Monthly Archives: August 2006

"Harmless" DU is Taking US Troops Down Deborah Hastings NEW YORK - It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash...

Pentagon Setting a 36% Max Interest Rate on Loans For Military Members to Protect Against  Predatory Lendersby Rick Maze A new Pentagon report endorses the idea...

AWOL Sargeant Gives Up Resisting 'Illegal War'  Shortly after returning from Iraq last year, army sergeant Ricky Clousing gathered a few belongings and sneaked out of...

SBA Loans Touted for Military Veterans by Alan Wechsler When Maj. Mathew Tully of Hunter was called up for active duty last July, he had...

A Soldier in Iraq Shares His Thoughts: My Vietnamby Zachary Scott-Singley Looking out of my Humvee window I realized that this was my Vietnam....

Activist Makes Property Available for AWOL Troopsby Mike Barber It was at the Veterans for Peace national convention in Dallas last year that Cindy Sheehan says...

Lawmakers have slammed the classroom door shut on Massachusetts soldiers home from Iraq and seeking to go to state college, failing to cough up...

Officials: Leader still at large in Pakistan, test run was planned for weekend LONDON - British authorities said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot to...

Sorting Out Life as Muslims and Marines Few people ever see Ismile Althaibani's Purple Heart. He keeps the medal tucked away in a dresser....

A US Navy sailor is suspected of spying for Israel and has been held in prison for four monthsby David Keyes A US Navy...

The Army is considering a proposal to allow a private developer to build a military-themed park that would include Cobra Gunship rides and bars...

Report reveals Vietnam War troop atrocitiesby Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had...

A Second Data Theft Has occured at the VA exposing 37,000 Veterans to Identity Fraud Washington, DC-- A newly reported missing computer involving the personal...

A former Vietnam War correspondent explains the eerie similarities between the Iraq and Vietnam wars -- and Bush's ever more chaotic, violent war policies.by...

The U.S. military is poisoning the very citizens it is supposed to protect in the name of national security. by Sunaura Taylor and Astra...

If American Jews Don't Agree With Israel We Are Anti- Semitesby Norman Birnbaum American Jewish citizens can be sure that a large number of Jewish organizations...

Today is Purple Heart Day The Purple Heart is an American decoration-the oldest military decoration in the world in present use and the first American...

The Massachusetts National Guard Stiffed Soldiers for Expenses After 9/11 The Massachusetts National Guard acknowledged Friday it failed to reimburse some Soldiers for expenses they incurred on...

Library of Congress Making Veterans' Memoirs History The U.S. Marines rationed him two beers a day. It's a detail Ken Kurkowski remembered about serving in...

Underground Facility Stirs Some Oppositionby Petula Dvorak Family members and volunteers look at names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, during a Father's Day ceremony on June...

A Civil War-era policy that prevents veterans from hiring attorneys moved one step closer to being removed Tuesday when the U.S. Senate unanimously approved...

Most American residents would be shocked to hear that the Military has power to lock them up without an opportunity to prove their innocence...

The First War Documentary Soldiers Made ThemselvesMichael I. Niman Billed as the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves, The War Tapes is made from...

Allegations Brought to Inspectors Generalby Dan Eggen Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how...

Disabled veterans are participating in a new virtual program that not only pays them $11 an hour for training on their home computers, but...

Servicemen have delicately unearthed and sifted remains from a 1944 B-24 crash in Kern County. Now, definitive answers are up to military experts.by H.G....

Muslims, Terrorists, and the USA.  A Different Spin on the Iraq War.by Major General Vernon Chong To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through...