Monthly Archives: May 2010

From The VA VA has conducted studies evaluating the potential use of renewable fuels in energy plants supplying 38 VA medical centers around the...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Anniston, Alabama, New London, Connecticut, Des Moines, Iowa, Tallahassee Florida, Augusta, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina, Tyler Texas, Santa Barbara, California, Boulder, Colorado, and Boston, Massachusetts.

The Pentagon ruled each one eligible for inclusion on the wall, which as of Tuesday bore 58,267 names, according to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which created the memorial. A total of 328 names have been added since the wall was dedicated in 1982.

GOP and FOX NEWS Campaign Continues to Stamp Israeli Brand On Time Square Bomber More Airport Magic.... By Gordon Duff   |  STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Watching the news on the arrest of the...

By Khalil Nouri Staff Writer / Editor Op-Ed Mr. Khalilzad! I don’t get it! Why should anyone on earth page you? Except for Kathleen Parker, a...

No. 357-10 -------------------------- NAVY              L-3 Communications Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah, is being awarded a $70,805,737 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for hardware and services in support...

From Naked Capitalism: MMT: Fear of Hyperinflation An article by Edward Harrison originally posted at Credit Writedowns. I am 100% sure that the U.S. will go into...

The American people have always been comfortable in their belief that while the citizens of many other countries are routinely victimized by their government that 'it can't happen here.' But what the comfortable middle class fail to understand is the comfort that they take so easily for granted is under dire threat. They've been so mesmerized by MTV and their hedonistic pursuits that they're totally oblivious to the fact that under the new global economic structure the standard of living of the American middle class has become a liability to American business. While many may not feel the pinch yet, if they don't wake up, their carefree way of life is going to become a thing of the past.

I was watching some of the news coverage on the 35th Anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which marked the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Ironically, I was changing channels when I saw footage of the American folk trio, Peter, Paul and Mary singing one of their biggest hit songs "Leaving On a Jet Plane" written by another great singer-songwriter, John Denver. It was a No. 1 song for the group in 1969, even though many other music artists had previously recorded their versions of it.

Despite Prince’s attempts to shield his speeches from public scrutiny, The Nation magazine has obtained an audio recording of a recent, private speech delivered by Prince to a friendly audience. The speech, which Prince attempted to keep from public consumption, provides a stunning glimpse into his views and future plans and reveals details of previously undisclosed activities of Blackwater.

A high-ranking general said Monday that the Army wanted to learn more about shortcomings at its Warrior Transition Units, which treat soldiers with physical injuries and severe psychological trauma and have come under criticism from service members and their families. On a visit to a unit at Fort Carson, Colo., Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, vice chief of staff of the Army, said that most soldiers in the units had had positive experiences, but that problems would be examined.

The U.S. Army Women's Museum is hosting a Museum Homecoming at Fort Lee just outside Petersburg, Va., May 13-15, 2010 for all former and current Army women, their friends and families. "Come Home to Your History", is the theme of the event, which promises to be a fun and interesting opportunity to participate and learn how a 21st century museum shares and teaches Army women's history to thousands of people every year. Most of all, it is a great time to reconnect with old friends and celebrate your Army service, then and now. Check the Museum Homecoming Web at for the invitation, schedule of events, registration form and other information.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Gallstone Spa, New York, Stockton, California, West Lafayette, Indiana, Medford, Oregon, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Augusta, Georgia, Swannanoa, North Carolina, Edinburg, Texas, and Sausalito, California.

As the political fallout continues over Allen Breed's AP hit job published over the weekend asserting that U.S. veterans and reformist DVA elements effectively collude to commit...

Chem Biol Interact. 2010 Mar 12. Gastrointestinal acetylcholinesterase activity following endotracheal microinstillation inhalation exposure to sarin in guinea pigs. Chanda S, Song J, Rezk P,...

Who was surprised to find Pakistan associated with a “significant terrorist event” Was this a genuine terrorist event? Or was this an agent provocateur operation meant to freshen up a stale storyline: the Global War on Terrorism?

No. 353-10 --------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND                 CACI-WGI Inc., Chantilly, Va.; SRA International, Inc., Fairfax, Va.; Jacobs Technology, Inc., Tampa, Fla.; and Booz Allen Hamilton,...

Exclusive from Talking Points Memo: By Brian Beutler Nearly two years after the Wall Street meltdown drove the U.S. economy to the brink of collapse, and...

Education is a vital part of military life. It's a valued component of service and all in the military are encouraged to further their...

Just off the phone with a veteran who told me U.S. soldiers and Marines often take pictures in war zones of enemy dead in...

A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could be on the verge of becoming an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf. A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.

Marine Gunnery Sergeant John D. Fry only had a week left in Iraq when he injured his hand. He could have gone home with a Bronze Star. Instead, he volunteered for one last run to defuse bombs. After working seven hours, Gunnery Sgt. John D. Fry was killed March 8, 2006 by an improvised explosive device. Now, a new scholarship program named after Fry will allow his three small children and those of other service members who died on duty in Iraq and Afghanistan to apply for benefits under the Post 9/11 GI Bill.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Yuma, Arizona, Washington, DC, Pocatello, Idaho, St Paul, Minnesota, Brighton, Michigan, Cohasset, Massachusetts, North Platte, Nebraska, and Juneau, Alaska

Spirited debate about the Vietnam War and its legacy lives on at Kent State University. War veteran and anti-war activist Country Joe McDonald screened two short documentary-style films about the war's impact at a gathering Sunday. The reaction to the movies at Kent State -- where the impact of that war may have been felt more than anywhere else -- was divided and passionate.

By Hardy Stone My name’s Joe. Yeah, GI Joe. I served two years in Iraq and one in Afghanistan and survived, but it was very...

Israelis Blame Taliban Group, One They Have Been Working With For Years By Gordon Duff Staff Writer / Senior Editor Who would have believed it?  Only...

Israeli war-planners face a dilemma. After more than six decades of duplicitous behavior, their playbook is pretty well played out. Not that Tel Aviv...

Elko, Nevada, Wausau, Wisconsin, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Holyoke, Massachusetts, Dover, Delaware, Buffalo, New York, Maxwell, Nebraska, Salisbury, Maryland, and Austin, Minnesota.

Independent forensic experts believe a Marine Corps Colonel was murdered at MCAS El Toro, California.  Guns, drugs, and a government cover-up makes this a 'perfect crime.' (IRVINE,...

As PTSD claims soar, the systemic problem at the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs is the ease with which veterans file for disability benefit...

Military Sexual Trauma Awareness Day May 30th is Military Sexual Trauma Awareness Day(http://stopmilitaryrape.org/awareness_day) I believe that my rapist left me a gift beyond the pitiful attempt at...

Calling all medical researchers the DOD CDMRP GWIR(Department of Defense- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program on Gulf War Illness) has announced a short response...

Being that I am basically in support of the Tea Party premise that we should have small government and less intrusion, I thought to myslf that this was the perfect time for the Tea Party to demonstrate it's committment and stand against this Nazi-Germany-Esque legislation and for less government instruction.

Citing the possibility of a terrorist organization getting hold of a nuclear weapon as the greatest threat to U.S. security, Barack Obama persuaded 46 other countries at the recent Nuclear Security Summit to agree to secure the world’s loose nuclear material. Those leaders who came to Washington might have made done more to avert a nuclear attack, however, if they had asked the U.S. President to account for America’s own loose nukes.

A former contractor who worked for British Petroleum (BP) claims the oil conglomerate broke federal laws and violated its own internal procedures by failing to maintain crucial safety and engineering documents related to one of the firms other deep water production projects in the Gulf of Mexico, according to internal emails and other documents obtained by Truthout.

Weekly Address: Giving Government Back to the American People by Jesse Lee As the President beats back lobbyists seeking to weaken Wall Street Reform, he talks...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Mission Viejo, California, Montgomery, Alabama, Smithfield, Rhode Island, Washington, DC, Kansas City, Missouri, Columbia City, Indiana, Palm Springs, California, Dayton, Ohio, Jacksonville, Florida, and Bethel, Alaska.

The phrase "investors pounded Goldman Sachs" and words like brutal day for Goldman likely bring smiles to most Americans. This type of mirth...

Kat Larson recently stood with several Vietnam War veterans on the site of what was once Camp Evans, an installation that served as a base camp during the war. “They’d see these places as battlefields, and as they talked about their experiences, you could tell in their eyes and their emotions that they were going back there,” the 22-year-old college student recalled.

The priorities of the National Institutes of Health(NIH) in the area of bacteriology have been “catastrophically re-ordered” by emphasizing bioweapons research over non-bioweapons research, a prominent authority states. Giving priority to bioweapons research at NIH, started under the Bush Administration and continuing under President Obama, “diverts resources from critical public-health and scientific objectives,” says Richard Ebright, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

Court-appointed Trustee Irving Picard is "keeping all the relevant information" pertaining to the operations of convicted Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernie Madoff secret, says a legal authority who lost money invested with Madoff. Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, charges Picard is not revealing vital information in order to reduce the amount the Securities Investor Protection Corp.(SIPC) would otherwise legally have to reimburse the swindled investors.