Monthly Archives: March 2010
Eye Witness Testifies in Rachel Corrie Case, says Israeli Military Tried to Morph Truth
the Haifa District Court saw the third day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel was crushed to death on March 16, 2003 by a Caterpillar D9R bulldozer.
5 Ways to Value a Tree
* By Mickey Z. Planet Green *
When you live in a corporate-dominated culture, everything is potentially a "commodity." We "spend" time, we "invest" in...
Stop the Deportation of Immigrant Military Veterans
Servicemembers sign up to put their lives on the line in defense of the United States of America. Veterans deserve respect and support for their willingness to take risks on behalf of the country.
Veterans of Gulf Wars August Reunion—1990 – Present
Annoucement from the National Gulf War Resource Center (NGWRC):
- A reunion for veterans of the Gulf War (Southwest Asia), 1990 to Present -
Operations Desert...
U.S. State Department Employee Assassinated in Mexico
our drug habit is a medical addiction problem that must be taken off the covert streets and out into the light. We can't ignore that we have addicts among us and it's causing harm to us and our neighbors.
Regional Veterans News 3/15/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Silver City, New Mexico, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Vacaville, California, Memphis, Tennessee, Amarillo, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana, Columbus, Ohio, Whistler, British Columbia, Anderson, South Carolina, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country
VA-purchased equipment is flying down the slopes and gliding across the ice at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Games in Vancouver this week. Five Veterans are competing in Vancouver and the adaptive sports equipment they will use to compete and for day-to-day mobility (wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs) were provided by VA Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service (PSAS). This is the first Paralympics Winter Games in which athletes will be competing with equipment provided by VA.
GORDON DUFF: RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA, AN UNAMERICAN CITY OF NOTE
"MILITARY TRASH, NEGROES, INJUNS, MESSICANS AND QUEERS, RAPID CITY HATES EM' ALL"
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Rapid City, South Dakota has a long history...
History Revised, Teachers Sacked: The Book Wars in Texas and Beyond
It's been a brawl for years, this education culture war that seems to take on a particularly vicious turn in the heart of Texas. The latest and most important round, a drastic revision of the social studies curriculum standards to put a conservative spin on history and economics textbooks, was given preliminary approval after a series of heated meetings of the Texas Board of Education that didn't do much to improve the image of the nation's second largest state as a sometimes small-minded political and educational backwater.
GORDON DUFF: TERRORISM AND THE FLEECING OF THE FAITHFUL
THE ABOMINATION OF "FAITH BASED " WARFARE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
The "war on terror" has been like no other. America has kidnapped and...
Wars sending U.S. into ruin
U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health.
In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug — debt.
More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itself into ruin by buying tanks.
LEVEL OF PAIN: THE FIFTH VITAL SIGN
In the United States pain has become known as the fifth vital sign. It is a common and required practice to evaluate that amount of pain a person is having, as well as documenting blood pressure, pulse, respirations, and termperature.
Military Families Speak Out against the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan War
The Military Family Peace group Military Families Speak Out is asking all Military Families, Veterans, and supporters who question or oppose the continued occupation...
U.S. Marines Leading Fight Against Taliban
The Marine approach -- creative, aggressive and, at times, unorthodox -- has won many admirers within the military.
Regional Veterans News 3/14/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Mount Clemens, Michigan, Frazier Park, California, Selma, Alabama, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, Augusta, Georgia, Farmington, New Mexico, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Knoxville, Tennessee, Chicago, Illinois, and Cedar City, Utah.
Purple Heart comes late for World War II veteran
Bob Slone's dream was to finally get the Purple Heart he deserved for wounds received in one of World War II's bloodiest battles.
He nearly died on a ridge in Guam where his Marine unit had set up machine guns overlooking a dirt road occupied by Japanese troops.
Beat the Pentagon!
This video from Brave New Films:
Rethink Afghanistan is related to the article I posted mentioning “Operation Moshtarak”, called Marja, Afghanistan:...
Labor Organizations, Unions, Muslim Community leaders and Peace Demo Organizers speak out: “Why WE...
Despite intimidation from Police in LA, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, the PEACE demonstrations on Saturday, 20 March to demand "U.S. Out of Afghanistan...
20 March Peace Demonstrations still on Despite Pre-Protest Suppression of Dissent
Despite serious assaults on free speech rights that have been intended to obstruct mobilization for the 20 March Peace demonstrations in Washington, D.C., Chicago,...
KHALIL NOURI: AFGHANISTAN: REVISION TO MAJOR JIM GANT’S DOCTRINE: “ONE TRIBE AT A TIME”
By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER
VETERANS TODAY
Major Jim Gant, an Army silver star...
Foreign Policy Briefing 3/13/10
Secretary of State Clinton warned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Friday that Israel had sent a "deeply negative signal" about the U.S.-Israeli relationship and urged him to take immediate steps to demonstrate it was interested in renewing efforts at a Middle East peace agreement, the Washington Post reports. Her call, made in the wake of the embarrassment suffered by Vice President Biden when Israel announced it would build 1,600 housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem, was an unusually tough message for the longtime U.S. ally, the Post says.
Dave Barry’s Oscar experience
It's a few days before the Academy Awards, and I'm deep in the bowels of the Kodak Theater (which has miles of bowels) in a cramped space temporarily named the Writers Room. The show writers, of whom I am one this year, are sitting around a conference table strewn with papers, Starbucks cups and the wrappers of long-deceased snacks. Also at the table are the co-hosts we're writing for, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country
Veteran Homelessness Fell 18% Last Year. The online version of the Gloucester County (NJ) Times (3/13) hails "Good news out of the national Department of Veterans Affairs this week as the VA announced that the number of veterans out on the streets on a typical night dropped 18 percent. The VA is entering the second year of its initiative to eliminate homelessness among those who have served within the next five years.
GORDON DUFF: AFGHANISTAN AND AMERICA: OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL APPROACH
PRECONCEPTIONS, MISCONEPTIONS AND "NO FEEDBACK LOOP" LEADS TO AMERICAN DISASTER IN AFGHANISTAN
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I have only recently returned from the region...
Local veterans remember hell in the Pacific during WWII
What happened there — and on Guadalcanal and Peleliu and Okinawa — is the subject of The Pacific, a 10-part miniseries that begins on March 14 at 9 on HBO. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, who also collaborated on the WWII epics Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, the miniseries dramatizes the Pacific campaign through the real-life stories of three Marines.
Killer App: Drones Are Lynchpin of Obama’s War on Terror
CIA drones are killing terrorists -- and civilians -- in Pakistan almost every day. The unmanned aircraft are becoming the weapon of choice in the fight against al-Qaida and its allies. But the political, military and moral consequences are incalculable. SPIEGEL ONLINE has investigated Barack Obama's remote-controlled campaign against terrorism.
Regional Veterans News 3/13/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Andalusia, Alabama, Orangeburg, South Carolina, Clute, Texas, Montpelier, Vermont, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jewett City, Connecticut, Atlanta, Georgia, Phoenix, Arizona, and Dallas, Texas.
Combat Vet’s PTSD Untreated; Blames Her Gender
According to recent VA statistics, PTSD and depression are the top disability claims among America's female veterans — many of whom served in Iraq and Afghanistan. But many of them have trouble proving that they saw combat — a key to getting treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
MAIDHC O’CATHAIL: Who’s to blame for the Iraq war?
A not-so-trivial quiz
By Maidhc O'Cathail for the Islam Times
Maidhc Ó Cathail presents a detailed 20 question quiz with answers at the end. This quiz...
Young Veterans Returning Home to Few Jobs
The unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war.
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 196-10
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CONTRACTS: NAVY
LPI Technical Services*, Chesapeake, Va., is being awarded a $84,140,685 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to furnish repair, maintenance, modernization, logistical, and technical...
Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
David Cole takes on Liz Cheney and her Daddy Warbucks at Salon. Andy Kroll at Tomgram welcomes us the Ponzi Nation we have become. Glen Beck is still listening to the Beatles backwards and finding dark and treasonous portends in pop music and probably in his breakfast cereal at Media Matters and Jim Hightower says "chicken feathers" to the idea of Georgia's new state bird... the chicken? Those stories and more in today's picks.
In Memory: Gulf War Illness Researcher Dr Jerry Buccafussco
This past week the gulf war veterans lost a researcher that had one of the earliest studies that brought attention to gulf war illness...
Is Palestine Dead? The Slow Methodical Ethnic Cleansing Continues!
here we go again with another chapter in the over 100 years of war put forward by the Euro-Zionist visonaries. So get ready for more imprisonments laced with blood and the dying strewn in the ugly un-holy streets as this march towards the extinction of the indigneous peoples continues.
Why Don’t Honest Journalists Take On Roger Ailes & Fox News?
One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?
GORDON DUFF: USING “COP SENSE” TO FIGHT TERRORISM
TERRORISM IS SELDOM WHAT IT SEEMS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/ Senior Editor
In America, terrorism has meant little. I won't allow the word "terrorism" to...
Is there a Method to Liz Cheney’s Madness?
The Cheneys are engaged in a preemptive strike against the Obama administration in general, and the Justice Department in particular, in order to stir up public opinion against the prospect that the Obama administration will finally decides to prosecute Dick Cheney for war crimes - as the rule of law demands. They're busily laying the groundwork to incite insurrection across this country to counter the application of the rule of law.
Drug money used as a geopolitics weapon by CIA-RAW-Mossad
RAW in alliance with RAAM and with active backing of CIA has also set up 70 training camps in Afghanistan closer to Pakistan border where Chechens, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Afghans, Baloch and FATA rebels are trained and launched.
THE NEW WORLD ORDER—AND PAKISTAN
The term New World Order was in wide popular use in the early 1990s. Then it gradually disappeared from the scene, and has since been hardly heard of. This is quite in line with the guileful game plan of its originators. They are having their new order methodically enforced in every country, while the people, although tormented by the ever worsening economic, social and political conditions around them, remain ignorant of the real villains and their game.
Desmond Tutu Hits Discrimination of Gays as Human Rights Violation
Famed anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Desmond Tutu, blasts the anti-gay hatred sweeping the continent of Africa. Writes Tutu in the Washington Post: "The...
Foreign Policy Briefing 3/12/10
An open diplomatic row with Israel during the visit of Vice President Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions the US is too weak to broker a deal, AP reports. The Palestinians largely lost faith in the U.S. as a broker after Obama tried - and failed - to get the Netanyahu government to stop building on lands Palestinians claim for a future state, AP says.
Regional Veterans News 3/12/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Waukegan, Illinois, Nashville, Tennessee, Sarasota, Florida, Midlothian, Illinois, Bath, New York, Minneapolis, Minnesota, St George, Utah, and Fridley, Minnesota.