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A Little Unfinished Business

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If President Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq based on lies and deception, please explain why the U.S. is not responsible for repairing the horrific damage inflicted on those two countries and for paying reparations.

March 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

The Ground Truth : The Human Cost Of War

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Sometimes the greatest act of courage is to tell the truth. A number of young soldiers who speak candidly and powerfully about the motivations that led them to join the military.

March 19th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Living,Military,Of Interest | Read More »

Bidens Visit Wounded Warriors, Families at Pendleton

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Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, thanked wounded warriors and their families for their service and sacrifice during a visit to the Warrior Hope and Care Center here yesterday.

January 21st, 2012 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

America; From Nation Building To Nation Destruction.

Major Crandall's UH-1D helicopter climbs skyward after discharging a load of infantrymen on a search and destroy mission - Source: Wikimedia Commons

When I was growing up in Palestine, I remember the first picture I ever took with my family, and it was a picture in clothes we got from a Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) package.

January 19th, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Iran,Middle East | Read More »

Unaccountable: Private Military Contractor Abuses

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Wherever they’re deployed, they’re menacing and feared for good reason. Known historically by various names, they include mercenaries, soldiers of fortune, dogs of war, and Condottieri for wealthy city state leaders and the Papacy in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance Italy.

January 11th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Foreign Relations,Government,Politics | Read More »

Iraq: Legacy of Deception and Its Costs

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Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a “Real Politik” vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions.

January 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Editors Picks,Iraq War,WarZone | Read More »

Mainstream Media keeps al-Qaeda Myth Alive.

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“Who’s going to object to referring to the Sunni insurgency in post-war Iraq as yet another attack by al-Qaeda?”

December 30th, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Iraq War,WarZone | Read More »

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – December 28, 2011

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Sally Ann Homes, M.D., the spinal cord injury care line executive at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, recently received the Operation American Heroes Foundation Founder’s Award.

December 28th, 2011 | Posted in Top 10,Vet News | Read More »

Last Post in Iraq: This Is The Death Knell Of The American Empire

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What was intended to be a demonstration of power turned into the most costly boomerang in history, in both blood and treasure. by George Galloway

December 16th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Heroes,Military | Read More »

Those Who Create The Crisis Will Not Be The Ones Who Come Up With A Solution’

Arundhati Roy

Roy offers her thoughts on Occupy Wall Street, the role of the imagination, reclaiming language, and what is next for a movement that has reshaped America’s political discourse and seized the world’s attention.

December 5th, 2011 | Posted in Living | Read More »

The Cost of Israel to Americans

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The most serious dangers facing Americans today stem from our “special relationship” with Israel. by The Council For The National Interest

November 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Editors Picks,Living,New World Order War,Peace,WarZone | Read More »

Condoleezza Rice Talks Values

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There is no living group of individuals who have done more to undermine crucial values than those who worked in the Bush Jr. White House.

November 1st, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Foreign Relations,Government,Politics | Read More »

Stop the Machine Occupies Washington

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On October 6, thousands massed in Washington on the 10th anniversary of America’s illegal Afghan war against a nonbelligerent country.

October 9th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politics | Read More »

Iraq: Panetta’s Immunity Request Not Protection from ICC

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Hundreds of Americans Troops/Contractors Face War Crimes Accusations.

October 8th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,Editors Picks,WarZone | Read More »

From Cairo to New York

Demonstrators with 'Occupy Wall Street' banners occupy One Police Plaza in headquarters of the New York Police Department, on September 30, 2011.

Inspired by the popular uprisings in Arab countries, the anti-imperialist 'Occupy Wall Street' protests are creeping with vigorous rapidity into other states in the USA.

October 6th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

What To Do? What Can We Do to Free Ourselves and Our Country?

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The Occupy Wall Street action is a good example, one that I hope grows and is supported.

October 2nd, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,AfPak,Editors Picks,Iraq War,Libya,WarZone | Read More »

Lawlessness and Injustice Define America and Israel

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Rogue state lawlessness and contempt for humanity define both nations.

September 5th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Government,Politics | Read More »

Operation Desert Shield

U.S. Air Force security police pose for a photo behind a Mark 19 40mm grenade launcher during Operation Desert Shield. The men are armed with Colt Commando assault rifles.

One of the main concerns to the West was the significant threat Iraq posed to Saudi Arabia. Following the take-over of Kuwait, the Iraqi army was within easy striking distance of Saudi oil fields.

August 26th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

9/11: A Conspiracy Beyond Theory

BY WAY OF DECEPTION WE MAKE WAR -- MOSSAD

Of course the hijackers knew nothing about any plan to fly into buildings like kamikaze pilots on a suicide mission. by Paul J Balles.

August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,Editors Picks,Iraq War,WarZone | Read More »

Iraq Bombings unlikely to Change Minds on US Troop Withdrawal

Iraqi checkpoint blast near police station in Najaf.

If 47,000 US troops in country cannot prevent such coordinated bombings, then how could a much smaller contingent do so? And as Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has pointed out on several occasions recently, the very presence of US troops would provoke terrorist attacks and be destabilizing. by Juan Cole

August 16th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

War, From the Outside Looking In

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No one knows exactly what combined to create these problems, but it is believed to be a combination of experimental vaccines they took “voluntarily” (Yeah sure) to resist chemical weapons, but which actually made them more sensitive to them, exposure to these chemicals when the weapons were blown up (What did they expect would happen to the chemicals when then were blown up) desert parasites, and diseases that Americans are not normally exposed to and have no natural defense against.

August 1st, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | 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 »

Murdoch Playbook Revealed: Push for War, Fake the Results in Iraq

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There was the same rush to war in Iraq as there would be to instill George W. Bush in office and keep him there by hook or crook, using such unsubtle means in 2004 as to have commentators that Bill O'Reilly assured us operated objectively count down the number of days to Bush's re-election.

July 16th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

Will the U.S. Really Leave Iraq?

Pentagon chief Robert Gates, left, greets the man designated to be his successor, Leon Panetta, during an April 28 news conference at the White House. (Jim Watson / Agence France-Presse)

“Although the Iraq invasion was launched under false pretenses, U.S. troops stationed there are “defending our country.” Defending it from who?”

July 14th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Foreign Relations,Iran,Middle East,Politics,World | Read More »

The Sanitized Version of Neoconservatism

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What these books still conceal, however, is the fact that the neocons are motivated by their Jewish ethnicity and the interests of the state of Israel.

June 26th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,Editors Picks,WarZone | Read More »

Mayors Tell Obama Save America First

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (left) is the newly elected head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors

The United States Conference of Mayors, representing 1,200 cities with populations over 30,000, voted in their June 20 plenary session to call on the federal government to end America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and redirect that military spending to home land priorities.

June 20th, 2011 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »

US Congressman Asks Iraqis to Pay for Iraq War

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (GOP) asks Iraq to Pay Up!

Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher asked Iraqis to pay for the destruction, invasion, and occupation of Iraq. f the law and legal precedent mean anything, it is the US that should pay reparations to Iraq.

June 15th, 2011 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »

Obama’s Slipping Popularity

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Except for bankers, war profiteers, other corporate favorites, and America’s super-rich, it’s hard imagining why anyone supports a president backing policies harming so many at home and abroad.

June 12th, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »

The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression (Part II)

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Previous articles discussed America’s permanent war agenda, culture of violence, imperial lawlessness, daily atrocities, blood-drenched history, glorification of killing in the name of peace, and support for the world’s worst despots

June 11th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Foreign Relations,Government,Politics | Read More »

DTAP Program for Transitioning Disabled Vets

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There are many available programs for transitioning disabled veteran, from both the public and private sectors; they will not be forgotten.

May 30th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Editors Picks,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »

 

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