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Church v. Military Funerals, U.S. Supreme Court Rules 8-1

This week the Daily's Show's Jon Stewart took the Westboro Baptist Church to task, comparing their religious position's actual position as a church with 'Church's Chicken'.

(CLEVELAND) - Last week a Veteran wrote to Salem-News.com deploring the acts of these people who offend everyone from the most patriotic redneck, to the gay militant, equally.

This week the Daily's Show's Jon Stewart took the Westboro Baptist Church to task; comparing their religious position as a church with 'Church's Chicken'.

Military Ethics: `Do the Right Thing`

The veteran who seeks medical care and disability compensation when there’s a delay in the onset of injuries is often met with open hostility by the DOD, the VA, and his own medical care providers.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - The Navy and Marine Corps are faced with the choice of ‘doing the right thing’ by supporting legislation to provide medical care and compensation to those injured from exposure to environmental hazards while on active duty.

If not the Corps will face the backlash of a public outcry for not doing so, including lawsuits from dependents and civilian workers that could run into the billions of dollars.

A Veteran in America: Trying to Find the Way Home

Despite centuries of war, there is no successful strategy that helps veterans re-integrate into a comfortably ignorant, binary world.

(ALAMEDA, Calif.) - Jason Moon's mother tells him that as a young child he loved writing songs and that during long car trips he'd share his songs with her. Today, he's writing songs again. But for more than five years following his return from a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, he could barely write a line.

Moon deployed to Talil Airbase in 2003. 5 years later he was ready to testify at the four-day long Winter Soldier hearings held in in Silver Spring, Maryland.

A Viable Solution for the Afghan Problem

The people of Afghanistan are experienced enough and willing to choose a government that suits them best and elect the leaders who can serve them best.

(SEATTLE) - The success of scientific methodology is due primarily to its objectivity. In politics, unfortunately, there is little objectivity and a lot of emotion that makes visibility of reality on-the-ground very difficult.

The unprecedented terrorist act of 9/11 by al-Qaeda, Fascist Islamic Fundamentalists under the auspices of the Taliban, against the United States, miscalculated the Western response.

A Curveball Hits Home: Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi`s Dirty Secret, WMD and Iraq

Defector admits to lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction that triggered the Iraq war.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Iraqi defector who caused the White House to believe that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme, has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story.

Reporters with the Guardian revealed how Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials, never expected the resulting war on Iraq...

RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War

Candid thoughts from Salem-News.com writer William Hathaway about his new book, and his life as a combat veteran turned peace activist.

(SALEM, Ore.) - We can reduce the stress humanity suffers under. We can create a society that meets human needs and distributes the world's resources more evenly.

We can live at peace with one another. But that's going to take basic changes. And I hope RADICAL PEACE points the way to some of those.

Cong. Ron Paul: Classified Cable Proves US Ok`d Saddam`s Kuwait Invasion

HOW THE 20-YEAR WAR STARTED: FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD...

(CINCINNATI) - Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, how did the 20-year war get started?

It had been long assumed that the United States Government, shortly before Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990, gave Saddam Hussein a green light to attack. A State Department cable recently published by WikiLeaks confirmed that U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie did indeed have a conversation with Saddam Hussein one week prior to Iraq’s August 1, 1990, invasion of Kuwait.

To Those Who Call Carlos Latuff an Anti-Semite...

I can't say enough great things about the spirit of any human being like Carlos Latuff.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Carlos Latuff is not an anti-Semite, and there is no relationship between criticizing violence and hating someone over their religion.

This is the latest effort of the UK's pro-Zionist lobby. They have attacked Carlos through a watchdog media group that hovers over the Guardian UK trying to construe any criticism of Israel or accurate portrayal of their shameful behavior of the Palestinian people as 'anti-Semitic'.

A `Karbala` Moment
Hezbollah is the New Government of Lebanon. Now What?

The United States’ hegemony continues to recede in the region and is increasingly viewed, post Palestine Papers, as the enemy of Arabs and Muslim.

(BEIRUT) - This observer tends to get a haircut about every four months whether I need it or not.

But this morning I got more than a trim from my Hezbollah friend and barber, Abass, named after Abass ibn Ali, the brother of Hussein, both martyrs and heroes of the epic 680 a.d. internecine Muslim battle at Karbala in present day Iraq.

SAMs for Uncle Sam
Excerpt from new Book: Radical Peace- People Refusing War

People Refusing War, includes an interview with an Iraqi student whose family was brutalized by American soldiers. She tells how this turned her into a pacifist and her brother into a resistance fighter, and she comments on the atrocities in Palestine.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Merna al-Marjan is a young Iraqi who is currently in Germany studying European history.

We talked in her dormitory room, a spartan but functional cubicle in a building that embodies a hopeful change in European history: it was constructed in the nineteenth century as an army barracks but now houses university students. That's progress.