January 11, 2006
Breaking News--Jerry Texiero to be released from the Marine Corps>
BY: JACK DALTON Wednesday, January 11, 2006, Camp Lejeune, N.C. - The Commanding General of the Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, N.C. has order the immediate Administrative Discharge of Jerry Texiero. Jerry is being moved from the brig to Camp...
January 5, 2006
Jerry Texiero-Vietnam War Resister: Congressional Probe Demanded Behind Illegal Release of Information by LTC Annita Best to Media
BY: JACK DALTON In its push to hold Jerry Texiero out as an example to those in today's military (to dissuade them from walking away from another of this country's unnecessary and created wars), the Marine Corps is breaking every...
December 29, 2005
War Resister Jerry Texiero, the Marine Corps and Who Betrayed Whom?
BY: JACK DALTON "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." Henry Kissinger as quoted in the book "Kiss the Boys Goodbye". Just when was it we in this nation lost our ability...
December 12, 2005
Vietnamese Reparations 'Tour': For Me, A Night of Sadness, Anger and Partial Redemption
By: Jack Dalton Wednesday, December 7, 2005, I went to Portland State University's Multi-Cultural Center to hear a presentation by three people from Vietnam, who are a part of the group of Vietnamese seeking reparations from this country over its...
December 6, 2005
U.S. Takes Two Young Women Hostage in Early A.M. Monday Raid
BY: Jack Dalton "There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the...
December 5, 2005
When Criminals Rule and What We Must Do About It
BY: Jack Dalton "Those who believe a police state can't happen here are poor students of history. Every government, democratic or not, is capable of tyranny. We must understand this if we hope to remain a free people." (Ron Paul,...
November 27, 2005
He Dared to Challenge Power and the Official Consensus: Part One
By: Jack Dalton "I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of all that is good in the world. It turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them they are "heroes" when they master...
August 27, 2005
Our Disappearing "Rule of Law" and John Roberts
By: Jack Dalton No longer should there be any doubt as to the direction the Bush/Cheney cabal is leading this nation, or the methodologies they are employing to push their neo-con (actually neo-liberal) agenda upon us the unwilling who stand...
August 19, 2005
The Bush/Cheney and V.A.'s War Against Veterans
By: Jack Dalton Jack's Straight-Speak Jim Nicholson, VA Secretary Republican political appointee; Steve Buyer, R-IN, chairman House VA Committee; Larry Craig, R-ID, chairman Senate VA Committee - these three men hold the lives of veterans in their "hands." These three...
August 14, 2005
"It's about time we got you guys off welfare"
By: Jack Dalton "It's about time we got you guys off welfare." That's what I was told by a good loyal supporter of this Bush/Cheney war of choice in downtown Portland. He was sporting one of those "yellow ribbons." I...
August 13, 2005
A Message From Conscientious Objector Sgt Kevin Benderman - American Hero
Jack Dalton of Jack's Straight-Speak I received the following from Monica Benderman earlier today: Hi Jack... Kevin and I had a great conversation this morning... he says to let you know he really appreciates you. He wanted me to pass...
August 1, 2005
Jonathan Barriga - Conscientious Objector and His Fight with the Marine Corps
By: Jack Dalton Jonathan was a young man in high school when the Marine recruiter approached him about joining the Marines "Delayed Entry" program. That's where a young person under-age and still in school, with parents permission, can sign on...
July 27, 2005
Sgt Kevin Benderman Goes on Trial Tomorrow
By: Jack Dalton Kevin Benderman will face a General Courts Martial tomorrow for his refusal to deploy to Iraq a second time. It is the Army that should be on trial (as well as Bush & Co) and not Kevin!...
July 23, 2005
The Army Has Arrested the Wife of an Active-Duty War Resister
BY: Jack Dalton Three weeks ago, on July 1st I posted the story of a woman's aunt and uncle that were carted away by agents of the Bush & Co forces: Who Will Be Next? You, Me, Your Neighbor -...
July 11, 2005
Fools and Fanatics - Pt 3: The New World Order of "Managed Democracy"
By: Jack Dalton "I'm the commander -- see, I don't have to explain - I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they...
July 3, 2005
A Lot of Talk While Veterans Continue to be Left Behind
By: Jack Dalton Every veteran's organization in the country has been disseminating information for the past 4 years about the V.A. being under funded (actually more than that, but since BushCo it has gotten substantially worse)....
June 28, 2005
Buy America - So China Does Just That With BushCo's Help
By: Jack Dalton The single greatest "hostile" takeover of a nation is under way, and it is our nation. Thanks to the unbelievable growth of Wal-Mart, more of what the consumer here purchases is being made in China, while U.S....
June 24, 2005
Media Censorship at its Worst!
By: Jack Dalton Yesterday I received an email (it is below) telling me that progressive talk radio host, and Vietnam veteran, Chris Moore had been given the boot at radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA. For one, Chris is the...
June 21, 2005
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid - Something Evil This Way is Coming!
By Jack Dalton Uncommon Thought editor's note: The sponsors of this resolution are FOUR Democrats and ONE Republican. [The five Congressman are: Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) Sponsor, Howard Berman (D-Ca.), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Martin Olav Sabo (D-Mn), James Sensenbrenner (R-Ws)] I...
June 20, 2005
Suicides in the Ranks - Something is Seriously Wrong in the Military
By: Jack Dalton "You're a f...ing faggot conscientious objector" was what young Trent Helpkamps company 1st Sgt told him - publicly, again. This took place at the Separation Barracks at the Marine Corps base Camp Geiger next to Camp Lejeune,...
June 11, 2005
Who & What I Mean By "BushCO"
By: Jack Dalton In everything I write, when referring to Bush, I generally use the term "BushCo." As that covers a lot of ground I thought it about time I put something up that would show who it is I...
June 8, 2005
Money, Money, Who's Got the Money? It Sure Isn't Veterans
By: Jack Dalton It was approximately three years ago the GAO (General Accounting Office) attempted to do what congress requested: an audit of the DoD/Pentagon. After a solid year, the GAO had to report back to congress that they could...
May 26, 2005
Leave My Child Alone! Stop Recruiting in Our Schools!
By: Jack Dalton By now it is pretty much common knowledge that the DoD - Department of War misnamed Department of Defense - and the Pentagon, thanks to the so-called and misnamed (ALL)No-Child(ern)-Left-Behind Act, are targeting this nations children for...
May 25, 2005
The Great Power Grab and All for the "Good" of the American People
By: Jack Dalton I've been sitting here listening to all the nice sounding words spewing forth from some of our "esteemed" senators over the so-called "agreement" just reached about judicial nominees, filibusters, and the Trent Lott named, "nuclear option" to...
May 22, 2005
Deliberate Deception - Bush & Iraq: How Much More Evidence is Needed?
BY: Jack Dalton That the single most serious decision which anyone calling them self the president can make is the decision to go to war, is beyond question. That George W. Bush & Company were formulating plans to invade Iraq...
May 17, 2005
The "Illusion" of Two "Parties"
By: Jack Dalton Thanks to the recently released "memos" between the BushCo camp and the Blair "brigade" there is no longer any doubt they "cooked the books" on the intelligence to fit their already in place plans to invade Iraq....
May 12, 2005
Here Come Da Judge, There Go Da Courts -and any Semblance of Justice
John Jay was the first Chief Justice of this nation's newly created Supreme Court. That was in the 1780's. As Chief Justice he made a statement that echo's what we are faced with today: "the people that own the country...
March 9, 2005
"Sacrifices," the Cost of War and "War-Resistance" in the Ranks
By: Jack Dalton This March 19th is the two year "anniversary" of the Bush and Company war of choice in Iraq. To put it another way, it's the anniversary of the unleashing of war in "perpetuity" or, as Gore Vidal...
March 8, 2005
Bolton is to diplomacy what Jack the Ripper was to surgery
By: Jack Dalton In the first 4 years of rule by the Bush Brigade I thought the cadre Bush had assembled around him as "policy" makers and "advisors" was bad to say the least. But now his picks to head...
March 5, 2005
Military Recruiter Accused of Sexual Assault of 6 Female Recruits - Points Out Why Recruiters Must Get Out of Our Schools!
By: Jack Dalton While taking a short break from the article I am in process of writing on, and about active duty war resister Carl Webb, and talking with my friend Doris Colmes (who fled Germany in 1938 with her...
March 3, 2005
Agent Orange, Depleted Uranium and "Eating Your Own"
By: Jack Dalton I've been thinking about the article I read about the lawsuit some Vietnamese people brought against the U.S. government for the use of Agent Orange during the 10 year American War in Vietnam - 20 million gallons...
February 28, 2005
A Partial Response to My Critics on the "Left"
By: Jack Dalton For those of you that are regular readers of the POAC and Uncommon Thought you will remember the piece on anti-recruitment I sent out on the action alerts this past Saturday, "Anti-Recruitment Efforts Needed Now More Than...
February 26, 2005
Anti-Recruitment Efforts Needed Now More Than Ever
By: Jack Dalton This past week here in Portland, OR it was announced there are 8 more of Portland's schools on the chopping block to be closed. This is not isolated to just Portland, as every state in the nation...
February 24, 2005
Rape in the Military - A Women's Issue or A Man's Issue?
By: Jack Dalton Like most people in this country, men especially, I viewed rape, sexual assaults and acts against women as primarily a "women's" issue; at least until last August. But then I had as much knowledge about this as...
February 23, 2005
PFC Trent Helmkamp and the "Train Wreck" Headed His Way
By: Jack Dalton Recently, during one of his "staged" and "managed" so-called "press conferences," George W. Bush, while spinning his disinformation about social security, coined a phrase that has really stuck with me; "...when you see a train wreck coming...
February 19, 2005
Jennifer Dyer on 60 Minutes 2/20/05
By: Jack Dalton Just a reminder that this Sunday 60 minuets will be airing a program on the systemic problem of rape in the military, and how the military has pretty much done nothing to stop it. In fact the...
February 12, 2005
Hi HO, HI Ho, It's Off To War We Go!
By: Jack Dalton The headline in the Seattle Times reads: "Military Calls Iran War Plans Routine." When war planning becomes a "routine" matter you may rest assured that this nation has now come full circle and has become the very...
February 8, 2005
Is the Army's Manpower Problem So Bad it Must Now Recall the Injured?
By: Jack Dalton Apparently - as that is what it has done to Adam Mowery. 23 year old Adam Mowery was discharged by the U.S. Army in May of 2003 from the 188th MP Company stationed in Taegu, South Korea...
January 29, 2005
Iraq's Non-Election
By: Jack Dalton 18 months ago, the people of Iraq demanded elections be held in Iraq so they, the Iraqi people, would be able to determine their own future. However, the Bush Brigade initially said no! It was not until...
January 26, 2005
Update on Jennifer Dyer: Raped in the Military
By: Jack Dalton For those of you who have been following the case of 1st Lt Jennifer Dyer, the young woman who was sent to Camp Shelby, Ms for pre Iraq deployment training, where she was subsequently raped by 1st...
January 22, 2005
To War or Not to War, That is the Question
By: Jack Dalton If there is one thing I understand it is simply this, once one "sees" war up close and personal and you look into the abyss, that "Heart of Darkness" of war; you are forever changed--period. Some become...
January 19, 2005
The U.S. Army Has Formally Charged Sgt. Kevin Benderman
By: Jack Dalton Sgt. Kevin Benderman, who recently refused deployment a second time to Iraq and had filed Conscientious Objector status paperwork, has been today formally charged with violation of articles 85 and 87 of the Uniform Code of Military...
January 17, 2005
A Man of Integrity: Sgt. Kevin Benderman - "No To War"
By: Jack Dalton One can only imagine the struggle, the agonizing process Sgt Kevin Benderman has gone through which culminated in his decision to refuse orders for deployment to Iraq a little over a week ago - which would have...
January 12, 2005
How Many More Will it Take - How Many More Will Have to Die?
By: Jack Dalton Andreas Raya, a Marine that had been to Iraq once, and was scheduled to go back to Iraq a second time, has committed suicide--by forcing the police to shoot him in front of a convenience store in...
December 26, 2004
Justice, Fair Play--Are They Just Words When Applied to Rape by U.S. Personnel and the Military?
By: Jack Dalton It's been common knowledge in this country for a very, very long time that if you want justice or fair play you had better have real deep pockets. One only need have a cursory look at the...
December 22, 2004
Religion & Politics and How to Corrupt Them Both
By: Jack Dalton This article has been removed at the author's request....
December 16, 2004
The Continued Plight of 1st LT Jennifer Dyer: Raped, then Raped Again
By: Jack Dalton The Article 32 hearing for 1st LT Michael Hall took place on Friday, Dec. 10th. Fred Klepp told me in an email afterward that he fully expects Hall to be held over for a General Courts Martial....
November 28, 2004
Terrorism: No Name Death from the Sky
By: Jack Dalton That the United States is a militarized imperial empire is beyond question at this point in time. The level of nationalism, xenophobia, and mindless hatred has divided this nation even worse, in some ways, than what I...
November 17, 2004
Come let us reason together
By: Jack Dalton "All men having power ought to be mistrusted." James Madison "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may...
November 12, 2004
Another Veterans Day
By: Jack Dalton Here we are again, another Veterans Day. There will be many parades and many speeches about the sacrifices of veterans and how the nation must honor veterans; Special days so people can feel good, and for the...
October 30, 2004
Osama's Endorsement
By: John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at JChuckman@mediamonitors.org It has been a...
October 24, 2004
An Act of Betrayal: The Rape of 1st LT Jennifer Dyer
By: Jack Dalton Jack Daltion is a disabled Vietnam veteran and freelance writer that lives in Portland, Oregon and can be contacted thru his web site at http://www.ommp.org. His email address is jack_dalton@ommp.org On August 8th 1st LT Jennifer Dyer...
October 11, 2004
A Question for America: What Would Be Too Much?
By: Jack Dalton Jack Dalton is a disabled Vietnam veteran and freelance writer that lives in Portland, Oregon and can be contacted thru his web site at http://www.ommp.org. His email address is jack_dalton@ommp.org "All men having power ought to be...
October 10, 2004
Security or Just Criminalization under a Different Name?
By: Jack Dalton Jack Daltion is a disabled Vietnam veteran and freelance writer that lives in Portland, Oregon and can be contacted thru his web site at http://www.ommp.org. His email address is jack_dalton@ommp.org While attention is focused on the unmitigated...
October 7, 2004
Bush, Republicans and No to Veterans
By: Jack Dalton Jack Daltion is a disabled Vietnam veteran and freelance writer that lives in Portland, Oregon and can be contacted thru his web site at http://www.ommp.org. His email address is jack_dalton@ommp.org Well, here we are again. Fiscal year...
October 3, 2004
Bush, the Republican Party, and Eliminating Competition through “Strategic Initiatives”
By: Jack Dalton Jack Daltion is a disabled Vietnam veteran and freelance writer that lives in Portland, Oregon and can be contacted thru his web site at http://www.ommp.org. His email address is jack_dalton@ommp.org “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive,...
