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A poignant editorial on Al Jazeera seems to have more in depth observations than America’s Corporate media.  Mainstream media must follow the money, toe the line for sponsors and political perks that promise ’scoops’.
‘The US military is exhausted”
By Sarah Lazare
The call for over 30,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan is a travesty for the [...]

Posted on January 2nd, 2010 under PTSD, Politics, military. Tags: Al-Jazeera, PTSD, repatriation, US Military, Wounded Warriors. Comments: None

What do Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee have in common?  Policies that come back to bite their ass.  All good intentions aside, any attempt to grant “Second Chance” to convicted felons is ‘Russian Roulette” at best and guaranteed political suicide, always. The touchy feely era is over in this country. Mental [...]

Posted on December 1st, 2009 under crimes, criminal. Tags: Accountability, Maurice Clemmons, mental health, Mike Huckabee, pardons, Wayne DuMond, Willie Horton. Comments: None

If I had to choose between high priced arrogant profiteering insurance corporations and uninspired, underpaid, uninterested bureaucratic medical providers, I would hitchhike to Mexico or Canada.

Posted on June 15th, 2009 under Accountability, American Medical Association, Big Pharma, Congressional Oversight, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Economics of Health, Health Care, Insurance, Medical System, Medicare, Mismanagement, PTSD, Public Health, VA, Veterans Health Administration, War Cost, mental health, negligence, veterans benefits. Tags: AMA, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Economics of Health, Health Care, Medical System, Medicare, Obama, Public Health, US Congress Committee on Oversight. Comments: 7

Presidential Candidates too close to inheriting the economic meltdown caused by deception and disinformation.

Posted on September 30th, 2008 under Afghanistan, Bush, Deception, Dirty Politics, Hypocracy, New World Order, Oil, PNAC, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, Presidential Candidates, War Cost, Washington DC, consequences, conspiracy, disinformation. Tags: Afghanistan, consequences, conspiracy, Deception, Dirty Politics, disinformation, George Bush, Hypocracy, Iraq War, NEW ECONOMY, New World Order, Oil, Pentagon Corruption, PNAC, Politics, Presidential Candidates, War Cost, Washington DC. Comments: 2

It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up.
This week’s round-up is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.
The Texas Cloverleaf asks if John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison want more HIV in the global pandemic? Our TX Senators were 2 of the 16 votes against the [...]

Posted on July 21st, 2008 under TPA, Texas, Texas Blogs, Texas Politics. Tags: TPA. Comments: 1

This photo was taken on March 25, 2003.
Soldier in famous photo never defeated ‘demons’
They found Dwyer lying on his back, his clothes soiled with urine and feces. Scattered on the floor around him were dozens of spent cans of Dust-Off, a refrigerant-based aerosol normally used to clean electrical equipment.
Dwyer told police Lt. Mike Wilson [...]

Posted on July 20th, 2008 under Accountability, Afghanistan, Health Care, Iraq, PTSD, Veterans Health Administration, War, military, veterans, veterans benefits. Tags: Iraq, military, PTSD, VA, veterans. Comments: 6

(The Intelligence Daily) — Top officials at the Veterans Administration tried to conceal information from the public about the sudden increase of attempted suicides among veterans that were treated or sought help at VA hospitals around the country, a previously undisclosed internal VA email indicates.
The email was disclosed Tuesday in a federal trial at a [...]

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 under Deception, Democracy In Action, Evil, Free Speech, PNAC, VA, Veterans United for Truth, Veterans for Common Sense, conspiracy, court, cover up, dictatorship, disinformation, veterans. Comments: 8

Wiki: Deprogramming refers to actions that attempt to force a person to abandon allegiance to a religious or political group. Methods and practices typically involve violent kidnapping and coercion.
Ted Patrick, one of the pioneers of deprogramming, used a confrontational method:

“When you deprogram people, you force them to think…But I keep them off balance and this [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2008 under Bush, Cheney, Children, China, Human Rights, Politics, Religion, Tibet, commercialism, consumerism, cults, deprogramming, psyco-weapons. Comments: 5

Murder Trial Points to War Trauma
A Maryland murder trial is being turned into a debate on the lingering traumatic impact of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on the psyche of the Americans who served there.
Army Ranger veteran Gary Smith is on trial for murdering fellow Ranger Michael McQueen.
Military leaders have acknowledged that the service [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2008 under Army Rangers, Gary Smith, Michael McQueen, PTSD, Public Health, VA, War Cost, veterans, veterans benefits. Comments: None