Monthly Archives: March 2010

MGM Grand Las Vegas Seeks to Employ U.S. Veterans via  HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller MGM Grand delivers more of the Las Vegas lifestyle. More nightlife hotspots...

Westinghouse Encourages US Veterans To Apply Today By Randy Miller It began in the Age of Steam—a 19th century success story that resonates in...

Not satisfied having decimated the news columns at the Wall Street Journal and bringing us Fox "News," rightwinger Rupert Murdoch is reportedly taking aim at...

At General Mills, diversity is a key business strategy. By Randy Miller At General Mills, diversity is a key business strategy. The diversity of their work...

Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky doesn't care about American workers and families. Nobel prize laureate Paul Krugman says Bunning also does not know. Senator Bunning’s...

The AP (3/4) reported that Sen. Daniel Akaka and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki agree "that reforming the VA disability claims system must be a top priority," and in a release, Akaka said "that he is encouraged by the administration's commitment to add thousands of staff to process veterans' disability claims." However, the senator also believed "the situation will get worse before it gets better, because it will take years and significant resources to fully train new VA claims staff."

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Pensacola, Florida, Rochester, New York, Las Vegas, Nevada, San Diego, California, Boulder, Colorado, Camden, New Jersey, Jackson, California, and Youngstown, Ohio.

Where do you start? John McCain is facing a challenge in Arizona. He is going to drag out his military record and his experience as a personal recommendation. Few Americans really know that McCain is a mental case with a "war record" he has had to have "classified" to keep himself out of prison.

Defense Contractor Looking to Hire Veterans Charles F. Day & Associates is looking to hire U.S. Veterans Now!  They are mostly a contractor for the...

Couple Aims To Improve Military Health Care RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif. -- A Rancho Bernardo couple has begun a campaign for federal legislation regarding health care...

Italian Researchers Discover A Possible Onset Mechanism For Multiple Sclerosis   A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable of triggering an autoimmune disease similar to multiple sclerosis in...

No. 170-10 ------------------------------------------ CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE                   Wyle Laboratories, Inc., West Huntsville, Ala., was awarded an $8,917,289 contract which will provide for the Reliability Information Analysis Center...

Update: See Iraq War Timeline for dates corresponding to lies (readers can click on dates and icons). Could you knowingly lie to people serving in...

Some we meet inspire a powerful sentiment of pride, love and respect; a desire to express gratitude, to shake hands, some human way to express  joy that another lives with...

The Buzz Word of Interfaith Dialogue                                                                                                 By Tarik Jan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz was lately in Davos. According to the implications of his own statement, he...

Thank you to the writer, Ashley Studley, for her work on this. People have been e-mailing and asking about this for some time. Soldiers trained...

Cruise Planners/American Express, the nation’s largest home-based travel agent franchise network in the cruise industry, donated $18,000 to the Fisher House Foundation as part of its CP Cares initiative. The funds were collected at the company’s annual convention late last year through Cruise Planners t-shirt sales and a silent auction.

From TechTicker, Hedge fund managers and anyone with an interest in such financial dark matter are concerned. By John Carney From The Business Insider, March 4,...

By Nancy A Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The Army's ability to train its forces is "increasingly at risk" because of the nation's protracted...

Some American doctors are pleading U.S. officials to keep the Navy hospital ship Comfort in Haiti, the Baltimore Sun reports. University of Southern California surgeon Randy Sherman, medical director for the aid organization Operation Smile, said "there is no doubt" there are enough earthquake victims to keep the Comfort busy. He thinks it could operate at high volume for at least three more months. US doctors say Haiti is replete with patients whose orthopedic injuries have healed improperly and require complex surgeries that only the Comfort can provide.

Nir Rosen offers more sanity on militarism and colonialism. By Nir Rosen--On Sunday, February 28th the New York Times published an outrageous oped by Efraim Karsh...

GORDON DUFF:  Special Forces Trained "Col. Imam" Outspoken Critic of US Policy Wrongly Accused by Time Times Reporter Victimized by "Spoof" By Gordon Duff / STAFF WRITER...

Find out What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans Over $41 Million To Improve Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center. American Legion Travels To...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Hilton Head, South Carolina, Lubbock, Texas, Amherst, Massachusettes, Tallahassee, Florida, Alexandria, Virginia, Santa Barbara, California, and Atlanta, Georgia.

Update: Deadly Attacks Mar Early Voting in Iraqi Elections Lots of news from Iraq. From Juan Cole: Chalabi met Iran Quds Brigade commander; Voting begins in Iraq; Sadr's...

FORMER CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, PAKISTAN, WRITES HIS FRIEND AND COUNTERPART, GENERAL COLIN POWELL By Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey (Retd) Former Chairman Joint Chiefs...

James J. Alonzo With all the illnesses, malformed babies, and suffering from Agent Orange, one could wonder who the person that ordered it to be...

Gulf War Veterans question how well the VA’s plan will work at reopening Gulf War Veterans’ claims on Gulf War Illness.Gulf War Veterans are...

The first is the VA spending $11 million on a piece of equipment that will go to a researcher trying to duplicate Dr Haley’s study and failing. The reason he could not duplicate this study is because he did not use the same criteria for his control and study groups as did Dr. Haley. Therefore, he examined vets who were not truly sick.

UCA professor researching Gulf War Syndrome By Courtney Spradlin University of Central Arkansas professor Patrick Carmack is working on what could be a monumental step in...

No. 166-10 ------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE MultiLingual Solutions, Rockville, Md., was awarded a $62,000,000 contract which will provide personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and...

THE SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF ALL AMERICAN WAR VETERANS IS AT STAKE MY HONOR IS NOT FOR SALE, NOT FOR A LIE By Gordon Duff STAFF...

Dr. Douglas FieldsChief of the Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development New Suspect In Gulf War Syndrome Washington,...

The $800 billion fiscal stimulus will be felt, sure, combined with a $500-plus billion fiscal stimulus called the the defense budget. From the Financial Times: Obama’s fiscal...

We live in the age of grass. Indeed, from our point of view, the evolution of grasses was one of the most momentous events in the history of the Earth. Which is why I’m nominating them for Life-form of the Month: March.

As a great civil rights case of our day (Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger) winds its way up the federal court system, a 1970s...

Starbucks caught up in gun fight while GOP Healtchare Reveals plan to use guns to provide healthcare for all.

Are international robber barons like Goldman Sachs ripping off the poorest and most desperate nations with the aid of the very institutions created to help them? William Pfaff examines at Truthdig. You remember KBR the former Halliburton subsidiary alleged to have overcharged, and defrauded the US government was accused of the electrocution of soldiers who thought they were turning on the shower, not the voltage? They've been awarded another giant contract in appreciation of their efforts; from Raw Story. Those and other stories in today's picks.

Many factors contribute to the incarceration today of more blacks than whites even though blacks make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population. These...

In association with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence I promised a companion article to Dogs for Vets: a great idea, but screening Vets for...

Niall Ferguson's book,The Ascent of Money, is an excellent, just-in-time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis in which he shows how promises and paper have lifted humans from subsistence farmers in Babylon to Masters of the Universe on Wall Street. Words: 975

An official at the United States Embassy in Iraq has told federal prosecutors that he believes that State Department officials sought to block any serious investigation of the 2007 shooting episode in which Blackwater Worldwide security guards were accused of murdering 17 Iraqi civilians, according to court testimony made public on Tuesday.