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These days, when I watch state-run Afghan TV, which is funded by American money, I am surprised by how openly Afghan experts criticize US military tactics in Afghanistan. This is new. A recent discussion program featured an influential historian and supporter of President Karzai, Habibullah Rafi. Rafi was talking about civilian casualties and warning American troops to end their animosity towards Afghan people.
February 9th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Of Interest | Read More »

Attended a meeting of Southern California military family advocates at the Bridgepoint education complex in San Diego the other week.
February 7th, 2012 | Posted in Education,Of Interest | Read More »

What chutzpah, what hypocrisy! Israel with over 400 nuclear devices, with submarines that carry nuclear tipped missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching Washington DC!
February 6th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Middle East,Of Interest | Read More »

When the American Jewish Zionist multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his Israeli wife Miri went to the cesspool and dark alleys of American politics looking for a candidate they could invent for their United States of Israel, they could not find any one better than Newt Gingrich
February 4th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Of Interest | Read More »

“All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth. I’ve had enough of reading things by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians. All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.”-John Lennon, 1971.
February 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Causes,Education,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

The numbing out of America through the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat can only be clearly seen when we seek the red pill of the truth and let go of our addiction to the sedating blue pill of apathy and unquestioned conformity.
February 1st, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Environment,Food, Wine & Travel,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

It is a very interesting question, then from a military standpoint, of how both electrical feeds at the Byron Station were discontinued at the same time.
January 31st, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

The Army Reserve, the Army Human Resources Command and the Army National Guard have joined to provide Individual Ready Reserve soldiers and their families a way to connect with the military community.
January 30th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

“I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic . . .
January 28th, 2012 | Posted in History,Of Interest | Read More »

If shameless chutzpah pays off for Jews, why not for Muslims too?
January 28th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Humor,Of Interest | Read More »

Last weekend I was standing in the checkout line at our local Wal-Mart when I overheard a conversation between the cashier and a customer.
January 26th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Of Interest | Read More »

A. Jolie – who is a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees – has also been exposed to a barrage of criticism from the press and calls for a boycott to “show her she isn’t wolcome“ in the country
January 25th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Editors Picks,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

Why does the NYPD train its officers with anti-Islam hate films?
January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Europe,Middle East,Of Interest,Religion,World | Read More »

Newt, the time has come for you to do your last, best political flip-flop: Stop being a Constitution-shredding Islamophobe, and recognize that there’s a freedom-loving Muslim inside you that’s just waiting to come out.
January 19th, 2012 | Posted in Humor,Of Interest | Read More »

I am not in a good mood and, perhaps, shouldn’t be writing until I get a good night’s sleep. Here goes anyway. How many remember Kate Smith singing “America the Beautiful”?
January 17th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Of Interest | Read More »

As our civil liberties slowly erode with a corporate state under control of the Military/Industrial complex and global elite ~ there will come a time when we all must take a stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause or some great truth.
January 15th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

Americans have obviously lost their moral compass. The poles of morality – good and evil – are switching places.
January 13th, 2012 | Posted in Humor,Of Interest | Read More »

As many of you already know, I volunteer at the “National Veterans Hotline” a few nights per month. The hotline website can be found at www.Veterans911.com Last night, I was on duty for close to four hours and during that time I talked to over twenty callers.
January 13th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest,Vet News | Read More »

People ask me all the time why I went to occupied Palestine [7 times since 2005] and why do I care so much about such a small plot of real estate. I reply, that I went the first time to meet a little boy of Beit Jala, which is a suburb of Bethlehem for he irrevocably changed my life.
January 11th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Education,Food, Wine & Travel,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace,Religion | Read More »

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean gray aliens, NWO Rothschild reptiles, chemtrail-spewing hyperdimensional jets, camera-carrying robot insects, psychotronic-weapons-operating psychopaths, and alien-hybrid politicians aren’t out to get you.
January 11th, 2012 | Posted in Humor,Of Interest | Read More »

Each year Fondation de la Poste and Wepler give a literary prize to an outstanding author.
January 8th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

CARTES & IDentification , organized by a company Comexposium, was a large event having approximately 20,000 attendees and exhibitors. It was held at the large exhibition center in the north of Paris at Villepinte.
January 7th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Of Interest | Read More »

A remarkable event (see a YouTube video link at the end of the article) took place on December 8, 2011, at the National Press Club downtown Washington.
January 6th, 2012 | Posted in Book Reviews,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone.
January 6th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »

Europe needs liberating a lot more than Afghanistan ever did.
January 6th, 2012 | Posted in Humor,Of Interest | Read More »

In Holy Writ, the Torah got it right, the Talmud mucked it up and the New Testament should have ended/fulfilled the story. So, who is at fault?
January 5th, 2012 | Posted in History,Living,Of Interest,Religion | Read More »

Night terrors…emotional distancing…the trauma of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is profound. But there is help…and hope. No combat veteran who suffers from PTSD need feel alone in the suffering. For Vietnam veterans only, there are 1.7 million who suffer or have suffered from PTSD.
January 4th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

While Rumsfeld and Myers were running America’s wars in Afganistan and Iraq, though, the Air Force Secretary James Roche and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Director Peter Teets had carried it further afield to the “axis of evil” with disasters in Iran and North Korea, caused by its satellite lasers.
January 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,History,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

I do not wish to be indefinitely detained by people who have sex with pigs, monkeys, monitor lizards, giant cockroaches, or other animals.
January 1st, 2012 | Posted in Humor,Of Interest | Read More »

Do you remember that “Hippie” rebellion’s theme back in the 1950’s?
December 30th, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Of Interest | Read More »