Cold War Veterans to get their Day in Court

The federal court has accepted a lawsuit by veterans of the Cold War experiments conducted at Edgewood Arsenal from 1955 thru 1975. The government chose to ignore these men since 1975 and it has taken a lawsuit to make the government accept responsibility for medical harm caused them by toxic exposures.

NEVER FORGET: THE MURDER OF JFK

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Review of James Douglass’ Book

by Edward Curtin
Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions. There are others who cling to the [...]

Atom bomb veterans decision due

ShareUK-MORE than 1,000 atom bomb test veterans claiming hundreds of millions in compensation from the Ministry of Defence will discover the fate of a government bid to derail their claims on Friday.
A widow from north Hampshire, whose husband died from "unusual cancers", is among those taking part in the High Court battle against the MoD. [...]

Program to refurbish aging nuclear warheads faces setbacks

ShareTechnical problems and an erosion of scientific expertise are blamed for delays in the effort to replace thousands of parts that have aged since the bombs left the factory decades ago.
By Ralph Vartabedian May 29, 2009

A decadelong effort to refurbish thousands of aging nuclear warheads has run into serious technical problems that have forced [...]

Top Cuban government official says they won't negotiate political system with US

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KINGSTON, Ontario (AP) — A top Cuban official on Thursday said Cuba is willing to discuss everything with the Obama administration, but it won’t give up its form of government in talks to improve relations.
The director of Cuba’s Foreign Ministry’s North American Department said Cuba won’t negotiate sovereignty or its political and social [...]

US spy agencies hamstrung by turf battles: report

ShareWASHINGTON (AFP) – US spy agencies are still hamstrung by the same turf battles and financial mismanagement that led to massive intelligence failures revealed by the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq war, an internal report has found.
The report, made public on Wednesday, was the most detailed of its kind on challenges facing the 16 spy [...]

Military Intelligence Official Charged With Running Sex Slave Ring

ShareAn official with the Defense Ministry’s intelligence branch has been charged with leading an international crime ring trafficking women as sex slaves, a senior investigator said Friday.   The official, a colonel in the ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, led a crime syndicate that trafficked more than 130 women from Russia and former Soviet [...]

The Secret Government: U.S. Involvement in Guatemala Death Squads

ShareHow the C.I.A. and Italian Mafia Worked to Overthrow Democracy
Assasination, International Intrique, Lies, and Deception feed the Secret Government
Though many Latin American governments have practiced the dark arts of "disappearances" and "death squads," the history of Guatemala’s security operations is perhaps the best documented because the Clinton administration declassified scores of the secret U.S. documents in the [...]

Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold

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President Kennedy imposed an economic and trade embargo on Cuba on 7 February 1962 after Fidel Castro’s government expropriated US property on the island. Known by Cubans as el bloqueo, the blockade, elements have been toughened and relaxed under succeeding US presidents. Exceptions have been made for food and medicine exports. George Bush added [...]

WHAT IF MCCAIN IS THE 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE'

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A RECORD OF SUPPORTING COMMUNIST VIETNAM AND WORKING AGAINST MIA/POW RECOVERY EFFORTS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
We have all read the stories about McCains temper and his attacks on the families of other POWs.  We have all read about his votes against Veterans.  We all know of his trips to Vietnam, [...]

Forgotten Veterans of Cold War Experiments

ShareVeterans of Cold War experiments cannot get help, recognition from DOD or the Armyby Michael Bailey 
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed what many veterans have known: that the Department of Defense (DOD) stopped trying to find those who participated in the military’s chemical and biological experiments.  In 2003, they gave up and have [...]

Use Disability as excuse 2-09-08

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Written by Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 NH.red.sox@gmail.com
It would be easy for me to claim that my disabilities were the cause of my problems. I do have a TBI Traumatic Brain Injury. I remember nothing before my 17 birthday. I have problems reading and writing. I [...]

World War III Started the Day The Berlin Wall Came Down

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World War III Started the Day The Berlin Wall Came Down
by E Paul Newell
World War III started without you. You didn’t notice. Why?  Because your head was up you’re a**. Let’s get down to brass tacks. WWIII started the day the Berlin Wall came down.
Why then because up to that point [...]

Veterans Fight for Cold War Medal

ShareCold War Veterans fight uphill battle to receive medal they earnedby Roxana Tiron 
Anyone willing to spend $24.95 can go online and buy a medal commemorating service in the Cold War, even people who didn’t actually serve.
For a group of real veterans, though, getting Congress to approve an actual award has been an uphill fight.
Cold War veterans [...]

Files on Illegal Spying Show CIA Skeletons From Cold War

ShareSecret documents provide new details about how the CIA illegally spied on Americans decades agoby Mark Mazzetti and Tim Weiner 
Left, Richard Helms with President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in 1973.  
WASHINGTON— Long-secret documents released Tuesday provide new details about how the Central Intelligence Agency illegally spied on Americans decades ago, including trying [...]

Cold War Veterans Exposed to Nuclear Weapons

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A class action lawsuit has been filed against the US Government for allegedly withholding payment of medical costs to Cold War veterans exposed to nuclear weapons. The suit was filed on behalf of veterans who became ill after making bombs for the country's nuclear arsenal. The lawsuit claims Labor Department [...]

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Cold War Veteran Takes on VFW in Alabama

ShareCold War Veteran Looks for Legal Help in Fight Against the VFWby Kristina Morgan Barker  
Luis Canales, 46, of Seale, Alabama is a prime example of an American veteran. He is determined, tenacious and has suffered hardships but he is trying to overcome them, and he needs help.
Luis is Hispanic and a disabled Cold War veteran [...]

Hundreds of U.S. citizens likely died in Soviet Gulags

ShareHundreds of U.S. citizens likely died in Soviet Gulags
Left – A document from Russian archives lists American servicemen in Soviet custody in May 1945.   WASHINGTON - U.S. military service members may have been imprisoned and died in Soviet forced-labor camps during the 20th century, according to a Pentagon report to be released Friday.
Researchers for the U.S.-Russia Joint [...]

Former U.S. spies want to come in from the cold

ShareFormer U.S. spies want to come in from the coldBy ALAN FREEMAN
WASHINGTON — They claim to be the spies who were left out in the cold by their handlers at the CIA. And now they’re fighting back.
Going by the pseudonyms of John Doe and his wife Jane, a pair of onetime defectors from a former Soviet [...]

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