News from Channel 13 investigation: A 13 Investigates report is sparking a national policy review over benefits for reservists who go to war, but aren’t officially activated. For years, a local pilot says his squadron has been unable to prove they are sick and dying from war illnesses. More importantly, some can’t find records [...]
No. 931-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $386,046,463 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-09-C-0086) for the procurement of 22 EA-18G Lot 33 Full Rate Production (FRP) airborne electronic attack (AEA) kits, 22 EA-18G Lot 34 FRP AEA kits, and [...]
Well, apparently the President has issued marching orders for more troops in Afghanistan as of Sunday night. The Washington Post is reporting in an article entitled Obama informs advisers of Afghan war strategy. It is all over but the shouting for those of us who are against escalation in Afghanistan and want a pullout. His presidency will [...]
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- There’s still time to have your voice heard. Call the White House at 202-456-1111 or email the President. – Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in [...]
A RESOLUTION IN AFGHANISTAN CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT SOLVING THE BORDER DISPUTE WITH PAKISTAN by Dr. Richard North – UK Correspondent While the world awaits with baited breath the announcement tomorrow from president Obama on his intentions for Afghanistan, coverage of the campaign has been relatively muted – although the traditional scaling down of campaigning [...]
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From left, Thurston Mangrum, Patrick Corcoran, Jan Zientek and Reginald Mourning at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in East Orange, N.J. Mr. Zientek has been advising the men on working in the hospital’s garden. Photo: Richard Perry/The New York Times By Peter Applebome The New York Times Reggie Mourning wears a Marine Corps sweatshirt and [...]
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In today’s New York Times we find articles that all seem to be centered around the notion that the citizenry in the USA is slowly but irrevocably changing its positions and expectations about politics and how it relates to American life. We have been uninterested and uninvolved as a people for much too long and [...]
Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing [...]
Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan consists of a growing number of veterans committed to showing Congress and the public the realities of the war. These vets have been traveling to Washington, D.C., testifying before Congress and meeting with Senators and Representatives. Their message: Rethink U.S. foreign policy to include non-military solutions for the problems in Afghanistan [...]
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A SECOND GLOBAL HOLOCAUST CONTINUES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When Saddam invaded Kuwait, he didn’t expect America to object. Kuwait had been stealing Iraqi oil for years and, besides that, Kuwait was a slave labor state, one of the most evil and debauched nations on earth. Why would America defend such an abomination? [...]
Three days ago, we posted an opinion piece by Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) titled American Needs a Discussion About Mental Health and the Draft. In Paul’s article he approached the potential need to consider possibly drafting Medical and Mental Health professionals into the Armed Forces as a last resort to [...]
AF-PAK’S SOLUTION: THE GREATER HIMALAYAN COMMON MARKET By Tom Dillman, Houston, Texas My points of view comes from having spent a considerable amount of time traveling and staying in the Himalayan region with powerful Mystics and conversing extensively with Indian, Pakistani and Iranian friends in the U.S. and abroad. I confirmed my thoughts [...]
Some forty-five years after the passage of the first civil rights legislation guided into law by JFK and LBJ, the civil rights and peace movements tower as monuments to American progress. Through the work of ordinary citizens, today’s America stands in stark contrast to the contemporary Republican Party and its retrograde agenda bearing an unseemly resemblance [...]
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President Obama’s toughest challenge will be to win over his most loyal political supporters. He is facing a growing revolt in the Democratic Party over why the US needs to be in Afghanistan at all when the real threat, Al-Qaeda, is in Pakistan, and over the spiraling cost in both lives and dollars. Peace [...]
The New York Times reports today that as of now, one in eight Americans is eating with the help of food stamps and one in four American children needs food stamps to stave off hunger. Now let me ask you my fellow American veterans, in this context, does spending billions on wars for the sake [...]
By Sherwood Ross /Staff Writer After initially injecting 21,000 troops into Afghanistan allegedly to stave off imminent defeat, President Obama Tuesday will tell war-weary Americans why he seeks 35,000 more. If he gets them, the U.S. force there will exceed 100,000. Washington has been pressuring its NATO allies to pour in more fighters even though [...]
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters: Review of James Douglass’ Book by Edward Curtin Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions. There are others who cling [...]
OBAMA’S PROFILE IN COURAGE OR CAVE IN? By Ray McGovern for Truthout (Ed Note: Mc Govern sets the record straight on Vietnam and other Pentagon blunders. Kennedy stopped the military from an attack on Cuba which would have led to nuclear war and ordered a COMPLETE pullout in Vietnam, stopped only by his assassination, now [...]
SC WWII vet’s battle ends in gunshot at VA clinic By JEFFREY COLLINS (AP) GREENVILLE, S.C. – On the last day of his long, troubled life, Grover Cleveland Chapman packed a black duffel bag, washed out his coffee cup, put it in the dish rack and fetched his Smith & Wesson. He threw away his [...]
By Bruce Riedel The Daily Beast Mullah Omar, the elusive leader of the Afghan Taliban, has released a bold message to the White House, warning that any plan to boost troop levels in Afghanistan could lead to "bitterness and pain." The Daily Beast’s Bruce Riedel decodes the chilling message. On the eve of President Barack [...]
Sphere blog has posted this piece of information originating with the Republican National Committee this morning. I am active Democrat here in Northern Virginia so I will not comment. If you are a Republican, do you pass this test? If you do not pass the test, what do you think about that? CWO3 Tom Barnes, [...]
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So you think it’s only terrorist-appeasing lefties who are down on Pentagon profligacy? Think again. By David Sirota Salon Pop quiz — name the political leader who said the following: "We must be willing to pull the plug before sinking more dollars into weapons that do not provide what our warriors need." Now name the [...]
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