Monthly Archives: April 2010

MINI "RUBY RIDGE" A POSSIBILITY WHEN SHERIFFS USING GESTAPO TACTICS TERRORIZE WOMAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF "REIGN OF TERROR" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Central California...

Madison, Wisconsin—The lone voice in the U.S. Senate voting against the infamous 2001 Patriot Act is Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) whose vote for liberty then, and in...

In a report published by the American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP), efficiency ratings of a few well known and not so well known Veterans...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Gardner, Massachusetts, Rutgers, New Jersey, Baltimore, Maryland, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, Bend, Oregon, Kerrville, Texas, Corvallis, Oregon, Providence, Rhode Iskand, Austin, Minnesota, and Broomfield, Colorado.

The new New C-SPAN Video Library is a great resource for political junkies. From Taegan Goddard's Political Wire on the New C-SPAN Video Library: Here are a...

RFK announces assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1968. Violence, as King lived and died to tell us, is a betrayal....

GULBUDDIN HIKMATYAR, "BUSH TERRORIST MASTERMIND" AND BIN LADEN ASSOCIATE WORKING FOR U.S.? WHAT ELSE HAVE WE BEEN LYING ABOUT? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor For many...

Update: Vatican Chooses to Prey on Rather Than Pray for Children he Catholic News Service reports that increased media coverage of the Pope shielding pedophiles is "prompted by...

Wonderful work last week by Cecilie Surasky at MuzzleWatch. As it was reported last week that "AIPAC  has persuaded more than three-quarters of the members of...

In the past 17 months, more than 500 veterans have contacted Disabled American Veterans (DAV), a national nonprofit serving vets, to report illnesses they blame on the burn pits. Throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, contractors—many of the burn pits are operated by companies like former Halliburton subsidiary KBR—have dumped hundreds of tons of refuse into giant open-air trenches, doused the piles with fuel, and left them to burn. The trash includes plastic, metal, asbestos, batteries, tires, unexploded ordnance, medical waste, even entire trucks. (The military now operates several actual incinerators and has made efforts to create recycling programs, but the majority of war-zone trash is still burned in pits.)

The ongoing human rights crises in illegally occupied Gaza and the West Bank have political and economic consequences that will reverberate for decades. So, it's fair...

Politically, China is an easy punching bag. But the yuan, the Chinese currency, and China's human rights record are easier to talk about than to do...

SAN DIEGO – A U.S. Army linguist returned to his family in Southern California Saturday after more than two months in captivity in Baghdad,...

Three deadly bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 30 people and wounded 224 others, police sources told Al Jazeera. "] The explosions in Baghdad on Sunday were the first to shake the capital in recent weeks Photo: AFP Smoke could be seen rising into the sky above Baghdad on Sunday, as helicopters circled overhead. Gunfire could also be heard echoing across the city.

ust weeks after Chris Goehner, 25, an Iraq war veteran, got a dog, he was able to cut in half the dose of anxiety and sleep medications he took for post-traumatic stress disorder. The night terrors and suicidal thoughts that kept him awake for days on end ceased.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from

One table at the presentation was mounded with a mass of buttons and a gnarled pile of shredded camouflage, which sat next to a portable pulper. Once pulped, shaped and dried, Matott said one uniform can make up to 350 sheets of 8-by-11 paper. The paper created from uniforms is varying shades of green, embedded with little flecks and strands of unpulped fiber. It feels tough, like extra-rugged construction paper

Although Egypt’s heir apparent Gamal Mubarak says next year’s election “is going to be free and fair,” his father Hosni’s regime has tightened the election laws to block other contenders to his presidency, an American magazine says.

Just want to hear what VT readers think about this, if anyone feels like talking about it. The Vietnam Wars: ‘Matterhorn’ By SEBASTIAN JUNGER MATTERHORN A Novel...

I was at the Springfield Clinic yesterday here in Ohio, sitting in a designated waiting area, soon to be called for testing. Never content...

WASN'T MCVEIGH A TERRORIST THAT MURDERED 160 AMERICANS? WHY WOULD "TEA BAGGERS" APPLAUD FOR BEING COMPARED TO AN EXECUTED MASS MURDERER? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior...

Who’s Afraid of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories? By Maidhc O'Cathail for VT  “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” —Queen Gertrude, Hamlet.  Whenever someone insists too strongly about something...

ARMED AND FINANCED ALMOST ENTIRELY BY AMERICA AND INDIA THE  TALIBAN "ENEMY" IS OUR OWN CREATION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Two years ago analysts claimed...

Last month, VT ran a piece on the effort of veterans service organizations impeding veterans from getting legal assistance against the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs, an agency ranging from...

NEVER HAS ANY GROUP BEEN SINGLED OUT BY DARWIN TO SUCH A DEGREE NO WONDER THEY ARE "CREATIONISTS" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor One in ten...

"The Toxic 100 Air Polluters informs consumers and shareholders which large corporations release the most toxic pollutants into our air," said Professor James Boyce, co-director of PERI's Corporate Toxics Information Project. "We assess not just how many pounds of pollutants are released, but which are the most toxic and how many people are at risk.

VA is establishing new partnerships with five of the country’s finest nursing schools to strengthen its nurse corps. These new VA Nursing Academy partnerships will expand the number of collaborations between the department and nursing schools from 10 to 15. “The expanded role of VA in the education of nurses will ensure the department has the nurses needed to continue our world-class health care for Veterans,” said Dr. Linda D. Johnson, director of VA Nursing Academy.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Ocala, Florida, Springfield, Missouri, Montgomery, Alabama, Sierra Vista, Arizona, San Diego, California, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Pensacola, Florida, Albany, New York, Okaloosa, Florida, and Rothschild, Wisconsin.

The fourth round of ‘strategic –dialogue’ between the United States and Pakistan ended on March 25, 2010 in Washington, bringing a win-win situation for both sides. The US seems upbeat that its key ally in the region combating terrorism has finally intensified its efforts to root out the al-Qaida affiliated Islamist militants on its own soil and truly distancing itself from its proxy, the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan.

By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER/EDITOR VETERANS TODAY “All a man can betray is his conscience,” says Joseph Conrad, and there is...

In a sermon that shocked the world on Good Friday, the AP reports that "Pope Benedict XVI's personal preacher likened the tide of allegations that...

Normally, if two countries with powerful nuclear arsenals were openly musing about attacking a third country over mere suspicions that it might want to join the nuclear club, we’d tend to sympathize with the non-nuclear underdog as the victim of bullying and possible aggression.

No. 260-10 ---------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE                   Defense Support Services, LLC of Greenville, S.C. was awarded a $96,000,000 contract which provides support for the Large Aircraft Infrared...

Elizabeth Warren, the head of Congressional oversight for the Troubled Asset Relief Program who is under consideration to head a new federal consumer financial protection agency, accurately predicted the current crisis of the American middle class five years ago. She did so in an interview conducted by Massachusetts School of Law Dean Lawrence Velvel and the solutions she offered to the escalating problem are even more relevant today.

The federal government sued KBR Inc., the largest contractor in Iraq, on Thursday over what prosecutors say were improper charges to the Army for private security services. Houston-based KBR Inc. is a former subsidiary of Halliburton Co. It recently won a new contract potentially worth more than $2 billion for support work in the country.

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and influential New York Times columnist, says Wall Street institutions have become so big and powerful that they will never be allowed to fail. The only hope he sees is to regulate them thoroughly. He greatly prefers the stricter rules now being offered by Barney Frank in the House to the softer ones coming from Chris Dodd in the Senate. (Neither bill truly tackles the derivatives casino.)

If you are hard-working, like a challenge and want to make a difference every day, then AlliedBarton wants you. By Randy Miller The best people work...

Update: Republicans dispute course of financial overhaul n the oligarchy that is the United States of America, the military-industrial complex gets off scot-free in the...

Between 2002 and 2008, nearly 50,000 veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars received diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder. But fewer than 10 percent of those completed the recommended treatment of 10 to 12 weekly sessions within four months; the number only grew to fewer than 30 percent over a year, the study authors found.

Until about noon on Wednesday, dozens of websites were identifying themselves with a Red Cross-ish logo and names like "VA Medical Center Palo Alto," or "VA Hospital San Francisco," or "VA Medical Center Gainesville" though they had no affiliation with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. They were actually operated by plaintiffs law firms that were searching for clients with asbestos-related diseases.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Dickinson, Murphysboro, Illinois,, North Dakota, Las Cruces, New Mexico, La Salle, Illinois, Painesville, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and Evanston, Illinois.

KARZAI'S ATTEMPTS TO PLAY US, INDIA, PAKISTAN AND RUSSIA AGAINST EACH OTHER A CHILDISH ATTEMPT AT REVIVAL OF "COLD WAR THINKING" By Gordon Duff STAFF...