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Super Bowl was great – and so was the game
By Dave Barry Miami Herald
All in all I thought it was a terrific Super Bowl, except when the Toyota Corolla with the stuck...
Wall Street’s Killer Instinct Is Death Knell for Jobs
From Pam Mertens at CounterPunch—I think it’s time to take Wall Street literally: they’ve made it abundantly clear they have an insatiable appetite for killing...
John Murtha Dies at 77
Congressman John Murtha is dead at 77
Vietnam veteran, lawmaker was an outspoken critic of the Iraq war
From Rep. Murtha's campaign site:
U.S. Rep. John P....
Veterans Storming the Hill, 2010
From Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA ) StormtheHill:
A second storm is about to hit Washington, D.C. The first one left
behind 20 inches...
Top 10 Veterans’ News From Around the Country
President Obama's 2011 budget proposal includes 20 cost-saving ideas submitted by federal employees; three from VA employees:
-- Allow Veterans to Keep Medication When They're Discharged: The award-winning SAVE Award idea would allow veterans leaving VA medical facilities to keep leftover medications, including eye drops and inhalers. The plan would save taxpayers $14.5 million in the next four years.
Chicago Four Are Not the Problem
Edward Luce's piece on the Chicago Four in the Obama administration is getting a lot of buzz, but it reveals more about what is...
This Ambassador Is A Sore In US-Pakistani Relationship
“I have a challenge for Ms Patterson today. I challenge her to repeat every single word she said back then and swear it is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth … America’s reputation is lying in the lowest gutters in Pakistan at the moment and it can’t sink any lower,” says a British journalist about Anne W. Patterson. She lies. She Bribes. She Bullies. And she misleads. She needs to be removed.
GORDON DUFF: WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVED WAS A LIE?
HOW FAR DO THEY GO? IS THERE ANY LIMIT?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
What if I told you that much of what you think...
The Filter: Soldier Accused of Waterboarding Daughter – AOL News
AOL News is reporting a story today (in the last paragraph of this extended news release) entitled The Filter: Soldier Accused of Waterboarding Daughter...
Op-Ed: Senator Undermines U.S. National Security
This op-ed was also sent to VT from Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) noting that in a clear and present internal danger to our...
Extinction Threatens World’s Butt-Ugliest Fish
Without the redeeming good looks of other endangered species, the rather unfortunate-looking but aptly-named blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) may not figure in anyone's glitzy conservation campaign. Nevertheless, the fact is that this jiggly, jelly-like creature is threatened with extinction, thanks to the overfishing antics of deep sea trawlers scraping the bottom of Australian and New Zealand waters.
Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
The gang that paid the Dems to turn their collective backs on the harebrained gambling and outright criminal behavior of Wall Street is threatening to stop the money flow from Glen Greenwald at Salon. More on the fat cat lenders getting rich off the backs of college students in a NYT oped. The results of the recent SCOTUS decision to hand over our electoral process to corporations are already unfolding in plutocratic pow wows in a story from Raw Story via AlterNet and more in today's picks.
Israeli Rightwingers Attack U.S.-based Human Rights Org, McCarthyism Blooms
Joe McCarthy is alive and well and living in Israel.
One Constitutionally Illiterate Congressional Leader from Ohio
We received an update from Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) which BTW has a new website design just like we do. Somebody's doing something...
Regional Veterans’ News 2/8/10
Regional stories on veterans health, education and other benefits and issues, today from: Scranton, Pennsylvania, Morristown, New Jersey, Hillsboro, Illinois, Oceanside, California, Milford, Massachusetts, Detroit, Michigan, Chula Vista, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Haverstraw, New York
A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person
Mr. Turner is a literal foot soldier in what might be called the well-written war: a recent outpouring of memoirs, fiction, poetry, blogs and even some readable military reports by combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan. Soldier-writers have long produced American literature, from Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs about the Civil War to Norman Mailer’s World War II novel, “The Naked and the Dead,” to Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” about Vietnam.
Why all the lies?
The BBC News is running an expose on Britain's former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and his "testimony" to an investigative panel setup in Parliament on...
GORDON DUFF: CASE CLOSED, BIN LADEN’S TRUE TRANSLATION ON 9/11 ATTACK
CIA TRANSLATION OF OSAMA BIN LADEN
INTERVIEWED ON 9/11 (ENGLISH VOICE OVER WITH CIA OFFICAL TRANSCRIPT BELOW)
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
The Western media is...
GORDON DUFF: DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS, DUPLICITY IN AFGHANISTAN
WHAT OUR MILITARY LEADERS ONLY SAY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Open today's newspaper and get a map of the battle zones...
Sarah Palin Smackdown! Elites Run for Cover
Wiccans and Jews reportedly "very scared" after Palin's "rhetorical victory."
When friends and enemies act alike, it is time to leave.
In AOL News today we read a piece entitled Pakistan's Border War Grows Murkier we read that the Pakistani Army is as duplicitous as...
GORDON DUFF: SPLITTING AMERICA TO SAVE AMERICA
NORTH/SOUTH OR BLACK/WHITE?
I HAVE MY OWN IDEAS AND SOME AREN'T GOING TO LIKE IT VERY MUCH.
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I am simply done...
Secret Societies Splashed Across Headlines – AOL News
AOl News is running an interesting piece today entitled Secret Societies Splashed Across Headlines .
Secret societies and political intrigue are a staple of novels...
Medal of Honor Recipient: Gays Should Serve
“You hear this nonsense about gays threatening unit cohesion!”
John McCain: Straight-up, He’s a Crook and Liar
Sure, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is corrupt, self-important, and narcissistic. Most politicians are.
But few in politics have so successfully hyped the maverick-reformer brand from...
Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web 2/7/10
Equipped with the same "red meat speech" she uses in every appearance and crib notes on her palms the "lip gloss pit bull" addressed the "Tea Partiers" last night and Salon's Joan Walsh took notice and careful aim. Eliminating the middle men in student loan programs could save mega bucks for taxpayers and students reports Jon Walker at FireDogLake and ominously, Israeli warships are reported to be moving through the Red Sea en route to the Persian Gulf, those stories and more in today's picks.
The Pitbull in Lipstick is Back!
She's "tired of hearin' the talk talk talk" but Palin wowed Tea Party Nation Inc. with nastiness for fun and profit
By Joan Walsh Salon
Eric...
Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet – New York Times
In today's New York Times we have an unusually hard- hitting editorial by Frank Rich concerning those who support and those who oppose full rights for...
Regional Veterans News 2/7/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education,other benefits and issues today from: Prescott, Arizona, Ballston Spa, New York, Melbourne, Florida, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Joliet, Illinois, Conroe, Texas, Vero Beach, Florida, Elmira, New York, San Francisco, California, and St. Joseph, Missouri.
The Truth About the Deficit – New York Times Editorial Board
The New York Times is running an editorial this morning showing a chronology of just how the country got into the fiscal mess it...
ExxonMobil Funds Global Warming Deniers
By Jonathan Owen and Paul Bignell in the London Independent --- An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public...
An Agressor State Goes Too Far
The Iraq Invasion costs are almost in, we just have to wait a half century or so for the 100,000s of veterans traumatized for...
Veterans for Common Sense: Rebuild the VA
Paul Sullivan, Executive Director, Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), testified Feb. 4 before the House Veterans' Affairs Committee about President Barack Obama's proposed budget...
Band of Brothers: Darrel “Shifty” Powers
Email story of a WW II 101st Airborne trooper resonates with our need for heroes. The story is fictional but the story of those...
Mr. Geithner, On What Planet Do You Spend Most of Your Time?
Two economic analysts, Peter Boone and Simon Johnson, might have well posed this question to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner whom they accuse of ignoring...
FDR Must Be Turning Over In His Grave!
Time Magazine online is running a story concerning unemployment among construction workers standing at over 24% of that specific workforce. FDR must be doing flip-flops...
ISRAELI PM MAY FACE MURDER CHARGE IN DUBAI
Dubai to issue arrest warrant for Netanyahu if Mossad behind Hamas killing
Dubai is to issue an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime...
JEFF GATES: CROTCH BOMBER’S “RADICAL CLERIC,” ANWAR AL-AWLAKI WORKED FOR FBI
Agent Butler paid rent and cashed checks for the two hijackers while they were being advised by Al-Awlaki. What did Butler want to know? Was Ghazal funding Mel Rockefeller with whom he had traveled to Iraq in 1997. While in Baghdad they confirmed that Saddam Hussein had mothballed his WMD program after the 1991 Gulf War and that he was prepared to negotiate his departure—without this war. The FBI has yet to speak with Mel Rockefeller.
Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web 2/6/10
Are airlines becoming the shopping malls of our skies? Jim Hightower wants to know. Veterans will not be surprised to learn that 8 people died for a scrap of real estate "of no strategic value," many of us have seen that in the past. On the lighter side, more great editorial cartoons from McClatchy in today's picks.
OEN: CHRISTMAS BOMBING TIED TO MOSSAD/CIA PLOY FOR MORE TERROR FUNDING
Underwear Bomber Redux - Was Mutallab An Israeli "Secret Weapon"?
By way of deception... thou shalt control key airports
By Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley For...
US Senate Defends Doing Nothing
In the United States Senate, doing nothing is protected as a point of historical pride. It is the privilege of a U.S. Senator to...
Why We Can’t Afford to Let Obama Give Bush’s War Criminals a Free Pass
Late last Friday, we learned that Obama's Department of Justice plans to go easy on John Yoo and Jay Bybee -- the two assistant attorney generals under Bush who penned the infamous torture memos. For those who have been working long and hard in the accountability movement to make sure no one -- not even presidents or their top advisors -- is above the law, this was a serious setback.