Entries Tagged as ‘Iraq/Military’

October 1, 2009

Military-Industrial Complex Now Official

Forty-eight years after the term was coined by a retiring President Dwight Eisenhower, the military and industry have tied the knot in El Segundo.

According to the Torrance Daily Breeze, The Aerospace Corp., a private company, and the Los Angeles Air Force base, celebrated the completion of a connecting pedestrian bridge, Sept. 29.

Jane Harman [...]

April 1, 2009

It Did Happen Here: When our Japanese neighbors were sent to concentration camps

By Scott Yuda, Jr.
During World War II, under Adolf Hitler and his Nazi organization’s “rule,” so to speak, ordered for any person 1/8 Jewish or more to be relocated to concentration camps, where they were decimated. Ultimately, approximately six million Jewish citizens were killed in these concentration camps by the order of a crazed dictator [...]

November 5, 2008

Film Review: Vietnam: American Holocaust

By Karl Abrams
This incredible historical-political documentary by Venice filmmaker Clay Claiborne is an eye-opening account of the horrors and atrocities of the Vietnam War. It depicts, scene-by-scene, how misguided, ignorant and xenophobic racist U.S. war policies were mercilessly carried out by political and military leaders, many of whom remained unrepentant. Truman worried about a Soviet [...]

August 1, 2008

August 2008 – The Anti-War Report

Good morning Venice, there’s something to report.
Following last June’s National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation in Cleveland, Ohio, a meeting of over 400 national organizers, a plan for steps forward has been approved for national protests. These will be organized through the fall and winter of this year, as a springboard for [...]

July 1, 2008

July 2008 – Book Review: Pat Tillman’s “Boots on the Ground” – One Mother’s Courage

By Jack Neworth
It’s probably fitting that July 4th is only days away as I review a book about Pat Tillman, a charismatic NFL star who left a 3.6 million contract and a new wife to fight for his country after Sept. 11. His enlistment was such a huge story of patriotism he received a congratulatory [...]

April 1, 2008

April 2008 – 5 Years, 4,000 U.S. Dead And One Million Iraqi Dead – Mission Still Not Accomplished

By Jack Neworth 
Last month marked the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war. That’s a year and a half longer than WW2, but the news is back to business as usual which means in-depth coverage of stories like Ashley Dupre (Eliot Spitzer’s call girl) being offered a million dollars to pose nude in “Hustler Magazine.” What [...]