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All of America's children should share the risk of being placed in harm's way. The reason is that so few families have a stake in the war which is being fought by other people's children," Rangel said in March 2011.

The Republicans started a fire and then threw gasoline on it, creating an inferno that could burn up the US social safety net or the US Treasury’s credit rating and the US dollar’s role as reserve currency or what remains of the separation of powers.

If the United States attempted to “conquer” by love rather than force of arms, it might be respected, not reviled, globally.

You may have received an email recently from someone who is trying to start a petition to get members of Congress to pay into Social Security like other Americans.

Getting a military/veterans appropriations bill through the legislative process

Rupert Murdoch issued an apology the day after two of his senior executives resigned over a phone hacking scandal that has engulfed his media empire. Besides amassing a media empire, Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly been accused of using his media holdings to advance his political agenda.

Having seen Congress’ love fest for Bibi and the humiliation of President Obama, does anyone think writing to your Congressman is going to accomplish anything?

Renee Fleming is scheduled to perform Jerusalem on 28 July to sing a concert of ‘duets and arias’ accompanied by ‘Israel’s flagship’ the Israel Philharmonic, which is to be broadcast to 480 cinemas across America under the title ‘Live from Jerusalem’.

This citizen of conscience for U.S. House of Representatives 2012 asserts that America’s ugly side is rooted in failures of intelligence, heretical Christianity and a lack of true patriotism, for "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official." -Theodore Roosevelt

What Netanyahu actually did was drag it out of his pants and hose them down. Why did he do it? The answer is simple, because he could? Was it wrong? Caligula put his horse in the Roman senate. American's never get the whole horse, just the horse's ass

The US Conference of Mayors just passed an historic resolution urging Congress and the President to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so that the trillions of dollars currently squandered on illegal wars can be poured back into our communities and used for funding our enormous unmet human needs here at home.

The United States Conference of Mayors, representing 1,200 cities with populations over 30,000, voted in their June 20 plenary session to call on the federal government to end America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and redirect that military spending to home land priorities.

Only when the veterans and active military learn to vote as a "block" will we learn to fight as fervently as we did to defend the nation.

The attack on the USS Liberty remains the only incident of damage to a major US ship since the sinking of the USS MAINE in Havana Harbour that has not been investigated by the US Congress.

“I intend to speak the unvarnished truth because now more than ever what we need is peace” Netanyahu said before he twisted the truth in his speech to the American Congress.

Some members of Congress who applauded Netanyahu in a scene that reminded me of the enthusiasm for Hitler at Nazi rallies accused Obama of betraying Israel.

How many times must a parent bury a child? I had the opportunity to visit the residence of the Qaddafi family, bombed to smithereens by NATO. For a leader, the house seemed small in comparison, say, to the former Clinton family home in Chappaqua or the Obama family home.

The answer to AIPAC is not another J-Street lobby attempting to buy the very few remaining unaffiliated American politicians.

The ‘hands off international politics’ should be immediate Jewish call to their relentless lobbies but that's not going to happen.

Netanyahu addressed US Congress today in a love fest. Netanyahu made it clear to any independently thinking person that Obama was playing the world for a fool with his speech last Thursday implying Israel would have to go back to its 1967 borders.

Dazed and confused, most Americans are unaware that their arch enemy is wearing a blue and brown suit sitting in the next room with a media gun pointed directly to their head while being fed intravenously some awful liquid that looks like extreme dirty propraganda.

How do Gulf War illness, Chronic Fatigue, Health of veterans, 911 Rescuers Health all connect? Lack of Leadership from US Legislators

STRAIGHT "DOPE" ON HOW POLITICS REALLY WORKS IN AMERICA By Jim Condit Jr., Candidate for US Congress, 8th District Ohio (My congressional campaign at www.TheRestOfTheStory2010.com...

ED Note: An interesting little parable.  Perhaps not earth-shaking, but an exciting allusion to Great Literature, and certainly apropos to the circumstances of the...

Is it possible to break the censorship NOW around the attack on the USS Liberty in 1968, and its implications today? Yes. Utilizing the little known Reasonable Access Law, I, as a congressional candidate, have been airing radio ads over major talk show stations in the Midwest since October 8th, 2010.

SURVIVING VETERAN'S HEALTH CARE By Dale R. Suiter STAFF WRITER Many of us experience frustration in trying to contact and cope with the Veterans Administration. Helpfull...

CONGRESS PLANS "STEALTH ATTACK" ON VETERANS BENEFITS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor A week ago, we marched out of Iraq, leaving 50,000 "administrative" troops and...

Aristotle, in his Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics sees virtue as an admirable character trait that is the mean between the vices of deficiency...

Exclusive Interview with North Texas Ill Gulf War Veteran, Mike Hood PT1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIXnOtnUFU PT2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7iJYA_T9Vk PT3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9_rwLLF9VQ PT4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdKQyxeNZJ8 PT5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRivvuDFm24 This is a first for this staff writer to do video interviewing for VT. It...

 July 27th hearing of the US House Veterans Affairs Committee- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation  can be seen and all testimony read at following...

MARCY KAPTUR FUMBLES VET FUNDRAISER By Nick Haupricht for VT Six months ago, I was approached by Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur (Dem) to organize a veterans monument...

Then in 1929 Herbert Hoover came to power. During his administration the stock market crashed, starting the great depression. In spite of the fact that by 1933 the unemployment rate was at 33.3% with 16 million people out of work, the Republican, Hoover, just sat, thinking that the economy would eventually rejuvenate itself. During Hoover's administration 15,000 WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding that they be paid what they were owed by the government. Hoover responded by calling in federal troops to throw these ex-servicemen off government property.

Update: For more information, see White House blog knocking down Wall Street Talking Points and Norm Scheiber's  Head Lock: The inside story of how Goldman and...

DOING NOTHING AT ALL WOULD BE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT ALLOWING VETERANS TO DIE QUIETLY, BETTER THAN THE ABUSE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor America has been at...

FROM OUT OF RETIREMENT, THE MAN WHO MADE "FREEDOM" A 4 LETTER WORD FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE "DUBYA" BUSH ON CONGRESSMAN ALAN GRAYSON By Gordon Duff Senior...

The veterans of the Gulf War 1990-91 have mighty support from scientific breakthroughs that have occurred with the backing of Ross Perot that started in the early years after they returned from the Gulf War in 1991. Mr Perot met with a group of Navy Seebees in the early 90's that had returned sick and faced strong opposition from the government that was suppose to support their veterans.

Juan Cole at Informed Comment offers some excellent advice for climate scientists under attack from corrupt corporate and media sources. Al Gore writes that ignoring climate change won't make it go away nor will continuing to dump 90 million tons of pollutants into the atmosphere daily at the New York Times. A 110-year-old Chicago woman reflects on Jim Crow and the civil rights movemnt in the Chicago Sun Times. Those stories and more in today's picks.

When Al Franken ran for the Senate, people questioned his credentials, but good grief, people, comedy is hard work compared to harrumphing. It takes brains and elegance and courage to make people laugh. A comedian who joins the Senate has taken a step down on the social scale and everybody knows it.

The Fundraising Congress What vets need from the prez How to Get Our Democracy Back The death penalty -- it's unworkable To win Afghan war, isolate the...

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.”

TIME WE TOOK STOCK IN WHAT IS REAL AND ISN'T TIME TO GET MAD AT THE RIGHT PEOPLE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I belong to...