An Open Letter to President Obama About Veterans Exposed to Environmental Hazards Dear President Obama: We know that you may have read and been briefed about individuals exposed to environmental hazards at Camp Lejeune. For Camp Lejeune, Senator Daniel Akaka (D, HI) estimated that as many as 500,000 veterans and dependents may have been exposed [...]
Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Part 2 Desert Storm Veterans/Gulf War 1 Veterans Recent Deaths We remember and honor each of these veterans who were exposed to toxins in the Gulf War. Do not let deaths be in vain. Their families and survivors need to be remembered! They need attention now. James T. Odom | ODOM JAMES THOMAS ODOM (Age [...]
Part 1(follow the posts to see other Deaths of Gulf War 1 and Desert Storm Veterans): We Remember that these veterans died too young. Many suffer the effects of gulf war illness just like our Vietnam brothers and sisters still suffer and die from Agent Orange, just like the Atomic Veterans that sufferred for years, [...]
As we remember the fallen today, one thing is clear: Our troops and Marines did not die for the vicious, hateful state of Israel. President Obama: Time to show your cards on this issue. Israel attacks aid ship, kills at least 10 civilians By Glenn Greenwald (Updated below – Update II – Update III – [...]
We recently posted Memorial Day messages from several Veterans and Military Family groups that not only Honor the Warrior, Not the War, but call for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to well simply put Honor the Fallen. These messages inspired me to try writing a Memorial Day message from [...]
Israel’s attack on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla on America’s Memorial Day was all too predictable, although the form it took surprised even me. And it confirms the old proverb that “Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,” for the attack was the kind of madness only unbridled arrogance can assume.
From parades to somber ceremonies and a moment of silence, Americans will recall the sacrifices of military personnel who paid the ultimate price for freedom on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31.
“STOLEN NUKES,” MISSING WMD’S THAT CAUSED IRAQ WAR IN ISRAEL ALL ALONG ISRAELI “ROGUE NUKES” USED TO JUSTFY GLOBAL “CRIME SPREE” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In a long secret “lost nuke” scenario dating back to 1991 and involving Israel, South Africa, Britain, Oman and the U.S., Israel claims “self defense” in attacking ships [...]
BP is a convicted serial environmental criminal. Why is there no criminal investigation? Why hasn’t the government launched a criminal investigation into BP? * By Jason Leopold AlterNet * That’s the question several former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have been asking in the aftermath of the catastrophic explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig [...]
A Memorial Day remembrance (circa 1904): O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to [...]
He was oldest of 97 Medal of Honor recipients still living. Despite head wounds and other injuries, Mr. Finn, the chief of ordnance for an air squadron, continuously fired a .50-caliber machine gun from an exposed position as bullets and bombs pounded the Naval Air Station at Kaneohe Bay in Oahu. He then supervised the rearming of returning American planes.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Salem, Oregon, White Haven, Pennsylvania, Timonium, Maryland, Mattapan, Massachusetts, San Rafael, California, San Jose, California, Prescott, Arizona, Woodbury, Minnesota, Birmingham, Alabama, and Iron Mountain, Michigan.
- USAID’s “burn rate” in Afghanistan: $300 million a month – By Rajiv Chandrasekaran NAWA, AFGHANISTAN — In this patch of southern Afghanistan, the U.S. strategy to keep the Taliban at bay involves an economic stimulus. Thousands of men, wielding hoes and standing in knee-deep muck, are getting paid to clean reed-infested irrigation canals. Farmers [...]
From CounterPunch: By Susan Galleymore Each year for the last five years the U.S. has welcomed a delegation of Vietnamese affected by spraying chemicals in Vietnam three decades ago. The Fifth Agent Orange Justice Tour ended recently. It focused national attention on grass roots and legislative efforts to achieve comprehensive assistance to victims in Vietnam, [...]
- Massacre at Sea - ABC News Report: White House ‘Working to Understand’ Israeli Attack; scheduled meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled. For continuing updates, see Witness Gaza and Al Jazeera. Turkey, Spain, Greece, Denmark and Sweden have all summoned the Israeli ambassador’s in their respective countries to protest against the deadly assault. As news [...]
(Originally, I posted this on The Defeatists — http://thedefeatists.typepad.com/apoplectic/, but I think it makes equal sense here. Most of us have lived with the results of geniuses having bad ideas for a long time — this is one of them.) You know, when your life starts to resemble those commercials for Windows 7 — I [...]
For a national population to stay even, women must average 2.1 to 2.3 births apiece.
Will Arizona ban Dolly Parton, George W. Bush, and Paula Deen from Teaching our children?
LABOR LAW FACTS & FICTION – Part 1 of a 9-Part Series “A Guideline for American Workers and Employers” I talked in-depth with several field investigators at various Wages and Hours Divisions of the U.S. Department of Labor who had years of experience investigating numerous employers who violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), so [...]
If the Army needs proof that Ryan Hallberg suffered a loss when he was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq, it need look no farther than 4 inches below his right knee. There’s nothing there.
Despite an amputation from his injuries, Hallberg has twice been denied a $50,000 insurance benefit because he has been told by the federal insurance office administering the program that “there is not enough medical information to support your loss.”
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Detroit, Michigan, Jacksonville, Florida, Bay City, Michigan, Knoxville, Tennessee, Kinston, North Carolina, San Mateo, California, Austin, Texas, Belleville, Illinois, and Seattle, Washington.
“The conditions now, in my view, are unquestionably worse in the inner cities,” attorney and civil rights stalwart David Ginsburg told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Education is worse. Housing is worse. Unemployment is worse. We now have a drug problem that we didn’t have in 1967 and 1968. There are millions of handguns. The cities [...]
By LESLIE KAUFMAN and CLIFFORD KRAUSS NEW ORLEANS — In another serious setback in the effort to stem the flow of oil gushing from a well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers said Saturday that the “top kill” technique had failed and, after consultation with government officials, they had decided to move [...]
NETWORK INSULTS VIETNAM VETERANS GENERAL PETRAEUS HOSTS VIET VET INSULT AD By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Would any TV network, even one on cable be so utterly stupid? I would never have guessed it if I hadn’t seen it myself. Sometimes people make mistakes and offend. Then again, American Movie Classics went well out [...]
This Memorial Day message comes from Veterans for Common Sense (VCS). Although not an anti-war Veterans group in the true sense of the word, VCS still continues to question both the handling of the wars, and how our troops and Veterans are treated when they come Home to War. Upon review of the various Memorial [...]
As a Member of Veterans for Peace (VFP) and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), and the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), I commend the Memorial Day messages from those Veterans and Military Family groups who not only see a direct link between the fiscal cost of the current war(s) but [...]
Monday, May 31, is Memorial Day. Some people misthink that Memorial Day is to honor all who have died, but it is not. It is a day set aside for another specific group: all the men and women who have died while in service to our country. But will people even bother to remember? At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day.
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray yesterday ordered the US Navy Veterans Association to immediately cease all fund raising in the state. This follows a lengthy investigation and a series of news stories by The St. Petersburg Times which raised a thick cloud of suspicion about the legitimacy of the “charity.”
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