A TRUCE… The holidays are a time to remember what things are all about, why we are who we are, why we fight wars and why so many have sacrificed so much. It isn’t a time for blame, for envy, for recriminations. We would bring every American home, every soldier, sailor or Marine, back to [...]
A Marine’s Christmas ‘Twas the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, In a one bedroom house made of plaster and stone. I had come down the chimney with presents to give, And had to see just who in this home did live. I looked all about, a strange sight I did see, No tinsel, [...]
In 2008, the Milwaukee chapter of Veterans for Peace began a small, weekly outreach program to look for homeless veterans in Milwaukee and see if we could help. We never leave a man or woman behind in the field; and we never should at home. By Bill Christofferson at UppityWisconsin The good news — and [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1177-10 ARMY DynCorp International, LLC, Falls Church, Va., was awarded on Dec. 20 a $1,043,726,525 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for specialized training and mentoring services for the government of Afghanistan, and provide logistics and life support components for 14 training facilities in Afghanistan. Work will be performed in Afghanistan with [...]
Combining religion and military life is inherently dangerous, and all steps should be taken to ensure the two are not conflated, either by those on the inside, or those without … Via the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and doomed-to-hell Chris Rodda and Mikey Weinstein Dear General Gould, Colonel Brantingham, and Colonel Bruno, My name is [...]
Even mindless U.S. news organs of the past 40 years do not compare to Fox News as rightwing corporate propaganda emulates the 1970s Soviet press In their seminal book on the American corporate media—Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988)—the authors posit a “‘propaganda [...]
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. The VA’s CIO Wants IT Budget Restoration. Federal Computer Week (12/23, Lipowicz, 90K) reports, “Suspending and delaying spending on troubled” information technology (IT) projects “saved $250 million for the Veterans Affairs Department in fiscal 2010, and now Congress appears ready to reclaim some of that money. However, [...]
WASHINGTON — The holidays are a traditional time of joy, laughter and sharing with family and friends. They are also a time of remembrance of past celebrations and anticipation of family gatherings. While the holiday season is often experienced as a season for celebration and giving thanks, for many, the holidays may bring loneliness, depression, [...]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the availability of funds for supportive services grants under the Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program (SSVF Program). A Notice of Fund Availability (NOFA) is published in today’s Federal Register concerning the SSVF Program, the application process, and the amount of funding available. The NOFA is [...]
Washington – To help small businesses owned by service-disabled Veterans and other Veteran-owned small businesses become more competitive in the marketplace, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected 20 mentor-protégé teams to participate in a new program. “For VA, it’s a natural goal to award government contracts to qualified Veteran-owned small businesses,” said Secretary [...]
Drill Instructors Indoctrinate New Recruits by Routinely Referring to Women as “Girl,” “Pussy,” “Bitch,” and “Dyke” Statistics and soldiers’ testimonies reveal a harrowing epidemic of sexual assault in the US military. “The crisis is so severe that I’m telling women to simply not join the military because it’s completely unsafe and puts them at risk. [...]
“Wikileaks was a conduit for a lot of material that the Wikileakers themselves could not identify or source. If an intelligence agency wanted to plant its own slanted “disclosures” in the welter of documents being dumped on the site, it would be only too easy to do.” In my previous articles I pointed out the [...]
The Origins of the word ‘Goy’ By Richard Edmondson for Veterans Today “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world—only to serve the people of Israel.” Those are the words of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas Party in Israel, as quoted in the October [...]
In an ongoing assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Israeli fighter jets struck the southern city of Rafah early this morning, injuring four. The IMEMC reported that four Palestinians were wounded in the attack, which destroyed an alleged “training base” for the armed wing of the Hamas party (“Army bombards Rafah,” 22 December 2010). Via [...]
Arthur “Rex” Crane, 84, posed as a World War II veteran for 22 years and achieved a national profile as Australian president of the Ex-Prisoners of War Association until he was outed by a military historian who believed his story did not add up. During that time, Crane successfully claimed $464,409 in war pension and [...]
The Air Force has been able to claim the best practice in addressing PTSD and suicides so this is one of the most important release of figures on suicides. Air Force Suicide Rate Hits 17-Year High December 23, 2010 Stars and Stripes|by Jennifer H. Svan Air Force suicides hit a 17-year high in 2010, and [...]
Haaretz has an international reputation as Israel’s most liberal and reliable newspaper. But The Electronic Intifada has discovered that one of the newspaper’s regularly-featured reporters, Cnaan Liphshiz, used his news reports for the publication to promote the agenda of an extreme pro-Israel group, CIDI, with which he was also employed. Journalist Stan van Houcke describes CIDI [...]
CHUTZPAH: PROMISE TO STOP WORKING FOR ISRAEL “FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME TWICE….” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/SeniorEditor “it is one thing for the New York Times to edit their own stories but you let them censor everything for all of us” Today, Julian Assange admitted that Wikileak material had been chosen [...]
Good morning, The holiday season is one of my favorite times of year at the White House. The White House truly feels like the “People’s House,” as folks of all ages from across the country pass through the halls enjoying the beautiful décor and celebrating the history here at every turn. More than 100,000 visitors [...]
There’s been a few pieces of good news as this year draws down. But in most ways, this year has been a really hard one, even as the international Palestinian solidarity and anti-war movements have consolidated, predictably earning the enmity of the FBI. Wikileaks, aka CableGate, has been exposed as an ”orchard of exposés over-ripe for cherry-picking”—disinformation meant [...]
WILL ASSANGE REALLY DO IT, FINALLY? Wikileaks and Israel By Gilad Atzmon STAFF WRITER ‘WikiLeaks to publish Israel files on Second Lebanon War, Dubai assassination’ Julian Assange said today that thousands of documents related to Israel are due to be released over next six months. Assange admitted also that so far only 2% of the Wikileaks [...]
As The Electronic Intifada reported in November, international solidarity and anti-war activists are facing a new wave of repression in the United States. … In June, an ACLU report documented 100 recent reported incidents in 33 states where “Americans have been put under surveillance or harassed” by federal and local law enforcement agencies “just for [...]
In the video there are two shots of the planes colliding into the World Trade Center towers, the second airplane didn’t exactly look like a commercial plane. In both cases, the explosions relating to the planes’ collisions appear to occur prior to the planes’ impact…!
Why Is Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard Back in the News? Over the past two months, Benjamin Netanyahu has mentioned the fate of jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard six times in meetings with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Israel lobby also mounted a letter-writing campaign on Pollard’s behalf. By Jeff Gates in [...]
With his signature today, the President put in motion the end of a policy that has hurt our military as a whole, that has forced thousands of those who serve to do so under a cloud of anxiety and isolation, and that has stood as a symbol of the barriers to unity and equality in our [...]
“I don’t think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth”—Mark Twain (March 30, 1905). On the occasion of the publication of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1, published on the centenary of the author’s death, here is another work published posthumously—The War Prayer. [...]
The power of music to inspire has never been so eloquently illustrated as by John Lennon as he spoke for peace in the face of 1,000,000s dead, maimed and traumatized in the Vietnam War; efforts that engaged President Nixon to attempt to deport such a dangerous man. Even now, the music of John Lennon inspires people [...]
Veterans Today salutes the Electronic Intifada. The Electronic Intifada has achieved a status of highly effective anecdote to the American corporate media and the relentless propaganda of the ‘state’ of Israel. Via mal contends—Here are The Electronic Intifada’s most read stories published in 2010. They are just a few of the hundreds of original stories published this year that [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1173-10 NAVY Maritime Helicopter Support Co., Woodbridge, Va., is being awarded a $1,408,576,709 firm-fixed-price performance based logistics contract for repair of various line items for the SH-60B, SH-60F, HH-60H, MH-60R, and MH-60S helicopter systems and components. This contract contains a four-year period of performance and does not contain a provision for option [...]
“I strongly support the Senate voting to give its advice and consent to ratification of the New START Treaty this week. “The treaty will enhance strategic stability at lower numbers of nuclear weapons, provide a rigorous inspection regime including on-site access to Russian missile silos, strengthen our leadership role in stopping the proliferation of nuclear [...]
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