Monthly Archives: March 2010

65th ANNIVERSARY of the WORLD WAR II VICTORY  U.S. VETERANS NEEDED TV CENTER, Russia - The National Russian Broadcasting Company «TV Center» is making a series of...

Wahhabi Islam, which originated in Saudi Arabia, is the primary religious movement behind extremist Islam, including al-Qaida and the Sunni Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Raman confirmed, "There has been a long history of links between jihadi terrorist elements in India and Saudi Arabia.

In the very arc of his life, Lewis provides a yardstick for measuring American progress. The fact that he rose from that bridge to become a member of Congress says something about this country. But the fact that people demonstrating against healthcare reform chose to chant at him, "Kill the bill, person of color!" well, that says something, too.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Snowmass Village, Colorado, Whittier, California, Pullman, Washington, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Haverhill, Massachusetts, Mankato, Minnesota, Frankfort, Kentucky, La Grange, Illinois, and Rockwood, Tennessee.

Every time the truth was uncovered, investors fled and new investors demanded returns that compensated them for the new understanding of the known risks and for those that might remain hidden.

The last item in the Washington Times (3/24, Fales, 77K) "Sgt. Shaft" column offers thanks "to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki for directing VA attention to Persian Gulf War veterans." After noting that a "special task force has nearly completed a comprehensive report that will redefine how VA addresses the pain and suffering of ill veterans who deployed during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991," the Times quotes Gulf War vet John R. Gingrich, the task force's chairman, who said, "Reaching out to Gulf War veterans is not only essential to our transformation of VA; for many of us it is also personal."

With friends like Israel's rightwing government and its agents in the U.S., who needs enemies? From Forbes: New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property...

Rees Lloyd is a confused man.  Lloyd, pictured at left, wants to sue to silence VT for criticizing veterans service organizations' not lending institutional support and coming to...

With the recent vote on health care not going the way of the GOP, the nasty reactions are so bad that something needs to be said before they drive the once great and storied party off the cliff. The party that brought us Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and the great General Dwight D. Eisenhower demands that it finds it's way back to winning and losing with class. But how?

Shortly after the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor, male pilots became a vital resource in the war effort. When they proved scarce to...

DIALOG IN A MADHOUSE, MOB RULE IN THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Editors note:  Rumors are still flying about the "Obamacare"...

WASHINGTON -- “I have been assured personally by the President, Secretary of Defense, VA Secretary, Speaker of the House, Majority Leaders, and numerous other Senators and Representatives – as has National Commander David Rehbein before me – that nothing in the national health care reform legislation will change current DoD and VA health care eligibility or practices,” said The American Legion National Commander Clarence E. Hill concerning the outcome of the health care vote on Sunday.

Dr. Raul Perea-Henze was sworn in yesterday at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, a key post in the department’s transformation to provide 21st century service to our nation’s Veterans.

New Israeli construction on land claimed by the Palestinians threatens peace efforts and undermines America’s ability to help end the Arab-Israeli conflict, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a leading Jewish organization Monday.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is fighting to preserve the sanctity of the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem. Synopsis The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and...

No. 226-10 ------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND                   Air Transport International of Little Rock, Ark., is one of five indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, fixed-price contractors that has...

If you are in Washington DC April 9 – 11, 2010, The Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE) would like to cordially invite you and all Veterans, Uniform Personnel, and families to attend a "FREE" Franchise Expo.

Israeli Policy: USA and U.K. interests no longer matter to her U.K. expels Israel diplomat over killing as U.K. issues travel warning to Israel as...

After months of nominations and voting by veterans and active duty personel and and their families, in a formal ceremony at North Chicago VA Medical Center (NCVAMC), in North Chicago, Illinois, Elaine Yildiz was awarded the Top Doc award for Primary Practitioner by Sunshine Roth the National President of The Silver Star Families of America.

Three nurses who served in World War II were recently honored in a special women veterans ceremony in Bismarck, N.D. Mildred Vernon, Lorraine Froehlich and Delores Henke were each given bronze medals designed by Linda Marquart, VA Women Veteran Program Manager at the VA Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. Vernon's grandson, Owen, a Marine Corps veteran, had mentioned to Marquart in passing that his grandmother had served as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps after completing her nurse's training.

Despite the media spin and scare tactics of opponents of health care reform as reported in previous articles on VT, Sec Def Gates Knocks...

From Maggie Shiels at the BBC: It might be regarded as one of the slowest chess games in history, given that it took Google two...

Veterans for Common Sense: Fix Broken VA Claims System Now! - Via Veterans for Common Sense Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) Appears Before "Claims Summit 2010"...

Editor's Note: Responding to a recent string of bigoted attacks made on supporters of Health Care Reform by attendees of Tea Party rallies in Washington D.C., VT extended...

Joining the American Legion, DVA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, the Congressional Veterans Affairs Committes' Chairs, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates knocked down the report...

The small city of Canal Fulton, Ohio, rolled out the “red carpet” and flag waving crowds swelled along the streets in anticipation.  May 17,...

No. 221-10 --------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY Raytheon Co., Marlborough, Mass., is being awarded a $28,144,958 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract (N00039-08-C-0115) for eight Submarine High Data...

From the Army Times: By Matthew Cox - Staff writer, Army Times The Army is doubling the number of 7.62mm weapons in the infantry squad, increasing...

WASHINGTON – The people voted and the troops won. PepsiCo has officially announced that The American Legion’s Operation Comfort Warriors will be awarded a...

Looks like Thomas J. Tradewell Sr., head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is pretty much alone among veterans in repeating GOP talking points. This...

From Uncommon Wisdom: by Sean Brodrick I don’t think we’ll see a trade war anytime soon, for the simple reason that the wheels of politics turn...

From Beth Hawkins at Mother Jones: Before her last deployment, 31-year-old Staff Sergeant Danielle Nienajadlo passed her Army physical with flying colors. So when she...

The Military Order of the Purple Heart is pleased to recognize the Blinded Veterans Association and its Members on the 65th Anniversary of their...

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has announced the award of a $3.3 million contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for pre-construction services for VA’s new medical center in New Orleans.

Thomas J. Tradewell Sr., a Republican flack who heads the Veterans for Foreign Wars (VFW), has an unusual give-away when he's lying. His mouth...

VT is sick and tired of this lack of decency and respect for others. It's hurting our country and our people from the top down. If the Republican party is really serious about being a decent party for the American people, Veterans Tdoay demands that the leadership ask for and get the resignation of this poor excuse for a congressmen.

The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A 392 page legal filing presented by a four person IRmep delegation in a two hour meeting with top officials of the Internal Security Section substantiated the following case for AIPAC's immediate registration

Some reluctant voices in Washington D.C. have finally admitted that the persistence of the Palestinian plight, namely the continued Israeli efforts to liquidate the Palestinian cause by way of building more Jewish settlements and narrowing the Palestinian horizons, is undermining American strategic interests in the Muslim world.

Nothing inherently wrong with being extreme, militant, anti-government or grouping together with guns. Problems arise when hate enters the equation. But one must ask: When is the...

The final Marine facing criminal charges in the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 returns to a courtroom Monday at Camp Pendleton - in hopes of having the charges dropped.

John Wylie Needham, an Orange County man who was a decorated Iraq combat veteran and was later charged with the murder of his girlfriend, was found dead last week in Arizona, authorities said Thursday.

Watching the health care debate, it is clear that, while the the Republican Party has legitimate positions, their argument got lost in the lack of civility strategy they employ to influence. Calling people Niggers, Communists, Socialists, Homos, Faggots, and Baby Killers is simplly not a shrewd or smart strategy as evidenced by the results and negative reactions to it in the land of independents and moderates. By not denouncing this strategy across the board and removing those who, some say, roguely employ it, the leadership of GOP has clearly endorsed its' use thinking that it would work. It has not. In fact, its' a major massive turn-off.