Monthly Archives: April 2010

On June 30, an innocent man will be given a second chance. In 1991, Troy Davis was sentenced to death for allegedly killing a police...

Though informed sources who shot down the Bush-Cheney administration's false propaganda program on Iraq are now knocking down the AIPAC-pushed "Iran threat," the Obama administration appears...

No. 335-10 ------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY                 Baldi Bros., Inc.*, Beaumont, Calif. (N62473-10-D-5479); Dynalectric Co., San Diego, Calif. (N62473-10-D-5480); NEI Contracting and Engineering, Inc.*, San Diego, Calif. (N62473-10-D-5481);...

Three Modest Proposals For Goldman Sachs at the Baseline Scenario By Simon Johnson, co-author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown At...

There is a Middle Eastern country that requires all 18-year-olds to join national service for several years. This country even has a roughly comparable health care system to America for a population of 7,233,701, according to the CIA World Factbook. The country is Israel.

Veterans fighting to gain the benefits and care earned, deserved, and decades long over due!

Senators Propose TRICARE Dependent Coverage Extension Act A bill introduced to the U.S. Senate April 14 would, if passed into law, enable the dependent children...

America should be pleased that the average consumer does not read Simon Johnson and Nouriel Roubini. By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer Anne D'innocenzio, AP...

By David Eldridge from the Washington Times The wars they fought in are still raging, but a surge of veterans from the battlefields of Iraq...

NATO OPIUM "ERADICATION" GUARANTEES RECORD HEROIN PRODUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN AMERICA'S "FALSE FLAG" WAR ON DRUGS By Col Khrushchev (ret)  STAFF WRITER/Editor Monterey & Marja Right after 4/20 celebration of...

The US Army's surgeon general on Monday expressed concern about "over-medication" of soldiers returning from combat, saying the military is closely tracking how drugs are prescribed to troops. The top medical officer in the army, Lieutenant General Eric Schoomaker, said the increasing use of prescription drugs for soldiers recovering from combat duty in Iraq or Afghanistan reflected a wider trend in the country to treat pain primarily through medication.

A few days ago, the oil gushing out of the ruins of the Deepwater Horizon was termed "manageable." By Monday, "manageable" had evolved into 42,000 gallons of oil a day gushing unabated from the wellhead beneath the sunken rig off the coast of Louisiana. The sheen on the Gulf of Mexico had spread across 1,800 square miles of water. Seven skimming boats attempting to mop up the oil began to look overwhelmed.

Steve Clemons at the Washington Note has a piece observing  a new development in the increasingly adversarial U.S.-Israeli relationship: More secrecy. As AIPAC boasts on its...

No. 333-10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY                 ConocoPhillips Co., Bartlesville, Okla., is being awarded a maximum $175,530,512 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for aviation...

Do you demand to understand what you sign; or do you take the salespersons’ word for what’s on the page of “small print”? If you just roll your eyes and sign, you’re not alone. Check out the short public service videos produced by the Center for Plain Language to remind you why you need to stand up for yourself and demand to understand what you sign. The Center for Plain Language has been working to fix brain-numbing language by supporting laws that will make Plain Language the law of the land, and by training writers who want to be understood.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from White River Junction, Vermont, Coos Bay, Oregon, Columbus, Ohio, Edmonds, Washington, Wichita Falls, Texas, Columbia, Missouri, El Paso, Texas, Newton, Iowa, Marco Island, Florida, and Washington, DC.

Although “welfare reform is seen as a huge success,” Shaw said, “we’re not measuring the kinds of jobs that people are getting, whether they pay a living wage. We just look at the fact that the rolls are being reduced. Something like 60 percent of the people who are not on welfare anymore are not working either.”

By all accounts, the recession is subsiding and important leading sectors of the ecomony are recovering after the biggest recession since 1930s yet, while the country recovers, Arizona may not. With 45 Million Latinos in the USA now alienated and affected by the State of Arizona's new law calling for round-ups based on racial profiling, Arizona is now on the target list of major economic boycotts that could lead Arizona down an ugly road that political and community leaders there did NOT bank on when they decided to pull the trigger on this new legistlation.

Camp Lejeune Marine veteran expresses anger at Marine Corps and Congress in their lack of support for those injured on base from the contaminated...

Israel has long been waging war on the U.S. by way of deception. To date, its operatives have worked from the shadows hoping not to be detected. Their duplicity typically includes the displacement of facts with what the American public can be deceived to believe. There lies our national security challenge as the groundwork is being laid for another 911.

On January 22, 1942 the Flint News Advertiser printed a coupon asking Mothers of serviceman to return the coupon after filling it out. The following February 1st 300 mothers met in the Durant Hotel, in Flint Michigan. Captain George H. Maines, who had conceived the idea for this group, acted as the chair of this first meeting. It was decided that after receiving 1000 responses from the ad to form a permanent organization.

A few months ago we ran stories on two of the very few national level political candidates willing to honestly focus debate on the...

Update: Text of CAVC opinion in KEITH A. ROBERTS, APPELLANT, V. ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, APPELLEE, on Appeal from the Board of...

As an add on to my article, Is the Two-Party poltical system doomed?, Ironically, I got this TIMELY inspiration from a fellow retired military officer,...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from New London, Connecticut, Grand Island, Nebraska, Topeka, Kansas, Escambria, Alabama, Lakewood, Washington, Swannanoa, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Cleveland, Ohio, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and Alamogordo, New Mexico.

This week, we salute VA research achievements through the decades. Research Week 2010 recognizes the tremendous accomplishments of VA researchers, and salutes the Veterans whose willingness to participate in VA studies make medical advances possible. But this year’s celebration is unique as it hails the distinguished accomplishments of the past, as well—starting with the program’s inception in 1925.

The publisher of former President George W. Bush's book "Decision Points" on Sunday set a Nov. 9 release date, unveiled its cover design and announced new details about it.

The mainstream media is picking up the meme that career U.S. government officials are more than irked at  Benjamin Netanyahu and a coddled, outlaw band of Israeli citizens who...

"Green Zone" takes a look at an Iraq War in a way that seems to be unique in that we aree not the heroes, but the bamboozled. The movie's message is that Iraq's feared "weapons of mass destruction" did not exist and that the NEOCONS within the George W. Bush administration completely fabricated and lied about them and killed to cover up the deception on the American people and the world.

Update: AP:  Arizona's new immigration law is unconstitutional   Civil liberties fight looms on Arizona's new look-like-an-immigrant law on Fourth Amendment and 14th Amendment grounds, as the...

No one likes to be played for the fool. Yet that’s how Israel treated all those it befriended. That includes not only other nations but also those in the broader faith communities deceived to believe they share an identity of interest with this “latest manifestation of fascism.”

Created in the wake of the scandal in 2007 over serious shortcomings at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Warrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate and return to duty or gently process out of the Army. There are currently about 7,200 soldiers at 32 transition units across the Army, with about 465 soldiers at Fort Carson’s unit.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Macon, Georgia, Fort Riley, Kansas, Dickinson, North Dakota, Vero Beach, Florida, Tacoma, Washington, Jefferson City, Missouri, Ovid, New York, Palo Alto, California, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Mount Clemens, Michigan.

"CHATTER" FLOWING IN FROM EVERYWHERE "SUITCASE" NUKE SAID TO BE IN PLACE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Rumors of an upcoming terror attack to be blamed...

More wisdom from the religious right on our armed forces. Huh? American Family Association Says The Military Is Run by "Fundamentalist Muslims and Homosexual Activists" by...

Veterans disabled by environmental hazards are routinely denied compensation and medical care by the Department of Veterans Affairs.  (WASHINGTON, DC)  - The Department of...

We at VT get numerous requests for assistance from Veterans and families about VA Claims, Appeals, or inquiries about VA benefits in general. To my...

Caught wind of this from the Huffington Post: As homeowners were falling behind on their subprime mortgages, wreaking havoc for investors that owned slices of...

In case anyone missed the McCain madness; from Media Matters: McCain: AZ Bill's Racial Profiling Aspect Is Fine Because Immigrants "Are Intentionally Causing Accidents." April 20,...

Here's to burying the lede: Many economists, analysts and a lot of realtors will tell you the economy and markets are still a house...

Only one minor detail has been overlooked: The spring lies in the heart of private land belonging to the inhabitants of the adjacent village, Nabi Saleh. The villagers, prevented from working the fields around the spring by the settlers' threats - which are backed up by the army's might - decided to launch a different, declaredly nonviolent struggle, through which they regularly attempt to return to the spring to reclaim their land. Dozens have already been wounded or arrested.

Is a perfect storm brewing against the Israeli militarists targeting Israeli human rights orgs, Palestinians and self-consciously creating another generation of Islamic fanatics blinded...