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Latest Afghanistan Massacre will be Remembered as Tipping Point in the War

Press statement by Richard Becker, Western Region Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today’s cold-blooded murder of at least 16 Afghani civilians by a U.S. Army soldier is the latest in a decade-long history of atrocities carried out by the NATO occupiers.

It will be remembered as the tipping point in a criminal war that grows more criminal with each passing month.

Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine

The truth is finally emerging...

(MELBOURNE) - Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era.

For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry.

VA Announces Funding Availability for the Grant and Per Diem Program

Expects to fund 600 beds across four priority areas; applications due May 30.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the availability of funds for applications for assistance under the Per Diem Only component of VA's Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program.

This Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) includes funding priorities for those applicants who will serve specific homeless veteran populations that are identified in this NOFA...

Information on Obtaining Benefits for PTSD

The nitty gritty details that a veteran needs to know...

(CHAMPAIGN, Ill) - According to one of my experts... there is much more to consider than what is listed here, especially when trying to get the earliest effective date possible for the PTSD grant, but what is here doesn't appear to be wrong.

There are two basic steps to receive a disability from the Veterans Administration for PTSD. The first step is filing a claim with the VA for PTSD.

North Koreans` Fear of Freedom

“Could freedom turn into a burden that makes some of us choose to relinquish it, and instead lead a life of submission?”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Thousands gathered in snow-bound streets for the huge funeral procession of leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang.

As the hearse passed, I suddenly realized that the real problem of North Korea lies not in its unmonitored nuclear capabilities, but rather in its people and in their ostensible fear of freedom.

Leaders of POSCO Resistance Dispatch Open Letter to Shareholders

Resistance hopes letter detailing serious concerns opens eyes of those funding the machine...

(SALEM / JAGATSINGHPUR) - As our writer in India Arun Shrivastava detailed in his recent report, the Korean firm, Pohang Iron and Steel Company or POSCO, is now the Trojan-horse of the western banking and financial cartel.

What should have been an organized, project, has become a loathsome issue and activists say the POSCO money has stifled the good senses of officials with the Indian government, the state of Orissa civil administration, and the police.

The gains of dictatorship

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." - Former US president, George W.Bush)

(GABORONE, Botswana ) - However, there is another side to the story that might be hard to swallow. North Korea has been a promoter of youthful leadership at the apex of power. The story started in 1994 when Kim Jong-Il succeeded his late father, Kim Il-Sung. He was only 42 years. Today, at 27 or thereabouts, his successor and son, Kim Jong-Un, is a boy in all respects.

Not many countries, including the established democracies, can boast of propelling such a young person to ultimate power.

North Korea`s Kim Jong-Il, Dies at 69

In Korea, he was known by a number of nicknames, they included the "Dear Leader", "our Father", "the General" and "Generalissimo".

(SALEM) - The controversial political leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, died yesterday. He was the supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In April 2009, North Korea's constitution was changed and the leader's title was implicitly deemed the "Supreme Leader".

As the commander of the 4th largest army in the world, Kim Jon-il has been nothing less than a controversial figure in his lifetime.

US to Use S. Korean Base to Project Power Against China?

South Korea launched construction of a $970 million base last January, despite local resistance.

(MOSCOW RTV) - Residents on the South Korean Island of Jeju are continuing to resist the siting of a huge naval base there.

Korean Echoes Published by MilSpeak Books

KOREAN ECHOES will soon be available for purchase at major eBook retailers, and is now available at the MilSpeak Books storefront.

(CHARLESTON, S.C.) - The 45 poems that compose KOREAN ECHOES draw the reader into piecing together a puzzle, with each poem presenting a small measure of the Korean War soldier's world, a world wholly embedded in the deepest design at the heart of human experience, embedded as if words were shrapnel.

Steel moments of clarity are rendered from language and pounded into consciousness through Tom Sheehan's craftsmanship, each poem a sharpened moment of awareness of all humanity can be, do, and endure, and still love life and living.