Monthly Archives: January 2011

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has ruled his country with an iron fist, backed by the US along with Egypt's strong neighboring ally...

And though I wear a uniform I was not born to fight; All these wounded boys you lie beside, Goodnight, my friends, goodnight. - Leonard Cohen

CLARENCE THOMAS WHAT??? Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, earned $686,589 from the Heritage Foundation, according to a Common Cause review...

From the VietnamVetWives Dear Secretary Shinseki,I met with the Institute of Medicine at their open session Dec.16th 2010. I presented evidence showing a connection between...

What’s remarkable is how twitchy these people get at the slightest possibility that someone will lift the lid on 9/11, their hysterical protests serving...

No cause to even cite quotes from the usual neocon suspects. Let's stick to reality for a change. This reality is being broadcast to the...

Republican and Tea Party-affliated Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has called for an end of aid to Israel and has been getting slammed ever since...

After firing the Cabinet, Egypt's president said the country needed dialogue, not violence. CAIRO: Four days after angry protesters first took to the street...

Do they matterNews Release - Disabled Veterans Decry Wrongheaded, 'Heartless' Budget Cuts If Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) wanted to make a name for herself by...

Washington, DC – Interfaith AlliancePresident Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy sent a letter today to U.S. Air Force Academy Superintendent, Lt. Gen. Michael C....

It's hardly a secret that Israel is worried about the events in Egypt, which signed a peace treaty with the Jewish state in 1979 under the...

Broad-based protests continue today as Zionist forces try to marginalize Islamic resistance to the oppression By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, KAREEM FAHIM and ETHAN BRONNER CAIRO —...

President Obama on the Situation in Egypt: "All Governments Must Maintain Power through Consent, Not Coercion" The administration appears desperate to dispel the impression that...

In his latest Newsweek article Stephen Kinzer wonders who  America is betting on to counter the popular  rising forces in the Middle East :...

Tucson... By Mike Harris STAFF WRITER Today is the 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. I will never forget where I was that...

By Brig Asif Haroon Raja Sixty three years have lapsed but Kashmir dispute remains unresolved. During this period, besides several military standoffs, two full fledged...

".....once in a generation...we get a chance for freedom...this is our chance.." "I have for many years lived with the knowledge that we, the masses,...

"I want her to look those disabled veterans in the eye and tell them their service and sacrifice is too expensive for the nation...

DoD CONTRACTS: No. 078-11   NAVY                  Composite Engineering Inc.*, Sacramento, Calif., is being awarded a $31,461,842 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the design, development, integration and test of the...

Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.

New folks in the House of Representatives say they are looking to "cut spending" and reduce the size of government. There is a movement...

The oppressive Mubarkek has committed a cyber-mortal sin in trying to cut people off from what has become their personal lives. Facebook and Twitter have become personal extensions of the 21st century citizen. But Muburek, being that he is over 80 years of age, does not seem to understand what century he's living in and thus will pay the ultimate price for this cyber-sin.

Twenty Egyptian Brotherhood activists arrested as unrest rages on; Communications down as Egypt braces for protests as though human beings demonstrating were a dangerous and evil...

Interview with former US ambassador Edward Peck   The United States has spoken for democracy in Egypt, but it is not stopping aid to security forces,...

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission issued its final report Thursday, laying the blame for the 2008 crisis on "reckless" Wall Street CEOs and "pivotal...

An adjunct professor was preemptively fired by Brooklyn College, for his pro-human rights and pro-Palestinian views By Justin Elliott in Salon An adjunct political science professor...

Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen – is the West next? The revolutionary wave now sweeping the world will not exempt America, in spite of the...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. A Government Witch Hunt for Veterans Begins Anew—A scare report in Stars and Stripes by Leo Shane...

“What seems most disturbing about the 9/11 controversy is the widespread aversion by government and media to the evidence that suggests, at the very...

By Richard Falk in Foreign Policy Journal Because my blog prompted by the Arizona shootings has attracted many comments pro and con, and more recently...

VT (VT) issued a statement of support for the Open Letter by 400 Rabbis charging Beck with diminishing "the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when...

VT celebrates that a veteran advocate and a female, Sen. Patty Murray, has taken over a key leadership position in the United States Senate Veterans Affairs...

France has never been too big on freedom of political expression. Lévy Faces Trial January 28th, in Paris, for "Crimes Against the Intellect" By Tariq Ali in...

Lynette Boshell of Cullman visited the SOS facility for the first time during the event. Her husband, active duty Alabama National Guard 1st Sgt. Robert Boshell, died of a massive heart attack seven years ago during physical training for an upcoming deployment. Boshell had served as a Marine during his early years of marriage, and the couple's 32 years of married life included a deployment to Operation Desert Shield/Storm.

In Egypt, running battles between police and anti-government protesters continued into the early hours of Thursday morning. Police have arrested up to 1,200 people,...

DoD CONTRACTS: No. 071-11 NAVY Lockheed Martin, Syracuse, N.Y., is being awarded a $48,443,311 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-5201) for exercise of fiscal year 2011 options...

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah – The Army said Thursday that Dugway Proving Ground, where military weapons are tested, was locked down for hours because...

George W. Bush's more sensible supporters found that out the hard way. Had they not allowed themselves to become cheerleaders and completely drowned out by Washington's special interest groups, vice-president and military/industrial lobbyist, Dick Cheney, wouldn't have been able to destroy Bush's presidency. Bush himself seemed to recognize that in the end. That's why he refused to pardon Cheney chief of staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, and he became estranged from Cheney toward the end of his presidency.

Readers have e-mailed about the reaction in England from Brits reading how the Tommies fought, died and won World War II; and for some of...

Oh, the nostalgia of it all!  As Nick Turse reminds us in his book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, when...

The Murals of San Carlos, Mexico By Ron Kukal, Former Chaplain for the USS Liberty Veterans Association US Navy 1st Class Petty Officer and the...

Just when you thought is was safe to go back to the VA come signs the water is not inviting for veterans looking to...