By Brig Asif Haroon Raja Sixty three years have lapsed but Kashmir dispute remains unresolved. During this period, besides several military standoffs, two full fledged Indo-Pak wars and two localised conflicts in April 1965 and in summer of 1999 took place on account of Kashmir issue. India has been defying UN Resolutions on Kashmir and [...]
“…..once in a generation…we get a chance for freedom…this is our chance..” “I have for many years lived with the knowledge that we, the masses, the working class, the poor, the white, the black, the brown, the immigrants, the Christians, the Muslims, the atheists, the soldiers/ex-soldiers, the peaceniks, the communists, the anarchists, the students, the [...]
“I want her to look those disabled veterans in the eye and tell them their service and sacrifice is too expensive for the nation to bear,” says angry veteran Update: Veterans for Common Sense executive director Paul Sullivan, said “cutting veterans’ health care spending is an ill-advised move at a time when the number of [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 078-11 NAVY Composite Engineering Inc.*, Sacramento, Calif., is being awarded a $31,461,842 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the design, development, integration and test of the subsonic aerial target (SSAT). Work will be performed in Roseville, Calif. (58 percent), Sacramento, Calif. (20 percent), Wichita, Kan. (19 percent), and Palmdale, Calif. (3 percent). Work [...]
Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.
New folks in the House of Representatives say they are looking to “cut spending” and reduce the size of government. There is a movement to repeal the Affordable Care Act. There is mention to of privatizing some government health care services. What’s all this mean for Vets? If you love what Halliburton did for the [...]
The oppressive Mubarkek has committed a cyber-mortal sin in trying to cut people off from what has become their personal lives. Facebook and Twitter have become personal extensions of the 21st century citizen. But Muburek, being that he is over 80 years of age, does not seem to understand what century he’s living in and thus will pay the ultimate price for this cyber-sin.
“Ideologies are for theoreticians.” Oh yeah…Palin doesn’t speak German and Schumpeter didn’t speak idiot. So, how about this instead? Alexander Hamilton and Edmund Burke walk into a bar. Hilarity and intelligence ensue… “Every Thursday my gurus, Mr. Burke and Mr. Hamilton, get together at the Heavenly Rest to drink and talk politics. Mr. Burke prefers [...]
AMERICA’S “CLEAN WAR,” GULF WAR I, EXPOSED AS BUSH CRIMINAL SCHEME Foreword by Gordon Duff Senior Editor Veterans Today By now, most Americans wish we had never invaded Iraq in 2003. Few Americans, very few veterans for sure, have anything but utter dismay at America’s endless war in Afghanistan. Iraq is now clear as a [...]
Twenty Egyptian Brotherhood activists arrested as unrest rages on; Communications down as Egypt braces for protests as though human beings demonstrating were a dangerous and evil action in itself Egyptians renew protests after curfew President Hosni Mubarak has ordered a nighttime curfew across the entire country, and the military has entered Cairo, Suez and Alexandria, but protesters [...]
Interview with former US ambassador Edward Peck The United States has spoken for democracy in Egypt, but it is not stopping aid to security forces, now killing Egyptians An analysis on the recent Egypt uprising was provided by former US ambassador Edward Peck in an interview with Press TV’s Waqar Rizvi. The transcript [...]
Monsanto moving us forward - USDA OKs Genuity Roundup Ready Alfalfa for Spring Planting - I have my doubts. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time since 2007, U.S. farmers will have the choice to plant Genuity® Roundup Ready® alfalfa. Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) authorized resumption of the sale and planting [...]
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission issued its final report Thursday, laying the blame for the 2008 crisis on “reckless” Wall Street CEOs and “pivotal failure(s)” by government regulators, who may have been unduly influenced by Wall Street lobbying efforts. Via Tech Ticker “This crisis was the result of human action and inaction, not of Mother [...]
An adjunct professor was preemptively fired by Brooklyn College, for his pro-human rights and pro-Palestinian views By Justin Elliott in Salon An adjunct political science professor was fired Wednesday by Brooklyn College following complaints by a student and a local politician about his pro-Palestinian political views. The college maintains the instructor, graduate student Kristofer Petersen-Overton, [...]
Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen – is the West next? The revolutionary wave now sweeping the world will not exempt America, in spite of the myth of “American exceptionalism.” By Justin Raimondo / Antiwar.com It started, of all places, in Tunisia, a land of sunny beaches and sleepy walled cities – the first stirrings of a revolutionary [...]
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. A Government Witch Hunt for Veterans Begins Anew—A scare report in Stars and Stripes by Leo Shane III screams the VA may have overpaid disabled veterans. “Unfortunately, some misguided opponents of VA will seize the headline to attack temporary benefits as well as to demand major budget [...]
Get your Agent Orange Brochure from the Agent Orange Zone. Agent Orange is a highly toxic herbicide used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to defoliate hiding places used by the Viet Cong, rice paddies and fertile fields that provided them with food, and to clear the perimeters of military bases to give service [...]
“What seems most disturbing about the 9/11 controversy is the widespread aversion by government and media to the evidence that suggests, at the very least, the need for an independent investigation that proceeds with no holds barred,” wrote Falk. By Elizabeth Woodworth in Foreign Policy Journal A former Princeton international law professor has been condemned [...]
By Richard Falk in Foreign Policy Journal Because my blog prompted by the Arizona shootings has attracted many comments pro and con, and more recently has been the object of a more selective public attack on me personally, I thought it appropriate to post a supplementary blog with the purpose of clarifying my actual position [...]
Veterans Today (VT) issued a statement of support for the Open Letter by 400 Rabbis charging Beck with diminishing “the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it to discredit any individual or organization you disagree with.” VT said: Glenn Beck has long demonstrated himself a clown not be taken seriously. But when his asinine commentary is [...]
Veterans Today celebrates that a veteran advocate and a female, Sen. Patty Murray, has taken over a key leadership position in the United States Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. It is indeed refreshing to see new leadership emerging in the Senate, it has been a long time coming. Senator Murray deserves this opportunity. And our veterans deserve Senator [...]
France has never been too big on freedom of political expression. Lévy Faces Trial January 28th, in Paris, for “Crimes Against the Intellect” By Tariq Ali in CounterPunch On January 28, activists belonging to the PIR (Parti des Indigènes de la République) are organizing a trial of Bernard-Henri Lévy in the old PCF/CGT stronghold of Saint [...]
Lynette Boshell of Cullman visited the SOS facility for the first time during the event. Her husband, active duty Alabama National Guard 1st Sgt. Robert Boshell, died of a massive heart attack seven years ago during physical training for an upcoming deployment. Boshell had served as a Marine during his early years of marriage, and the couple’s 32 years of married life included a deployment to Operation Desert Shield/Storm.
In Egypt, running battles between police and anti-government protesters continued into the early hours of Thursday morning. Police have arrested up to 1,200 people, including a number of journalists. Among them was Guardianreporter, Jack Shenker. By Amy Goodman at Democracy Now He was arrested and beaten by plainclothes police on Tuesday night and shoved into [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 071-11 NAVY Lockheed Martin, Syracuse, N.Y., is being awarded a $48,443,311 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-5201) for exercise of fiscal year 2011 options for the Navy’s AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 undersea warfare system. The AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 is a surface ship combat system with the capabilities to search, detect, classify, localize and track undersea contacts; and [...]
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah – The Army said Thursday that Dugway Proving Ground, where military weapons are tested, was locked down for hours because a small amount of a nerve agent was unaccounted for. By Jennifer Dobner The amount missing was less than one-fourth of a teaspoon of VX nerve agent, which affects the body’s [...]
George W. Bush’s more sensible supporters found that out the hard way. Had they not allowed themselves to become cheerleaders and completely drowned out by Washington’s special interest groups, vice-president and military/industrial lobbyist, Dick Cheney, wouldn’t have been able to destroy Bush’s presidency. Bush himself seemed to recognize that in the end. That’s why he refused to pardon Cheney chief of staff, Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, and he became estranged from Cheney toward the end of his presidency.
Readers have e-mailed about the reaction in England from Brits reading how the Tommies fought, died and won World War II; and for some of these brave men and women, just to be then killed by Zionist mobs and terrorists. This isn’t hidden history, it’s history not often spoken or written … today. Wikipedia deleted the entry [...]
Oh, the nostalgia of it all! As Nick Turse reminds us in his book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, when the media went after the Pentagon in the 1980s for outrageous spending, at stake was “a $7,600 coffee pot, $9,600 Allen wrenches, and — the most famous pork barrel item of [...]
There’s an array of legislation and regulations aimed at helping American service members avoid foreclosure. Nearly 75 percent of the VA borrowers who defaulted in 2009 were able to keep their homes, thanks in large part to the dedication of agency officials. But some service members still fall through the cracks. Now, those who lose [...]
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