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Obama and Jihad and how not to fight terrorism
Despite President Obama's rhetoric (sometimes) to the contrary, his policy of continuing targeted assassinations by drone attacks over Afghanistan is escalating a drift to...
GORDON DUFF: MEMORIES OF THE PATTON HOTEL
Lobby Portrait, Patton Hotel AFRC'S "GEM" IN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, GERMANY...NOT FORGOTTEN
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I drive past the old building, a...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
Boeing Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded on Oct. 29 a $141,701,518 firm-fixed-price contract for the advanced procurement for the manufacture of 31 AH-64D model aircraft and two fixed-site Longbow crew trainers matching the Taiwan AH-640 aircraft configuration. Work is to be performed in Mesa, Ariz., with an estimated completion date of July 30, 2015. One bid solicited with one bid received. AMCOM Contracting Center is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-09-G-0147).
Wholesale Treason: Why Israel Bought Congress
AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don't exactly know what they are "used to" but every politician in America is terrified of it for some reason, claims to have total control over the new congress.
President Obama: A Living Portrait of Your United States Postal Service
The Black community didn't turn out in unprecedented numbers to simply elect the first Black president; we turned out to elect a strong Black president. In that regard, as a student of history, I hope you recognize that you're dealing with a Rosa Parks moment here, and you're completely missing the boat. Do you see the strong stand being taken by that one courageous and solitary Black woman above? That's what we elected you to do.
Three–Day Symposium; November 18–20—Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961–2008
“We Gotta Get Out of This Place”
ELIZABETH YOUNG: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC): What is the Rapture Doing in this...
The controversy surrounding the Large Rube Goldberg Hadron Atom smashing Collider (RLHGC) from CERN got me thinking: What's all the fuss about? So I followed the money to find out who really benefits, Cui bono. There is only one grass roots organization big enough to come up with the $80 Billion (the tunnel probably cost 8 billion) to pay for the Collider: the two billion Christians in the world looking for Higgs boson (a very, very tiny god).
Veterans Advocate for Improved Care at Boston U.
- Keeping up the pressure -
By Lisa Chedekel via 91Outcomes
(Boston, Mass. – Boston University) -- Some of the wounds of war are invisible to...
CAROL DUFF: HISTORY OF TEQUILA
HISTORY OF TEQUILA
BY CAROL DUFF STAFF WRITER/Editor
Tequila is an alcoholic drink made from the fermented and distilled sap of the...
Amy Goodman on War’s Hidden Death Toll
- As of this month, over 5,700 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. -
That count does not include those veterans who...
William Grigg on War and Slaughter as Economic Stimulus
- Using bloodshed to prime the economic pump is inefficient and immoral -
David Broder, war lackey: "It may be obvious to perceptive adults that wars...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Shinseki Maps Broader Attack On PTSD. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (11/7, Fuoco, 205K) begins a four-part series on the mental health challenges for...
Signing Up for VA Health Care
By serving in our nation’s armed services, you have earned a right to professional and modern health care
Fox News, Fear Peddlers and Falsehoods Reshape Congress
By James M. Wall -- VT
Politicians, pollsters, media and pundits would have us believe ”the economy and taxes” were the burning issues in...
“He’s Neither Alive nor Dead”: the Resurrection of Ariel Sharon
“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...
Obama’s Conflicting Policy in South Asia
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.
Gulf War 1990-1991 Veteran Deaths
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
GORDON DUFF: REMEMBERING FREUD: THE “PHOBIA” GAME, PEDDLING HATE FOR PROFIT
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...
AFGHANISTAN IED TO 9-11 AND BACK
Improvised Explosive Devices are powerful weapons used by hostile forces in Afghanistan Calculate the Force required for different problem Sets.
First Iraq War Vet elected to Congress loses seat
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
COL EUGENE KHRUSHCHEV: THE LORD OF THE DRUGS
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 ...
Iraq veteran, Hero for veterans
In keeping with the message of healing, I cannot think of a better way to put it than the way this Iraq veteran did....
GORDON DUFF: YEMEN: AL QAEDA PRESENCE NOT CREDIBLE
"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...
President Obama poised to walk a tight rope
By Air Commodore (R ) Khalid Iqbal While in India, President Obama is poised to walk a tight rope. Pre-trip speculations in India, centred...
Mandate, Slandate
- 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...
GORDON: Thoughtcrimes
By Neve Gordon - London Review of Books blog
Would Meryl Streep, Spike Lee, Tim Robbins or Susan Sarandon be willing to ...
AWOL Soldier Refusing Deployment Because of Severe PTSD
- "I am just trying to get help," insisted Jeff Hanks, active duty US Army infantryman, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. "My...
Mr. President: I Hate to Say I Told You So, but I Told You...
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.
FRANKLIN LAMB: ISRAEL PLANS TO TAKE THEIR NEW CONGRESS TO WAR
DID ANYONE REALLY EXPECT ISRAEL WOULD LOSE ?
The Republican party’s gain of 60 plus House Seats (10 seats, all held by...
Congressman John Hall(19th District NY)
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...
YOU GET THE TRUTH ONLY FROM ‘FORMER’ OFFICIALS’
“Three hundred million Americans could wake up tomorrow to discover that a foreign leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, led them to war with Iran, which...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
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.
U.S. best and worst on display
- A key reason why American politicians so seldom say anything intelligent is that no one would listen even if they wanted to. The...
Vets for Common Sense: Shocking New Mental Health Stats Obtained Under FOIA from VA
- 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)...
PTSD: Another Adversary to Defeat
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...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
Paying New Agent Orange Claims A "Lengthy And Complex" Process For VA.
Hugo® Folding Canes free of charge to U.S. military Veterans
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...
Obama’s Fall
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.
THE PALESTINIAN THIRD WAY
By Aditi Bhaduri — Palestine Monitor
“We want social justice for all”
Mustafa Barghouti, MD: He is articulate, courteous, handsome and suave. A medical doctor...
WHO HAS THE CRYSTAL BALL?
"...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...
Radiation Danger: Pilots Assoc Pres advises against new body scanners
- 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...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
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...