Opinion List - Warfare & Military
Juniper Ladden
November 20, 2009
GSA schedules are a federal sales person's dream come true. The biggest problems from a sales perspective are getting in the door and convincing the contracting office to use a schedule to make the buy. Sales people using GSA schedules need to help the terminate user recognize the merits of a service or product in order to make a sale based on Best Value.
David Swanson
November 21, 2009
I had to read a lot of books about the current war and occupation in Iraq before I found one that's laugh out-loud hilarious.
John Atwood
November 16, 2009
Our enemies in time of war are not entitled to a trial in our civilian courts. That is contrary to history and common sense.
John Atwood
November 17, 2009
A story of courage and scarifice at sea, of fear and bravery from the ordinary bluejacket of WWII.
New General Services Administration Schedule Recovery Purchasing Allowances for State and Local Gove
Juniper Ladden
November 20, 2009
Recently, under congressional authority, GSA amended its regulations to allow individual state and local governments to use GSA schedules to assist in recovery from a major disaster, terrorism or nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack.
Gary S. Bekkum
November 20, 2009
The TV series "The Prisoner" may seem like science fiction, but many of the ideas can be found in real-life research explored by the U.S. government's intelligence community.
Shane Roberts
November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
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Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
What kind of soap do you use to wash Hogs? Is Hogwashing a sport?
Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the enemy is at the gates. They have more arrows (dollars) than we do but have faith, we can organize faster and better than they can...>
Joseph --
Hundreds of insurance company lobbyists. Millions in TV ads from anti-reform organizations. Countl...
Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the way the Republicans are carrying on in Washington, you'd think each one was being forced to swallow a Pint of Castor Oil! The Health Bill is not a bad thing, it is a good thing, and it will protect U.S. citizens. If Republicans don't like it, they c...
Gary Ater
November 19, 2009
The antics of the politicians in Washington would be laughable if they weren´t so tragic.
Gary S. Bekkum
November 19, 2009
When Patrick McGoohan decided he was "going rogue" with his seminal 1960s television series "The Prisoner," the real secret mind-control effort was still safely hidden within the American Intelligence Community. Stranger still are the real life events at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. Were these paranormal phenomena, or the actions of rogue scientists supported by deep black operations?
John W. Sammon
November 19, 2009
I call for an immediate attack on Saudi Arabia to take over their oil and to install an American-backed regime in Riyadh friendlier to the United States. It's been eight whole years, and we haven't attacked a third country yet. We only attack countries weaker and smaller than ourselves. It was Saud...
Peter Fotis Kapnistos
November 18, 2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats is a book by Jon Ronson about the U.S. Army´s investigation of the paranormal. Famed paranormalist Uri Geller relates to Ronson´s observations. Did something weird happen to Geller when he jumped as a paratrooper? Today, the prospects for life on the moon are better than ever. Does the government have connections with human looking moon visitors living on earth?
Gary S. Bekkum
November 18, 2009
To put the role of the 1960s TV classic series "The Prisoner" into historical perspective, consider that revelation of CIA's nefarious covert use of drugs and mind-control experiments conducted against unwitting civilians would not be revealed until the middle of the next decade.
In late 1963, Richard Helms requested the investigation of hypnosis and telepathy for the operational intelligence and counterintelligence cold war with the Soviet Union.
California Political Desk
November 18, 2009
California Democratic Party Executive Board passes a resolution calling for end to war in Afghanistan, sends ´clear´ message to President Obama to not escalate conflict.
SAN DIEGO – The California Democratic Party Executive Board has approved an extraordinary resolution – to be forwarded to Pre...
Ahmed Hany
November 17, 2009
When the US secretary of state Hilary Clinton asked the Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas to resume negotiations without freezing settlements, she put the first nail in the coffin of the peace process based on the Two-States solution. Simply she asked him to negotiate for negotiations while lettin...
Joseph Raglione
November 18, 2009
GreenPeace Activists Are Going to Court in Alberta Canada. They need your help!
David Swanson
November 17, 2009
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the corporate "mainstream" media make quite a pair. We're hearing a very "balanced" debate over whether KSM should be tried in New York City, and whether the most insane objections to that proposal are really insane or not. But what are we not hearing?
Gary Ater
November 14, 2009
Was Dr. Hasan´s attack an attempt at committing an "acceptable" Muslim suicide?
Shane Roberts
November 17, 2009
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November 17, 2009
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November 17, 2009
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Joseph Raglione
November 17, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, every time I believe your government is doing something good, something bad happens! During the last election, Homo Sexuals lost their right to marry in California, due mainly to the direct economic interference of biased religious organizations. And now, a...
Joseph Raglione
November 17, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, life is hard enough without military dictators creating fear and terror in countries like North Korea. The following is a message from Rohit Mahajan, Media Relations Manager for the Radio Free Asia network...>
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Randy Snow
November 15, 2009
In the 2005 book, Gridiron Glory, authors Barry Wilmer and Ken Rappoport tell the story of the Army-Navy football rivalry from its beginnings in 1890 through the 2004 season.
William Hughes
November 15, 2009
The state of Virginia executed John Allen Muhammad, the Washington area sniper, who killed ten innocent people on a murder spree. Muhammad, like Timothy J. McVeigh, was a Gulf War Vet, who was exposed to deadly toxic chemicals. His lawyers pleaded with Governor Tim Kaine to spare his life, arguing that he was suffering from the "Gulf War Syndrome." Albert Camus, the author, said the death penalty was really about--"vengeance!"
David Swanson
November 15, 2009
And, like you, I think President Barack Obama has way, way, way too much power. But, unlike you, I'm not principally to blame for that.
Joseph Raglione
November 15, 2009
Slow change is better than no change but how much slower will they go?
Gary S. Bekkum
November 14, 2009
With the announcement by NASA of the discovery of water on the moon, a major boost towards colonization of the lunar surface, one question remains.
"Where are the aliens?"
In 1998, Ingo Swann, who remains the best known American psychic spy, largely due to his work with the CIA and the Department of Defense to develop psychic powers for the military, wrote a small rare volume about his misadventures concerning our nearby satellite.
Congressional Desk
November 14, 2009
McKeon: "Time is of the Essence and Failure to Seize the Initiative Risks Failure"
Washington, D.C.— The Army´s top officer said he backs an increase in U.S. forces in Afghanistan despite his long-standing concerns about military readiness. According to a Wall Street Journal story fr...
Joseph Raglione
November 14, 2009
What if the United Nations issued United Nations Passports to Stateless people in desperate need?
Rev. Michael Bresciani
November 13, 2009
Almost everyone in America has been somehow affected by the recent events at the Ft Hood Army Base. The events were seemed particularly intense because only days later Americans honored those who served in Veterans Day observances around the nation.
Just when we thought there couldn´t be another ...
Juniper Ladden
November 13, 2009
To the small company owner, GSA may in fact be the world's most fruitful market. This giant market is diffused across thousands of agencies worldwide. It's a good idea to be armed with as much information as possible when negotiating with the GSA.
Helena Lehman
November 12, 2009
Upon taking stock of mankind´s current potential to destroy themselves and the Earth, and contemplating the enormous knowledge that the Watchers who sinned originally possessed, it is not so difficult to imagine that all fleshly creatures could have potentially been destroyed before the Great Flood if Yahweh had not put a sudden stop to their violence. Nor is it difficult to imagine that it might happen again in the very near future if God does not intervene in human affairs.
David Swanson
November 13, 2009
Even on its own terms defending the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq as validated by experts is a miserable failure.
Gary S. Bekkum
November 13, 2009
A brief review of the movie: The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Marwa Rakha
November 13, 2009
Major Nidal Hassan is a US military psychiatrist of Arab origins who went on a shooting rampage a at Fort Hood in Texas killing 13 soldier on the fort. He is now facing the charges of premeditated murder. Psychiatrist or Psychotic? Egyptian bloggers wondered.
John W. Sammon
November 13, 2009
You´re insane!
All of you!
Insane!
You need to be locked up in a straightjacket in a mental asylum with padded walls.
Listen to the words they´re using. Obama is not satisfied with the ideas given to him by advisors for Afghanistan. He wants more options for troop increases to escalate a nine-ye...
David Swanson
November 12, 2009
If you have an interest in grassroots organizing, international alliance building, the peace movement, the labor movement, the conversion of the U.S. economy from weapons to human needs, the preservation of life on earth (come on, admit it), the weaponization of space, or the autobiographical insights of smart and determined people, then I cannot more strongly recommend that you get a copy of "Come Together Right Now: Organizing Stories from a Fading Empire," by my friend and ally Bruce Gagnon.
John Atwood
November 11, 2009
It is best to remember and revere the sacrifices of our Vets, lest we allow ourselves to forfeit through indifference or cowardice the rewards of their service for all of us.
Rev. Michael Bresciani
November 09, 2009
Nidal Malik Hasan is charged with shooting and killing 13 people and wounding 29 more on U.S. Army base Ft. Hood in Texas this week. Everyone is scrambling for answers and the first experts consulted have been psychiatrists´.
It might seem a bit like asking a fox why another fox attacked th...
David Swanson
November 12, 2009
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has 82 members, 81 in the House and 1 in the Senate, but has taken the anti-progressive onslaught of recent years lying down.
Joseph Raglione
November 12, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the following is a good lesson on how Canadian and possibly American politicians are corrupted by special interest groups. Pay especially close attention to the concept of legal loopholes...>
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Joseph Raglione
November 12, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, I am a world humanitarian for peace and the ecology and in my current capacity as a political activist and writer, I have one basic goal in life; and that goal is to change the destructive concept of being a universal soldier into the concept of being a...
Joseph Raglione
November 12, 2009
Joseph --
Today, on Veterans Day, my message to you is simple: Thank you. Thank you for your selfless service, for your valor, and for your strength of purpose that make all of us proud to be Americans.
Today, Americans will pause amidst a great conversation about the future of our nation to t...
Steve Hammons
November 11, 2009
The new fact-based fiction movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats" deals with more than meets the eye. Or at least, we see some subjects touched on in quick and sometimes subtle ways that might trigger more thought. In other scenes, certain topics are dealt with at length or even hit viewers between the eyes with a cinematic sledgehammer. Incredibly funny parts of the movie are juxtaposed with the troubling, tragic and frightening.
Gary S. Bekkum
November 11, 2009
The true story of "The Men Who Stare at Goats" involves fringe research, foreign operatives and scientists, the intelligence communities, the use of the Internet for espionage, and, most importantly, real anomalous data.
Gary S. Bekkum
November 11, 2009
The true story of "The Men Who Stare at Goats" involves fringe research, foreign operatives and scientists, the intelligence communities, the use of the Internet for espionage, and, most importantly, real anomalous data.
Michael Jordan
November 11, 2009
What are the latest oil and gas jobs? Do you wish to know? Then take moment and see what I found after some research.
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Michael Jordan
November 11, 2009
There are many vacancies for jobs in the oil and gas industry. Thousands of oil workers are wanted to start working in numerous positions world wide. Nowadays you can search for wanted job listings on the world wide web. I did a search and came up with this list of hot jobs in oil and gas that need ...
Michael Jordan
November 11, 2009
The UK oil and gas job market has sky-rocketed over the last few years, largely owing to the rise in natural resource consumption. More people own personal vehicles, which require gasoline and motor oil to run efficiently; homes of all sizes need natural gas for heating purposes; businesses consume ...
Ahmed Hany
November 10, 2009
What is the Turkish strategy? What is the Turkish role in the global strategy of the West as a NATO member? What is the Turkish regional role to serve its global role? Does a Turkish bigger role in the Islamic World serve the global Western strategy or not? What are the internal constraints that form the ceiling of the Turkish moves? The answers of these questions clear the last political moves and determine their strategic or tactic nature that initiated divisons between political analysts.
John Atwood
November 06, 2009
A short story of the Armed Guard during WWII in the North Atlantic. The men who were both heroic and ordinary at the same time.
John Atwood
November 03, 2009
A story of the Armed Guard and men at sea and war. These are ordinary men doing ordinary and extraordinary things for others.
David Swanson
November 10, 2009
The United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called "a nation of laws, not men" to Italian law enforcement. Were it not for the fact that Italian prosecutors, unlike their American counterparts, answer to the law rather than a president, the enforcement of laws against a massive crime spree by U.S. officials (and their Italian accomplices) would not have begun.
Jim Kouri, CPP
November 09, 2009
The African nation of Seychelles and the United States of America have stressed their commitment to the coordinated effort in combating Somali piracy in the western Indian Ocean.
This follows the arrival of several US military MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAV) aircraft in Seychelles, that will...
Joseph Raglione
November 10, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, when you are finished fixing the United States, can you lend a hand fixing Canada? We need an international protest aimed directly at Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Apparently he and his Conservative government in Ottawa, are deaf to the voices...
Joseph Raglione
November 10, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, it is a great week to be an American! Magnificent changes have being created in Washington and within a few years, when you guys have a parade, any parade, the whole world will march in step with you. Meanwhile, here is the EFFECTOR list...>
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Joseph Raglione
November 10, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, the following has some inside the Senate information you might be interested in reading...>
Joseph -
The last couple of weeks have been intense.
On Saturday, we earned five reasons to be proud: All five Democratic members of Indiana's Congressional...
Joseph Raglione
November 10, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, welcome to a better society where people breath clean air and drink clean water and if by accident or fate, they find themselves in a hospital, they won't be impoverished by medical bills. Welcome to a society where Doctors will be rewarded for keeping ...
John W. Sammon
November 08, 2009
Everybody expresses shock at the killings on the army base. Media outlets across the country ask "why?" So do soldiers at the base themselves.
Why did this happen?
I have the answer. America is a violent country. The base where the killings happened, the very base itself, represents the resort...
Jade Verde
November 09, 2009
IT IS SO righteous for bonafide Filipino citizens to go out of their way to join in Anti-terrorism campaigns of various ways---from print to broadcast, to the 'Parliament of the Streets.' Effective aftermath will not be an overnight process, but, as the saying goes, 'the journey of a thousand miles ...
Congressional Desk
November 10, 2009
McKeon: Successful National Elections Key to U.S. Redeployment
Washington, D.C.—The New York Times is reporting today that the Government of Iraq approved a law that will allow national elections to proceed in January. According to the story, "The election, only the second national vote s...
Gary S. Bekkum
November 09, 2009
It may seem incredible: much of the story behind the new feature film The Men Who Stare at Goats is based upon secret U.S. government programs to turn paranormal phenomena into operational intelligence. Yes, The Men Who Stare at Goats is both strange and true, but it's only the tip of the weirdness iceberg.
Joseph Raglione
November 09, 2009
we won round one but..."the next phase of this fight has already begun."
Newswire Services
November 08, 2009
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Laura Wang-Woodford, a U.S. citizen who served as a director of Monarch Aviation Pte Ltd., a Singapore company that imported and exported military and commercial aircraft components for more than 20 years, was sentenced in federal court in Brooklyn to 46 months in prison for conspi...
International Desk
November 08, 2009
While 30,000 IDPs remain inaccessible to relief, US Powered scores nuclear reactor
Yemen has been rocked by a series of violent clashes between government and rebel forces from the northern tribes since August, and plans to build a new nuclear reactor has sparked fears of increased tensions.
Whe...
Joseph Raglione
November 08, 2009
Carly Fiorina begins negative attack campaign.
Joseph Raglione
November 08, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, as most of you know, I am a Canadian. Unlike most Americans however, the fact that I am a Canadian does not make me particularly proud! The reason is simply because I am an unwilling participant in a crime. Canada, led by our Conservative government, is...
International Desk
November 07, 2009
Somalia's main Sufi movement, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa, decided to declare war on Al Qaeda-inspired Al-Shabab militant group which is fighting the UN-supported interim government and African peacekeepers.
"The Shabab are misguided people who have misunderstood the true values of Islam," Sheikh Sharif S...
David Swanson
November 07, 2009
Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers' health by such companies. Activists are building better media outlets, educating young people, educating old people, keeping military testing and recruiting out of schools, and discouraging the Army from building real-weapon video arcades in shopping malls. But when it comes to stopping our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, our citizens are less clear how to go about it.
Stephanie Westbrook
November 06, 2009
Looking back on my experience at Fort Hood in 2006 with activists from Camp Casey and the positive response from soldiers not wanting to deploy.
David Walks-As-Bear
November 06, 2009
Veteran's Day is a time to honor veterans, but we had better watch the sky, because the storm clouds of our warriors are piling up.
Joseph Raglione
November 07, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, common sense will tell you that poor and destitute American citizens need your protection. The best way to provide that protection is to provide decent health care for poor citizens when they need it most. With decent health care, most citizens will be ...
Joseph Raglione
November 07, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, they continue unabated and unashamed and they are the most horrendous acts Man can impose upon Nature!! I write of the Mountain Top blasting in West Virginia, for the purpose of extracting dirty Coal and which is comparable only to the monstrous hole cr...
Steve Hammons
November 05, 2009
Following on the heels of the release of the movie MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, a new TV project about a CIA "remote viewing" unit is in the works, according to a Nov. 3 article in VARIETY. Widespread interest in the topic of remote viewing has grown steadily since information about Project STARGATE emerged in the 1990s. The "Goats" movie deals with a wide range of human development methods that were explored in a U.S. Army activity. Remote viewing-type capabilities and the nature of human consciousness were part of these efforts.
Gary Ater
November 06, 2009
A version of an idea from the right-wing conservative, George Will, just might be the best approach.
Joseph Raglione
November 06, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, posting a message on your grocer's post-it board is nothing like this! Here is an opportunity to reach millions of people...>
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Today, just one week after launch, the 15,000th supporter of a clean energy future posted a message on The Wall:...
Joseph Raglione
November 06, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the Patriot Act needs fixing and if you don't do it, who will? How important is your personal liberty? If you honestly love Democratic freedom, than contact your Congressman and demand he take action to change and improve the Patriot Act. It must be re...
Joseph Raglione
November 05, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the concept of representative government harbors the concept (true or false) that your government Senator is your representative in Washington. In the following sad case, the answer is false! Maybe there is something you could do to change the answer?
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Joseph Raglione
November 05, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the time for change is here and the struggle continues between the top executive directors of the current health care insurance industry and the rest of us. Our problem is that we are controlled and dominated by business executives who do not honestly k...
Ahmed Hany
November 04, 2009
Since President Obama has come he chose the soft power as a method to execute the American strategy. This was clear in his handling the Iranian file. He said that all options are still present on the table but he and his team orchestrated actions on different paths to limit choices for the Iranian d...
Sadaket Ali Malik
November 04, 2009
Sadaket Malik is a freelance columnist based in Bhalessa. He is writing for Peace keeping, human conflict in J&K state. He an be mailed at sadaketmalik@rediffmail.com
Sadaket Ali Malik
November 04, 2009
Sadaket Malik is a freelancer
Arthur L. Ekrem
November 03, 2009
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Hundreds Demand Obama End Afghan And Iraq Wars, Close Guantanamo And Bagram, Surge Spending On Housi
International Desk
November 03, 2009
Washington – As the U.S. led war in Afghanistan begins its ninth year this week, 82 were arrested bringing a strong message to the White House that war, torture and drone bombing are outrageous, unacceptable and must end immediately. National anti-war groups and people from around the country joined...
Michael Jordan
November 03, 2009
Have you ever felt stuck in your career? Employee stress and burn out can account for a lot of dissatisfaction in your life. After all, you are at work some 8 hours a day or more. That´s 1/3 of your day if you don´t count sleep. That´s a long time to be dissatisfied.
If you ...
Joseph Raglione
November 03, 2009
Why are Republicans hunting Alan Grayson?
John Atwood
October 28, 2009
A short story of North Atlantic sea battles and the men who manned those ships.
John Atwood
October 30, 2009
A tale of the Armed Guard and the men who manned those guns across the sweep of the oceans. It is a story of their fears, thoughts and hopes.
Tim Williams
October 31, 2009
With the continuing escalation of the violence in Afghanistan and Iraq the United States is faced with a no win situation right now. Alkida and the Taliban have thwarted every attempt the United States has used to try in eliminating all terrorist activities that threaten global economies and huma...
Joseph Raglione
October 31, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, Sarah Jackson Han has information dealing with the Guantanamo Prison detainees. Personally, I believe that keeping Uyghurs in prison at Guantanamo simply because they were refugees from China, was an extreme travesty of both justice and human rights.......
Ajmer Alam
October 30, 2009
Farooq Gani puts all Muslim J&K Journalists under scanner, embarrassment
David Swanson
October 30, 2009
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Shane Roberts
October 30, 2009
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