Bush’s ‘pocket veto’ denies veterans the right to sue Iraq and blocks key reforms passed by Congress to clean up the Walter Reed scandal and gives those funds to rebuild Iraq by Paul Sullivan Update: 60 Minutes Story on Bush Blocking Tortured U.S. POWs from Pursuing Money from Iraqi Regime (from Nov. 20, 2003) Bush never [...]
A Veteran’s darkest days Written by Peter Macdonald How does one describe the need to die because you no longer belong? How does one educate on the short bursts of memory that always comes back? How does one know if it was reality then or now? The freedom that we gave our lives for is [...]
Stolen Valor Act Will Out Fake Veteransby Zach Church, The Eagle Tribune LAWRENCE – Jim Stokes isn’t the only person in the country accused of faking his military record. If Doug Sterner has his way, they’ll all be found out and prosecuted under the new federal Stolen Valor Act. And the true heroes – the [...]
Person of the year by Peter Macdonald New Hampshire gives the Secretary of State (SOS), “Person of the year”. This man is a member of the Elite Concord Special Person’s Club (ECSPC). His only name to fame is that he obeyed the law and made NH the First in the nation primary. Did Gardner ever [...]
Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 Americaby Ray McGovern, Consortium News “There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theater. … Perhaps the only comparably odd thing [...]
One nation under God by Peter Macdonald When does, taking up arms and abolishing become necessary in a civilized society of today. Eisenberg (the NH man that took over the Clinton Head quarters)has been housed in the State Prison with no care or heat. His paper work asking for court intervention was delayed in filing [...]
UNDERSTANDING INSULIN USE WITH DIABETES IS IT NECESSARY OR NOT? BY CAROL DUFF R.N with information from the AMERICAN DIABETIC ASSOCIATION With Type 2 diabetes insulin is no always necessary unless your HbA1C level (the blood test to see how well your blood sugar is staying within normal limits over the past three months) is creeping up [...]
Is the NAFTA Superhighway the first stage of a long, silent coup to supplant the sovereign United States with a North American Union?by Christopher Hayes, The Nation When completed, the highway will run from Mexico City to Toronto, slicing through the heartland like a dagger sunk into a heifer at the loins and pulled clean [...]
IT SEEMS CALIFORNIA NOW HAS A NEW "STOLEN VALOR" LAW MEANT TO PUNISH PHONY HEROES… SINCE REAL COMBAT VETS KNOW THAT MOST PHONY HEROES ARE THE ONES THE THE MILITARY ACTUALLY AWARDED REAL MEDALS TO, IS CALIFORNIA GOING TO ARREST THEM FIRST? BY G. DUFF How do we save real combat vets who, thru some horrible [...]
Freedom in New Hampshire Written by Peter Macdonald You will notice that I continue to expose criminal judges and elected officials because what I am stating is the truth. The Madbury NH selectmen use their elected positions to seek revenge on local town residents. Judge Peter Fauver uses the power of the NH justice dept. [...]
Massachusetts sets the standard for war veterans benefits By Marybeth Kennealy Four decades ago, Massachusetts became the only state to pass a law – later overruled in federal court – making it illegal for residents to fight in the Vietnam War. Today, although ranking 45th among states in veterans per capita, the commonwealth is a leader in [...]
Censorship Written by Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 Veteran’s letters should never be censored especially when they concern Veteran’s medical issues. Veteran’s Today, Boston Globe and Red Sox blogs publish my letters. The NH and all New England newspapers censor my letters. I get notes and letters from some readers of [...]
New VA finding: No liberal biased news limits PTSD stressors! by Robert L. Hanafin, SP/5, U.S. Army (69-76) The Deportment of Veterans Affairs (VA) yep, I spelled it correctly) says that Military Families and Troops that watch or listen to less ‘bad’ news from sensationalized media programs about Iraq limit their exposure to PTSD stressors. Say [...]
Bush wants power over promotions by Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is pushing to take control of the promotions of military lawyers, escalating a conflict over the independence of uniformed attorneys who have repeatedly raised objections to the White House’s policies toward prisoners in the war on terrorism. The administration has [...]
Veteran’s Depression by Peter MacDonald Depression in a Veteran is some times camouflaged by naïve minds around us that believe that they know but have no idea. I wrote a book about my time in service to this nation. “Marine Corps Gallantry or Psychosis” by Sgt Macdonald. The Book has been published but is no [...]
A new study of combat-exposed Vietnam War veterans shows that those with injuries to certain parts of the brain were less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ScienceDaily — The findings, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Naval Medical Center, suggest that drugs or pacemaker-like devices aimed at dampening activity [...]
Turkey in the oven? Not the real one as Christmas sems to be under review Christmas Holidays for our Veterans and Soldiers BY G. DUFF Do I really go to see the new Chipmunk movie today? Are we really down to that? Can I join the hundreds pissing and moaning about the suffering troops? Perhaps I could [...]
After an IED attack killed five members of their platoon, members of the unit gathered and decided that they could no longer function professionally. [VIDEO] by Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority After an IED attack killed five members of 2nd Platoon Charlie 1-26 in northeast Baghdad, members of the unit gathered and determined that they [...]
The Ghost of Christmas Present A 2007 comparative look at Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. By Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired With a bit of writer’s block, must be the Christmas Spirit, I was debating with myself what would be appropriate to write about on ‘this day.’ I said to myself, Self, how about [...]
Veteran’s Must Realize Veteran Who Lost Leg in Iraq War Fights for Benefits by Peter Macdonald This is why I fight for the rights being denied people in the U.S. I volunteer my time because when a U.S. congress woman from NH can have a 100% disabled veteran from the Vietnam Conflict arrested on her [...]
HERE WE STAND, ORDERED TO WORRY ABOUT OUR TROOPS WHO THE HELL ARE THEY ANYWAY? BY G. DUFF We are facing another Christmas at war. This year, we learn that we have lost more troops from suicide than from combat. We see no real films from Iraq, nothing new, as "war news" is always [...]
CONGRESS PASSES COMPROMISE GUN BILL THAT OFFERS VETERANS, AND OTHERS, SPECIAL PROTECTIONS By LAURIE KELLMAN VA would have to notify a person flagged as mentally ill and disqualified from buying or possessing a gun, and would require notification when someone has been cleared of that restriction.Both Houses of Congress have passed new gun legislation.This is [...]
FORGOTTEN HISTORY LEADS TO SHAME AND DISHONOR BY Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Yesterday, as I so often do, I loaded into the car and drove to Detroit, where my family has lived for well over 200 years. None of us live there anymore. Detroit looks more like Hiroshima than Detroit, with open fields and [...]
Military Christmas OverSeas by Peter Macdonald I have moments every year at this time, since 1974 when I came home. The feeling of loneness, and the dream of living one Christmas back in the world (US). After boot camp I was in a car accident. TBI tarmacs brain injury was the result. To this day [...]
Bogus passage allegedly penned by former North Vietnam General Vo Nguyen Giap attributes U.S. loss of the Vietnam War to homefront disruption caused by biased media Subject: Fwd: From General Giaps Memoirs… General Giap was a brilliant, highly respected leader of the North Vietnam military. The following quote is from his memoirs currently found in [...]
What is a Veteran? by Peter Macdonald A Veteran is a child that joins the U.S. Military. A Veteran is a child that goes to boot camp and receives training to qualify their physical ability and develop the mind to think in military terms. A Veteran is the machine that graduates from boot camp to [...]
Experts fear an infection caught by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan will invade civilian hospitalsPeter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor The UK, the United States and Canada are facing growing fears over a drug-resistant ‘superbug’ being brought back by wounded soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq that threatens to contaminate civilian hospitals. The intensified concern comes [...]
Oldest U.S. WWI Vet Dies at 109Veteran J. Russell Coffey Wanted People to Remember his Contributions, Not his Age J. Russell Coffey, the oldest known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. The retired teacher, one of only three U.S. veterans from the "war to end all wars," was 109. Coffey died Thursday at [...]
What are Presidential Candidate’s Veterans Platforms (Part Two) "Ask not what you can do for your candidate, ask what your canidate will do to EARN YOUR VOTE." By Robert L. Hanafin In order to suppress my own personal bias and favored candidate (yes I do have one), my series of articles on each Presidential candidate [...]
Parker Hannifin Corporation Seeks War Veterans for Hire Parker Hannifin Corporation Teams with HireVeterans to Employ America’s Best by K. Morgan Barker Parker Hannifin Corporation, the world’s leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technology, has partnered with HireVeterans.com, America’s premier job board exclusively for war veterans, in order to employ some of the Nation’s [...]
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