This heart wrenching take on Soldiers, Veterans, and Suicide was sent into us by Brother Willie Hager and our friends at VetSpeak. Graphics added by Major Hanafin from public domain sources. Frankly, it is this aspect of coping, or not coping, with PTSD that concerns us at Veterans Today the most when we note that [...]
It Is Starting, America Is Being Called To Account Phony War, Forgotten Troops And Abused Veterans By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor After 9/11 it started. We raced into Afghanistan looking for terrorist groups that never existed and a terrorist mastermind who had nothing to do with an attack on America. We knew we were [...]
But there is an upside to the ledger. Postal employees don’t have to beg for justice – they can demand it. They have both the law, and the numbers on their side. There are 600,000 postal employees in America, then when you add all of their family and friends, that’s a formidable political group. In addition, in today’s political environment up to 76% of the American people are unhappy with incumbents. So postal employees can very easily pull together to make a politician’s willingness to fight for workers’ rights a litmus test in order to be elected – and that goes for your union officials as well.
It’s fashionable to be mad at the government these days, but many folks are unclear about how to join the movement. The first step is to master the idiom of outrage. It’s not just government, it’s Big Government. Or even better: Big Guv’ment.
The bill would cut the DoD’s budget and use that money to make the first $35,000 each American earns tax-free. Last week, as Congress prepared to pass yet another “emergency” spending bill to cover America’s costly operations in Iraq and Afghanistan — to the tune of $159 billion this time around — Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Florida, introduced a bill that would force the Pentagon to pick up the tab out of its ample regular budget.
The fighting in Afghanistan this week has resulted in the deaths of Canadian Colonel Geoff Parker, 42, of Oakville, Ontario, and U.S. Colonel John McHugh, 46, of W. Caldwell, New Jersey. It also claimed the lives of Lieutenant Colonels Paul Bartz, 43, of Waterloo, Wis., and Thomas Belkofer, 44, of Perrysburg, Ohio. Other fatalities were Staff Sgt. Richard Tieman, 28, of Waynesboro, Pa., and Specialist Joshua Tomlinson, 24, of Dubberly, La.
Istanbul, Turkey—Amid cheers and waving of Turkish and Palestinian flags, the second ship to join the Freedom Flotilla left Istanbul this afternoon. Sponsored by the Turkish humanitarian organization, Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), the ship will carry 600 passengers to Gaza as part of the blockade-busting flotilla. It joins eight other boats coming from three other [...]
At a sun-splashed commencement ceremony on the University Green before a crowd of more than 10,000, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki told the largest and most diverse graduating class in the history of the University of Vermont that what the world needs most is for them to make caring for others a personal devotion on a level that goes well beyond the traditional definition of volunteerism.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Ashland, Nebraska, Saratoga Springs, New York, Spokane, Washington, Broken Bow, Nebraska, Fort Wayne, Indiana, MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, Sacramento, California, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Holmes, Pennsylvania.
Imagine if the intelligence that induced the U.S. to war in Iraq was proven “fixed” around a preset goal. What if the common source of that treachery is poised to become transparent? If you were complicit in a deception of that magnitude—a clear act of treason—how would you obscure the facts?
Mossad Front, Known For Phony Bin Laden Tapes Is Tape Really Israel Saying, “Kill Americans, Not Us?” By Gordon Duff Staff Writer/Senior Editor Site Intelligence, an outlet that supplies terror videos it says it “finds on the internet,” videos nobody on earth, seems to notice, has released a new video from Anwar al Alaki, the [...]
Oil spewing from BP’s ruptured undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico has now reached the US coast, choking marshlands and fragile marine life. Amid the massive mop-up operation, Al Jazeera’s John Terrett takes a boat ride around southern Louisiana’s coast. The thick slick is already causing the local economy and the environment massive damage, but many fear the worst is yet to come.
The May 19th update from Paul Sullivan and our friends at Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) contains several news clips of high value. Veterans for Common Sense presented new information about the urgent need to fix the VA at a conference of more than 50 non-profits. The VCS presentation was covered by Army Times. Posted [...]
The number and percentage of women in the military service has grown, and the number of women veterans has grown accordingly. For more than 200 years, women have made tremendous sacrifices and overcome enormous odds to serve their county bravely, and they’ve quietly gone home, but things are starting to change.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Boulder, Colorado, Lillington, North Carolina, Cold Spring, Minnesota, Laconia, New Hampshire, Rancho, Cucamonga, California, Jacksonville, Florida, Pharr, Texas, Billings, Montana, Martinsburg, and West Virginia.
The Times reported last week that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, the bright hope of Democrats to retain a critical seat in the United States Senate, has sometimes falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. Predictably, in an election year with control of Congress in play, the report sparked plenty of outrage — much of it directed at The Times.
Senate bill (S.3378) authorizes health care for individuals exposed to environmental hazards at Camp Lejeune and the Atsugi Naval Air Facility. (WASHINGTON, DC) – Senate bill (S.3378) authorizes health care for individuals exposed to environmental hazards at Camp Lejeune and the Atsugi Naval Air Facility and establishes an advisory board to examine exposures to environmental [...]
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. . . . [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and . . . degeneracy of manners and of morals. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. . . .
A recent analyis has shown the 40 year old American M-16 rifle to be a failure in Afghanistan. The weapon that caused more American deaths in Vietnam than the enemy is still junk technology today, even with its Star Wars derivitives. The result is still “Palinesque” or as I would call it, “lipstick on a pig.” The wrong design, the wrong cartridge, no range, no stopping power and poor reliability, 40 years of failure in the most important area of the battlefield, our combat rifle. This wasn’t an accident but part of our defense tradition, fighting wars with junk, fighting wars meant to eat money, put fighting men and women under the dirt, fighting wars meant to go on forever, as long as the money flows. A new study, over 40 years late, challenges our basic infantry weapon’s effectiveness:
For example: to solve our debt crisis, a bunch of Republican senators suggested a bipartisan debt commission, which is the adult thing to do. But when Obama agreed to it, immediately seven of them said no — now they’re against it. Because Obama has cooties.
The latest facts, stats, pictures and maps for the BP oil spill, its size, its impacts on wildlife, and the efforts at containment and cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20 killed 11 people and led to the BP oil spill that threatens coastal Louisiana, Gulf Coast fisheries, Gulf of Mexico ecosystems, and perhaps the East Coast, as the spill reaches the loop current.
Last week, with news that the Navy Veterans had been shut down in two states and was being investigated in others, Virginia officials scrambled to distance themselves from the campaign contributions they accepted from Bobby Thompson, the man behind the Navy Veterans group.
Broader newspaper archival searches have continued to turn up claims by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that he was a Vietnam War veteran, even though he did not serve in the war. The most recent claim unearthed was in a report published in The Milford Mirror, a weekly, describing an appearance he made at a May 2007 Memorial Day parade in Milford, Conn., attended by local officials, military people and the relatives of a local man killed while serving in Iraq.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Oceanside, California, Omaha, Nebraska, Parkersburg, Iowa, Redding, California, Washiongton, DC, Dover, Wisconsin, Somers Point, New Jersey, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Medford, Oregon.
The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teaching of the civil rights movement, religious freedoms, America’s relationship with the U.N. and hundreds of other items. The new TALIBAN-esque IDIOT standards were adopted after a final showdown by two 9-5 votes along party lines, after Democrats’ and moderate Republicans’ efforts to delay a final vote failed.
Green Career Institute, a leader in Green Education and Training, is offering its leading Solar PV Curriculum to training and education providers nationwide. “With over 1500 people trained, GCI’s Solar PV Curriculum is tried and true,” says John Sanchez, CEO of GCI. “Our curriculum was written and designed by two Ph.D’s who are experts in the Solar PV field. We are pleased to offer our program to other providers looking to start a turnkey Solar PV Training program.”
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VENICE, La. — A flotilla of shrimp boats skimmed the waters of Brenton Bay at the mouth of the Mississippi Thursday in a desperate attempt to limit the damage to coastal marshes from the long tendrils of oil snaking in from the giant spill.
TRIBAL LEADERS SEEING MATURITY AND CHANGE IN KARZAI US DRUG POLICY, SPENDING AND CORRUPTION STILL MAJOR FAILURES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “Gordon, Karzai finally quite smoking.” This was the call from Kabul last night, a town filled with journalists, intelligence analysts and the “best and brightest” of our government, military and civilian. “Gordon, [...]
Did you know “old is the new green”? Re-using historic buildings is a sustainable practice – in fact, it’s the ultimate in recycling. As good stewards of its resources, both man-made and natural, the Office of Asset Enterprise Management has successfully “recycled” a number of historic buildings the VA no longer needs. Through Enhanced Use Leases (EUL), VA transfers underutilized space and maintenance responsibilities to public or private-sector entities, saving both money and energy.
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