On February 12th, I published a story highlighting a disabled veteran who was unable to get a reimbursement for a student loan that was used to cover educational expenses while enrolled in vocational rehabilitation. Well, I am proud to report that the vocational rehabilitation program has decided that they intend to pay the costs, so [...]
When Al Franken ran for the Senate, people questioned his credentials, but good grief, people, comedy is hard work compared to harrumphing. It takes brains and elegance and courage to make people laugh. A comedian who joins the Senate has taken a step down on the social scale and everybody knows it.
No pitchforks, but expect more airplanes or more likely guns. Everyone wants a just, fair country back, but the black guy didn’t take it. Ordinary Citizens are Being Driven to the Ground, The Last Flight of Joe Stack By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Joseph Stack, frustrated American, flew his airplane into an Austin, Texas, office building. [...]
Wish President Obama would just say the U.S.A. resembles an oligarchy in many ways, this is not good, I’m for the people and: Here’s what we’re going to do. This clearly has not happened. If there were ever a U.S. president who could explain markets, world trade, currency value, consumer psychology, debt, and monetary and fiscal policy [...]
Here’s some cheerful reading from Peter Boone, Simon Johnson, Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman. I’ll break it down for you: Absent radical change in fiscal and trade policies, international finance coordination, and massive public investment and spending that appear politically untenable [thanks GOP!! and thanks Dems for being gutless!] : We’re economically doomed. And a larger War Economy ain’t [...]
Rep. Kucinich wrote to Defense Secretary Gates, demanding that the U.S. comply with its obligation to protect Afghan civilians under international law, following a US attack on a civilian convoy reported to have killed 27 civilians. Kucinich demanded information on the decisions that led to the strike within two weeks, threatening to force a House vote demanding release of documents on the strike.
The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel points out that the sound of one hand clapping is silence and the results of bi partisan legislation when one party refuses to play is… gridlock. We have seen the gun toting Tea Party protesters at political rallies; was Joe Stack the first Tea Party terrorist? Robert Wright asks the question in a NYT OpEd. Robert Gates is trying to tell Europe that the path to lasting peace is through the pursuit of endless wars as Juan Cole points out at Informed Comment. These are among the stories in today’s picks.
Facing a strong challenge from J.D. Hayworth for the primary election in August, John McCain is desperate. When McCain gets desperate, the McC-man lies or gets seriously deluded. It’s almost embarrassing, but I don’t like McCain so let the good times roll though a charitable diagnosis is that McCain has gone bat-shite crazy uttering “pathetically, obviously untrue [...]
Find out What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans VA Announces Expansion Of IT Program Management, Accountability System. Shinseki Among Those Asked To Choose Official For Healthcare IT Task Force. Hiring to expand veterans’ services: Q&A with W. Scott Gould, Deputy Sec of VA Committees Praised For Helping To Pass Veterans Emergency Care Fairness Act. [...]
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from: Indianapolis, Indiana, Reno, Nevada, Sioux Falls, Iowa, Chicago, Illinois, Stamford, Connecticut, Portland, Oregon, Fort Myers, Florida, Leesburg, Virginia, Madison, Wisconsin, and Weslaco, Texas.
Loaded questions were asked of health industry executives who remain about as popular as Bank CEOs. By Bobby Caina Calvan | The Sacramento Bee Anthem Blue Cross executives, under intense questioning by the state Assembly’s Health Committee on Tuesday, defended the company’s decision to raise premiums by as much as 39 percent on hundreds of thousands [...]
It has been reported that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has notified Congress of plans to permit women to serve on submarines. Who made the rules to ban females from submarines to begin with, and what was the rationale behind the rule? Well, it is about time. If a female is good enough to dock and maintain submarines, [...]
Teaching your family and your community not to hate. From the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide Hate in America is a dreadful, daily constant. The dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Texas; the crucifixion of a gay man in Laramie, Wyo.; and the stabbing [...]
Damn Europeans blowing off NATO refuse the truth that any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Headline above is from today’s New York Times. The last 15 words of the lede are from an infamous militarist. How about we just get these guys home and give them what [...]
No. 137-10 —————————————– CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY McKesson Corp., San Francisco, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $977,318,000 firm-fixed-price, prime vendor contract for replenishment pharmaceuticals and other authorized supplies. Other location of performance is Arizona. Using service is Department of Defense. The original proposal was solicited on the Federal Business Opportunities wb site with [...]
Pushes back, but feels more like rhetoric easing in. From Talking Points Memo: By Rachel Slajda – Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, and Army Secretary John McHugh testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell today and made clear they are less than enthusiastic about repealing the [...]
From the Post: Q&A with W. Scott Gould, deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs Interview by Ed O’Keefe The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to hire roughly 105,000 employees in the next two years as part of the Obama administration’s expansion of benefits and services for veterans. Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould talked Monday about the hiring [...]
At least you have your health, it’s everything. Not everyone agrees. Health Means Life; Health Means Freedom by George Lakoff Life and Freedom are moral issues. It is time for Democrats to talk about health in those terms, beyond just policy terms like health insurance reform, bending the cost curve, types of exchanges, etc. Health [...]
Mossad’s Rogue Assassins The Dubai Hit By URI AVNERY FROM TIME to time I ask myself: what would happen if the world’s governments decided to abolish all their spy agencies simultaneously? True, it would be a great blow to the authors and movie producers who make their living from secret service stories. Their products would [...]
No doubt after chewing our troops up, the DVA will rush in to facilitate expedited delivery of benefits. Right. For those stuck on history and facts consider in a short preface: A New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (March 27, 2009) and the White House White Paper. Therefore, the core goal of the U.S. must be to disrupt, [...]
VA Education Call Center Again Operating Five Days a Week – The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced that the Education Call Center, closed on Thursdays and Fridays over the past two months, is again operating five days a week. (2/23/10)
SINCE the two recent NATO-led military strikes that accidentally killed dozens of Afghan civilians, I have been thinking a great deal about the psychic toll that killing takes on soldiers.
In 2007, I was an Army lieutenant leading a group on a house-clearing mission in Baquba, Iraq, when I called in an artillery strike on a house. The strike destroyed the house and killed everyone inside. I thought we had struck enemy fighters, but I was wrong. A father, mother and their children had been huddled inside.
The primary reason why the Economic Elite have gained such dominance is their commitment to psychological operations that divide-and-conquer the US public. They use their overwhelming influence over mainstream media outlets and political candidates in very clever ways to divide us.
The U.S. Departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs, as part of their continued commitment to our Nation’s Service Members, Veterans, and their families, launched a new and improved National Resource Directory (www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov).
Service in the U.S. military will soon come down to this: You hate and cannot serve with gays and lesbians, move to Iran or Uganda where bigotry reigns supreme. Just off the phone with Army veteran Jarrod Chlapowski. Chlapowski served in the Army from 2000-2005. Chlapowski has an excellent service record in intelligence [Korean linguistics, cryptologic voice interceptor at the Defense [...]
The words were from a letter that Mrs. Alleta Sullivan received from President Roosevelt, when it was confirmed that all five of her sons were missing in action after the sinking of the USS Juneau during the Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942. While most aboard the Juneau perished, a few remained alive including the eldest Sullivan brother George, who would later die at sea. The last remaining survivors lived through of a horrific ordeal of exhaustion, heat, sharks, hunger and thirst.
Our country is in the middle of a health care crisis, the likes of which we have never experienced. At the center of this crisis is a silent wounding of our armed forces that often goes unrecognized. If you believe the Rand Corporation’ s estimates, silent wounding may be affecting as many as 640,000 veterans.
If you live in the United States or Israel, the easiest thing to do is bury your head in the sand. Ask Naomi Chazan, “the Israeli head of an American Jewish donor body called the New Israel Fund (NIF).” Go along with the neocons, with AIPAC, let the Gazans suffer and die; those living in [...]
This is a follow-up of my article on September 11, 2016 – The Patriots Day Coup, the first story was a fictional account used by Lt. Colonel William J. Astore as an attention getter for what could potentially happen if our national leaders remain on this collision course with history. The second part of this [...]
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