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Paul Gets His VA Claim Approval Letter - HE WON!!

This 66-year old retired lieutenant colonel and former Army paratrooper had been on an emotional elevator since his claim was first denied by the Manchester NH VA office.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Monday was an emotional one for my dear friend Paul. His two-year quest for VA medical care and recognition of his Agent Orange exposure came to a satisfactory end.

He opened his mail and inside the big brown envelope found the stunning language...100% service connected and backdated to the date of his application.

Okinawa Dump Site May be Proof of Agent Orange: Experts

Dioxin spike raises fears of local health risks.

(OKINAWA) - The recent discovery of 22 barrels buried on former U.S. military land in the city of Okinawa could be posing the same level of risks to local residents as dioxin hot spots in Vietnam where the American military stored toxic defoliants during the 1960s and 1970s, according to two leading Agent Orange specialists.

At least three of the barrels are labeled with markings from Dow Chemical Co. — one of the primary manufacturers of Agent Orange.

New Study Reveals Alarming Gang Connection to Sex Trafficking Cases

Portland State University study shows 49.1 percent of sex trafficking cases have gang connection.

(WASHINGTON DC) - On Monday, August 05, 2013, Portland State University researchers released a much anticipated study on the scope of child sex trafficking in Portland, OR.

The study revealed that between 2009 – 2013, 469 children were exploited through sex trafficking in Portland.

Groundbreaking Portland State University Study Sheds Light on Child Sex Trafficking

The average victim was 15.5 years old. The youngest was 8.

(PORTLAND, OR) - A study from Portland State University (PSU) unveiled Monday by U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall showed that than 469 children in the Portland metro area received social services for commercial sexual exploitation over the last four years.

The study by PSU associate professor Christopher Carey and graduate student Lena Teplitsky sheds light on child sex trafficking in the Portland metro area in a way that no other study in the United States has done.

Between Heaven and Hell

More than 25 million Pakistani Christians are living below poverty line.

(ISLAMABAD) - The Bible shows that there are two great commandments. The first commandment is to love God with all our being. The second commandment is to love our neighbors as ourselves. So how do we show that we love our neighbors?

Jesus said, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

New Slant on Social Studies Can Both Entertain and Educate

In encouraging student interaction on the process, we reinforce facts. We offer a bit of entertainment. No longer are we preoccupied by data alone. We give vivid meaning to the words of the textbook.

(SALEM) - By any other name, it's still called "boredom".

Attempting to spoon-feed middle schoolers in Social Studies can prove toxic if the emphasis is on absorbing and repeating dates and places. The conceptual part of human cause-and-effect is sometimes presented as an afterthought.

A Palestinian in Hiroshima

Many Japanese yearn for a more caring society and support global solidarity, including with Palestine. This was shown vividly in our visit to Nagoya and Hiroshima.

(HIROSHIMA) - I and Oliver Stone both spoke at Hiroshima on the anniversary of the first nuclear bombing in human history and we are slated to speak in two days at Nagasaki on the anniversary of the second nuclear attack.

My speech is below in English (I will send the Japanese version later). These remain the most starkest of acts of state terror in Human history.

Harry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder

Weeks before the first bomb was dropped, Japan expressed its desire to surrender and end the war.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: "If we see that Germany is winning," he said, "we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible."

Did Truman value Japanese lives above Russian and German? There is nothing anywhere to suggest that he did.

Transparency in Rome and The Confession of Jamie Dimon

(The following should be sung to the tune of "Diamonds are a girl's best friend")
A Pope who's a pauper may hardly seem proper,
But Dimon is the Street's worst friend. - Larry Kudlow, CNN

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Not long after the anointing of Francis I as "The Pope Without Pomp" (Time Magazine), there was a news event so brief that it escaped the notice of our ambulatory news cycle.

The Vatican's luxurious helicopter, "Swiss Guard One," descended like the Second Coming into the palatial court yard of Castel Gondolfo, the traditional papal summer home.

Let the Spin Begin!

How Black becomes White, and Wrong Becomes Right - Recent Lessons from the Insane Asylum called Church and State.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - It's touching, at first, when the psychopaths in power seem to dabble in sentimentality and profess a sudden concern for their victims.

Or maybe it just seems touching to all of those battered and cringing multitudes who so need their masters to show a bit of compassion towards them between all the blows.