No veteran’s ‘welcome home’ should come in the form of an unemployment check. By Paul Rieckhoff President Obama traveled to Camp Lejeune this week to announce the eventual drawdown of combat troops in Iraq. There’s sure to be a lot of discussion about the details of the timeline, and a lot of politics getting in [...]
Tech entrepreneur purchased document from a book dealer for $475,000 by Michael Felberbaum RICHMOND, Va. – A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book [...]
Bars in Abu Nawas Street are popular again — even with U.S. troops By Sudarsan Raghavan BAGHDAD – The American soldier stepped out of the Baghdad nightclub. In one hand, he clutched his weapon. In the other, a green can of Tuborg beer. He took a sip and walked over to two comrades, dressed as [...]
By Robert Greenwald Many of you reading this worked diligently to support President Barack Obama and his call for change. I’m sure you feel, as I do, an almost palpable air of excitement and pride right now in having a man of Obama’s intelligence and integrity in the White House. What I also find remarkable [...]
By Chris Bowers In his speech on Iraq redeployment today, President Obama pledged to have all troops, including "residual forces," by the end of 2011. This is the pledge I have been waiting for: Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end(…) Through [...]
By STAFF WRITER Rick Thorne I’m sick of all this bad news! Where in the hell does it all end?We can’t believe our politicians!We can’t believe our religious leaders!We can’t believe our C.E.O’sWHERE’S THE RELIEF?READ ON FOR THE REST OF THE STORY>>>>>> I was a professional photographer for several years. Now I’m going to take you [...]
SPY AGENCIES INTERROGATE CRIPPLED VETS LOOKING FOR "POTENTIAL PROTESTERS" by Tom Barnes STAFF WRITER American wounded are being hounded, spied on and intimidated by our intelligence agencies, gone crazy or with too much time on their hands. This is what I have learned: I have a friend of who has worked at Walter Reed for years. We [...]
OPENLY ADVOCATING SEDITION, TREASON AND TERRORISM ALAN KEYES AND RICK SANTELLI ATTACK OBAMA By Gordon Duff Alan Keyes is the favorite “house negro” of the right. At Cornell, while dodging the draft during Vietnam, a war he said he supported, he was an FBI snitch for cross dresser J. Edgar Hoover, suspected mastermind of the [...]
Obama’s Road in Afghanistan Not The One MLK Would Have Chosen By Sherwood Ross “Because I will not allow terrorists to plot against the American people from safe havens half a world away” is the reason President Obama gave for forging “a new and comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan…” Yet Americans, in their anger [...]
by Tom Barnes We have all learned through hard experience that only the squeaky wheel gets the grease. For veterans, the disabled most especially, writing politicians and asking or even demanding the veterans’ share of the national resources available is the only way many veterans can survive. Many cannot work and need government resources to [...]
by Tom Barnes “Thanks for coming guys, this is awful nice. I will try and keep this under ten minutes. I was thinking about my career before we came over here and without going into a long list of where I was stationed, I just want to thank some people and tell a few [...]
Washington, D.C. – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA) provided the following statement on President Obama’s Budget Outline for the Department of Veterans Affairs for Fiscal Year 2010: “I applaud President Obama’s budget request for the Department of Veterans Affairs. After sixteen years on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, I am very [...]
Funding Plan Improves Access, Modernizes Technology WASHINGTON – President Obama’s first proposed budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) expands eligibility for health care to an additional 500,000 deserving Veterans over the next five years, meets the need for continued growth in programs for the combat Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and provides the resources [...]
by Anne E. Kornblut and William Branigin President Obama announced plans Friday to withdraw the bulk of U.S. forces from Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, and to pull out all remaining troops by the end of 2011, ending the war in Iraq and launching "a new era of American leadership and engagement in the Middle East." [...]
Send Your Email to Congress: Indict Bush Now! Senate to Investigate CIA’s Actions Under Bush From the Los Angeles Times today: "The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA’s detention and interrogation programs under President Bush, setting the stage for a sweeping examination of some of most secretive and controversial [...]
By ETHAN BRONNER JERICHO, West Bank — They rappel down a 65-foot tower, navigate obstacle courses, shoot in the firing range and sleep in pristine barracks. They eat in an air-conditioned mess where brushed aluminum glints from every kitchen surface. Rows of Land Rovers stand by. The entrance reads “The Presidential Guard, Always in Front: [...]
The Computer Sciences Corp., Federal Sector of Falls Church, Va., is being awarded a cost plus award fee contract modification under contract HQ0006-03-C-0003 for $108,011,668. After award of this modification the cumulative contract value will be $736,989,348. The work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama. This sole source award is a modification to extend [...]
FALLS CHURCH, VA. – Rear Adm. Christine S. Hunter will take the helm from Army Maj. Gen. Elder Granger as the deputy director of TRICARE Management Activity (TMA). Granger, who retires from TMA in May, has been the deputy director since December of 2005. “Rear Admiral Hunter is an outstanding leader, highly respected and [...]
By STAFF WRITER Rick Thorne The more balanced news media outlets are talking about every relevant issue under the sun EXCEPT for Barack Obama’s eligibility to be our President. This debacle is not going to go away! It’s the giant elephant in the living room that people like you won’t give any legitimacy. Why? There [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. Obama’s VA Budget Proposes More Money, Increased Access. 2. Walter Reed Treating More Brain Traumas, Psychological Disorders. 3. Officials Say VA Will Begin Processing New Educational Benefits In March. 4. VA Psychiatrist Pleased By Substance Abuse Bill’s Introduction. 5. VA Vote On Hold For Deed. 6. Special Court Would Give Vets Second Chance. [...]
By Nora Eisenberg With rare exceptions, American politicians seem incapable of opposing an American war without befriending another in a different place or time. Barack Obama, an early and ardent enemy of the Iraq War, quickly declared his affinity for a war in Afghanistan and/or Pakistan. And like so many Democratic leaders, he has commended [...]
A former CIA officer has said its ridiculous that the Bush administration didn’t execute numerous prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, regardless of whether they have had a trial, when it had the chance. "Many of those individuals that are there are enemy combatants and that’s based on the Geneva Conventions and should be executed," said Gary [...]
By Tom Philpott Complaints from veterans and from a high-profile commission that the services routinely were "low-balling" disability ratings for military members spurred Congress to take action last year. Among other things it ordered the Department of Defense to create a special board to review disability ratings of 20 percent or less given to members [...]
by Denise Nichols Again our gulf war veterans of Desert Storm are dying at an early age. May we honor them as we honor all. All services represented! Roll Call of names! For more info always refer to www.honorthenames.com 1. Campbell,56,MGSgt,USMC, in hospital, VN and GW2. Matthews, 54,Army and NV NG, GW and Iraq3. Opinker,45, in [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA) provided the following statement on President Obama’s Budget Outline for the Department of Veterans Affairs for Fiscal Year 2010: "I applaud President Obama’s budget request for the Department of Veterans Affairs. After sixteen years on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, I am very encouraged that this [...]
by Julie Sell London – Contradicting previous denials about Britain’s participation in the Bush administration’s global war on terrorism, Defense Minister John Hutton said Thursday that Britain had handed over two terrorism suspects it captured in Iraq to the U.S., which sent them to Afghanistan, where they’re still being held after more than four [...]
by Saeed Shah Peshwar, Pakistan – America’s key ally in the fight against al Qaida and the Taliban plunged deeper into turmoil Wednesday after its Supreme Court disqualified popular opposition leader Nawaz Sharif from running for parliament. The ruling threatens to trigger a new political crisis that could paralyze the government and push [...]
By STAFF WRITER Rick Thorne As veterans all of us need to be very observant in these troubled times. We must remember! As the government goes-so goes OUR RIGHTS! We must look at the bigger picture of what’s really going on with our government. This is why I’m writing articles bringing to light for all [...]
To: House Committee on Veterans AffairsCannon House Office Building, Washington D.C. 20515 Sirs, I am a totally disabled veteran (Individually Unemployable). The Department of Veterans Affairs (D.V.A.) owes me, and thousands of other totally disabled veterans, back pay and the agency for paying that money is the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS). This is [...]
Gates says decision on media photos will be up to families of war dead WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday said he was lifting the ban against media photos of soldiers’ coffins returning to the U.S. and will instead leave the decision up to families. Gates told reporters earlier this month that he [...]
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