Home 2012
Yearly Archives: 2012
Isn’t It Time For a Complete House-Cleaning?
Defense Department cuts...a second look
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 29, 2012
Statesman Journal Jim Willis is the Director of the Oregon Dept. of Veterans' Affairs and a Vietnam combat veteran.
VFW Supports Expanding Service Members’ Housing Protections
Yesterday afternoon the VFW joined Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., at the U.S. Capitol, where Reed formally introduced the Servicemember Housing Protection Act, S. 3179, alongside Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Mark Begich, D-Alaska, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., as well as Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden and leading veterans’ advocates.
Going Rogue: America’s Unconventional Warfare in the Mideast
The intent of U.S. [Unconventional Warfare] UW efforts is to exploit a hostile power’s political, military, economic, and psychological vulnerabilities by developing and sustaining resistance forces to accomplish U.S. strategic objectives…
VA, American Heart Association’s “Go Red For Women” Fight Heart Disease in Women Veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the American Heart Association have entered into a formal agreement to raise awareness of heart disease and strokes among women Veterans and Servicemembers, and wives of Veterans and military members.
Unholy Alliance Forming Against Syria
Syria is bracing for more political chaos as all antagonistic forces appear to have entered into an unholy alliance to bring the government to its knees by ingeniously choreographing massacres and attributing them to Syrian government, thereby turning the country into fertile soil for US-led invasion.
Bernard-Henry Levy; The Ugly Jew.
There are hundreds if not thousands of “Jews” who enriched our lives and that of humanity with their talented contributions to the arts, to the literature, to music, to cinema, to science, to medicine, to physics, to sociology and psychology, to freedoms, to civil rights and liberties and law, Bernard-Henry Levy is not one of them. he is full of it.
Dystopia Revisited
Many people have been shocked by the distortion, propaganda and downright lies appearing in the Western media over events in the Middle East.
New Face in NYC and New Voice from Florida
Last week it became official that this author and reporter will be on the 2012 ballot for US HOUSE of Representatives, District 5 in Florida. Last week, this image also flashed during rush hour in Times Square, NYC...
Obama Praises Vietnam Vets at War’s Anniversary
President Barack Obama today called the treatment Vietnam War veterans received after they returned home “a national shame” and asked that Americans use the 50th anniversary of the war to set the record straight.
War, Press TV and Death By Political Correctness
As many know, I am the preferred voice chosen by Press TV, the Iranian news network, when discussing military issues.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 28, 2012
Beginning Memorial Day, the Blue Star Museum program's Operation Appreciation will offer free entry to more than 1,600 U.S. museums for active-duty military and their families.
9/11, Criminality, and the Treason of the Intellectuals
A Note on the Failure of Most Progressive Public Intellectuals to Force a Reckoning with the Lies and Crimes of the 9/11 Cover Story.
Race, A Topic for Discussion
While I will provide “real” science in this piece, know that although for about 50 years I have learned:
Democrats Delusional Worldview
Democratic politics is a false premise experiment. The foundation of the modern liberalism, based upon an erroneous worldview, is a dead end ideology.
Memorial Day Remembrance: Remember 9/11!
Those thousands of souls snuffed out on 9/11 are still screaming at us from the other world, screaming out for truth and justice.
Memorial Day – Time to Ask Why
Our general agreement, with dozens of wars, thousands of medals, top clearances or activists with decades of personal sacrifice, we are slowly coming together, but no so slowly anymore.
WAR ON TERROR: The World’s Biggest New Business
By the end of WW2, America had the largest war industry with Russia close behind.
Memorial Day with my KIA Marines
- Ten KIA Marines and105 NVA troops...one Medal of Honor, three Navy Crosses, and eight Silver Stars. "Move to the enemies guns" became deeds, not words.
Israel, US Divided Over Iran Nuclear Issue
While Iran and the world six powers wrapped up their talks on Thursday in an atmosphere apparently meant to resolve the nuclear issue, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and top negotiator on Iran Wendy Sherman rushed to Tel Aviv to brief the Israeli officials on the new nuclear developments and "reaffirm our [US] unshakeable commitment to Israel's security."
Marijuana – Its History – First in a Series
Prior to the Great Depression, the US policy on drugs was that there was no policy.
What Did We Learn From Israel’s Sneak Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty?
Memorial Day is to honor the American military and in particular those members of the military who've died or were wounded in battle.
Thoughts, Video & Quotes On Memorial Day 2012
So on Memorial Day 2012 ~ let us honor those who have died, let us heal the countless wounded and let us take the necessary action to stop these illegal occupations, masqueraded as wars ~ which are actually mockeries of freedom and liberty
Nakba: The Truth Will Set Both Jews & Arabs Free
As Palestinians and Arabs around the world remember the Nakba and the forced exile of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian, Israeli and other Jews are simultaneously celebrating their ‘victory’ and the establishment of a Zionist-Apartheid State.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 26, 2012
The 13-year program will “honor and give thanks to a generation of proud Americans” who served in Vietnam.
Obama: Remember Veterans Past, Present on Memorial Day
President Barack Obama today urged all Americans to remember those who sacrificed for the country and to help service members still feeling the effects of war.
Politics, Music and Anarchy
We are guided in economical, political, and international questions by the principles that were appropriate to men of three or five thousand years ago, though they are directly opposed to our conscience and the conditions of life in which we are placed today.
Bad NDAA Law Lost a Tooth
US District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan said in a written ruling that a single page of the notorious law has a “chilling impact on First Amendment rights.”
The Squirmer, New Russian Semi-ICBM To Defeat Phony Iranian Shield
The United States has been ringing Russia with its Patriot Three missile defense system, called the Iron Dome by Israel.
9/11, Victor Bout and Justice
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.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 25, 2012
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.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 25, 2012
Do you have questions concerning the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP)? Maybe the below will help answer some of them.
Veterans Face Ruin Awaiting Benefits as Wounded Swamp VA
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.
VA Continues Long-Term Study on Gulf War Era Veterans
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.
U.S. Today Display Typical Fascist Characteristics
"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 Message From The Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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.
American Jews Debate is Edifying – They Just Don’t Get It
Leading Israel-first American Jews held an illuminating debate about American politics and Israel's future recently.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for May 24, 2012
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.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News May 24, 2012
On May 22, VA honored all Veterans past and present with a gallery of works from The American Fallen Soldiers Project.
Phony Terrorism Through The Eyes of One of Us
I am NOT suggesting ANY of this. All I’m doing is thinking out aloud, asking myself some questions.
Disabled Army Vet Faces Deportation for Volunteering to Serve Community
Zahid Chaudhry, a disabled US Army vet, is facing deportation proceedings because he volunteered to assist his local police department as an emergency volunteer.
Obama and Bibi: YES YOU CAN End the Occupation
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.