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GORDON DUFF: MILITARY PUSHING FOR PROLONGED LOSING WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

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TROOPS DIE WHILE THE BRASS LIES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Our professional military, cut from the same cloth that killed off a generation in...

U.S. combat injuries rise sharply

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By Ann Scott Tyson The Washington Post More than 1,000 American troops have been wounded in battle over the past three...

Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-31-09

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What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans 1. White House Blog Hails Shinseki-Gates Mental Health Summit.  2. Technology Writer Hails Shinseki, Others At VA For Tough Line...

Israeli Militarists' Sick Union with End-Times Dominionists and Anti-Semites

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Militarists Defame J-Street Reformist-Peacemakers and Civil Libertarians Few are shocked by the deprivations committed by militarists. The dehumanization necessary to wage war is an...

New VA Law Review

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I am posting this as it was written by a friend of mine and I think it should be read by the veterans community.Ilona...

Regional Veterans' News

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New Haven, Connecticut In Pain, Women Soldiers May Be Tougher Slidell, Louisiana New Slidell VA offers expanded services...

Former President of France Chirac to Face Embezzlement Charges

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In today's Washington Post we read that Former President of France, Jacques Chirac has been charged with embezzlement of public funds and will go...

Gulf War Veterans 90-91 Forgotten/Lost?

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Gulf War Veterans Forgotten in the US House of Representatives and US Senate?Gulf War Veterans have been asking for Senate VA Committee Hearings or...

Congress to Navy: Assist Lejeune Veterans & Dependents

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(Washington, DC) - A letter of October 26st from twenty-eight Congressmen to the Secretary of the Navy expressed frustration and disappointment over the Navy’s...

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT USES TERROR WAR AGAINST AMERICAN VETERANS

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COMMUNIST TACTICS USED TO COVER LAND SCAM  By Maxine Flam for VT I attended two protests at the West Los Angeles VA, one in August and...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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No. 850-09 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: NAVY                   W R Systems Ltd., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $26,946,956 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, performance-based contract for in-service engineering...

WINGNUT OF THE WEEK: LIZ CHENEY, How Dare You! Who are you anyway?

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   CHENEY DAUGHTER, WINGNUT BIRTHER,  JUST DOESN'T GET ITPrincess of Torture really is Daddy's GirlBy Gordon Duff, STAFF WRITER/Senior EditorWhen dead American soldiers were brought...

"Why are they being injured like that? For what reason?"

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I live by myself in a condo in Alexandria, Virginia not all that far from Washington D.C. I am a totally disabled veteran (IU)...

U.S. Troops Hostages of Iraq's Broken Society, Says MidEast Expert

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Enough now. $Trillions and 100,000s of victims; we're out now, right? by Juan Cole - Oct. 30, 2009 | Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the...

Al-Qaeda Outwitted Bush, Neocons

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As security worsens in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is clear that al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies outwitted President George W. Bush and his neoconservative...

BIN LADEN AND 9/11: THE EVIDENCE

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Osama bin Laden as Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based on Evidence? by David Ray Griffin for VTThe idea that Osama bin Laden...

Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-30-09

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What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans 1. Veterans Want Iraqi Flag Removed From Parkersburg Vet Center.  2. Georgia Veteran Tries To Inform VA That He Is...

Anti-Afghan War sentiment is growing and sleeze in Congress is huge

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Here is a good article from Politics Daily on American anti-war activists and their growing support now that the War in Afghanistan is growing...

Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Liberty

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"They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by...

Regional Veterans' News

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Meridian, Mississippi Veterans Cemetery names new director Lancaster, Ohio Moe to be inducted into Veterans Hall of Fame Pittsfield, Massachusetts...

Congressmen being investigated by House Ethics Committee for Kickback Fraud – W.P.

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It is all coming together now.  We just passed the largest defense bill in terms of real dollars in the history of the world. ...

10 Tips for Successful Résumé Writing for Job Seeking Veterans

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Submit Your Best Résumé Now to HireVeterans.com!by Captain Lonnie RyanMany people agonize over writing a résumé, and often for good reason. It is challenging...

Ten Tips for Successful Résumé Writing for Job Seeking Veterans

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Submit Your Best Résumé Now to HireVeterans.com!by Captain Lonnie RyanMany people agonize over writing a résumé, and often for good reason. It is challenging...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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No. 845-09CONTRACTS: AIR FORCEMWH Americas, Inc. of Broomfield, Colo., and ARGO/LRS JV of Glen Burnie, Md. were awarded a $3 billion contract which will...

VETERANS TODAY: A MESSAGE TO THE TALIBAN

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WHY ARE THERE NO TALKS?IS IT YOU, IS IT US?By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor7 years of war and there are no discussions, no...

VA Police Accuse American Legion Group of Flag Burning

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PROSECUTOR TELLS COURT:  "VETERANS TORE AND STOMPED FLAG IN WILD PROTEST"THE FACTS TELL A VERY DIFFERENT STORYBy Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior EditorAssistant US Attorney,...

Editor's picks from around the web

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Alas Afghanistan Cockamamie COIN More Schools, Not Troops Corey: What Afghanistan (Should) Mean to Us What...

VFW Hack Cheerleads Afghan Escalation

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A leading national cheerleader for escalation in Afghanistan is Sussex, Wisconsin native Thomas Tradewell, Veterans of Foreign Wars' (VFW) National Commander. Tradewell is on...

Transcripts of Defeat

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Illustration: Luba Lukova (Editor's note: This op-ed from the NYT is an intriguing look at our situation in Afghanistan. Before we leap...

Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-29-09

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What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans 1. VA Seeking Contractor Assistance In Processing New GI Bill Claims.  2. VA "Only Recourse Left" For Vietnam Vets Exposed...

How Not To Stick To Your Guns – Defense Budget Overload

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In today's Washington Post Dana Milbank has written an article on the largest defense budget that has ever been passed in real dollar terms...

Regional Veterans' News

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Fairhope Alabama Fairhope picks new Veteran of the Year Des Moines, Iowa Officials view two designs for Veterans Auditorium ...

President Obama Saluting the Fallen

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I respect President Obama who early this morning honored our killed-in-action troops arriving home in flag-draped coffins. George W. Bush banned the press from photographing troops...

Obama visits returning war dead at Dover AFB

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In today's New York Times there is an article concerning the President visiting the returning war dead at Dover AFB.  Thank you Mr. President, I...

The Saga of Terry Soles, A Widow ‘SPEAKS OUT’

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by Barbie Perkins-Cooper            As a writer and the proud wife of a Vietnam Veteran, I research information about the military, especially informative material to...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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No. 841-09 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: NAVY                 BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Inc., Rockville, Md., is being awarded a $29,489,406 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-07-C-0013)...

Huge Blast Rips Pakistan, Scores Killed as Clinton Visits Country

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A huge car bomb tore through a congested market of narrow alleys and crowded stalls in Peshawar on Wednesday, killing at...

India is on the verge of implosion from within

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By Brig Asif Haroon RajaSoon after the independence on 15 August 1947, Brahman ruled India started gobbling princely states. 365 states were made part...

Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-28-09

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What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans 1. VA To Use Automated Tool When Processing New GI Bill Claims.  2. Michelle Obama, Jill Biden To Honor Vets...

Clarence Kailin, Lifelong Antifascist Combat Vet Dies

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I had the honor in 2002 of interviewing Spanish Civil War combat veteran Clarence Kailin for CounterPunch marking the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Memorial in Madison, Wisconsin's James Madison Park....

Regional Veterans News

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Toledo, Ohio Veterans deserve better Fort Wayne, Indiana Some veteran benefits 'bottlenecked' Tampa, Florida County to lobby for...

Hurrah for Hoh!

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By Jeff Huber at-Largely “I find specious the reasons we ask for bloodshed and sacrifice from our young men and women in...