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John W. Whitehead Testifies to Senate Judiciary Committee About Protecting Americans from Domestic Weaponized Drone Use

He says the government’s use of drone technology was undertaken without any public discussion...

(WASHINGTON DC) - The FAA Reauthorization Act, signed into law by Obama in 2012, authorized the use of drones domestically for a wide range of functions.

John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute, is calling on Congress to protect Americans against the domestic use of weaponized surveillance drones.

U.S. Army Veteran `found living in Vietnam village 44 YEARS after being shot down and presumed dead`

His daughters refuse to take DNA tests to prove his identity.

(LONDON The Daily Mail) - Sgt. Robertson's name is etched along with 60,000 others onto Washington D.C.'s poignant Vietnam memorial, but now the documentary questions whether he is actually alive and well.

The filmmakers claim to have tracked him down to south-central Vietnam - where the 76-year-old is unable to remember his birthday, his American children’s names, or how to speak English.

Military Pulls Out of Annual Air Shows Across the Nation

"Having the Thunderbird's or the Blue Angels is like having the Super Bowl, it's a household name" - Bill Walkup, manager of the Martinsburg airport in West Virginia

(EUGENE, OR) - Military grounds its jet and demonstration teams because of automatic federal budget cuts which is projected to cost the economy Millions if not Billions!

The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels,the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbird's, and the U.S. Army Parachute Team, known as the Golden Knights will not be doing their annual shows over American airspace this year...

Force Conversion Against Loan, Kiln Workers Rescued from Bonded Labor

The kiln workers usually live in or around that vicinity, but there were no latrines in brick kilns’ houses. The women workers are usually trapped and sexually harassed, she added.

(ISLAMABAD) - Bonded labor is the latest form of slavery in Pakistan.

More than 4.5 million kiln workers and their generations are experiencing overburdened and bonded labor problems at around 18,000 brick kilns...

Greatest Purveyor of Violence

The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in which the powerful, who do not go to war, promise a mirage to those who do.
--Chris Hedges

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Reverend Martin Luther King delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" speech in New Yorkh on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered.

He called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

Press TV: Ken O`Keefe Discusses New Film `Rebellion` Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz

A story that is both captivating and relatively unknown in the US.

(TEHRAN Press TV) - In this edition of the show Faiza Ahmed reviews the film; Rebellion, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Her guests are Dave Calhoun, film critic with Time Out Magazine, and Ken O'Keefe, activist and Salem-News.com writer.

It was April 1988, Ouvea island, New Caledonia, when 30 French policemen were taken hostage by a group of Kanak separatists.

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

The "shot heard 'round the world" is a phrase that has come to represent several historical incidents that mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.

(BOSTON) - Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere...

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march..." By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch

C-SPAN Breaks Story About Investigation Into What Happens to MIA and POW Americans

Watch the special program Saturday, April 20, noon EST; repeat airing Sunday, April 21, 11 a.m. EST on cable C-SPAN stations.

(NORFOLK, Va.) - Author Amy Water Yarsinke, a veteran author of more than 55 non-fiction books on American history, is known as “the POW Hunter” due to her experience in military intelligence.

An American in the Basement is an expose about the betrayal of Captain Scott Speicher and the cover-up of his death, according to the author.

Wounded U.S. Army Captain Goes to War Zone in Afghanistan

“Our injuries don’t define us. We control our own destinies and set the example on how to live our lives positively and be inspirational to our fellow Americans as well as an asset to our country.” - Salem-News.com writer James Van Thach

(NEW YORK) - Why would an already wounded soldier return to the War Zone?

Captain James Van Thach, a Vietnamese American law graduate of Touro Law Center, retired from the United States Army in March 2009, decided it was time to return to a war zone on Operation Proper Exit, a program sponsored by the Troops First Foundation.

G8 and Abbas Still Block Road to Middle East Peace

Palestinians should not be bullied into pleading or bargaining with a brutal occupier for their freedom.

(LONDON) - Yesterday the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London issued the following statement on the British government's website...

It is a driveling, sniveling way to mark 65 years since the massacre at the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, near Jerusalem.