As our Nation marks the 150th anniversary of the first year of the Civil War, this weekend we observe Memorial Day, a tradition that originated following the toll that terrible conflict levied upon our Nation.
Yesterday, the Senate confirmed BG Allison Hickey, Under Secretary for Benefits and Mr. Steve Muro, Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs
Memorial Day: A day to remember, with family. The date was chosen possibly because flowers would be in bloom all over the country, according to the US Department of Veteran Affairs. The official birthplace of Memorial Day was declared in 1966, when Congress and President Lyndon Johnson declared …
A vicious poem from the upcoming book “Love and War: My First Thirty Years of Writing by Lee Ballinger”
With 41 applause interruptions and 29 standing ovations, even with some appearing half-hearted and somewhat forced, Congress sent a message that the Legislative branch, increasingly* *under the control of a foreign power, and not the Executive branch, will continue to determine American policy toward Israel and the Middle East — by Franklin Lamb
TAP program eases the burden for military personnel transitioning to civilian life
The answer to AIPAC is not another J-Street lobby attempting to buy the very few remaining unaffiliated American politicians. The ‘hands off international politics’ should be immediate Jewish call to their relentless lobbies but that’s not going to happen.
Allied with Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu and ultra-Orthodox Shas, extremist partners, their coalition Knesset is hardline, racist and lawless, co-opting weak opposition members to go along most often to get along.
Since George Bush took office in January 2001, efforts to oust Chavez failed three times
Jonathan Kay’s “Among the Truthers” was written to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the contested events of 9/11. Its contents illustrate the strategic geopolitical importance of the public’s changing perception of September 11, 2001.
By the time I booked my flight, Ms. Thomas had been “disinvited” to speak at Move AIPAC Over because of the pressure from a few particular people who had still not gotten over her flaming honesty expressed on 27 May 2010, in a courtyard at the White House. Their shortsightedness led to one of the highlights of my 57 years of life.
Mubarak will face trial with his two sons, who are in a Cairo prison. The date and location has not yet been decided. An official inquiry found that at least 846 people were killed during the revolt that ousted Mubarak on February 11, many of them from gunshot wounds.
Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a cost-plus-award-fee modification under contract HQ0276-10-C-0005, P00011. The total award value of this action is $110,678,886, resulting in a new cumulative contract value of $275,967,245.
Mike Stathis takes a look at “Obamanation”, the path of Barack Obama to the White House and how he’s become just another President in the footsteps of George W. Bush
An Afghan and coalition force killed Qari Musa, a senior Taliban leader, during a precision airstrike in the Talah wa Barfak district of Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, military officials reported today.
VT Staff Writer Kourosh Ziabari Interviews Nima Shirazi on Israeli-American Relations, Iran’s Nuclear Program, the Death of Osama Bin Laden and Western Media Propaganda against Iran
There should be no hiding place. But international law never reaches into some corners because the levers that control the wheels of justice, we discover, are sometimes leaned on by the criminals themselves.
Here’s Today’s Department of Defense Contract Awards
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives backed eternal worldwide war and imprisonment powers for all future presidents, but blocked any ground troops in Libya.
The Call of Duty Endowment announced today the launch of its second Memorial Day campaign to raise awareness for the issue of veterans’ unemployment and encourage the public to find more jobs for veterans,
A local veteran suffering from ALS, or “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” now finds himself fighting for the medical care he was promised. Lee Persing is a veteran living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, commonly known as ALS. He served in the Air Force for almost 20 years as a gunner on B-52′s during the first Gulf War.
There are several well-known self-proclaimed Homeless Advocates for the homeless Men and Woman and Children in St. Petersburg who advise their homeless clientele not to accept anything less than permanent housing.
The New American Century” about the PNAC’s pre-9/11 plan for its “global war on terror” is scheduled to appear together with National Commander of The Patriots and the VFP
ATSDR’s health survey will compare two groups from Lejeune and Pendleton, two Superfund sites with expected higher incidences of cancer and other diseases.
Monday’s Supreme Court decision ordering California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by 30,000 inmates is as welcome as a ray of sunlight streaming through prison bars.
Israel is not so much a small nation as a military giant. Obama knows that because it is the U.S. that has done the most to make Israel flagrantly oversized in this regard. In doing so Washington allowed Israel to become the bully that dominates the neighborhood.
Honest-1 Auto Care, the only national full-service auto repair and maintenance franchise that is 100 percent ESA® Certified Eco-Friendly, today announced it is offering a discount of more than 15 percent on franchises for qualified military veterans.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that special disaster assistance may be available to Veterans with VA-guaranteed home loans who have been affected by recent tornados in Missouri.
4th and last part of the interview with Rinaldo Francesca dealing with issues to do with Freedom of expression, KKK vs IDF, deniers vs historians, temporality, ethics and more. YouTube – Veterans Today – PS forgive me for saying the ‘F word’ twice. Interview took place in my dinning room and as it seems, I [...]
Calling for Palestinian capitulation, not peace and liberation, Netanyahu delivered a litany of lies, fabrications, misstatements, and half-truths to AIPAC members on May 23
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