Daily Archives: January 4, 2011
VT STAFF: THE MICRO-GUIDE TO SPOTTING PROPAGANDA
Listening to the frenzied accusations of "disinformation", "shill", "stooge", "cointelpro", "propagandist" that activists and journalists are wont to hurl at each other, I decided...
Netanyahu asks U.S. to free superspy Pollard who betrayed America in service to a...
The case of Jonathan Pollard "unites us all," Benjamin Netanyahu told his parliament, before reading the letter asking the U.S. to free the spy...
On Facebook and Goldman: Welcome to Neo-Feudal Facebook!
How much is our personal information worth? $450 million to Goldman Sachs.
If Facebook privacy concerns weren’t enough to scare users, now they just made...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
DoD CONTRACTS:
No. 005-11
ARMY
IAP Worldwide Services, Panama City, Fla., was awarded a $55,557,377 firm-fixed-price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract Dec. 30, 2010. The award will provide...
Phil Ochs Lives! New Film, “There But For Fortune”
The coup de grace – pun acknowledged – was the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende’s democratically elected socialist government by the Chilean military in...
An Answer to 2011’s Austerity Arguments: ‘We Won’t Pay For Their Crisis’
First, Washington squandered our tax dollars enriching the corporate contractors that profiteer upon unnecessary and seemingly endless wars. The cost figure just for the...
PAUL J. BALLES: WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION; TIME TO TURN TO ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
In the face of corporate dominance robbing the American people of their capacity to think: TIME TO TURN TO ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
By Paul J. Balles
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DNA clears innocent Texas man who spent 30 years in prison
Texas likes to kill innocent men, so this headline is a surprise, especially since this is a black guy. Prosecutors declared a Texas man...
Vast Solar Eruption Shocks NASA
NASA reports an entire hemisphere of the sun has erupted. The U.S. space agency now admits the cataclysm puts existing solar theories in doubt.
By...
Al-Arakib activist hit with 7-month jail sentence for … operating garage without license
Commenting on the conviction of former president Moshe Katsav for rape, the current Israeli President Shimon Peres declared, “There are no two states of Israel, just one...
RACE WAR VIDEO, WHO MADE IT?
RACIST "AMATEUR" VIDEO EVERYTHING BUT AMATEUR
By Gordon Duff and Jim W. Dean STAFF WRITERS/Editors
Editor: Warning: Video unfit for viewing, racist disinformation propaganda, genuinely objectionable...
Schwarzenegger Cuts Son of Former Speaker, Núñez’s, Prison Time
Living in the prison-industrial complex that is America and California, one suspects the Gov did the right thing. Taking away liberty is the first thing American...
Commonsense Money
Since 1913, debt has been the only way that we in the U.S. have known to create money. Choking on debt yet short on money, Americans are reeling from too much monetary theory and too little commonsense
Checking Israeli Agression: The Fight Against Racism and Militarism
While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of participation in them – and a parallel campaign of legitimation of Palestine.
Mossad behind Egypt church blast
The explosion at a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which left 21 people killed and another 80 Muslims and Christians wounded, raises...
Ending the homeless Veteran problem, as we know it
After nearly three years of battling VA bureaucrats, a wealthy homeowner group, and complicit politicians over the abuse and misappropriation of Veterans property, the...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
1. VA Readies Homeless Prevention Program. In continuing coverage, the Washington (DC) Examiner (1/4, Engle, 93K) reports, "A...
Providing Services to Combat Veterans with Vet Centers
As I mentioned in a previous post, we’ll be discussing the three administrations that comprise the Department of Veterans Affairs to help you better understand the role of each and how they each provide a unique service to Veterans. We’ll profile the Veterans Benefits Administration and the National Cemetery Administration later, but we start with the Veterans Health Administration, the largest component and the one most Veterans interact with on a regular basis.