"The very people who I had hoped would come to my rescue, I later realized, had allied themselves with my abusers." By Binyam Mohamed Binyam Mohamed is an Ethiopian national who was detained in Guantanamo Bay prison. He was captured and transported in the frame of the extraordinary rendition program. I hope you will understand [...]
The Republicans are censoring their own anti-New Deal logic By Mark Ames In the great debate about the stimulus package — which, underneath all the cant is really nothing more than a debate about how America’s scarce wealth should be divided – one of the right wing’s favorite mantras was their claim that the New [...]
NAZI, COMMIE OR JUST PLAIN EVIL NEGRO I KEEP GETTING CONFUSED By Gordon Duff, Staff Writer Old accusations of “Nazi” and “Fascist” flood the conservative blogs as angry and, truth be told, racially threatened, “conservatives”, rural, undereducated, underemployed and disenfranchised by a modern world lash out. Recent attempts to label President Obama as “Fascist” have [...]
By Greg T. Rinckey, Esq., Staff Writer Over the past few years, it’s been proven time and time again that even large, national corporations can run into problems when it comes to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). With all their human resources knowledge and legal prowess, it seems impossible that national [...]
DIGGING OURSELVES OUT OF THIS HOLE REAL ECONOMICS, REAL WORK FOR REAL AMERICANS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER I have friends who write every day, all armed with “talking points” about Democratic spending and “socialism.” They don’t get the direct faxes, most of my idiot friends are too far down the feeding order. The “smokescreen” [...]
By Rick Thorne, Staff WriterThis clown we call a New York senator better lay off the booze! His insane comment saying American’s don’t care about PORK is an out and out LIE! What he calls little porkers adds up to BILLIONS of dollars of TAX PAYER MONEY. Our damn politicians think they can shove anything [...]
Barry Sadler’s Vietnam Era War Song was the Most Timely Song in American War History by John P. Allen The timing of Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler’s number-one smash "The Ballad of the Green Berets" couldn’t have been more impeccable. Released in early 1966, when anti-war sentiment was beginning to swell, "The Ballad of the Green Berets" [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. Lingle Meets With Shinseki. 2. Group Seeks Input On Canandaigua VAMC Lease Plan. 3. Official Says Evaluation System For Seriously Injured Vets Has Been Reformed. 4. Cincinnati VA Hospital, Local College Respond To Needs Of Troubled Vets. 5. "Debilitating" Headaches A Common Complaint Of Some Vets. 6. Veterans, Especially Women, Said To Need [...]
by Jonathan S. Landay MAYDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan — U.S. Army Capt. Matthew Crowe trained to obliterate distant foes with high-explosive shellfire. But in this mud-washed, mountain-framed provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan, he is learning to be a diplomat, urban planner, construction manager, humanitarian worker and politician. As the overseer of the first sustained American aid [...]
Justices will decide whether the monument can stand in a national preserve to honor fallen soldiers. It will be the Roberts court’s first chance to rule on separation of church and state. By David G. Savage Reporting from Washington — In a case that could reshape the doctrine of separation of church and state, the [...]
by Ron Rajecki "I stand at the altar of the murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause."— Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) All nurses remember certain patients who have left lingering impressions on their souls. In military nursing, with its large numbers of young trauma victims, those impressions can be deep and numerous. It’s [...]
"We don’t need another generation of veterans in prison" by Pam Zubeck An Air Force interrogator watched his marriage go sour after returning to Colorado Springs from the prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. He pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges for slapping his wife, which cost him his security clearance. The [...]
Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $30,660,390 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-5443) to increase the ceiling amount for FY 09 Design Agent Engineering Service Line Items for the MK-31 Rolling Airframe Missile Guided Missile Weapon System. The MK-31 Rolling Airframe Missile Guided Missile Weapon System is a cooperative development and production [...]
Canadians overwhelmingly support allowing U.S. war resisters asylum. So why doesn’t their government? By Sarah Lazare America’s neighbor to the north is erecting barriers to Iraq War resisters seeking asylum. In the past weeks, the Harper Administration has moved swiftly to push U.S. Iraq War resisters out of Canada, issuing removal orders to five more [...]
By ELISABETH BUMILLER ABOARD U.S.S. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, on the Arabian Sea — Every day from the deck of this nuclear-powered aircraft carrier off the coast of Pakistan, two dozen combat planes are catapulted into the sky for the 500-mile trip to southern Afghanistan. There the pilots circle Taliban strongholds like an airborne 911 service and [...]
Sign a petition to show Obama that an investigation of possible crimes committed by the Bush administration is the will of the nation By Beau Friedlander Air America conducted a poll that asked a question raised by Time Magazine’s Joe Klein: "Should Obama pardon George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney?" The idea: a [...]
* Filipinos were promised full military benefits to enlist * President Truman later signed act reneging on promise * Only about 15,000 of the troops are still alive * U.S. citizens will get $15,000; non-citizens will get $9,000 By Josh Levs More than 60 years after reneging on a promise to the hundreds of [...]
Clinton to pledge Gaza aid on Mideast tripClinton to announce aid during first Mideast trip as secretary of state JERUSALEM – The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s invasion and strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Monday. The money will be channeled [...]
What is it which draws us to live another day? By D. C. LIBERTY, Staff Writer Desire love hunger hope nothing more than biological exchanges within ones brain, desires fantasies dreams hopes pursuits, propelling mental stimulations moving individuals to the next hour, the next day, the next year compiling event, upon event, stored in the chemistry [...]
By Rick Thorne Has America become a wolf in sheep’s clothing? This killing machine we call Blackwater was comically founded on Christian principles. Of course! Any Christian versed in Scripture knows full well Blackwater is anything but Christian. It’s a ruthless killing machine created on the foundation of power and greed. I wounder as crime [...]
Obama’s latest disturbing move makes him seem more like a bullshit artist than the moral voice we heard when he was a candidate. By Don Hazen Yesterday we ran: 5 Great Progressive Moves by Obama That You Might Have Missed, by Alexander Zaitchik, drawing attention to a handful of the Obama decisions that we should [...]
Why we need congressional oversight hearings now more than ever. By ZP Heller “We are asking here in Washington for some action, action from the Congress of the United States of America which has the power to raise and maintain armies, and which by the Constitution also has the power to declare war. We have [...]
by A Soldiers Mind Nothing is more solemn and heart wrenching, than the task of preparing the remains of a US Service Member for burial. In the United States, all remains are first taken to Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, prior to the remains being released to the family for burial. For years [...]
White phosphorus shells traced back to U.S.A.Activists call for arms embargoes on both sides by Rory McCarthy Jerusalem – Detailed evidence has emerged of Israel’s extensive use of US-made weaponry during its war in Gaza last month, including white phosphorus artillery shells, 500lb bombs and Hellfire missiles. In a report released today, Amnesty International detailed [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. Shinseki To Take Part In "Fiscal Responsibility" Summit. 2. VA Said To Be Waiting For GPO To Release Portraits Of Obama, Shinseki. 3. Iraq Vet Part Of "New Breed" Of VA Counselors. 4. Fort Carson At Forefront Of New Hearing Disability Treatments. 5. Charity Takes Back Home Gifted To Veteran Who Lost [...]
This link from today’s Wahington Post tells a story of a released Guantanomo Bay prisoner. He went back home to Kuwait and then went to Iraq and blew himself up along with several Iraqis. It is worth reading the article. Without going into a long and drawn out song and dance about what we did [...]
“ACCEPTANCE” by D. C. Liberty, Staff Writer In order to rewrite History, American Government must have backing of the “Medical Professionals”. Minute changes in history books, massaged, smoothing transitions of our legislated education system. Progressively induced by trained instructors who are grounded in their training and belief in the correctness and accuracy of instruction manuals that are, in fact, [...]
THE REAL TRUTH OF THE BOHEMIAN GROVE!By Rick Thorne As veterans we must fight against the crushing oppression of the "ILLUMINATI." While they control everything they don’t control our minds yet! We must remember as we struggle against our controlled government to protect our precious freedoms. Each of us need to accept TRUTH for what [...]
Military’s biggest charity is stockpiling cash, rather than using it for aid FORT BLISS, Texas – As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associated Press investigation shows. Between [...]
by Khushal Arsala and Stephen Zunes One of the first difficult foreign policy decisions of the Obama administration will be what the United States should do about Afghanistan. Escalating the war, as National Security Advisor Jim Jones has been encouraging, will likely make matters worse. At the same time, simply abandoning the country – as [...]
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