The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been selected by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) to receive the Outstanding HACU Public Partner Award in recognition of the Department’s efforts to bring Hispanics into its workforce.
Many U.S. soldiers who served in Korea in the 1960s and 70s sprayed the lethal defoliant Agent Orange throughout Korea, a former U.S. Army captain told a National Assembly hearing on Monday.
Did you know VA has an award-winning national TV commercial series? VHA’s Healthcare Recruitment and Retention Office (HRRO) recently received a prestigious 2011 Gold Aster Award for their commercial series “Today’s VA.” The commercial series was developed in collaboration with JWT INSIDE, a recruitment advertising and employment communications agency.
Debt Ceiling Crisis: “The Cure is as bad as disease. Spending cuts could cost economy 1-Million jobs.
His Masonic friends in the police, the same police whose helicopters were disabled on “terror day,” much as NORAD was mysteriously closed on 9/11, were looking out for him.
Throughout history US politics have been fun to watch, but the belief that we need one-party rule is what got Germany into trouble (twice), Japan once, Russia continuously, and has sent Greece down the sewer.
At 3:30 AM on 27 July 2011, heavily armed and masked Israeli Forces hurled blocks of stone into several windows of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp and arrested two men. Juliano Mer-Khamis, established the Freedom Theater in 2006 and was murdered outside of it on 4 April 2011. I never made it to the Freedom Theatre, but I did spend a day in Jenin Camp on 23 July 2007.
The memorable line from Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore explains what’s so often true, saying: “Things are seldom as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream.”
Mr Fai’s attorney said it was politically motivated.
“It appears to me that this is politically motivated. Look at the timing when Hillary Clinton went to India and when the ISI is having problems with US agents,” said Nina J Ginsberg, Fai’s attorney.
Despite irrefutable evidence, including the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) concluding last September that Israel committed serious “violations of international law, including international humanitarian law” by massacring nine Gaza Flotilla activists, injuring dozens more, in international waters, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appeased Israel by appointing his own commission.
In India Former Maharashtra Inspector General of Police S M Mushrif wrote in “Who Killed Karkare-The Real Face of Terrorism in India” that all the reports that were available to him suggest that the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) was aware of the attack at least five days in advance.
Looking back into the events of first decade of new millennium, one is bewildered to see that despite being the most powerful nation on earth and having military apparatus on a scale greater than the sum of every other country, the US has patently failed to impose its solution on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
On the occasion of the closing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Military Order of the Purple Heart salutes the magnificent Doctors, Nurses, Corpsmen, Medics, and professional staff who have selflessly devoted their lives to treating our nation’s wounded servicemen and women, Presidents and privates alike, and active duty and retired military personnel and their families.
If the United States attempted to “conquer” by love rather than force of arms, it might be respected, not reviled, globally.
Since the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, thousands of soldiers have witnessed progress throughout their deployments to Iraq.
Women Veterans and VA employees gathered in Washington, DC for the 5th National Summit on Women Veterans. The summit focused on ways to improve gender-specific care and services for female Vets.
On Saturday, July 23, more than 1,600 Veterans and their families and countless community members came out to welcome returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan home at the largest Welcome Home event yet.
June’s Floral Company out of Mt. Morris, Michigan, chose Veterans in Saginaw to receive hundreds of smiley face mugs with fresh flowers.
Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now.
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Adalah and Physicians for Human Rights/Israel (called Mezan et al below) June 2011 report headlined, “Solitary Confinement of Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons” explains harsh and abusive conditions they endure.
ecretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced today the award of nearly $60 million in homeless prevention grants that will serve approximately 22,000 homeless and at-risk Veteran families as part of the new Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program.
The upcoming National Veterans Small Business Conference and Expo, Aug.15-18 in New Orleans is taking shape.
Through his Rothschild connections and reputed Jewish birth, Gaddafi has done much more than cozy up to Israel, he has also built on his power base in the United States, a base that now has control of one house of congress and is in position to blackmail President Obama.
How much was the mind of Anders Behring Breivik conditioned and warped by Zionist propaganda as peddled with the assistance of Christian fundamentalism by much of the Western mainstream media and many web sites?
Tony Blair agreed to blare Rupert Murdoch’s tune. Rupert Murdoch shaped British politics for decades.
As America’s empire spreads abroad, it becomes ever more the police state at home. The methods used for the suppression of foreigners by military force and violence are eventually mirrored in the “homeland.”
Mike Harari planned and executed the Bali bombing but he needed help, he said. What he needed was a “fall guy” to blame and Dimitri Khalezov, former Soviet nuclear weapons intelligence officer was a perfect patsy, or so Harari believed when he approached him.
I am a nobody here at Project Humanbeingsfirst.org (as we all already know), an ordinary plebeian; a Muslim; a Pakistani; an accomplished Electrical Engineer by profession (see bio); an in your face field Negro by preference; a permanent resident in the United States for three decades (green card); and one who boldly stood up to the FBI as they came knocking twice at his front door in the Silicon Valley California looking for “Muslim terrorists”
Graybar Electric Co., Inc., St. Louis, Mo., was issued a modification exercising the sixth option year on the current contract SPM500-04-D-BP11/P00029. Award is a firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum $660,000,000 for the maintenance, repair, and operations prime vendor for zone one of the South Central region.
Carr and others doubt that the charms of a global media enterprise being run as a corner grocery store will continue.
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