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Rape is ALSO an `Incident to Service`?

"EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW" is written above the main entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court Building. Any ideas on how to make this happen for veterans and active duty military men and woman?

(WASHINGTON, DC) - As of 2014 the U.S. Congress has yet to make a "Rule" preventing injurious, non-consensual experiments on and rape of U.S. Military Personnel, i.e., by a Law of the Land NOT by a Dept. of Defense (DOD) Administrative Decree!!

The U.S. Congress’s 2014 Dereliction of Duty? Any "EQUAL JUSTICE" for service women & men ideas?

When Will They Ever Learn? The American People and Support for War

When it comes to war, the American public is remarkably fickle.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The responses of Americans to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars provide telling examples. In 2003, according to opinion polls, 72 percent of Americans thought going to war in Iraq was the right decision. By early 2013, support for that decision had declined to 41 percent.

Similarly, in October 2001, when U.S. military action began in Afghanistan, it was backed by 90 percent of the American public. By December 2013, public approval of the Afghanistan war had dropped to only 17 percent.

Ground Zero: Working to Build The World House in 2014

Let us resolve in this New Year to reach out and engage more people to say YES to a world without Trident and all nuclear weapons... YES to a world that looks a whole lot more like Dr. King's "World House."

(BANGOR, WA) - Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action is leaping out of the starting gate this New Year with a fresh issue of the January 2014 Ground Zero Newsletter!!!

From saying NO To NEW TRIDENT to the continuing legal action against the Bangor Second Explosives Handling Wharf, the GZ Newsletter is all the news that's fit to print, and then some.

Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis

People have been dying since before recorded history, and yet only those who pretend to believe nobody dies can be considered serious, honest, upstanding folk.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - A poll of people in 65 countries, including the United States, finds that the United States is overwhelmingly considered the greatest threat to peace in the world.

The consensus would have been even stronger had the United States itself not been polled, because the 5 percent of humanity living here is largely convinced that the other 95% of humanity -- that group with experience being threatened or attacked by the United States -- is wrong.

Indian Air Force: Is it an Expeditionary Force?

After its experience with four recent Expeditionary Air Missions, considerable debate exists in US military circles on the viability of an expeditionary force in today’s context.

(NEW DELHI) - Reporting on the recent assumption of office by the new Chief of the Indian Air Force, The Times of India on 31 December 2013 carried a piece by Rajat Pandit stating  that  the new Chief would have to focus on faster induction of planned air assets if his force has to eventually become a truly ‘expeditionary aerospace power’ (sic).

Whilst this may just be   misplaced reportage and not an official policy declaration by the IAF or the government, it needs gainsaying that as per the IAP 2000 IAF Air Power Manual, the IAF does not have an expeditionary role.

Syrian Opposition Caused More Deaths

In May 2013, SOHR stated that at least 41,000 of those killed during the conflict were Alawites [most of whom support the government].

(PORTLAND, OR) - We are accustomed to the US media’s false claim that 100,000 or more people have been killed by the Syrian government forces in the almost 3 years of the civil war there.

In fact, even the most widely quoted pro-opposition source in the western media, the “Syrian Observatory on Human Rights” in London, admits the largest group of the 130,433 deaths it claimed to have counted through Dec. 30 are those of pro-government combatants.

PTSD: The Other Ultimate Sacrifices And Marijuana

Is there any limit to what Veterans must endure? Where is the "support for troops" now?

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - I have nothing but honor and utmost respect for the 300,000 of my fellow dogfaces in WWII who died so that I could write these stories honoring them.

I was committed to combat late in WWII, but many in my company and my battalion whom I knew well were killed, many just in front of me. It is an eerie feeling just to remember “there but by the grace of God, go I”. This happened too often when I was in a combat zone but for only about three months. I even get those feelings today, 68 years later. This is PTSD.

PRESS TV: US Sailors Sue Japan`s TEPCO Over Radiation Sickness

They say TEPCO failed to notify first responders of the serious radiation levels from the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant

(SAN DIEGO) - Several dozen US Navy sailors and Marines who conducted aid and rescue operations in earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan, carried out their international aid duties during a nuclear meltdown. The affected Naval personnel have filed a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Company, (TEPCO) for serious health problems; half of those suing TEPCO have cancer.

The attorneys representing the sailors and Marines say many have developed brain tumors, uterine bleeding, thyroid cancer, Leukemia, digestive disorders and other health conditions typically caused by exposure to radiation. They were aboard the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, and half a dozen other Naval ships in the fleet.

New Film to Tell About America`s Missing in Action - Over 83,000 Still Unaccounted For...

Tomorrow one of them is being laid to rest at 1:00 p.m. in Inglewood Park Cemetery in Southern California, 63 years after his death. The public and all Veterans, especially from the Korean Ware, are encouraged to attend.

(AUBURN, CA) - Sergeant First Class Joseph Gantt was born in Maryland in 1924 and joined the Army in 1942. He served with distinction in the South Pacific during WWII and then fought in Korea where he went missing in action.

A new film, ³A Solemn Promise, America¹s Missing in Action², (in pre-production) will chronicle stories just like just like SFC Gantt¹s.

Remains of Soldier Returned to Wife Who Never Remarried, After 63 Years

Services for SFC Gantt: Korean War POW returns to US, Inglewood, Saturday, 28th of December

(LOS ANGELES) - Army Sergeant First Class Joseph Gantt, whose remains were returned to his wife and family 63 years after the former POW was captured during the Korean War, will be laid to rest with full military honors on Saturday, December 28, 2013.

SFC Gantt was born in Maryland in 1924 and joined the Army in 1942. He served with distinction in the South Pacific during WWII. He met his wife, formerly Clara Edwards, on a train from Texas to Los Angeles in 1946 and married in June 1948.