Demonstrators in London rally at Pakistani and US embassies in solidarity with Aafia Siddiqui on Aafia Siddiqui Day, 28 March 2010 Editors note: This is an issue that every American veteran and every soldier fighting real terrorism around the world must be aware of. Few things have done more to destroy the good name of [...]
A WARNING FROM AN AMERICAN SAILOR, SURVIVOR OF THE USS LIBERTY By Philip Tourney, President, Liberty Veterans Association If you have a TV set in your home, a radio, a computer or read the newspaper, you know now America how Israel treats her only friend and benefactor in the world, the good ole USA. The [...]
MILLIONS COULD BE SPENT DEFENDING LOS ANGELES VA EMPLOYEES SUED FOR VIOLATING VETERANS RIGHT MONEY SPENT WHILE VETERANS SUFFER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Sir, The ACLU has been forced to sue your employees, Donna Beiter, your regional manager in Los Angeles and your DVA Security Chief Ronald Mathis. Both are being sued because [...]
From Veterans for Common Sense: by Annie Bishop – According to Veterans for Common Sense, a non-profit group based in Washington, DC, 47 percent of claims by PTSD patients are approved. That leaves thousands of veterans like Patrick who are still waiting or have been denied. – Iraq War veteran seeking benefits for PTSD [...]
We could say the same for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The oppression that is Iran should thank Israel and neocons in the United States. Israel’s far-right government only helps Iran By thumbing its nose at the U.S. and the world, Israel makes it harder to build a coalition against Iranian nukes By Juan Cole [...]
Even though the DVA has its’ own faults, you have to wonder what else could be contributing to the 1.1+ million claims backlog, that is crippling the system. A LARGE part of this is the doctors who conduct the exams. I believe that a large part of the backlog stems from doctors who are on [...]
“No, no. I like mandates,” said Mitt Romney. Score one for Democrats, they just took out the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president. Progressives and lighting-fast Internet media just cost Mitt Romney the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. Democratic Rapid Response (DNC), Talking Points Memo, and Daily Kos have revealed Mitt Romney’s exercise in hypocrisy [see video below] devastating for [...]
Contractors of a spy program that the Pentagon is investigating gathered word of a meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother and Mullah Baradar, a top Taliban leader who was arrested weeks later in Pakistan, CNN reports. [This CNN report raises the question of whether this intelligence contributed to Baradar’s arrest, and whether some US officials sought with the arrest to deliberately undermine the talks, which were supported by other US officials – JFP
From Amy Goodman at Democracy Now: With the main healthcare reform bill signed into law, Democrats say congressional efforts to reform Wall Street and the nation’s financial regulatory system will soon top the Obama administration’s agenda. A measure put forward by Sen. Christopher Dodd is being described as the biggest overhaul of financial rules since [...]
The Jeffersonian anti-federalists feared that a strong national government would lead our fledgling nation back towards monarchy. Instead they wanted government closer to the people where it would better serve their interests rather than interests of the moneyed merchants and traders.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Bullhead City, Arizona, St. Cloud, Minnesota, Ft. Hood, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Sandusky, Ohio, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Cleveland, Ohio, and Hilo, Hawaii.
The headline above is from the last sentence of a piece this week in the Jackson County Chronicle (Wisconsin). Hard-core veterans’ advocates know why. So do most veterans. The attorneys who help veterans slog through the DVA benefit adjudication processes often for over a decade, the non-profits like Veterans for Common Sense fighting for new veteran-friendly regulations [...]
OPERATION: ENDURING GRATITUDE was created to develop innovative ways to recognize and thank ALL U.S. Military Veterans on a daily basis before they perish. Awareness is the key and vital to accomplish a variety of missions that we have identified as beneficial to ALL U.S Military Veterans Nationwide. Although we have numerous causes we have earmarked for another time such as the purchase of fishing and hunting licenses as well as camping permits on State and Federal land, we have to prioritize and feel we should accomplish the following three missions first. R.A.V.E. Motorcycle Series
By Tom Philpott, Special to Stars and Stripes Republican lawmakers raised the specter of military families and survivors of veterans seeing health care costs rise as a result of the national health reform law that President Obama signed March 23. But the threat was never more than a notion and it is fading away. That’s [...]
Does Anyone Else Have Problems With Corruption In New Jersey Or Ocean County? How far up does Government Corruption go in New Jersey? Does it reach up to the Senate? The Governor? Who is it that oversees the Office for the Public Guardian? Dear, Americans! Help! My Father, a Vietnam Vet with a Purple Heart, [...]
THE “SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP” REDEFINED AS CLEARLY ANTI-AMERICAN WHY ARE SOME “PATRIOTIC GROUPS” SOFT ON AMERICAN VALUES? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Are some of America’s veterans organizations Neo-con fronts allied with Israel to embarrass America? Is it possible for such groups to give unlimited and unwavering support to Israel when General Petraeus (depending on [...]
California leads the way. Supporters of the initiative collected well more than the 433,971 signatures needed for it to go before voters in the fall, again putting the state at the forefront of the nation’s drug debate. By John Hoeffel An initiative to legalize marijuana and allow it to be sold and taxed will appear [...]
by Anne Law in Bizmology As the dust settles (well, maybe) on the long-fought battle over health care reform, one thing everyone should be able to agree upon is that it will take a good long while for the bill to be understood and the full ramifications, good and bad, to take impact on health care [...]
No. 233-10 —————————————————— CONTRACTS: NAVY Raytheon Co., Space and Airborne Systems, Goleta, Calif., is being awarded an $89,489,433 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (N00019-09-C-0052) to exercise an option for the procurement of 96 Lot 12 full-rate production AN/ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receivers for the Navy (68) and the governments of Switzerland (25) [...]
Two prominent lawyers, conservative legal icon Ted Olson and liberal superstar David Boies, have teamed up to fight for marriage equity. By Gloria Borger, CNN Senior Political Analyst It’s a rare sight these days to see political polar opposites on the same side of a fight. But that’s what’s happening in California, as David Boies and [...]
The megacontractor’s been making millions from mechanics who put in as little as 43 minutes a month. And as more GIs come home, the waste could get even worse. By Adam Weinstein -Copy Editor – MotherJones.com It was just a single contract for a single job on a single base in Iraq. The Department of [...]
President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentive to Restore Employment Act (the “HIRE Act”), comprising a payroll tax holiday for businesses that hire unemployed workers, an income tax credit of $1,000 for businesses that retain these employees and an extension of highways project financing. The bill was passed in the Senate last month and the House earlier in March, with voting largely along partisan lines.
GENERAL BARNO, THE MAN WHO LED THE HUNT FOR LONG DEAD BIN LADEN NOW IN HOT WATER By Josh Rogin for The Cable (thecable.foreignpolicy.com) Retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, the former top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, has been under investigation for over a year amid allegations he grossly mismanaged a Pentagon-funded research center. Barno [...]
This board, little-known even to us Texans, has lately risen to national notoriety, making our state’s educational system a punch line for comedians everywhere. That’s because a handful of ultra-right-wing nutcases have taken over this elected overseer of Texas educational policy, and they’re hell-bent to supplant classroom education with their own brand of ideological indoctrination.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Farmington, New Mexico, LaSalle, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Snowmass, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, Kennewick, Washington, Canyonville, Oregon, Batavia, Ohio, and Augusta, Georgia.
Think Simon Johnson has this wrong and Democrats are simply sidestepping obstruction. Financial Reform: Will We Even Have A Debate? By Simon Johnson The New York Times reports that financial reform is the next top priority for Democrats. Barney Frank, fresh from meeting with the president, sends a promising signal, “There are going to be death [...]
The change is seen as a quick fix until a complete repeal of the ban can be passed by Congress By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Defense Secretary Robert Gates will insist on high-level scrutiny of dismissals under the military’s ban on openly gay service. Gates was expected to announce on Thursday that that firings of [...]
VA Pittsburgh’s University Drive Division hosted a Post Deployment Health Reassessment (PDHRA) for more than 335 members of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Pennsylvania Army National Guard earlier this year. Members of the National Guard, who returned from Iraq this past fall, received information about VA health care services and resources available to them through VA Pittsburgh and local veteran service organizations.
U.S. Rep Chet Edwards (D-Waco), member of the House Appropriations Committee and Chair of the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, slammed the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ (VFW) discredited attack on Health Care Reform as a “betrayal” of American veterans in a Congressional hearing as a VFW witness refused to defend his own national commander’s “betrayal” [...]
From CNN: From Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon correspondent Washington (CNN) — A former high-ranking CIA official who was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal has worked on an alleged ad hoc spy program that the Pentagon is investigating, CNN has learned. Duane “Dewey” Clarridge — who was pardoned for his alleged role in the Reagan-era scandal [...]
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