Tag: war

The small city of Canal Fulton, Ohio, rolled out the “red carpet” and flag waving crowds swelled along the streets in anticipation.  May 17,...

Anti-Semitism: Zionism’s indispensable alibi By  Maidhc Ó Cathail for VT Although Zionism typically represents itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the truth is less flattering. In...

A PROGRAM FOR REASSESSING AND MOVING FORWARD By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This week an expose' in Newsweek showed us that our new Afghan police...

Nearly 3,000 Individuals Have Responded to the CalVet Survey To Help Prioritize Services to California’s Veterans Sacramento – Nearly 3,000 individuals have responded to the...

In the Marjah offensive of the Afghanistan war, a reporter hears echoes of the Soviet war. By Edward Girardet, / Chrisitan Science Monitor Correspondent / March...

Tea baggers who complain about too much government intervention in our lives and fiscal responsibility missing in Congress and the Obama administration, sound like...

SAYS BIN LADEN "WON'T" BE TAKEN ALIVE...DOES HE MEAN "CAN'T?" HOLDER SEEN AS SOFTENING PUBLIC TO ACCEPT BIN LADEN'S DEATH IN 2001 By Gordon Duff STAFF...

An unprecedented Israeli campaign to silence dissidents, intellectuals and human rights organizations is gaining momentum in the wake of Israel's December 2008 assault against Gaza that caused intense international outrage...

THE ABOMINATION OF "FAITH BASED " WARFARE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The "war on terror" has been like no other.  America has kidnapped and...

U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health. In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug — debt. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itself into ruin by buying tanks.

here we go again with another chapter in the over 100 years of war put forward by the Euro-Zionist visonaries. So get ready for more imprisonments laced with blood and the dying strewn in the ugly un-holy streets as this march towards the extinction of the indigneous peoples continues.

IS AMERICA THE VICTIM OF A WAR FROM WITHIN? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor One day you read about a break-in at a Senator's office,...

"CONSPIRACY THEORY" BECOMES REALITY IN THE NEW CIA/BLACKWATER PARTNERSHIP By Ahmed Quereshi "When these CIA agents killed a couple of Chinese engineers back in 2004,...

Now it's 10 months later and 2,500 soldiers are about to come home. At least 800 of them, likely more, don't have jobs. Many will face the grim necessity of losing their federal pay and needing to find work at a time when Oregon is afflicted with double-digit unemployment. Their incomes will fall off a cliff when they leave the federal pay system this spring.

Anthony Weiner pulled off the kid gloves and called the GOP a 'Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of The Insurance Industry,' see the video at Crooks and Liars. South Dakota, that center of scientific endeavor and bitter cold, is urged to use astrology to explain global warming to its students by 36 recently evolved members of the state legislature and Jim Hightower provides some guidance on dancing with the devil in today's picks.

When promoters of the film Severe Clear sent a screener copy to VT for review and comment, I volunteered to take this film review...

Posted by Nick Turse at TomDispatch Once is an anomaly; twice is the beginning of a pattern. Right now, we’re seeing the same sequence of...

While the Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, invests Congress with the power “to declare War,” the law school dean points out this has been largely ignored since President Harry Truman in 1950 “de facto changed the Constitution so that not the Congress, but the President, and he alone, makes the decision on war.”

In Viet Nam, for example, U.S. leaders caused the deaths of thousands of their own men and several million Vietnamese after they already knew they had made probably the worst mistake in American history. Velvel writes, “Our top military men create(d) free fire zones where civilians are killed on sight, and bomb and defoliate to the nth degree.” In Iraq, our leaders unleashed “a horrendous reign of terror from the skies, create a thus far thoroughly destabilized post-war society, and then, when all their other myths have shown to be myths, retroactively justify the war by saying that we got rid of an admittedly horrible dictator, his equally horrible sons, and his entirely horrible government.”

Since World War Two, an indisputably necessary conflict, Velvel points out the U.S. has fought the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, secret wars in Laos and Cambodia, the First Gulf War, Afghanistan, and the Second Gulf War in Iraq. It has also invaded, bombed or “quarantined” Panama, Grenada, Cuba, Haiti, Somalia, the Sudan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia and Libya, and has “declared” a global war on terrorists.

Mounting budget deficits for the foreseeable future may "greatly hamper" the U.S.' ability to wage pointless wars, a leading Pentagon general says. According to Gen. Blanton Creegan, "The days of our invading a country for no reason whatsoever may be at an end." Gen. Creegan adds, "In the past, we were able to start a war with a country simply because we said they might have WMD - now, we may actually have to check first."

These larger groups are partially divided as Northern Pashtun, Southern Pashtun, Northern Tajik, Western Tajik, Southwestern Tajik, etc., etc, and the list goes on. Further, the many mini-tribes each have their own, independent tribal leaders, tribal laws to fit their local conditions, and a fierce determination to protect their real or imagined boundaries and their real or imagined ability to traverse wherever they wish, whenever they wish.

USA’s new “Turn”…!!!  By Sajid Ansari for VT  After lots of drum-beating of “war-on-terror” and Al-Qaida, for 9 years, which is nowadays under heavy criticism, at...

BLACKWATER/XE ACCUSED OF COMPLICITY IN TERRORISM AND WAR AGAINST US TROOPS TOP TALIBAN MILITANTS RECEIVE MEDICAL CARE AT BAGRAM AIR FORCE BASE From Sabrina Elkhani &...

A declaration adopted at the Jirga said that the US after facing a clear defeat in Afghanistan, was targeting the tribal areas in revenge and the imprudent Pakistani rulers were victim of a conspiracy to chop off this sword arm of Pakistan only to please Washington. History was witness that the Tribal people had never accepted foreign subjugation and whoever dared to challenge them suffered a humiliating defeat and the tribal area proved to be the graveyard of the invader, the declaration said.

The Israel/India Alliance Below is the fourth installment in a 5-part series on Pakistan by Jeff Gates, author of Guilt By Association. In April 2009, Tel...

Mr. Cheney, while you and those around you were being kept safe during the Vietnam War, I was fighting in Vietnam. I wasn't fighting for you. If I had known who you were, I would have thrown you in a well in a New York minute. Like generations before me, I hoped my own children wouldn't have to sleep in mud day after day and see their friends blown apart beside them. Now I have to listen to your endless whining about how Americans should think nothing about how important it is to be safe, safe, of course, because we are sending the children we fought to protect out to die for us. If I have to be kept safe in my old age, seeing our kids and grandkids die, many of them husbands, parents, it just isn't worth it. If real killing and dying has to go on to really protect America, something some of us aren't so sure is the case, I will go right now, but I am dragging your bloated hulk with me.

DOD Awards Money for Contracts

According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin. We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom. After all, the shock of September 11, 2001 was that “war” came to “the homeland,” a mighty blow delivered against the very symbols of our economic, military, and -- had Flight 93 not gone down in a field in Pennsylvania -- political power.

They can take down apartment blocks in seconds, burying and crushing everyone inside. They can demolish villages and send tanks, planes and ships up in fiery blasts. The wounds, for those who survive, result in terrible burns, blindness, amputation and lifelong pain and trauma. No one returns the same from such warfare. And once these weapons are employed all talk of human rights is a farce.

AWAITING A CHRISTMAS FORGOTTEN BEFORE IT CAME DECEMBER 1914 By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In 1914, during the first bleak Christmas in the trenches of Europe,...

It is an oft-cited maxim that in all the conflicts of the past century, the United States has re-fought its last war. A number...

Williams man says cancer developed after Iraq service

Newsweek correspondent Michael Isikoff was jubilant at the outcome, telling MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “Score one for the criminal justice system.”

The vast majority of Americans failed to imagine what the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq would really cost

Politicians Worship in the Devils Playground

Patriotism in a time of war. What does it really mean?

Surprisingly more Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans.