Monthly Archives: January 2010

An Ugly Insult Against America’s Active Duty Military and Veterans By Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer Since 1898, The United States Military Academy has had the...

Shades of Watergate in Louisiana, from Informed Comment, Whats this Pelican stuff? at TPM, America's fictional Democracy, from Chris Hedges, Big Surprise, another lie from the CIA, and Garrison Keillor says "let the uninsured die?" These and other stories in today's picks.

Okay.  Here is the situation and it is not what we were told would happen by our friends. NATO either cannot or will not send...

Olympic Winter and Summer Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) Paralympic Military Program has been instrumental in providing essential rehabilitation and mentoring to injured veterans. Some of the veterans who have been helped have suffered spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, amputations, strokes, blindness or visual impairments.

The Washington Post is running an article this morning entitled Kabul residents to say U.S. soldiers kill imam sitting in a car in which Afghanis claim that American troops shot and killed an imam sitting in his cars with his children. There seems to be some confusion however whether or not it was American troops or coalition forces troops riding in an American convoy.

Regional stories on Veterans Health, education and other issues today from: Vermillion, South Dakota, Knoxville, Tennessee, Lake City, South Carolina, New York, New York, Ogden, Utah, San Francisco, California, Riverview, Florida, San Francisco, California, Des Moines, Iowa, Seattle, Washington, Corruna, Michigan

Thomas Friedman in today's New York Times has written an Op Ed piece entitled Adults Only, Please in which he takes on the political...

In today's Washington Post we find an article entitled U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes in which we find...

In Politics Daily tonight we read an article entitled Republicans Consider 'Purity' Test for Candidates in which we learn that the Republican National Committee...

No. 067-10 ----------------------------------- CONTRACTS: ARMY Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wisc., was awarded on Jan. 20, 2010 a $258,201,196 firm-fixed-price contract to exercise the option for 90 lots authorized...

The Washington Post is reporting this evening that Republican operatives got caught - again - trying to bug Democratic Party offices.  This time they...

In today's Washington Post there is an article entitled Lawsuits increase despite White House transparency pledge, court records show that more or less speaks...

"Male veterans less than half as likely as male non-veterans to be in prison in 2004. Veterans older, better educated than other State...

Poverty, misery, dictators, anarchy, Soviets, Mujaheedin, Intelligence Agencies, Taliban, Warlords, and now NATO, a time line, as lengthy as my age, 50 years, was before my eyes, I could hardly recall a moment when Afghanistan was smiling.

The intended [and for many veterans shocking] message from the DVA regarding the GI Bill is a message of "yes," standing in stark contrast to the infamous DVA culture of no. A presumption of eligibility for education benefits is the directive from the DVA.

Jim Hightower takes on the Supremes' prostitution to corporate plutocracy, Glen Greenwald wants to know whats so sacred about the defense budget, Blackwater (Xe) mercenaries still in the news, Terrible numbers from Haiti, and questions about Afghanistan and Pakistan in todays picks.

At least 4,300 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who left the military because of post-traumatic stress disorder are eligible to have their cases reviewed to see if they were improperly denied benefits, a nonprofit veterans group said. The group, National Veterans Legal Services Program, said the law required service members who had been separated from the military at least in part because of post-traumatic stress must receive disability ratings of at least 50 percent to receive benefits.

Stories about regional veterans news, benefits, health and other issues today from: Clarksville, Tennessee, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Redding, California, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Lake Jackson, Texas, Franklin, Louisiana, Hartford, Connecticut, and Fort Collins, Colorado

"The US military budget was almost 29 times as large as the combined spending of the six 'rogue' states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.65 billion."

John Paul Stevens is the longest serving Supreme Court Justice and he will probably retire after this session.  He is almost 90 and he is...

The New York Times today is running a story concerning the substance of the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan's cables to the White House last...

Newsweek Magazine online is running an article today entitled America The Ungovernable in which we learn that (1) the Democrats want to govern the...

AOL News is reporting tonight that the Lt. Governor of South Carolina, Andre Bauer, who is running to replace the ill-fated Mark Sanford as governor,...

Siddiqui vanished in Karachi, Pakistan with her three children on March 30, 2003. The next day it was reported in local newspapers that she had been taken into custody on terrorism charges.

THANKS FOR YOUR LOYALTY AND PARTICIPATION By Gordon Duff Senior Editor (speaking for the editorial and writing staff of VT) I want to thank the readers...

The reason that we're losing so badly is that the corporate interests in this country are keeping us distracted by deluding us into thinking we're still fighting the last war - race. But the fact is, corporations don't give a damn about race. As I've mentioned before, in this new economy of the new world order, where corporate competitors all over the world have people working for pennies a day, corporations can't afford the luxury of being concerned about race. All they care about is making money - and that means doing whatever they have to do to degrade the living standards of an expensive U.S. middle class.

No. 065-10 ------------------------ CONTRACTS

BADA BOOM! BADA BING! RIGHTS?   YOU GOT NO STINKING RIGHTS! By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Kim Jong-il, "Supreme Leader" of North Korea can now...

Drones are the hot weapons of the moment and the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review -- a soon-to-be-released four-year outline of Department of Defense strategies, capabilities, and priorities to fight current wars and counter future threats -- is already known to reflect this focus

The Real News' take on Pat Robertson's Hait1 and the Devil BS, A NYT Editorial on Reforming the criminals in the financial industry, and an "Informed Comment" from Juan Cole on the latest bin Laden tape: "First, I do not think it is genuine. Second, I think it demonstrates that Bin Laden, whether he is dead or alive, is now irrelevant" are among the stories in today's picks.

Accredited Surety and Casualty Company partners with HireVeterans.com Veterans Get Boost From Insurance Company to Start to their own Business Accredited Surety and Casualty Company, Inc....

Book Review of "Never Fly Solo" Written by Lt. Col. Rob "Waldo" Waldman Originally developed by General Dynamics, the F-16 fighter jet is a beautiful...

DUNBAR: The Most Trusted Name in Security is Reaching Out to Hire Veterans Industry Leader Looking to Employ America's Best Since their inception over 80...

In today's Washington Post we read a piece entitled Bombs hit 3 Baghdad hotels, kill at least 16 and we find that one of the...

In my last issue of VVA Veteran magazine, I noted that our organization has escalated efforts to get the stories of people and families...

The Boston Globe is reporting this morning in a piece entitled State Dept. miscues in Iraq costly that Dyn Corps. of Falls Church Virginia,...

Health alarm raised about two Pennsylvania veterans homes. Both the Hollidaysburg home and Gino J. Merli Veterans Center in Scranton show a series of serious deficiencies. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rated the facilities below average in meeting inspection requirements,

The BBC News online today is running a piece entitled US commander signals peace talks with Taliban in which we learn that General Stanley McChrystal...

Sixty-five years after the Germans captured Norman D. Fellman of Prescott during World War II, the U.S. Army recognized him Wednesday as one of 350 U.S. soldiers who were held as slaves inside Nazi Germany at the Berga an der Elster camp.

Neterans, new, benefits, health and education stories today from: Durango, Colorado, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Prescott, Arizona, San Antonio, Texas, Toma, Wisconsin,Camp LeJeune, North Carolina

This is a story of the abuse of soldiers from 1955 thru 1975 and how this nation has ignored their medical problems for the past 50 years, and ignored the 40% death rate and 54% disability rate. This is worse than any X File episode the CIA could create, in this case the truth is stranger than the fiction.

CHRISTMAS BOMBING AUDIO TAPE LAMEST YET YOU WERE CAUGHT, ADMIT IT AND MOVE ON WITH LIFE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The new audio tape from...