Tag: Politics

If we just see the figures of Frontier Constabulary (FC) alone in 2005 Pakistan suffered 32 deaths and only one injured was reported.

COLA versus the Congressional Super Committee and class warfare

Will the current generation be the next "Greatest Generation"?

Agent Orange-The dirty secret of the US Government

There's never a shortage to write about when dealing with military, veterans, and government. They need the dirty underwear aired.

America at its best

Open letter to the President telling it the way it is on Main St. USA

Bring the Army home and close the friggin' borders totally, "shoot to kill" totally. Freeze all assets held by Federal Reserve banks. If any (almost all) those banks are found to be foreign owned, declare all relationships with them to be inconsistent with our constitution. America will no longer pay banks, particularly foreign owned, to profit on our debt, sell us our own money and do so in direct violation of our laws.

Sad state of affairs in US politics

On May, 6, 2011, embattled Jazz musician and philosopher Gilad Atzmon gave a talk at Columbia College Chicago about his intellectual and musical journey of liberation from identity supremacy and the shame of living in an oppressor state.

April 9, 2011 -- Few people have heard of the Battle of Baghdad, which ended eight years ago today, let alone its cover-up. They might remember Iraq's information minister, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, warning of a surprise awaiting invading U.S. troops if they attacked Saddam International Airport. Later, al-Sahhaf claimed that the Iraqi Republican Guard had slaughtered U.S. troops, and was in control of the entire facility. His claims were mostly true, but were effectively countered by a U.S. military-media campaign of evasions and distortions that switched the subject from the airport action to Private Jessica Lynch, while ridiculing al-Sahhaf as Baghdad Bob.

“There is definitely a fear among certain Jews in this industry…And it’s because it’s spreading past Wall Street now.

Wonder if Senator McCain or Senator Kerry hang around VA waiting Rooms? Or even visit them? (I know – dumb questions.) Interesting events play out in VA waiting rooms. The waiting room includes two functions for Vets. It is an end point and a way-point for our Nation’s Vets. The good senators are musically inclined guys. As of March 8, 2011 both of them are beating war drums, blowing bugles for assembly and preparing to signal CHARGE! * Get a guy with a flute and the good senators can form their own fife and drum corp.

by Gilad Atzmon After  killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the name of democracy, the  White House has now decided that ‘stability in the...

For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103, known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 miles from my house, in Fairfax County, Virginia.

U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-2nd, has been selected by his colleagues on the full House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs as the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. This means he will serve as the highest-ranking Democrat on the subcommittee and work with the Subcommittee Chairman, U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio, to oversee and investigate matters pertaining to American veterans, according to a statement released by Donnelly’s office on Thursday.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking. When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt.

From: USAF Academy Staff Officer's E-mail Address Withheld Date: January 21, 2011 12:44:00 PM MST To: Mikey Weinstein Subject: Air Force Academy: "Lies, Lies and More Lies" Mr....

Don't retreat: Reload. How does spewing hate and division play in American society? By dekerivers: From a young man on You Tube……the BEST thing I have...

Update: From dekerivers Jesse Kelly, a wholesome anti-abortion tea-partying right-wing Christian whack job, Giffords’ Republican opponent in the last election, had scheduled some kind of never-say-die...

Psychologist Dr. Johanna (Hans) Buwalda is a therapist providing Mental Health advise and assistance as one of Vietnam Veterans Against the War's Military Counselors. This presentation covers several suggestions that could make VA Mental Health accessible to more Veterans of all wars, IF the VA would stop using these these eight words, “this is not a place to talk politics” the hidden intent is to suppress dissenting views on WAR!

IS "ANTI-HATE" THE WORST KIND OF HATE? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor "Hate" is a commodity, I can even go further, it's an element, like...

THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE HIVE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor "The age of openness and freedom we were promised is a lie, we live in...

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...

The mid term elections of 2010 have been memorable for sheer goofiness as well as for the corporate funded blanket of ugly, false and misleading advertising that has been lowered over the public airwaves. With the addition of a mountainous heap of money provided by greedy plutocrats, election cycles have become national holidays from reason and sanity that fall between their mates, Halloween and Thanksgiving.

U.S. Supreme Court Decision and the Corporate State: John H. Humins STAFF WRITER 34In December 2000, the Florida presidential election was in chaos. We remember the...

- For the 2008 presidential campaign—that flourished on the unprecedented use of new media and fresh engagement with the political system by citizens in their earnest hope for...

Today a true American is being put to rest beside his loving childhood love, his wife. Having met Senator Byrd, in my work on...

By Henry Blodget at Tech Ticker: For the last several months, Princeton professor Paul Krugman has become increasingly agitated about what he feels is a...

From the Baseline Scenario: By James Kwak Robert Reich discusses a theme that I think I’ve discussed before (and first heard expressed by Ezra Klein): “The most...

by Peter Gorenstein in TechTicker: Even a cynic can find Washington's hypocrisy shocking at times. The Wall Street Journal reports a House bill that...

A Gallery of Misspelled, Illogical and Moronic Protest Signs - More at Tea Party Signs From Political Humor

It is spring glorious spring (da do ron ron ron da do ron ron) and our gallant president has rallied his fractious forces against wacko demagoguery, the crocuses are up, and birds are returning from the South, preferring to [WhiteHouseTulipsSalon] raise their children here in Minnesota where we pull our pants on one leg at a time and not all at once. Some people in Washington haven't managed to get their pants on in years.

The List is in on who signed on to House side to support Gulf War illness Research for DOD CDMRP funding for Gulf War...

Part 1 In case you missed it, here is the IOM report, as reported by the federal registry(below), on the update to their study on...

Two articles today, an OpEd in the New York Times and a column at Truthdig by E.J. Dionne highlight the ongoing struggle over how...

Only in America is a legislative body voting on a majority-rules basis considered nuclear, something  drastic and unholy. Specifically, the U.S. Senate's commitment to obstruction protected by the...

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.

Sean Hannity seems to think that the "world" is limited to the eastern US. in Texas if you report a doctor for malpractice you may go down on a felony rap. Canada seems to have become infected with the paranoia of its southern neighbor, and from Inquisition headquarters: The "Christian Manifesto" brands liberals as Nazis. These stories and more in today's picks.

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, I DON'T CARE AMERICA'S GOVERNMENT LIVES UNDER A CLOUD OF FEAR By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor A couple of weeks ago,...

NO MORE CORPORATE RUN "MILITIA" GROUPS NO MORE CONTROLLED PRESS AND "POLITICS AS USUAL" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I am sick and tired of what...

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.”