Mortgage Crisis Hits Home For Troops, Veteransby Gidget Fuentes CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Air Force veteran Nellie Cooper thought she was following good advice when she refinanced her home’s mortgage with an adjustable-rate loan. For the self-employed real estate agent, it seemed smart. But her mortgage payments ballooned while local property values dropped, sinking her [...]
Source: RAD Films at http://www.radfilms.com/huac.htm by Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired “Legislative investigation designed and often exercised for the achievement of high ends, has too frequently been used by many as a means for effecting the disgrace and degradation of private persons. Unscrupulous demagogues have used the power to investigate as tyrants of an earlier day used [...]
Veterans, How much business do you want? by Joseph R. Grossi The federal government spends about $250 billion annually on products and services, so three percent of that would be about $7.5 billion. The Fortune 500 procurement figure, estimated at $2 trillion, dwarfs Uncle Sam’s total. The next largest 500 companies probably spend another $500 [...]
Part One of the Series: 'Coming Home: Soldiers and Drugs'By ROBERT LEWIS and KATE MCCARTHY Editor's Note from Brian Ross: In the third year of a joint project with the nonprofit Carnegie Corporation, six leading graduate school journalism students were again selected to spend the summer working with the ABC News investigative unit. This year's [...]
Veterans Can Fix Their Own Credit Challenges DIY Software Makes Credit Repair for Veterans Fast, Easy, and Effective by John P. Allen, DirectVALoan.com Can Veterans fix their own credit problems? Well, as General Manager of VeteransToday.com, I have been helping Veterans get VA Loans for many years now. Most of the work is helping veterans position [...]
For Returning Soldiers, GI Bill Doesn't Add Upby Ellis Henican, Newsday They're coming home, the lucky ones are, pulling their lives back together after harrowing times in the war zone. And the GI Bill is there to help them, same as it was for "the greatest generation," who returned to civilian society after World War [...]
Wrapped in the Flag – OUT OF CONTROL by Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired Before sharing my opinion of those who wrap themselves in 'our' American Flag, I am talking about the real thing – Old Glory, not some 'image' of our National Banner on a T-Shirt intended for retail sales by some petty [...]
A Taxpayer Protest Against A Global War: If Bush Goes To War With Iran, Americans Should Deny Him The Money He Needsby Chris Hedges, The Nation I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran. I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futile gesture. But an attack on Iran–which [...]
“GARWOOD” BY: JAMES WEBB Many of you may be familiar with the name “Bobby Garwood”: Garwood’s story has received a lot of press coverage and he is despised by many as a Vietnam-era collaborator. I want to introduce a fresh perspective on the Garwood matter, a way of looking at his story that most people [...]
The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat.by Penny Coleman, Alternet Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going [...]
Tortured with razor-sharp bamboo and fed alive to ants: The story behind one PoW's incredible escape from Vietnamby Zoe Brennan Flying low over the dangerous and impenetrable Laotian jungle on a bombing mission against the Viet Cong, U.S. Air Force Colonel Eugene Deatrick saw a lone figure waving to him from a clearing below. He [...]
A VET’S NARRATIVE ON SURVIVING THE “SILLY SEASON” by Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor For some veterans of our current war, this will be their first holiday home from a combat assignment. For others, Christmas has been spent both home and away, sometimes more than once. In our history, this is a unique situation. We [...]
Way Past Time to Recognize the Foreign-Born, those who serve in our Armed Forces By (American of Irish-German descent) Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force Left, Officer in Charge of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Moscow goes to Afghanistan to administer the Oath of U.S. Citizenship to newly Naturalized foreign-born troops serving [...]
DIABETES: VITAL DENTAL CARE ISSUES FOR NEWLY DIAGNOSED DIABETICS BY CAROL DUFF RN Diabetes increases the susceptibility to infection due to poor wound healing. Diabetics have a greater risk of a more severe and progressive form of periodontitis, which is the infectious process that leads to the deterioration of supporting bone and tissues that [...]
'This really is like Russian roulette. Spin the chamber and take your shot'WorldNetDaily A U.S. soldier in Iraq is being punished for refusing an anthrax vaccine that has a questionable safety record and apparently will be drummed out of the service. But such punishments may be of no avail to the military; the word already [...]
For my disconnected, disinterested, uncaring friends, it's not about the damn money, We have the damn money, it's us, we suck, we do not care…We are all collectively allowing out government to perpetuate this crime, the crime of not taking care of soldiers.by Colonel David Hunt, U.S. Army (Ret.) We — that’s you and me — [...]
THE CONSEQUENCES OF A PRESIDENTIAL TANTRUM: AMERICAN LIVES AT RISKBY G DUFF Former Whitehouse spokesman, Scott McLellan has, in excerpts from his upcoming book, charged President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Presidential Advisor Karl Rove with personal involvment in exposing CIA operative Valierie Plame to the national press. This was done in revenge for truthfull [...]
Man who refused to sign speeding ticket because he did not understand what it was is tased and arrested by officer who then refused to read him his rights by Steve Watson, Infowars.net A man was tased and arrested on a Utah highway after being stopped by an officer and refusing to sign a speeding ticket [...]
After being wounded in the war, the Military is asking soldiers to return their signing Bonusesby Steve Benen,The Carpetbagger Report Left, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM — Wounded U.S. Army soldiers are loaded onto a C-130 Hercules at Baghdad International Airport on April 22. The airport is a primary base of operations for U.S. troops, cargo and [...]
RADIOACTIVE AMMUNITION FIRED IN THE MIDDLE EAST MAY CLAIM MORE LIVES THAN HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI by Sherwood Ross By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan. So much ammunition containing depleted [...]
America Stand To Be Countedby Paul Newell Yes, let’s talk about the statistics on what has been done. America Stands at the base of goodwill around the globe. A very generous base of good intentions. So let’s take a look at really how important a roll the US of A has played in Global Stability [...]
LEAVING A MARK ON HISTORYBy Matt Davison Serving veterans incarcerated creates bonds with warriors who took part in wars spanning Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. One vet, who is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island, California, precedes all these wars, and has become a valued friend over the past five years. [...]
Self-serving attorneys and judges have found ways to circumvent federal laws that prohibit third party awards of veteran’s benefits.by Jere Beery "Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning 'to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.'”–Robin Williams Please allow me to take you on a brief journey. Try to imagine [...]
Exercise: An Essential Part of the Diabetic Lifestyle BY CAROL DUFF RN For both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics exercise will reduce the need for insulin and oral hypoglycemic medications, improve the ability of the body to improve glycemic (sugar) control, and increase the ability to control body weight. Exercise also helps the [...]
Space hasn't yet been weaponized but it is already highly militarized, thanks to a money-hungry arms industry and a commission started by Rumsfeld. by Stan Cox, AlterNet Last January 11, a missile launched from China's Xichang Space Center destroyed a satellite 537 miles above the Earth's surface. Although the target was a weather satellite belonging to [...]
West Irving Die Casting Company Now Hiring War Veterans West Irving Die Casting Company Joins HireVeterans.com in Order to Employ War Veterans By Morgan Barker and John Allen West Irving Die Casting Company has a reputation as a company with common sense and their partnership with HireVeterans.com drives that fact home. They are currently seeking [...]
BURGER KING CORPORATION, OWNED BY WALL STREET GIANTS STILL CRYING "BABY KILLER" IN THEIR 40 YEAR HISTORY OF VETERAN HIRING DESCRIMINATIONBy JON CHAVEZ, BLADE BUSINESS WRITER Are you a Vietnam veteran looking for a job at Burger King? You may not get the job, but it won't be because you fought in the war 40 [...]
When military command is the voice of reason in a debate about a new war, you know our democracy is in trouble. by Chris Hedges, TruthDig The last, best hope for averting a war with Iran lies with the United States military. The Democratic Congress, cowed by the Israel lobby and terrified of appearing weak on [...]
Wounded Warriors Face Home-front Battle with VA Story Highlights Ty Ziegel lost an arm, part of his skull when he was attacked in Iraq VA initially rated his brain injury at 0%, meaning he got no compensation for it Another vet: VA rejected his claim, saying his wounds were "not service connected" Ziegel: "I want [...]
NEW NAMES FOR THE WALLBY: JAMES WEBB In honor and tribute, and as a place to heal all wounds, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall was dedicated on 13 November 1982 by President Carter. The Wall (as it is referred to by Vietnam Veterans) honors all who served in one of America's most diversified, long and [...]
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