U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

No. 796-10 September 02, 2010  ———————— CONTRACTS  AIR FORCE                  Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, Ga., was awarded a $315,587,530 contract modification for the procurement of three fiscal 2008  Overseas Contingency Operations C-130J aircraft; one fiscal 2008 Overseas Contingency Operations KC-130J aircraft; and one fiscal 2010 HC-130J aircraft.  At this time, $250,745,584 has been obligated.  657 [...]

The Tillman Story Sets the Record Straight

Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals safety who enlisted in the Army Rangers eight months after September 11, read Emerson, Chomsky, and, though an atheist, the Bible. Resembling a beefier Seann William Scott, he shunned cell phones, cars, and professional-athlete megalomania. A fiercely private (and principled) person, his death in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004, during his second tour of duty, was spun by the Bush II administration into a recruiting tool. In the appalling exploitation of his corpse, Tillman was said to have died while protecting his comrades from a Taliban ambush; the bullets that felled him, however, came from his own platoon.

GOP Obstruction Would Be Disaster for Stock Market If Congress Goes Republican

The GOP has made clear its intention to block, obstruct and destroy any and all efforts to boost the economy. If the GOP takes over one house of Congress, the stock market will plunge, says analyst Henry Blodget. From Tech Ticker: As the November mid-term elections come ever closer, more pundits are predicting that the [...]

GORDON DUFF: UFO TALES AND OTHER SCARY STORIES

A TALE OF AMERICAN TERROR By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In October 1973, I was visiting friends at Wurtsmith AFB in Northern Michigan, ok, not the real Upper Peninsula but “Northern Southern Michigan.”  Wurtsmith, now closed for many years, was a key SAC (Strategic Air Command) B-52 base, continually primed to bomb Russia at [...]

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Shinseki, Walz Tour Vet Facilities In Minnesota. KEYC-TV Mankato, MN (9/1, 6:06 p.m. CT) broadcast that on Wednesday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and US Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN) toured the Mankato community based outpatient clinic, which “has expansion plans in the works,” and the [...]

Severely Disabled Veteran Jailed Again

via Operation Firing For Effect Joseph Dzuibak of Albert Lea, Minnesota is a disabled veteran and very ill man. Dzuibak is also incarcerated in the Freeborn County jail serving a 10 day sentence for contempt of court. The contempt charges stem from Dzuibak’s refusal to use his VA disability compensation to pay court ordered alimony to [...]

VA’s suicide prevention outreach

From the VA: VA’s suicide prevention outreach campaign begun in 2009 to reach troubled Veterans with messages of hope and help has been named a fifth-place finalist in the 2010 Direct Marketing Association International Awards Competition in the Business and Consumer Services category — the category for marketing non-product offerings such as services, government program, [...]

MOHAMMED ABDULLAH GUL: AFGHANISTAN, PATHS TO PEACE

HISTORY IS ABOUT TO TAKE A MONUMENTAL TURN IN AFGHANISTAN   By Mohammed Abdullah Gul, STAFF WRITER, Editor History is about to take a monumental turn in the rugged, desolate hills and dales of Afghanistan where the world’s sole superpower leads an alliance facing defeat at the hands of the nameless resistance fighters of al-Qaeda [...]

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

No. 792-10 September 01, 2010 ————————- CONTRACTS NAVY                 Clark/McCarthy, JV, Costa Mesa, Calif., is being awarded a $393,883,000 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of the hospital replacement, plus an option for additional parking, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.  This project will provide inpatient medical facilities, ancillary departments, emergency care, primary care, specialty [...]

When Will We See the Next Mass Murder?

The legitimacy of Israel is no longer threatened. It’s already lost. Long gone. Kaput. Founded by extremists and terrorists, it’s been downhill ever since.

Medication Alert for “Seroquel”!

Families of several soldiers who died while taking the very potent anti-pyschotic drug known as Seroquel say the government is not being up front about the drug’s risks and they are now asking asking Congress to investigate this drug.

KEN O’KEEFE VIDEO: MARINE VET TALKS ABOUT 9/11 AND AMERICA’S ROLE IN THE WORLD

the world according to ken o’keefe…..an amazing video By Gordon Duff Senior Editor My good friend and fellow Veterans Today staff writer, Ken O’Keefe, gives his views on America’s role in the world and how media manipulation is destroying, not only the American democracy, but endangering the world.  YouTube – Veterans Today -

Rabbi Bruce Warshal: Shame on America, Jews and the ADL

The last word was recently written by Daniel Luban, a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, in Tablet Magazine: “While activists like Pam Geller have led the anti-mosque campaign and the broader demonization of Muslims that has accompanied it, leaders like Abe Foxman have acquiesced in it. In doing so they risk providing an ugly and ironic illustration of the extent of Jewish assimilation in 21st-century America. We know that Jews can grow up to be senators and Supreme Court justices. Let’s not also discover that they can grow up to incite a pogrom.”

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S REBRANDED OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

Yesterday prior to President Obama’s speech on the so-called End of U.S. Combat in Iraq (that remains to be seen when dead American troops stop returning home in flag draped caskets), I posted the views of several Military Family and Veteran Peace groups, plus one moderate young Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans group VoteVets. Now that [...]

The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America

Any serious effort to understand the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration over US foreign policy must examine the presence of key operatives in strategic positions in the government andlocal Zionist organizations affiliated with mainstream Jewish organizations and religious orders.

A moment of reckoning but for whom? America or Zionism?

By Alan Hart — My Catbird Seat I never thought a day could come when I would agree with anything stated by Moshe Arens (three times an Israeli minister of defense, a one-time foreign minister, a former ambassador to the U.S. and, in my opinion, Zionism’s in-Israel equivalent of Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle in [...]

Israeli rabbi calls for Arabs to perish

The rabbi called for Palestinians to perish and asked God to strike them with a deadly plague. Seemingly, God was not listening to the rabbinical ravings but surely some of the rabbi- targeted audiences of fanatics were. His hate speech did not pass unrewarded.

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Shinseki Touts Simplified PTSD Claims, Increased VA Funding. In continuing coverage, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/1, Jones, 206K) reports, “As the number of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress skyrockets, the Department of Veterans Affairs is simplifying claims to provide help as quickly as possible, Secretary [...]

The “nobody-could-have-known” excuse and Iraq

By Glenn Greewald in Salon The predominant attribute of American elites is a refusal to take responsibility for any failures.  The favored tactic for accomplishing this evasion is the “nobody-could-have-known” excuse.  Each time something awful occurs — the 9/11 attack, the Iraq War, the financial crisis, the breaking of levees in New Orleans, the general ineptitude [...]

Nam Vets Slam AP Anti-vet Piece, Agent Orange Was ‘Everywhere’, Belly pans of C-130 planes were full of dried Agent Orange for years

He became an aircraft maintenance guy. He said the belly pans of the C-130 planes were full of dried Agent Orange for years. The airframe techs would have to hose it out of the planes before they could work on them. The fucking shit was everywhere. Guys on the Aircraft Carriers said they had to hose it off the aircraft that had flown through the area just sprayed with it.

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