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BROKEN ARROW, THE MOST DANGEROUS WEAPONS OF ALL

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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...

U.S. soldiers charged in theft of $1.6 million in fuel

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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...

US Labor Dept announces $5 million in grants to orgs serving homeless female veterans...

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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...

Top Ten Veterans Stories in Today’s News

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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,...

Betrayed MIAs in Vietnam: Ghosts Return to Haunt John McCain and US Press

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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...

Time to Investigate Blankfein and Paulson (More AIG Shenanigans Edition)

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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...

Is Someone Spying On Your Cell-Phone Calls?

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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...

Amanda Lee Weinstein Standing Up for Liberty, Our Military and Mikey Weinstein

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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...

Veterans’ Medallion Available for Order, New Option for Marking Veterans’ Graves in Private Cemeteries

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WASHINGTON (June 29, 2010) – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced today that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is offering bronze medallions to...

Link Between Agent Orange Exposure and Graves’ Disease in Vietnam Veterans

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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...

Regional Veterans News 6/30/10

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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;...

Maidhc Ó Cathail: Guess Who Wants to Kill the Internet?

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Guess Who Wants to Kill the Internet?  By Maidhc O' Cathail for VT It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to...

A Case of VA Abuse and Corruption

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A too typical story of a man battling for benefits in the face of VA liars who judged in terms of honor and duty...

Let Jordan Enrich Its Own Uranium

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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...

Kentucky Town Honors America’s Vietnam Veterans in August Fest, Adrian Cronauer to Attend

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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...

Democrats: I’ll Resume My Donations When You Resume Fighting Republican Trickery?

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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.

GORDON DUFF: CIA HINTS, BIN LADEN DEAD SINCE “EARLY 2000’s”

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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...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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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...

What Is Goldman Sachs Thinking?

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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...

GORDON DUFF: FLOTILLA HERO KEN O’KEEFE, VETERANS TODAY WRITER ON BBC “HARD TALK”

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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...

A Little Tough Love for the People

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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.

JOE “RAGMAN” TARNOVSKY: JOURNALISTS DISRESPECT AMERICAN WAR DEAD

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To The Readers Of VT: I am on a mission and I am respectfully asking you to help me because I need your assistance,...

RAJA MUJTABA: A SITTING WITH THE AMBASSADOR OF IRAN

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A sitting with Mashallah Shakri: The Ambassador of Iran  By Raja G Mujtaba Correspondent/Editor VT and Opinion-Maker  On Monday, I was given the time to be...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News

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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...

West L.A. new homeless veterans facility inadequate, say veterans

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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...

GORDON DUFF: DAZED AND CONFUSED: WHY YOUNG JEWS ARE JOINING AL QAEDA

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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,...

Rats! “il Vinaio” No Longer Serves Lion Burgers

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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.

Russia says U.S. spy ring allegations ‘baseless’

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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...

Walsh: It’s not even coded bigotry anymore; GOP Hits Kagan on Thurgood Marshall and...

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When all else fails, give em that old time religion: Racism. " According to Talking Points Memo, Republicans mentioned Marshall an astonishing 35 times in the...

Why Aren’t More Military Veterans Getting Hired?

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SAN DIEGO, June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A poll from the Society for Human Resource Management shows the greatest challenge military veterans face in the...

Regional Veterans News 6/29/10

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Regional Veterans News 6/29/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Fairfax, Virginia; Madison, Wisconsin; Dallas, Texas; Concord, New Hampshire; Los Angeles,...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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No. 541-10 -------------------------- CONTRACTS: DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY                On June 11, 2010, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) issued a bridge extension for the Joint Interoperability...

Paul Krugman Throws In Towel, Says We’re Headed For Another Depression

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By Henry Blodget at Tech Ticker: For the last several months, Princeton professor Paul Krugman has become increasingly agitated about what he feels is a...

Dutko Worldwide seeks US Military Military Veterans for Employment

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Dutko Worldwide joins with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller Dutko Worldwide has carefully designed an approach to lobbying and public affairs that can achieve results in this...

Dutko Worldwide seeks US Military Veterans for their Workforce

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Dutko Worldwide joins with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller Dutko Worldwide has carefully designed an approach to lobbying and public affairs that can achieve results in this...

Choose the Winner: Israel or the Majors (Oil Companies)

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(San Francisco)  - Israel has "found" at least 23 Trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas in the Mediterranean, a good portion of which "belongs"...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News

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From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Vets Criticize Webb's Questioning Of Disability Payments To Vietnam Vets. CQ Weekly (6/28, Young) reports,...

VA has issued more than $3.6 billion under the Post-9/11 GI Bill

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From the VA: As America acknowledged the 66th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of the original GI Bill last week (June 22), VBA Education...

General McChrystal Couldn’t Fake it Anymore

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"This was not the war that the commanding General had in mind, this was not his ambition, this was not the challenge he aspired...

Veterans Need to Get to Know the Campus Anti-War Network

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The inspiration to do this story came from Paul Wisovaty a member of Vietnam Veteran Against the War (VVAW) who wrote about how Veterans...

Court Nominee Elena Kagan Hearings Begin Today

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The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan begin today. Kagan would succeed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens who will...

Sen Byrd Dies at 91; Longest Sen Tenure, Fierce Iraq War Critic

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- Byrd denounced the 2002 Congressional resolution authorizing Mr. Bush to make war on Iraq. It “amounted to a complete evisceration of the Congressional prerogative...