What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Stimulus Package Funds To Benefit VA Facilities. 2. House Committee To Mark Up Three Veterans-Related Bills. 3. Shinseki Adviser To Speak At Women Veterans Conference. 4. American Legion National Commander Visits Large Post. 5. VA Urged To Conduct Burn-Pit Toxins Study. 6. Obama Urged To Order Shinseki, Gates To Improve Care For Vets, [...]
Legal expert Michael Ratner calls the legal arguments made in the infamous Yoo memos, "Fuhrer’s law." By Naomi Wolf In early March, more shocking details emerged about George W. Bush legal counsel John Yoo’s memos outlining the destruction of the republic. The memos lay the legal groundwork for the president to send the military to [...]
As a condition for his release, the U.S. government told Binyam Mohamed to plead guilty, deny torture, and not to talk to media. By Willam Fisher A British court ruled Monday that U.S. authorities had asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture in exchange for his freedom. A ruling by two British [...]
by Norman Solomon Is your representative speaking out against escalation of the Afghanistan war? Last week, some members of Congress sent President Obama a letter that urged him to "reconsider" his order deploying 17,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan. Everyone in the House of Representatives had ample opportunity to sign onto the letter. Beginning [...]
by Dane Schiller The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank as soon as Wednesday to get rid of the hiding places used by smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants. If successful, the $2.1 million pilot project could later be duplicated along as many [...]
Fourteen troops in a specialty unit confront death and learn how to collect bodies to prepare themselves for similar work in Iraq, where the scale of the trauma probably will be greater. By Jia-Rui Chong The body was found behind a soccer field in a sunken, weed-choked stream bed. It lay next to a dome [...]
Bush’s Phrase Is Out, Pentagon Says By Scott Wilson and Al Kamen The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the phrase "global war on terror," a signature rhetorical legacy of its predecessor. In a memo e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department’s office of security review noted that "this administration [...]
Like Predecessor, New Justice Dept. Claiming Privilege By Carrie Johnson Civil liberties advocates are accusing the Obama administration of forsaking campaign rhetoric and adopting the same expansive arguments that his predecessor used to cloak some of the most sensitive intelligence-gathering programs of the Bush White House. The first signs have come just weeks into the [...]
by Tom Barnes, Staff Writer Is it just me or do the major veterans organizations seem to be out to lunch? I am a lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and I have been a member of the American Legion for about ten years now. To be fair, both groups attempted to help me get my [...]
* Contaminated colonoscopy gear may have exposed Florida veterans to hepatitis, HIV * Florida lawmakers seek inquiry, raise concerns about other facilities * VA sent letters to people who may have had colonoscopies May 2004 to this month * Officials say tubing was rinsed but not disinfected, call risk of infection minimal by Jennifer [...]
By Mike Griffith, Staff Writer Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s plan to deal with the problem of banks’ toxic assets is an improvement over the plan that was originally proposed by Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, and it might just work. The stock market posted a huge rally in response to the plan: Treasury Secretary Timothy [...]
They are Finally Hearing Us! This in Unbelievable! by Valerie Lewis Hey Fellow Service Disabled Veterans, Listen Up! I have a few moments to check in, get my head back in the game and get some info out to you and also hopefully educate us on some current issues that affect us directly. We have a [...]
Equilon Enterprises, Houston, Texas is being awarded a maximum $1,509,925,337 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite quantity and indefinite delivery contract for fuel. Other location of performance is Deer Park, Texas. There were originally 68 proposals Web solicited with 26 responses. Using service is Defense Energy Support Center. Contract funds will not expire [...]
U.S. researchers find brain function problems in ill veterans Exposure to certain chemicals during the 1991 Gulf War appears to have triggered abnormal responses in the brains of some U.S. veterans, researchers have found. They say the discovery could lead to new diagnostic tests and treatments for veterans with so-called Gulf War syndrome. The study, [...]
Booking the Empire: “Why We Fight” Filmmaker Makes His Case In Print By Rob Williams What happens when an award-winning documentary film producer turns to a print monograph to make his case? If you are Eugene Jarecki, the answer (to borrow a baseball metaphor) is: you hit a solid triple, with an eye towards home [...]
BRITISH war veterans fighting to get a fair deal over Gulf War Syndrome yesterday won the backing of their former supreme commander. Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Craig of Radley, chief of the Defence Staff in the 1991 Gulf War, called on ministers to act “urgently” on important US findings about the debilitating [...]
By George Galdorisi and Tom Phillips In the last few weeks, in high places, the question of whether the United States should have dedicated combat search and rescue, or CSAR, forces has risen again. For the fifth time. The history of rescuing downed airmen by other airmen is as old as the history of air [...]
By Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer The United States today is housing tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement, a form of numbing mental torture that drives about one-third of them psychotic, induces irrational anger in 90 percent, and ups the likelihood they will commit violent crimes upon release. “It’s an awful thing, solitary,” [...]
By DAVID BROOKS Wardak Province, Afghanistan – You drive up to the forward operating base in Wardak Province in an armored Humvee, with the machine-gunner sticking up through the roof and his butt swinging on a little perch just by your head. Outside there’s a scraggly downtown, with ragamuffin Afghan children, almost no old people [...]
By SEBASTIAN SCHEINER UMM EL-FAHM, Israel — Jewish extremists marched Tuesday through an Israeli-Arab town to demand residents show loyalty to Israel, setting off stone-throwing protests by Arab youths that police dispersed with stun grenades and tear gas. The clashes in the northern Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm came at a time of increasing tensions [...]
Jerusalem – Israel’s military condemned its soldiers for wearing T-shirts of a pregnant woman in a rifle’s cross-hairs with the slogan "1 Shot 2 Kills," and another of a gun-toting child with the words, "The smaller they are, the harder it is." The T-shirts were worn by Israeli Defense Force soldiers to mark [...]
by A Soldiers Mind What does the rock band Queensryche and the US Military have in common? If you’re not a fan of Queensryche or perhaps even if you are, you’d probably say not a thing. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Queensryche is an American Heavy Metal band that was formed in [...]
by Donna Teresa, Staff Writer When the United States made the decision to engage in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, one of my concerns was for the welfare of our men and women in uniform. Would they be given the best possible care and attention? Is someone out there watching out for them to make [...]
* President Obama’s plan designed to help with Mexico’s war against drug cartels * $700 million to help bolster Mexican law enforcement, crime prevention efforts * White House cites concern about violence on border, spillover into U.S. * More federal agents, equipment and resources to be moved to Mexican border WASHINGTON — The Obama [...]
by Peter Macdonald, Do you know why I print my name, address and phone on each of my letters? I am a proud Veteran that just happen to be 100% disabled from service related disabilities. Some of my four disabilities are combat related because I fought for peace, honor, justice and the American way. All [...]
by Tom Barnes, Staff Writer Can we get some movement on a major management shift at the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)? I am an IU disabled veteran. Long story concerning my problems with the DVA. Suffice it to say, the story is long, the taste in my mouth is bitter and there is always [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. ICOR Partners Hired To Boost VA’s Program Management, Integration. 2. Creek VAMC Expands To Meet Vets’ Mental Health Needs. 3. Another Way To Salute The Flag.4. Early List Of Possible GI Bill Benefits Released. 5. Official Says US Will Start Deciding On Filipino Vets’ Claims In April. 6. VA Official Agrees To Plead [...]
OUT RAGE OF THE WEAK! We just insulted the Canadian Veterans of the War in Afghanistan and got beat by Japan, the World Champions of Baseball Is Humble American Pie Cooking in our Oven yet? by John P. Allen Ouch, we suck! Yesterday, Japan defeated South Korea in the World Baseball Classic (WBC) to win the title [...]
Posted by Mike Griffith, Staff Writer This article, written by British journalist James Delingpole, caught my eye because I lived in England for five years in the 1990s and experienced the United Kingdom’s substandard nationalized healthcare system firsthand. I also had the chance to observe socialized medicine up-close and personal when I was stationed in Greece. After seeing those [...]
Lockheed Martin Corp., Maritime Systems & Sensors, Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a contract for LCS FY09 Flight 0+ ship construction, class design services, configuration management services, additional crew and shore support, special studies and post delivery support. As this award represents Phase I of a competitive two-phased acquisition approach to procure FY09/FY10 LCS, with Phase [...]
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