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Seven citizen activists were arrested for calling for an end to drone warfare at Camp Williams/Volk Field in Wisconsin on Tuesday April 24.
April 24th, 2012 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Gilad Atzmon is outrageously easy to like. So why is he hated so much?
March 8th, 2012 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Of Interest,Palestine | Read More »
Last winter’s epic battle between Wisconsin public workers and Republican Governor Walker ended badly for social justice. Nonetheless, struggling for it continues.
January 20th, 2012 | Posted in Economy,Jobs & Careers | Read More »
At the state and federal levels, pro-business/anti-worker rulings are nothing new. US Supreme Court history is rife with them since the 19th century, and no wonder.
June 15th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »
Since taking office on January 3, Republican Governor Scott Walker waged war on public workers and their unions, aiming to restrict collective bargaining rights to wage negotiations before ending them altogether
May 28th, 2011 | Posted in Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »
Both the methods and propaganda of the GOP are not only un-American, but right out of the Nazi playbook. The GOP leadership has calculated that the more miserable they can keep the American people, the better chance they have of regaining power. That, in turn, would allow them to get on with the business of totally enslaving the American people. So they routinely employ tactics from right out of Joseph Gobbels’ handbook on the effective use of propaganda to keep us so angry and divided that we’re blind to their concerted effort to keep America ignorant, distracted, and miserable.
April 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
A LITTLE TALK RADIO By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor As our readership is now half international, we have tended to move toward the sexy stuff early on, the “flavor of the week” atrocities of which there are no shortages but a domestic issue hit me very much the wrong way. This week, the GOP, [...]
April 10th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,WarZone | Read More »
Just what is this Koch Industries? Should it be called a “company?” If so we need to re-think the idea of what a company and a business is supposed to be. Even the brother of Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch called the company an “organized crime” operation.
March 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
So what I’d like to know is this – if a shade tree journalist sitting up in his den in the heart of a Los Angeles ghetto could see what was going on, why couldn’t the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, CNN and all of the other media networks; why couldn’t Harvard, Yale, and all of the various and sundry Ph.D.s from America’s great institutions of learning; and why couldn’t the nation’s so called “think tanks,” all of the nation’s political scientists, and the United States Congress figure it out?
March 19th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
In spite of the GOP claim that they believe in limited government, The Michigan Messenger has reported that newly elected Republican governor, Rick Snyder is poised to sign an emergency management bill that will hand total control of local governments over to “emergency managers” appointed by the government. “According to the law, which has already been approved in the House, the governor will be able to declare “financial emergency” in towns or school districts and appoint someone to fire local elected officials, break contracts, seize and sell assets, and eliminate services.”
March 15th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »
Unfortunately, politics is much like religion – no matter how much evidence is brought to bear that a person’s preacher is a hypocrite, a crook, and a pedophile, many of the people in the church will refuse to believe their lying eyes, because it’s not what they want to see.
March 10th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »
“OUTLAW GOVERNORS” TAKE ON AMERICA “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In Wisconsin, State Police cars are searching for missing legislators. The fist pounding on the door in the middle of the night, reminders of Germany, 1936. A state [...]
February 28th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,WarZone | Read More »
One of the founding fathers of conservative thought was Alexander Hamilton. He was an aristocrat who advocated that poor and middle-class Americans should be relegated to second-class citizenship, and the GOP has fully embraced his agenda. While Hamilton’s position was resoundingly rejected by the vast majority of the founding fathers – whose primary reason for coming to America in the first place was to get away from the European class system – there were many of Hamilton’s ilk who chose not to recognize the American ideal that “All men [and women] are created equal.” Then they were later joined by Southern Dixiecrats, or social bigots, who also rejected the ideal of human equality.
February 28th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Olbermann’s initial piece is about the Wisconsin brouhaha, and the place of unions. Like a lot of us, he had a union card or two as he trundled through his career. And, since being in the union saved his job once when a drunken exec decided to fire him because he didn’t like him and thought that Keith’s argument with his direct boss was grounds for firing and some character defamation, he’s invested.
February 26th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption | Read More »
Afghan youth are quietly encouraged by the Egyptian uprising because the people of Afghanistan want what the people of Egypt want. We are all Bouazizi. We want dignified livelihoods. Dare any scientist prove to us that 30 years of wars and more to come will successfully bring us decent livelihoods? Dare any human being prove to us that mutual killings somehow bring men and women some measure of murderous dignity?
February 24th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
One of my close friends, David Hartsough, who is white, was sitting in with a small group of civil rights activists at a segregated lunch counter in Virginia in the early sixties. They had been sitting there without getting service for close to two days, harassed almost without letup by an increasingly angry crowd. As neither the sitters nor the proprietors backed down, tension increased. Suddenly David was jerked back off his stool and spun around by a man who hissed at him, ‘You got one minute to get out of here, n——- lover, or I’m running this through your heart.’ David, a birthright Quaker, stopped staring at the huge Bowie knife held at his chest and slowly looked up into the man’s face, to meet ‘the worst look of hate I have ever seen in my life.’
February 21st, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Peace | Read More »
The widening gulf between those who hold all the wealth in our various societies, those who manipulate the strings of power and the mass of people who produce that wealth with their sweat and labor, has widened to a point that has become intolerable even among the normally complaisant.
February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Government,Politics | Read More »
As the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) and Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA) made significant steps last year in improving the ludicrous regulations for veterans obtaining disability benefits for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), it has become more clear that anti-veteran forces in the military, the American media, think-tanks and the DVA are still dedicated to preserving the culture of delay, [...]
January 21st, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Vet News | Read More »
Statement by David Clohessy, SNAP director: It’s always distressing when supposed ‘shepherds’ act like callous CEOs. This is about protecting church secrets, not church assets. The goal here is to prevent top church managers from being questioned under oath about their complicity, not ‘compensating victims fairly.’ Under this scheme, Listecki, Sklba and Weakland win and [...]
January 5th, 2011 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »
Seems the child molestation protection racket has fallen on bad times. MILWAUKEE — The Archdiocese of Milwaukee said Tuesday it would file for bankruptcy protection because pending sexual-abuse lawsuits could leave it with debts it couldn’t afford. A lawyer who filed many of those lawsuits, however, said he thought the archdiocese was using bankruptcy as a [...]
January 5th, 2011 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »
In 2008, the Milwaukee chapter of Veterans for Peace began a small, weekly outreach program to look for homeless veterans in Milwaukee and see if we could help. We never leave a man or woman behind in the field; and we never should at home. By Bill Christofferson at UppityWisconsin The good news — and [...]
December 24th, 2010 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
“We Gotta Get Out of This Place”
November 8th, 2010 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »
- A good and decent man dies proud of his family and country – From the Ruffert family: Ruffert, Marvin J. Our dad and best friend quietly passed away on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, at the age of 79 years. Beloved husband of the late Maureen (nee Kriz). Loving dad of Brian (Gail) and Gregg [...]
November 1st, 2010 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »
From the VA –
October 29th, 2010 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Some evidence that the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA or VA) and the agency’s Veterans Benefit Administration are turning the corner in delivering benefits in the face of record veteran suicide rates: From the U.S. DVA Veterans Benefit Administration: A new VA ‘Walk-In Claims’ pilot program is available for Kansas and Wisconsin Veterans, the [...]
October 26th, 2010 | Posted in Benefits,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
- Asked what the Department of Veteran’s Affairs’ responsibility is to homeless veterans, Johnson declared that his election fight against Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) is not “about details.” – Evidently, homeless veterans do not figure prominantly into the millionaire rightwinger’s conception of a U.S. Senate campaign. Betrayal of veterans is typically a bi-partisan game, but [...]
October 21st, 2010 | Posted in Government,Politics | Read More »
- Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, referred to the “execution” of Obama three separate times during a recent media conference call – From Nick Wing at the Huffington Post “Feingold had mentioned that he thought that it would be good if we captured Obama in the battlefield setting and that he suffered the [...]
October 8th, 2010 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »
- It’s shameful and disgusting that Ron Johnson would go to the Wisconsin State Senate to defend Predator Priests under the rationale that the Child Sexual Abuse Victims Act is bad for business. “I think its a valid question to ask if the employer of the perpetrator should also be severely damaged, possibly destroyed, in a legitimate desire for justice,” said [...]
September 28th, 2010 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »
- CAUGHT ON TAPE: Wisconsin GOP and Tea Party Target to block Minorities and College-age Voters in Voter Caging Plot – Update: See als0 massive, coordinated and illegal plan to suppress Wisconsin voter turnout in November was exposed today by One Wisconsin Now (OWN), and Looming Election Brings Back Same Old GOP SOP: Caging, Voter [...]
September 21st, 2010 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »
Via 91 Outcomes Dane B. Cook, Aaron J. Stegner and Laura D. Ellingson † Department of Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison,Wisconsin Abstract Since returning from the Persian Gulf, nearly 100,000 veterans of the first Gulf War (GVs) have reported numerous symptoms with no apparent medical explanation. A primary complaint of these individuals is chronic musculoskeletal [...]
August 12th, 2010 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
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