Daily Archives: April 9, 2011

“As long as the $1.2-trillion annual budget for the military-security complex is off limits (to cutting), nothing can be done about the US budget deficit except to renege on obligations to the elderly, confiscate private assets or print enough money to inflate away all debts,” Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Treasury Secretary under President Reagan warns.

Veterans-For-Change would like to bring to the attention of Congress, POTUS and the general American Public the ever-increasing problems affecting veterans and their families every day.

It’s grand Kabuki theater in Washington, DC these days with both parties politically posturing, our Appeaser in Chief President straddling the middle and everyone ignoring the two elephants in the room ~ tax cuts for the rich and out of control defense expenditures

A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it.

LONDON: A Royal Navy officer was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting on a British nuclear-powered submarine which was only halted when a visiting politician tackled the gunman.

April 9, 2011 -- Few people have heard of the Battle of Baghdad, which ended eight years ago today, let alone its cover-up. They might remember Iraq's information minister, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, warning of a surprise awaiting invading U.S. troops if they attacked Saddam International Airport. Later, al-Sahhaf claimed that the Iraqi Republican Guard had slaughtered U.S. troops, and was in control of the entire facility. His claims were mostly true, but were effectively countered by a U.S. military-media campaign of evasions and distortions that switched the subject from the airport action to Private Jessica Lynch, while ridiculing al-Sahhaf as Baghdad Bob.

70th Anniversary of German’s unannounced bombing of Belgrade 1941. (April 6th 1941) Transcript of conversations secretly recorded : Part 1. BELGRADE –  April 6th 2011. The leaders of...

Its heartbreaking legacy - mental and physical retardation, dwarfism, cancers and deformities so severe the sufferers' features are often effaced - prompted Bruce Montgomery, a Tasmanian journalist and former staff writer on The Australian, to help victims and their families.

(VOV) - A seminar was held on April 8 in the southern Dong Nai province by the National Assembly (NA) Committee for Foreign Affairs and the Vietnam-US Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin to review their activities in recent times.

Thinking that maybe politicians in Ohio would eventually back off on the Dayton VAMC Dental Clinic scandal under pressure from mainstream Veterans Service Organizations...

On this April 8th night, and on the very same day that witnessed the massacre of Bahr el-Bakar the Israeli embassy with all the Israeli diplomatic mission in Cairo seemed under siege.

In a New Statesman article, law professor John Dugard ,who was a Judge on The International Court of Justice as well as being Special Raporteur for United Nations Commission on Human Rights, summarises the Goldstone apology saga : ‘there are no new facts that could possibly have led Richard Goldstone to change his mind about the UN-backed investigation into Israel and the conflict in Gaza.’