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Military Rape: (SOP) Standard Operating Procedure

Do women join the military to be raped?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have written about this before for Salem-news.com. The most recent article to come to my attention is The Christian Science Monitor: Military’s Unseen Foe: Sexual Assault.

I won’t repeat the raunchy statement by Old Blood and Guts General Patton, which is too crude and gross to repeat here, about what a fighting soldier should be.

US Government is Behind the Baluchi Insurrection

When Islamabad accused foreign governments of fueling and arming the unrest in Baluchistan, they were absolutely correct.

(ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON) - The corporate-financier funded NGOs that fomented the “Arab Spring” are now cultivating a united Baluchi front ahead of a proposed US-funded Baluchistan insurrection.

As early as 2006, Baluchistan province has been viewed as a potential point of leverage against Islamabad and an opportunity to assert foreign intervention.

My Country `tis of WE

New rhetorical-lyrics to 'My Country 'tis of Thee'.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Inspired by Abolitionist Lyrics 1843 A. G. Duncan Jarius Lincoln, Antislavery Melodies: for The Friends of Freedom.

Prepared for The Hingham Antislavery Society. Some of the old anti-slavery verses can be heard in the Arizona State University recording of the Antislavery Ensemble.

Battle Hymn of America`s Zionists

We are disgusted by the outpouring of funds for war that could and should be used for so many other things.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Sing-along-karaoke-satire; it is a lighthearted way of examining very serious subjects that haunt Americans of conscience increasingly.

It is a paradox, living in a nation that crushes and destroys human life for the sake of business interests, yet considers itself the finest and very above the fray.

VCS / VUFT Lawsuit: What is Long-Term Meaning of Victory for Our Veterans?

If any of our readers are veterans with their own ideas on how to fix the agency, we welcome hearing from them.

(AUSTIN, Tx. Austin American-Statesma) - It’s no secret that veterans face long, and sometimes interminable, delays in getting health care and disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

But this week, a federal appeals court took the extraordinary step of ruling that the VA is violating the constitutional rights of veterans when it forces them to wait weeks for critical mental health care and years for disability benefits.

VCS Statement: A Vital Constitutional Victory for Our Veterans

The lengthy bureaucratic delays our veterans face must end now.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled VA's mental health care system and disability claims system remain badly broken, and veterans face long delays to see doctors and obtain benefits.

The Court of Appeals ordered VA to fix what it descrbed "egregious problems." VCS believes now is the time for our President, VA Secretary, and Congress to fix VA.

Military Veterans Face Filmmaking Challenge

A Navy reservist wrote the short film “Last Call at Mac’s” about the range of emotions facing a group of Marines on their last night before a combat deployment.

(LOS ANGELES) - Military Veterans Face Filmmaking Challenge Los Angeles - May 10, 2011 – A short film about service members and their families filmed by veterans’ overcomes real life challenges to get their stories told.

"The theme of the film is ‘what’s worth fighting for’”, said Michael Hjelmstad, Producer and Marine Corps Veteran.

Ninth Circuit Court Says VA, Congress and President Seriously Screwed Up

Court decision will radically change VA's approach to Veteran's health treatment.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Never in my life have I read words so supportive of veterans. It is sad and a case of horrible negligence and oversight, but for once, someone is putting their foot down, and that 'someone' is the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth Inc., brought the matter forward, representing their members and a class of all veterans similarly situated.

Resurrecting Insurrection

It’s become clear that we live in a reactionary era.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Endless war… endless despair. The USA finally elects a leader who pledges to bring peace, and he morphs before our incredulous eyes into a war president.

Fortress America continues to expand globally as prison, sweatshop, and fire base. After all our years as activists trying to change this country, how could it have sunk to this?

Is Pakistan Being Cast as the Next Plausible Evil Doer?

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

(TEMPE, Az.) - Conspiracy theorists assure us that Osama bin Laden was killed in December 2001 and his body put on ice in—of course—an undisclosed location. If the recent killing of bin Laden was a lie, who were the liars?