The Murals of San Carlos, Mexico By Ron Kukal, Former Chaplain for the USS Liberty Veterans Association US Navy 1st Class Petty Officer and the enlisted man in charge of body recovery and identification. The Murals of San Carlos, Mexico A POEM Ron Kukal One wonders what goes through a mans mind when he is [...]
Just when you thought is was safe to go back to the VA come signs the water is not inviting for veterans looking to make disability benefit claims. A scare report in Stars and Stripes by Leo Shane III screams the VA may have overpaid disabled veterans. It’s the veteans’ fault of-course. And veterans need [...]
TIES BETWEEN US CONTRACTORS, PAKISTANI OFFICIALS AND TERRORISTS ALLEGED WORLDWIDE MEDIA DUPED BY “DIPLOMAT/ROBBERY” COVER STORY By Gordon Duff and Raja Mujtaba for Veterans Today and Opinion Maker UPDATES: Confirmed, individual claimed to be diplomat was a contractor who is now remanded to police custody facing possible charges for terrorism and murder. No diplomatic privilege [...]
Some believe that some powerful sectors are sitting on money to prolong economic ruin and make a GOP president more likely in 2013. Whatever forces are at work or not at work, Joseph E. Stiglitz offers his take on what he says are misguided fiscal and monetary policy across the Atlantic.”[M]ore broadly, on jobs, austerity, and [...]
Cancer Patient’s Life Now Hangs in Balance As He Awaits Stem Cell Replacement Update: Veteran’s health insurance restored after 2-cent brouhaha By Russell Haythorn, KMGH News THORNTON, Colorado—Two pennies. That’s the difference between a potentially life-saving surgery and a dropped insurance plan. Those 2 cents could cost Vietnam veteran Ronald Flanagan everything. “Everybody we talk [...]
Drugs have one job and that is to get people to feel better. Antibiotics stop infections so that the body can take over and heal the wound. When it comes to PTSD, medications cover up the pain but too many times they cause more problems. When drugs are all that is used to fight PTSD, [...]
What is happening now in Egypt is historic by all means and all parties involved should acknowledge that and deal with it as such.
All the Washington talk about mounting debt and fiscal deficits won’t stop the design for a new long-range bomber championed by USAF Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Philip Breedlove. Next Generation Bombers are seen as critical for long-range strikes against Iran or whomever a future administration may wish to hit. Bill Sweetman at Aviation Week (Ban the Bomber? 6/25/2010) just last [...]
Along the years we have heard about ‘Jews against Zionism’, ‘Jews against Racism’ and ‘Jews against anti Semitism’. In the last few days we have learned about a new Jewish collective. They are called ‘Jews Against the King.’ Apparently some Jews in Hollywood are not happy with the great cinematic success of The King’s Speech, [...]
Bypass Israel and its twisted backers and deal direct with those responsible, the United Nations. By Stuart Littlewood / STAFF WRITER See this embarrassment as your big chance – a God-sent opportunity to sweep away the shameful Palestinian Authority. Then make a fresh start. Bypass Israel and its twisted backers and deal direct with those [...]
I have a rule — I never intervene in Palestinian political matters. I never comment on Palestinian internal debate. I do not think that I have the right to do so : I am an ex-Israeli and an ex-Jew, and I write about Israel, Jewish Identity politics, and Zionism. For me, the leaked Palestinian Papers [...]
3600 TOP WAGE MICHIGAN JOBS… By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The plant featured in the video below was General Motors, then Delphi Automotive. Years ago, I tried to pick it up for the state’s Department of Corrections as a training facility and prison. The whining, “yellow peril” is just that, whining. Saginaw has unemployment [...]
Talk to Mikey Weinstein for even a few minutes, and you get the definite sense that the man must have gills. It is the only explanation for how he can say so much, so quickly, without pausing to take a breath. This should come as no surprise, as Mr. Weinstein has a great deal to [...]
If Giffords does end up receiving it, she’ll be getting a treatment that many troops don’t. As we’ve reported [7], the Pentagon’s health program, Tricare, has refused to cover [8] cognitive rehabilitation therapy for the tens of thousands of service members who have suffered brain injuries in the line of duty. Tricare, which provides insurance-style coverage to troops and many veterans, does cover speech and occupational therapy, which are often part of cognitive rehabilitation.
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 069-11 AIR FORCE Raytheon Company, Integrated Defense Systems of Sudbury, Mass. was awarded a $107,000,000 contract which will procure one preliminary design for the Space Fence Program. At this time, $20,000,000 has been obligated. ESC/HSIK, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. is the contracting activity. (FA8707-11-C-0004) Lockheed Martin Corporation, Mission Systems & Sensors [...]
HOW A PSYCHO-SEXUAL CULT HOLDS AMERICA PRISONER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor On 9/11, the United States Air Force failed to respond to multiple hijacking reports, as required by well-established procedure. Additionally, the NORAD defense system was placed on “stand down” for the first time in its history. Was the command and control of America’s [...]
Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine, is under fire for writing what is obviously true about the U.S. government and the media. Calls for his firing abound from the usual suspects. Such commitments to truth as Falk possesses can pose problems for prospective careerists, but the 80-year-old human rights activist and scholar [...]
Egypt said today it would ban demonstrations and detain protesters, seeking to draw a line under unprecedented protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s rule. Activists called on Egyptians to take to the streets again today to end Mubarak’s 30-year rule after a “Day of Wrath” of anti-government protests across Egypt in which three protesters and one policeman [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently took a four-day tour of the Middle East, at each stop telling various allies and enemies, in classic American fashion, what they must do. And yet as she spoke, events in Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, and even Egypt seemed to spin ever more out of American control. Meanwhile, the regime in Tunisia, one of the autocratic and [...]
We the undersigned share with nearly two-thirds of our fellow Americans the conviction that our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be ended and that overall military spending should be dramatically reduced. This has been our position for years and will continue to be, and we take it seriously. We vow not to support President Barack Obama [...]
President Obama’s State of the Union Address showed the president is out of touch with the rough reality facing veterans, and failed to produce a plan to address their needs. Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) represents the voices of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with bold solutions to cut the human and financial costs of war [...]
By Hamid Waheed The unfolding of events after 9/11 had a direct affect on Pakistan and the region. An increase in terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan resulted in increase in the number of civilian casualties, pushing South Asia past the Middle East as the top terror region in the world. The War on Terrorism [...]
The new ad campaign, of course, is a desperate attempt to convince the public that the company is not only working in the best interests of U.S. agriculture, but is also responsible for creating and maintaining millions of American farm jobs in the process, both of which are patently false.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. In 2010, More U.S. Service Members Took Their Own Lives Than Were Killed in Combat. After noting that it has “reported extensively on the growing concern over military suicides as the US wages two wars,” the
President Obama delivered an almost terse address focusing on jobs, the economy, equality, and protecting Social Security while issuing a political challenge to the GOP, saying: “Now, most of the cuts and savings I’ proposed only address annual domestic spending, which represents a little more than 12% of our budget. To make further progress, we have [...]
“…Well you have to remember that we are a pro-Zionist network.”… God TV – “The Palestinians are not crying for nothing, and they shall stand before the sword.” – Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, interview with Jim Dean, 2001 Christian Zionists seem to get a free pass on the extremism label. I think it [...]
Following a year of unprecedented hate directed towards Muslims by the Anti-Defamation League, Fox media and the American right-wing, President Obama went out of his way to acclaim Muslims as equal citizens and human beings. Said Obama on Muslims in the State of the Union Address: And as extremists try to inspire acts of violence within [...]
President Obama demanded equal protection and support for all troops and Marines who serve in the armed forces, echoing recent calls by Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for maintaining the U.S. military as a secular force welcoming to all faiths, ethnicities and creeds. Said Obama: We must never forget that the things we’ve struggled for, and [...]
Former B-2 Engineer Gets 32 Years in Prison –A federal judge in Hawaii sentenced Noshir Gowadia, 66, a former Northrop Grumman engineer who worked on the B-2 stealth bomber decades ago, to 32 years in prison for selling military secrets to China. Via Air Force-Magazine ”This case has set the example for interagency cooperation focused [...]
Disunity is Lebanon’s greatest Achilles heel, which is now being exacerbated by the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is bent on opening-up old wounds with the potential to thrust the country into civil war. By LINDA HEARD / ARAB NEWS Jan 18, 2011 AT first sight, Lebanon is a country to be envied. It’s [...]
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