DOD Inspector General finds that America Supports You.mil paid celebrites performance fees for their support. by Robert L. Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired This is the continuation of an in-depth, multi-post expose on what the Department of Defense Inspector General found distasteful about America Supports You.mil operations. DOD/IG learns that American Supports You.mil truly is [...]
Proposed system for delivering medical care to our women veterans of grave concern by Emine Cay Masters, M.D In order for women to receive adequate medical care, they need to have direct access to primary care, mental health, and gynecology care. These disciplines are considered the three fundamental pillars for delivering quality health care to [...]
America garrisons the globe in ways that are truly unprecedented, but if you live in the United States, you rarely hear a word about it. Going on an Imperial Bender How the U.S. Garrisons the Planet and Doesn’t Even Notice By Tom Engelhardt Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the [...]
POPULAR PRISONER BEATING VIDEO NO LAUGHING MATTER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Got an email today from a popular military site. It sent me to those videos from our troops in Iraq, the ones we watch with such pride. This very recent video is from an MP unit showing a handcuffed prisoner being rifle butted [...]
The Air Force awarded a contract to Boeing Satellite Systems, Inc., El Segundo, California for $75,000,000. This will authorize Boeing to continue the Transformational Communications Satellite Risk Reduction and System Definition (RR&SD) baseline efforts.(FA8808-04-C-0022/P00052). The Air Force awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation, Sunnyvale, California for 75,000,000. This will [...]
The U.S. spends as much on the military in a single year as it did in the $700 billion financial bailout. Yet the Pentagon is now calling for more. By Mark Engler, In These Times At the end of a long electoral season marked by bipartisan vows to bring "change," America’s massive military budget remains [...]
The New Yorker’s star reporter discusses Abu Ghraib, the "war on terror," and why U.S. reporters don’t pay enough attention to the Arab press. By Faisal Abbas, Asharq Al-Awsat Asharq Al-Awsat, London — In this interview, Asharq Al-Awsat speaks to veteran American reporter Seymour Hersh, who, four years ago, exposed the now infamous prison abuse [...]
The Christmas Truce of 1914 What if they called a war and peace broke out instead? That’s exactly what happened during the Christmas season of 1914 when the soldiers themselves called a truce and, had it not been for intervention by the higher authorities on both sides, World War I might have ended. Stanley Weintraub [...]
Obama offers appreciation to U.S. military HONOLULU – President-elect Barack Obama offered appreciation to the U.S. military on Christmas Eve in a recorded message and then asked children of uniformed troops if they had their wish lists ready. Obama and wife, Michelle, made their early morning trek to Marine Corps Base Hawaii just northeast of [...]
Search for Other Eligible Survivors Continues WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has identified nearly 11,000 surviving spouses of deceased veterans who will receive a lump-sum payment before the New Year to correct an error in their VA benefits. Also documented were more than 73,000 who had been previously paid. VA officials are [...]
Anti-Christ could be a Woman? By LIBERTY is FREEDOM Under Clinton Administration Hillary, induced & manipulated, revamp of Military health care, penetrating, like a slithering viper ”IT” swallowed D.O.D. as if, minion in command of an attacking Army. Focused on defeat, Injecting poison into the ranks, turning payroll, into a competitive accounting scheme, eliminating equality in [...]
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, IPS News CAIRO — Washington and Baghdad signed a security agreement earlier this month allowing the U.S. to maintain a military presence in Iraq for another three years. But while Baghdad officials hailed the pact as the "beginning of the end" of the U.S.-led occupation, Egyptian commentators — [...]
In a series of departing interviews, Cheney challenges anyone to repudiate the imperial presidency constructed in the Bush era. By Robert Parry, Consortium News As Vice President Dick Cheney goes public in exit interviews about his vision of expansive executive powers, it’s getting clearer how close the American Republic came to suffering major deformity – [...]
A SEASONAL PONDERING By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Whenever that feeling of having the devil at my heels goes away I stop and try to remember where I was running in the first place. One question comes to mind every time, "What is it that people do?" None of that really seems clear anymore. I [...]
Oshkosh Corporation, Oshkosh, Wis., is being awarded a $176,328,868 fixed price delivery order #0025 under a previously awarded indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract (M67854-06-D-5028). This delivery order is exercise priced options for the purchase of 400 each Logistic Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR) production cargo vehicle, 17 each LVSR Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) 5TH Wheel [...]
* Surviving soldiers happy that recognition will finally come * Army’s decision comes at urging of two congressmen * Soldiers signed secrecy document before returning to the U.S. * U.S. soldiers were starved, beaten, killed at Nazi camp By Wayne Drash, CNN.com BOSTON, Massachusetts – The U.S. Army says it will honor the "heroism and [...]
Redbuffalo, Inc lists numerous new job opportunities with HireVeterans.com by Brian Kilne Redbuffalo is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned, Woman Owned Small Business. They have experience in the Military, Intelligence Community, Consulting and Commercial Industry. Redbuffalo is looking for the best and brightest to join their team. The Redbuffalo philosophy is to find the talent [...]
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFRNS) – Air Force retirees who believe that the Survivor Benefit Plan monthly premium counter on the annual Retiree Account Statement is incorrect will be given the opportunity to dispute it. The dispute period begins Jan. 1 and ends June 30. All disputes must be made by completing a DD [...]
By MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON — Even before taking office, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking to build a more powerful State Department, with a bigger budget, high-profile special envoys to trouble spots and an expanded role in dealing with global economic issues at a time of crisis. Mrs. Clinton is recruiting Jacob J. [...]
Several countries consider taking detainees after Bush leaves White House European nations have begun intensive discussions both within and among their governments on whether to resettle detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a significant overture to the incoming Obama administration, according to senior European officials and U.S. diplomats. The willingness [...]
The military contractor Kellogg Brown and Root, known as KBR, has won more than $28 billion in U.S. military contracts since the beginning of the Iraq war. KBR may be facing a new scandal. First, accusations its then-parent company Halliburton was given the lucrative contract. And later, allegations of shoddy construction oversight that resulted in [...]
George S. Patton, America’s greatest combat general of the Second World War, was assassinated after the conflict with the connivance of US leaders, according to a new book. By Tim Shipman ‘We’ve got a terrible situation with this great patriot, he’s out of control and we must save him from himself’. The OSS head General [...]
Wade Rowland Sanders admitted to having 600 images of minors on his computer Sanders was chosen to introduce John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic Convention Sanders will be sentenced March 30 and could get up to 10 years in prison A lawyer who served in the Clinton administration and more recently was an advisor to [...]
DOD Inspector General Finds that America Supports You Solicited Support from Corporations in Violation of Pentagon Conduct and Ethics Rules This is the continuation of a multi-post in-depth expose on what the Department of Defense Inspector General found distasteful about America Supports You.mil operations. To read the introduction and earlier post on this topic go [...]
Electric Boat Corporation, Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $14,011,153,663 fixed-price incentive multiyear contract for construction of eight VIRGINIA Class submarines from FY 09 to FY 13. Work will be performed at various sites throughout the United States (45%). Newport News, Va. (25%), Quonset Point, R.I. (15%); and Groton, Conn. (15%), and expected to be [...]
Veterans for America is proud to release The American Veterans and Servicemembers Survival Guide. It is free and available for download here. The new Survival Guide is a follow-up to the 1985 national bestseller, The Viet Vet Survival Guide. Just as the earlier book was a must-read for Vietnam veterans, the new book will prove [...]
Congressmen Steny Hoyer and Roy Blunt hosted the 2008 Soldiers’ Angels Benefit Gala at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on November 6, 2008. Al Hunt of Bloomberg News emceed, country music star Ricky Lee provided entertainment, and Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the keynote speaker. The [...]
Wii for the Wounded? Project Valour-IT Offers Additional Technologies Teenagers and families aren’t the only ones going wild for Wii. Whole-body video game systems like Wii can help wounded warriors recover! As part of refocusing Project Valour-IT, Soldiers’ Angels is working to ensure the wounded have the Wii systems and other technologies that support their [...]
America’s Favorite Mom played Santa for a Day in New York City, using the prizes she won to bring an early Christmas to military personnel and their families. Patti Patton-Bader, named America’s Favorite Mom last Mother’s Day, received the remainder of her prizes in New York last week, which she immediately donated in support of [...]
Time To Strike Hoover’s Name Off FBI Headquarters Building By Sherwood Ross As sentiment grows to prosecute Vice President Dick Cheney and other designers of the Bush torture policies, it may seem a trifling matter to be concerned over whose name adorns the FBI headquarters building in Washington. Except that the name J. Edgar Hoover [...]
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