About: Robert L. Hanafin

Email : indythinker@sbcglobal.net
Website : http://ourtroops.newsladder.net/submissions/recommended

Retired from both the Air Force and Civil Service. Went in the regular Army at 17 during Vietnam (1968), staid in the Ready Reserve to complete my eight year commitment in 1976. Served in Artillery, Infantry (4ID) Vietnam, and Mech Infantry Division (4MID) Fort Carson, Co. Used the GI Bill to go to college, worked full time at the VA, and non-scholarship Air Force 2-Year ROTC program for prior service military. Commissioned in the Air Force in 1977. Served as a Military Intelligence Officer from 1977 to 1994. Upon retirement returned to the DVA, Justice Department, and Department of the Navy retiring again in 2000. Been with Veterans Today since the site originated. I'm now on the Editorial Board. I am also on the Editorial Board of Our Troops News Ladder another progressive leaning Veterans and Military Family news clearing house. I remain married for over 35 years and had a child in Iraq. I am both a Vietnam and Gulf War Veteran I served in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during Desert Storm.

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Military Families Speak Out against the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan War

ShareThe Military Family Peace group Military Families Speak Out is asking all Military Families, Veterans, and supporters who question or oppose the continued occupation of Iraq and escalation of war in SW Asia to add your voice and SPEAK OUT!
Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, Veterans Today News

Beat the Pentagon!

ShareThis video from Brave New Films:
Rethink Afghanistan [click here] is related to the article I posted mentioning “Operation Moshtarak”, called Marja, Afghanistan: Pentagon Propaganda taken to new heights!
Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation team remind us that the military-industrial complex has a well-oiled message machine. Just [...]

Labor Organizations, Unions, Muslim Community leaders and Peace Demo Organizers speak out: “Why WE are marching on 20 March”

ShareDespite intimidation from Police in LA, San Francisco, and Washington, DC,  the PEACE demonstrations on Saturday, 20 March to demand “U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now” have been endorsed by over 1,500 organizations and individuals. Suppression of dissent regardless if it comes from the Bush or Obama administration, the LAPD, SFPD, DCPD, Capital or [...]

20 March Peace Demonstrations still on Despite Pre-Protest Suppression of Dissent

ShareDespite serious assaults on free speech rights that have been intended to obstruct mobilization for the 20 March Peace demonstrations in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and in LA and San Francisco, leaders of labor organizations, Unions, the Muslim-American community, Veterans and Military Families of Peace continue to plan and organize their rallies.
Though I personally believe that [...]

Marja, Afghanistan: Pentagon Propaganda taken to new heights!

ShareAs various Peace groups, including a few Muslim-American organizations, prepare to hit the streets of Washington, DC, Chicago, Illinois, LA and San Francisco, California, an independent investigative reporter has uncovered Pentagon propaganda taken to new heights coming out of progress in Afghanistan.
He has learned something which should surprise no one outside of mainstream media that [...]

Chicago added to list of cities having Peace rallies

ShareThe Peace rallies planned from 20 March were originally scheduled to be centered in three cities: Washington, DC, Los Angles, and San Francisco, California, but organizers of events now note that President Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois will also be having anti-Iraq and Afghanistan War demonstrations.
The theme of this years anti-war demonstrations is “It’s the [...]

Facts About Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence

ShareIn association with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
I promised a companion article to Dogs for Vets: a great idea, but screening Vets for Pets is also important that would stress the importance of ensuring anyone, not only combat Veterans, who is considering getting such a trained animal must be screened.
It has taken a while [...]

Liquidating the American Imperium

ShareI ask our readers, especially those who lean left or center (or liberal) if I may, meaning those of us who seriously want Peace, to read the following article, and determine who it is written by someone on the left, center, or right of the political spectrum?
It uses words such as American Imperium, which rings [...]

DoD debates lifting ban on Women in Combat but not Gays

ShareEven as the Pentagon, Congress, and the Obama administration spar with one another in a debate over gays serving openly in combat, the DoD has shifted the debate trying to focus on lifting the ban on women in combat.
The continuing occupation of Iraq and escalation of war in Afghanistan is putting so much pressure on [...]

924 Fallen Warriors in SW Asia latest range from 19 to 30 years old.

ShareThe Associated Press (AP) reported that as of Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, at least 924 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001.
The AP count is three more than the Defense Department’s tally, last updated on 26 Feb at [...]

Democrats pull provision on penalizing U.S. personnel that Torture

ShareCongress approved an intelligence agency bill in late February after Democratic leaders hastily removed a provision that would have imposed prison sentences for personnel using “cruel, inhuman and degrading” interrogation techniques.
The provision would have subjected intelligence officers to up 15 years in prison for interrogations that violate existing anti-torture laws, including the use of extreme [...]

SEVERE CLEAR / Screeners Available (Opens March 12th) NYC

ShareThis is a follow-up to my review of the film Severe Clear being released in March.
Shot by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti on his Mini-DV camera, and told through his own journal entries, Kristian Fraga’s “Severe Clear” is a first person account of the Marines who were on the front lines of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This [...]

The U. S. Needs a Broad-Based Peace Movement

ShareThere has to be a better way to stop wars and reduce military spending. Polls show U.S. voters at worst divided on current wars and more often show majority opposition to them.
When Congress “debates” war the widespread view of Americans is muffled, not usually heard. Some organizers in the Peace Movement promote a more effective [...]

How to avoid the Patriot Day Coup of 2016

ShareThis is a follow-up of my article on September 11, 2016 – The Patriots Day Coup, the first story was a fictional account used by Lt. Colonel  William J. Astore as an attention getter for what could potentially happen if our national leaders remain on this collision course with history. The second part of this [...]

PEACE Democrats versus PRO-WAR Democrats

ShareIt is a breath of fresh air to read ‘on-line’ about a growing number of seriously progressive candidates challenging the politically strategic and deceitful notion of  “Let’s stay mum on Iraq and Afghanistan and the billions wasted occupying them for Mobile Oil and Boeing (among others) and maybe, just maybe, voters will not notice and [...]

U.S. Congressional Candidate in CA – ReThink Afghanistan

ShareThus far we at Veterans Today have only managed to find two seriously progressive and independent thinker political candidates willing to take on the two party establishment even though they must run either as Republican or Democrats.
One Bob Krause of Iowa is running for the U.S. Senate, and the other Jim Bryan is running an [...]

Pro-Peace groups continue gearing up for March Madness

ShareCindy Sheehan is once again among the leaders of the Pro-Peace movement rallying the troops of Peace. She is among the growing number of PEACE leaders who are gearing up for what may be some of the largest rallies and demonstrations against Obama-Bush administration foreign policies in the Middle East and SW. Asia. She now [...]

September 11, 2016 – The Patriots Day Coup

ShareTwo articles came to my attention that I wanted to throw out there for our readers to feed on. One deals with the potential threat of a defense budget and industry out of control, and the other (posted separately) deals with the WE Political Party to counter the Tea Party movement. I found that one [...]

Teachers and Students will join Vets, Troops, and Families seeking PEACE on 20 March

ShareAs follow-up on my Peace of the Action series covering the up-coming 20 March PEACE demonstrations across the nation Pro-PEACE Veterans and Military Families Prepare for DC Protests, we note that not only Veterans, active duty troops, but also teachers and students have joined the Peace Movement.
Yes students and teachers are beginning to take even [...]

Pentagon’s Robert Gates the Ugly American

ShareThis is a follow-up to an article on Obama’s Secretary of Defense Robert Gates titled Robert Gates – the MANIPULATOR. Though these posts are what one would consider Old News, I believe that although not the only reason, President Obama’s wrong decision to keep on hold overs from the Bush administration at the Defense Department [...]

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