David Philipps’ new book, Lethal Warriors: Uncovering the Tragic Reality of PTSD, is an essential and heartbreaking account of the failures in preparing our soldiers and our society for the transition more than 2.1 million from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan to civilian communities at home.
The public fury over the new TSA airport security measures intensified this week, with harrowing stories of a breast cancer survivor forced to show her prosthetic breast and a male passenger whose urostomy bag leaked urine all over him when it was roughly manhandled by airport agents during a “patdown.” We have seen the constantly employed justification [...]
HAS AIPAC MADE THE FBI THE “FBE,” FEDERAL BUREAU OF ESPIONAGE? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor AIPAC is a sham. The group has, over the years, destroyed anyone who has tried to have it named what it really is, a dangerous foreign lobby and nest of spies. AIPAC is the most feared organization in [...]
Possible GOP presidential nominee warns she will ‘clean up’ journalism Sarah Palin is vowing — in a FOX interview that aired yesterday — to “clean up” journalism, and says she will not speak to CBS’s Katie Couric again, calling her “biased” and won’t “waste my time [with speaking with Couric],” Domenico Montanaro writes at MSNBC. [...]
Retraction of the Article OUTRAGEOUS: Joe & Jill Biden lie about military families speaking out against the wars After receiving an ACTION ALERT from Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) late last week regarding an interview on Larry King Live recently that led to my article OUTRAGEOUS: Joe & Jill Biden lie about military families speaking [...]
In May 2009 the Inspector General of the Justice Department found that 35% of the nominations to the Department of Homeland Security’s Terror Watch Lists were outdated, many people were not removed in a timely manner, and tens of thousands of names were placed on the list without predicate. A September 2009 report by the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security found that the process for clearing innocent travelers from the list is a complete mess. Although significant, both reports failed to mention their findings on the number of names of already-dead US citizens who seem to be stuck there permanently.
This Thanksgiving, we offer appreciation for the $3-trillion Iraq War brought to us by the GOP, numerous spineless Democrats, the media, an apathetic American public, Fox, Israel, and the brave neocons who fearlessly waged war from think-tanks and the danger-fraught desks at the DoD and the White House Iraq Group.
Don’t look for the Tea Party to check Israeli militarism
More evidence Texas hates liberty, hates justice – Junk Science: A Texas Injustice persists as the State of Texas leads the nation with more than 40 DNA exonerations on record. The Innocence Project is currently conducting a statewide review of cases where DNA evidence could prove a defendant’s innocence. - By Peggy O’Hare in the Houston Chronicle Michael Anthony [...]
Today, dioxin levels at the airport are up to 400 times higher than internationally accepted levels. HA NOI — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has told the Da Nang People’s Committee that it plans to spend US$34 million to rid the city’s airport of Agent Orange, Vietnam News reports. The two-year project [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Today the Internal Revenue Service received a 1,389 page filing demanding that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC’s) tax exempt status be retroactively revoked. The filing, submitted by the IRmep Center for Policy and Law Enforcement, spans nearly 60 years, from the moment AIPAC’s founder left the employment [...]
Upon development of consensus between former Soviet President Gorbachev and the Politburo leadership, that the former super power (Soviet Union) could no longer sustain the heavy expenditures of the Afghan war in terms of human cost as well as the financial effects, the Communist regime decided to withdraw its forces from Afghan territory in 1988.
DRIVING TO GREECE THE EASY WAY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When we last checked in, we had left Camp Ederle and the embrace of the 3rd Herd, better known as the 173rd Airborne Regiment, stationed in Vicenza, Italy and had to catch Easter south of Athens with friends. We drove out of Padua [...]
The transition might not be going as smoothly as it could — or should. That’s the findings of a new study of 11,000 veterans.
We’re breaking down the research from The Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, Army Times and Marketwire. First to the study, done by The National Survey of Student Engagement. It interviewed thousands of veterans who were either first-year or senior students at four-year schools. The survey showed veterans were less likely to participate in study abroad programs or interact with professors and fellow students. The Student Veterans of America’s Michael Dakduk tells the Washington Post, some of the blame falls on universities.
November 22, 2010 Senator Mitch McConnell 361-A Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2541 Dear Senator McConnell: Recently, our past president, George W. Bush, wrote in his memoirs, Decision Points, that you met privately with him and urged the President to withdrawal troops from Iraq in September of 2006 when American casualties [...]
Rumor has it Apple CEO Steve Jobs and News Corp head honcho Rupert Murdoch are buddying up. Several media reports indicate the unlikely two-some is developing the first true iNewspaper—a daily news publication available exclusively on the iPad. No paper. No website. And no freebies. CNBC has the details.
Veterans advocate and all-around hell raiser, Dan Cedusky, has a Facebook page up. We recommend Dan’s page highly, though he said he is figuring out “how it all works.” Visit Dan’s page at Dan Cedusky, Veterans’ Issues. And as always, his Veterans Issues (Yahoo) page and Veterans Issues by Col Dan. If we had 1,000,000 Dan Ceduskys, [...]
Mr Gregorie Von Bruhn Mr Gregorie Von Bruhn and VT correspondent Jane Rosenstein VT correspondent Gennady Sevastyanov at the ruins of Atlantic ridge bunkers. Bulon Sur Mer, France VT correspondent Gennady Sevastyanov at the ruins of Atlantic ridge bunkers. Bulon Sur Mer, France The son of a Third Reich veteran told us about his father’s [...]
From the White House: The Return of First Question By Jesse Lee Today before his press briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a couple questions from Twitter as the next installment in the series we’ve dubbed “First Question.” He took questions on prospects for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and ratification of the [...]
CONTRACTS: No. 1079-10 DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc.*, Virginia Beach, Va., is being awarded a maximum $800,000,000 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, tailored logistics support program contract for fire and emergency services. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. The original proposal was [...]
NO LONGER A THEORY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When both Judge Napolitano and Geraldo Rivera, biggest names on “fair and balanced” Fox News, agree that calling 9/11 a “wingnut conspiracy” was a mistake, you would expect more to happen. The government should be shaken to its roots, network after network should be picking [...]
– The appeasement of a militaristic country veering into fascism makes matters much worse – By Phyllis Bennis The breathless will-they-won’t-they coverage wasn’t quite as extreme this time, but there’s still been way more attention paid to the latest U.S. “settlement freeze” offer to Netanyahu than it deserves. What’s supposed to be the main [...]
The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness ( the Unified Field ) which lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fears ~ and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite: Allen L Roland. See http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/it-really-is-this-simple.html. Lincoln [...]
Well, it may be awful but it will be interesting… “In the end all that’s left are flotsam, jetsam and photographs….” This used to be a pretty damn good country. Sorry to say used to be; however, things are definitely going wrong. My wife caught a few minutes of Sarah Palin’s Alaska by accident and [...]
Halfaker, a SDVOSB, Seeks Talented Military Veterans for Quality Employment By Randy Miller Halfaker, a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, provides a comprehensive suite of services to their clients across the areas of homeland security and defense, physical security, program management, and information technology. To create greater value for their clients, they focus on integrating [...]
If you submitted a claim after 1986 and had a BAD SPN, SDN, or SPD code and were NOT told, refile, you have the PROOF now. Additional questions may now be asked. Find out more….
Record-low interest rates have made VA refinance loans more attractive than ever. But they’re proving increasingly elusive for some service members to secure. In response to the lingering credit crunch, VA-approved lenders have tightened their requirements for borrowers seeking an Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL), better known as a VA Streamline. The reality is [...]
- Do we have a secular military? – As many families write annual holiday letters to update relatives and friends of noteworthy events over the past year, we have chosen to write on behalf of ourselves and countless others that have fallen prey to the fundamentalist Christian religious cult, “Cadets for Christ” at the United [...]
Read Chapter One from “The Oedipus Connection: Where Fiction and Fantasies Collide with the New World Order” a new upcoming book being written by Jack Williams. The book will be out in 2011.
USAA and the Enlisted Association of the National Guard (EANGUS) have joined forces to offer a credit card that helps fund EANGUS programs and gives its members access to many of USAA’s financial services. The alliance allows EANGUS’ 40,000 members to carry the Enlisted Association of the National Guard USAA Rewards World MasterCard ®, which will help fund the association’s efforts and programs.
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