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BRE Properties, Inc. Joins HireVeterans.com

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Veterans and BRE Properties, Inc. are now an Employment Team at HireVeterans.comby Captain Lonnie RyanBRE Properties, Inc. is a publicly traded Real Estate Investment...

Are Environmentalist Veterans A Bunch Of Traitors?

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By Ken Kupchik Air America A group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans working to create public awareness of the dangers of global warming...

Secretary Announces Expansion of Veterans Appeals Board

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Four New Judges Will Speed Veterans’ AppealsWASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the addition of four new Veterans Law Judges...

Regional Veterans News

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Washington, DC U.S. to Give Extra Pay to Troops Held Over Crawfordsville, Indiana Veterans Expo to kick off Friday ...

How Mormonism Created Glenn Beck

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Joanna Brooks in Religion Dispatches - With Glenn Beck now a mainstay in the national debate, the public is getting exposure to a peculiar...

Killer crop: Afghan opium fuels addictions, finances terrorists

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From Tom Lasseter at McClatchy Newspapers - Afghan opium kills more people every year than any other drug on the planet, claiming up to 100,000...

E.J. Dionne Jr. Asks Who's 'us' to the GOP?

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We must have a lot of libertarians readers here. What do people think of the GOP's drift (followed by many lame Democrats) into a...

Why are we still in Afghanistan?

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Gene Lyons in Salon poses the obvious question regarding Afghanistan: "The country poses no threat to the U.S., but the war costs lives, drains...

Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-22-09

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What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. Webb Calls For Investigation Of VA Hospital.  2. Ex-Postal Clerk Sentenced To Probation For Stealing Meds From Disabled Vets....

GOP: WE'VE GOT A REP FOR EVERY NEED

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ISRAEL'S ROGUE NUKES

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  How Israel's Nuclear Arsenal Endangers Us AllBy Jeff Gates STAFF WRITEROn September 24th, U.S. President Barack Obama presided over a U.N. Security Council...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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No. 818-09--------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY                 Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee / Cost-Plus-Award-Fee contract with a total...

BIN LADEN DEAD FOR YEARS

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AMERICA WON TERROR WAR IN 2001 BIN LADEN'S DEATH NEWS SUPPRESSED TO SUPPORT IRAQ WAR INTEL LIESBy Gordon Duff and Raja Mujtaba STAFF WRITERSOsama bin...

The Deborah Scott Story: A Horror Story at the VA Part III

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Law and Orders, The Horrible Misadventures of Deborah Scott at the VAby Deborah Scott, U.S. Veteran This is part 3. To the feature story "Deborah...

Why Has Congress Ignored these Veterans since WW2

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In an OP ED that was written by attorney Gordon Erspamer, who is leading the fight to attempt to get a little bit of...

VIEW FROM PAKISTAN: USA, A PITIABLE GIANT

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PAKISTAN SEES BUSH RULE IN US AS LOW POINT IN OUR HISTORYBy Dr S. M. Rahman Senior Research Scholar, FRIENDSThe glory of a great power...

U.S. Olympic Committee and VA to Announce Partnership to Benefit Injured Service Men and...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will sign a...

Report details soldier's unraveling

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The Associated Press Baghdad - An American soldier accused of killing five fellow troops at a counseling center in Iraq had been...

U.S. Skeptical on Afghan War Troop Increase

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Maybe we just need a little more guidance from the Pentagon on this major policy decision; they're never wrong. From Dan Balz and Jon...

Regional Veterans' News

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Not Across the Board Fort Scott, Kansas Saturday event offers info for veterans Princeton, West Virginia ...

Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-21-09

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What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. First Lady Praises VA Employees. 2. VA Engineer, Some Local Residents Differ On Need For Security Upgrades At VA...

Donna Teresa: Classic rock radio station "The Hippo" rocks the troops

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By Donna Teresa The Monterey Herald Many of the e-mails I receive are from troops and other military personnel stationed all over the...

Military 'In War Against The White House,' Says Sy Hersh

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From Susie Madrak in Crooks and Liars comes word that famed journalist Sy Hersh reports top brass are actively working against President Obama.The Pentagon works the president? Some...

Division is easy, unity is difficult. What shall we choose?

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Today's Washington Post is running a story concerning the deep partisan divide among Americans relative to continuing the Afghan War. Democrats basically want it...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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CONTRACTS: ARMY Sevenson Environmental Services, Inc., Niagara Falls, N.Y., was awarded on Oct. 15, 2009 a $17,641,805 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the remediation of the...

OUR "ROPE-A-DOPE WAR" UNDER BUSH

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 IS THE GOP TRYING PUT THE USA ON THE CANVAS?By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/ Senior EditorThis week, House Minority Leader Republican Steve Boehner demanded...

GULF WAR VETERANS FAMILIES LIFE IMPACTED BY GULF WAR ILLNESS

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GULF WAR VETERANS FAMILIES LIFE IN FOCUSGulf War Family members start speaking out.  In the last 9 years we have lost attention to Gulf...

Iraq clinic deaths probe depicts troubled soldier

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Here is the article released this afternoon by the Associated Press.  I posted it immediately upon reading it.  It speaks volumes about what we...

Gulf War Illness Help is Coming

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Gulf War Illness Solved and Help is on the Way!Gulf War Veterans Alert Gulf War Illness meeting in DC Nov 2-3, 2009.  The Answers...

Gulf War Illness Solved

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Gulf War Veterans News AlertWith all the attention we have solved the problem of Gulf War Illness!  After all at the end of two years...

GAME THEORY: ISRAEL AND WAR BY DECEPTION

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HOW ISRAEL WAGES GAME THEORY WARFAREBy Jeff Gates STAFF WRITERIn 2005, the Nobel Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Israeli mathematician and game...

TERROR ATTACK IN IRAN: A DANGEROUS GAME

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Seestan Tragedy and Our Deplorable Neglect By General Mirza Aslam Beg STAFF WRITERForeword by Gordon Duff Senior EditorGeneral Beg, former Chief of Staff, Army...

Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-20-09

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What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. First Lady To Visit VA.  2. Obama To Honor Vietnam Vets.  3. Marine Accused Of Faking Injuries To Plead Guilty. ...

STRATFOR: WEEKLY REPORT (AUTHORIZED FOR DISTRIBUTION)

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The U.S. Challenge in AfghanistanBy George Friedman and Reva Bhalla The decision over whether to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan may wait until...

Belated Honors For Vietnam Heroes

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One army unit is being recognized for its valor during a 1970 rescue By Michael E. Ruane The North Vietnamese soldiers were so close...

Mountain View ('Veterans Ridge') homeless camp cleared out

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By Lisa Demer Anchorage Daily News Citations issued as squatters have 20 minutes to gather belongings Four days after Anchorage police red-tagged...

A rare day for truth and it seeps out of New York City!

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Today's New York Times has a few articles that are startling in their simple handling of raw and basic truths.  The first one is...

Regional veterans news

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Wicomico County, Maryland Stand Down to aid vets Sacramento, California IRS will help in cases of hardship Canton, Ohio Veterans push...

Poll: Afghanistan Is Another Vietnam

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The reality in Afghanistan is starting to settle in. Dead and traumatized troops have a way of bringing it back home. War destroys and...

LOS ANGELES COURT HOUSE: VETS NEEDED TO SUPPORT ROBERT ROSEBROCK WEDNESDAY MORNING 8:30

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VETERANS AND PATRIOTIC AMERICANS ARE NEEDED TO SUPPORT ROBERT ROSEBROCK AND THE AMERICAN LEGION RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE LOS ANGELES VETERANS PARK CONSPIRACYBy Robert Rosebrock STAFF WRITER and THE ENTIRE...

Flux is everywhere now and the news reflects that.

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According to news releases just now being posted on the internet these past few hours it seems that the American people are being faced with national...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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No. 812-09--------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTSNAVY                Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $523,530,301 cost-plus-fixed fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion components.  Work will be...