Monthly Archives: May 2012

I used to always postpone writing this Chapter, because the extradition case against Victor Bout (who is my personal friend, after all) was still with the criminal court here in Bangkok, and I did not want to jeopardize Victor’s position in the court of law by publishing such a thing.

US Oil Trading, L.L.C., Tacoma, Wash., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum $97,964,746 for fuel.

Do you have questions concerning the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP)? Maybe the below will help answer some of them.

Rebecca Tews sat at her kitchen table in North Aurora, Illinois, stared into her laptop and tried to find a place for her family to live.

For the third time since the 1990-1991 Gulf War, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers will contact Gulf War-era Veterans as a part of a long-term study of their health.

"If there's any nation in the world that is well on the way to meriting the admittedly vague label of 'fascist,' surely it is the United States," political journalist Alexander Cockburn asserts.

Memorial Day, one of America’s most venerated national holidays, is set aside so that we might reflect on the honor and sacrifice of those who courageously gave their lives to safeguard us and our way of life.

Leading Israel-first American Jews held an illuminating debate about American politics and Israel's future recently.

Caterpillar, Inc., Mossville, Ill., was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $776,000,000 for procurement of commercial type construction equipment.

On May 22, VA honored all Veterans past and present with a gallery of works from The American Fallen Soldiers Project.

I am NOT suggesting ANY of this. All I’m doing is thinking out aloud, asking myself some questions.

Zahid Chaudhry, a disabled US Army vet, is facing deportation proceedings because he volunteered to assist his local police department as an emergency volunteer.

Only a viable and sustainable Palestinian state will equate to security for Israel; and as Palestine has always been in the belly of Israel, politicians who want to maintain power had better seize these days and End the Occupation for the times have already changed.

Here is a comparison between “authentic and established” journalism that uncovers a hidden tax on what people are encouraged to believe.

On May 21, VA Secretary Shinseki and Defense Secretary Panetta toured the Federal Health Care Center in Chicago, named after Capt. James Lovell (pictured).

Softchoice, McLean, Va., is being awarded a firm-fixed-price blanket purchase agreement to procure Microsoft brand name software licenses and software support, known as software assurance (SA), through 2015 for the Department of the Navy.

United States military personnel and civilian contractors deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan may be at risk for respiratory symptoms and chronic lung disease, including asthma and constrictive bronchiolitis.

One problem we are all ignoring, while we are told to worry about Iranian nukes that do not now nor never will exist, is that the money in your pocket is toilet paper, your home is worth less than yesterday and probably belongs to someone who lost the paperwork and has been bankrupt themselves for 30 years.

Nato summit leaders should have been forced to watch the moving protest of the former troops chucking their medals away

“A 15-minute-documentary that revisits the Egyptian uprising, and explores the arduous road to democracy and the daunting challenges that await the country after the upcoming presidential elections.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs has streamlined the process for families of deceased Veterans to receive a medallion which can be affixed to grave markers at private cemeteries and indicates the Veteran status of the deceased.

The wounds of Veterans, both physical and mental, are real and have widespread effects on Veterans and their families.

When they landed, Pathfinders with 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Airborne Division bounded from the aircraft with their Afghan partners.

In October, 2011, authorization for the Temporary Residence Grant or TRA was extended under Public Law 112-37.

On May 28, 2012, the Indiana Veterans’ Home invites the community to attend a special Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces.

While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under. Today, Fitch lowered japanse foreign currency rating to near junk bond status. Japan had previously fallen to AA and is now down to "A," a level unacceptable to a nation that most still consider a world "super-economy."

"The clear issue we have on NATO is that from day number one this was an illegal war; those who started this war in the US, Britain and elsewhere did so as a war crime.

Charleston Aluminum, L.L.C., Gaston, S.C.*, was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM8E5-10-D-0012/P00008.

Exciting changes are underway for military spouses that could affect families who serve for generations to come.

Jerry Ensminger, White Lake, NC, is a retired Marine Master Sergeant with 24 years of active service. His family is one of hundreds of thousands who bathed, drank, and cooked with water contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals at Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Thousands of peaceful protesters, including peace activists and war veterans, have marched through the second largest city in the U.S. carrying banners against NATO and demanding the dissolution of the Alliance.

It’s been a long journey for Russell Brown, 65, from the days when he fought with the Fourth Marines in Viet Nam, to becoming one of the “Hancock 33” protesters against drone warfare.

Veterans in Michigan and its surrounding states, register now for the free Veterans Hiring Fair at the Detroit COBO Center, June 26-28.

Veterans in Michigan and its surrounding states, register now for the free Veterans Hiring Fair at the Detroit COBO Center, June 26-28. Thousands of...

The horror stories about the Transportation Security Administration are indisputable. In the post 911 environment, civil liberties routinely ignored or eliminated, become a mere memory in a country that once prided itself as the beacon of freedom for the entire world.

When Cohen attempts to bond with his protagonist Dictator Aladeen, he actually speaks in his mother tongue, Hebrew. Cohen speaks Hebrew because Aladeen is not an Arab dictator, he is actually an Israeli patriot like Cohen himself.

In an organized act of brutality, a number of US soldiers went on a house-to-house shooting spree in Zangabad village, Kandahar in March and massacred 16 people including nine children while they were sleeping and all Washington had to say were a few words of condolence and apology nonchalantly strung together in order to appease the overwhelming public rage in Afghanistan.

The book focuses on the break-up of American Jewish support for Israel. Its central argument is that the mostly liberal American Jewish community now knows too much about the historical, human rights and diplomatic record of the Israel-Palestine conflict to lend Israel blind support.

There is much to both question and criticize about NATO but primary is the fact that America has created an international organization that is not answerable to international or constitutional laws and is still mired in a cold war mentality.

This is another column exploring the evil sway of scientism, not science, that dominates worldwide behavior.

My Recent Comment on Prof. Richard Falk's Blog Highlighting the Failures of the Mainstream Media to Cover the Hunger Strike Aimed a Calling Attention to Israel's Violations of the Universal Human Rights of Palestinians.

Russian Aurora has discharged a preemptive salvo against the Atlantic freedom vultures in America, which have camped out at sweet home Chicago. No, it wasn’t another Bolshevik mutiny at the legendary cruiser in St Petersburg; it was an audacious Russian think tank, Institute for Foreign Policy Research & Initiatives, www.invissin.ru that boarded ritzy Marriott Aurora in Moscow to test fire a new revolutionary manifesto – International Conference “NATO: myths and reality lessons for Russia and the world”.