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Afghanistan: US Drug Policy, Total Corruption or Utter Insanity?

Don't believe that opium is a historic Afghan product; it is not.

(MOSCOW) - The new American drug policy is easy to understand. America is telling the world it can no longer eradicate opium/heroin production because “poor farmers” are going to suffer.

In truth, the poppy fields America now protects are run by drug lords with ties to the Karzai regime.

`Manila John` Basilone, USMC

William Douglas Lansford’s account of Basilone’s life is written by another Iwo Jima Marine who served with Basilone and survived the war to write about it.

(LOS ANGELES) - ‘Manila John’ Basilone’s name resonates with Marines, but except for some who live in his hometown of Raritan, New Jersey, it’s probably not familiar to many other Americans.

For most younger Americans today, WWII is ancient history. Enter Steven Spielberg and the magic of film.

The Strong Weapon of Forgiveness

Forgiveness ennobles the spirit.

(MADRID) - This June, 38 years will have passed since the photos of that certain naked and frightened girl, running unclothed down the highway.

Reflections of a Deployed Mother`s Day in Afghanistan

Thoughts for the moms who are far from home on the day that honors them.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - Sunday was a day to celebrate that special person in your life. The person who has stuck with you time and time again, through the awkward stage in middle school, through heartbreak and heartache; yes that’s right; Mom.

With more women in the services than ever, the amount of mothers deployed away from their family is greater as well.

Marine Holds His Ground

For some the war never ends...

(SAN DIEGO) - That’s sort of a “dog bites man” story; but Joseph Diliberti, the Marine in question, is holding off a very large and dangerous dog indeed.

Ugly Truth About the American Cancer Society

American Cancer Society argues new findings, that dangers from environmental toxins are greatly underestimated.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The jig is up on the real danger of contracting cancer from environmental contamination; a panel convened by Pres. Carter says danger is far worse than the groups charged with fighting cancer reveal.

The dirty secret of the big cancer groups? They all receive funding from the polluters who are kind enough to wreck our environment and make it dangerous in the first place.

Our Back Yard Mine Field

Please help the Veterans of today, this article contains information on how you can.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - After any conflict, materials remain which were used to protect our side, and incapacitate their side. These devices need to defused, and put away carefully.

Sometimes opposing forces are just in a hurry to get home, and they leave these devices for the local community to take care of. Americans tend to fight the enemy on their ground, so we don’t worry much about unexploded ordinance.

A Light is Cast Upon pro-Israel Groups

This is only the latest and most substantive of many examples of how the work of pro-Israeli groups in the US is being forced onto the stage of public analysis and debate.

(BEIRUT) - The pro-Israel lobby normally prefers to work quietly in the background to define the Middle East foreign policy debate in the US.

But Israel now finds itself part of that agenda that is being debated in public.

El Toro Marine Goes Toe-to-Toe with VA

Former El Toro Marine comments on his experience with the VA, passing important information to other vets.

(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) - John Uldrich, an El Toro Marine veteran, has a 100 percent plus disability rating. But for all intents and purposes, it is as bogus as they come!

Open Letter to the United States Supreme Court over Monsanto, Dow and Agent Orange

Letter is addressed in particular to Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Stevens and Justice Thomas.

(HANOI, Vietnam) - A year ago, March 2009, your court denied the appeal of behalf of over three million Vietnamese seriously affected from the effects of the herbicide Agent Orange, by so doing you found in favour of the thirty-seven American chemical companies headed by two of the major ones, namely MONSANTO and DOW CHEMICALS who had manufactured Agent Orange.