Monthly Archives: June 2010

Vox|Optima Teams with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller Vox|Optima is a high-energy hive of professionals who know corporate communications cold. Vox|Optima helps you find your voice and...

by Dave Hughes in Media Matters This past Saturday, ignoring rampant corruption among military contractors, Glenn Beck and Andrew Napolitano endorsed the idea of a...

Regional Veterans News 6/24/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Knoxville, Tennessee; New Bedford, Massachusetts; Annapolis, Maryland Franklin, Georgia; Washington D.C.;...

By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR Observers were split over the insubordination and mocking comments by General McChrystal and his staff towards the Vice...

DID PAT TILLMAN REACH OUT FROM THE GRAVE? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Why would a general want to leave a command, especially one as...

No. 524-10 ------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY                 The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pleased to announce the award of advisory and assistance services contracts to Computer...

BP controls access to medical care for Gulf Oil clean-up workers.   (GRAND ISLE, LA) - Thousands of unemployed workers hired by BP for Gulf oil...

By Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada The Palestinian Authority attempted to neutralize a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning Israel's deadly attack on the...

As our readers already know the questions surrounding Agent Orange and related Rainbow Agents used during Herbicide Warfare in Vietnam are very complex, and...

From the Huffington Post: By Phyllis Bennis Turning points occur in every campaign for human rights and equality. There are moments when, before victory is certain...

The Wayne Madsen Report (WMR)  and the Examiner reported that FEMA has plans in place for the evacuation of the Tampa Bay  in the event of...

From the BaselineScenario: By Simon Johnson The House-Senate reconciliation process is still underway and some details will still change. But the broad contours of “financial reform”...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Administration Announces Plan To End Homelessness. The AP (6/23, Morales) reports, "Better coordination among the...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                     Contact:    Kawika Riley (Veterans’ Affairs) June 22, 2010                                                 (202) 224-9126  AKAKA INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO IMPROVE VETERANS’ DISABILITY CLAIMS PROCESSING  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Veterans’...

Although the suicide rate has climbed measurably across all sectors of the military over the past few years, top Army and Marine Corps officials...

Regional Veterans News 6/23/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Norwalk, Ohio; Brunswick County, North Carolina; Washington D.C.; Leesville, Louisiana; Sacramento,...

Edith Shain in April displays a photo of her famous V-J Day kiss with a sailor at the end of World War II in Tiems Square, New York. Shain, who claimed to be the nurse photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, died Sunday in Los Angeles.

Until the Brentwood facility was finally condemned by the CDC, Brentwood postal workers handled all of the mail for Washington, DC, including the ‘official mail’ that contained the anthrax-laden envelopes addressed to Senators Daschle and Leahy. While Capitol Hill workers received prompt medical care, Brentwood postal workers were ordered by USPS officials to continue working in the contaminated facility. Two Brentwood workers died from the inhalation of anthrax, and dozens more are suffering from a variety of ailments related to the anthrax attacks. For decades U.S. presidents have gone all over the globe lecturing world leaders on human rights. Yet, our very own United States Postal Service is among the worst abusers of workers' rights outside of the third world.

Update: From the AP (Anderson and Kunzelman): " Feldman's 2008 financial disclosure report — the most recent available — also showed investments in Ocean...

As I finished up writing my last article on questions surrounding Agent Orange Outside of Boots On the Ground Vietnam, Rainbow Colored Chemical Agents...

By Eric Athas in the Post Mason Alsaleh was sound asleep when he was attacked at a U.S. Army outpost in northwest Iraq.What happened that...

The Tillman Story: A Documentary About the Death of Former NFL Star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman and the Massive Cover-up the Followed

Once upon a time, Republicans got giddy thinking out loud about their prospects of winning Wisconsin's seat held by Sen. Russ Feingold as they...

No. 516-10 --------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE                 The Boeing Co., Defense, Space and Security, Global Mobility Systems, Long Beach, Calif., was awarded a $1,528,454,053 contract modification that...

              ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, MICHAEL OREN  "WE DON'T SPY ON AMERICA, ROGUE ISRAELI GROUPS DID IT" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor "...we're talking...

This will be the last in or series on Agent Orange on Guam until we get a response from our FOIA requests to DoD,...

Oil giant Chevron, in the wake of one of the world's worst environmental disasters in the Gulf of Mexico is dragging its corporate feet over Canadian requests for increased safety procedures at a deep water well off the coast of Newfoundland. The company's Lona O-55 exploratory well is about 258 miles northeast of St. John's, in the Orphan Basin.

What was that 'mission at hand' again? Kerry Statement On McChrystal Rolling Stone Profile “Give the President and his national security team the space to decide...

Can Obama stick to his Cairo speech and deliver on his promises Four months after he took office, and in what seemed as a spontaneous...

There's a joke of sorts among Israel observers that the Massacre on the Mediterranean epitomizes Israel's weakness—Turkish human rights workers try to calm down over-weight...

IS GENERAL STANLEY McCHRYSTAL THE NEXT "HELEN THOMAS?" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor General Stanley McChrystal, top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned home...

Here's one take from Steve Clemons at the Washington Note: Barack Obama has an easy choice to make: fire a general who has established a culture...

CAN ANYONE PROVE KARZAI IS BETTER THAN THE TALIBAN? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Do we actually call what we are doing in Afghanistan a...

By Paul Krugman It must have sounded like a good idea (although not to me): establish a bipartisan commission of Serious People to develop plans...

By Lonny Shalevson at NPR In the U.S. Army, Asian-Americans have typically volunteered at the lowest rate of any ethnic group. They make up 4...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Official Says VA Innovation Competition Was "Tremendous." Federal News Radio (6/22, Kubota) reports Veterans Affairs...

It is the same Formula that General Musharraf Tried but Failed By Usman Khalid Asif Zardari (AZ) thinks of himself as a political genius. He may...

- And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)?― men, women,...

By Amy Triebel JERUSALEM - A Jerusalem planning body on Monday approved a plan to raze 22 Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem to make room...

Regional Veterans News 6/22/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Helena, Montana; Rio Grande Valley, Texas; New Bedford, Massachusetts;...

Thomas B. Edsall has a first-rate review in Democracy,  A Journal of Ideas of Karl Rove's Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the...

From the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs By Mark A. Ilgen, Kenneth R. Conner, Marcia Valenstein, Karen Austin, Frederic C. Blow Violence, not overdose,...