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2nd Anniversary Reflections of Operation Cast Lead

"Gaza cannot sleep...the cries of hungry children, the sullen faces of broken men and women who are just sitting in their hungry emptiness with no light, no hope, no love. These actions are War Crimes!"

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - The 22 day long Israeli attack on the people of Gaza was enabled by US-supplied weapons and taxpayers who contribute over $3 billion annually to Israel.

Americans will also provide another $30 billion in military aid to Israel over the next decade. Look at the result of that investment; it's called genocide.

Israel: `Take it from the Horse`s Mouth`

“Everyone has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements, because everything we take now will stay ours” - Ariel Sharon, 1998

(TEL AVIV) - If one wants to know why and how the conflict started in Palestine more than 60 years ago, the "confessions" of Israeli and Zionist leaders should make it very clear.

700,000 Palestinians (more than half of the Palestinian population at the time) were expelled in 1948. During this period, more than 600 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed.

Marijuana, the Religious Right, and Pat Robertson`s Sudden Bout of Extreme Sensibility

Who saw this coming?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Religious Right icon Rev. Pat Robertson shocked conservative viewers last week by stating that laws against marijuana are a bad idea and that prison sentences for pot smokers simply make young people into serious criminals.

This televangelist has a serious belief that America is on the wrong road when it comes to the criminal prosecution of people who use marijuana.

A Holiday Message from Veterans Today

Veterans Today exists to end the unnecessary cycles of war.

(CINCINNATI) - The holidays are a time to remember what things are all about, why we are who we are, why we fight wars and why so many have sacrificed so much. It isn’t a time for blame, for envy, for recriminations.

Pilger`s `The War You Don`t See` is a Dose of Mind Numbing Reality

Pilger is right, there is no just excuse for the types of wars the west is waging.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Coming to understand my own role in promoting the US wars overseas as a former embedded reporter, John Pilger's: The War You Don't See, shoved me right off of the cliff of ignorance, into a painful valley of understanding.

I used to think it was different for me because the only thing I've shot in a war was my television camera. I increasingly understand that I was part of the problem.

Gov. Jesse Ventura Proves There was a Cover-Up Over 9/11

Former VP Cheney accused of engineering Pentagon attack; Rumsfeld cited as possible accomplice.

(CINCINNATI) - Confirmed sources in the Nigerian government tell us, in order to keep former Vice President Cheney out of prison for crimes involving Nigeria, $500,000,000 in bribes have been promised, negotiated by former President George H.W. Bush.

Now, only days later, Cheney faces possible charges, so many charges they can only be imagined, for planning the Pentagon attack on 9/11.

Christmas Message to: Obama, Biden, Peres, Knesset, etc

The Letter that was delivered to President Ahmadinejad's office on 14 December by my Iranian media contact...

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - I am most grateful to present you with copies of all three of my books and I hope to attend Iran’s Press Exhibition in 2011.

I recently returned from two weeks with Mavi Marmara survivor, Ken O'Keefe's speaking tour through America's north-west and to Victoria, Canada.

Orange County Great Park: Preserving El Toro`s Toxic Past

A tale of toxic hangars
Hey OC, check out what you get for your tax dollars...

(IRVINE, Calif.) - It has been announced that plans to destroy the runway at the old El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine, California are now in reverse.

The entire runway at this old base along with hangars 296 and 297 in a section of the base that formerly contained Marine Wing Support Group-37, will stay right where they are.

Orange County Great Park to use Radium Contaminated Hangar

A radium paint room was a common feature on many military airfields.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The latest Orange County Great Park plans are to keep the runways and hangars at former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in place to “dramatically reduce costs and speed up the building of Irvine’s Great Park,” according to the Voice of OC.

Former MCAS El Toro is an EPA Superfund site, the base closed in July 1999, and sold at a public auction in 2005.

Female Engagement Team (FET / USMC)

Women can be and often are the most compassionate and successful leaders in the military.

(CLEVELAND) - There is a certain type of woman who joins the U.S. Marine Corps. She is not your average person by any means; but like others who wear the eagle, globe and anchor, she is a person of immense pride and dedication.

Those who are not wash out, there is no Marine Corps for people who only go halfway.