By Asif Haroon Raja War diary is an account of daily events occurring during war. Each HQ/unit/intelligence agency maintains this diary which subsequently helps in finalizing war history. While the unit in the field records the events based on its limited internal resources, higher HQs and intelligence agencies make their assessments based on intelligence reports, [...]
By Alan Hart In one sense they are right. When the Palestine file was closed by Israel’s victory (ethnic cleansing and all) on the battlefield in 1948, the Palestinians were supposed to accept their lot as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of political expediency. That was according to the script written by Zionism and [...]
Regional Veterans News 7/28/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – Help becomes easier for Franklin County veterans to acquire Washington, D.C. – Mother’s mission: Help at-risk veterans Oxford, New York – Schumer Calls for Delay in Planned Demolition of Former Veterans Home in Oxford [...]
By Stacey R. Hopwood According to a recent Department of Veterans Affairs news release, $2.8 million has been approved to fund three new research projects that focus on testing or developing new treatments for illnesses affecting veterans who served in the Gulf War 1990-91. The research incorporates recommendations from the Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task [...]
The struggle patriots now face is titanic. It will require a Herculean effort to win, and the struggle is not relegated solely to Americans. All those throughout the West who love freedom and the resplendent values upon which it stands are inescapably drawn into this conflict whether they realize it or not. Words: 2261
Unless Americans hold their leaders accountable for their criminal conduct, even if it means the death penalty, future leaders will commit crimes as well, a prominent law school dean warns.
“Unless and until this starts being done, and I stress the need for the gallows when the crime warrants it, we will never be without major crooks, without causers of major disasters, in big business, in government, in economics and in war,” writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover and an award-winning essayist.
The movement to rehabilitate the former president’s image is misguided, former Texas GOP Chair Tom Pauken tells Lloyd Grove. Instead, party faithful should be searching for true conservatives to turn the country around. By Lloyd Grove in The Daily Beast George W. Bush’s legacy-burnishing machine is up and running, scrubbing and polishing the 43rd president’s [...]
- Oil funds were ‘vulnerable to inappropriate uses and undetected loss’- By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, TAREK EL-TABLAWY BAGHDAD — A U.S. audit has found that the Pentagon cannot account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraq reconstruction money, spotlighting Iraqi complaints that there is little to show for the massive funds pumped into their cash-strapped, [...]
No. 663-10 July 27, 2010 ————————————— CONTRACTS ARMY Harris Corp., Rochester, N.Y., was awarded on July 22 a $78,500,000 firm-fixed-price contract for Foreign Military Sales radio base stations, vehicle mounts, and man packs for the government of the Philippines. Work is to be performed in Rochester, N.Y., with an estimated completion date of Nov. [...]
Will John McCain resign and attempt to fade into obscurity? Or will he remain and be disgraced? Will he escape indictment? Or will informed Americans force him from office?
“Israel acts completely unacceptable” Press TV Report “Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. The Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla was completely unacceptable.” British Prime Minister David Cameron British Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned Israel for attacking a humanitarian aid convoy in international waters and turning Gaza into [...]
Many don’t know about tower 7, it collapsed in 6.5 seconds. It’s routine to look for thermite after fire, FBI didn’t. World trade center collapse is masterpiece demolition. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was [...]
Commentary: Elvis bin Laden (and editorial response from Veterans Today) By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE FOR UPI AND GORDON DUFF FOR VETERANS TODAY “WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) — The “Veterans Today” Network, a one-man show on the Internet created and run by Gordon Duff, a 100 percent disabled Marine Vietnam veteran, states flatly that 9/11 was [...]
- “[N]ot everybody is hurting. While the middle class disappears and poverty increases the wealthiest people in our country are not only doing extremely well, they are using their wealth and political power to protect and expand their very privileged status at the expense of everyone else.” – Sen. Bernie Sanders By Bernie Sanders / [...]
- Tax Cuts for the SuperRich; Privatize Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – By Allen McDuffee, t r u t h o u tRoadmap for America’s Future Act of 2010, the proposal would make comprehensive changes to the Social Security program, federal involvement in health care, Medicare, Medicaid, federal spending and the tax system, primarily [...]
- Weight of Pages, but the Best Is Yet to Come on Unwinnable War Killing Countless Civilians – by Paul McGeough in by The Sydney Morning Herald How big is big? Attempting to give the Afghan War Logs their place in history requires that this explosion of top secret documentation in the public domain be [...]
By Megan Trent FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) – A staggering statistic for our men and women in the military – about one in six female veterans has suffered some form of military sexual trauma. It’s a disturbing national trend being seen here in Fort Wayne. That number drops to around one in 100 men, [...]
- Rhode Island-based Veterans Support Organization operates in Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, and several states in the Northeast; claimed to offer assistance with housing, jobs, bus passes, meals, health care and addiction recovery, but it didn’t actually offer those services in Tennessee - By Brian Haas in The Tennessean A veterans organization faces up to $50,000 in fines [...]
Regional Veterans News 7/27/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Cheyenne, Wyoming - Ride 2 Recovery to Raise Funds to Support Cycling Programs for the Nation’s Veterans Black Hills, Colorado – Black Hills VA rolls out new veterans foster home program Asheville, North Carolina – Asheville Veterans Affairs [...]
THE AFTERMATH OF AFGHANIFEST By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev STAFF WRITER/Editor The latest international conference in Kabul didn’t have any suspense or surprise, but it came up with different outcomes for different stakeholders in Afghanistan. The cold snow job in the simmering summer For the international community represented by the UN as a whole, and by [...]
By Sherwood Ross Sugar Ray Robinson, ranked by the Associated Press as the greatest boxer of the 20th Century, also exhibited a caring and compassionate nature that matched his talent. According to a new biography, Robinson would whisper to an opponent he was clobbering, “You aren’t a bum. Lay down. It’s too much.” If the [...]
- Spend your life working for peace and justice, then you criticize Israel and its propaganda apparatus and suddenly you are accused of being a bigot and defending Hitler. Welcome, you are another victim of the Character Assassination Team of the Zionist militarists. – Updated: ADL accepts Oliver Stone ‘apology’ over Holocaust, U.S. Jews. Stone: ”I do [...]
- Neocon Joe Lieberman says leaks are “profoundly irresponsible and harmful” – By Justin Elliott in Salon The Pentagon is telling NBC’s Michael Isikoff that a special assessment team looking over the WikiLeaks Afghanistan war logs has found nothing that could damage national security. That preliminary assessment, from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Lapan, [...]
- The release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber was long overdue, for the case against him was politically driven (The Independent, Sunday, 23 August 2009) – By Alexander Cockburn in CounterPunch “Was this corporation willing to trade justice in the murder of 270 innocent people for oil profits?” Not too many guesses as to which [...]
- The U.S., India and Israel comprise three of the strongest and most aggressive countries in military firepower in the world – By Sajjad Shaukat During her latest visit to Pakistan on July 19 this year, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the interrogation of David Headley, a Pakistani-American terror suspect linked to [...]
By Ishtiaq Mahsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Unmanned U.S. aircraft fired missiles at houses in two different parts of northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 12 militants in attacks that occurred hours apart, intelligence officials said. The U.S. has launched more than 100 missile strikes in Pakistan’s semiautonomous tribal area along the Afghan [...]
No. 659-10 July 26, 2010 ———————– CONTRACTS ARMY Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on July 22 a $41,422,390 firm-fixed-price contract. This undefinitized contract action will be for 60 Iraqi heavy equipment transporter systems (HETS) and associated ancillary items. The Iraqi HETS are comprised of the M1070A0 tractor and the Fontaine 635NL trailer. The [...]
- “(L)iberal intellectuals have lined up in support of the war machine in the familiar style — discussed, for example, by Randolph Bourne in classic essays–and since they know they do not have the intellectual competence to deal with those who refuse to go along, resort to what comes natural to the educated classes: hysterical tantrums, [...]
- The likely outcome of an Israeli military strike on Iran: An economic and human catastrophe – By Juan Cole at Informed Comment Jamal Abdi at HuffPo explains that almost a third of Republicans in the House have signed on to a resolution urging Israel to attack Iran. The National Iranian American Council has a petition [...]
Rotating Equipment Repair Specialist Seeks US Veterans By Randy Miller Houston Dynamic Service, Inc. has today joined with the nations largest Military job board, HireVeterans.com, to reach out and attract talented US Veterans into their work force. Houston Dynamic Service, Inc. is dedicated to providing the highest quality rotating equipment repair. They maintain the industry’s [...]
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