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July 2011

9/11: Dutch Demolition Expert Danny Jowenko Dies In “Car Crash”

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WTC7 according to Dutch “demolition expert” Danny Jowenko was absolutely brought down by a controlled demolition.

July 23rd, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,WarZone,World | Read More »

The Great Games-book review by Gilad Atzmon

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For the West, America and Americans, this may be a final wake-up call. For Israel, Israelis and their supporters around the world, this text is a red alert. Israel urgently needs to find the way to restrain its ‘global expansionist enthusiasm’ before it is too late. In fact, it may be too late already.

July 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Book Reviews,Living | Read More »

Murdoch, Media and Intellectual terrorism

Phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just the tip of a very toxic iceberg

It’s not a democracy when a realm is controlled by an unelected power broker with enforcers who run the government for another country.

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,WarZone | Read More »

DU – You Don’t Have To Inhale Or Ingest It For It To Make You Sick

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From Multiple Horses’ Mouths: More, Much More on Ignored and Suppressed US Government and Military Data that Show the Threat of Harmful Effects of “Consolidated Quantities” of Concentrated “Depleted” Uranium (DU) Munitions

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

If Nothing Gets Done It’ll Never Get Right…So Do Something, Damn It!

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I think that the most important legislative goal of any citizen is to do what’s best for the nation. The best that this President can do is start freezing these idiots out. Govern, as Bush did despite a more reasonable Congress even when the Dems had control, largely by executive order. Pound the Bully Pulpit, goddamnit. The banks and the monied interests are not going to be your friends; so, make them respond through respect and fear of what can happen.

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Government | Read More »

The Fighting Father, a Christian Anarchist and God Part III

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Native Australian, Professional boxer and social justice Anglican priest, Rev. David B. Smith is currently in the midst of a 17 day USA speaking tour that began in California and concludes in D.C. While in Florida, Rev. Dave and I got together around my kitchen table and began a two day conversation about God, Israel, Palestine, Zionism, Human Rights, Mordechai Vanunu, etc…

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Causes,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,Peace,World | Read More »

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July 22, 2011

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The Salem VA Medical Center in Salem, Va., recently opened its new Center for Traumatic Stress (CTS) which was dedicated on June 13.

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Top 10,Vet News | Read More »

Afghan Judges Accuse U.S. of War Crimes

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I recently sat down for 90 minutes to speak with six Afghan judges, all of them women, and an English-Dari interpreter, a man.

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Middle East,World | Read More »

Commentary: Impeach Obama Now

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It’s time to impeach President Obama and urge candidates who stand for peace to run in the upcoming presidential primaries.

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

Hillary Cracks the Whip

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Isn’t it time for Washington to recognize that it has become a rogue state and for Hillary to come home, sit down, and stop talking?

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Israel,Libya,Syria,WarZone,World | Read More »

Social and Economic Inequality in Israel

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Notably since the early 1980s, neoliberalism began replacing New Deal/Great Society values to the detriment of millions harmed.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »

The Death of Democracy

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“The right to freedom of expression is a fundamental one, necessary to protect the exercise of all other human rights in democratic societies because it is essential for holding governments accountable to the public” (Human Rights Watch, “When Speech Offends,” February-March 2006).

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Jul 21, 2011

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Harris Information Technology Services Corp., Dulles, Va., is being awarded a $64,660,233 firm-price-incentive firm-with-award-fee contract modification for the network and space operations and maintenance, maintenance and logistics support to be provided to Air Force Space Command’s 50th Space Wing.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

Free Trade, Trojan Horse Stole America

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When I joined the Liberty Lobby and Spotlight Newspaper in early 1980s, the major issues were confronting Zionism and Stopping NAFTAFA (the North American Free Trade and Finance agreements—note how the “finance” part is conveniently left off in most media cases).

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Economy,Investing & Finance | Read More »

Agent Orange…Falling Prey to Snake Oil Salesmen

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Today was not like every other day for many of us. For veterans having to deal with a proposed amendment to the Military Construction Bill I wrote about earlier.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange | Read More »

A Great Book About the Great Games

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Eric Walberg’s Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games is the best introduction to geopolitics that I have seen. Walberg begins by citing such classic theoreticians as Mackinder, Haushofer and Ratzel in his description of how the imperial center drains the resources of its periphery

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Book Reviews,Living | Read More »

RePatriot Radio Tomorrow – Don’t Miss It!

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Join us tomorrow, Friday morning, July 22, for the “Veterans Weekly Forum” RePatriot Radio Show broadcast live from the Metro Philadelphia area and carried over AM Radio in the Tri-State area of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, with a potential listening audience of 5,000,000.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Living | Read More »

Britain’s Politicians Find Courage – Perhaps

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Christopher King considers whether the unravelling of Rupert Murdoch’s power in the UK will serve as a wake up call to British politicians whom for years he has targeted on behalf of the US and Israel.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Europe,World | Read More »

Band Of Brothers #6; Finding Another Choice

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Most of us were at one time or another moved to tears. For me it was tears of spiritual joy. For others it was perhaps tears of glimpsing past the pain, and under the sadness, a sense of the innocent little boy we all once were.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »

Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free

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And God must have loved this magnificent church the minister headed–the choir alone in this ornate house of God was larger by a factor of three than the entire membership of the little church I’d grown accustomed to, and the choir pit was twice as large as the room where we held Sunday school.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »

U.S.-South Korean Team Investigates Claim of Buried Agent Orange

South Korean technicians conduct a ground-penetrating radar survey at Camp Carroll, a U.S. base in Waegwan, South Korea, to search for drums of Agent Orange possibly buried there. (Jung Yeon-je / Associated Press / June 2, 2011)

Using such modern tools as ground-penetrating radar and conducting analyses of water and soil core samples, a team of investigators in South Korea is searching for clues to a decades-old mystery:

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

Half of Alzheimer’s Cases May Be Preventable

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Over half of all Alzheimer’s disease cases could potentially be prevented through lifestyle changes and treatment or prevention of chronic medical conditions, according to a study led by Deborah Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Traumatic Brain Injury Increases Dementia Risk

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Patients diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) had over twice the risk of developing dementia within seven years after diagnosis compared to those without TBI, in a study of more than 280,000 older veterans conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July 21, 2011

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will host the National Veteran Small Business Conference and Expo, August 15-18, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Top 10,Vet News | Read More »

Retirement Planning What Congress Gets

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You may have received an email recently from someone who is trying to start a petition to get members of Congress to pay into Social Security like other Americans.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

Letter From a Marine

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I’ve known this Marine since he was in grade school. He’s married now, father of a young boy, deployed with the Marines in Afghanistan, his unit or the place of deployment in-country are not disclosed for obvious reasons.

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Military | Read More »

More Trouble in Murdoch World

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Rupert Murdoch’s troubles keep piling up.
So, Murdoch is taking a more proactive approach to stop the bleeding. But will it work? postulates Mike Whitney

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Editors Picks,Europe,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Middle East,World | Read More »

Denying Palestinian Children Education

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In July 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) issued a new report titled, “Education Denied: Israel’s Systematic Violation of Palestinian Children’s Right to Education,” even though it’s a fundamental human right.

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

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Jul 20, 2011

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Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Defense Electronic Systems, Clearwater, Fla., is being awarded a $109,245,120 fixed-price-incentive-fee contract for engineering and manufacturing development for the Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System for Navy and Marine Corps rotary aircraft.

July 20th, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

Balance the Budget on the Backs of Billionaires

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The wealthiest nation on earth is not actually obliged to starve our senior citizens. We don’t need a military 670% more expensive than the next largest one on earth.

July 20th, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »

 

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