TROOPS DIE WHILE THE BRASS LIES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Our professional military, cut from the same cloth that killed off a generation in Vietnam, is pushing for a decade of war in Afghanistan, a decade of promotions, massive budgets, big “after retirement” defense contracting jobs and the adrenalin rush of sending others [...]
By Ann Scott Tyson The Washington Post More than 1,000 American troops have been wounded in battle over the past three months in Afghanistan, accounting for one-fourth of those injured in combat since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. The dramatic increase in amputees and other seriously injured service members comes as October marks the deadliest [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. White House Blog Hails Shinseki-Gates Mental Health Summit. 2. Technology Writer Hails Shinseki, Others At VA For Tough Line On IT Contracts. 3. Brain-Injured Vet Fighting VA For Full Disability. 4. Iraq, Afghan Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury Has More Severe Vision Problems. 5. Using Iraq-Afghan Vets’ Records, VA Doctor Probes Gender [...]
Militarists Defame J-Street Reformist-Peacemakers and Civil Libertarians Few are shocked by the deprivations committed by militarists. The dehumanization necessary to wage war is an evil lie exceeded only by the defamation cast against those speaking truth to military power. Veterans are the most eloquent expositors of this fact. But facts and history have a devestating [...]
I am posting this as it was written by a friend of mine and I think it should be read by the veterans community. Ilona Meager met many of us, especially us veterans, through using this technology, especially in research and posting on interactive community boards, and her awaking interest in a subject she had [...]
New Haven, Connecticut In Pain, Women Soldiers May Be Tougher Slidell, Louisiana New Slidell VA offers expanded services for veterans Arab, Alabama Wal-Mart manager bans vets groups from fundraising at store Northhampton, Massachusetts For these women vets, a home to call their own Bellevue, Washington United Spinal Association launches group for disabled vets Related [...]
In today’s Washington Post we read that Former President of France, Jacques Chirac has been charged with embezzlement of public funds and will go on trial soon. Many high powered politicos in France have already stood trial and been sentenced. If only it would happen here. Oh la la! The wonderful things we can still [...]
Gulf War Veterans Forgotten in the US House of Representatives and US Senate? Gulf War Veterans have been asking for Senate VA Committee Hearings or Joint House and Senate VA Committee Hearing in regards to the loss of a 75 million dollar research effort at Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas led by DR Haley. Its [...]
(Washington, DC) – A letter of October 26st from twenty-eight Congressmen to the Secretary of the Navy expressed frustration and disappointment over the Navy’s failure to provide assistance to Camp Lejeune veterans and dependents affected by the contamination of the base water wells. The Congressional representatives questioned the Navy’s failure to develop a strategy to [...]
COMMUNIST TACTICS USED TO COVER LAND SCAM By Maxine Flam for Veterans Today I attended two protests at the West Los Angeles VA, one in August and one in October. At both protests, the American flag was flown upside down. In August, we drew a crowd of 40, while in October we only [...]
No. 850-09 ——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY W R Systems Ltd., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $26,946,956 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance-based contract for in-service engineering technical support services for various navigation systems. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to an estimated $140,601,392. This contract combines purchases for [...]
CHENEY DAUGHTER, WINGNUT BIRTHER, JUST DOESN’T GET IT Princess of Torture really is Daddy’s Girl By Gordon Duff, STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When dead American soldiers were brought back in secret, in shame, it was at the orders of Vice President Cheney. Cheney planned the Iraq invasion even before the election and well before 9/11. The [...]
I live by myself in a condo in Alexandria, Virginia not all that far from Washington D.C. I am a totally disabled veteran (IU) so I do not work. I am also retired from the Smithsonian Institution and the Coast Guard. My kids are grown and live out of state so I have a lot [...]
Enough now. $Trillions and 100,000s of victims; we’re out now, right? by Juan Cole – Oct. 30, 2009 | Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Iraqi parliament again on Thursday failed to pass an electoral law to govern the holding of the planned January 16 parliamentary elections. The Kurdish delegates refused to come into the [...]
As security worsens in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is clear that al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies outwitted President George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers by tying down U.S. forces in Iraq for five years while the Islamic militants rebuilt their forces for the war on their “central front.” The question remains whether al-Qaeda can [...]
Osama bin Laden as Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based on Evidence? by David Ray Griffin for Veterans Today The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Veterans Want Iraqi Flag Removed From Parkersburg Vet Center. 2. Georgia Veteran Tries To Inform VA That He Is Still Alive. 3. Stand Down Against Homelessness Events Held. 4. Fort Worth VA Clinic Lease To Cost $125.2 Million. 5. VA Scrutinized Over Awarding Of Contract To ACS Federal. 6. Unclaimed Cremains Of Three [...]
Here is a good article from Politics Daily on American anti-war activists and their growing support now that the War in Afghanistan is growing more and more unpopular by the day. The story is here. Here is an article from the same publication asking if the ongoing probes by the House Ethics Committee on sleaze [...]
"They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment."- [...]
Meridian, Mississippi Veterans Cemetery names new director Lancaster, Ohio Moe to be inducted into Veterans Hall of Fame Pittsfield, Massachusetts Soldier On Breaks Ground for Veterans Village Harlingen, Texas From Excellent Treatment to Bumbling Bureaucratic Mess Los Angeles, Calif Boyle Heights Day of the Dead celebrates Latino veterans Related Posts:No Related Posts
It is all coming together now. We just passed the largest defense bill in terms of real dollars in the history of the world. We are not engaged in a declared war against a national enemy. This should not have happened. Now we can see why it happened. Is it fraud and kickback money to [...]
Submit Your Best Résumé Now to HireVeterans.com! by Captain Lonnie Ryan Many people agonize over writing a résumé, and often for good reason. It is challenging and difficulty to write an effective, creative résumé that gets results. Most prospective employers decide after reading the first few lines whether or not they want to interview you. [...]
No. 845-09 CONTRACTS: AIR FORCEMWH Americas, Inc. of Broomfield, Colo., and ARGO/LRS JV of Glen Burnie, Md. were awarded a $3 billion contract which will provide primarily environmental requirements that include completion of a conceptual design, construction, implementation, demolition, repair, and operation and maintenance of installed systems prior to delivery to the government. At this [...]
WHY ARE THERE NO TALKS? IS IT YOU, IS IT US? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor 7 years of war and there are no discussions, no peace initiatives, nothing. Is this possible? Nobody even remembers why we are fighting each other. Is someone saying we have no basis for even sitting down and talking [...]
PROSECUTOR TELLS COURT: "VETERANS TORE AND STOMPED FLAG IN WILD PROTEST" THE FACTS TELL A VERY DIFFERENT STORY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Assistant US Attorney, Sharon McCaslin screamed at the aging disabled veterans across the Federal Courtroom in Los Angeles. Representing the American Legion and Military Order of Purple Heart, these vets have [...]
Alas Afghanistan Cockamamie COIN More Schools, Not Troops Corey: What Afghanistan (Should) Mean to Us What Constitutes Justice For Guantanamo Detainees? Related Posts:No Related Posts
A leading national cheerleader for escalation in Afghanistan is Sussex, Wisconsin native Thomas Tradewell, Veterans of Foreign Wars‘ (VFW) National Commander. Tradewell is on the bleeding edge of public criticism that our military is leveling against its democratic commander-in-chief and Obama’s deliberation of the major foreign policy decision on Afghanistan and Pakistan that is coming [...]
Illustration: Luba Lukova (Editor’s note: This op-ed from the NYT is an intriguing look at our situation in Afghanistan. Before we leap into deeper water it might be a good idea to also get the opinions of Alexander and Genghis Khan. Bob Higgins) Victor Sebestyen The New York Times THE highly decorated general sat opposite [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. VA Seeking Contractor Assistance In Processing New GI Bill Claims. 2. VA "Only Recourse Left" For Vietnam Vets Exposed To Agent Orange. 3. Boswell Focused On Breast Cancer’s Threat To Armed Forces. 4. Shinseki Urged To Reconsider VA Stance On Nevada Clinic. 5. Ensign Asks Shinseki For Extension On VA Clinic Bid. [...]
In today’s Washington Post Dana Milbank has written an article on the largest defense budget that has ever been passed in real dollar terms in the history of the world. $680 billion dollars under President Obama is the price tag for the 2010 defense budget. He said he would not do that. He did it. [...]
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