First Enlisted Soldier Buried Under New Cemetery Policy By Mark Berman, Washington Post Staff Writer Joseph M. Hernandez, 24, was a family man with a wife and two young sons. But he was also an Army man and a soldier. Yesterday, he became the first enlisted soldier to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery under [...]
By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff Writer Few words are as closely studied as a U.S. president’s comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and President Obama this week waded quickly into the issue, naming a special envoy on his second day in office and making expansive comments on the recent war in the Gaza Strip. Thus [...]
Mountainous Region in East Especially Challenging By Candace Rondeaux, Washington Post Foreign Service KHUGA KHEYL, Afghanistan — It was near sunset when the tire on one of the armored vehicles blew out on the way back through the village of Khuga Kheyl this month. The U.S. Army convoy stopped dead in a narrow, rocky cleft [...]
The Tripartite Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) by Kelly Porter Franklin Like the USA and the UK, our nation has a history of using soldiers in experiments testing weapons of war. This is the story of Agent Orange use in Canada, and this time the families of those soldiers were guinea pigs too. The governments of [...]
By Hope Yen WASHINGTON — Two years after a politically embarrassing $1 billion shortfall that imperiled veterans health care, the Veterans Affairs Department is still lowballing budget estimates to Congress to keep its spending down, government investigators say. The report by the Government Accountability Office, set to be released later Friday, highlights the Bush administration’s [...]
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Integrated Systems Sector, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $39,987,905 not-to-exceed modification to a previously awarded firm fixed price contract (N00019-07-C-0041) for the procurement of three Low Rate Initial Production Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle units, including support. In addition this modification provides for three Ground [...]
In this round of capital grant funding, VA expects to award funding to create approximately 1000 community-based supported housing beds.The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is announcing the availability of funds for applications for assistance under the Capital Grant component of VA’s Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program. This Notice contains information concerning the program, [...]
Alert Alert Alert: Gulf War Veterans Need to know big meetings coming outside of DC by Denise Nichols VA Gulf War illness Research Advisory Committee will meet in DALLAS Feb 23-24 then June 29-30 Boston and Nov2-3 in DC. 2009 meetings of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses are currently planned for the [...]
By Kelly Kennedy – Army Times Staff writer The most severely injured service members now can head straight to the Veterans Affairs Department disability retirement system, rather than first having to go through the Defense Department system — potentially cutting months of paperwork and launching their benefits that much sooner. The new system, announced Jan. [...]
by: Phillip Butler, Ph.D., t r u t h o u t | Perspective "I, Phillip Neal Butler, having been appointed a Midshipman in the United States Navy, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, and to bear true faith [...]
By Dana Priest, Washington Post Staff Writer President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war on terror," as President George W. Bush had defined it, signaling to the world that the reach of [...]
By Robert L. Rosebrock Memo to President Obama: On behalf of America’s Military Veterans, this is to respectfully ask for a very small share of the $825 billion dollar stimulus package that you are proposing to jump-start our nation’s lagging economy. This modest request is consistent with the humble defenders of America’s freedom, as they [...]
By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly Two weeks ago, Barack Obama promised, "We are going to close Guantanamo, and we are going to make sure that the procedures we set up are ones that abide by our Constitution. That is not only the right thing to do, but it actually has to be part of our [...]
Al-Jazeera is reporting that Dense Inert Metal Explosives — DIME weapons — were used in Gaza Dense Inert Metal Explosives in Gaza Cause Death and Cancer by Steven D., Booman Tribune It seems Gaza was a weapons-testing lab for the use of a particularly toxic weapon: Dense Inert Metal Explosives More from Al-Jazeera English: [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. IT Said To Be Key To Shinseki’s Agenda At VA. 2. GAO: VA Is "Still Lowballing" Budget Estimates. 3. VA: Freeze On Bush Regulations Will Not Delay GI Bill. 4. New Shuttle Service In Operation At Hefner VAMC. 5. Native American Seeks To Host Gathering For Veterans. 6. Iraq War Vet To Testify [...]
AMERICA’S FREE PRESS RECORDED, HACKED, DESTROYED IS THE NSA BLACKMAILING CONGRESS, MANIPULATING MARKETS… SPYING FOR CHINA? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER It had been the job of the NSA (National Security Agency) to monitor communications outside the US for their clients, the CIA, Department of Defense and a very few select others. Their job is [...]
from Kelly Dougherty, Executive Director Iraq Veterans Against the War The War Resisters Support Campaign needs your help to stop the imminent deportation of five U.S. war resisters and their families living in Canada; Cliff Cornell, Chris Teske, Dean Walcott, Kimberly Rivera, and Patrick Hart. The War Resister Support Campaign has organized an emergency week of action [...]
Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a cost-plus-incentive fee, indefinite-delivery, requirements contract with an estimated value of $581,446,845 to provide Joint Performance Based Logistics (JPBL) support for the Marine Corps (MV-22), Air Force, and Special Forces Operations Command (CV-22) aircraft during the production and deployment phase of the V-22 Program. Work will [...]
TO THE ENEMIES OF AMERICAN FREEDOM: YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER For 8 long years America sunk into barbarism and corruption while many empowered to protect and defend stood silently by. Thousands of judges, lawyers and law enforcement officials joined the armies of corrupt regulatory authorities, press stooges [...]
Tearing Up Washington’s Middle East Playbook By Tony Karon Lest President Barack Obama’s opportunistic silence when Israel began the Gaza offensive that killed more than 1,400 Palestinians (more than 400 of them children) be misinterpreted, his aides pointed reporters to comments made six months earlier in the Israeli town of Sderot. "If somebody was [...]
Critics say system is likely to punish troops rather than help them. by Alan Scher Zagier Fort Leonard Wood — Spec. Jeremiah Thomson didn’t know what was worse: excruciating back pain from a combat explosion in Baghdad or the prescription drug addiction he developed once home. The Army was quick to prescribe Percocet, Vicodin, Oxycontin [...]
by Michael Collins Piper The Washington Post has finally acknowledged—albeit buried in an “analysis” on its back pages—the explosive and little-known point first made by American Free Press as long ago as Oct. 29, 2001 (and later on July 8, 2002 and Feb. 13, 2006): that Israel had a secret agenda vis-�-vis Islamic fundamentalist groups [...]
A Conflict that Shaped A Generation Four decades on, the legacy of American involvement in the Viet Nam War still looms large in the lives of the veterans who experienced it first hand. This new anthology of poems, stories, and essays looks at the war through the lens of both past and present perspectives. Featuring [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. Shinseki, Six Other Cabinet Secretaries Sworn In. 2. VA Providing Assistance To Rural Vets. 3. Gould Said To Be In Running For Deputy VA Secretary. 4. Injured Vets Go Online For Financial Assistance. 5. Hearing Will Discuss Future Of LSU-VA Hospital Project. 6. Expansion Of Bay Pines VAMC To Be Unveiled Thursday. 7. New [...]
Uber Powerful Jewish Lobby Flexes It’s Kryptonite on SuperObama By Michael Collins Piper THE POWERFUL JEWISH LOBBY in Washington is already issuing marching orders to President-elect Barack Obama. One of the most influential voices of the lobby has published an array of “working papers” designed to tell the president how he must maintain the “special relationship” [...]
by a Soldiers Mind Death of a loved one is very hard for any of us to handle. Anytime one deals with the death of a loved one, it’s often difficult to find closure and move on with life, without that person. When a parent has to bury their child, it’s often very difficult, as [...]
By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet In the last days before Israel imposed a unilateral cease-fire in Gaza to avoid embarrassing the incoming Obama administration, it upped its assault, driving troops deeper into Gaza City, intensifying its artillery bombardment and creating thousands more displaced people. Israel’s military strategy in Gaza, even in what its officials were [...]
By Tana Ganeva After weeks of denying that they had used white phosphorus in heavily-populated areas of Gaza, the IDF has admitted that Israeli forces may have used the napalm-like chemical in violation of both international law and the Israeli military’s own policy. The Guardian reports: According to senior IDF officers, quoted today in the [...]
The DOD focused only on Operation Homefront to show ASY preferential treatment This raises a very basic question, why out of what over 300 plus home “front” patriotic groups did the DOD/IG only single out ONE, Operation Homefront, to make an example of preferential treatment. First, it makes Pentagon claims of preferential treatment to any [...]
Formerly Relevant Talk Show Host Proves in deed that He’s Done! by Mark Morris After years of defending Bush, is Rush Limbaugh finally over? The answer is a resounding YES HE IS! Barack Obama has barely taken office and Rush Limbaugh is already rooting for his failure. What a shame! This poor lost soul could not [...]
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