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Female Engagement Team (FET / USMC)

Women can be and often are the most compassionate and successful leaders in the military.

(CLEVELAND) - There is a certain type of woman who joins the U.S. Marine Corps. She is not your average person by any means; but like others who wear the eagle, globe and anchor, she is a person of immense pride and dedication.

Those who are not wash out, there is no Marine Corps for people who only go halfway.

America`s War Veterans: PTSD and its Cure

If the suffering veterans of America can forge a movement to loudly say NO to the vile indignities being heaped upon us right here at home in the land of the free, they can make a difference to their own healing.

(LOS ANGELES) - The two American websites, Veterans Today and Salem News, run by two former US Military veterans, contain some of the most outstanding RealitySpeak writings by both civilians and America's war veterans, presumably, all mostly being eagerly ingested by other American war veterans.

In full disclosure, these websites also reprint my two cents every now and then.

Veterans for Peace Engage in White House Civil Disobedience to End War

"Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves.
Hope does not separate us from them.
Hope sees in our enemy our own face..." -Chris Hedges

(SALEM, Ore.) - More than 100 people were arrested in a Civil Disobedience at the White House protesting the continuing wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in Iraq.

Chris Hedges' extraordinarily anti-war soliloquy is inter-cut with interviews with Veterans from recent wars.

A Message from Anonymous

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell

(WORLDWIDE) - Greetings. We are Anonymous. A lot has been said over the last few days, however, not all of it was fair or accurate. We would like to set the record straight.

Anonymous is not unanimous. We use the Internet as a tool to congregate, communicate, and articulate; but we speak and act with many different voices, and in many different places. As the net has evolved, so have we and our methods.

Epic Military Might Contrary to Right Is Wrong and Impotent

(PHILADELPHIA) - The ongoing and continuing saga of projected epic U.S. super power military might and the greatest exporter of violence and death is fatalistic flawed and impotent across the full spectrum of global dominance.

Operating the ultimate self anointed reverse victim servile con job [39] the artificial 'parroting of American freedom and democracy pious and sanctimonious parodies of nation and patriotism' Beacon and Shining Light to the World.

WikiLeaks: Advancing an Israeli Agenda?

How do we reconcile the Israel lobby’s apparently schizophrenic reaction to WikiLeaks? Could it be that Julian Assange has killed two birds for Israel with one document dump?

(OSAKA, Japan) - Like 9/11, WikiLeaks has been singularly good for Israel.

Asked on the night of September 11, 2001 what the terrorist attacks meant for U.S.-Israel relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, the then former prime minister, tactlessly but accurately replied, “It’s very good.”

The Israeli Lobby Owns the Congress, Hollywood and the White House: Wayne Madsen

The Sauds and the Bin Ladens were close allies of the Bush family, which had everything to gain in the 9-11 attacks. - Wayne Madsen

(TEHRAN) - As an American investigative journalist and columnist, Wayne Madsen has more than 20 years of experience in security affairs.

As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He has also worked for the NSA National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.

The Insanity of Saddam Hussein`s Human Meat Grinder

Shredding your way to war with lies...

(SALEM / BAGHDAD) - I first heard of the 'human meat grinder' when I was in Baghdad, Iraq in 2008 on a particularly hot summer day, standing on Saddam Hussein's old parade ground.

Friends of Israel - Enemies Inside the Gates

This video redresses the balance, and makes it clear that Australia’s PM is either ignorant, beyond belief, or putting the interests of nuclear, Apartheid Israel ahead of Australia’s own.

(BANGKOK) - Recently, political pressure has been brought to bear against a trades unionist KEVIN BRACKEN, for attempting to express his views about the events of 9/11, on Australia’s publicly funded broadcaster, the ABC.

This video redresses the balance, and makes it clear that Australia’s prime minister is either ignorant, beyond belief, or she is putting the interests of nuclear, Apartheid Israel ahead of Australia’s.

So I was a Coffin

They said you are a spear. So I was a spear...

(SAINT LOUIS, Mo.) - Forward by Editor: War is Hell, and the only people who can adequately describe the experience are the survivors.

The amazing depth that this poem from a Marine Combat Veteran conveys, is only matched by similar works from others who were meant to survive; people like our writer Dr. Phil Leveque, who survived combat operation against the Nazi's in WWII.