By Hamid Waheed Pakistan and America, the front line collation partners presently having maximum resources and in future having optimum stakes in the war on terror continue to work under an environment of increasing mistrust . Three stake holders among both countries the government, army and the people hoping for a better tomorrow are pulled [...]
Albuquerque-based Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has just filed a formal Federal court complaint and will imminently file a companion Motion for Temporary Injunction today in Federal District court (Colorado) demanding that the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) cancel its upcoming National Prayer Luncheon, on the grounds that it is a blatant violation of the plaintiffs’ Constitutional rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
As the Egyptians prepare for gigantic protests to force out the dictator Mubarak, a legacy of neglect, blood, and death will live through the coming centuries. The victims are honored as events unfolding in Egypt have injected in the people the giddy feeling one gets when changing history by standing with brothers and sisters against tyranny. Israel fears a people refusing to [...]
HOW THE 20-YEAR WAR STARTED ANOTHER “WILD CONSPIRACY THEORY” PROVEN TRUE…. Editor’s note: Though Ron Paul totally sidesteps his previous statements on 9/11 and the role of Israel and its friends in both conflicts, choosing instead to push blame on to the Republican party and a cabal of oil companies, there are telling facts to [...]
The Arab World Plays Dominoes with Empire Is this how empires end, with people flooding the streets, demanding the resignation of their leaders and forcing local dictators out? Maybe not entirely, but the breadth and depth of the spreading protests, the helplessness of the U.S.-backed governments to stop them, and the rapidly diminishing ability of [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 082-11 NAVY General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $198,711,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the manufacture and delivery of 120mm mortar ammunition for the U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Fire Support System. Work will be performed in La Ferte, Saint-Aubin, France (50 percent); St. Petersburg, Fla. (22 percent); [...]
After 3-months of interacting with hundreds of Homeless Men and Women mostly in their 40′s and 50′s and 60′s, on a per capita basis, I found this group to be more honest and down-to-earth, more compassionate and less condescending, more informed about World, National and Local News, and if not more book smarter-more street-smart, and more intellectually and philosophically wise than their general public counterparts who have never been homeless. Moreover, I also found that the only real difference between the disorderly conduct associated with alcohol and/or drug abuse by some of the Homeless of all age groups and that of my neighbors in the same category in various housing units where I have lived over the last 40-years, or whom I have met on the streets, buses, restaurants, bars and whom had secured housing, is that my neighbors and others mentioned had secured housing, and the Homeless did not.
Veterans Today Senior Editor Gordon Duff interviews Harry Erivona from the UK/Nigeria and Jim W. Dean, Associate Editor of VeteransToday.com on the Crisis in Egypt, islam on the Rise in Nigeria, and Guns in America. *Each work day, Veterans Today plans on offering an audio opinion from one or more it’s editors. Please let us [...]
Egypt’s current uprising is a two minute warning for the old world order which controlled the populace by force and US military aid but are now being crushed by growing public dissent and a long simmering desire for true change, individual liberty and political freedom ~ the times are a changing: Allen L Roland [...]
Michele Bachmann has a plan to cut the budget and it starts with freezing funding to the VA for health care for veterans and cutting spending on disability payments to those injured during war. Via Ed Brayton in Science Blogs Seriously. Her list of cuts doesn’t explain the impact of freezing veterans’ health care funding, but [...]
DEMOCRACY NOW! Massive protests in Egypt have entered their seventh day as tens of thousands pack into Tahrir Square in Cairo. Protesters are vowing to stay in the streets until President Hosni Mubarak resigns. A general strike was called for today, and a “million man march” is being organized for Tuesday. We speak with Democracy [...]
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has successfully deployed a new automated system that is delivering faster, more accurate payments to Veterans attending school under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. “VA is relying upon the latest technology to provide a high-tech solution for administering the most generous educational benefits since the original GI Bill [...]
The J-factor By J Bruce Campbell STAFF WRITER The uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen are the inevitable results of the J-factor, which destroys everything. As I was told by a Saudi army general many years ago, all Arab countries are secretly controlled by Israel, including his own. (I hadn’t known back then that the Saudi [...]
Amjad Atallah: Egyptian people shaking the foundations of US policy in the Middle East Source: The Real News Network (TRNN) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLbBx1pyPqw Amjad Atallah is the Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. Mr. Atallah is also a Senior Affiliated Expert with the Public International Law and Policy Group and a [...]
VA Seeks Opinion of Veterans and Public and Private Experts WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is hosting a public forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., aimed at improving the fairness of payments for Veterans who are service-connected for genitourinary, digestive,dental, infectious, immune disorder and nutritional deficiency diseases and injuries. “We welcome to this public [...]
“FACE VALUE,” THEY ARE IN THE STREETS FOR ALL OF US By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Egypt is a lesson for America, teaching us to look at ourselves, at how free we really are. We are not so different, Egypt under Mubarak and America under what ever gang of financial criminals and foreign thugs [...]
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb., Jan. 28, 2011 – Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton passed the flag of U.S. Strategic Command to Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler today, giving the nation’s nuclear deterrent mission a new commander. Via the DoD By Jim Garamone Chilton, a pilot who served 10 years with NASA and [...]
By diverting social capital from productive to destructive purposes, war and the preparation for war deplete, rather than enhance, a nation’s strength. –Andrew J. Bacevich By Paul J Balles / STAFF WRITER Many industries that started in America have moved abroad under free trade (FTA) agreements to take advantage of cheap labour. Thus, Americans lose [...]
It’s incredible, really. The president of the United States can’t bring himself to talk about democracy in the Middle East. He can dance around it, use euphemisms, throw out words like “freedom” and “tolerance” and “non-violent” and especially “reform,” but he can’t say the one word that really matters: democracy. How did this happen?
A headline sent out by the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) misleads readers and editors with the head reading: “Miller, Murray Both Concerned About Vets Spending,” though the two VA chairs have opposing public positions on the VA and Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA) spending. The U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) sends a list [...]
The lines are drawn between the two new congressional Veterans’ Affairs committee chairs—House VA Committee’s Rep. Jeff Miller, and the Senate VA Committee’s Sen. Patty Murray. Rep. Miller (R-Fla) has already sparked outrage among veterans for vowing to cut spending and Sen Murray (D-Wash) has vowed to fight back as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA or VA) remains [...]
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Updated list of Ships with exposure to Agent Orange – Blue Water Navy has updated its list of ships that shouldhave the presumption of herbicide exposure. This list and an explanation can be found at: Blue Water Nayv Ship List. 2. Korea Vets From 1968 To 1971 [...]
The British ADL watchdog CIF Watch seems to be very unhappy with the Guardian circulating the work of the genius cartoonist Carlos Latuff “How low will they (the Guardian )go? Asks the Zionist watchdog. The Judeo-centric site defines Latuff as “one of the most prolific anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic cartoonists”. It is also outraged with Latuff [...]
Iranians believe U.S. foreign policymakers, by closing their eyes to Saudi support for hardliner Salafi groups worldwide, are making things more difficult for themselves. This is in addition to the tragic situation brought about as a result of what Iranians see as the foolish invasion of Iraq and the failed American strategy in Afghanistan and [...]
If the first principle of foreign policy is “do no harm,” Israel and the United States, over the years, have done quite enough By Ivan Eland / Antiwar.com With the rise of a Hezbollah-backed government in Lebanon, hand-wringing seems to be the order of the day in the American and Israeli governments. Hezbollah is a [...]
Four guys were killed when a rocket hit the chow hall. I don’t remember how many were wounded, that didn’t seem to matter. I can’t write home about the guys getting killed, that would be too upsetting. I need to say something humorous in my letters. Humor here seems to fill the gaps between absolute [...]
What is occuring in Egypt is nothing short of a template for all future revolutions against the ruling elites in the region Protesters have accomplished a quantum leap in thinking and perception that has put the staid ideas on state repression and political stability of the think tanks and Western intelligence analyses to shame See Live Stream Video Feed of Events in Egypt [...]
A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT AND SERGEANT MAJOR OF THE MARINE CORPS YouTube – Veterans Today – Related Posts:Marine Corps Stuck in the 1970s In Which I Turn Myself In For Indefinite Military DetentionVeterans Exposed To Enviromental HazardsFallen Marine Honored With Intelligence Medal for ValorFace of Defense: Marine Realizes Dream of Flying
THE PALESTINE PAPERS – “a collection of classified documents on the Middle East peace process, leaked to Al Jazeera – reveal that the US has stifled true Palestinian democracy and acted more like Israel’s lawyer. Only a bold policy shift could salvage a positive US role in the Middle East peace process. Otherwise, the US [...]
John Stokes, a veteran broadcaster and former owner of radio station KGEZ is standing up for Veterans issues on his show, The Edge….. The Edge was the longest running talk show in Montana. Now The Edge has been nationally syndicated and broadcast worldwide via the Rense Radio Network, four times daily and twice on Global [...]
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