{"id":26212,"date":"2011-08-17T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26212"},"modified":"2011-08-17T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:31:43","slug":"who-is-writing-at-veterans-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26212","title":{"rendered":"Who is writing at Veterans Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSO and I were discussing the number of veterans who were employed  by a certain veterans&#8217; organization yesterday, and somehow I got the idea to count the number of veterans who write at Veterans Today. You&#8217;d think that a publication with that moniker would have a whole slew of veterans wouldn&#8217;t you? Well, that&#8217;s not the case. Out of the forty authors, only 12 are veterans, according to their bios on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/contact\/about-us\/\">Veterans Today<\/a> &#8211; one of whom is a veteran of the Egyptian Army. Here are their names;<\/p>\n<p>Allen Roland, Brig Asif Haroon Raja (Egytian Army), Eric May, Chuck Palazzo, Ed Mattson, Gordon Duff, Jim Fetzer, John Vogel, Mike Farrell, Bobby Hanafin, Bob O\u2019Dowd and Terry Richards.<\/p>\n<p>The other 28 are a mix of draft dodgers, ammo plant employees, chefs, bicyclists, nurses and foreign journalists;<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Lawson, Bob Nichols, Carol Duff, David Swanson, Debbie Menon, Ashraf Azzaz, Lawrence Davidson, Eileen Fleming, Eric L. Wattree, Gilad Atzmon, James Petras, Jim Dean, Karen St. John, Kourosh Ziabari, Michael Chester, Mike Stathis, Paul J. Balles, Paul Sheridan, Randy Miller, James Hall, Sibel Edmonds, Steven Lendman, Stuart Littlewood, Susan Lindauer, Tom Valentine, Yanira Farray and Zabiullah Rashidi.<\/p>\n<p>Sure some of them have impressive educational credentials, but what are they doing writing for a website called Veterans Today? One of them, Jim Hall, brags that his family has always been the military&#8230;and yet he avoided the draft and didn&#8217;t serve. Others brag that they once interviewed Noam Chomsky&#8230;like a real veteran cares about that.<\/p>\n<p>So now you know what you&#8217;re getting at Veterans Today. Useless opinions you can get in a thousand other places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO and I were discussing the number of veterans who were employed by a certain veterans&#8217; &hellip; <a title=\"Who is writing at Veterans Today?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26212\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who is writing at Veterans Today?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}