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Only a day before the release of Bob Woodword's new book "Obama's War" an expose of infighting within the Obama administration over Afghanistan, the...

      THOSE WHO STOOD BY YOU ARE NOW ASKING YOU TO LISTEN By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor President Barak Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave N.W. Washington, D.C. ...

I urge all Veterans and their supporters to contact Senator Richard Burr, Senator Jim Webb and all the other politicians that want to balance...

JFAC STATEMENT ON SENTENCING OF AAFIA SIDDIQUI Editor's note:  "The entire staff of VT and her sister publications are outraged at Judge Berman's abuses, not...

GROUND BREAKING INTERVIEW WITH TOP SOVIET/RUSSIAN EXPERT ON AFGHANISTAN Colonel Eugene Khrushchev's last post in Afghanistan was in 2006 as First  Secretary of the Russian...

“….the depth of Pollard’s info that he passed on to Russia (amongst others) was as damaging as the Rosenberg’s was during that era. Devastatingly state of the art. Virtually everything that we knew/know about nukes….” (US Navy nuclear weapons expert exclusive to VT)

It was "Christians" who enslaved and lynched Black people in the South, so does that mean that Black people should burn Bibles and prohibit Christian churches from being built in the 'hood?

Some of the critical players in President Obama’s national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, personalities and turf, according to a new book. The book, “Obama’s Wars,” by the journalist Bob Woodward, depicts an administration deeply torn over the war in Afghanistan even as the president agreed to triple troop levels there amid suspicion that he was being boxed in by the military. Mr. Obama’s top White House adviser on Afghanistan and his special envoy for the region are described as believing the strategy will not work.

Thousands of our kids are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan carrying the enormous weight of the emotional baggage picked up during their experience of war. This is nothing new, we brought back the same cargo from Vietnam, Korea and WW2. All wars provide their participants with a dismal tide of dark memories, the material of a lifetime of tortured nightmares.

Arms Merchants of South Central Did the rich and intrigue-filled Botach family get a pass from Henry Waxman? Editor's note:  Congressman Henry Waxman, closely tied to...

Running Head: Instructional Protocol/Sensitivity during Interaction with PTSD Sufferers By Carol Ware Duff RN, BA, MSN, Healthcare Editor, Veterans Today The purpose of this teaching program...

MEDICAL ADVANCES: UNDERSTANDING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES (TBIs) By Texas Vet, First Cavalry  Decades ago, I got blown up—literally outside a tin can sh*t and shower hut...

POLITICS, RELIGION AND THE MILITARY, A RECIPE FOR DISASTER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor (Russian translation below) A dozen American soldiers are under arrest, five for...

Via the Defense Base Act Compensation Blog Many Injured Contractors were repatriated via the Military Medical Evacuation System which was/is badly contaminated with Multi Drug...

By Khalil Nouri Staff Writer / Editor There has recently been a call for the establishment of an Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group (APSG) that will be...

AMERICA'S WORST KEPT SECRET   By Gordon Duff , Senior Editor   I learned about 9/11 from the news.  Before the second plane had crashed, people in the crowd...

Should Saudi King Abdullah invite Netanyahu to Riyadh? By Alan Hart The suggestion that he should was made by Thomas L. Friedman in his column for...

IS AMERICA'S RACKETEERING "ELITE" A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor There is a group of Americans, a combination of coward, gangster, politician, buffoonish...

VIETNAM ALL OVER AGAIN....A SONG BY BARRY DAVID BUTLER Posted by Gordon Duff Senior Editor VT Our thanks to Barry David Butler for telling it like...

UNAMA HR devil’s advocate: part two. Afghan WMD collateral damage By Col. Eugene Khrushchev (ret.) STAFF WRITER/Editor The Methodology section offers contradicting disclaimers that effectively negate...

"DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET" LIKE SITE INTELLIGENCE DOES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Just in time for the 9/11 "celebrations" in New York, the "idiotfests" prostesting...

By Ernest A. Canning  at the Brad Blog "The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 do not represent Islam. Far better representatives of Islam are the...

"73 MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE, BETTER THAN A ROOT CANAL OR EATING YOUR OWN FOOT" Interviewer Peter B. Collins LINK TO PETER B. COLLINS INTERVIEW "THE...

By Col. Eugene Khrushchev (ret.) STAFF WRITER/Editor UNAMA HR’s 2010 mid-year Report, “Protection of civilians in armed conflict” is an important milestone of the UN’s...

VT was contacted by the author of this article, Clare Bayard, which was originally Published on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by CommonDreams.org. Clare asked...

"HIT SQUADS" MEANT TO "LIQUIDATE" TALIBAN LEADERS KILLING EVERYONE BUT... By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Months ago, JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) began to roll...

By Medea Benjamin (opednews.com) With the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the administration, the military and the media are trying to put a...

WHERE HAVE ALL THE VIETNAM WAR (DRAFT) WAR PROTESTORS GONE? By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER VT Where have all the Vietnam War (DRAFT) protestors...

There never were plans for a mosque at "ground zero." The entire story is made up by a public relations agency working with the Israeli government and the GOP. There are plans for an Islamic center in an old Burlington Coat Factory store blocks away. That far down the island of Manhattan, a couple blocks away is "across town." The idea that Israel is financing the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy when Mossad agents were arrested, dancing in the streets on 9/11, is an obscenity.

(FOLLOW DIRECTIONS TO YOUTUBE)             By Gordon Duff for VT and Americans of Honor Last year, an Israeli-American Judge Richard Berman oversaw one of America's...

Perhaps most disturbing is that the President's zeal to please his true constituency --- corporate America, Wall Street and the military-industrial complex --- comes from the same Presidential candidate whose soaring and lofty, yet deceptive campaign rhetoric gave rise to hope in so many that Election Day 2008 would mark a return economic fairness, transparency, a restoration of the rule of law, an end to the fear-driven perpetual "war on terror," and a restoration of nature's ecological balance.

AS I OFTEN SAY, "IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE NEWS, MAKE UP YOUR OWN....EVERYONE ELSE DOES" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor As head of the...

Back in early 2007, when the Bush administration was insisting that its military intervention in a faraway land was not open-ended, Senator Barack Obama wasn't buying it.

IT MAY BE THE LAND OF THE "24 HOUR WALMART" BUT IS IT STILL AMERICA? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Americans are terrible at languages. ...

The attacks of September 11 were a pretext to a war already under consideration, Gul said. "I think some of the neocons, who were very close to President [George W.] Bush, they wanted that he could embark on a universal adventure of Pax Americana, and they thought that the world was lying prostrate in front of them," he said. The 2001 terrorist attacks helped win the public support for the neocon plans, he said.

PHONY TERRORIST LEADER BEING "BRANDED" BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE "VOICE OF ISRAEL" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Adnan Shukrijumah, 35 formerly of Brooklyn, New York...

- It's what happens in war: Civilians get slaughtered; troops get killed, maimed and traumatized; and connected corporations get rich - For weeks, U.S. and allied...

PBS FRONTLINE did a documentary that is now available on DVD accurately called Obama's War. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/ FRONTLINE notes that "Tens of thousands of fresh American troops...

VT is pleased to announce the appointment of Lt. General Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan's ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), to its Editorial Board of Directors, joining, among others, Jeff Gates, Dr. Alan Sabrosky, Col. Jim Hanke, Gordon Duff, Khalil Nouri and Col. Eugene Khrushchev.

Don’t blame Pakistan for the failure of the war  By Imran Khan Before the West invaded Afghanistan my country had no suicide bombers, no jihad and...

IN 2001 ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE OF UPI INTERVIEWED HAMID GUL ON 9/11 WHAT DOES THIS INCREDIBLE INTERVIEW MEAN TO US 9 YEARS LATER? By Arnaud de...

THE AFTERMATH OF AFGHANIFEST By Colonel Eugene Khrushchev STAFF WRITER/Editor The latest international conference in Kabul didn’t have any suspense or surprise, but it came up...