Whenever a new report on sexual assault in the military comes from the Pentagon, no doubt it can be read about on many women’s rights and feminist or womanist blogs. I read how reporting is up or down, and how the Restricted Reporting option is the Best Thing Ever! to happen to women in the [...]
Since health care reform passed Congress on Sunday night, a series of angry — and sometimes criminal — reactions have been reported. We’re monitoring the reports and have compiled several in the list below.
No. 232-10 ————————– CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE Northrop Grumman of San Diego was awarded a $50,000,000 cost plus fixed fee/firm fixed price contract which will provide Global Hawk Enhanced Integrated Sensor suite interim repair capability separate from the productions repair line. It also provides additional specialized test equipment to support the current datalink repair line as [...]
ABORTION FOES HACKING UP STILL BORN BABIES WOMEN FORCED TO CARRY THE DEAD IN THEIR WOMBS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When we talk about blasphemous abuse of the unborn, it’s time we saw the real effects of the deeply disturbing effect pseudo-Christian fanaticism has had on the medical community and [...]
Pakistan has delivered more than expected from her as a war ally and above all as a ?friend? and it?s high time for the US to remember that there will be No More ‘Do More’. After all the puppets are puppets and the human beings are human beings.
65th ANNIVERSARY of the WORLD WAR II VICTORY U.S. VETERANS NEEDED TV CENTER, Russia - The National Russian Broadcasting Company «TV Center» is making a series of news reports dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of the World War II Victory in Europe. They are looking for American veterans who will be participating in the VE-Day parade at [...]
Wahhabi Islam, which originated in Saudi Arabia, is the primary religious movement behind extremist Islam, including al-Qaida and the Sunni Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Raman confirmed, “There has been a long history of links between jihadi terrorist elements in India and Saudi Arabia.
In the very arc of his life, Lewis provides a yardstick for measuring American progress. The fact that he rose from that bridge to become a member of Congress says something about this country. But the fact that people demonstrating against healthcare reform chose to chant at him, “Kill the bill, nigger!” well, that says something, too.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Snowmass Village, Colorado, Whittier, California, Pullman, Washington, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Haverhill, Massachusetts, Mankato, Minnesota, Frankfort, Kentucky, La Grange, Illinois, and Rockwood, Tennessee.
From Naked Capitalism: Spitzer/Rosner: “Lehman Scandal: Where’s the Follow Up?” By Eliot Spitzer, former governor of New York who blogs for Slate.com and guest posts on New Deal 2.0, and Josh Rosner, the managing director of an independent financial services research firm It doesn’t take a rocket scientist — and certainly not an accountant — [...]
The last item in the Washington Times (3/24, Fales, 77K) “Sgt. Shaft” column offers thanks “to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki for directing VA attention to Persian Gulf War veterans.” After noting that a “special task force has nearly completed a comprehensive report that will redefine how VA addresses the pain and suffering of ill veterans who deployed during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991,” the Times quotes Gulf War vet John R. Gingrich, the task force’s chairman, who said, “Reaching out to Gulf War veterans is not only essential to our transformation of VA; for many of us it is also personal.”
With friends like Israel’s rightwing government and its agents in the U.S., who needs enemies? From Forbes: New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet. AIPAC [...]
Rees Lloyd is a confused man. Lloyd, pictured at left, wants to sue to silence Veterans Today for criticizing veterans service organizations’ not lending institutional support and coming to the aid of veterans involved in a political-legal fight against the West Los Angeles Democratic Party machine and the West Los Angeles VA The ACLU-hating, civil liberties-bashing, Vietnam-era veteran [...]
With the recent vote on health care not going the way of the GOP, the nasty reactions are so bad that something needs to be said before they drive the once great and storied party off the cliff. The party that brought us Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and the great General Dwight D. Eisenhower demands that it finds it’s way back to winning and losing with class. But how?
Shortly after the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor, male pilots became a vital resource in the war effort. When they proved scarce to come by, the Army Air Force caved and decided to train experienced women to fly non-combat missions, allowing more male pilots to be deployed to forward combat positions. Twenty-five thousand women [...]
DIALOG IN A MADHOUSE, MOB RULE IN THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Editors note: Rumors are still flying about the “Obamacare” bill. If there were problems with the new law, and there are problems, the last place to go would be to your news provider, especially if that provider is [...]
WASHINGTON — “I have been assured personally by the President, Secretary of Defense, VA Secretary, Speaker of the House, Majority Leaders, and numerous other Senators and Representatives – as has National Commander David Rehbein before me – that nothing in the national health care reform legislation will change current DoD and VA health care eligibility or practices,” said The American Legion National Commander Clarence E. Hill concerning the outcome of the health care vote on Sunday.
If you are in Washington DC April 9 – 11, 2010, The Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE) would like to cordially invite you and all Veterans, Uniform Personnel, and families to attend a “FREE” Franchise Expo.
Dr. Raul Perea-Henze was sworn in yesterday at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, a key post in the department’s transformation to provide 21st century service to our nation’s Veterans.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is fighting to preserve the sanctity of the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem. Synopsis The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other groups have filed a petition on behalf of the Palestinian descendants of those buried in an ancient Muslim cemetery, the Mamilla Cemetery, in Jerusalem. The petition, which was [...]
No. 226-10 ——————————————- CONTRACTS: UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND Air Transport International of Little Rock, Ark., is one of five indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, fixed-price contractors that has received an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, fixed-price award and will compete daily for business at the task order level. This program has an overall two-year estimated contract value [...]
Israeli Policy: USA and U.K. interests no longer matter to her U.K. expels Israel diplomat over killing as U.K. issues travel warning to Israel as state sponsored identity theft a real threat to U.K. citizens. Our friend and closest ally, the British, are upset over alleged use of forged passports by Israel putting U.K. sovereignty at [...]
After months of nominations and voting by veterans and active duty personel and and their families, in a formal ceremony at North Chicago VA Medical Center (NCVAMC), in North Chicago, Illinois, Elaine Yildiz was awarded the Top Doc award for Primary Practitioner by Sunshine Roth the National President of The Silver Star Families of America.
Three nurses who served in World War II were recently honored in a special women veterans ceremony in Bismarck, N.D. Mildred Vernon, Lorraine Froehlich and Delores Henke were each given bronze medals designed by Linda Marquart, VA Women Veteran Program Manager at the VA Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. Vernon’s grandson, Owen, a Marine Corps veteran, had mentioned to Marquart in passing that his grandmother had served as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps after completing her nurse’s training.
Despite the media spin and scare tactics of opponents of health care reform as reported in previous articles on Veterans Today, Sec Def Gates Knocks Down Fox/VFW Report on Tricare, AND American Legion Says Health Care Reform Won’t Harm VA, DoD Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) has joined in chorus with the American Legion, Pentagon [...]
From Maggie Shiels at the BBC: It might be regarded as one of the slowest chess games in history, given that it took Google two months to make its move to stop filtering results on its Chinese language search engine. But it is also one of the most dramatic. Professor Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the [...]
Veterans for Common Sense: Fix Broken VA Claims System Now! – Via Veterans for Common Sense Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) Appears Before “Claims Summit 2010″ in Washington Veterans for Common Sense urges Congress to pass a law and to fund a complete overhaul that would fix VA’s broken claims processing system. A key Congressional leader [...]
Editor’s Note: Responding to a recent string of bigoted attacks made on supporters of Health Care Reform by attendees of Tea Party rallies in Washington D.C., Veterans Today extended an invitation to a reader to express the views of the Tea Party which he felt are not being fairly and accurately aired. Below is the response, printed in full. [...]
Joining the American Legion, DVA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, the Congressional Veterans Affairs Committes’ Chairs, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates knocked down the report being pushed by Fox and the Veterans of Foreign Wars erroneously suggesting that the Health Care Reform package would have a detrimental effect on veterans and active-duty servicemen and women’s health [...]
The small city of Canal Fulton, Ohio, rolled out the “red carpet” and flag waving crowds swelled along the streets in anticipation. May 17, 2009 was an exciting day in the communities along the historic Ohio & Erie Canal for it marked the launch of an annual event to honor Ohio’s Veterans, the first “Run [...]
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