The Department of Veterans Affairs doled out more than $142 million in bonuses to executives and employees for performance in 2014 even as scandals over veterans' health care and other issues racked the agency.
President Obama focused his Veterans Day remarks on the growing ranks of former troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and are now searching for new ways to serve their country at home.
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group and other radical groups in the Middle East have access to chemical warfare agents, including mustard gas, and are using them, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told a press briefing on Thursday.
Syrian army forces entered Marj al-Sultan military airbase in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside while heavy clashes are underway between them and the terrorists in the region, the second airport taken back by the pro-government troops in the last 3 days.
…from SouthFront The Russian Air Force carried out 85 sorties and targeted 277 terrorist targets in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus, Lattakia, Hama, Homs and Idleb within the past 48 hours. According to reports, the Russian warplanes destroyed 23 command centers, 17 munitions and weapons depots, 90 fortified sites equipped with firepower and technical equipment, […]
By Gordon Duff and Russia Today
Israel downed the Russian commercial airliner over Sinai using a missile, most likely from an F 15 operating in conjunction with US and German planes during their concurrent exercise only miles from the crash site.
Nasir Ali, a Rudaw correspondent, said the bodies of 40 ISIS militants were found abandoned at an Arab village in the Hardan sub-district of Shingal.
Renowned scholars of international relations, Lord Castlereagh, Quincy Wright, Hans J. Morgenthau and Kenneth Waltz agree by remarking...
The Pakistani military strategists rely on its nuclear arsenal as a main counter-measure against the possible Indian aggression.
Gordon Duff - Veterans Today is a clearing house for intelligence leaks from a number of countries, the US certainly but two dozen others as well. We are thankful that there are so many out there who get us the truth
In a moral and reasonable universe, things operate according to the laws of logic and evidence.
When our machinist friend buys his Donald Trump hat on a special discount at the Walmart employee's page and curses out the union members trying to organize, he's the sort of guy that Harsanyi would applaud, a good, blue-collar American. It's just that his soul is empty, his heart broken, and he'll die young and unfulfilled.
Sami Jamil Jadallah - I think it is time to bring back the draft, so that those who serve and die for this county will be representatives of all segments of society, rich and poor, Northeast and Midwest, South and Mountain. That will make it difficult for us to go to war, when the children of the rich and powerful are put at risk of death.
Watch this horror movie.... if you can bear to. It stars Palestine's top negotiator in action. And it's not pretty.
