Rosemary there is another rosemary spelled rosemerry also posting here I think I may have confused the two of you at times ,sorry.

Crow. Great post throughly enjoyed it.

In this world, soldiers like policemen are a necessry evil . They will turn on their own kind if not constanly fed fresh meat. Thats why the constitution spoke against standing armies. The war on drugs and civil liberties supplies the meat to the police, and the Wars in various shitholes in the rest of the world supplies the Army with its rations of gore.

Rosemarry, Since Reagan dismantled the GI bill in the 80s you cannot simply go to college on the GI bill . The money provided by the military is a pittance of what it costs to go to college. Its yet another American illusion.

Patrick Henry good point . Does this writer look a lot like G.Gordon Liddy or what?

If Obama got the Nobel it is only right that HuffPo got a Pulitzer.

Up is down, right is wrong, day is night.

So your saying that there is still some actual journalism going on at Huffpo?

I must be having trouble finding it in between all the ads and bullshit entertainment reports.

Rest assured, if Arianna could sell her children for a profit, she’d do it. A whores whore.

This video is creepy—standing off at the side of horror, talking it all out quite nonchalantly,, writing it all down, getting it published and Pulitzerprized.
Telling how stressful, now noble, how heartless and heroic, how the government plays a role that deserves praise, sliding over the “huge gaps” and abject inabilities to take care of victims and their families.  Even suggesting that “a way to get involved in the war” is to help veterans.
  Brought up as a Quaker, conscientious objector who became a war reporter—who doesn’t exactly advocate war, but obviously enjoys reporting on the heroes who make marvelous recoveries from heinous abuses—or who don’t. No criticism of war as organized, sanctioned insanity. No criticism of huge profits from weapons selling worldwide, of government-sponsored mass murder, total dependence of an entire “civilized” nation on a war economy as a way of life. Nothing about the institutional madness of wars. No mention of possible alternatives to violence or those working 24 hours a day to stop the butchery. Creepy! A graphic example of “the heart not knowing what the head is doing”—recognized by many as mass suicide. Creepy.

I Followed the link and read the article . It was okay statistically but was an obvious bending of reality. What about the causualty figures for the shadow soldiers ] contractors ] who are in these shitholes in the same or greater numbers than the army, do they get VA treatment ? The typical Huffpost spin here is its insane desire to to treat symptoms rather than causes. I fail to see how a guy deserves an award for incomplete reporting , unless its an award for propoganda ,like Obamas peace prize.

” in all those years I hadn’t written anything important enough to suppress”.

This says it well.  For many years I used to post at the Huffington post but over time I
got so tired of being censored and suppressed, that I moved on. I am sure they have
wonderful stories, but for me they became part of the mainstream media, that had a
different view of what was important, and went to great lengths to maintain a comfort
zone that I found detestable.

Once there is validation the hordes will gather there, sharing the safety and security, in
the sure awareness that they are consuming approved thinking, and opinion.

Eternity is made of little deaths like this. They all add up, to the passing of the real,
replaced by safety, and security and small mindedness. To the ultimate detriment of all.

“In seventeen years of doing this, nothing bad had happened to me.  I was never fired or threatened with dismissal if I kept looking under rocks.  I didn’t get any death threats that worried me.  I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests.

So how could I possibly agree with people like Noam Chomsky and Ben Bagdikian, who were claiming the system didn’t work, that it was steered by powerful special interests and corporations, and existed to protect the power elite?  Hell, the system worked just fine, as far as I could tell.  It encouraged enterprise.  It rewarded muckraking.

And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been.  The reason I’d enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn’t been, as I’d assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job.  It turned out to have nothing to do with it.  The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn’t written anything important enough to suppress.”

- Gary Webb, from Into the Buzzsaw

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/one-for-my-master-one-for-my-dame/