Imagine, for a moment, if Pentagon officials, supposedly toiling in our name, actually condescended to ask us for our thoughts. What do we think about global military strategy, garrisoning the planet, the ways in which our forces are structured, and how, where, and for what they should be deployed abroad? Sound crazy? Here in the U.S.A. [...]
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(Xinhua) Updated: 2010-03-12 16:52 BEIJING – China’s Information Office of the State Council published a report titled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009” here Friday. Following is the full text: The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing [...]
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NThzeYgFypU[/youtube] Terrorists. They’re trying to kill Americans at home and our troops abroad. And who’s footing the bill for the attacks against us? Oil money. Filtered through secret organizations in the Middle East and countries like Iran. When oil money hands up in the hands of our enemies, Americans pay the ultimate price. We’ve got [...]
ProPublica has interviewed or obtained complaints from 85 current and former air marshals in nearly every one of the agency’s 21 field offices over the past year and half. They all told similar stories of being treated unfairly in promotions, assignments or discipline by supervisors who target those who speak up or don’t fit a [...]
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprKcEnsNuk[/youtube] First Lady Michelle Obama invites women serving in the military to tea at the White House and recognizes their accomplishments as well as the inspiration they provide to women of all ages. November 18, 2009. – (Public Domain) - Read the First Lady’s remarks at the tea.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7IY1wQDkWU[/youtube] They kill to protect the unborn but support the corporations’ right to sentence thousands to die needlessly because of no health care. They scream ‘keep the government out of our lives’ but insist the government tell women what they can or cannot do with their bodies, and want me to be thrown in prison [...]
Despite the passage of four decades, America and its military have never come to grips with its own ghastly programs of using soldiers as guinea pigs to test chemical or biological weapons such as LSD, sarin, nerve gases, plague, mescaline, anthrax and hundreds of others. At the same time, they also conducted mind-control experiments, as [...]
Three-plus decades ago, parents were exempt from conscription because of overwhelming concern about the harmful effects of deployment on children. Today, roughly half of the troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan are parents, many of whom have served multiple tours. Repeat deployments stress soldiers and escalate the likelihood of psychological injuries that can [...]
“The thing that I find so ironic about the whole health- care reform debate is that most of the tactics and strategies that are being talked about as far as how to change the system, all of those things have been in play at the VA for over a decade,” said Kizer, 58. Doctors who [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
I’ve been penniless for two months now. My divorce hearing is one week from today (my soon-to-be ex threatened to shoot me in the head, so I got a PPO against him). The VA cut off my disability compensation in August because the Social Security Administration somehow told them I’d gotten divorced in 1999 (I [...]
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