THE HUNT FOR THE MISSING NUKES AND THOSE THAT COVERED IT UP By Gordon Duff , Senior Editor There are nuclear weapons out there, maybe in terrorists hands, two or five, as many as seven or more. Iran and North Korea didn’t build them. North Korea’s nuclear program is a sham and [...]
By: Scott McCabe Two U.S. Army sergeants serving in Afghanistan have been charged with helping to steal $1.6 million worth of fuel after authorities discovered boxes stuffed with cash. Staff Sgt. Stevan Ringo, 26, and Sgt. Michael Dugger, 27, were charged Monday in federal court in Alexandria with conspiracy to steal government property. The soldiers [...]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service today announced more than $5 million in grants to aid homeless female veterans and veterans with families. Twenty-six grants in 14 states and the District of Columbia will provide job training, counseling and placement services (including job readiness, and literacy and skills training) [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Veterans Warned About Sterilization Flaw At VA Hospital. The Belleville (IL) News-Democrat(6/30, Pawlaczyk, 51K) reports, “A flaw in the sterilization of dental equipment” at the Veterans Affairs hospital in St. Louis “exposed 1,812 veterans, including 495 from Illinois, to a ‘low risk’ of becoming [...]
By Alexander Cockburn in CounterPunch: The ghosts that haunt Senator John McCain are about 600 in number and right now they are mustering for an onslaught. McCain, one of America’s foremost Republicans and President Barack Obama’s opponent in 2008, is currently locked in a desperate bid for political survival in his home state of Arizona. [...]
By Philip Giraldi One would expect the Air Force’s top civilian adviser to be someone who has spent some time in the US military or who has a very particular educational or skills set that brings something special to what is, after all, a very senior and sensitive position. Not so. Dr. Lani Kass, who [...]
From Naked Capitalism: By Yves Smith The New York Times has unearthed a damning tidbit about the bailout of AIG: When the government began rescuing it from collapse in the fall of 2008 with what has become a $182 billion lifeline, A.I.G. was required to forfeit its right to sue several banks — including Goldman, [...]
How suspicious spouses, protective parents, and concerned companies are turning to cheap and hard-to-detect commerical spyware apps to monitor your mobile communications. By Reader Supported News – Sometime in early 2007, Richard Mislan, an assistant professor of cyberforensics at Purdue University, started getting phone calls and e-mails from people around the world—all looking for help [...]
From the Colorado Spring Gazette: By Amanda Lee Weinstein Fairborn, OH This letter is in response to Paul Baranek’s June 24 letter to the editor, titled “Who cares about Weinstein?’ We all find our footing in a world replete with a brilliant array of faiths, looking for guidance along the way, given (usually) by our parents. [...]
WASHINGTON (June 29, 2010) – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced today that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is offering bronze medallions to attach to existing, privately purchased headstones or markers, signifying a deceased’s status as a Veteran. “For Veterans not buried in a national or state Veterans cemetery, or those without a [...]
By Source: Lois Baker University at Buffalo Vietnam War-era veterans exposed to Agent Orange appear to have significantly more Graves’ disease, a thyroid disorder, than veterans with no exposure, a new study by endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo has shown. Ajay Varanasi, MD, an endocrinology fellow in the UB Department of Medicine and first [...]
Regional Veterans News 6/30/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Fairborn, Ohio; Fairfax, Virginia; Virginia; Bethesda, Maryland; Richmond, Virginia; Edgerton, Wisconsin; St. Louis, Missouri; Santa Cruz, California and Colchester, Vermont. Fairborn, Ohio – Mikey Weinstein’s daughter speaks for religious tolerance in military, life Fairfax, Virginia – Avaya Aids Study to Evolve [...]
Guess Who Wants to Kill the Internet? By Maidhc O’ Cathail for Veterans Today It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to undermine American freedoms than Joseph Lieberman. Since 9/11, the Independent senator from Connecticut has introduced a raft of legislation in the name of the “global war on terror” [...]
A too typical story of a man battling for benefits in the face of VA liars who judged in terms of honor and duty can not hold a candle to the men and women whom they are pledged to serve. By Chauncey L. Robinson I enlisted into the United States Military on January 7, 1992 [...]
By YOSSI BEILIN in the NYT Herzliya, Israel QUIETLY and with barely any public confrontation, Israel is creating a new enemy for itself: the Kingdom of Jordan. In the situation that we justifiably or unjustifiably find ourselves now — boycotted and isolated — we do not need to lose the only Arab state with which [...]
By Joe ‘Ragman’ Tarnovsky Vietnam Combat Veteran (1968-70) Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning, Vietnam! How many times did we wake up to, or hear, that familiar opening line from the DJ’s on Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam? Well, Vietnam Veterans will be able to hear it again this August when Adrian Cronauer comes to Elizabethtown, Kentucky for the annual [...]
Then in 1929 Herbert Hoover came to power. During his administration the stock market crashed, starting the great depression. In spite of the fact that by 1933 the unemployment rate was at 33.3% with 16 million people out of work, the Republican, Hoover, just sat, thinking that the economy would eventually rejuvenate itself. During Hoover’s administration 15,000 WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding that they be paid what they were owed by the government. Hoover responded by calling in federal troops to throw these ex-servicemen off government property.
CIA TRIES TO PREPARE AMERICAN PUBLIC FOR TRUTH ABOUT BUSH/BIN LADEN DECEPTION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This week, CIA director Leon Panetta, admitted there has been no information on Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts since “the early 2000′s.” During briefings with the directors of Paksitan’s information and intelligence agencies it was confirmed that Osama [...]
No. 553-10 ———————————— CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE Carnegie Mellon University/Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, Penn., was awarded a $994,997,561 contract modification which will provide software research and development pertinent to national defense. At this time, no money has been obligated. ESC/PKE, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8721-05-C-0003-P00108). ARMY BAE Systems, Sealy, [...]
By Simon Johnson in the Baseline Scenario The next financial boom seems likely to be centered on lending to emerging markets. Sam Finkelstein, head of emerging markets debt at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, summed up the prevailing market view – and no doubt talked up his own positions – with a prominent quote in Monday’s [...]
Labor Law Facts & Fiction Part 6 of a 9-Part Series TIPPED EMPLOYEES Tipped Employees such as SERVERS, BELLHOPS, & VALET PARKING ATTENDANTS are EXEMPT from the REGULAR MINIMUM WAGE which is currently $ 7.25 per hour, and instead may be paid a Special Federal Minimum Wage of $2.13 per hour. In Florida the Minimum [...]
HERO OF GAZA FLOTILLA GOES HEAD TO HEAD WITH BIASED BBC “ISRAELI FIRSTER” WATCH THE SPARKS FLY…. By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor For those Americans that don’t know, Ken O’Keefe is the United States Marine combat veteran who captured two Israeli’s suspected of the murder of a Turkish photojournalist during the battle on the Mavi [...]
War is big business, and a lot of people are becoming obscenely wealthy by sending poor and middle-class kids to their deaths. They tell us it’s in defense of America, but if that were true their kids would be fighting as well. Don’t rich kids love America too? That’s grist for another discussion, but I can guarantee you one thing – you’ll never see the name of a Bush or Cheney child scroll by on the nightly news.
To The Readers Of Veterans Today: I am on a mission and I am respectfully asking you to help me because I need your assistance, if you agree with me, to write these reporters and express your anger at the disrespect these journalists are showing our war dead when they dismiss their KIA dates when [...]
A sitting with Mashallah Shakri: The Ambassador of Iran By Raja G Mujtaba Correspondent/Editor Veterans Today and Opinion-Maker On Monday, I was given the time to be at the embassy at 4 PM. I had asked the time to interview the Ambassador of Iran, H.E. Mashallah Shakri therefore I went prepared with my team of [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. VA Approves Funding For Therapeutic Homeless Facility In West LA. According to the Los Angeles Times (6/29, Groves, 776K), the Department of Veterans Affairs has “approved $20 million in funding to convert a little-used building at the West Los Angeles VA campus into therapeutic [...]
General Eric K. Shinseki (USA Ret.) Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Secretary: Re: “VA commits $20 million to convert West L.A. building into homeless facility” – LA Times Once again, it’s politics as usual with Senator Dianne Feinstein, Congressman Henry Waxman, LA County Supervisor Zev Yarolsavsky and Santa Monica Mayor Bobby [...]
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor (Video Below) When video was released showing the two top Al Qaeda spokesmen, taking the place of Osama bin Laden, were American born Jews, the news was quickly removed from the press. BinLaden’s messages had been much less threatening and confrontational, always condemning what he called “Zionists” for actions against [...]
I read a brief story yesterday from the AP about a restaurant in Phoenix, Mesa actually, .. that’s in Arizona … an upscale Mediterranean eatery, that in celebration of, or as a tribute to the Wold Cup of Football … that’s soccer… began serving Lion Burgers on their Mediterranean menu.
From MSNBC: WASHINGTON — U.S. allegations that Russian spies have been working under cover in the U.S. for years are “baseless and improper,” Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday, adding that their arrests are a throwback to the Cold War. The ministry said in a statement that U.S. actions were unfounded and pursued “unseemly goals.” [...]
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