America Went Shopping While Bush Burned America What are we going to tell our kids? by Amy Branham What will be said about Americans in the future when history looks back at our time? What will I tell my grandchildren and my great grandchildren when they ask what happened to America? It is not [...]
VA Finds New Way to Deny Disabled Veteransby RL Anchors, OpEdNews Some might remember the last tactic the VA used in their fight not to pay benefits claims: the second signature required to approve a PTSD claim. (Although no second signature was required if they denied your claim!) Since that process was brought to light [...]
In stark contrast with WWII, now we send troops into battle to win but give them rules of engagement that makes it almost impossible to succeedby Les Wolfe Our WWII veterans (the "Greatest Generation") were sent off to war with the goal to win, and that they did. They went off to fight the enemy with the overwhelming [...]
Disabled Veterans and Military Retiree Flights: Insulting! By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Wounded warriors and their families are excluded from government Space A (space available) travel that retirees, including those who only served in peacetime or never saw a minute of combat, currently have. This “slap in the face” for disabled veterans is known to everyone [...]
Reno resident cuts down Mexican flag flying above U.S. flag after outcry by Steve Watson A Veteran from Reno, Nev. has hit headlines after he took matters into his own hands and tore down a Mexican flag that was being illegally flown above a U.S. flag at a local business. Local news station krnv News 4 [...]
Quake brings WWII PT boat up from ocean floorWorld War II torpedo boat now sitting 10 feet out of water • Live ammo still aboard 60-year-old vessel• 8.1 quake in Solomons left 52 people dead WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Wreckage from a World War II torpedo boat was tossed up from the sea in the Solomon [...]
Internet Spreading False Rumors About Bill HR 2640 by G. Duff (Vet, gun owner, gunsmith MAD AS HELL) House Bill HR2640 which is being idiotically misrepresented across the internet by right wing extremists as a bill that would allow the government to disarm PTSD vets, dog owners, drug users, learning disabled children and anyone critical of the [...]
BG Burkett and Swift Boat Liars by the Masked Crusader for a better world (having broken into Duff’s apartment to rearrange the furniture) The 2004 election is over. John Kerry is back to spending his millions and Bush and Cheney are both hoping to stay out of prison. All that is left of the 04 [...]
How does a returning veteran with long term physical, mental and, especially, financial issues manage to fit in the VA system? by G. Duff According to how some of our leaders look at it, our troops in Iraq do little but trying to figure out how to get a leg blown off, a closed head [...]
Vets from Mars By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor For decades the “phony vet” flag has been raised but usually by people with agendas that have little to do with veterans, heroics or honor. Decades ago when I served as a Marine 0311 in Vietnam, might I remind you, in combat, none of us expected we [...]
Web, federal law help to expose military charlatans by Russel Working Left, Jesse MacBeth, previously an anti-war poster boy was found to have lied about his time in the Military. When Douglas E. Robinson showed up in Yorkville saying he was a homeless Vietnam veteran who had lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, the American Legion post [...]
For 40 years, intelligence analysts have kept this knowledge secret, a testament to our country's widespread fear of the Israel lobby.By Ray McGovern The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, and it has demonstrated that time and again, and not only on [...]
Personality disorder discharges save money, sacrifice soldiers Let's put ourselves in these shoes for a moment, if we can: You've honorably served in the Army for seven years. You've won commendations. You re-enlisted after your first hitch. You're in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2004 when a rocket hits the building you're in and leaves you unconscious [...]
Energy Industry Firm Reaches Out to Employ U.S. Veterans PetroCard Systems Joins HireVeterans.com by Marcy Jones PetroCard Systems, Inc., a wholesale distributor in fuels and lubricants, headquartered in Kent, WA, has created an apprenticeship program to assist U.S. veterans in finding a career in driving after they have served. "We believe when U.S. veterans exit the military, [...]
Be Afraid, Very Afraid Commission Gives PTSD Serious Attention By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor A couple of days ago, Tom Philpott, perhaps the best known writer today on Veterans issues,reported on the new publication from Congress on Veterans compensation issues. After years of Bush administration opposition to any proposal that would benefit disabled vets and their [...]
Pasco County Sheriff's Office Partners with HireVeterans.com The Pasco County Sheriff's Office Teams-Up with HireVeterans.com to Hire War Veterans by K. Morgan Barker In a long-standing tradition of service to their community, the Pasco County Sheriff's office in Pasco County, Florida is seeking war veterans for employment and toward that end they have partnered with HireVeterans.com [...]
Two-tiered system of healthcare puts veterans of the war on terror at the top and makes everyone else — from World War I to the first Gulf War — "second-class veterans" by Chris Roberts, El Paso Times An internal directive from a high-ranking Veterans Affairs official creates a two-tiered system of veterans health care, putting veterans [...]
National Guard Troops Denied Benefits After Longest Deployment of Iraq Warby Scott Goldberg MINNEAPOLIS, MN — When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part of President Bush's surge. 1st [...]
Coalition of Veterans Organizations wants to convince the government to adopt “mandatory full funding” of Veterans Affairsby Teresa Albano Left to right: Dale Tippett, Marc Cooper, Ed Kurek of Colaition of Veterans Organization CHICAGO — If you thought every woman and man that served in the U.S. military and honorably discharged was guaranteed health care as [...]
Volt Services Group Joins HireVeterans.com Jobs are Waiting for War Veterans as Volt Partners with HireVeterans.com by K. Morgan Barker Volt Services Group is seeking war veterans for employment through HireVeterans.com in an effort to find the best employees for today's competitive job market and supporting the sacrifices our war veterans have made with well-deserved [...]
A rare drug-resistant bacterium has spread throughout U.S. military hospitals around the world, killing at least 27 since the start of the Iraq warWASHINGTON– Acinetobacter Baumann has popped up in facilities like Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and the Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany — infecting an unknown number of soldiers’ [...]
Major Government Employment Firm Reaches Out to Hire U.S. Veterans Tate Incorporated Partners Up with HireVeterans.com to Employ the Nations Best by Marcy Jones TATE Incorporated, the Nation's leading provider of Personnel Recovery Solutions to the U.S. Government, is reaching out to hire U.S. Veterans Now! Through it's recent partnership with HireVeterans.com, the nations premire [...]
Why did the U.S. State Department tolerate — and pay to conceal — the wanton murder of Iraqis committed by Blackwater?by Robert Scheer, Truthdig How did it come to be that the ostensibly best-educated and most refined representatives of the United States in Iraq are guarded by gun-toting mercenaries who kill innocent civilians? More urgently, [...]
Sailor's wife could be deported while he's overseas "Defending the country that's trying to kick my family out" is tough Eduardo Gonzalez, a petty officer second class with the U.S. Navy, is about to be deployed overseas for a third time. Making his deployment even tougher is the fact his wife may not be around [...]
Pentagon Would Have to Present Iraq Plan to Hillby Jonathan Weisman Left, Reps. John Murtha (Pa.), left, and Jim McGovern (Mass.), right, vowed, along with Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (Wis.), that they will not entertain President Bush's war funding request until he changes his Iraq policy. By Win Mcnamee — Getty Images The House, [...]
Wounded Iraq veteran dares Rush, 'Call me phony soldier to my face' by Jason Rhyne VoteVets.org, a political group made up of veterans from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, is launching an ad campaign which accuses conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh of insulting combat troops. The ad is a response to Limbaugh's use [...]
Jobs in Security Offered to War Veterans Pinkerton Government Services Partners with HireVeterans.com by K. Morgan Barker, Veterans Today Since 9/11, security is one of the America's fastest growing and most vital industries in the country. Six years after the terrorist attacks, the homeland security business is booming and has become a multi-billion dollar business [...]
Many soldiers get boot for 'pre-existing' mental illnessby Philip Dine WASHINGTON — Thousands of U.S. soldiers in Iraq — as many as 10 a day — are being discharged by the military for mental health reasons. But the Pentagon isn't blaming the war. It says the soldiers had "pre-existing" conditions that disqualify them for treatment [...]
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