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VA’s Caregiver Support Program Expanding
REACH Program Improves Quality of Life for Caregivers and Veterans
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans (VA) is expanding support nationally to caregivers of Veterans...
OBAMA: Flag to Half Staff for Army Corporal Frank Buckles, World War I Veteran
As a mark of respect for the memory of Army Corporal Frank W. Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, and in remembrance of the generation of American veterans of World War I, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, that, on the day of his interment, the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset on such day.
Gilad Atzmon: Beware, Israeli War Criminal Are Using False Identities
Israeli Ynet reports today that IDF Spokesperson assumed false name to avoid arrest for 'war crimes' in Britain.
In an interview with the British magazine...
Gilad Atzmon: John Galliano Must Be A Zionist
IS HITLER CURRENTLY "IN FASHION?"
By Gilad Atzmon STAFF WRITER
Last Weekend the British press was very quick to tag John Galliano, one of ...
GOP Eliminates $75 Million for Homeless Veterans
Will the GOP ever understand that when it comes to veterans, they cannot pay the price for their service depending on who is in charge or which way the wind blows? They served this country in good financial times as well as bad times. They get hurt, by body or mind, because the elected at the time decided to send them to war. Some of them signed up because we were at war while others signed up in case we had to go to war. What they need should never, ever be fair game in budget battles.
Behind The Arab Revolt is a Word We Dare NOT Speak
Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the President’s daily intelligence brief. McGovern was at the apex of the “national security” monolith that is American power and had retired with presidential plaudits. On the eve of the invasion, he and 45 other senior officers of the CIA and other intelligence agencies wrote to President George W. Bush that the “drumbeat for war” was based not on intelligence, but lies.
Josh Blakeney: Palestinians, Native Americans, The War Machine and The Quest for World...
Here in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, we had the International Peace Pow-Wow this weekend (February 26th and 27th). I made this first You Tube (below) to attempt to demonstrate to those who cannot imagine what a bi-national, multi-religious Palestinian state would look like, that multi-national states can and do exist. The indigenous peoples in Canada whilst being denied full economic and legal equality, do at least enjoy certain cultural freedoms which they took full advantage of this weekend in Lethbridge. The events at the Pow-Wow stand in stark contrast to the apartheid-like policies implemented against the indigenous peoples of Palestine by the unlawful Israeli government.
A Soldier’s 39-Year Battle
ALBANY -- Disabled Army veteran Susan Frasier rides an overnight Greyhound bus alone each month to Washington, D.C., to walk the halls of Congress in search of elected officials who will support her where the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and federal courts have not.
Agent Orange effects linger in Vietnam
The Vietnam War is a sore spot in the memories of many American citizens. From 1955 to 1975, the United States found itself entrenched in a war of unrecognizable proportions. Due to the unprecedented tactical disadvantages faced by American soldiers, action had to be taken to level the playing field, ultimately crippling the guerrilla warfare tactics held by members of the Vietnamese military. The solution? Agent Orange, an herbicidal chemical extensively used to eradicate jungle flora throughout the Vietnamese countryside. Often used at levels upwards of 50 times the recommended usage, Agent Orange decimated fields and jungles alike.
THE TEA PARTY AND AMERICA’S RETURN TO THE “GOOD OLE DAYS”
"OUTLAW GOVERNORS" TAKE ON AMERICA
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
In...
Libya’s Fearless Leader Gaddafi Goes Hummula Hummula
We each day that goes by in the 2011 Libyan revolt for Freedom, Democracy and Liberty, Col. Muammar Gaddafy gets more beligerent and myopic.
PAUL BALLES : 9/11 is revisited (video)
The official story about 9/11 is rejected by growing numbers of professors, physicists, architects, engineers, pilots, former military ...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources
We encourage you to browse our list so that you can...
Ugly American at Heart of US Pakistan Dysfunctional Relationship
Contemporary world has witnessed new heights of coercive diplomacy. A public statement by President Obama declaring Raymond Davis a diplomat and asking Pakistan for his repatriation was overkill; indeed it was a diplomatic faux pas. American media was forbidden to mention the killer’s connection to CIA; ‘free and fair’ media faithfully obliged the government, until British media spilled the beans.
Frank Buckles, Last Known U.S. Doughboy, Dies Advocated for National World War I...
WASHINGTON – Frank Woodruff Buckles, who lied about his age to enlist in the Army in 1917 and became the last known U.S. veteran of World War I, died on February 27, 2011 at the age of 110.
Cpl. Frank Buckles
Cpl. Frank Buckles passed away February 27, 2011 at the age of 110. Cpl. Buckles served with the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces) in World War I. Stationed in England and in France during WWI Cpl. Buckles served as an ambulance driver. His decorations include:
Gilad Atzmon: Hasbara’s Smear Fell Apart Again
As funny as it may sound, Harry's Place -- the infamous Israeli propaganda website and Neocon outlet that rushed to advocate Blair’s criminal wars -- is now desperately insisting on mounting pressure on venues to stop me from spreading the necessary message about Israel and its lobbies.
Harry’s Place -- The Zionist mouthpiece website that has managed to collate no less than 157 entries on anti racist watchdog Islamophobia Watch -- blames me for being a racist. It is almost amusing.
GAZA VOICES : GAZA KIDS ARE CALLING FOR OBAMA — PALTELEGRAPH
This video and song demands the kind of attention that 'We Are the World' was given. While Gaza exists the way it does, and...
A Retrospective Against GOP Revisionism
One of the founding fathers of conservative thought was Alexander Hamilton. He was an aristocrat who advocated that poor and middle-class Americans should be relegated to second-class citizenship, and the GOP has fully embraced his agenda. While Hamilton’s position was resoundingly rejected by the vast majority of the founding fathers - whose primary reason for coming to America in the first place was to get away from the European class system - there were many of Hamilton’s ilk who chose not to recognize the American ideal that “All men [and women] are created equal.” Then they were later joined by Southern Dixiecrats, or social bigots, who also rejected the ideal of human equality.
ALLEN L ROLAND: Game Over For American Imperialism and Middle East Oppression
The Game is so over for American imperialism and Middle East oppression and with that defeat will come the discovery of its epicenter ~...
Considerations – Libyan Invasion
Broadcast media has noted that Lt. Col. Kaddafi has threatened to use chemical warfare agents against protestors in his unhappy country. Much was made of Libya’s announcement in the early part of the 21st century regarding Libya destroying its stockpile of WMD’s. Well… O.K., maybe, kinda, sorta? Does the Colonel have stocks of weapons grade chemical agents and the delivery systems to employ them?
Operation GULF WAR VETERANS 1990-91 Virtual Reunite
GULF WAR VETERANS 90-91 reuniting by using facebook does your unit from the gulf war 90-91 have a FB page? And is there a GW90-91/desert storm/State Page to gather in your states!
Impotent Power of Words
There are so many reports and articles on PTSD that you'd think it is a well known issue everyone knows about. Unlike the ads for erectile dysfunction (ED) so well searched for the term pops up with just "erec" typed into Google or Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) medication, we don't see ads for medications for PTSD. How did these topics end up with multi-million dollar ad campaigns? Was it out of the goodness of their hearts corporations paid to spread the word? No, they have a product to sell so they spread the word about issues a lot of people suffered with silently. RA is painful but did not come with a stigma attached to it. Erectile dysfunction had a huge "shame" factor, so men didn't talk about it while women complained to their friends about it.
Jim W. Dean…A Crazy Prophet, by Uri Avnery
I was working on my Mid East revolution piece and having the usual revolution problem. You put it down for a few hours to put some other fires out and new information requires a total rewrite. I finally focused in on a theme that I was sure would not be ancient history in week...Western hypocrisy and the original War of Terror we conducted on the Mid East.
U.S. Public No Longer Supports Taxpayer Money to Israel
With Democracy breaking out in the Middle East as the 21st Century Facebook Generation of Arab youth topple the 20th Century dictators, American foreign policy in the Middle East is being led by its tail to the future forcing U.S. Think Tanks into hyperdrive.
M Rafic Soormally: Al Qaeda in North Africa Tied to Sarkozy and Netanyahu
Behind Al Qaeda in North Africa there are Sarkozy and Netanyahu, who is in control of the CIA embassy in Tunisia where the fake...
Dayton VAMC Dentist Under Investigation Named
In early February VT (VT) reported that the Dayton VA Medical Center in Ohio was notifying Veterans who may have been exposed to Hepatitis...
JONATHAN AZAZIAH : Israel’s Fission Field Warfare — Pakistan, Iraq and Egypt
Fission is defined as ‘the act or process of splitting into parts.’ In a more scientific explanation, fission is defined as ‘division of the atomic nucleus into two lighter fragments releasing energy.
ARAB UPRISINGS: Time-Out For Israel Is Over
The Arabic street is the one who is calling the shots now, the coming Arab policies will try and reflect the pulse of the Arabic street. The united Arab sounds are to be heard at last where no American veto could come out to obliterate the truth and where no need to waste more than one million innocent Arabs to allegedly get rid of a dictator.
Silvia Cattori Interviews Gilad Atzmon
Gilad Atzmon is an outstandingly charming man. He is often described by music critics as one of the finest contemporary jazz saxophonists. But Atzmon is more than just a musician: for those who follow events in the Middle East, he is considered to be one of the most credible voices amongst Israeli opponents. In the last decade he has relentlessly exposed and denounced barbarian Israeli policies. Just before his departure on a European Spring Tour, “The Tide Has Changed “, with his band the Orient House Ensemble, he spoke to Silvia Cattori.
Rep. Peter King – Islamophobe and Phony
Say No To Peter King!
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph for VT
US Rep. Peter King owes his rise for his political career to his own support for...
Warfare
“You may fly over a land forever, you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it clean of life-but if you desire to defend it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did, by putting your young men in the mud!” (T.R. Fehrenbach. This kind of War, 1963)
FRANKLIN LAMB : Barak to Gates – “How about your guys bust em”
In Re Barak, “Bullahs,” Blackwater, Bounties & the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)
FRANKLIN LAMB / Al Manar
When the US marines were in and...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources
We encourage you to browse our list so that you...
Eric May: The False Flag Space Shuttle
NASA's Deadly Discovery
(False Flag Space Shuttle)
By Captain Eric H. May for VT
Intelligence Editor
The Lone Star Iconoclast
HOUSTON, 2/26/11 -- Thursday's successful...
VETERANS TODAY: AMERICA MUST ATTACK GADDAFI NOW!
MORAL AUTHORITY COMES FROM MORAL ACTS
...A CHANCE TO REDEEM OUR SACRED HONOR
By Gordon Duff Senior Editor VT
The brutality in Libya can't be allowed to...
RAYMOND DAVIS: CAN IMRAN KHAN SAVE AMERICA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH PAKSITAN?
The standoff between the United States and Pakistan over the arrest of contractor Raymond Davis is not going to be solved unless both nations take a step into that "no man's land" of trust and honesty. There is no question about diplomatic status, this was a clumsy mistake made by State Department officials in Washington who had little or no understanding of the legal and political issues at stake. Recent admissions that Davis is "CIA" mean nothing. Nobody knows what "CIA" means anymore, not since the wave of privatization that has spread to many of America's critical security functions.
VA RAC GWI Meeting in DC Next Week- Shout Outs Point Statements
VA RAC GWI MEETING FEB 28-MAR 1 in DC AGENDA AND DISCUSSION
Marines Delta Battery 20 Years Gulf War Reunion
Again the ill Gulf War Veterans are the ones doing the outreach and getting the word out, it is a shame they don't even provide grants for outreach work nor rooms for veterans to use when attending VA RAC GWI meetings. Nor do they encourage interaction and sharing of important health care providers and research being done at annual type meeting for Gulf War Researchers both Civilian and VA. Much less having Civilian and VA Providers also involved fully in caring for Gulf War Veterans. There is a need for these type meetings and meetings should be open to veterans. These meetings also need videoconferencing live and archived and available openly on the internet!
RAND CLIFFORD : The Bull
The term “motion pictures” is rather archaic nowadays, but there’s nothing archaic about W.C.’s insightful wisdom—almost 80 years ago spinning a clear image of precisely where we are in 2010. Indeed, ours is a confusing time of wars over fossil energy, imperialism, secrecy, disinformation, massive upward transfer of wealth, economic collapse, environmental devastation and, well, bullshit. We’ve actually been deep in the stuff since even before Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, wrote a more sobering scenario:
Report Details Agent Orange use at Fort Detrick
Fort Detrick has released a preliminary archive search report on its past Agent Orange use as the Kristen Renee Foundation began to ramp up its efforts to prove that the Army post caused a cancer cluster in Frederick.
According to the report, which was posted online Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found that Fort Detrick tested an estimated 16.82 pounds of Agent Orange and similar defoliants between 1944 and 1951.
From Afghanistan: We Support the People of Wisconsin and the World
Afghan youth are quietly encouraged by the Egyptian uprising because the people of Afghanistan want what the people of Egypt want. We are all Bouazizi. We want dignified livelihoods. Dare any scientist prove to us that 30 years of wars and more to come will successfully bring us decent livelihoods? Dare any human being prove to us that mutual killings somehow bring men and women some measure of murderous dignity?