Monthly Archives: November 2010

“The Israeli Patient: Searching for Ariel Sharon’s Political Legacy.” While noting that the former Prime Minister has been in a coma now for 5...

By Sajjad Shaukat: Most alarming point in this respect is that Indian sinister strategic designs under the pretext of so-called Islamic terrorism are not only creating obstacles in the East-West cultural cooperation, but are also taking the world to the brink of clash of civilizations.

Six Gulf War Veterans 1990-1991 died in the first week of November. Their ages were 44, 48, 54(2), 61, and one age not known

IS "ANTI-HATE" THE WORST KIND OF HATE? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor "Hate" is a commodity, I can even go further, it's an element, like...

Improvised Explosive Devices are powerful weapons used by hostile forces in Afghanistan Calculate the Force required for different problem Sets.

This article relates to the loss of Veteran friendly members of Congress and the potential impact on Veterans benefits with a focus on the Post 911 GI Bill

THE LORD OF THE DRUGS By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev (ret) STAFF WRITER/Editor With great gusto Karzai used to ‘play US like a fiddle’. Unabashed, he’ll ...

In keeping with the message of healing, I cannot think of a better way to put it than the way this Iraq veteran did....

"AL QAEDA" CALL FOR ATTACKS ON AMERICA, NOT ISRAEL, UNDER SUSPICION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The people of Yemen simply don't believe in Al...

By Air Commodore (R ) Khalid Iqbal While in India, President Obama is poised to walk a tight rope. Pre-trip speculations in India, centred...

- Money Talks, Ideology Walks. Ask the employees the Oshkosh Corporation how bothered they are that tax-payers (and their children and grandchildren) are/will be...

By Neve Gordon -  London Review of Books blog Would Meryl Streep, Spike Lee, Tim Robbins or Susan Sarandon be willing to ...

- "I am just trying to get help," insisted Jeff Hanks, active duty US Army infantryman, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. "My...

This is a reprise of an article that I wrote in August of last year. I'm revisiting it in hope that the "experts" in Washington, D.C. will start to see the light. They are not the political experts in this country - we are. While the so-called political experts are dealing in speculation about what we think, the people don't have to speculate - we KNOW what we think, and the Democratic base has been screaming what we think at the administration for the past two years. But remaining consistent to your beltway arrogance you decided that you knew more about what was on our minds than we did, and this past Tuesday you paid a severe price for that arrogance.

DID ANYONE REALLY EXPECT ISRAEL WOULD LOSE ? The Republican party’s gain of 60 plus House Seats (10 seats, all held by...

Reflections on the Midterm Election in relation to Veteran Issues Veterans are you aware you lost a fighter for veterans' health issues?  No matter your...

“Three hundred million Americans could wake up tomorrow to discover that a foreign leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, led them to war with Iran, which...

On Nov. 3, TeleCommunication Systems, Inc., Annapolis, Md., was awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) Next Generation Wideband commercial satellite communications infrastructure and service.

- A key reason why American politicians so seldom say anything intelligent is that no one would listen even if they wanted to. The...

- Costs of wars are huge and tragic. Will GOP and Tea Party refuse our veterans and families? - By Jamie Reno San Diego, CA (Home Post)...

Coming Home Returning from Hell These Men and Women Just Want to Get Back to Their Normal Lives by Chaplain Kathie When the men and women...

Paying New Agent Orange Claims A "Lengthy And Complex" Process For VA.

A national program will provide 36,000 Hugo® Folding Canes free of charge to U.S. military Veterans in need of mobility assistance to honor them...

By Dr Muzaffar Iqbal: The US foreign policy needs a U-turn; domestically, a growing class of poor and disempowered have nothing bright on the horizon and this leads to deep fractures. But to open their eyes, the US politicians from both side of the divide need something much greater than a political victory or defeat and it is hard to see how this will come about in the near future.

By Aditi Bhaduri  — Palestine Monitor “We want social justice for all” Mustafa Barghouti, MD: He is articulate, courteous, handsome and suave. A medical doctor...

"...But that’s America.  The people simply cannot put two and two together.  Thinking is not an activity of the American public. Indeed, Americans are incapable of...

- Repeated radiation doses at airports alarm Allied Pilots Association. Health hazards of new radiation body scanners worry the pilots  of the world's second largest...

No. 1015-10 CONTRACTS:  AIR FORCE                 Tiax, LLC, Lexington, Mass., was awarded a maximum $99,446,650 contract which will award the systems development and demonstration of the...

 - VA Study Finds Similar Results - WASHINGTON -- Patients taking warfarin, a widely used blood-thinning pill that requires careful dose monitoring, have similar outcomes...

- Tea Party: A shot of steam that burned the GOP - From Caffeinated Politics Lets face the facts.  The tail should never wag the dog.  The Tea Party...

When then-President George W. Bush was asked to approve a tough interrogation technique known as waterboarding on September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he wasted little time in deciding. "Damn right," he said. Bush's approval of waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning condemned by human rights activists as torture, to try to wrench information from captured al Qaeda operatives was among the most controversial decisions he made during eight years in the White House.

- Virtual Thank Yous Flood Applebee's Facebook Page - LENEXA, KS-- WHAT: Applebee's will thank our nation's Veterans and Active Duty Military by inviting them to their...

By Hamid Waheed:

Pro-Israel group AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee), hails success for supporters on both sides of the political divide, as well as election of...

- Two articles from the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) illuminate the conversation on a proposed moratorium on the military use of depleted uranium weapons, even...

What a truly brutal election. One rare exception was the crushing of Texas Oil's Proposition 23 in California (see CREDO's campaign at stoptexasoil.org), which...

From the VA: 1.      Distribution Of Expanded Agent Orange Benefits Underway At VA. In continuing coverage, MedPage Today (11/3, Walker) noted that the Department of Veterans...

The Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center (DCVAMC) celebrated the grand opening of VA’s first model community for veterans in October. Called “Independence Way™,” the simulated...

- "I wonder if  understands that the USPS and the Federal Government are one of the largest, if not the largest employer of (Veterans)...

In his recent pep-talk to the Anti-Defamation League, media magnate Rupert Murdoch complains about “an ongoing war against the Jews”. He seems desperate to divert attention from the mounting resentment around the world towards Israel. But his threadbare argument collapses straightaway because no distinction is made between criminal Israelis and Jews generally. The one remains carefully hidden behind the other.

Despite your claims and twisting of the truth, Mr. Murdoch, the threats faced today are not “part of an ongoing war against the Jews.” The threat is the fear mongering which supports your war mongering

Tuesday’s elections swept some key Democrats from House of Representatives, including the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the first Iraq war veteran elected to Congress. Also gone is a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee who was one of the key proponents of improvement in military family housing and barracks, the House Budget Committee chairman who made sure there was money for improvement in military pay and benefits, and chairman of the veterans’ disability assistance subcommittee who have been pushing to eliminate the backlog of veterans’ benefits claims while trying to reduce the number of errors.