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Junior Editor at VeteransToday.com
After receiving another disastrous report in June for post-9/11 Veterans, President Obama discussed his plans to ensure that all Veterans have the support they need and deserve when leaving the military.
August 5th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Vet News | Read More »
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is awarding a contract for construction documents totaling more than $1 million to correct seismic deficiencies in the nursing tower and Community Living Center at the Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, Wash.
May 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
VA San Diego Healthcare System hosted a “Clothesline Project,” to raise the awareness of military sexual trauma. Male and female Veterans decorated t–shirts and uniforms in a way that reflects their experience of sexual trauma and recovery.
April 29th, 2011 | Posted in Regional,Top 10,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
British soldiers who suffered appalling injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan were verbally abused as they swam in a public swimming pool.
February 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »
Your Veterans Service Organizations liaison from the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs [the VA] is now promoting the work of Dr. Sally Satel, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). This is like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention telling Americans treating the Ebola virus is really a [...]
February 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »
An interview with Noam Chomsky about what the struggle means for the future of imperialist, U.S. foreign policy in the region.
February 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economy | Read More »
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, Calif., was awarded a $148,255,502 contract which will procure 24 MQ-9 Reaper production aircraft.
February 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economy | Read More »
It’s now official. Starting February 1, members of Congress may receive generous health care benefits — subsidized by Uncle Sam
February 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Government,Politics | Read More »
The oldest established North American bookmaker, appropriately named Bookmaker.com, has released odds on what will happen next to Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
February 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economy | Read More »
Just a matter of time before Americans begin asking what the Egyptian revolution means for them—Americans, the unthinking rabble who matter
February 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economy | Read More »
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Council backs plan to treat veteran patients at Shore Memorial. Shore News Today However, the plan has yet to jump its biggest hurdle: getting approval from the head of the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Shore Memorial wants to begin 2. UIW, VA team up to provide [...]
February 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Regional,Vet News | Read More »
Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Hurst, Texas, is being awarded a maximum $95,946,830 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for various assembly parts
February 1st, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economy | Read More »
Longtime Washington Post-neocon columnist is terrified of the prospect of Muslims governing their own country. Cohen’s column is the most hilarious notion written on Egypt since reading that Israel is advising the world to refrain from criticizing Mubarak.
February 1st, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »
Judge Roger Vinson—who ruled Health Care reform unconstitutional—decided against veterans in an infamous case that stunned veterans across the nation (Schism v. United States, 02-1226), ruling in favor of the Bush-Cheney DoJ petition for summary judgement against World War II-Korean War veterans who were vocally promised health care for life by military recruiters. “Vinson is an [...]
February 1st, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
Albuquerque-based Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has just filed a formal Federal court complaint and will imminently file a companion Motion for Temporary Injunction today in Federal District court (Colorado) demanding that the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) cancel its upcoming National Prayer Luncheon, on the grounds that it is a blatant violation of the plaintiffs’ Constitutional rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in Military | Read More »
As the Egyptians prepare for gigantic protests to force out the dictator Mubarak, a legacy of neglect, blood, and death will live through the coming centuries. The victims are honored as events unfolding in Egypt have injected in the people the giddy feeling one gets when changing history by standing with brothers and sisters against tyranny. Israel fears a people refusing to [...]
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Living | Read More »
The Arab World Plays Dominoes with Empire Is this how empires end, with people flooding the streets, demanding the resignation of their leaders and forcing local dictators out? Maybe not entirely, but the breadth and depth of the spreading protests, the helplessness of the U.S.-backed governments to stop them, and the rapidly diminishing ability of [...]
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 082-11 NAVY General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $198,711,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the manufacture and delivery of 120mm mortar ammunition for the U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Fire Support System. Work will be performed in La Ferte, Saint-Aubin, France (50 percent); St. Petersburg, Fla. (22 percent); [...]
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economy | Read More »
Michele Bachmann has a plan to cut the budget and it starts with freezing funding to the VA for health care for veterans and cutting spending on disability payments to those injured during war. Via Ed Brayton in Science Blogs Seriously. Her list of cuts doesn’t explain the impact of freezing veterans’ health care funding, but [...]
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in Health,PTSD | Read More »
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has successfully deployed a new automated system that is delivering faster, more accurate payments to Veterans attending school under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. “VA is relying upon the latest technology to provide a high-tech solution for administering the most generous educational benefits since the original GI Bill [...]
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Updated list of Ships with exposure to Agent Orange – Blue Water Navy has updated its list of ships that shouldhave the presumption of herbicide exposure. This list and an explanation can be found at: Blue Water Nayv Ship List. 2. Korea Vets From 1968 To 1971 [...]
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in Regional,Vet News | Read More »
Professor Richard Falk of Princeton has long been a thorn in the side of the U.S. foreign policy establishment because he has been an outspoken critic of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians. By Matthew Rothschild in McCarthyism Watch Currently, he serves as U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Palestinians. But what’s raised the ire of the [...]
January 29th, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »
And though I wear a uniform I was not born to fight; All these wounded boys you lie beside, Goodnight, my friends, goodnight. – Leonard Cohen
January 29th, 2011 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Living | Read More »
From the VietnamVetWives Dear Secretary Shinseki, I met with the Institute of Medicine at their open session Dec.16th 2010. I presented evidence showing a connection between Agent Orange and glioblastoma. I now enclose a report showing the various cancer rates in Australian Vietnam Veteran population. The Institute of Medicine routinely uses this statistical data form [...]
January 29th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »
“I want her to look those disabled veterans in the eye and tell them their service and sacrifice is too expensive for the nation to bear,” says angry veteran Update: Veterans for Common Sense executive director Paul Sullivan, said “cutting veterans’ health care spending is an ill-advised move at a time when the number of [...]
January 28th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 078-11 NAVY Composite Engineering Inc.*, Sacramento, Calif., is being awarded a $31,461,842 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the design, development, integration and test of the subsonic aerial target (SSAT). Work will be performed in Roseville, Calif. (58 percent), Sacramento, Calif. (20 percent), Wichita, Kan. (19 percent), and Palmdale, Calif. (3 percent). Work [...]
January 28th, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economy | Read More »
Twenty Egyptian Brotherhood activists arrested as unrest rages on; Communications down as Egypt braces for protests as though human beings demonstrating were a dangerous and evil action in itself Egyptians renew protests after curfew President Hosni Mubarak has ordered a nighttime curfew across the entire country, and the military has entered Cairo, Suez and Alexandria, but protesters [...]
January 28th, 2011 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
An adjunct professor was preemptively fired by Brooklyn College, for his pro-human rights and pro-Palestinian views By Justin Elliott in Salon An adjunct political science professor was fired Wednesday by Brooklyn College following complaints by a student and a local politician about his pro-Palestinian political views. The college maintains the instructor, graduate student Kristofer Petersen-Overton, [...]
January 28th, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Economy | Read More »
In Egypt, running battles between police and anti-government protesters continued into the early hours of Thursday morning. Police have arrested up to 1,200 people, including a number of journalists. Among them was Guardianreporter, Jack Shenker. By Amy Goodman at Democracy Now He was arrested and beaten by plainclothes police on Tuesday night and shoved into [...]
January 27th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,World | Read More »
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 071-11 NAVY Lockheed Martin, Syracuse, N.Y., is being awarded a $48,443,311 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-5201) for exercise of fiscal year 2011 options for the Navy’s AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 undersea warfare system. The AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 is a surface ship combat system with the capabilities to search, detect, classify, localize and track undersea contacts; and [...]
January 27th, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »
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