Yearly Archives: 2010

In today's Washington Post we read how lukewarm our support is getting from our "ally" Pakistan in an article entitled Pakistan worried U.S. buildup in Afghanistan...

Some Nonprofits Shortchange Troops, Watchdog Group SaysBy Philip Rucker, Washington Post Staff WriterAmericans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charitiesdesigned...

  Game Theory WarfareBelow is the third installment in a 5-part series by Jeff Gates, author of Guilt By Association. The destabilization of Pakistan...

Delay, Deny and Hope That I Die. Sounds a promising title for a piece on the despicable scandal that is the U.S. Dept of...

Written by:  Barbie Perkins-Cooper & Jim Davis2010 is the new decade of the Twenty-first Century, and with that recognition, it is hopeful change will...

No. 001-10--------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE                 Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, Calif., was awarded a $34,300,000 contract to implement the following changes to the functionality available for...

The Associated Press reported minutes ago in a story entitled Former official confirms CIA bomber was Jordanian that the man who blew himself up...

NO WHISTLEBLOWERS, NO MISCONDUCT, NO "SHREDDERGATE" 60 MINUTES DISAPPOINTS VETS By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Veterans around the country waited for validation last night.  60 minutes was...

According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin. We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom. After all, the shock of September 11, 2001 was that “war” came to “the homeland,” a mighty blow delivered against the very symbols of our economic, military, and -- had Flight 93 not gone down in a field in Pennsylvania -- political power.

Prisons and Budgets How Rich Are You? You'll be surprised Hold the Pickle, Hold the Lettuce, Hell, Hold...

A WAR WITHIN A WAR: FINDING THE MORALS TO COMPETE By Atta Rasul MalikEditor’s Note.   It is to be made clear as to...

They can take down apartment blocks in seconds, burying and crushing everyone inside. They can demolish villages and send tanks, planes and ships up in fiery blasts. The wounds, for those who survive, result in terrible burns, blindness, amputation and lifelong pain and trauma. No one returns the same from such warfare. And once these weapons are employed all talk of human rights is a farce.

In today's Washington Post we read an article entitled `Avatar' rules with $68.3M, tops $1B worldwide. It is an anti-war film by James...

Toronto, Ontario Pity the walking wounded Mililani, Hawaii Vietnam vet Segawa will get Purple Heart Keene, New Hampshire Plan on ...

In today's Politics Daily there is an article entitled Will Disappointment on the Left Hurt Obama and Dems in 2010? .  Let me answer...

In today's New York Times there is an Op Ed article entitled Yes, It Was Torture, and Illegal that pretty much sums it up.  The...

Sixty Minutes left out the national veterans service orgs' complicity in screwing our veterans, the document shredding, the abuse of the DVA police, C-file...

In an incredible article in the Washington Post outlining big business practices here that quite literally could poison all of us each year we find out...

In Politics Daily we find an article today entitled Afghanistan Outlook: The Clock Is Ticking in which we read that we have spent $300...

SO, YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE WORKING FOR.... By Gordon Duff, Staff Writer/Senior Editor Hello and Happy New Year from an American friend.  I...

Airport Security Is a Computer Problem Won't Somebody Please Think of the Bankers? Bush, Rumsfeld responses to Shoe Bomber & Bin...

In today's New York Times, a grand old paper that flip-flipped when its editorial board went from openly opposing the wars in western Asia...

By Glen Greenwald Salon I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but David Brooks actually had an excellent column in yesterday's...

Pahrump, Nevada Military retirees create council Akron, Ohio Proposal to honor veterans shapes up Waco, Texas Vouchers...

In today's New York Times there is an article entitled Living on Nothing but Food Stamps that pretty much says it all about our state...

  PUBLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1ST AMENDMENT OF THE US CONSTITUTIONBy Sajid Ansari, VT reader in Pakistan(Editors note:  This response has a tone...

What does the U.S. government do with a veteran who blows the whistle on the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (DVA) shreddergate scandal? A Wisconsin veteran...

Katie Roberts, VA press secretary, said no estimates will be available on numbers of veterans impacted or the potential cost to VA until after...

In Britian's Times today, we read a story entitled Eerie outpost unnerves US Marines with strange lights and whispers in the night .Hey, its a...

Chicago, Illinois Two veterans help others battle debt Altoona, Pennsylvania Blair Veteran Affairs director retiring Pensacola, Florida VA offers H1N1 shots...

In today's Washington Post we find out that the years 2000-2009 were the worst years economically in terms of median income for the average...

TERRORISM PRELUDE TO ALIEN INVASION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Once, a story wasn't real unless it was carried on "mainstream news."  "They" used to make...

In the Sphere blog today an article entitled Navy Destroyer Steams Into Record Book makes any old sailor proud.Congratulations Navy.CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)      

In today's Politics Daily there is a story entitled Auschwitz Sign Theft Linked to Far-Right Terrorist Plot which shows us just how far terrorism...

Won't Israel ever get tired of being anti-liberty, anti-peace, and anti-justice? Israel ought to just join the many Arab autocracies in the region, they...

     Every veterans' advocate knows well the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs is an unholy mess made worse by the American Enterprise Institute and the...

St Cloud, Minnesota Veterans can get free flu shots Aluquerque, New Mexico VA will offer swine flu shots to vets Livingston,...

In today's Washington Post we have a story entitled TSA nominee misled Congress about accessing confidential records . It shows that the White House nominee...

In today's New York Times we learn that the recent deaths of several CIA officers at a front line base along the border of...