Nothing has changed since 1967. We are still dragged into wars we do not understand by war makers who peddle their militant wares as essential to security and peace. King knew this, as we can see and hear from his prophetic words in November, 1967 By James Wall — Veterans Today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin [...]
- Keep invasive procedures, says Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole – By Jim Abrams The head of the Transportation Security Administration on Sunday acknowledged that new full-body scanners and thorough pat-downs can be invasive and uncomfortable, but he said that the need to stay a step ahead of terrorists rules out changes in airport screening [...]
In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter’s reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else’s property would be regarded as preposterous. Three billion dollars’ worth of fighter bombers in return for a temporary freeze in West Bank colonisation for a mere 90 days? Not including East Jerusalem – so goodbye to the last chance of the east of the holy city for a Palestinian capital – and, if Benjamin Netanyahu so wishes, a rip-roaring continuation of settlement on Arab land. In the ordinary sane world in which we think we live, there is only one word for Barack Obama’s offer: appeasement. Usually, our lords and masters use that word with disdain and disgust.
VA has launched two pilot programs to test new procedures that will speed the payment of compensation benefits to veterans with disabilities connected to their military service. These programs are part of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki’s effort to “break the back” of the disability claims backlog.
COMMONWEALTH MILITARY CEMETERY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I had spent the evening before in Verona, half an hour east of Vicenza. Venice is only a few minutes the other direction, a quick run down the Autostrada. The first time I visited Venice, I was staying in Maestra, a town a few miles away. [...]
EX-AIPAC OFFICIAL GOT $670,000 FROM DONORS By Jeff Stein / Spy Talk The latest episode of the AIPAC spy scandal turned sordid last week, with the pro-Israeli lobby releasing its deposition of fired official Steven J. Rosen in which he confesses he engaged in extra-marital sex and watched pornography on his office computer. But largely [...]
FROM MENTSCH TO SCHMUCK, THE ROAD TO GOY-DOM By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor What if efforts to stem Antisemitism actually were the primary cause of Antisemitism, a “self fulfilling prophesy” as it were? Or, worse yet, what if selling the idea of threat, the same way the Bush administration sold the war on terror [...]
“She is the one and only national leader who can bring freedom, justice and democracy to our country.” –Aung Din, Director of US Campaign for Burma By Paul Balles / STAFF WRITER “The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech,“ said Aung San Suu Kyi to roaring cheers from thousands of supporters. Suu Kyi, [...]
Right after 9-11 I contacted Jonathan Shay, well known author and working with veterans for the VA in Boston. He was trying to help me get my book, For the Love of Jack, His War/My Battle by Kathie Costos, published without much luck.
VETERANS TODAY THANKS TONY LAWSON FOR ANOTHER OUTSTANDING EFFORT …SENIOR EDITOR, GORDON DUFF Ed: The worldwide popularity of Tony Lawson’s videos has done more to help American veterans and military understand the real issues that confront them and the very real moral failures that have brought America to its dire position in the world. As [...]
Federal Registry notice by VA on gulf war illness symptom clarification request feedback by December 17
“WINGNUTS”…AMERICA’S “PETS,” THEIR CARE AND FEEDING By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Friday, Fox “journalist” Geraldo Rivera, on Judge Napolitano’s “Freedom Watch” was interviewed about his new found beliefs on 9/11. For years, Rivera, infamous as a scandal monger, the “clown” of America’s news media, has tried to regain an air of respectability after a [...]
This is what we knew after Vietnam with most being deployed once. This was published by the DAV stating clearly we already had 500,000 in Readjustment Problems Among Vietnam Veterans, The Etiology of Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorders by Jim Goodwin, Psy.D. It hangs on the wall of my office, old and worn out, to [...]
Mr. Netanyahu, you and yours are responsible for the “demonization” of Israel By Alan Hart/ STAFF WRITTER When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America recently, he was relaxed, charming and at his deluded best. For Jewish audiences which don’t want to know the truth of history, [...]
Gulf war veterans visual needs are neglected.
Gulf war veterans with low-level exposure to GB/GF can have deleterious effects on brain structure and brain function more than decade later.
YES it is real physical damage, now VA must move faster for Gulf War Veterans90-91.
“This potentially heightened lymphocyte and HPA axis responsiveness to IL-1 stimulation in the context of a mixed Th1:Th2 immune signature supports an autoimmune component in GWI etiology.”
Depleted uranium and chemical toxicity at nuclear cell level in subtoxic concentrations
Research update on surgical intervention for MS. Many gulf war veterans suffer from MS or MS like symptoms.
CONTRACTS: No. 1073-10 NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $3,485,385,767 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00019-09-C-0010). This modification converts contract type for the efforts described below from a cost-plus-incentive-fee to a fixed-price-incentive (firm target) for the manufacture and delivery of F-35 Joint [...]
Sounds bad to start off with but it ended up getting worse. Hammond mother fights to get son treated for PTSD When Rene Schwappach’s son Gerald (“Jerry”) left for Iraq in 2007, she never imagined he would come back “somebody different.” By: Ashley Halladay, New Richmond News When Rene Schwappach’s son Gerald (“Jerry”) left for [...]
HELL IS FOR CHILDREN By Keith Johnson http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com Somewhere in America, a seventeen-year-old boy is living the last year of his life. He is in the first semester of his senior year. His grades have been good, and he expects to have enough credits to finish school early. He feels like he’s been in school [...]
They’re not even in the same league By Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer When it comes to Congressional … uh-hum … “ethics,” or lack thereof, what U.S. Congressman Charlie Rangel was recently charged with, and convicted of, isn’t even close when compared to the abuse of power that U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman has committed as [...]
NATO’s meeting to build political consensus across the alliance for the post-2011 phase of “gradually” handing over security responsibilities to the Afghan forces will be on the table in Lisbon this week. According to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, “The aim is for Afghan forces to be in the lead, countrywide, of security operations by the end of 2014.”
In a highly personalized account in his book, Virtual Autopsy, Clyde Stagner documents his decades of medical visits and treatments with his own medical records and correspondence to and from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
By Raja G Mujtaba:
. If the US does not listen, Pakistan Air Force must be instructed to shoot any violation of Pakistan airspace. This would build more trust in the federation and earn a global respect. If not done, the 11 steps mentioned here are a clear recipe for disaster.
A Few Days after AA Flight 587 Crash: Government Covered Up Likely Sabotage and Released Mossad Agents Arrested on 9/11 By Doug Steil | Aletho News | November 16, 2010 By now, after nine years, anyone who has seriously looked into the circumstances surrounding 9/11 has read about the so-called “five dancing Israelis“, who, according to reports, had set up across the [...]
LEBANON’S TRIBUNAL AS BLUDGEON by Franklin Lamb/ STAFF WRITER “I’ve got these [expletive deleted] just where we want them Maura! Watch the 1000 slow cuts as we shred Hezbollah–who do they think they are? And we’ll do it by using 1757 and this time we’re going all the way. I told Israel to stay out [...]
As the lame duck Congress scrambles to pass as much legislation as it can before Conservatives once again take over the House, the debate over Gays in the Military rages on with efforts to pass repeal of DADT and efforts to stop it.
- In a climate of Internet campaigns to shun airport pat-downs and veteran pilots suing over their treatment by government screeners, some airports are considering another way to show dissatisfaction: Ditching TSA agents altogether. – By MIKE SCHNEIDER and RAY HENRY Federal law allows airports to opt for screeners from the private sector instead. The [...]
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