Monthly Archives: November 2010
THE TORTURERS REVISITED
BUSH'S AXIS OF EVIL WAR
The Trial is a novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it...
GOP’s Cantor Makes It Official: Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
- Presumed House majority leader affirms: Israel First -
By Glenn Greenwald at Salon
Soon-to-be GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor met on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
U.S. sending traumatized troops back again and again to war
How many of caskets have to be filled because of suicide?
I've been asking that question since 1982 when a veteran started to notice me...
Yemen Bombs and Smart Donkeys
May be the bombs were not the real issue behind this clumsy operation. But the mail bombs did carry explosives after all, it carried an explosive message that said; there are MUSLIMS behind this terrorist act who held a grudge against the west as old as the crusades and the fall of the Muslim empire in Spain.
IS AMERICAN PUBLIC ABOUT TO TOSS ISRAEL?
Some opinion analysts, like the 2009 Zogby International poll of American attitudes toward Israelis and Palestinians, express surprise with what they are learning from the American public and detect significant changes in American public attitudes favoring US disengagement from Israel
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
CONTRACTS:
No. 1043-10
November 12, 2010
CONTRACTS
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Enersys Energy Products, Inc., Warrensburg, Mo., is being awarded a maximum $38,466,077 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for storage batteries. There...
Fisk: Rising Tensions Threatening New Conflict in Lebanon
Five years after Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was killed, rising sectarian tensions and a teetering government are threatening a new conflict in...
PECO Manufacturing Teams with HireVeterans.com
PECO Manufacturing Joins with HireVeterans.com to Attract US Military Veterans to Their Workforce
By Randy Miller
Previously named Product Engineering Corporation, PECO was founded ...
CINDY McCAIN VIDEO: STOP THE BULLYING, SUPPORT LESBIAN/GAY TEENS
VETERAN'S TODAY THANKS CINDY McCAIN FOR HER COURAGEOUS STANCE AGAINST, WELL, HER IMBECILE HUSBAND
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Gay bullying is no joke, nor...
CHAPLAIN KATHIE: COMMONALITY OF PAIN
If you hear someone say they have an abscess tooth, you understand how much pain they are in even if you've never had one, you have had a tooth ache. If you hear someone say they have a sinus infection, you understand how much pain they are in with the pressure building in their head and their body is drained of energy.
UN Human Rights Council Calls On U.S. to Enforce “Leahy Amendment”
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday released its draft report on the first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the U.S. human rights record. The report called for greater transparency and accountability in U.S. foreign military aid and programs. On Thursday, November 4, Gina Patnaik spoke at UN headquarters in Geneva, representing the Rachel Corrie Foundation in a side panel to the U.S. review, and called upon the U.S. Government to enforce two existing mechanisms for monitoring human rights abuses - the "Leahy Amendment," and the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Iran-backed al-Maliki Tapped to form Government in Iraq
- I don’t think there is any way to interpret what has happened except as a victory for Iran. -
By Juan Cole at Informed...
Veteran Suicide: A Must Watch Video
Via 91Outcomes:
Joseph C. Wilson on George Bush’s ‘Deception Points’
- Lame attempt to cleanse history -
By Joseph C. Wilson in the Huffington Post
Having read that people began lining up in front of bookstores...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Shinseki Commemorates Veterans Day. In continuing coverage, the CNN (11/12) website says, "Americans around the world," including US Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric...
VA researchers playing a lead role at scientific meeting
- VA Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) researchers educate providers and enhance transitions of care for our older Veterans, and they are...
America’s Veterans: The Collateral Damage of War
- The current situation for veterans is not new, just different. This Veterans Day, HBO is debuting a documentary entitled Wartorn: 1861-2010. Through interviews,...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Award
CONTRACTS:
No. 1041-10
November 11, 2010
CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, Conn., was awarded a $100,738,400 contract modification which is an increase in the undefinitized...
Wingnuts on Parade
Most voters seemed to understand that the outcome of America’s midterm election was the result of a devastated economy and the President Barack Obama’s failure to create jobs or even to understand the difficulties that are confronting many American families.
WESTERN MEDIA FRIGHTENED OF THE ‘F’ WORD IN ITS ISRAELI CONTEXT
More than six decades on, under the headline Weimar in Jerusalem: The rise of fascism in Israel, Uri Avnery wrote: “Throughout the years, we were careful not to mention the word fascism in public discourse. It raises memories which are too monstrous. Now this taboo has been broken.”
HOMEWARD BOUND
The ultimate grunt,
Dress Blues now white;
One Marine standing tall
on this most sacred night.
Young and vibrant,
wounds of battle now gone.
No more suffering or pain,
As he rose to move on.
The Plot to Destroy the United States
The plans are in place to bring that to an end.
JB CAMPBELL: DEFENSE AGAINST ZIONIST AGGRESSION
Defense Against Zionist Aggression
By J.B. Campbell
Once we acknowledge the threat that faces us – Zionist Aggression – we are left with the problem of...
Once we were Warriors Original Veteran’s Day 2010 Military Tribute
From TunesNorth:
Veterans and mental health care
- We can honor our veterans and ourselves by fighting stigma together. It’s a battle we know we can win. -
By Rosalynn Carter and Patrick...
Pausing to Remember This Veterans Day
From PTSD Combat: From Winning the War Within:
Known as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts...
From the White House on Veterans Day
From the White House:
On the eve of Veteran’s Day, I wanted to write today with a simple message to our nation’s veterans: thank you....
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
Shinseki To Commemorate Veterans Day At White House, Arlington National Cemetery. In a story offering details on Veterans Day activities planned by the Obama Administration, the "Federal Eye" blog for the Washington Post (11/11, O'Keefe, 605K) says that while the President and First Lady "will still be overseas" on Thursday, Vice President Biden is scheduled to host a "Veterans Day breakfast at the White House," lay a "wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery and give a speech at the Memorial Amphitheater." Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, who will "attend Biden's Veterans Day breakfast at the White House and the events" at Arlington National Cemetery, "plans to attend receptions hosted by the Legion of Valor and the Paralyzed Veterans of America organizations."
This Veterans Day, 18 will die by their own hands
This Veterans Day, yesterday, the day before and all other days ended with 18 veterans no longer here. They were not among the veterans...
On Veterans Day, VA Secretary Shinseki Recognizes, Thanks Veterans
WASHINGTON (Nov. 11, 2010) - This Veterans Day, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki calls on America to honor its 23 million Veterans...
Veterans Day: IVAW’s Operation Recovery Update
This Veterans Day members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) set out to educate the public and electorate about the military's desperation for ground troops to maintain a killer operations tempo in Iraq and Afghanistan is leading to the deployment of traumatized troops with PTSD.
The Not So Gradual Degradation Of A Nation
Every single day millions of us are being subjected to the shameful processes of being searched, screened and viewed naked, patted, groped, fondled, poked and stroked by badge-wearing strangers- police under a different name. Every single day. Millions of us, Americans. Being violated. Being degraded.
JANE ROSENSTEIN: Veterans Day on the Champs-Élysées
MILITARY REMEMBRANCE, FRANCE 2010
By Jane Rosenstein VT Paris Bureau
In Paris, where I live, we do not celebrate Veterans Day, but each year on November...
Letter to British Liberal Democrats: protecting war criminals “just about lowest thing anyone could...
“Showing no remorse for the 1,400 dead (including 320 children and 109 women), the thousands horribly maimed and the hundreds of thousand made homeless,...
Zionism needs the Israeli Jews to feel frightened: Alan Hart
By Kourosh Ziabari
An exclusive, in-depth interview with Alan Hart, veteran British journalist and former BBC Panorama Correspondent. Author of Zionism: The Real Enemy of...
Introducing Salute to Service: A New Online Hub in the Service of Veterans
In honor of Veterans Day, Causecast will be celebrating the men and women of America’s armed forces with the Salute to Service campaign. The campaign’s online hub (www.salutetoservice.org) will provide visitors to the site with the opportunity to take easy actions to support veterans through the work of partner nonprofit organizations.
National Veterans Day Ceremony 2010
The Veterans Day National Ceremony is held each year on November 11th at Arlington National Cemetery . The ceremony commences precisely at 11:00 a.m. with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns and continues inside the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by veterans’ organizations and remarks from dignitaries.
WSI Takes a Moment of Silence and Thankful Reflection for November 11th and all...
WSI would like to take a moment and show gratitude to all Veterans today on Veterans Day. Too often we take for granted our liberties and freedom especially in this fast paced world where life seems to matter only on the computer screen and in the office. We take for granted our freedom which we would not have if not for brave veterans who have fought and continue to fight for that very foundation.
SIBEL EDMONDS JOINS VETERANS TODAY
VT is pleased to announce that FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds is joining the VT staff. We at VT admire few Americans as much as we do Sibel. We have worked hard to be a home for people with courage and integrity.
Veterans Day TacTalk: Shadows On The Towers
While stationed in England on a base that was a staging area for missions in Europe, the Mediterranean and other places, we would train hard, support Special Operations missions and do what ever we could to stay challenged in the long haul of a four year tour over seas.
National Radio and TV Commentator on Whistleblowers, National Security, and Secrecy Joins VT Staff
Sibel Edmonds, national radio and TV commentator on matters related to whistleblowers, national security, and excessive secrecy & classification who has been featured on CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The American Conservative, and others has joined VeteransToday.com as a staff writer.
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
CONTRACTS:
No. 1034-10
November 10, 2010
NAVY
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $189,214,000 modification under contract (N00024-08-C-2110) as part of the planned increment...