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Contact your Rep on Syria

Warmongers in the Senate, McCain and Graham, promise the attack would be stronger and more destructive than originally described...

(PORTLAND, OR) - Obama’s decision to ask Congress to vote on his plan to attack Syria is a real opportunity to personally smoke out your own representative by name.

As their constituent, urge her or him to tell you if they intend to vote against war or explain why they won’t. This is probably more effective than signing petitions from organized groups.

2013 National POW-MIA Recognition Day Poignant to Family of Pilot Killed in Vietnam

The pilot's "Naval Aviator's Certificate" was repatriated with the next of kin.

(Washington, D.C.) - "Doc" Sheehan is currently the VFW State Surgeon for Illinois. He wrote the story below, and the video was produced by Patrick J. Hughes. It will bring tears to your eyes, and rightly so. Read on:

On September 20, 2013 National POW-MIA Recognition Day in front of the Lincoln Memorial, I returned a piece of personal memorabilia to the daughter of USMC LCL Robert N. Smith, whose F4B crashed over North Vietnam in 1969.

Wounded Warriors: Criminal, Corrupt Betrayal of Generations of Heroes

All combat veterans have poorly treated PTSD!

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Reviewing the war casualties of the American military is a frightening experience. Starting in 1775 and up to the present we have suffered an enormous number of killed and wounded military.

To be more specific, the number of deaths from all wars is about 1,300,000 and for wounded, it is about 1,500,000. The reason the latter is so high is that before WWII if the person was wounded he would almost certainly die. In WWII, with antibiotics and newer, better surgery, the death rate dropped immensely.

Filtered, Slanted and Censored Media

The news that you get with origins in the mainstream media has been filtered and slanted and censored by the interests they represent.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Twenty years ago several journalists expressed concern that the number of major news sources in America had diminished to fifty.

Today, conglomerates have bought up most of those news sources; and the number of major news sources controlling the media has been reduced to six!

Changing Lives in 24 Hours/Gaza Children with Shabab-4-Life TJP [Video]

Sixty Palestinian refugee youth enjoy a fun and educational day out thanks to some very caring souls.

(Jacksonville) - Two buses trundled to a cemetery in Gaza that had become the unfortunate home of a number of desperate Palestinian refugees. Hussein Haniyeh and the Shabab-4-Life team had come to pick up sixty children living in that poor refuge from international politics to give them a day out for recreation and a little education.

Their first stop was at the Omari Mosque where the shaykh gave the children some history about the mosque and let them explore its facilities.

The 20-year Odyssey of Kevin Annett... International Justice and A `National Malaise`

This is the Happy Warrior, this is he
That every man in arms should seek to be. - William Wordsworth

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Last year, when a UN committee gave Canada a slap on the wrist for its treatment of indigenous people, a stalwart response followed from Justice Murray Sinclair...

The Chairman of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the form of a photo-op and an "interim report" at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Honduras: Killing of Indigenous Environmental Rights Defenders

Two men opened fire on Ms María Enriqueta Matute, Mr Armando Fúnez Medina, and Mr Ricardo Soto Fúnez.

(YORK, UK) - On 25 August 2013, around 5pm, human rights defenders Ms María Enriqueta Matute, Mr Armando Fúnez Medina and Mr Ricardo Soto Fúnez were killed in an attack.

The three belonged to various tribes of the Tolupán indigenous people, from Locomapa, in the Yoro zone, and had been involved in a peaceful protest against a local antimony mining operation and the construction of a hydroelectric dam in their indigenous zone.

Judgement Day

When you also know that the motto of Mossad is , ‘By Way Of Deception Thou Shalt Wage War’, then the picture becomes a little bit clearer.

(LONDON) - Every ‘heavenly’ religion warns us of the day we meet our maker and have to answer for our deeds. We call it Judgment Day.

What made me latch onto this word ‘judgment’ was because it was used many a time yesterday by our own Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, during the afternoon debate in the House of Commons, trying to justify direct military intervention in Syria.

Man of Letter and Spirit

As every Pakistani knows damned well, Christians are among the most downtrodden and vulnerable people in Pakistan, especially since the passage of the despicable blasphemy law during the Zia ul Haq dictatorship.

(ISLAMABAD) - The life of the slum settlers is perhaps the most heart-wrenching thing that I have ever encountered...

I have had the privilege of traveling to many places, but in all of my visits, I have never encountered poverty like this – streets flowing with open sewage, garbage rotting everywhere.

Operation Red Dragonfly Moving East

A new promotional video below by Lisa Spaulding is in my opinion, totally fantastic.

(SALT LAKE CITY) - Operation Red Dragonfly has progressed through several western states with steady success. I am currently in Utah moving toward Colorado. The mission is designed to raise awareness of multiple health issues facing Veterans, many of which are fatal.

Whether contaminated with chemicals or saddled with the hard hitting reality of war and readjustment back to civilian life, Veterans who have the facts will live longer than those who suffer in informational darkness.