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More cause and effect in our ever-expanding "war"
By Glen Greenwald Salon If it is taboo to discuss how America's actions in the Middle East cause Terrorism --...
Regional Veterans’ News
Annandale, New Jersey Woman's gift to veterans group returned Wenatchee, Washington H1N1 vacs available at more places in area...
Veterans in LA Fight Gov. for Veterans' Land
Veterans will show up Sunday in Los Angeles and participate in the 94th consecutive Sunday Rally to "Save Our Veterans Land." 1:00 - 4:00...
We have to take stock of where eight years of war has lead us.
In today's Washington Post we see an article entitled Yemen's internal divide complicates U.S. efforts against al-Qaeda, analysts say that pretty much points out...
Are these secret American run prisons still operating? Do we know?
In the Washington Post tonight in an article entitled U.S. military investigates allegations of detainee abuse in Afghanistan we find out that last year...
Steele comments have GOP aides pleading, 'Get him to stop' – Washington Post
In what has got to be one of the strangest stories of the past few months coming out of Washington D.C., Michael Steele the...
Moving from Fear in Security-Terrorist Address
Obama’s Security Review on Attempted Attack speech signals moving away from fear and actually dissipating it, perhaps a critical moment in this administration. Said Obama, “Here at home,...
The GOP is having some rough days too!
In Politics Daily today we read an article entitled Ronald Reagan's Grandson Arrested at Home in California . That cannot be good. Then there...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 010-10--------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: NAVY Environmental Management, Inc., dba EMI Services*, Idaho Falls, Idaho, is being awarded a combination firm-fixed-price (FFP), indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for facilities...
MILITARY DISCHARGE: How to Upgrade
MILITARY DISCHARGE: How to Upgrade Upgrade and Improve your ability to obtain VA benefitsBefore 1975, the Army "illegally" gave other-than-honorable discharges to a bunch of service...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
DOD Awards Money for Contracts
GORDON DUFF: THE NEW BALKANS: THE DISMANTLING OF AMERICA
FREEDOM FOR SAFETY, THEN OUR REASON AND HONOR
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
This week something unique happened. A rumor, traced down to the highest...
Editor's picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
Blackwater, the CIA and Khost Afghan war kills three children a day The Poisonous Cloud of...
CIA Bomber Was No Double Agent, Say Jordanians – Time Magazine online
Time Magazine online is running a story today entitled CIA Bomber Was No Double Agent, Say Jordanians . In a related story from Time...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 1-7-10
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. VA, Kaiser Sharing EHR Information. 2. Committee Unanimously Approves VA Undersecretary For Health Nominee. 3. VA Fielding Questions Around-The-Clock From...
Blackwater's Cowboy Justice
By James Denselow The Huffington Post
Seventeen Iraqi civilians were killed in Nisoor Square, Baghdad, on 16 September 2007. Some of the bodies were so...
War Without Why
By Glenn Greenwald in Salon—t's impossible to grow accustomed to the extreme fantasy atmosphere and self-absorbed blindness that pervades American discussions over Terrorism, especially...
Regional Veterans' News
Roanoke, Virginia Veteran guilty of false claims Nobleboro, Maine Camp offers veterans free retreat Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania VA ...
A big day for "politics" with a small "p" in Washington
The "p"olitics in Politics is making itself seen today in Washington. First up is a story from the Washington Post concerning the seriously troubled...
60 Minutes Gets an Honest Answer about Veterans defrauding the U.S. taxpayer!
This is a follow-up to Gordon Duff's...
Yemen opposes any US troops in terror fight
The Associated Press is reporting this afternoon that the government of Yemen is not open to foreign troops entering Yemen to hunt for Al...
Big Problems for Democrats in 2010? Maybe. Just Maybe.
There are seveal breaking news stories today that show that the Democrats may be in for a rough year connected to elections in 2010. ...
Home Fires: Getting the Word Out
My last memory of Iraq was of boarding a transport plane on the flight line at Balad Air Base in late January 2008. It had been raining and we were hoping to get out of the country before “MUDCON,” or mud conditions, turned every inch of desert not hiding below flight line or rocks into peanut butter.
From the corner of my eye I saw a helicopter coming in. It was early in the morning, we’d been awake all night. And there was a Black Hawk helicopter with its generic Red Cross symbol on the nose.
Editor's picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
Liberty Has Been Lost How to Solve the Climate Problem Al-Qaida Uses U.S., U.S. Plays Along The...
Ignoring 'Why' Again
Thomas H. Kean and John Farmer Jr, co-chair and sr. counsel of the 9/11 commission, explain broadly how a disaffected Muslim almost carried out...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 1-6-10
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. VA, Kaiser To Launch Electronic Medical-Data Exchange Program. 2. Grant Allows Elks Lodge To Give Veterans Christmas Baskets. 3. Schwarzenegger...
Former bin Laden bodyguard is among ex-guerrillas in Yemen
In today's Washington Post there is a piece entitled Former bin Laden bodyguard is among ex-guerrillas in Yemen. Here is an excerpt:"SANAA, YEMEN --...
Double Atomic bomb survivor dies in Japan – Washington Post
In the Washington Post today we read an article entitled Double Atomic bomb survivor dies in Japan . Here is an excerpt:"Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the...
In Ukraine, movement to honor members of WWII underground sets off debate – Washington...
In today's Washington Post there is an article entitled In Ukraine, movement to honor members of WWII underground sets off debate that proves to...
Butt Chewings All Over the Federal Establishment Today – New York Times
This is one of those news days! It seems like everyone in government is being taken to the wood shed. The New York Times...
Regional Veterans' News
Palo Alto, California Bay Area veterans using horses to heal Jacksonville, Florida Help with VA benefits doesn't cost a thing ...
Yemen Proves U.S. Refusing History
Patrick Cockburn: "f you were to draw up a list of countries that it’s a really bad idea to get involved with, I think,...
60 Minutes Segment on Sunday, January 3, 2010
60 Minutes Segment on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010Most veterans in the United States I’m sure were glued to their televisions on Sunday evening to see...
CIA Agents in Afghanistan Are 'menace to themselves,' Ex-Operatives Say
From The Guardian. By Ewen MacAskill and Daniel Nasaw in Washington Jon Boone in Kabul -- Long-term weaknesses in US intelligence-gathering have been ruthlessly...
Report Rips Intel Community in Afghanistan – Politics Daily
Politics Daily is running an article outlining the military's dissatisfaction with the skills and services delivered relative to the American Intelligence Community's efforts in...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 004-10--------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: ARMY Insight Technology Inc., Londonderry, N.H., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $15,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the procurement of a miniature reflex...
Skewering Chickenhawk Cheney and His Stenographers
Eight years of lieing may be eroding the credibility of Dick Cheney? That the preceding is not a joke tells much about our political culture....
WEBSTER TARPLEY: WHITEHOUSE INVESTIGATING ROGUE US INTEL GROUP IN DOMESTIC TERROR ATTACK
White House Probes Mole Network
Behind Flt 595 Terror - Report
By Webster G. Tarpley
WASHINGTON, DC -- Officials in the Obama White House are considering...
Defenders of Christ and War
Some serving in the U.S. military seeing themselves on a holy mission from a Christian God are up to the task a little too...
Editor's picks: News and Opinion Around the Web
The Next Quagmire Looting Social Security part 2 War crimes fears force Israelis to cancel UK trip Pakistan...
Regional Veterans' News
Boise, Idaho VA Boise Office Boise Recognized Malta, Ohio US Vets To Visit Vietnam For...
The Great Recession’s Aftermath – Newsweek Online
In Newsweek online today we find an article entitled The Great Recession’s Aftermath . It is a short study in the vague "recovery" window...