troops- Boston Globe June 1 Globe columnist Juliette Kayyem* It’s not supposed to happen this way. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close, the stress on America’s military should be easing. But Pentagon statistics obtained by Robert Burns of the Associated Press on Friday show that there were 154 suicides in the first 155 days of 2012. The external enemy is not the primary reason for the body bags anymore; suicides are exceeding combat deaths in Afghanistan by 50 percent…. *Juliette N. Kayyem, the national security and foreign policy columnist for the Boston Globe and on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School, has spent nearly fifteen years in counter terrorism, homeland security, and emergency management arena.
