Monthly Archives: November 2011

As my readers already know, I volunteer once a month for the Veterans Hotline. This is a two-hour commitment and I will be "On Station" from 5am to 7am, the third Monday of each month.

Although America’s 25 million unemployed and underemployed could be a powerful force for social change, they aren’t combining in any effective way to protest, an eminent business authority writes.

This week, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign has revealed itself to be ethically compromised at the highest level.

When Mona was released from her detention, thanks to her American passport, she didn’t jump on the first flight back to the US, but she headed straight to Tahrir square.

The Senate will vote next week on whether to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut that is set to expire at the end of the year, President Obama said Tuesday, although Republican opposition seems likely to doom it.

Have you really though about Thanksgiving and where America is today?

This week, the media, all of it, traced stories about Iran's nuclear weapons program to its real source.

Israel’s hasbara machine kicks into high gear. AIEF and AIPAC working with Israeli government to assault BDS, (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Movement) by Nora Barrows-Friedman

On a personal note, next year I want to see the same commercial with an added 3 on 3 basketball team, Bush "W," Cheney and Mr. Blair. Now that would really be something to celebrate. Wonder how they would do against Netanyahu, Murbarak and Merkel?

"It is irresponsible to suggest that God will bless us materially if we support the largely secular State of Israel, especially when this invariably means ignoring the plight of the indigenous Christian population of Palestine."

A new Veterans nonprofit, "Veterans Workshop" has begun their nationwide recruitment for Volunteers who can assist with answering calls from American Veterans via a new Veterans911 hot-line.

The popular anger and outrage that the Memogate has provoked should be channelized to build a new, truly free Pakistan. Here is a rare opportunity for Islamabad to chart a new course of action. by Aijaz Zaka Syed

The U.S. and Israel “now looked trapped together, weakened and dangerously isolated” during the Arab Spring over Israel’s intransigence on statehood for Palestine, an article in The New Yorker magazine charges.

Gratitude is the only antidote for unworthiness for gratitude helps remove the stifling blanket of self-negating unworthiness ~ and gratitude allows a closed heart to open, to love and be loved, and to dance in inner joy and delight.

Daniel Foster, the decorated former Army veteran who was wounded in Afghanistan and has waited more than a year to receive veterans benefits, got a partial response from the Department of Veterans Affairs this week, but much less than he hoped.

"The man has won a Purple Heart. He's won a Silver Star," she said, leaning forward at her Veterans Firstoffice desk and speaking intently into the telephone.

'freedom', 'democracy', 'justice', and 'honour' come at a very high price on the road to, and sustainment of, an empire. All the meaningless words that the politicians toss at people to elicit their emotional support of war;

Some of the best ideas come from the least likely places. Thus it is strange, indeed, for a guy who uses a cell phone only for calls, and who despises the video game culture, to suggest an idea for education apps.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc., Pittsfield, Mass., is being awarded a $95,956,445 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, fixed-price incentive contract to provide fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2013.

We've lost one of the best people on the planet - Lynn Margulis, National Medal of Science winner, the most eminent scientific voice of 9/11 truth.

If our sane military leaders make it clear that they will "just say no" if ordered to commit more war crimes - especially if the war crimes in question are part of a treasonous and suicidal attack on Iran for Israel.

Not all Custers went out in scorn. Thomas Custer was awarded 2 Medals of Honor!

American Legion National Commander Fang A. Wong says he is 'profoundly disappointed' that the bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the so-called 'supercommittee') failed to reach an agreement to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade.

Two weeks ago, he was ducking NATO bombs. Now he's seeking the intercession of NATO justice. VT takes a look at the real backstory of the looting of Libya and Saif Gaddafi.

The state television in Egypt aired pictures of three American students who, according to Egypt interior ministry sources, were arrested by the police last Monday on rioting charges.

The most serious dangers facing Americans today stem from our "special relationship" with Israel. by The Council For The National Interest

Fighting against your own people is not heroism, but cowardice

By Lucy Madison   President Obama on Monday signed a bill aimed at getting unemployed veterans back to work, marking a rare moment of bipartisanship among Washington...

Below is the lightly-edited transcript of part three of my interview with Saint John Hunt, recipient and custodian of father E. Howard Hunt's confession to participating in the LBJ-approved, CIA-orchestrated murder of JFK.

The Bilderberg Group aims to soft kill us off while the Jacque Fresco led Venus Project aims to end their reign of human terror. Who will win this economic system deathmatch and take the 21st century prize?

VA Celebrates National Family Caregiver Month This month, VA is honoring all caregivers who have dedicated their lives to ensure Veterans have the best quality of life possible. VA medical centers across the country will hold events in honor of those who care for our Vets.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn Wednesday reduced the reckless endangerment charges

Many Washington pundits who championed the false tales about Iraq’s WMD have returned to center stage in the new accusations about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. And some of the Iran charges are falling apart just like the Iraq ones, as Gareth Porter reports.

Pepper spray or rubber bullets, two different tactics but both serve the same purpose, to Silence dissent.

In today’s world marriages which last a lifetime are extremely rare. In our society today, failed marriages and divorce are common place.

"The formula is simple and it's reduced to four words every kid in the world knows: Tell me a story. It's that easy."-Don Hewitt. What follows are three Thanksgiving stories and every word is true.

Tomorrow, November 22, 2011 is the 48th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

New Mexico Technology Group, L.L.C., El Paso, Texas, was awarded an $85,000,000 contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to support White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Work will be performed in White Sands Missile Range, N.M., with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2012.

The more the Occupy Wall Street movement grows, the more apparent becomes the police state that has emerged from the Patriot Act.

One presumes that members of Des Moines Register's edit board would be well-versed in history and geopolitics; Watch the candidate who should have been named to Supreme Court half a century ago school these boards on the board.

Any intelligent American knows the biggest "homegrown threat" is our own police. Any doubts about that are long gone.

President Barack Obama delivered a clear message today when he signed two new tax credits into law to increase the hiring of military veterans and wounded warriors.