- The 75,000 classified Afghan War reports, which were just published by Wikileaks, provide a troubling narrative of that conflict’s downward spiral as President George W. Bush concentrated the American military on the neoconservative target of choice, Iraq. – By Robert Perry in ConsortiumNews Though the reports don’t directly address Bush’s strategic blunder, they tell [...]
- McCain is dishonest as always; Bush’s war of choice in Iraq has caused 4,413 American deaths. Iraq Body Count estimates that between 97,110 and 105,956 Iraqi civilians have been killed. Untold numbers have been seriously wounded. By September, we will have spent nearly $750 billion on this war and occupation - by Marjorie Cohn On [...]
The JWV Decries Verdict in Stolen Valor Act Case The Jewish War Veterans of the USA (JWV) staunchly opposes the recent decision by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn which ruled that the Stolen Valor Act is “facially unconstitutional” because it violates free speech. The Stolen Valor Act is a three-year old law which [...]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel and the United States have signed an agreement to make the Arrow II ballistic shield capable of shooting down missiles at a higher altitude, the Israeli Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The Arrow III will allow Israel “to deal with the threat of ballistic missiles with long range” and will give [...]
By Anne Flaherty WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Monday it was trying to assess the damage caused by the Internet leak of some 91,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan war. The documents are described as battlefield reports compiled by various military units that provide an unvarnished look at combat in the past six years, including [...]
MARCY KAPTUR FUMBLES VET FUNDRAISER By Nick Haupricht for Veterans Today Six months ago, I was approached by Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur (Dem) to organize a veterans monument in Toledo using a left over “stone” from the World War II Memorial in Washington. Six months later and thousands and thousands of dollars spent, no stone, no memorial, no [...]
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, July 22, 2010, the House Veterans’ Affairs Health Subcommittee, led by Chairman Michael Michaud (D-ME), held a hearing to explore whether the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is meeting the needs of veterans who sustained severe injuries while serving the country in Iraq and Afghanistan. The hearing specifically focused [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Two Americans Missing, Five Killed By IEDs In Afghanistan. CBS Evening News (7/24, story 5, 1:50, McCarthy, 6.1M) added that “this is a very bizarre story” because “these two men appeared to be traveling on their own. This is not normal practice for US forces [...]
By Paul J. Balles at Redress.com Paul J. Balles argues that the continued presence of 1,000 American military bases outside the USA nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union is a symptom of the arrogance of power that threatens local communities and ultimately the USA itself. ”What is America doing in Iraq [...]
- Multi-millionaire GOP Candidate Trying to Buy Wisconsin Senate Seat, $100,000s invested in Big Oil, Runs from Pro-Great Lakes Drilling Stance – Ron Johnson: On Great Lakes oil drilling: “I think we have to, get the oil where it is.” … Oil Drilling Is a “Wedge Issue,” not an environmental issue. By Bill Christofferson in UppityWisconsin Ron, Ron, [...]
- Greatest government leak since the Pentagon Papers, NYT: The War Logs - By Glenn Greenwald The most consequential news item of the week will obviously be — or at least should be — the massive new leak by WikiLeaks of 90,000 pages of classified material chronicling the truth about the war in Afghanistan from 2004 [...]
Regional Veterans News 7/26/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Los Angeles, California - Senator Boxer says new Westside affordable housing is federal stimulus money at work Kansas City, Missouri – Watchdogs labor to expose liars about military exploits Parkersburg, North Carolina - Veteran files suit in son’s [...]
“BOSTON BRAKES” ASSASSINATION TECHNIQUE BECOMES BIG “PROBLEM SOLVER” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I had never heard of “Boston Brakes” until two days ago. I had been on the Kevin Barrett radio show yesterday, discussing, among other things, the endless ways to gain control of an aircraft and plow it into a building, something [...]
Though stunned at the palpable weakness of John McCain’s character, it was oddly comforting to hear him concede his key role as a serial Evil Doer.
- Families who like better schools may lose out – By David Rogers The Senate sent back to the House Thursday night a stripped-down $59 billion war funding bill, after striking all of the added education assistance which Democrats had wanted to avert threatened teacher layoffs in the fall. With the August recess looming, Speaker [...]
By Hope Yen WASHINGTON – Patients treated at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics will be able to use medical marijuana in the 14 states where it’s legal, according to new federal guidelines. The directive from the Veterans Affairs Department in the coming week is intended to clarify current policy that says veterans can be denied [...]
OVER 200,000 AMERICAN JEWS TRAINED AND ONLY 4,000 SERVE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor According to the Department of Defense, only 4000 Jews serve in the American military. Over 200,000 American Jews have been trained at US expense by the IDF in Israel but only a handful defend Israel in the current wars in [...]
By Dwight Garner FREEDOM SUMMER, The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy. Bruce Watson (369 pages. Viking. $27.95.) The comedian Dick Gregory used to joke bitterly during the civil rights era, that you could always spot a white moderate in Mississippi. He was the “cat who wants to lynch you from [...]
We’ve got to learn to stop thinking in terms of Black and White, Jew and Gentile, or whether a person is Gay or Straight. As long as we think in those terms and continue to antagonize one another, we sabotage every opportunity to form coalitions to fight for our common good. That’s why people like Bush, Cheney, and much of the GOP crowd thrive in a hostile environment. They love keeping us ignorant, because ignorance keeps us divided, and that very division allows them to step in and conquer all of our hopes and dreams as a people. It is a must, therefore, that we develop the wisdom to understand that there are only two kinds of people in this world – good people, and bad people.
- Considered presence on the Nixon enemies list a tribute – By Robert D. Hershey Jr. in the NYT Daniel Schorr, whose aggressive reporting over 70 years as a respected broadcast and print journalist brought him into conflict with censors, the Nixon administration and network superiors, died on Friday in Washington. He was 93. His [...]
By Asif Haroon Raja In accordance with the chalked out plan, terrorism was intentionally pushed into Pakistan to destabilize the country. The two extreme flanks of Pakistan , FATA and Balochistan were inflamed to make things difficult for Pak Army, fundamentally poised to guard eastern border. Apart from CIA and FBI gaining a strong foothold [...]
NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia political leaders are opposing a possible recommendation to eliminate the Norfolk-based Joint Forces Command. Gov. Bob McDonnell and several members of the state’s congressional delegation expressed concern Friday after learning that a Defense Department advisory board may recommend the closure to reduce defense spending. McDonnell said the command is crucial to [...]
- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the National Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam July 23, 2010 Yesterday, I arrived in Vietnam and I was honored to be here to help celebrate the 15th anniversary of the normalization of our diplomatic relations. The day before, I was in Seoul, my third visit to Korea as [...]
- How would you Rate Your Veteran Service Officer? – By Jim Davis Veterans for Change (VFC) has been working very hard over the past year to develop a list of Veteran Service Officers (VSO) and Claims Specialists nationwide and our list has now grown to more than 1,500. Every month VFC refers over 100 [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. VA Will Release RFPs For $12 Billion In IT Outsourcing. InformationWeek (7/23, Hoover) reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs “will ramp up a $12 billion set of IT contracts on Monday, when it will release the request for proposals for the sweeping Transformation [...]
- You, a Vietnam veteran yourself, are turning your back on your own brothers. … You are denying those who served on Guam their due rights for treatment and compensation. That is criminal. … I will gladly appear [before your committee] to show you my husband’s orders, his dd214, medical reports and autopsy along with my children [...]
- Between 1962 and 1971, the US military sprayed an estimated 80 million litres of Agent Orange and other herbicides on Vietnam, the journal Nature reported in 2003 – By Chris Arsenaul When Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, visited Vietnam on Thursday she extolled the country’s “unlimited potential” and strong trade relations with the [...]
- Book Review of Norman Finkelstein’s This Time We Went Too Far on Israel’s 2008-09 Gaza blitzkrieg killing some 1,400 people of whom four-fifths were civilians and 350 children – By Stuart Littlewood in Redress Stuart Littlewood reviews Norman Finkelstein’s book, This Time We Went Too Far, which “pulls together the facts surrounding Israel’s blitzkrieg on Gaza” and [...]
via mal contends I doubt few remember fearing the consequences of zero national debt. But we as a country faced this fiscal prospect after Bush was granted the presidency by a corrupt U.S. Supreme Court. Budget surplus after budget surplus made zero national debt likely within 10 years. Well, here we are now almost 10 years later. [...]
By Jesse Lee Following the signing of historic Wall Street Reform legislation, the President lays out his plans to strengthen the middle class, give tax breaks to small businesses that create jobs here, invest in homegrown, clean energy, and cut taxes for working families. The President also contrasts that plan with the agenda outlined by [...]
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