Veterans Group pushes Congress to help Unemployed Vets

The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America are pressing for Congress to address the staggering rate of unemployment among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. For me, this is another illuminating experience with de-ja-vu (the illusion of having already experienced something, which is actually being experienced for the first time.). Truly, as one of my Montagnard friends told me only a few weeks after I served as Civil Affairs Officer for the 1/10 Cavalry Squadron, told me when I first arrived in Vietnam: "All wars are the same, and the only things which remain are the scars." Fortunately, our new veterans have a good friend in Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont), the chairman of the Finance Committee, who has introduced a jobs bill for new veterans. When I returned from Vietnam, there was no-one who decided to speak for us, and we were outcasts in our own country.
Another useful development is a new Army school to boost 'mental fitness'. When I first arrived in America, with a raging case of PSDT, I bought a .45 caliber army pistol, and I walked the most crime-ridden part of our city, hoping that someone would attack me, so that I could "blow him" -(or her) away. Fortunately, no-one did.

Is America Yearning for Fascism?

Cynthia McKinney, who ran for president on the Green Party ticket, says that we are not ruled by two parties, but by one: "It is the party of money and war, and we have to take our great nation away from those who have hijacked it."
The Democrats are so oblivious to the personal and economic despair sweeping our country that they think offering the unemployed the right to keep their unemployed children on their non -existent health care policies is a step forward.
The longer we appeal to the Democrats, who are merely servants of corporate interests, the more stupid and ineffective we become. Only 25 percent of those polled by a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll believed that "their" government could be trusted to protect the interests of the American people, and they are right.
We are bound to a party that has betrayed every principle we claim to espouse, from universal health care to an end to our government's permanent war economy, to a concern for the jobs of the working class.
Please read the entire article, by the former war correspondent, Chris Hedges, in TruthDig, 30 March 2010!

The Human Consequences of OUR Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!

The consequences of our military adventures are horrendous: Our Veterans Administration now has 508,152 Patients; 243,685 Mental Health Patients, and 143,530 PTSD Patients!
These are the precise statistics, using documents obtained from the Department of Veterans Affairs under the Freedom of Information Act by the Veterans for Common Sense.
Their address is Post Office Box 77304, Washington, DC 20013, phone number (202) 558-4553, with an alternate location at
5434 Burnet Road, Suite B, in Austin, TX 78756, Phone (512) 374-1200

Please visit them on the web!

Why would Israelis Celebrate while Americans were dying?

While Americans were "supposedly" being killed by "evil" Arabs, a Mossad surveillance team made quite a spectacle of themselves: The New York Times reported that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers PRIOR to the attack, and were seen congratulating each other afterwards! Police received several calls from angry New Jersey residents, claiming "middle-eastern" men with a white van were videotaping the disaster with shouts of joy and mockery. Other witnesses saw Israelis jumping for joy in Liberty State Park after the initial impact. It looked as though they knew what was going to happen long before Americans died in the Twin Towers, and the nearby smaller structure. The police and FBI field agents found maps of the city and the same type of box cutters which the same type of box cutters that the hijackers supposedly used, $4700 in cash stuffed into a sock, and foreign passports: With Israelis as "friends", we don't need enemies. Please click on the heading of this post, to get the "Rest of the Story"!

General Petraeus admits that our war in Afghanistan will take years

In a recent Meet the Press interview, General Petraeus admitted that our war in Afghanistan will take years and cost high American casualties. The people of our United States are now evenly divided between those who think we can restore a modicum of stability before getting out, and those who want a rapid exit from that conflict.
Our best option is to keep civilian casualties low, while cautiously inserting our troops ever deeper into Pashtun territory.

Beyond Orwell: The Electronic Police State, 2010

Once upon a time, the masters of declining empires had only a limited array of tools to snoop on their unsatisfied masses. The top ten nations were of two types: Those who had the will to spy on every citizen, but lacked the ability, and those who had the ability, but lacked the will. Thanks to modern technology, that is no longer the case: The able have become willing, and these traditional restraints have been overcome.
The USA has negated our Constitution's fourth amendment in the name of "wars against terror, drugs and cyber attacks. At this time, so-called "Western democracies" are not far behind "beacons of freedom" such as China, North Korea, Belarus and Russia when it comes to repressive police measures. Now, our United States is a mere 2/100th of a point behind Russia, when it comes to Internet and other forms of electronic spying.
The worst offenders of their citizens' liberties are now, in that order: North Korea, China, Belarus, Russia, "our" United States, United Kingdom, France, Israel, Singapore, and Germany.

Our US Government Kills Two Pregnant Mothers and a Teenage Girl

Our "modern" US Army often reverts to the ancient days of barbarism in order to accomplish its ordered missions: On February 12, US and Afghan Army forces launched a pre-dawn assault on the home of a prominent and popular policeman's home just outside Gardez, the capital of Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan. First, they killed the policeman, who had been standing in his doorway, protesting the innocence of his family. In the volley of fire directed against him, his pregnant wife, another pregnant woman and an 18-year old girl were also slaughtered. The families had been holding a party to celebrate the naming of a newborn baby boy. Sitting together along the walls of the guest room, the men had been taking turns dancing their traditional songs while the assembled musicians played. The group's singer said that at sometime after 3AM, one of the musicians went outside to go to the toilet. At that moment someone shone a light on his face, and the despicable murder of the assembled party began. Also killed was Saranwal Zahir, Dawood's brother, and the local prosecuter, who had been shouting for the soldiers not to shoot, as the women ran outside to tend to the wounded. Do you suppose that this village will ever support our war in Afghanistan! Please click on the headline, to read the rest of that story!