Monthly Archives: April 2012

It is clearly time to challenge the dated concept that mainstream western media is impartial, objective or professional in their coverage of Mideast affairs.

DARPA Test Plane Flies at 13,000 mph for Three Minutes.

Veterans Affairs will "host the National Veteran Small Business Conference and Expo in Detroit from June 26 to June 29" at the Cobo Center.

Dow and Congress holding hearing on the Report on Carcinogens (RoC).

There is a theory known as the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, which holds that the mind involuntarily rejects information not in line with previous thoughts and/or actions.

What goals has the BDS movement achieved so far? Does it aim for a constructive solution to the conflict?

Three members of Veterans For Peace -- Russell Brown, John Amidon, and Elliott Adams -- were among 33 peaceful protesters arrested on Sunday outside Hancock Air Field in New York State.

Those who accept that the Presidential chain of command is by nature constitutional; lack a proper understanding of history and professes an even greater ignorance of current affairs.

Just looking at the facts, it appears far more likely that the U.S. will attack Iran again than Iran would attack the U.S. or Israel, America’s Middle East pawn. I say “again” because the U.S. has already an embarrassing record of aggression against Iran, so, if past is prologue, the U.S./Israeli alliance will strike Iran, not the other way around.

Over the past couple of weeks I've had the pleasure of acquainting myself with a segment of the vast Syrian community who oppose the ongoing covert interventions in Syria and who generally think their current government is doing a good job, all things considered.

And then it happened ~ I heard the crack of the ball hitting the bat and as I ran toward first base, I glanced over my left shoulder and, lo and behold, there was my hit ball rising in an arc toward the Green Monster in left field ~ I couldn’t believe it !

The good news is that the restrictions that have denied Mordechai Vanunu his inalienable human rights expire before June 1st, but the bad news concerns continuing failures of Corporate Media to report on Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower.

Few understand the American election, even those who live here.

The oppression and occupation of the Palestinians is not a matter for the Methodists or Presbyterians or Catholics or Muslims or Jews or any denomination across the planet; it is the responsibility of humans everywhere.

Dow, one of the manufactures of Agent Orange, invited to Congressional hearing.

I found myself thinking, we are well past time to “throw this dirty, filthy Occupation out of United Methodist waters”.

A hero's welcome and return to small town America.

When they stuck the needle in my arm for the blood test I passed out, and when I came to they were kicking me into the wall. Then they made everybody take off their pants, and I did, and this sergeant says, “Oh my God, put those back on! You f*****g swine you!” Then they had a urine test and I couldn’t pi**, but my poop was just like ooze, man, so I poop in the cup and put it on the counter. I had poop on my hand and my arm

This coming April 30th, 2012, it will be 37 years since Saigon and South Vietnam fell to the communists.

In 1963, the year they gunned down JFK to take all the attention, three nefarious professional associations met and conspired to firmly implant the fascist healthcare state.

The Western subject, as well as Western society, is submerged in self-love. Somehow we cannot understand how it is that a system that was created to explore our human liberties, can fail.

Thus, what will history record of whom and what you are?

A country robbed of peace and bereft of aspirations, Afghanistan seems to be plunging more and more into a pitiful morass of grievances brought about by the military madness the US troops exhibit in the beleaguered land with brazen-faced contumely.

Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home.

To fully understand Earth, we must see her as fully human and capable of feelings; She’s alive, she’s breathing, and she’s beautiful, finite and hurting ~ and many have died for her.

My background in military intelligence has enabled me to look at the BP Horizon Holocaust (HH) as a code-breaker. Here are some highlights of my analysis.

Brianna and Andrew Pavlak go grocery shopping on weeknights when there are fewer shoppers because Andrew, a National Guard veteran, gets nervous in crowds.

- Uri Avnery,...brutality is the only one of the three traits that is prominent in our life today, especially in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Charlie Mitchell, a professor as well as a volunteer at The HONOR Center (providing Hope, Opportunities, Networking, Outreach and Recovery), located in Gainesville, Fla., teaches theater appreciation and improvisation for political and social change in addition to his work with Veterans.

Right-Wing Neoconservatives and former Democrats from Wall Street are teaming up to defeat Obama, but can their attacks on his Israel policy divide his funding base?

If Obama is sincere, if ‘never again’ isn’t just an ‘empty slogan’ as he says, he better goes out of his way to restrain Israel’s genocidal inclinations and its belligerent pro-war Lobbies around the world.

In an interview with a prominent leader of the Special Forces community, I was told training on dogs was abandoned years ago and that this type of operation is considered "shameful" and "unprofessional."

Among the seven agreements made by Gen Musharraf with Washington in September 2001, free passage of NATO containers from Karachi Port to Afghanistan via Torkham and Chaman and also air supplies were included.

Rick Steves, Travel Guru on PBS, has been everywhere, and now reveals on the web what he has learned about Israelis behavior by posting a video that belongs among the archives of what I call the VT educational program.

Rules of Disengagement. Guess what there aren’t any. So let’s get on it.

Get More Out of the VA Home Loan Process - FAQs & Rates Made Simple. Houston Chronicle The newest VA Mortgage Experts are spreading VA Home Loans out to Veterans across the nation and were recently licensed in another state, which is Sunny California.

To some Julian Assange is a hero to others a spy, you can watch the show and judge for yourself below.

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Angelina Jolie’s film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” has already flopped in Serbia – the film’s premiere attracted just 13 people.

The main thing they have in common stems from the fact that they both live in fantasy worlds of their own creation and talk a lot of extreme rightwing nonsense.

Today, April 19, 2012 is the 237th anniversary of the first shots fired in the American Revolution. Isaac Davis was a husband and father of four who took a musket ball to the heart on that fateful day in Massachusetts in 1775.

If so, VA Research would like to invite you to register and attend our national forum event on Thursday, April 26 in Washington, DC. This year’s theme is, Caring for Veterans through Discovery and Collaboration.