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U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 0

DoD CONTRACTS: No. 069-11 AIR FORCE Raytheon Company, Integrated Defense Systems of Sudbury, Mass. was awarded a $107,000,000 contract which will procure one preliminary design for the...

GORDON DUFF: America’s Dirty Secret

- January 26, 2011 138

HOW A PSYCHO-SEXUAL CULT HOLDS AMERICA PRISONER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor On 9/11, the United States Air Force failed to respond to multiple hijacking...

Updated: Richard Falk Is Right on 9/11—Will Obama and Friends Forsake Falk for Telling...

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 26

Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine, is under fire for writing what is obviously true about the U.S. government and...

Taking to the Streets of Cairo [Video]; Betrayal, Suspected Collaboration with Israel Riles Arab...

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 4

Egypt said today it would ban demonstrations and detain protesters, seeking to draw a line under unprecedented protests against President Hosni Mubarak's rule. Activists called...

Tomgram: American Policy on the Brink

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 0

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently took a four-day tour of the Middle East, at each stop telling various allies and enemies, in classic...

‘We Will Oppose Obama As Long As He Supports War’

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 2

We the undersigned share with nearly two-thirds of our fellow Americans the conviction that our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be ended and...

IVAW Says President Showed He Is out of Touch with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 2

President Obama’s State of the Union Address showed the president is out of touch with the rough reality facing veterans, and failed to produce a...

Pakistan defeating terrorists

Raja Mujtaba - January 26, 2011 1

By Hamid Waheed The unfolding of events after 9/11 had a direct affect on Pakistan and the region. An increase in terrorist attacks in Pakistan...

State of the Union Address Focuses on Jobs, Benefits, Rights—Issuing Challenge to GOP

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 2

President Obama delivered an almost terse address focusing on jobs, the economy, equality, and protecting Social Security while issuing a political challenge to the GOP,...

Jim W. Dean … Is God TV aiding and abetting state terrorism against the...

Jim W. Dean - January 26, 2011 3

“...Well you have to remember that we are a pro-Zionist network.”... God TV - "The Palestinians are not crying for nothing, and they shall...

President Obama’s Message to Muslims: You’re Human

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 3

Following a year of unprecedented hate directed towards Muslims by the Anti-Defamation League, Fox media and the American right-wing, President Obama went out of...

Obama Calls for Inclusive Military in State of the Union Address

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 1

President Obama demanded equal protection and support for all troops and Marines who serve in the armed forces, echoing recent calls by Mikey Weinstein of the Military...

Former B-2 Engineer Gets 32 Years for selling military secrets to China

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 1

Former B-2 Engineer Gets 32 Years in Prison --A federal judge in Hawaii sentenced Noshir Gowadia, 66, a former Northrop Grumman engineer who worked...

LINDA HEARD : LEBANON SHOULD REJECT HARIRI TRIBUNAL

Debbie Menon - January 26, 2011 2

Disunity is Lebanon’s greatest Achilles heel, which is now being exacerbated by the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is ...

VA Suicide Prevention Life Line: 1 800 273 8255, Press 1 for Veterans

Managing Editor - January 26, 2011 8

Veterans in crisis needing to call a suicide line don't need to fuck around with phone keys and replace T-A-L-K with 8255. You get it? Time matters.

ALLEN L ROLAND: The World Is A Business Mr. Olbermann, You’re Fired!

Allen L Roland, PhD - January 25, 2011 10

Make no mistake about it ~ Keith Olbermann’s truth telling was rattling the cages of the corpocracy and he either quit or was asked...

Israel Strikes Back

Jeff Gates - January 25, 2011 47

Timing is everything when waging war “by way of deception,” the motto that has long guided Israeli war-planners. Whenever Israel’s geopolitical goals are threatened,...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 0

DoD CONTRACTS: No. 067-11 AIR FORCE Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Defense Systems Division of Herndon, Va. was awarded a $49,694,900 contract which will research, develop, and deliver...

The State of the Union Is On, Pass the Remote

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 3

It wasn't always this way. Although not required to report to congress in person, George Washington set the precedent by inflicting a speech. Taciturn by nature, John Adams' address was less than 2000 words but Jefferson had the good grace and gentle mercy to deliver his address to the congress in writing. That method was deemed adequate by every subsequent president until Wilson resumed the inhumane practice of formal speechifying with which we are mutually afflicted every January.

Patty Murray Looks to Become Next Chair of Senate VA Committee

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 4

Update: Veterans for Common Sense exec director, Paul Sullivan, says of Sen. Patty Murray becoming chair: "One word will do for Murray: 'Fantastic!'" Senator Patty Murray will...

Foreign Trade Zones

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 42

FOREIGN TRADE ZONES What could they be? Where could they be? Overseas? Nope. They’re here. They’re everywhere. They’re in all fifty states. My state, Idaho, has...

White House Going High-Tech with SOTU Address

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 4

Stakes High Tonight, One Speech Sets Political Tone for coming year and 2012 campaign By Macon Phillips at the White House We're putting the finishing touches...

VA Publishes Final Reg to Aid Vets Exposed in Korea to Agent Orange

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 1

WASHINGTON –Veterans exposed to herbicides while serving along the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Korea will have an easier path to access quality health care...

ALAN HART: PALESTINE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A LOST CAUSE

Alan Hart - January 25, 2011 6

Palestine does not have to be a lost cause By Alan Hart STAFF WRITER The most sickening (I mean truly vomit inducing) thing about the Al...

FT. SILL: LOAN SHARKS PREY ON TROOPS

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 7

Chris Kirkham at The Huffington Post has an outstanding piece chronicling the vultures preying on troops at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. While Fort Sill Religous Support...

House Republicans Fly Into Black Hole on Anti-Infrastructure Ideology

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 3

The insanity of Wisconsin GOP Gov Scott Walker and Ohio GOP Gov John Kasich giving away federal money ($810 million from Wisconsin and $385 million...

First 40 Bills Introduced for Veterans Current Session of Congress

- January 25, 2011 1

First 40 bills for veterans submitted in House of Representatives. Depleted uranium testing for troops again advanced as bill, it is about time to assure that this is done.

IS AMERICA RUBBERSTAMPING APARTHEID IN PALESTINE?

Debbie Menon - January 25, 2011 22

It is not because of their strengths that they have been able to do this… it is because of the weakness of the non-existent...

KHALIL NOURI: Afghanistan-The Karzai-Medvedev Russian Roulette

Khalil Nouri - January 25, 2011 5

AFGHANISTAN: RUSSIAN ROULETTE RETURNS By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent trip to Moscow marks an unprecedented state level...

America’s Great Game in Afghanistan

Brig Asif H. Raja - January 25, 2011 5

By Brig Asif Haroon Raja War on terror has entered tenth year but the US is still clueless when and how it will terminate the...

CHINA-US DIPLOMACY AND AF-PAK

Raja Mujtaba - January 25, 2011 1

A Silver Line for Pakistan Brig Samson S Sharaf The visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to USA will not live in memory for...

The Country Is Not a Corporation, and Layoffs Are Not a Success

Managing Editor - January 25, 2011 2

Honestly, there are so few nuggets of genuine wisdom in Washington that watching the Sunday talk-show hackery is a form of psychological torture.

First Amendment—Minus One

Dale R. Suiter - January 24, 2011 8

Corporate media consolidation is no news and an attack on your capacity to think Recently a MSNBC host has been deleted. I found his speech,...

U.S. Condemns Tyranny While Torturing Bradley Manning

Managing Editor - January 24, 2011 9

Activists David House and Jane Hamsher tried to visit Pfc. Bradley Manning, who stands accused of leaking classified US government documents, at Quantico on...

Desert Storm Veterans Get in Line and Volunteer for VA Funded Studies on Gulf...

- January 24, 2011 4

Desert Storm Veterans with gulf war illness being recruited for a medical study on their irritable bowel problems. Gulf War illness is real and the research is finally directed in the right direction to find answers. Twenty years but the old broken system is finally responding. The old cranky battleship of a broken system has made war repairs and is being set right on course. Now veterans are being asked to help. Medical researchers and medical care providers are being asked to help get the information to gulf war veterans 90-91 that are sufferring!

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