It's way past Time the Country does what they should have Years Ago, Way Past!!

 

With new 'AO' rule out, VA readies spigot of payments

 

3 September 2010 - The Department of Veterans Affairs published its final regulation Aug. 31 for compensating Vietnam veterans with ischemic heart disease, Parkinson’s disease or B-cell leukemia, or their surviving spouses.

Veterans diagnosed with these diseases only will have to show they stepped foot in Vietnam sometime from Jan. 9, 1962 through May 7, 1975, to qualify for service-connected disability ratings and compensation.

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Robert Jensen interviewed by Alex Doherty, New Left Project
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/a_world_in...

Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege; and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, among other works. He spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty about the threat of environmental catastrophe.

Alex Doherty: You have written that: "To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse." Even amongst environmentalists it is rare to describe our situation in such apocalyptic terms. Why do you think it is justified to describe the world as collapsing?

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The Tillman Story

 

Debunking the myth-making of the U.S. military

 

September 3, 2010 - In an otherwise slack season at the movies, "The Tillman Story" emerges as the summer's first true must-see film, required viewing for everyone, but especially audiences in Washington. Because even though Pat Tillman's personal story began in California, took him to Arizona and tragically ended in Afghanistan in 2004, the Tillman story writ large has everything to do with this city, its obsession with power and perceptions. {read more}

 

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Dirty Jews and Ragheads:
If Modern America Resembles Weimar, the Tea Party Resembles...

By Betsy Rossinsky

I learned I was Jewish the hard way. Soon after my mother died, her ex-husband (my father) took me away to live with him. I was seven.

“You killed Christ,” a pretty little girl named Peggy told me as a matter of fact on my first day at the new school. Apparently, Peggy’s mother didn’t like the sound of my name when she heard I was joining the second grade class. (She had called our housekeeper to verify her suspicion.)

“I didn’t kill Christ. The Jews killed Christ,” I replied, sure in my knowledge. My mother was an Episcopalian, who had sent me to Sunday School at the small church right across our street.

“Well, you’re Jewish,” Peggy retorted and marched away to join her friends.

That night I asked my father, “Am I Jewish?”

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While this points to blair the taking of responsibility the World waits to come from here, the United States, and the Accountability must come from the people of both, as the World watches and waits, but especially in the Destroyed Iraq!

 

Blair should take responsibility for Iraq. But he won't. He can't

This is not a debate, it's a bloody, blood-soaked disaster for which the former PM should take responsibility

 

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Reflections on Jack Kennedy - by Stephen Lendman

Though much about his background and public service warrants criticism, he also deserves praise rarely given properly, this article offering some and the writer's personal reflections on his commencement address to my June 14, 1956 graduating class, a message not heard now by US leaders - erudite, incisive and timely. More on it below.

Some Background

Had an assassin not taken his life, his health surely would have, some around him saying "from a medical standpoint, (he) was a mess." Indeed so, having been hospitalized more than three dozen times in his life and given last rites on three occasions.

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From the New Economics Institute:

In its report "The Great Transition" our London partners the New Economics Foundation (neweconomics.org) sketch an outline of how to reach what E. F. Schumacher would have called an "economy of permanence."

The sections of the report include: The Great Revaluing, the Great Redistribution, the Great Rebalancing, the Great Localization, the Great Reskilling, the Great Economic Irrigation, and the Great Interdependence. We wi ll focus on each element separately in future eNewsletters.

"In the Great Revaluing, we make the case that building social and environmental value should be the central goal of policy-making. We also argue that this needs to be true for private as well as for public decision-making, with market prices reflecting real social and environmental

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By Teen4Peace

It was mostly dark on Friday night, on the corner of Shattuck & Allston in downtown Berkeley. The only light other than the streetlights, passing-by automobiles, and peoples' electronic companions (which they were buried in to escape the harsh realities of this cruel world), came from a video- being projected onto the side of the old Ross building.

Sign this petition for Gregory Koger, scheduled to be sentenced on September 8th.

After 9 months of vengeful and unrelenting pursuit of a conviction by the Cook County (Illinois) State’s Attorney and the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago (EHSC), videographer Gregory Koger was found guilty on August 26th of trespass, resisting a police officer, and battery for the “crime” of videotaping a brief but newsworthy statement by Sunsara Taylor at the EHSC.

 By Harvey Wasserman 

 By Andy Worthington

By Chris Floyd

On Tuesday night, Barack Obama gave a speech from the Oval Office on Iraq that was almost as full of hideous, murderous lies as the speech on Iraq his predecessor gave in the same location more than seven years ago.

After mendaciously declaring an "end to the combat mission in Iraq" -- where almost 50,000 regular troops and a similar number of mercenaries still remain, carrying out the same missions they have been doing for years -- Obama delivered what was perhaps the most egregious, bitterly painful lie of the night:

Behind the Scenes Look at Resistance Against Deployment of 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to Iraq

Iraq vet: "I'm here because I think I can give some hope to these soldiers, especially if they want to resist... You don't have to go and murder people if you don't want to. You can stand up. These feelings and these doubts that you're having, they are legitimate feelings. And don't ever let those feelings go away. Because that's when you lose your humanity. Hopefully we can change some minds today."

Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373

Press release from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights

Obama is scheduled to speak tomorrow night announcing the "end" of the war in Iraq, only one week after thousands of troops deployed from Ft. Hood to Iraq to continue the occupation. Re-branding war and empire is not change; but the story doesn't end there...

By Scott Trent

A friend posted an article today about the "Eight things Obama has done to make the world a more peaceful place." Check out that article here.
 
It turns out that the article is a year old, and even less true today than it was then. I took the liberty of responding to all eight of the points. As much as we might want these things to be true, there is actually nothing true on that list. It's all deceptive PR from the Obama government intended to silence and placate the people who criticized the Bush regime for these same practices.

Türkiye'deki Amerikalılar sıkı takip! Turkish Journal online News FBI'da tercüman olarak çalıştıktan sonra kurumdan ayrılan Sibel Edmonds geçtiğimiz yıllarda Amerikan medyasına Türk istihbaratının Washington'daki ...

9/11: State of Emergency - Win The War on Terror By Ending The "Strategy of ... OpEdNews Robert Bowman, Sibel Edmonds, Ray McGovern, David MacMichael, Dan Hamburg, Coleen Rowley, Col. Ann Wright, everybody in Veteran Intelligence Professionals ... and more »

WikiLeaks manipulé par la CIA, selon les partisans de ReOpen911 Rue89 ... avaient découvert (le premier exemple qui me vient étant bien sûr Sibel Edmonds) contrecarrant la vérité officielle et appellant une investigation. ... and more »

Nouvelles d'Arménie

Sassounian : Des Sénateurs bloquent la nomination des Ambassadeurs en ... Nouvelles d'Arménie Il faut rappeler l'action courageuse de Sibel Edmonds dans ce sens. La nomination de John Kerry à la présidence de la commission du Sénat a sûrement ...

By me, any huckster who aims to hide his sinister intentions in a cloak of religion is one of the lowest of sinners, a knowingly false prophet. In some religions you get stoned for it, or in Rush Limbaugh's case, really, really vicodin-ed out.

With yet another 9/11 anniversary approaching it is appropriate to objectively examine the state of the 9/11 truth movement. All is not well.

Without strong protection for Whistleblowers, the US government is hamstrung. Not only in our prevention and response to emergencies, but more often in accountability afterwards. Why were over 60 attempts to report an alleged 9/11 hijacker ignored? And why were these reports buried right after the attacks? Read about pending legislation and the 2010 National Whistleblowers Conference kicking off tomorrow in DC.

Report of Peter Dale Scott's presentation at the conference, "Deep Politics" in Santa Cruz this weekend. Dr Scott pulls together hints that Cold War era plans for "Continuity of Government" have been re-worked to create an pretense for extra-constitutional government.

You would think that with 100 million Americans rejecting or questioning the official government story we would see more media investigations and calls for a new government investigation. But no, despite a large 9/11 truth movement, reconstructing our mental condition lags as much as rebuilding ground zero in Manhattan.

Most Americans don't know what kind of people 9/11 truthers really are. So they can't figure out whether or not they are dangerous. Below is a list of people who question what our Government has said about 9/11.The list proves - once and for all - that people who question 9/11 are dangerous. Email this list to everyone you know, to prove to them that 9/11 truthers are all dangerous nut cases.

On THAT DAY we call 9/11, THE MEDIA assumed the role of secretaries taking down dictation from Big Brother who manipulated we the people with FEAR of the other. Corporate controlled media failed US miserably by not asking WHY did a few [and back then it was just a few] people in the world hate US so much that they could target and murder innocent people?

I attended and taught at Texas A&M around the time that 9-11 occurred. Before and after that time, I was continually harassed and chased after by certain students and faculty who might certainly have had direct CIA ties or financial support. (Former CIA Director and present Defense Minister taught in the same building I was enrolled in for my studies at Texas A&M.)I wonder if I shouldn't have ordered that FORTUNATE SON book

Who stands to gain from forcing the administration to try the 9/11 suspects in a military tribunal, where standards of evidence are lower? A vigorous defense in civilian court would put the true conspirators to shame, as the Moussoui trial showed.

Cass Sunstein is Pres Obama's appointed head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Cass Sunstein also authored an article two years ago which advocated covert government infiltration of the 9/11 Truth movement in order to sow confusion and distrust within the movement. We may assume that this has already been happening, accounting for some of the confusion, in-fighting and wilder ideas that plague 9/11 Truth.

This is the seventh and final interview conducted via e-mail with Scott Fentermaker. In our previous interview, Mr. Fenstermaker called for an international investigation of our legal policy towards terrorist suspects. He also revealed a "demographic consistency" among the attorneys and judges trying cases related to the the war on terror.

This is the sixth in a series of interviews with Scott Fesntermaker, the lawyer for several Quantanamo Bay detainees. In our previous interview, Mr. Fenstermaker revealed that the CIA was manipulating the defense attorneys representing the detainees. He also told us that the CIA had used the legal proceedings to enter a motion that will keep their secret prisons operating, despite a Presidential order to the contrary.

Review: The Ground Truth by John Farmer In recent public opinion surveys, roughly half the country believes the official account of what occurred on 9/11/2001 to be substantially true, and half is skeptical. Apparently John Farmer, the man who penned the official 9-11 Commission Report in 2003, is in the latter group.

NYC CAN, an organization that led a signature drive to let New Yorkers choose whether to reinvestigate 9-11, has decided against mounting another attempt after a Judge ruled against their effort. The organization will instead emphasize a public relations outreach.

Conspiracy theory is something the TV channel Russia Today (RT) is providing more and more often, not just for 9-11. On just about any American topic in the news, RT pops up with a conspiracy theory. One with American Power always as the central conspirator.

On Tuesday evening — the day before Colonel Muammar Gaddafi marked the 41st anniversary of the coup that brought him to power — 37 political prisoners were released from the notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, site of a brutal massacre of prisoners in 1996, when up to 1,200 men were murdered. Although the release of [...]

I hesitate to do anything that might create the impression that Guantánamo is a humane, well-functioning prison, because it is, of course, an experimental project in detention without charge or trial, in which the men held have no idea of when, if ever they will be released. In this particular respect, it is unlike any [...]

OK, I admit that the heading is more accurate in relation to Tony Blair’s sniping at Gordon Brown in his recently released memoir than it is to the issues that really concern us here — Iraq, Guantánamo, and the “War on Terror” — but I couldn’t resist using it. So what are Blair’s revelations about his [...]

After a summer hiatus, the first in a series of autumn screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary film directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, takes place at 11 am on Sunday September 12 at the Renoir Cinema in the Brunswick Centre, London WC1 (nearest tube Russell Square, and see a [...]

Surprise is the last thing that anyone ought to feel on hearing the news that the Obama administration “has shelved the planned prosecution,” in a trial by Military Commission, “of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen,” as the Washington Post reported on Thursday, [...]

As combat operations officially end in Iraq, nearly seven and a half years after the Bush administration’s illegal invasion, it is difficult to know how to summarize succinctly the tragic cost of the enterprise. I retain nothing but disdain — and a desire for accountability — for those who initiated this criminal, and criminally ill-conceived [...]

Last November, I was delighted to meet Peter Jan Honigsberg, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and the author of Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror, when he enthusiastically agreed to show the Guantánamo documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) [...]

I don’t want to spend much time discussing the opposition to the building of the Park51 Project, a $100 million mosque and cultural center two blocks from the site of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, as such a response to an assault on the First Amendment to the US Constitution [...]

Every now and then, when the authorities at Guantánamo want to demonstrate how well catered for the prisoners are, a story emerges that purports to demonstrate how well-stocked the prison library is, and how the prisoners are enjoying a range of titles, including J.K. Rowling’s best-selling series of Harry Potter novels. The first time I recall [...]

The following interview with Faraj Hassan Alsaadi was conducted by Cageprisoners and published in August 2007, and I’m cross-posting it in memory of Faraj, who died in a motorbike accident on August 16. Imprisoned without charge or trial, or held under a control order, from May 2002 until December 2009, when his control order was [...]