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Autumn of the Republic?
Did America slip into a semi-literate, polarized, pre-fascist state over the past decade or so, allowing greedy oligarchs and corporate elites to run the government?
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The Decade We Had Muharram Violence in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan How a billionaire can make a billion...
Enduring Freedom
That was a great Christmas. Back to the Obama wars that are indistinguishable from the Bush wars and its neocon propaganda, aka lies. From Gaza...
Witnesses Say Protesters Killed in Iran – Sphere blog
According to a Sphere blog entry of about an hour ago, Iran has now opened fire on protestors who are objecting to Iran's apparently...
The Lives They Lived
Peg Mullen: Cornfield Protest By Sara Corbett The New York Times Peg Mullen was at her sewing machine making a new set of ...
Regional Veterans' News
Manila, Philippines Pinoy war veterans get US benefits Yakima, Washington Help out there for homeless veterans Nashville, Tennessee MTSU...
The limits of military power: we need to pay attention to Mexico's problems.
In today's Washington Post in an article entitled Mexico weighs options as lawlessness continues to grip Ciudad Juarez we clearly can see the very...
Elite U.S. Force Expanding Hunt in Afghanistan – New York Times
In today's New York Times we find out, once again, that we are successfully killing people by the truckloads in Afghanistan. But are they...
GORDON DUFF: MYSTERY MATH OF VIETNAM AND GULF WAR I
FIGURES DON'T LIE BUT THEY SURE FIND LIARS
IT ALL ADDS UP TO MURDER
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
A reader was challenging my use of...
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Cartoons of the Week Christmas: Daddy's Philosophy 29% of Americans say religion ‘out of date’ Along ...
GORDON DUFF: MOVING THE WAR ON TERROR WEST: TIME TO STOP CLOWNING AROUND
AF-PAK NO LONGER TERRORIST HAVEN
US MUST FOLLOW TERROR THREAT TO AFRICA
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
Whatever terrorist training was going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan...
Regional Veterans' News
Sebring, Florida GI Bill tuition payments sluggish Holyoke, Massachusetts Veterans decry closing of clinic Prescott, Arizona Prescott veteran brings history to...
GORDON DUFF: BONG FIRE ERUPTS ON ALL TERRORIST FLIGHT
"MUJAHIDEEN EXPRESS" FROM ROTTERDAM TO DEARBORN
WORLD'S ONLY "ALL TERRORIST AIRLINE" ATTACKED
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
According to DHS figures, the Rotterdam to Dearborn, Michigan flight,...
Claimed Al-Qaeda Terrorism Attempt on Jet in Detroit Thwarted
The jet arrived from Amsterdam, not Afghanistan. Let's not send the Marines into the Netherlands, okay Mr. President?A passenger aboard a plane at Detroit...
GREATER HIMALAYAN COMMON MARKET – A THOUGHT IN THE WILDERNESS
LET INDIA PROVE HER SINCERITY BEFORE TALKING OF ANY ALLIANCEBy Naveed TajammalTom, has interviewed people who think like him and so he see's our...
Gator Taylor Domestic Terrorist or Fox News Rube?
Was Glenn Beck Junkie Tased by a Robot?
Two days ago, "Gator" Taylor walked into a Virginia post office, no he didn't exactly walk, he...
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The Rich Worry About You Ann Telnaes Christmas Animation The Year's Best Editorial Cartoons Iraq sectarian...
Michigan Leading the Way for Veterans and Medical Cannabis
DETROIT, Mich. - Michigan citizens demonstrated overwhelming support for medical cannabis in the November election in 2008. Since then, three VA Medical Center directors,...
Regional Veterans' News
Detroit, Michigan Veterans wait for GI Bill funding Iowa City, Iowa Military magazine gives UI high rating Lufkin, Texas Veterans' facility...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 1000-09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc.*, Virginia Beach, Va. (SPM8EG-08-D-0002); W.S. Darley & Co.*, Itasca, Ill. (SPM8EG-08-D-0003); and Safeware, Inc.*, Landover, Md. (SPM8EG-08-D-0004),...
GORDON DUFF: WHY AMERICANS WILL BE DYING NEXT CHRISTMAS AND…
WILL NATO EVENTUALLY DEFEAT PAKISTAN?
HOW CAN WE KEEP TERRORISM ALIVE?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
The US and NATO war against Pakistan is going reasonably...
A New Life Nursing Their Damaged Warriors
By Francis X. Clines The New York Times The two soldiers lolled speechless in wheelchairs, severely brain damaged by war, staring out at...
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Afghan Lobby Scam Protests spread across Iran Who Wants to Die for Karzai? Coal's Greatest Hits,...
Regional Veterans' News
San Antonio, Texas Hero didn't forget the GIs of today Vallejo, California Volunteers to improve veterans building Salt Lake...
War Spending Exceeds State Government Outlays
By Sherwood Ross / Staff Writer The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education,...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 998-09 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: NAVY Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $163,800,000 not-to-exceed undefinitized contract action for the procurement of four...
JEFF GATES: ZIONIST DOMINANCE IN THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY
THE REAL ORIGINS OF BARACK "HUSSEIN" OBAMA
By Jeff Gates/Staff Writer/Editor (2nd in a series)
Be not deceived by Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name or by...
GORDON DUFF: RESTORING AMERICA’S REAL GLORY: TRUTH AND HONOR
TIME FOR ALL AMERICANS TO SAY "NO MORE"
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Before the fiasco of invading Iraq, a self destructive act done at...
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Break the CIA in Two A Holiday Season of War Blackwater Eyes Afghan Contractor Surge Parting the...
NY Vet Battles Homelessness and Disease, While Raising 5 Children
Joseph Mungin, 45, an Army veteran, with his children. From left, Tischa, Tiffany, Devin, Joey, Mr. Mungin and Tina. Photo: Ruby Washington/The New York...
EMERGING SCENARIO: PAKISTAN'S OPTIONS
NO SOLUTION IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT PAKISTANBy Ijaz-ul-Haq US Administration under President Obama, now in the arena for a good length, seems to suffer as...
Regional Veterans' News
Lorain, Ohio Clinic, college staying put at St. Joe center Oxford, Mississippi Man to fight allegation of Purple Heart fraud Albuquerque,...
Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo Bans Pregnancy
Last month back the Army general of U.S. forces in Northern Iraq ordered pregnancy banned among military personnel in his command, under threat of court-martial and jail time....
No Chance Obama's War in Afghanistan Will Succeed
By Sherwood Ross / Staff Writer “There isn't the slightest possibility that the course laid out by Barack Obama in his Dec. 1...
Escalating War in Afghanistan Apt to Bring More Economic Woes
By Sherwood Ross / Staff Writer If Iraq war spending helped plunge the U.S. economy into its worst slump since the Depression, what...
Who is Barack Obama?
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREEWho is Barack Obama?Hello, Rosemary. I was just sitting here contemplating our earlier discussion. You know how much...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 992-09--------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an $841,877,905 contract to provide for 24 F-16 Block 52 aircraft,...
Ohio Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park
The Ohio Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Clinton, Ohio, 44216, was the idea of Dan Delarosa, Mansfield, Oh in 2004. Dan's inspiration was his...
GORDON DUFF: TRUE STORY BEHIND THE L.A. VETERANS PARK SCANDAL
HEROES vs ZEROES
By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
For over a decade, the Los Angeles Veterans Home, or what is supposed to be a Veterans...
Veterans oppose troop increase in Afghanistan
One day President Obaama escalates an unwinnable war, the next he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more American...
U.S. Troops in Iraq Are Now Detectives and Cops
By Scott Fontaine. KHANDARI, Iraq — “People in these neighborhoods know the sight of American troops,” said Staff Sgt. Brenden Bersey, a Spokane native on...