Monthly Archives: April 2010

As a United States government agency the U.S. Postal Service should be at the very forefront of the fight to protect employee rights. For decades U.S. presidents and government officials have been lecturing countries all over the world regarding the need to protect human rights. Yet, the evidence shows that our very own United States Postal Service is running what can only be described as a latter-day plantation, with the Office of Inspector General, the agency directly mandated to protect the employee, in direct collusion.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAD BEEN TOLD AIRCRAFT DISSOLVE WHEN THEY CRASH... By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I was fortunate enough to have a...

ALL HAVE ACCEPTED TRAVEL AND GRATUITIES FROM ISRAEL...AND NOW DANCE FOR THEIR SUPPER PAID FOR BY THE MOSSAD FRONT, JINSA (JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS) By...

THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC REALITY by Charles Simpson First: A reality check on Mexico Mexico is in a unique position to reap many of the benefits of...

It is a well known fact the Mexico is the number retirement destination for U.S. Veterans outside of the USA by far with the vast majority living in the greater Guadalajara area specifically in Ajijic on Lake Chapala.

Revolving door of multiple tours linked to PTSD By SHARON COHEN (AP)  It wasn't his first tour in Iraq, but his second and third when Joe...

The Veterans and their supporters are happy to announce, that on April 8, 2010, the Republican Party of Los Angeles County (RPLAC) joined the Coalition of Opponents to the Sepulveda VA Leases between developers New Directions and A Community of Friends and their proposed conversion of medical buildings 4 and 5 into a 149 unit apartment complex.

WATCH IT UNFOLD, THE "WIKI VIDEO, " SPECIAL FORCES MURDERS, MARINES PROTECTING DRUGS, McCHRYSTAL ADMISSIONS ISRAEL DEPLOYS THE CONTROLLED PRESS AND CONGRESSIONAL STOOGES AGAINST AMERICA By...

According to Tom Philpott in his article New Agent Orange Rule to Allow Retro Claims by 86,000 about 86,000 Vietnam War veterans, their...

Normally pictures speak a thousand words but in this case, especially with a guy like me who loves to talk, these pictures leave me...

With the seeming regularity of rain in April , each day bring a new Pope-protected-a-child-molester story. One Catholic columnist, the New York Times' Maureen Dowd,...

Not only did a U.S. military helicopter gunship mow them down amid macho jokes and chuckling – after mistaking a couple of cameras for weapons – but the American attackers then blew away several Iraqis who arrived in a van and tried to take one of the wounded newsmen to a hospital. Two children in the van were badly wounded.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Parsippany, New Jersey, Salem, Oregon, Lafayette, Louisiana, Bellingham, Washington, Santa Cruz, California, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Jacksonville, Illinois, Glens Falls, New York, Bernardsville, New Jersey, and South Weber, Utah.

The men were saying goodbye once again to those who did not come home from Vietnam. Inside the stainless steel-lined coffin-shaped vault were flowers, letters, photos, jewelry and other mementos left at the base of the Dignity Memorial Vietnam Wall during its 10-day stay earlier this month at Rose Hills.

Our Armed Forces veterans make quite a few sacrifices, both on the battlefield and throughout their time served, both home and abroad. Some give their lives in the service of the United States. Others come home from battle with injuries. For many, these injuries include permanent disabilities that make it difficult for them to be employed as civilians.

The high cost of energy in America was paid in human lives this week, with the deaths of more than two dozen miners in a massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia. It's the worst mine disaster in a quarter of a century.

The largest U.S. camp to temporarily house Southeast Asian refugees was at Camp Pendleton, which 50,000 refugees, mostly Vietnamese, passed through. The camp would eventually reshape Southern California. Many refugees stayed for the warm weather they were accustomed to in Vietnam. In central Orange County, refugees found cheap housing and plentiful jobs in Westminster, where they erected Vietnamese businesses along the strawberry and bean fields, drawing Vietnamese scattered in other states.

After initially denying involvement or any cover-up in the deaths of three Afghan women during a badly bungled American Special Operations assault in February, the American-led military command in Kabul admitted late on Sunday that its forces had, in fact, killed the women during the nighttime raid.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Redondo Beach, California, Clarksville, Tennessee, Schaumburg, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, Washington, DC, Whittier, California, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, Charlotte, North Carolina, Bay City, Michigan, and Dallas, Texas.

Regardless of whether U.S. Special Forces removed bullets from the bodies of the Afghan women they just killed, as charged by the victims' relatives - and if they did, what their motivation was for doing so - spreading the story that the women's bodies had been found "tied up" and "gagged," as NATO did in a Feb. 12 press release still posted on its web site, if that was not true, would meet any disinterested observer's definition of the word "coverup."

Now, in a sworn declaration obtained exclusively by Truthout, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell during George W. Bush's first term in office, claims that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others knew the "vast majority" of prisoners captured in the so-called War on Terror were innocent and the administration refused to set them free once those facts were established because of the political repercussions that would have ensued.

It's never easy to separate politics from policy, and the past 18 months have only increased the degree of difficulty. The U.S. has been through a historic financial crisis followed by a historic election and a series of historic federal gambles — from bailing out AIG and GM to passing a $787 billion stimulus and a $940 billion health-care reform bill. All that risk has made policy more complicated and politics more fraught ("You lie," "Baby killer").

There's a brand new Post-9/11 GI Bill many eligible service members have not heard of. Looking to further your higher education? Are you a...

No. 280-10 -------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: ARMY                   McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded on April 6 a $72,114,336 firm-fixed-price contract.  This modification provides funding for the...

Jason Moreau, of Citra, Florida, is a 26 year old decorated veteran of the United States Marines. During his service, Jason developed a life threatening condition involving his kidneys known as Henoch-Schönlein Purpura (HSP). He was honorably discharged in September 2006 and received a 100% service connected disability due to his kidney condition.

Nuking Iran would be an unmitigated disaster. But anyone with a passing familiarity with Israel's government of Islamophobes knows well its hatred of Muslims. Israel is a country...

"When conservatives like Bork treat rights as islands surrounded by a sea of government powers, they precisely reverse the view of the Founders as...

ACCUSATION OF DEFECTION, COLLABORATION COMPLICATED BY VIDEO RELEASED BY GROUP TIED TO MOSSAD  SOMETHING VERY WRONG HERE  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor  Yesterday, a very odd...

My beloved Irish has been dead for a year.  I have now flowed into a life in which she will not call me at...

Paul Swenson, founder of the National Healing Field® Foundation announced today that the city of Springfield, OH will be a host city to a Field of Honor flag memorial in honor of our service men and women. “The host city of Springfield is a member of an impressive and growing list of host cities across the country,” says Mr. Swenson. “We expect to see more than 80 communities with Fields of Honor flying on grassy lawns and parks this year.”

By Jennifer Lubell A link exists between Gulf War service and post-traumatic stress disorder and multisymptom illness, although the causes of these symptoms remain unclear,...

Blankenship’s rags-to-riches story is colorful, and his belligerence is infuriating. Hollywood couldn’t have invented a better villain than this CEO of Massey Energy. For years he has shocked local environmentalists and mine-safety experts with his apparent disregard for the law, and now he is on the national stage at the center of the worst coal-mine accident in 25 years—the April 5 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia that killed 25 workers.

By Simon Johnson here remains sharp disagreement on what exactly would end too big to fail.  The main views fall primarily into three camps. The view...

In 2009, the worst economic year for working people since the Great Depression, the top 25 hedge fund managers walked off with an average of $1 billion each. With the money those 25 people "earned," we could have hired 658,000 entry level teachers. (They make about $38,000 a year, including benefits.) Those educators could have brought along over 13 million young people, assuming a class size of 20. That's some value.

From Barak Ravid and Reuters in Haaretz: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his planned trip to Washington, where he was scheduled to participate in a...

Scott Southworth, Wisconsin District Attorney for Juneau County, is an Evangelical Christian who does like non-Evangelical Christian culture intruding into his ideal of America...

South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) in San Antonio, Texas, is among six organizations recognized by The Quality Texas Foundation for Achievement in Organizational Excellence for effective and systematic approaches to organizational management. South Texas is in good company with Raytheon and Baylor Medical Center among those recognized by the Foundation. The Quality Texas Foundation is a non-profit corporation focused on quality assessment and feedback, education, training, and recognition to help businesses, schools, hospitals, non-profits, and government agencies improve performance.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Hernando, Mississippi, Oroville, California, Rochester, Minnesota, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Lompoc, California, Ottawa, Illinois, Harrington, Delaware, Santa Cruz, California, St George, Utah, and Bath, New York.

IndictBush.com reports that on April 3, at a meeting of over 150 lawyers, legal scholars and human rights campaigners, Ramsey Clark, founder of Indict Bush Now, was chosen to be the chairperson of an international campaign to investigate war crimes committed by officials from the Bush administration.

Did you lose your house to foreclosure this year? Did your lender forgive some of your mortgage debt because you sold it for less...

No. 276-10 ----------------------------------- CONTRACTS: ARMY                   SRCTec, Inc., Syracuse, N.Y., was awarded on April 1 a $94,386,209 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 3,239 urgently required Duke...

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