Monthly Archives: December 2010

To whom should this release be attributed? Who benefitted? The U.S. is under attack by an enemy within. Skilled at game theory warfare, this foe...

By Bouthaina Shaaban Under this title, American Vice-President Joseph Biden wrote an op-ed in The New York Times on November 20, 2010 coinciding with a...

The recently reported settlements of $250,000 and $400,000 for veterans allegedly harmed by inappropriate management of glaucoma, a blinding disease,  by staff optometrists at...

By Hanan Habibzai In January 2002, Tom Ford, aka Mr. Fashion, at his menswear show for Gucci in Milan, comes up with a surprising idea...

CONTRACTS: No. 1099-10 AIR FORCE Engineering & Software Systems Solutions, Inc., San Diego, Calif. (FA8251-11-D-0001), and General Atomics Systems Integration, Kaysville, Utah (FA8251-11-D-0002), were awarded a $48,000,000...

By Hanan Habibzai,STAFF WRITER General Parviz Musharaf , who led Pakistan into a war, backed US-led occupation of Afghanistan in 2001  , and attacked...

The handwriting is on the wall and yet no one, from capitol hill to Wall Street, apparently wants to talk about it. The dollar’s...

IS FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR, BRZEZINSKI "NOT" TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This week, Judy Woodruff of PBS interviewed Zbigniew Brzezinski and...

The VA Home Loan program has helped more than 19 million veterans become homeowners since 1944. Even during difficult economic times, VA loans made home buying a streamlined and relatively hassle-free process for military homebuyers.

Wikileaks and Imperial Mobilization Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org In order to comprehend the ostensibly bizarre Wikileaks phenomena that is continually in the news these days,...

FLASH! VA Focused On Encouraging Transitioning Soldiers To Register For Agency Services. Newsday (11/26, Evans, 339K) reported, “With veterans like” 61-year-old Richard Whitmarsh, who after serving in Vietnam, “spent years in psychiatric institutions,” the US Department of Veterans Affairs is “stepping up efforts to encourage troops leaving the military to register when they are discharged, making them eligible for psychological, medical and disability benefits.” Drew Brookie, a spokesman for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, told Newsday that access and “homelessness are two” of the “top priorities” for Shinseki, who has “said helping wartime troops make the often difficult transition from military lives to civilian ones can prevent battlefield anxieties from metastasizing into more serious problems, such as substance abuse, divorce, homelessness and mental illness.” Newsday pointed out that Whitmarsh recently “took a big step toward his goal of reclaiming his life,” when he “sought help applying for VA benefits” at a “veterans ‘Stand Down’” in Freeport, New York.

The failures of the postal service are often held up by corporatists as an example of why public service should be privatized. But actually, the postal service is a prime example of why public service should never be relegated to the private sector. The forty-year experiment of trying to run the postal service like a private business clearly demonstrates that whenever you attach a profit motive to public service, the corruption and greed attendant to making a profit will invariably overwhelm the primary purpose of providing that service. Thus, by insisting on using that approach you will always, virtually without exception, end up with service so negligible that it can be drowned in a bathtub.

The Wikileaks revelation that some Persian Gulf Arab leaders wanted (and still want?) America to attack Iran is confirmation of what some of us thought we knew - that Arab leaders are not merely impotent but as dangerously deluded as their Israeli counterparts.

When Israeli mathematician Robert J. Aumann received the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic science for his work on game theory, he conceded, “the entire school of thought that we have developed here in Israel” has turned “Israel into the leading authority in this field.”