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February 2011

COL. EUGENE KRUSHCHEV: Smart Power Sophistry

SMART POWER SOPHISTRY By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev STAFF WRITER/Editor US foreign policy mavens have plucked from obscurity and put a new spin on Smart Power concept as the cornerstone of the US National Security Strategy. In theory and on paper, this paradigm shift is picture-perfect.  In practice, if it takes seeing to believing, don’t be [...]

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »

American Zionism against the Egyptian Pro-Democracy Movement

The leading Zionist official in the Obama Administration and AIPAC point man, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg traveled to Israel to assure the Netanyahu/Lieberman regime that the Israeli-Egyptian Treaty would remain unchanged.

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

COL. ROBERT BOWMAN CALLS FOR ARREST OF BUSH, 9/11 INVESTIGATION (VIDEO)

DEFINES PATRIOTISM AND DUTY FOR VETERANS, “TRUTH AND HONOR” Foreword by Gordon Duff Senior Editor Veterans Today In the video below, Colonel Bowman, an Air Force combat pilot and Vietnam veteran cuts through “the bull.”  The video is 14 minutes.  At least 6 of them are gold.  Bowman tells us how the mess we have [...]

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

DEBRAH McFARLANE: Wisconsin State Workers Feeling the Wrath of Their Governor

Wisconsin Protests

Based on the legislation being proposed, Governor Scott Walker maintained that his legislation, which would strip state employees of their collective bargaining rights and force them to pay a larger share of the cost of health care and pensions, was a “modest proposal.” The definition of modest is not the same for an individual who is rich and that of one who is poor.

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

BOBBY HANIFIN: Lasik Eye Surgery Denied Reserves, Guard

This article and expose of National Guard and Reserve troops being treated inferior to active duty troops when it comes to combat readiness to include corrective vision without eye glasses or contact lens comes in two part (1) explaining the situation, and (2) justification for waiving the time remaining on active duty requirements that ban all Guard and Reserve members from being treated the same as Regular troops when it comes to combat readiness.

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Health | Read More »

ALAN HART : Obama, The Veto and Impeachment

Never before has an American President’s fear of offending the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress been so exposed as it was by Obama’s decision to veto the Security Council resolution condemning continued, illegal Israeli settlement activities on the occupied West Bank and demanding that Israel “immediately and completely cease” all such activities. In a different America – an informed America – some might think, I do, that Obama should be impeached. The charge? TREASON.

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

EXCLUSIVE: Monsanto Agrees Clean-Up of Toxic Brofiscin Quarry in Wales

Monsanto has agreed to help clean-up a quarry in South Wales it is accused of polluting with a cocktail of toxic substances despite consistently refusing to accept liability, the Ecologist can reveal. But the taxpayer could still end up meeting the estimated £2 million clean-up bill.

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

WILLIAM COOK: “We the Forgotten People of the United States…”

We thought we had used the democratic process to rid our country of George W. Bush by the peaceful election of a man who told Americans he would right the wrongs of that Zionist Cabal. Instead we have a houseboy doing the chores of his Mars, Netanyahu. How far can he fall? Is there no principle, no obsequious cringing, no personal shame he will not endure to pay homage to his masters?

February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

EGYPT: Placebos, Protests and Precious Metal Breakouts

We are constantly being advised that the Egyptian Military has the situation under control. As the situation develops it is becoming increasingly apparent that there is something wrong with this picture. The military and the media assures us that the morganatic wedding between the Generals and the Masses will proceed as scheduled. As the old song goes, “its time to wind up the masquerade…the piper must be paid.” Is Iran sailing through the Suez sending a message of who may be trying to gain power during this chaos?

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,World | Read More »

KAREN ST. JOHN: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s Tale Of A Sucker’s Choice

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Protest

Faced with a budget out of control, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker decided to make a sucker’s choice of either/or, and has gotten himself into a huge mess. Is he able to be a true leader of all the citizens in his state, and sit down at the table and come to an agreement with those he has alienated? Or, will his ego rule the day and define his government’s policies?

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

TERRY RICHARDS: Mother of Dead Soldier paid $800 Death Gratuity 43-years later

Vietnam War

“Our experience suggests that during the Vietnam, era, the appointment of casualty officers was often as a collateral duty, and they did not always receive the necessary training to assist survivors. It is not difficult to imagine that PFC Noddin’s parents were not informed of the death gratuity benefit and would have claimed the gratuity if they had been made a aware of it.”

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »

MICHAEL FULLERTON: Scientific Theory of The WTC 7 Collapse

On September 11, 2001 a third building came down. This building was 7 World Trade Center (WTC 7), a 47-story building about the width and length of a football field. NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was tasked with officially explaining how WTC 7 fell. Their theory is documented in the report entitled Final Report of the Collapse of Building 7[1]. Many people are under the mistaken impression that NIST’s theory of how WTC 7 fell down is a valid scientific theory. In science however, a valid theory must be the simplest theory available that best explains all the available empirical data.[2] This article will show that the NIST theory is a highly convoluted theory that cannot explain important observations.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »

DAVID SWANSON: Peace Is a Last Resort

When a satirist published a phony U.S. government report in 1967 that recommended against allowing peace to ever break out, most people seemed to fall for the prank. Members of the news media were either in on the joke or victims. The copy I have is marked up with a yellow highlighter by someone who grew angrier and angrier through the book’s pages. Toward the end, when the authors of the “report” advocated reviving slavery, the previous owner of my copy scrawled “BULL SHIT” in all caps across two pages.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Military | Read More »

GORDON DUFF: 9/11 AND THE TWO STAGE “KHALEZOV EFFECT”

THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY, WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT, WHO OR HOW? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Two years ago, the 9/11 Truth movement was unheard of by most Americans.  Reviled by the mainstream press, insulted by politicians and looked on as a fringe group by many, it lived in a virtual backwater, powerless, frustrated [...]

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,WarZone | Read More »

TERRY RICHARDS: Wisconsin: Dissolve the Legislature, Let the Voters Decide all Issues

Dissolve Congress and all the State Legislatures and County and City Commissions by RECALLING all of them and then make America a TRUE DEMOCRACY where the people run the Government rather than elect others to run Our Federal, State County and City Governments.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Legislation,Politics | Read More »

Gulf War Illness: Veterans Encouraged to Participate in Important Treatment Study

Here is a chance for veterans to be in a controlled study with a highly respected physician and researcher. By the way this is one of the doctors that helped contribute their knowledge and be interviewed for the new book by Arnold Mann that will be available to be ordered next week. The book: THEY”RE POISONING US : From The Gulf War To The Gulf of Mexico, AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT again is expected to be available to order next week, VT will keep you informed on further developments.We encourage veterans to participate and help yourselves and your fellow veteran by doing so. We in the veteran community are advocating for each of you to get diagnostic and treatment trials that are good to you. You have to do your part and follow up and be a participant. Sometimes we also need controls that could be friends, family members, other veterans that are not ill and we encourage you to help also to find others that can serve as controls.

This is the second study in a couple of months that are new researchers that have asked us to get the word out.
Treatment trial for gulf war illness.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health,PTSD | Read More »

RICHARD FALK: The United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council

In what appears to be as close to a consensus as the world community can ever hope to achieve, the United States reluctantly stood its ground on behalf of Israel and on February 18, 2011 vetoed a resolution on the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that was supported by all 14 of the other members of the UN Security Council. The resolution was also sponsored by 130 member countries before being presented to the Council.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

BOB HIGGINS: “On Wisconsin,” Sarah Palin Calls for Sacrifice From Working People

The widening gulf between those who hold all the wealth in our various societies, those who manipulate the strings of power and the mass of people who produce that wealth with their sweat and labor, has widened to a point that has become intolerable even among the normally complaisant.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Government,Politics | Read More »

DR. ASHRAF EZZAT: The Egyptian Torah

It is now quite evident that the ripe social and moral development of mankind in the Nile Valley, which is three thousand years older than that of the Hebrews, contributed essentially to the formation of the literature which we call the Old Testament. Our moral heritage therefore derives from a wider human past enormously older than the Hebrews, and it has come to us rather through the Hebrews rather than from them

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in World | Read More »

CHAPLAIN KATHIE: Sally Satel Still Selling Care for PTSD Veterans is Waste of Money

Sally Satel is still at it with the support from American Enterprise Institute. For years she’s been trying to say that PTSD is nothing more than veterans looking for an easy ride. She hasn’t changed and her claims remain that taking care of veterans with PTSD is a waste of money.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

GILAD ATZMON: Truth in Stuttgart, Israel Worse Than Nazi Germany

I managed to infuriate some, by suggesting that I was against the comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany. Indeed, I believe that from certain ideological perspective, Israel is actually far worse than Nazi Germany, for unlike Nazi Germany, Israel is a democracy and that implies that Israeli citizens are complicit in Israeli atrocities.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Why Isn’t Wall Street In Jail?

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Economy,Investing & Finance | Read More »

Mideast Unrest Puts US Military Access in Jeopardy

Popular unrest sweeping the Middle East highlights the US military’s reliance on Arab regimes that offer privileged access to airfields and ports from Cairo to Qatar….. Teddy Roosevelt, once advocated “walking quietly, but carrying a big stick!” This seems to have been adopted as a fundamental of US Foreign Policy, except we have ignored the [...]

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Middle East,World | Read More »

US Vetoes UN Vote on Israeli Settlements

The United States vetoed a UN resolution Friday that would have condemned Israeli settlements as “illegal” and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building. All 14 other Security Council members voted in favour of the resolution. British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, speaking on behalf of his country, France and Germany, condemned Israeli settlements [...]

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

MIKE FARRELL: What’s Really Happening Here…for what it’s worth

He could learn to stomach the Republicans if only they’d be up front about their goals – maybe put on T-Shirts or have a motto that really described what they are trying to do. “Together we CAN make the USA the next Guatemala!” was his suggestion.

February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

DAVID SWANSON: They Only Lock Up Heroes at Quantico

If Bradley Manning turns out to be the hero he appears to be, he will not be the first “detained” at Quantico. In fact, Quantico once locked up the most decorated Marine in history, a Marine who would have been running the Marine Corps rather than getting locked up by it if he had known how to brown-nose the swivel-chair commanders as he called them, a Marine who had helped create Quantico years before, the first senior officer in the U.S. military to be arrested in the 65 years following the Civil War, and a serious fearless principled democratic hero whose heroism had nothing to do with the nasty tasks he took on as a U.S. Marine.

February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Heroes,Military,Support the Troops | Read More »

TBI Bill Needs Co-Sponsors NOW

H. R. 396: To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program under which the Secretaries make payments for certain treatments of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Legislation,Politics | Read More »

House VA Oversight Subcommittee Leadership

U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-2nd, has been selected by his colleagues on the full House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs as the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

This means he will serve as the highest-ranking Democrat on the subcommittee and work with the Subcommittee Chairman, U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio, to oversee and investigate matters pertaining to American veterans, according to a statement released by Donnelly’s office on Thursday.

February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Wisconsin, America’s Egypt? [video]

Wisconsin Protests

Massive protests continue for the second day in Wisconsin as the GOP controlled state senate is set to vote on bill introduced by Gov. Scott Walker which will sharply curtail the collective bargaining rights of the public employee unions.

February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economy,Investing & Finance,Jobs & Careers | Read More »

VA’s Union, AFGE, Speaks Out Against VA Funding Cuts

On Monday, February 14, House Republicans introduced a Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) to fund the federal government for the last seven months of the fiscal year while cutting $61 billion in current year spending. The bill proposes to cut $2.6 billion in funding provided to care for America’s veterans

February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

 

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