All Veterans who currently receive or formerly received VA Medical Care should read this story to see if this same type of VA Malpractice happened to them. If it did, then they may have a Legal Cause of Action for a Federal Tort Claim. Even if the Statute of Limitations has expired you can still file a SECTION [...]
No. 524-10 ————————————- CONTRACTS: MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pleased to announce the award of advisory and assistance services contracts to Computer Sciences Corp., Huntsville, Ala. (HQ0147-10-D-0022); General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., Fairfax, Va. (HQ0147-10-D-0023); and SPARTA, Inc., Lake Forest, Calif. (HQ0147-10-D-0024). Each firm is being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract [...]
BP controls access to medical care for Gulf Oil clean-up workers. (GRAND ISLE, LA) – Thousands of unemployed workers hired by BP for Gulf oil clean-up duties are housed in a tent city on Grand Isle, LA. According to a report from Anna Hrybyk, Program Manager for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a nonprofit environmental health [...]
By Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada The Palestinian Authority attempted to neutralize a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, leaked UN and Palestinian Authority documents obtained by The Electronic Intifada show Israel’s 31 May attack killed nine Turkish citizens, including a dual US-Turkish citizen, and injured [...]
As our readers already know the questions surrounding Agent Orange and related Rainbow Agents used during Herbicide Warfare in Vietnam are very complex, and extremely political issues. In fact, just like the wars to get PTSD, Gulf War Illness, Depleted Uranium, or any other the other collateral damage of war recognized once the troops come [...]
From the Huffington Post: By Phyllis Bennis Turning points occur in every campaign for human rights and equality. There are moments when, before victory is certain and whether or not the effect is immediately felt on the ground, the discourse, the assumptions, the terms of reference — not so much for supporters and opponents, as [...]
The Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) and the Examiner reported that FEMA has plans in place for the evacuation of the Tampa Bay in the event of a controlled burn of oil threatening to take toxic plumes through Tampa Bay. Updated 7/03/2010 (TAMPA, Fla.) – There’s no question that the Gulf oil spill is the biggest environmental disaster [...]
From the BaselineScenario: By Simon Johnson The House-Senate reconciliation process is still underway and some details will still change. But the broad contours of “financial reform” are already completely clear; there are no last minute miracles at this level of politics. The new consumer protection agency for financial products is a good idea and worth [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Administration Announces Plan To End Homelessness. The AP (6/23, Morales) reports, “Better coordination among the many agencies that try to help homeless people find employment and health care as well as stable places to live is a central component for reaching the Obama administration’s [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kawika Riley (Veterans’ Affairs) June 22, 2010 (202) 224-9126 AKAKA INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE VETERANS’ DISABILITY CLAIMS PROCESSING WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii) introduced legislation today to make much-needed improvements to VA’s disability claims processing. VA provides disability compensation to approximately 3.1 million [...]
Although the suicide rate has climbed measurably across all sectors of the military over the past few years, top Army and Marine Corps officials on Tuesday proposed several solutions to erase the social stigma associated with mental health illnesses and to combat the less visible wounds of war. Responding to a congressional committee’s concerns about [...]
Regional Veterans News 6/23/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Norwalk, Ohio; Brunswick County, North Carolina; Washington D.C.; Leesville, Louisiana; Sacramento, California; Charlotte, Maryland; and Atlanta, Georgia. Norwalk, Ohio – Comfort Keepers receives flag for hiring veteran Brunswick County, North Carolina – Brunswick County getting VA clinic Washington D.C. – National [...]
Edith Shain in April displays a photo of her famous V-J Day kiss with a sailor at the end of World War II in Tiems Square, New York. Shain, who claimed to be the nurse photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, died Sunday in Los Angeles.
Until the Brentwood facility was finally condemned by the CDC, Brentwood postal workers handled all of the mail for Washington, DC, including the ‘official mail’ that contained the anthrax-laden envelopes addressed to Senators Daschle and Leahy. While Capitol Hill workers received prompt medical care, Brentwood postal workers were ordered by USPS officials to continue working in the contaminated facility. Two Brentwood workers died from the inhalation of anthrax, and dozens more are suffering from a variety of ailments related to the anthrax attacks. For decades U.S. presidents have gone all over the globe lecturing world leaders on human rights. Yet, our very own United States Postal Service is among the worst abusers of workers’ rights outside of the third world.
Update: From the AP (Anderson and Kunzelman): “[Judge] Feldman’s 2008 financial disclosure report — the most recent available — also showed investments in Ocean Energy, a Houston-based company, as well as Quicksilver Resources, Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy, Halliburton, Pengrowth Energy Trust, Atlas Energy Resources, Parker Drilling and others. Halliburton was also involved in the doomed [...]
As I finished up writing my last article on questions surrounding Agent Orange Outside of Boots On the Ground Vietnam, Rainbow Colored Chemical Agents on GUAM? http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/22/rainbow-colored-chemical-agents-on-guam/, an old article written by Mokie Porter of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) came to mind, and I dug it out of my stack of The VVA Veteran [...]
By Eric Athas in the Post Mason Alsaleh was sound asleep when he was attacked at a U.S. Army outpost in northwest Iraq.What happened that August night last year left the 48-year-old interpreter disfigured and unable to sleep, his mind muddled with paranoia, his temper short. But Alsaleh’s injuries — including what look today like [...]
The Tillman Story: A Documentary About the Death of Former NFL Star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman and the Massive Cover-up the Followed
Once upon a time, Republicans got giddy thinking out loud about their prospects of winning Wisconsin’s seat held by Sen. Russ Feingold as they dreamed of taking over the U.S. Senate. Forget about it. Feingold is killing his presumed challenger with a key constituency: Veterans and advocates. Feingold’s challenger, multi-millionaire Ron Johnson, does not even [...]
Labor Law Facts & Fiction Part 5 of a 9-Part Series ALLOWABLE DEDUCTIONS FROM YOUR PAYCHECK Employers are PROHIBITED from DEDUCTING any kind of FEES or CHARGES from employees paychecks that BENEFITS or PROFITS the employer and brings the employees GROSS WAGES BEFORE TAXES UNDER THE MINIMUM WAGE for the total hours worked by the [...]
No. 516-10 ————————————— CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE The Boeing Co., Defense, Space and Security, Global Mobility Systems, Long Beach, Calif., was awarded a $1,528,454,053 contract modification that will procure eight C-17 aircraft. At this time, $734,400,000 has been obligated. 516 AESG/PK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8614-06-D-2006). General Atomics Aeronautical [...]
ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, MICHAEL OREN “WE DON’T SPY ON AMERICA, ROGUE ISRAELI GROUPS DID IT” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “…we’re talking about an event that was run by a rogue organization in the Israeli intelligence community” (Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren on the Jonathan [...]
Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler, a 33-year veteran of the Marine Corps who was twice decorated with the Medal of Honor, blew the whistle on the fascist plot to oust FDR. He also confessed to having been a “high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
This will be the last in or series on Agent Orange on Guam until we get a response from our FOIA requests to DoD, and the Department of the Army. That said, we are not optimistic that the DoD, DoA, or Department of the Air Forces is going to want to fess up and open [...]
Oil giant Chevron, in the wake of one of the world’s worst environmental disasters in the Gulf of Mexico is dragging its corporate feet over Canadian requests for increased safety procedures at a deep water well off the coast of Newfoundland. The company’s Lona O-55 exploratory well is about 258 miles northeast of St. John’s, in the Orphan Basin.
What was that ‘mission at hand’ again? Kerry Statement On McChrystal Rolling Stone Profile “Give the President and his national security team the space to decide what is in the best interest of our mission” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement today in response to Rolling [...]
Can Obama stick to his Cairo speech and deliver on his promises Four months after he took office, and in what seemed as a spontaneous and creative initiative, President Obama flew to Cairo and delivered a direct appeal to the Islamic and Arabic world for a “new beginning” with the United States, acknowledging historical mistakes made [...]
There’s a joke of sorts among Israel observers that the Massacre on the Mediterranean epitomizes Israel’s weakness—Turkish human rights workers try to calm down over-weight Israeli commandos bent on the macabre acts of vicious children resembling characters in a bad Chuckie movie, the 1990s American horror film series. Writes Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom, “Terrified women with wounded babies [...]
IS GENERAL STANLEY McCHRYSTAL THE NEXT “HELEN THOMAS?” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor General Stanley McChrystal, top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned home for a “briefing,” read “waterboarding session” after news of an upcoming article in this week’s Rolling Stone magazine hit the White House. His crime? General McChrystal is guilty of [...]
Here’s one take from Steve Clemons at the Washington Note: Barack Obama has an easy choice to make: fire a general who has established a culture of insubordination and indifference toward civilian leaders and partners in government or defer yet again to a general who acquires power like medals every time he outwits or outmaneuvers the [...]
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