Monthly Archives: April 2010

An Iran strike would be a catastrophe, just as the neocons wish. Will President Obama go along: The $Trillion question. Will President Obama challenge Israel's possession...

President Obama should have had this fight a year ago, but so be it. This could be the GOP's downfall, as Tea Partiers peal off the GOP's...

AMERICA, ISRAEL, AFGHANISTAN, ALL THE SAME "TAPPING THE REPTILE BRAIN" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Any discussion that challenges how people are conditioned by repeated lies and...

Journalist Uri Blau remains in hiding, hunted by the state of Israel. The liberal Haaretz newspaper staff has roused a siege-like mentality. And the Israeli...

Noam Chomsky is a truly towering intellect who insists what is referred to as the common American man and woman are the driving force behind...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Columbia, Missouri, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Muscatine, Iowa, Temple, Texas, Watertown, New York, Seattle, Washington, Burnsville, Minnesota, Columbus, Georgia, Troy, New York, and Newnan, Georgia.

Some of our readers from Texas insist candidly the Tea Party is a multi-colored, rainbow coalition of disenchanted Americans. Charles M. Blow has the reply in...

Here's are a cheerful article about our childrens' future by Jed Lipinski in Salon. A climate pioneer declares the planet -- with its rising humidity and hot...

Authorities might never completely determine why Jesse C. Huff dressed in Army fatigues, walked to the steps of the Dayton Veterans Affairs Department’s Medical Center and shot himself to death Friday morning. Police said they found no suicide note and knew of no ominous statements he made to employees while inside the medical center hours before his death.

The engineering-environmental Management, Inc., Englewood, Colo., is being awarded a maximum amount $50,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for marine species monitoring, evaluations, and/or assessments at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic and Pacific area of responsibility.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the King of Jordan.

America First: the Anti-War Movement, Charles Lindbergh and the Second World War, 1940-1941  By David Gordon                Democratic nations seldom go to war willingly.  The natural...

No. 301-10 ---------------------------------- CONTRACTS: ARMY         Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors, Akron, Ohio, was awarded on April 14 a $142,100,000 firm-fixed-price contract.  This contract is for...

Army Corps finds new WWI chemical site in DC yard .. AP – FILE - A site in the Spring Valley neighborhood adjacent to American...

ISRAEL' POSTITION ISN'T WITHOUT MERIT ARE THEY ON THE SAME PATH? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Today, in Germany, Bishop Williamson of the city of Regensburg,...

Our story begins with a surgeon and professor from Italy, who was living in Canada and working as a researcher at McGill University (the ‘Harvard’ of Canada). One day a box of white powder is delivered to his laboratory; this was before the days of anthrax so no one was worried. Inside the box Dr. Gustavo Bounous discovers a letter from a cheese manufacturing company in Sweden, and a check for $10,000.

Immunotec: Adding Years to Your Life, and LIFE to Your Years! Our story begins with a surgeon and professor from Italy, who was living in...

Pam Murphy, the widow of Audie Murphy, was involved in the Sepulveda VA hospital and care center over the course of 35 years, treating every veteran who visited the facility as if they were a VIP. Pam Murphy died last week at the age of 90

Thanks to an attempted settler takeover of the Sheikh Jarrah quarter, that quiet neighborhood of East Jerusalem has turned into a kind of microcosm of the illnesses that are poisoning relations between Jews and Arabs. The worst of these is the refusal to recognize the finality of the situation that was created at the end of the War of Independence. It is possible to understand the settler right, whose existential aim is the continued conquest of the land. But how is it possible that state institutions will lend a hand to an act that destroys the very land under our feet?

The government has accused Goldman Sachs & Co. of defrauding investors by failing to disclose conflicts of interest in mortgage investments it sold as the housing market was faltering.

From Organizing for America: It has now been well over a year since the near collapse of our entire financial system that cost the nation...

Eight new Veterans Business Outreach Centers (VBOCs) funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration will join seven existing SBA centers to provide entrepreneurial development services to eligible military veterans and reservists who own or start small businesses. SBA is providing a total of $2.5 million in grants to the centers, continuing funding to the existing centers, and new funding for the new centers.

Following the deadly mine explosion in West Virginia last week, the CEO of the company that owned the mine quickly emerged as a sort of Dickensian villain in media reports. Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship’s [BubbleBarons] cavalier, profit-obsessed approach to mining had led him to dismiss pressing safety concerns at his mines. He had called safety regulators “as silly as global warming” and ordered managers to spend more time “running coal” and less time building ventilation structures.

Thank you Glenn Greenwald. President Obama, you're screwing up here. If we want a Republican protecting the national security state, we will vote for a...

A Roundup of the Week's Best Political Cartoons By Daniel Kurtzman About.com Click on the Image for more at About.com

And why? Because our tax dollars bailed out their butts. The biggest banks would have gone under, and derservedly so, without our largess. Dow 11,000 is primarily a function of the trillions (not billions) of taxpayer dollars that poured into the biggest Wall Street firms in the form of loans, asset gurantees, liquidity programs and other subsidies. Wall Street then used our money to pay themselves lavish bonuses and to lobby against any and all meaningful financial reforms. (See Bob Kuttner's excellent new book, A Presidency in Peril, for the blow by blow of how crony capitalism really works.)

A Gallery of Misspelled, Illogical and Moronic Protest Signs - More at Tea Party Signs From Political Humor

From The VA VA Nutrition and Food Services across the nation celebrated National Nutrition Month (NNM) throughout March. VA dieticians took the opportunity to...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Lebanon, Oregon, Ramona, California, Hingham, Massachusetts, Portales, New Mexico, Marshalltown, Iowa, Manatee, Florida, Horseheads, New York, Danville, California, and Moses Lake, Washington.

PAUL ERRERA DIES, UNNOTICED BY MOST, RENEGADE FIGHTER FOR VETERANS RIGHTS By Tom Horvath for VT Paul Errera MD has died on April 14th. Most people...

Is that what the US military is for – to be duped into dope syringe surge? By Colonel Evgeny Khrushchev (ret) STAFF WRITER/Editor (Moscow) Soviet and Russian...

J.K. Hill & Associates, Inc has teamed with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller When you work for J.K. Hill & Associates, Inc. you join a team with...

J.K. Hill & Associates, Inc has teamed with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller When you work for J.K. Hill & Associates, Inc. you join a team with...

* By Jeff Huber at-Largely * The short version of an old joke about U.S. defense spending goes like this: An overweight nuclear submarine skipper baffles...

Worldwide appeals have been launched in support of thirty-six Saharawi hunger strikers reaching their 29th day of protests. The wave of hunger strikes, which have spread across seven Moroccan jails, began on 18 March with the political prisoners of conscience now experiencing desperately critical symptoms of medical deterioration.

The Pentagon has increased its use of the military's most elite special operations teams in Afghanistan, more than doubling the number of the highly trained teams assigned to hunt down Taliban leaders, according to senior officials.

Los Angeles-area veterans fighting for land deeded to veterans care from the nineteenth century, but now being misused by the VA Medical Center in West...

Camp Lejeune’s contaminated wells are now closed but the adverse health effects may have impacted an estimated 500,000 veterans and dependents.  (CAMP LEJEUNE, NC) -...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently concluded that there is sufficient evidence of a causal relationship for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Persian Gulf War (PGW) veterans that would in turn explain their other physical ailments. What a slap in the face. When you look at only a select handful of research studies and discount most others, you can no doubt make a convincing case for PTSD as the primary cause of Gulf War Illnesses (GWI). Veterans from today’s wars as well as the 1991 Persian Gulf War know better. All one needs to do in order to find the truth is to use the internet.

While the head of the nation’s largest organization for combat veterans is pleased that Congress stepped in to assure Tricare beneficiaries that the new health care reform law will not penalize them for having military group health coverage, he says lawmakers need to do the same for veterans. On Monday, Congress gave final approval to the Tricare Assurance Act, which officially exempts Tricare beneficiaries from a health care reform requirement to purchase private health care insurance or face a $750 annual penalty.

The Brad Blog has the story: By Brad Friedman Conyers Seeks Firing of FBI Officials Who Used 'National Security Letters' for Phone Records House Judiciary Chair Rep....

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Paramus Park, New Jersey, Jacksonville, Florida, Lafayette, Louisiana, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Randolph, New Jersey, Dedham, Massachusetts, Richmond, Virginia, San Jose, California, and Montgomery, Alabama.